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APK of any Samsung system app refuses to install with the message "App not installed", with the exceptions of Samsung account, Samsung Galaxy Apps, Samsung Notes and Samsung Themes.
Here are some observations:
Create shortcut to .apk file and install immediately after reboot (Did not work)
Toggle "Secure Startup" in Settings and reboot (Did not work, it worked on the S8 and S7 devices)
Installing via ADB (Failed with the following error):
HTML:
Failed to install app.apk: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_BY_BUILDTYPE_BY_SECURITY_POLICY]
Changing the version code of the .apk file with APK Editor (Did not work, causes "App not installed. The package conflicts with an existing package by the same name" error, which is different from the "App not installed" error initially)
For a screenshot of the "App not installed" error, please look at this post by @Teknick.
Searching this error on Google returns few useful results, so this definitely needs more attention. I highly suspect this is a Samsung security policy that is preventing the install. Is there any workaround? (except rooting, of course) I wouldn't be asking this if the Samsung apps could update themselves. Right now, every Samsung app insists that "The latest version is already installed" in the About section when there's a clearly a 2-month-later newer version available. And, no, these .apk files are NOT from the S8 Oreo beta.
Seriously, no one?
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And why open a new thread, there is already one, and you even posted in it.
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If you are going to lecture people on the forum rules, I suggest you go back and read them yourself.
I'll make it easy and highlight a section for you real quick:
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Dejan Sathanas said:
It's forbidden to bump your thread in less than 24 hours.
No one is sitting here just waiting to answer your questions.
And why open a new thread, there is already one, and you even posted in it.
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Nowhere in the forum rules does this appear. If you don't have anything that is helpful/adds to the discussion, why post this? I started this thread because I believe this issue needs more attention like I said before, as well as providing more information for others who might have this problem as well (and might be searching for answers here).
You can install some of them after you got new official update <security/policy update>,
The signature is different for different model, even same app like device maintenance, you cannot install the apk file from phone s8,s8+
For some independent app like samsung account, samsung themes, you can upgrade with installing the apk from the website you mentioned.
If you have 3rd party recovery installed, you can do your flashable file, then update via recovery, that's the way I'm doing usually.
hinnn said:
You can install some of them after you got new official update <security/policy update>,
The signature is different for different model, even same app like device maintenance, you cannot install the apk file from phone s8,s8+
For some independent app like samsung account, samsung themes, you can upgrade with installing the apk from the website you mentioned.
If you have 3rd party recovery installed, you can do your flashable file, then update via recovery, that's the way I'm doing usually.
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Hi hinnn,
Thanks for the reply! I really appreciate your info. However, I have a few clarifications:
So Samsung indeed has a security check on the system APKs now to make sure it matches the device? Is the "About" section of the system apps correct after all? I'm on the latest AQI1 firmware with August 2017 security patch, and security policy has "already been updated to the latest version". Could you clarify which update you are referring to? Lastly, what is an "independent app" that you mentioned, and which apps are "independent"? Sorry if I ask too much, I came from installing these system APKs on S7 edge, I do not know about the latest mechanisms in S8 & Note 8.
Edit: I tried installing the latest Air Command APK, which also failed with the same error. But as far as I know, S8 has no S-Pen so no Air Command, correct? This should be for Note 8 yet it didn't install
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Hi hinnn,
Thanks for the reply! I really appreciate your info. However, I have a few clarifications:
So Samsung indeed has a security check on the system APKs now to make sure it matches the device? Is the "About" section of the system apps correct after all? I'm on the latest AQI1 firmware with August 2017 security patch, and security policy has "already been updated to the latest version". Could you clarify which update you are referring to? Lastly, what is an "independent app" that you mentioned, and which apps are "independent"? Sorry if I ask too much, I came from installing these system APKs on S7 edge, I do not know about the latest mechanisms in S8 & Note 8.
Edit: I tried installing the latest Air Command APK, which also failed with the same error. But as far as I know, S8 has no S-Pen so no Air Command, correct? This should be for Note 8 yet it didn't install
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Actually, SAMSUNG didn't push through the security policy in that way, usually, we need update to next version like AQI2 or AQJ1, then you can install some of them, otherwise you will get the message saying signature conflict
An existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed
For "independent app", like standalone app, samsung themes, galaxy apps, samsung account which isn't running with any particular framework , not too much.
P.S. I'm not a professional guy, probably my explainable doesn't make sense, or not correct, just for your information.
Cheers
I have the exact same problem and I didn't find any solution yet. And like you I come from the S7 Edge and I used to update my apps like this. So if someone has any suggestion I take it.
hinnn said:
Actually, SAMSUNG didn't push through the security policy in that way, usually, we need update to next version like AQI2 or AQJ1, then you can install some of them, otherwise you will get the message saying signature conflict
An existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed
For "independent app", like standalone app, samsung themes, galaxy apps, samsung account which isn't running with any particular framework , not too much.
