Help How do I fix stupid (uninstall)

[MikeSD]

I know... you can't fix stupid.

I'm new to the android OS... duh! And did something a bit stupid.

I was loading a dev IDE on my Windows PC and installed the SDK, etc. Then I wanted to see if it would work on a sample program, to verify my setup. It worked fine. But then, I decided (without thinking) that the real test would be to see if I could install it on my Galaxy Tab 2 10.1.


The problem began, because it installed just fine. I guess I should have paid more attention to what I was actually installing, but since that wasn't the point of the test, I overlooked that step.


The app that I compiled was one called "Home" and it's actually the app that is used to see and launch all the other apps. Fortunately, when it's launched, I have an option to select the original or the one I installed. So, functionally it's just a little annoying. But now it's time to remove it.


I know how to uninstal most applications. Go to the apps area and just select which app I want to uninstall. The problem is, this app isn't in the app area, so I can't select it to uninstall.


My Tab is new so I guess I could just do a hard reset and restore it to factory defaults but I'm sure there must be a way to uninstall this particular app.

Let me be clear on this. The specific program I'm trying to uninstall, is the program (that I loaded "Home") that would be displaying the applications. It's an alternate to the built-in secLauncher application, and doesn't show up in the application menu.

Anyone have a suggestion on how I can uninstall this particular app, that's acting as my app launcher?


Thanks

 

[james27007]

If you have adb and can access the tablet, use one of the following codes:

adb uninstall <package name>

or

adb uninstall <app.apk>

where <package name> is the apk package official name and <app.apk> is the name of the apk

 

[MikeSD]

I don't. And I'm a bit hesitant to install something else I'm not sure about.

if there isn't another way or easier method, i might have to do a hard reset and start over

 

[MikeSD]

Update: Tada! I figured out how to uninstall it.

It wasn't showing up as an app. but it wasn't showing up as a task either. I did see SecLauncher as a task though. But i realized the task was dependent upon which was running at the time. So what i did was to use the one i wanted to uninstall, which would make it an active task, then ran ES Task Manager, selected that task and uninstalled it. i verified it was uninstalled. All appears to be as it was before I got stupid