A. Lamrani
It’s built to guide the setup process, then stay out of sight. But there it is—com.google.android.setupwizard—lurking in your phone’s battery usage, showing up in app activity, or hogging background services long after you’ve finished setting up your phone. It doesn’t …
You’re scrolling through your phone settings or digging through battery usage stats when something odd shows up: com.android.dreams.phototable. It looks like an app, but you never downloaded it. It doesn’t appear in your app drawer, and it definitely doesn’t sound …
You didn’t install it. You didn’t open it. But the moment a game launches, it shows up in your system logs: com.samsung.android.game.gamehome. This isn’t bloatware or spyware. It’s a background service built into Samsung’s Gaming Hub—formerly Game Launcher—that powers gameplay …
Your phone lights up, and it’s a number you’ve never seen. No name. No voicemail. Just an unknown caller that disappears after one ring. You check your call log again later—same number, same silence. The more it happens, the more …
com.android.captiveportallogin isn’t something you install. You won’t find it in the Play Store, and it doesn’t have an icon. But it runs on nearly every Android phone — quietly — the moment you connect to certain Wi-Fi networks. And when …
com.samsung.android.dialer doesn’t show up in your app drawer, but it keeps appearing in your system logs, battery stats, or Google Activity report — often without explanation. For many users, the name alone raises questions: Is it safe? Is someone using …
You didn’t download Amazon Shopping. You didn’t ask for TEMU. Yet there they are — quietly installed on your Android, no prompts, no Play Store history. The real culprit isn’t some shady app you tapped by accident — it’s something …
You’re tapping your lock screen, adjusting brightness, checking a notification. It’s all automatic—until something breaks. That’s when a name like com.android.systemui suddenly appears, often in an error message you didn’t expect. But this isn’t a random bug on your phone. …
You didn’t install anything called “SkyDrive.” You weren’t browsing Microsoft apps. And yet, there it is—com.microsoft.skydrive—sitting quietly in your app list like some leftover from a Windows XP update. It doesn’t have an icon. It doesn’t launch itself. But it’s …
You won’t find it in your app drawer. It has no icon, no homepage, and no obvious role. But deep in your Android system apps, there it is—Google Partner Setup, silently installed without fanfare. Most people never notice it. Some …
