I’ve had a Capsule II for several months and think it is a great product. I periodically go to the Google Play Store to keep my apps up-to-date. Amazon Prime is now showing up in the list of Apps to update. I never installed Amazon Prime and don’t want it on my projector, especially because it now shows up every time in the list of Apps to update.
The problem is that it won’t let me uninstall Amazon Prime. Why am I not allowed to uninstall an App like Amazon Prime?
Seems like one of those apps that comes pre installed
pre-installed is common as Amazon give a subsidy to the seller to bundle it.
There are two types of storage in any Android device, the /system is pre-installed and you cannot make it any smaller, and an overlayer /data. When you do a Play Store update it downloads and installs the updated app and that sits ontop and masks the pre-installed one.
So your /data is filled with updates and /system exists. The least-bloated way is to attempt to disable or uninstall and it then says “revert to original” deletes /data and reveals the /system. The other method is unlock bootloader, developer mode, and use adb shell commands to delete from /system to fully de-bloat, that is full of risk as it often causes a corrupt /system and then system updates fail.
Thank you professor for an excellent reply with actual info on how to remove the App.
I do think Anker should also reply by saying that they will stop this practice of taking money from other businesses to force Apps that not everyone wants or needs.