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Battery Draining by Private Service App on My Phone, Why? (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Jerikobullet to c/[email protected]

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There is no option for deletion for this app. Its draining my battery, and I read various posts they said that this app spy location and do lot of other stuff. I'm really confused after noticing it and reading such stuff. What should I do, I tried to disable it but it again activates when I restart phone?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A simple way to deal with it is finding its package name using either internet or App Manager from F-Droid, and using ADB on a computer with USB debugging on, using this command:

adb shell pm disable-user <PACKAGENAME>

Packages disabled using ADB cannot be enabled without manual user confirmation or via IPC between apps.

Enjoy this hack!

Note: the "disable" App Info button lacks the advantages I mentioned above and is almost useless for some of these system packages.