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[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Roger W:
Thanks, I will try that (of course I won't be able to test if that locks them out, but if the device keeps working, I'll leave it off.

I failed to find info on paladin yesterday so I tried hiding it, but I got an access denied (in the same runas context that worked for all the other packages listed here). So don't worry too much about if you should kill it, you can't with this method.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
I ran paladin with an activity launcher. It is just the show mode launcher. Disable paladin and show mode won't open.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
Where is this "show mode"?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Vorton:
Worked for me. Thanks so much!!! I am gonna work on getting this more "stockish"!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
When you enable Alexa in settings you will get a new option when you pull down the notification bar for show mode. It basically turns your Fire tablet into an Amazon Echo Show. But it's still active. I launched the paladin activity, verified that's what it was and disabled it. Show mode still works. I did notice that even though we disabled the Alexa app she still works with long home press. That's because Alexa is a part of the framework.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
Let us know what you come up with!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] CentralVAHere:
How do we know the specific files are being "hidden" using pm hide? I get the message

blah blah blah new hidden state: true for each package I "hide" but if I mistype one of the packages I get the same message.

Also, is there a way to know which packages have been hidden?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Jahassie80:
adb shell pm list packages

adb shell pm list packages -u

See http://adbshell.com/commands/adb-shell-pm-list-packages

Used to use fgrep -v -f <(adb shell pm list packages |sort) <(adb shell pm list packages -u|sort)

I have not tried yet. I will test it one of these days.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
I'm not sure what i disabled but clash of clans no longer works. It just closes right after the supercell logo. Search bar also closes immediately after I type the first letter, but I don't care about that. I just use Google search in the chrome browser anyways.

Edit: I figured it out. The package com.amazon.webview.chromium messes with some apps. I've got Clash of Clans and the search bar working by unhiding that package. I'm just going to leave that one be. If it can cause some games to crash, no telling what other apps it messes with.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] rigbyrj:
What an absolute legend.

Working here on Fire OS 5.6.2 running on a 7th gen HD 8.

*So* frustrating that Amazon went to such lengths to prevent you from disabling packages - You can't even disable packages that you've installed through the UI!!

Had to use the 'pm hide' command, but it seems to have got the job done, and has survived a reboot.

It's like having a new tablet - snappy as anything now :)

Thank you so much SuperSonic!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
I got the same problem when I tried this the first time, thanks for figuring out what is the evil package! ;)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] fire1951:
Am trying to download apk.....cannot get link to work. Is the link still working?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Try the Dropbox link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/96folsknklgqimt/com.amazon.unifiedsharefacebook.apk?dl=0
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] fire1951:
Thanks! That link worked for me.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] pc747:
worked. thanks [MENTION=7860599]Supersonic27543[/MENTION] instructions and [MENTION=9294334]cybersaga[/MENTION] for the list.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
How did you remove the pages? I'm okay with keeping the books tab, as I actually use my Kindle to read. Also, how do I get rid of the Amazon Newsstand app? I don't know which app to disable for that.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] mrdannyaitch:
What is the name of the toggle please? All I see is Alexa handsfree, HD8 7th gen 5.6.2.0
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
When you have Alexa enabled you should be able to pull the notification bar down and under all the toggles is an option for show mode with a toggle switch.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] jtodaro:
I'm on a HD8 7th Gen running 5.6.2.0. Work'd great copying the apk to /sdcard/Download, and running the following:

So now my question. Can I uninstall anything (and any recommendations on things to uninstall?) and/or should I just hide things? Also, will hiding them speed up the Fire at all, as that is ultimately what I'm trying to work towards, is a bloatfree Fire that's faster.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
You can't uninstall anything - you can only hide apps. Hiding means the app can't be run though, so it's fairly effective.

