My friend, you should breathe a bit deeper and self reflect on what's bothering you. I doubt a person asking an honest question is it.
Not trying to be banned or anything, just genuinely confused about the topic. We are reading online articles about something that happened 'long' ago, far away, that can be pointing to one way or the opposite. For me is very difficult to trust one article more than other.. It looks like people that want to believe one side will find something to back their opinion and vicecersa. I don't agree when you say this is 'easily' verifiable. At least I don't find it easily to verify. Happy to be pointed to some source/direction to investigate more.
I'm on a similar journey. Tech is indeed very difficult. As for whatsapp, I did leave it some weeks ago. I managed to migrate family and close friends to signal. For people who don't want to install a second messaging app, I use SMS. Fortunately they are from the same country and SMS are free. You can do it!
Pretty funny
To delete this: ./adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google... To restore this: ./adb shell cmd package install-existing com.android....
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.
Deleted too much
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