AppCleaner: Accessibility based deletion on Redmi Y3 (Android 10)

[ALMIGHTY-VC]

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Describe the bug
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So I launched the app cleaning with results showing I accumulated approx 600 mb of trash. After cleaning it kept my settings page open of the app it cleaned( I don't know if it's a bug or after cleaning it keeps the settings page open). So I again got back into the app and stats showed sd maid cleaned 200 mb even after I let the app cleaner do its thing.

To Reproduce
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1. Go to 'Sd Maid'
2. Click on 'App cleaner'
3. Scroll down to 'After app cleaning scroll down to see stats'
4. See error of cleaning not done

Expected behavior
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It should have cleaned the approx 600 MB and in total the stats should have showed that approx 800 MB has been freed up on my device by sd maid

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: [Redmi Y3]
• OS: [Android 10]
• Root status [Unrooted]
• SD Maid 2/SE version [e.g. v1.5.1-rc0]

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IRRELEVANT TO THE ISSUE

It's my first time using the app thanks for making such a amazing alternative to oem cleaners. My xiaomi com.miui.Cleanmaster was spying on me.

Pro tip: - To allow smooth functionality of accessibility services on miui and hyper os devices allow the selected app to autorestart

[ALMIGHTY-VC]

Also should It take 10 mins to clean 600 MB because when I recorded the whole process to estimate the time it took and the recording came out to be about 10 mins. I'm running on MIUI 11

[d4rken]

Long accessibility operations are usually issues with recognizing the screen elements on specific ROMs. Please provide a debug log of the process so I can see what SD Maid is seeing:

https://github.com/d4rken-org/sdmaid-se/wiki/Bugs#debug-log

[ALMIGHTY-VC]

eu.darken.sdmse_10501000_2025-10-01_06-22-34-902.zip

I again tried the app cleaner with debugging enabled so here you go. Do I need to share the core log too??
Thanks for the swift response

[d4rken]

Thanks for the log. Good infos 👍

It worked, but only for the very first app:

• For Chrome: Result(successful=[InstallId(pkgId=com.android.chrome, userHandle=UserHandle2(handleId=0))]

For every app after that it fails because SD Maid can't launch the settings window for that app.

Wants to launch MIUI Notes settings:

2025-10-01T00:55:45.709Z  I/SDMSE:AppCleaner:Automation:MIUI:Specs: Launching Intent { act=android.settings.APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS dat=package:com.miui.notes flg=0x10818000 }
2025-10-01T00:55:45.715Z  D/SDMSE:AppCleaner:Automation:MIUI:Specs:Stepper: Window launched!
2025-10-01T00:55:45.767Z  I/SDMSE:AppCleaner:Automation:MIUI:Specs:Stepper: Executing windowCheck and determining root window...

But the only visible windows stay the Chrome settings:

2025-10-01T00:55:47.282Z  V/SDMSE:Automation:Service: ACS-DEBUG: -----------11: text='Chrome', class=android.widget.TextView, clickable=false, checkable=false enabled=true, id=com.miui.securitycenter:id/app_manager_details_applabel pkg=com.miui.securitycenter, identity=7fd914f, bounds=Rect(211, 373 - 350, 420)
2025-10-01T00:55:47.283Z  V/SDMSE:Automation:Service: ACS-DEBUG: -----------11: text='Version: 140.0.7339.207', class=android.widget.TextView, clickable=false, checkable=false enabled=true, id=com.miui.securitycenter:id/app_manager_details_appversion pkg=com.miui.securitycenter, identity=908c029, bounds=Rect(211, 427 - 564, 466)

This repeats for all other apps, the Chrome settings window never goes away.

SD Maid already asks the system for a new task stack 🤔

sdmaid-se/app/src/main/java/eu/darken/sdmse/automation/core/specs/SpecGeneratorExtensions.kt

Lines 42 to 49 in 153d350

	val intent = pkgInfo.getSettingsIntent(androidContext).apply {
	flags = Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK or
	Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK or
	Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS or
	Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION
	}
	log(tag, INFO) { "Launching $intent" }
	host.service.startActivity(intent)

Theoretically we could try some other flags, but what we have works on all other ROMs (MIUI ROMs too), changing this risks breaking it for others...

Did you already do just a reboot and see if it works then?

[d4rken]

I could add a "back action" after the last chrome related action, but I would want to somehow be able to detect this issue and only then executing it, but I don't see how I could do that 🤔

The most difficult thing in fixing something like this is to not break it for other MIUI ROMs where it is working 😁

[ALMIGHTY-VC]

Thanks for the log. Good infos 👍

It worked, but only for the very first app:

• For Chrome: Result(successful=[InstallId(pkgId=com.android.chrome, userHandle=UserHandle2(handleId=0))]

For every app after that it fails because SD Maid can't launch the settings window for that app.

Wants to launch MIUI Notes settings:

2025-10-01T00:55:45.709Z I/SDMSE:AppCleaner:Automation:MIUI:Specs: Launching Intent { act=android.settings.APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS dat=package:com.miui.notes flg=0x10818000 }
2025-10-01T00:55:45.715Z D/SDMSE:AppCleaner:Automation:MIUI:Specs:Stepper: Window launched!
2025-10-01T00:55:45.767Z I/SDMSE:AppCleaner:Automation:MIUI:Specs:Stepper: Executing windowCheck and determining root window...
But the only visible windows stay the Chrome settings:

2025-10-01T00:55:47.282Z V/SDMSE:Automation:Service: ACS-DEBUG: -----------11: text='Chrome', class=android.widget.TextView, clickable=false, checkable=false enabled=true, id=com.miui.securitycenter:id/app_manager_details_applabel pkg=com.miui.securitycenter, identity=7fd914f, bounds=Rect(211, 373 - 350, 420)
2025-10-01T00:55:47.283Z V/SDMSE:Automation:Service: ACS-DEBUG: -----------11: text='Version: 140.0.7339.207', class=android.widget.TextView, clickable=false, checkable=false enabled=true, id=com.miui.securitycenter:id/app_manager_details_appversion pkg=com.miui.securitycenter, identity=908c029, bounds=Rect(211, 427 - 564, 466)
This repeats for all other apps, the Chrome settings window never goes away.

SD Maid already asks the system for a new task stack 🤔

sdmaid-se/app/src/main/java/eu/darken/sdmse/automation/core/specs/SpecGeneratorExtensions.kt

Lines 42 to 49 in 153d350

val intent = pkgInfo.getSettingsIntent(androidContext).apply {
flags = Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK or
Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK or
Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS or
Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION
}
log(tag, INFO) { "Launching $intent" }
host.service.startActivity(intent)
Theoretically we could try some other flags, but what we have works on all other ROMs (MIUI ROMs too), changing this risks breaking it for others...

Did you already do just a reboot and see if it works then?

Well as you said I rebooted my device and ran sd maid. You definitely found out the cause because yeah it only opens the settings of the first app and then stops jumping to settings of another app.

I just discovered that cleaning each app manually using app cleaner does the job just gotta do a few clicks.

So you can feel free to put this issue to hold until you find a way which works for the whole community.

[ALMIGHTY-VC]

Digged Around a little and the solution is the only wait for a robust automation system🤖. But still manual cleaning does the job and I can definitely spare a few minutes to do it.

Thanks for finding the issue hope you may get the solution too😁

[ALMIGHTY-VC]

Btw Notice job building this app when I rebooted to use the app cleaner as you instructed and saw the same thing was happening because of which I cancelled the cleaning mid way, the app did detect that something was wrong👍🤝