I posted a list earlier in the thread that will at least hide all the Amazon apps that show in the launcher. There are probably more background apps that you can hide, but I didn't go hunting for every possible package that can be hidden.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
When you hide apps, it is almost equivalent to disabling, so, the Fire will definitely be faster as all the bloat is no longer running. :good:
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] t0x1cSH:
i've disabled almost every Amazon related app

none of the Amazon services works on my HD8 anymore, tho only outbound connections to amazon servers are from the amazon launcher(as far as i can tell)

i'm afraid that if you disable the same services i've disabled your books page will not work anymore
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] jtodaro:
Will the list that you provided, also stop Amazon Appstore from notifying me to upgrade Dropbox (It does say that it was sideloaded, as I actually installed it from Google Play Store)?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
That's weird because I've disabled almost all of the Amazon apps as well. The only ones I have enabled are the Store(since that's the only way to get Netflix), Books, and Prime Video.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
I'm pretty sure I disabled Amazon Appstore in my list, so it shouldn't be able to notify you of anything. But there's only one way to find out for sure......

I don't have Dropbox installed.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] jtodaro:
Stew1411, which ones are for the Store, Books, and Prime Video?

I disabled everything from cybersage's list except com.amazon.mp3 (as I have a Prime account and like my free music, which is why I'd like store/books/video back).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] t0x1cSH:
this may be a stupid question but have you reboot the device? in my case the pages disappeared after a reboot
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
I think com.amazon.windowshop is the store.

I think com.amazon.zico is Books (the app anyway - not sure if that'll bring back the Books section of the Fire Launcher.

com.amazon.kindle.personal_video is a video player - not sure if it's for Prime Video or just playing video on your device.

They do use codenames for some apps (like zico, venezia, tahoe, etc.), which doesn't make it obvious which is which.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
The app store is com.amazon.venezia. Kindle is com.amazon.kindle which is only the Kindle app, the bookstore itself is com.amazon.webapp. And prime video is com.amazon.avod. The package com.amazon.personal_video is just a video player for local files.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] jtodaro:
com.amazon.zico is actually Docs.

com.amazon.kindle.personal_video is My Videos.

com.amazon.windowshop is Shop Amazon (not the Appstore).

I'll keep searching around and let you know what I find, however this is a start (and to be honest, I'm liking where this is going).

Thanks again for all your help, everyone.

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stew1411, if I unhide com.amazon.kindle, should I also unhide the following?

pm hide com.amazon.kindle.cms
pm hide com.amazon.kindle.devicecontrols
pm hide com.amazon.kindle.kso
pm hide com.amazon.kindle.otter.oobe
pm hide com.amazon.kindle.otter.oobe.forced.ota
pm hide com.amazon.kindle.otter.settings
pm hide com.amazon.kindle.rdmdeviceadmin
pm hide com.amazon.kindle.unifiedSearch
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
That's what I get for going from memory :)

I don't have the device with me today.

---------- Post added at 03:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:00 PM ----------

You probably don't want this one, if you don't want OTA updates: com.amazon.kindle.otter.oobe.forced.ota
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
I have com.amazon.kindle enabled and com.amazon.webapp as well and my Kindle app works fine. All of those other apps you listed I have disabled, yet my Kindle works fine for reading.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
You have -rd together. It needs to be pm install -r -d /sdcard/com.amazon.unifiedsharefacebook.apk

This is assuming the file is in the root directory of your internal storage.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
I did reboot and still have the pages. They are just grey screens, though. I have kindle and app store enabled, yet pages on home screen are blank. The Audible screen just gives me the parental control warning.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] teixeirap:
Nope, tried your suggestion. Having the parameters separated or together doesn't make a difference. Got the same shared library error. Could it be because I haven't registered the device.... the logcat specifically calls out the missing library.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
No, it's not that. I never registered my device, but it still worked.

Could be the OS version. I let mine do the update when it first turned on. Not sure if you want to do that though in case a root method is found later that only works on the old version.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
Thank you for the info! I just got the fire hd 8 2017 32gbs. Loaded a few Google apps, Google play, and the tablet runs awfully slow! Will doing the pm hide via and speed up the tablet? I would like to try all of the apps you listed. Basically, in the adb shell just type in pm hide for each package, one command at a time? And, that is it?