P.S. I'm not a professional guy, probably my explainable doesn't make sense, or not correct, just for your information.
Cheers
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Thanks for the clarifications! After some more observations, it seems that any APK released after 26 September 2017 will not install on Samsung devices running Nougat 7.1.1 (except the 4 mentioned in the first post). However, I do not get the "An existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed" error, I get "App not installed" error instead as shown by the screenshot.
However, changing the version code and re-signing the APK with APK Editor app will produce "An existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed" error that you mentioned when attempting to install (which is different from the original error)
As for the "framework" concept, could you elaborate a little further? The "Secure Startup" exploit works on all Samsung devices that were not originally on Nougat, but were later updated to Nougat 7.0. (It might work on the S8 and S8+ too, although I'm not sure about that).
@100055
No problem with this as this problem is solved temp only
for example
there are certain apps which are not stable and yes 1 or 2 are stable out of 98% unstable apps as i tried all apps and saw it was unstable and caused lots of problem
from adb
put the following command and install the apk
adb install -l -r C:\Users\anand\Desktop\soundalive.apk
[use red highlighted command line only. green highlighted line is for reference only]
the app will install but if you reboot your device the update of the apk will be lost and more over the previous app update officially done by Samsung will be wiped you have to reinstall the update from the galaxy app store again
if you dont reboot then its fine being using the app of updated one for example i needed only soundalive.apk till today.. so i update it and wont reboot my device so i enjoy the updated sound quality of it
Amit.A said:
@100055
No problem with this as this problem is solved temp only
for example
there are certain apps which are not stable and yes 1 or 2 are stable out of 98% unstable apps as i tried all apps and saw it was unstable and caused lots of problem
from adb
put the following command and install the apk
adb install -l -r C:\Users\anand\Desktop\soundalive.apk
[use red highlighted command line only. green highlighted line is for reference only]
the app will install but if you reboot your device the update of the apk will be lost and more over the previous app update officially done by Samsung will be wiped you have to reinstall the update from the galaxy app store again
if you dont reboot then its fine being using the app of updated one for example i needed only soundalive.apk till today.. so i update it and wont reboot my device so i enjoy the updated sound quality of it
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Thanks for the solution, it indeed works! But why doesn't the update stay through a reboot though? And why does adding the option -l work?
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I have just acquired a Samsung Galaxy A40 phone. In my opinion, it has one of the best size/price/performance ratios on the market, reason why I bough it.
However, one very sad point about it is that there is still no LineageOS or any other custom ROMs to this phone, forcing myself to stick to the Samsung ultra-bloated distribution.
Having to accept this fact, my first action was to clean the phone the best I could, by removing any unnecessary crap from Sansumg and others from Google, Linkedin, Facebook and anything not strictly necessary. I based my list on some available (find ref on the script), but I also added some other useful commands.
Let me know if this works out for you, and if you have any point to add to the list. Find it attached on the Gist below:
https://gist.github.com/joaofl/7671e7e96a760e9b368992d6694a33d9
Before running it, I recommend reading the comments on the scrip, so that you dont end up without keyboard for example.
Hope it suites you!
By the way, do you have any information on when or if there is anybody working on a custom ROM (Lineage preferably) for this device?
EDIT:
There is no need to be root!
Disabling Galaxy A40 bloatware
joaofl said:
...clean the phone the best I could, by removing any unnecessary crap from Sansumg and others...
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Instead of removing system apps you can simply disable them which is easily reversible.
If the Disable button is grayed-out in the Settings > App > app's info see this XDA article: How to disable any pre-installed system app bloatware on Android without root using adb
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joaofl said:
I have just acquired a Samsung Galaxy A40 phone. In my opinion, it has one of the best size/price/performance ratios on the market, reason why I bough it.
However, one very sad point about it is that there is still no LineageOS or any other custom ROMs to this phone, forcing myself to stick to the Samsung ultra-bloated distribution.
Having to accept this fact, my first action was to clean the phone the best I could, by removing any unnecessary crap from Sansumg and others from Google, Linkedin, Facebook and anything not strictly necessary. I based my list on some available (find ref on the script), but I also added some other useful commands.
Let me know if this works out for you, and if you have any point to add to the list. Find it attached on the Gist below:
https://gist.github.com/joaofl/7671e7e96a760e9b368992d6694a33d9
Before running it, I recommend reading the comments on the scrip, so that you dont end up without keyboard for example.
Hope it suites you!
By the way, do you have any information on when or if there is anybody working on a custom ROM (Lineage preferably) for this device?
