My cousin has a non rooted samsung note 10 lite, one ui version 4.1 android version 12. Last security patch ota update date was on June, 2022. One pending ota update is there, but didn’t download and install it because people’s phone started getting bricked after the ota updates later from that date and even if the phone was in warranty the service center would have asked for double the price of the phone to replace the mobo. There are tons of threads about this bricking issue online.
Now this phone works fine. My cousin shifted to another city for studies and told me to insert the sim of his little sister’s number and give the phone to her. He has debloated the phone using this GitHub - leechuanfeng/hyperos-debloat: Xiaomi HyperOS Debloat List Removed google/samsung accounts. Disabled all google and samsung crap that can be disabled. Has aurora and fdroid store installed along with important softwares like brave and mull (thanks @SkewedZeppelin ) Now he had whatsapp installed and bluewhatsapp (the development of this app has been stopped) in this phone. He has moved his accounts to his new phone long ago. Since his sister didn’t need them so I am trying to uninstall them but for some reason the package installer does nothing when I click on uninstall or gives an error
I went to the location of these apps in the Android folder and deleted all the data. Cleared cache and data of these apps but still unable to uninstall them. Then I logged in using the google account and samsung account of my cousin but still unable to install them. Reactivated all the facebook services that were debloated but still unable to uninstall them. Deactivated tracker control all together but still unable to uninstall. No vpn is running in this phone, there is no other work profile or something. Downloaded different uninstallers from fdroid but they were also not able to uninstall them
This is the older version of WA that is installed
Downloaded another apk and updated it and the update was completed
Bluewhatspp versions
I have installed hundreds of other apps, games from fdroid and from the internet, directly using apk and was able to install and uninstall them without any issues. Tried registering a new number on this installed whatsapp, it got registered and worked fine. Last night installed snapchat (it is installed for the first time in this device) using its apk, just for testing purposes, and guess what now not able to uninstall it too
This is the current package installer version
I was able to find only one updated version after this for android 12 but nothing happens after I click on update
We did not want to format the phone as my friend has banking and other apps set up, don’t want to go through the hassle of installing them again plus he will have to set up the samsung account again to install the purchased themes but since I was out of options, tried booting to the recovery mode by pressing the power and volume up button after clicking on restart, wanted to try uninstalling them using the safe mode once, but the phone didn’t start the recovery mode instead gave this message after booting
What do you think is going on?
None of these apps have any device admin persmissions but all of these apps are the same super intrusive messaging and spyware apps.
Why are we not able to boot in the recovery mode?
What do you think might have caused this?
Is there any adb or other method to uninstall these apps?
I enabled the developer options again, but couldn’t find any option there to enable or disable the recovery mode. Please help
Update- I didn’t know that we can enter into safe mode like this without the recover mode too How to start my Galaxy phone or tablet in Safe Mode | Samsung UK Entered in the safe mode able to uninstall all apps besides these three. Getting that package installer keeps stopping like I have posted above.