Also, did you get rid of the Amazon launcher and go with something else?

I'm hoping the pm hides will speed things up! Ridiculously slow! Thanks, Cindy
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
You need to follow the steps in the first post of this thread for 'pm hide' to work. But yes, hiding the apps should speed up the tablet to some degree. Hiding packages stops them from being able to run.

I'm using Launcher Hijack so I can use Nova Launcher instead: https://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/general/launcher-root-launcher-hijack-v2-t3561026 However, that does not actually get rid of the Fire Launcher. It still runs in the background.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
Is the first step really required? To run that Facebook share app to test the id? Couldn't you just run the pm hide commands? Also, does each command have to be run one at a time or will a whole copy and paste of all of the pm hide apps work at one command line?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
Yes. Otherwise the 'pm hide' command will fail.

Then, yes, you can just paste the whole block of commands in and it'll hide them all.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Kramar111:
[MENTION=7860599]Supersonic27543[/MENTION]

don't need to install com.amazon.unifiedsharefacebook.apk

adb shell run-as com.amazon.socialplatform

will work
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
You are one of the lucky ones... :D It would not work for everyone, your build has the debug mode app already installed.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
[MENTION=7860599]Supersonic27543[/MENTION] Thank you, I was wondering why the 1st step says to install sharefacebook.apk as I see it is already installed on my fire hd 8 gen. 7 and I am not sure what com.amazon.unifiedsharefacebook.apk or com.amazon.socialplatform have to do with the PM Hide?

Also, in the list of apps that can be deactivated, is there any NOT to deactivate that will affect Alexa? I like Alexa. Thanks!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] fire1951:
Everything seems to work OK , but I get false when I try to hide com.amazon.parentalcontrols . Is there something I need to do to be able to hide this? Thanks. ( Fire HD 8 7th gen. 5.6.1.0 ).

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I spoke too soon! I can install new apps but when I try to open them, I get " The requested action is not permitted. Check Parental Controls setting & retry" I do not have parental controls switched on. ( I did not have this problem until I hid all the apps on the listing on post #21 ).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Amazon did a terrible mistake... (not terrible for us ;)) They pushed one OTA by mistake, it wasn't cleaned up right. The two apps mentioned were in a debug mode. When I saw that, I quickly pulled that app out of the tablet, and tried to make a use of it. Then I discovered that using run-as it is possible to run a shell as a debug app, and as I guessed, that app had permission to disable other system apps. :victory: Because "Amazon Facebook Share" looks completely just another bloatware, I posted that in this guide.

Also, sorry, I don't have my tablet now so I cannot experiment with that, [MENTION=9294334]cybersaga[/MENTION] do you know about this? Thank you.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] richaardvark:
Hey there! I'm still reading through this whole post just now so I apologize if you already have your answer, but the remote assistance app that Amazon staff can use to view/control your device is the "Mayday" app. The actual package name is "com.amazon.ods.kindleconnect." Here's an article that describes it a bit more from when it first launched.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
That warning shows when you try to open an app which is hidden. :confused: I never got a problem like that, someone have any idea about this?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
Start with any package with "Alexa" in the name, but beyond that, I don't know. I don't have the tablet with me right now either. I got it for my son, and he's away with it for a week.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] fire1951:
Thanks for the response, Supersonic! I followed your guide and it worked with no problems. After hiding the apps using the list on post # 21, all seemed ok. Before doing this I had an app called "Autostart" installed,( it worked fine). Before I followed your guide and hid the apps, I uninstalled "Autostart". After following the guide,etc, I installed a couple of "new" ( to me) apps. Upon trying to open them I got the "Parental Controls" message. I initially thought these "new" apps were just incompatible for some reason. Then I tried to install "Autostart" again and got the "Parental Controls" message. This behavior started after following the guide and hiding the apps on the list. Another strange thing is when I try to hide "com.amazon.parentalcontrols" I get "false".....if I try to unhide it I also get "false" ???? Should I try to unhide everything from the list again to see if everything goes back to normal? I am concerned about the behavior of "com.amazon.parentalcontrols" when I try to hide/unhide it. I am ok right now, ( for the time being ) , but I can't install and run "new" apps and I am afraid if an existing app has an update, it will fail. Do you think I need to think about the "nuclear option" and do a system reset??? (Don't really want to, unless it is absolutely necessary. ) Any suggestions welcome.Thanks!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
I'm not sure if unhiding everything would work, but in the worst case a factory reset should do it. Also no idea why hiding the parental controls app fails, it never failed for me. :confused: Never saw the warning on opening new apps either, but maybe try unhiding com.amazon.webview.chromium.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
Yeah, I didn't have any problem running other apps either. I'm pretty sure hiding the parental controls package worked for me too.

