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Make it just a TV again

We catalogue, model by model, which preinstalled apps you can take off your television and what stops working when you do. One command, the interface the manufacturer documents itself, and the way back verified before anything gets published.

Everything undoes with one command
No privileged access, no modified firmware
Your device, the manufacturer's own interface

remove it, and put it back

$ adb connect 192.168.1.45:5555
connected to 192.168.1.45:5555

$ adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.tcl.adservice
Success

# having second thoughts?
$ adb shell cmd package install-existing com.tcl.adservice
Package com.tcl.adservice installed for user: 0

How this started

Se viene un movimiento de liberar televisores de 8 o 10 años de su root, y poder instalar soft mas ligero.

Claude, Kimi, Codex, Qwen ya hacen posible meter exploits por ADB via wifi y dar usa segunda vida a esos televisores sin Netflix u otras apps.

OEMs vs users con LLMs

— Ángel Guzmán Maeso (@shakaran87) 26 de agosto de 2026

Ángel Guzmán Maeso @shakaran87 26 · 08 · 2026 See the original post

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Quoted as it was written, before the project had a scope. What this site actually documents, and what it refuses to, is set out on the scope page.

Service label

Model: 43P8M
System: Android TV 8.0
Memory: 1.5 GB
Year: 2018
Last update: 2020

The code you need is on the sticker at the back of your television. It is the first thing we will ask you for.

The panel is fine. What aged is everything else

A 2016 television has a panel that still gives an excellent picture and a processor that was never fast. On top of it sits software that stopped being updated years ago and that, with every season, added one more row of sponsored content, one more telemetry service, and one more second of waiting to get back to the home screen.

None of that is a fault. It is software, and software can be removed.

What we do and what we refuse to do

Being specific about this suits everyone: you know what you will find, and for us these limits are what makes the project possible at all.

Yes

Uninstall preinstalled apps over ADB, with no privileged access.
Document, per model, what stops working and how risky it is.
Publish the way back. Without it, the entry does not go live.

Never

Host firmware, system images or application files.
Get around verified boot or any content protection.
Charge to touch anyone's device.

The full limits, one by one

Tell us which television you have

We are building the catalogue in the order of what people actually own, not in the manufacturer's catalogue order. Tell us your model and we will let you know the moment it is covered.

One confirmation e-mail, then only news about this project. One click to leave, always. No third-party advertising on the list.