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I need root permissions to do this
But will this run without rooting the phone?
EDIT: It works!
Beautiful.
I'm new with Galaxy A40, i'm really not a fan of Samsung but it was great to have the idea of making a phone lower than 15cm that is my need for lot of reasons.
I was just preparing to remove some system apps like bixby and samsung launcher, than i found out this script but... may you please give a description of most incomprehensible apps in the list?
Instructions
A big thanks to joaofl for getting this list together for us!!!
Here's some info that might help others...
- This article has info (it's further down in the page) on how to use the script (you copy and paste it into Windows command promt/cmd as admin and after installing ADB... link in the article below).
https://piunikaweb.com/2019/03/25/samsung-galaxy-s10-remove-bundled-bloatwares-without-root/
- There's a typo in the script... Lines 84 onwards on the code has a typo where it says 'pm' rather than 'adb'. Changing that before you paste it into cmd fixes it.
Charlie Cooper said:
A big thanks to joaofl for getting this list together for us!!!
Here's some info that might help others...
- This article has info (it's further down in the page) on how to use the script (you copy and paste it into Windows command promt/cmd as admin and after installing ADB... link in the article below).
https://piunikaweb.com/2019/03/25/samsung-galaxy-s10-remove-bundled-bloatwares-without-root/
- There's a typo in the script... Lines 84 onwards on the code has a typo where it says 'pm' rather than 'adb'. Changing that before you paste it into cmd fixes it.
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Indeed, there were some errors there. I updated the script now, and it should work better now.
and NO, you dont need to be root to run it.
I prefer to remove stuff instead of disabling it, as it free up some space. Worst case, you need to restore the phone.
Yesterday I disabled a lot of unnecessary apps on my Galaxy A40. At a certain point the device was locked an a message said something about "not authorised removal of billing/paying apps". I had to do a hard recovery because I could not enable any of the apps. In fact I could do nothing with the phone
I mention this because on all the lists I found on the internet the billing/paying apps are listed as bloatware/unnecessary which was not true in my case. My A40 is customised by hutchison (drei) maybe this has something to do with it.
edit: the package name which is locking the phone is
com.samsung.android.kgclient
HTH and have a nice day!
Does anyone know if a factory reset from Settings will restore all the apps removed via this process?
EDIT: It does.
Can you say which apps cannot be removed OR disabled?
Weasler said:
Can you say which apps cannot be removed OR disabled?
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Do not remove Samsung Payment Services (using root), if you do you will get a locked/unusable device, it will show 'Device locked because Payment services was uninstalled without authorization' and reflash will be needed.
Tony il Capo said:
Do not remove Samsung Payment Services (using root), if you do you will get a locked/unusable device, it will show 'Device locked because Payment services was uninstalled without authorization' and reflash will be needed.
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Thanks, I'll just stick to disabling apps until I get to know this phone a bit better! The battery monitor doesn't say I have anything chewing up CPU and I'm only losing a few % overnight on idle (even with LED notification fix) so I must have optimized a good bit already.
hello,
good idea !!
i have done the same with luckypatcher (need root)
i forgot this way.... easy with adb
thank you.
Hi, just uninstalled apps using ADB and the script from Page 1. All is fine, even though I forgot to install G-board beforehands, I just sent it from laptop to install on A 40 afterwards.
Amazing job. phone feels lighter and smooth now.
Thank you !!! @joaofl @curiousrom and @costa11
I want remove all samsung on my new galaxy A40, but:
I need to be root.???
I can backup first my original firmware??? And then if there are problems restore this backup??
I need simple use to consume los battery.
Thanks
ruloes said:
I want remove all samsung on my new galaxy A40, but:
I need to be root.???
I can backup first my original firmware??? And then if there are problems restore this backup??
I need simple use to consume los battery.
Thanks
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Adb doesn't need to be Rooted to be used
Just activate USB debugging(see tutorial about développer mode), and use cmd from your PC (and have adb.exe in a directory for sure)
Pay attention that the phone will Ask you to confirm the authentication as soon as you set "adb start-server"
For the backup, you have already asked it in another thread in which i answered you.
Envoyé de mon SM-A405FN en utilisant Tapatalk
I don’t understand the backup thread, where?
I did it with adb but now.... what else
ruloes said:
I don’t understand the backup thread, where?
I did it with adb but now.... what else
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I just recover all my files from another Samsung Galaxy to new A40 with own Samsung account backup . There is also Google backup but it is not complete . Samsung backup satisfied me a lot . Just register , sign in Samsung account and from phone settings click on backup .
No need root , of course .