You can try unhiding everything again. Just take the list and do a search and replace "pm hide" with "pm unhide". If things work again, then you know that it took offence to one of the packages being hidden.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] richaardvark:
I wanted to take a moment to thank you for sharing this discovery with us! I updated 3 HD 8 / 2017 tablets all running the latest OS update and wow - these little tablets can fly when they aren't bogged down with garbage bloatware! I'm really shocked - they almost seem faster than my rooted HD 10! ?

I ran into several of the problems others had, but eventually figured out the process. While I was deciding what apps to hide/banish to app hell, I decided to go ahead and make an updated version of that helpful Google spreadsheet. I added all the latest system apps that are now part of 5.6.0.2 and made a post to let others know.

There's one app I wanted to share with everyone that has been driving me bonkers since the latest OS update... it's a background calling app that I think is part of "Show Mode" / drop in calling or whatever: "Tachyon Calling App" (package name is "com.amazon.comms.multimodaltachyonarm"). And actually I think it's a collection of several apps, they all have the same logo. I noticed it immediately constantly popping up in the background on all three of my HD 8s when I recently updated and wrote a post about it the other day. It has been a major memory hog. But now it's banished to hell :) I hope this trick is permanent. I was reading online where some people have had apps hidden this way slowly begin to reappear :(

The only thing that would really be icing on the cake (aside from gaining root access, hah) would be to formally hide/disable the Fire Launcher, but I did so and of course immediately encountered that parental setting warning popup whenever I pressed Home :-/ It's not a big deal though.

Anyway - thanks again so very much for this post!!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Thunderstar1984:
I am trying to hide those pages. Could you please list the packages you hid? I did all the packages listed in this post but still have Books, Audible, and Newsstand. Thanks!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] t0x1cSH:
sorry but i gave up on the fire launcher and switched to Trebuchet launcher using Launcher Hijack and these are the last amazon apps left on my device

if i remember correctly i removed the appstore the amazon shopping app and all the apps in some way ralated to the pages like for example amazon video and the one for games

shell@douglas:/ $ pm list packages | grep amazon
package:amazon.fireos
package:com.amazon.calculator
package:com.amazon.alexa.modeswitch
package:com.amazon.storagemanager
package:com.amazon.tablet.dock.settings
package:com.amazon.device.backup.sdk.internal.library
package:com.amazon.frameworksettings
package:com.amazon.fireinputdevices
package:com.amazon.device.backup
package:com.amazon.unifiedshare.actionchooser
package:com.amazon.device.settings.sdk.internal.library
package:com.amazon.firepowersettings
package:amazon.speech.audiostreamproviderservice
package:com.amazon.unifiedsharefacebook
package:com.amazon.webview.chromium
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] teixeirap:
I'l have a look if this debuggable version is installed in stock 5.6.0.0. As I can't install the facebook apk (missing shared library) can someone perhaps upload the debuggable socialplatform apk?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Kramar111:
[MENTION=324603]teixeirap[/MENTION]

Fire 7" 2015 5th Gen Fire OS 5.6.1.0
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
Why would I want to hide pm hide com.amazon.device.software.ota ?

