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==='''Live lock screen (2024)'''===
==='''Live lock screen (2024)'''===
In late 2024, Motorola had installed an adware app called [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.taboola.mip Live lock screen] (from Taboola) for their recent devices under the guise of a "security update".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techissuestoday.com/motorola-lock-screen-ads-articles/|title=Motorola users noticing ads on lock screen after recent system updates|first=Dwayne|last=Cubbins|date=2024-11-21|work=Tech-Issues Today|access-date=2025-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250508185348/https://techissuestoday.com/motorola-lock-screen-ads-articles/|archive-date=2025-05-08|url-status=live}}</ref> This is installed as a system app and so cannot be deleted, with some speculating Motorola "might be looking for new revenue streams". Some users have found workarounds to removing the app from their phones involving the use of a computer's terminal.<ref name="Reddit">{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/motorola/comments/1h0klyj/remove_live_lock_screen_permanently_using_adb/|title=Remove Live lock screen permanently using ADB commands|author=u/Legal Literature1356|work=Reddit|date=2024-11-26|access-date=2025-06-18|archive-url=https://archive.ph/xYiUn|archive-date=2025-01-28|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In late 2024, Motorola had installed an adware app called [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.taboola.mip Live lock screen] (from Taboola) for their recent devices under the guise of a "security update".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techissuestoday.com/motorola-lock-screen-ads-articles/|title=Motorola users noticing ads on lock screen after recent system updates|first=Dwayne|last=Cubbins|date=2024-11-21|work=Tech-Issues Today|access-date=2025-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250508185348/https://techissuestoday.com/motorola-lock-screen-ads-articles/|archive-date=2025-05-08|url-status=live}}</ref> This is installed as a system app and so cannot be deleted, with some speculating Motorola "might be looking for new revenue streams". Some users have found workarounds to removing the app from their phones involving the use of a computer's terminal.<ref name="Reddit">{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/motorola/comments/1h0klyj/remove_live_lock_screen_permanently_using_adb/|title=Remove Live lock screen permanently using ADB commands|author=u/Legal Literature1356|work=Reddit|date=2024-11-26|access-date=2025-06-18|archive-url=https://archive.ph/xYiUn|archive-date=2025-01-28|url-status=dead}}</ref><blockquote>1- Download adb files from given link and extract it in your PC (It also includes this video tutorial in Full HD format in case reddit compressed it here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16cEtQFyLRfR216j7McXS4UpBIV4jcFPL/view?usp=drivesdk


{{Quote box|quote=1- Download adb files from given link and extract it in your PC (It also includes this video tutorial in Full HD format in case reddit compressed it here.
2- Connect your phone to your PC using usb cable.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16cEtQFyLRfR216j7McXS4UpBIV4jcFPL/view?usp=drivesdk <br>2- Connect your phone to your PC using usb cable.<br>3- Tap multiple times in your phone build number until developer options in not unlock.<br>4- Enable Developer options and then USB debugging.<br>5- Open "cmd-here" terminal files as admisstrator from that given folder and give these commands.<br>adb devices<br>adb shell<br>pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.taboola.mip<br>6- Restart your phone.


''- u/Legal Literature1356''<ref name="Reddit" />}}
3- Tap multiple times in your phone build number until developer options in not unlock.
{{Quote box|quote=Not at all to detract from OP, but if you dont trust .rar files with .exes in them:
You can use official sources for "andriod platform tools" from here https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools
and you dont need "cmd-here", (all it doesis opens a command prompt in the folder it sits in). instead, open command prompt as per usual ("cmd" in windows search does it), click on the address bar of whereever your andriod tools are, copy that, then use that as below.
<br>cd C:\Users\Main\Desktop\New folder\platform-tools<br>adb devices
<br>adb shell
<br>pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.taboola.mip
<br>Other useful bits, my one had a different package name:
<br>pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.taboola.ody
<br>and this lists the packages in your phone, incase they have changed the name:
<br>adb devices
<br>adb shell
<br>adb shell pm list packages


''- u/Etalon3141''<ref name="Reddit" />}}
4- Enable Developer options and then USB debugging.
 
5- Open "cmd-here" terminal files as admisstrator from that given folder and give these commands.
 
adb devices
 
adb shell
 
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.taboola.mip
 
6- Restart your phone.
 
''- u/Legal Literature1356''<ref name="Reddit2" /></blockquote><blockquote>Not at all to detract from OP, but if you dont trust .rar files with .exes in them: You can use official sources for "andriod platform tools" from here https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools and you dont need "cmd-here", (all it doesis opens a command prompt in the folder it sits in). instead, open command prompt as per usual ("cmd" in windows search does it), click on the address bar of whereever your andriod tools are, copy that, then use that as below.
 
cd C:\Users\Main\Desktop\New folder\platform-tools
 
adb devices
 
adb shell
 
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.taboola.mip
 
Other useful bits, my one had a different package name:
 
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.taboola.ody
 
and this lists the packages in your phone, incase they have changed the name:
 
adb devices
 
adb shell
 
adb shell pm list packages
 
''- u/Etalon3141''<ref name="Reddit3" /></blockquote>


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