Android INSTALL_FAILED_UID_CHANGED

Question

I have been doing debugging on Android using my Nexus 4, however I recently encountered this error here. After doing some research on this error, it seems to be an issue wit

Answer 1

This worked for me:

adb shell rm -rf /system/app/<package.name>

Answer 2

A solution for non-rooted device. Go to the Application manager and uninstall the app called "Selendroid" and retry again. This solution works for me.

Answer 3

Use

adb shell

go to the shell.
Then run the command follow:

rm -rf /data/data/package name

please repleace package name with your own, such as com.map.map

Answer 4

I do have root on my Nexus 5, but nothing worked, so I had to run a factory reset from the settings which worked.

Answer 5

You probably introduced an SharedUserID which causes this.

Answer 6

I met the similar problem. The reson is that you didn't uninstall all component of the app.My solution is: deleting /data/data/com.eg.android.AlipayGphone manually.

work well for me.

I hope it is helpful for u!