Wouldn't I still want over the air updates pushed to me? I assume that is what this is for?

Also, I am using Google play store and Amazon apps store for my downloaded apps. I want to make sure I do NOT hide Amazon apps updates on those apps that I downloaded.

Make sense?

---------- Post added at 09:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:28 PM ----------

PLease help, I get the following errors below about not being debugable and new hidden state: false

What am I doing wrong? I have debugging enabled under developer options under enable adb. what am I missing? thanks, Cindy

C:\fastboot>adb shell

shell@douglas:/ $ run-as com.amazon.socialplatform

run-as com.amazon.socialplatform

run-as: Package 'com.amazon.socialplatform' is not debuggable

1|shell@douglas:/ $ pm hide com.amazon.advertisingidsettings

pm hide com.amazon.advertisingidsettings

Package com.amazon.advertisingidsettings new hidden state: false

shell@douglas:/ $
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] teixeirap:
Thanks unfortunately it looks like it also requires a shared lib that is not on the device:

C:\Users\<user>\Downloads>adb install -r -d com.amazon.socialplatform.apk

6027 KB/s (2400816 bytes in 0.388s)

pkg: /data/local/tmp/com.amazon.socialplatform.apk

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_MISSING_SHARED_LIBRARY]

The existing version on my HD 8 tablet is also not debug version.

Oh well it looks like I'll have to update my tablet and pray that I get a firmware version that isn't too locked down and allows me to use the OPs method.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Kramar111:
[MENTION=324603]teixeirap[/MENTION]

try without "-d"
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
You want to hide com.amazon.device.software.ota so you don't get any firmware updates. If they push a firmware update they may fix this loophole we are using. Your apps will still be updated, as app updates are handled by the app store itself.

When it tells you com.amazon.socialplatform is not debuggable, that means you can't use that app to hide bloatware. You have to install the app in the original post and run it that way.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Rortiz2:
Wooorks well un amazon fire 7 7gen Fire OS 5.6.1 thanks yoou!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
Did you reboot your device following any of this? When the device reboots the debuggable version of the app is removed. You have to push it every time you want to disable apps, assuming you rebooted since the last time you disabled. The apps showing as false after you try to hide/unhide leads me to believe you don't have permission, as the debug app has been removed.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] fire1951:
Thanks, guys, for the input. Unhid everything, working now!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] teixeirap:
thanks for all the help but same issue without the -d. it really seems that some versions of firmware just doesn't have the library needed.

Should I upgrade from 5.6.0.0 or just sit tight till a root exploit is found?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
[MENTION=7860599]Supersonic27543[/MENTION] thank you very much! I somehow got it to work and got it BUGGABLE and was able to hide apps, hidden state:true!

I couldn't tell you what I did as I tried various things in this thread to make it work. Thank you supersonic!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] throwawayjusttosay:
Worked great on parent profile. I'm wondering if there's any way to run this on a child/FreeTime profile. I've got a locked down child profile to run my Fire 7 (7th gen, 5.6.1) as a kiosk. Trying to keep unnecessary background processes from running and remove unneeded apps in case the app I'm using for parental controls crashes.

Running

pm list packages --user 10

(the child profile) works fine from the adb shell until I use

run-as com.amazon.unifiedsharefacebook

, after which it returns

Error: java.lang.SecurityException: logged stack trace, throwing a new SecurityException to apps

. It returns the same error when running

pm hide --user 10 [package name]

(I installed the unifiedshare APK on both profiles). No doubt this is tied to how Amazon locks down the child profiles.

The FreeTime profiles prompt for a PIN whenever you try to perform administrative tasks. I don't know if there's some way to overrride or emulate this through ADB or otherwise hide the apps on the child profiles, or anyway to modify the unifiedshare APK to run on the child profiles. Thanks for any input!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] TexD:
Thank you! OP's guide worked well for me and also the list on post 21 is very helpful

Amazon fire HD 8 Fire OS 5.6.2.0

Many thanks