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Hello, I recently starting degoogling a motorola razr 50 and I overdid it.

My approach was to use 'adb' and uninstall packages. I started with the obvious ones, and then I started going a bit too far. I realise now I should have taken a backup of the apk to restore it after. Well, too late now.

I removed com.android.dialer and com.android.phone. I thought i would not need them since i installed some Fossify app alternatives. My guess is that they are more libraries than apps, and still needed by the Fossify apps (messages and phone). I'm not able now to send/receive calls/sms, and I'm wondering if I could download the apk from somewhere and restore it.

I tried to get some from the interwebs, but I get the following exception when trying to reinstall them: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE: Existing package com.android.dialer signatures do not match newer version; ignoring!]

The last resort would be to do a factory reset, but I would prefer to avoid it.

Anyone knows how I could fix it?

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

the apps aren't completely uninstalled from your device, only from the current user account. according to this stackexchange thread running

adb shell cmd package install-existing [package_name]

should bring the "removed" package back.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

oh.. nice. I managed to restore it and it works. Thanks a lot!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recommend using App Manager in the future. It has a nice interface for disabling apps, tells you which apps are bloatware, and uses ADB in the backend.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So far I've been risking it a bit on my own. I broke a few things already.. and then had to restore them. I don't know if there is an easy way of seeing what can be deleted and what not. I'll have a look at App Manager, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What commands did you use for removal and reinstall of the package?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

To delete this: ./adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google... To restore this: ./adb shell cmd package install-existing com.android....