Android 17 change: ` adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 <package>` no longer works without root

[0xDE57]

Hitting Uninstall on a system app in PackageManger brings the user to an "Uninstall with ADB" page, and recommends the following command:

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.adservices.api

Looks like there is a change in A17 that you can no longer disable root packages this way. The user is now met with:
Failure [only root can delete system app for a particular user]

Perhaps this page could be updated to use the disable-user command: adb shell pm disable-user <package> on A17+

adb shell pm disable-user com.android.adservices.api

Which outputs:

Package com.android.adservices.api new state: disabled-user

(Unfortunately google mandates that adservices should be a system level app and that you are not allowed to remove... 🤮)

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• https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/37681-issue-with-adb-commands-on-a17-gos-is-it-just-me-or-did-things-change-from-a16/7
• GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base@7c7b4fa

This is a apparently a google change, not a Graphene change. Just linking the discussion for reference.

[sunilpaulmathew]

@0xDE57
pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.adservices.api will certainly remove that app for user 0. This app already started doing that on a better way as of commit 6c6698e
However, I forgot to update the same for adb instructions page. It will be hopefully (unless I forgot again) done before next update (thanks to this issue).