Mibox 3 / S deblaot your device and free up resources and space without root (not for newbies)

by wazernet

So not all know this but its rather simple.

If you do know what adb is and how to get it, this is not for you.

Now when this is away lets get started.

  1. Enable developer mode on your box

  2. Enable usb debugging while doing this(note your usb port will no longer work until disabled again)

  3. open command window in windows (cmd.exe)

  4. Connect to your mibox device example adb connect 192.168.1.10:5555 (port 5555 is default)

  5. adb shell pm list packages -f

  6. Copy entire section and see what you would like to remove

  7. Type adb shell

  8. List of known files that is normally preloaded/installed into the box, copy paste any into the cmd and uninstall/deactivate them (note they will either show up again after a reboot or after a few seconds/minutes, but they will no longer be installed) 

     //Mibox 3 preloaded apps
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.cbs.ott
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.hulu.livingroomplus
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.pandora.android.atv
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.showtime.standalone
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.nousguide.android.rbtv
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.sling
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 air.com.vudu.air.DownloaderTablet
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.xiaomi.android.tvsetup.partnercustomizer
 
 //Android languages keyboard
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.inputmethod.korean
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.apps.inputmethod.hindi
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.inputmethod.japanese
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.apps.inputmethod.zhuyin
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.inputmethod.pinyin
 
 //Android google apps
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.tv
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.play.games
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.music
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.videos
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.tts
 pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.leanbacklauncher.recommendations

Doing a hardware reset will revert back all changes you made.

Good luck.

Dxsty98

No offense but how is this freeing resources? (unless you are talking about space)

Most if not all of those apps don't even run in the background

Bodycount9

You can disable most of the bloat straight from the menu so it never loads also.

superdroidtv

Also add these to remove the mi box recommendations row:

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.leanbacklauncher.recommendations

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.xiaomi.android.tvsetup.partnercustomizer

ioncrea

Hi , i uninstall android tv and now i couldn't use it :(( How can i install it back ? Because i want to use android tv property with one of ip tv app. Waiting your good news. I don't want to reset mibox because i setup everything perfectly :)

akisnet

Removing files and same guys after 3 months they will complain here for bad Xiaomi and bugie Android TV...