A. Lamrani
You’re trying to show someone a quick setting or capture a bug that happens once, then disappears. By the time you reach for another phone, the moment’s gone. Android already has a recorder built in for exactly that — it …
You open your Gallery expecting to see familiar faces, and the People tab is blank. A short flash appears — “FaceService has stopped.” For a moment the phone feels empty, as if it forgot everyone you know. The crash passes …
You tap a link in Messages, and the page opens before you realize which app handled it. Then, one day, it doesn’t. The screen freezes, flashes white, and the message appears: “Chrome keeps stopping.” What looks like a single browser …
You won’t find an icon for it or a shortcut in your launcher, yet it’s one of the most connected pieces of Samsung’s software. com.samsung.android.mdecservice is the background engine behind Call & Text on Other Devices, the feature that lets …
You finish setting up a phone and notice a gray briefcase called Work Profile. Inside it sits an unfamiliar app — Test DPC. No permissions prompt, no reason it should appear on a personal device. At first, it feels misplaced, …
You don’t see it like a normal app. But without it, you can’t answer a single call. com.samsung.android.incallui is the invisible interface powering your entire Samsung call experience. When a call comes in, this system app instantly renders the full …
You open your system-app list and notice a name you never installed: com.facebook.appmanager. No icon. No shortcut. No launch button — just a background service signed by Meta Platforms, Inc. It feels suspicious, but it isn’t spyware. It’s a legitimate …
On many Android phones, Facebook doesn’t behave like an ordinary app. It runs when you haven’t launched it, stays active after resets, and appears in logs under a name you didn’t search for: com.facebook.katana. That package isn’t suspicious. It’s the …
You didn’t install it. You can’t open it. But it’s in your phone — right there in /system/priv-app/, with a name that looks more like malware than anything that should be part of a trusted Android build: com.android.cts.priv.ctsshim. It doesn’t …
You open Find My expecting to see a location — but all you get is a blank. Just a contact name floating over “No Location Found.” No timestamp. No address. No mini map. Just silence. You switch tabs, try again. …