Regarding removing bloatware there are plenty of tutorials on this subject . Just look for it . It's all about adb shell cmd and activate debugging mode from phone . You need also an apk inspector from Google Play to know for sure name of apk you want to uninstall . Don't touch system apks , lists with bloatwares can be uninstalled you can find here on xda (galaxy phones) .
Personally I remarked besides their importance , apks like Calendar and Google Search eat a lot battery . I don't need these apks so I got rid of those and another and I can say battery was semnifically improved . I use also dark mode (from usb debugging) , native digital wellbeing for nights and all-in-one tools apk for some special android characteristics like boost , boot , clean etc
It's important to mention all apks uninstalled still remained in android backup image so they can be restored from phone factory reset .
Succes !
I clean my A40 from the bloatware with the script and I lost the recents app screen of One UI.
Now my recent list is the stock of Android 9. Moreover I totally lost the recents screen when navbar is in gesture mode.
Someone can help me to understand which apk are related with my issue?
Script:
https://gist.github.com/joaofl/7671...33d9#file-clean-samsung-galaxy-a40-bloatwares
Thank you for the efforts. I am a new buyer of A40 and I hope the community grow up!
mrmysterious said:
I clean my A40 from the bloatware with the script and I lost the recents app screen of One UI.
Now my recent list is the stock of Android 9. Moreover I totally lost the recents screen when navbar is in gesture mode.
Someone can help me to understand which apk are related with my issue?
Script:
https://gist.github.com/joaofl/7671...33d9#file-clean-samsung-galaxy-a40-bloatwares
Thank you for the efforts. I am a new buyer of A40 and I hope the community grow up!
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I suggest factory reset then remove again certain bloatware . Don't touch system apks . Also try to backup your system to Samsung Cloud .
Are you having nightmares trying to restoring your Oneplus 7T to stock? This is for you.
This package will restore your Oneplus 7T to 10.3.2 stock. Make sure you have backed up the data, stock restore will wipe everything.
*Disclaimer* I am not the owner of these files nor have I in any way modified any of these files. I have however restored my Oneplus 7T (Indian variant) several times using this. Use at your own risk and discretion.
Instructions
1. Install 7-zip
2. Download and Extract the zip (*.7z file)
3. open Command prompt into the extracted folder
4. reboot your phone into fastboot (power off > press power button+both volume buttons)
3. Run "flash wipe both all everything.bat"
4. Lock the bootloader by typing "fastboot oem lock"
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Usually I'd closed that one because you created that thread 7 minutes later. Another duplicate has been deleted. And this thread has been moved out of the development section, for which your threads don't qualify:
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Hello everyone,
I'm running out of space and my system is using 77gb of space on my phone,
and I couldn't find any way to reduce this,
any idea on what might be causing this ?
(screenshot attached)
thanks to everyone for your answers,
If you dont use all the Samsung apps, debloating maybe an option/ just be careful on what you remove
S21 Ultra Debloat
Found a couple of handy articles listing most of the bloat packages in Galaxy phones: How to Remove Samsung Galaxy S20 Bloatware? - KrispiTech https://technastic.com/remove-samsung-bloatware-safe-to-remove-apps/ more tips and ready to use...
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[2022-07-03] [v0.5.1] Universal Android Debloater
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st3chn0 said:
If you dont use all the Samsung apps, debloating maybe an option/ just be careful on what you remove
S21 Ultra Debloat
Found a couple of handy articles listing most of the bloat packages in Galaxy phones: How to Remove Samsung Galaxy S20 Bloatware? - KrispiTech https://technastic.com/remove-samsung-bloatware-safe-to-remove-apps/ more tips and ready to use...
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[2022-07-03] [v0.5.1] Universal Android Debloater
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Hello Stechno,
I don't think it's a deploadting problem,
there is no way the samsung Apps are taking almost 70gb of the storage, there must be something else
Surprisingly that is now actually considered normal usage, it also includes system OS files and other necessary files for your device.
My system is 25 GB.
Msg77 said:
My system is 25 GB.
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Mine went up to 77 today, got no clue, when I delete some stuff, system goes up
abiedster said:
Mine went up to 77 today, got no clue, when I delete some stuff, system goes up
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When you delete stuff, it will just move to the trash. So you have to remove the files in the trash again. And then the system usage will go down.
Nope, its a rounding error.
Was drama after release, then it was explained.
Kinda like how a 1 gig is actually 1024mb etc., if I recall right.
I posted a detailed description of the problem here:
How to recover accidentally erased Camera folder from Samsung S21 Ultra - Data Recovery Android 12 / Root?
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I understand I need to somehow root the phone / get access to deleted (hidden) folder with my deleted (hidden) photos WITHOUT wiping the data. Is this at all possible on this phone? What are my options?
even professional software was of no use, because no root access.
Please help!
samsungs21 said:
I posted a detailed description of the problem here:
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