I have random Chinese apps installed by default but my phone is a UK Fairphone 4 so why these apps. People say malware but it is not as I’ve not sideloaded anything
Administrators, if I were you, I’d mute responses here so that everyone’s conversations stay at the GitHub issue.
Your request is about the discussion on the debloater, not on the bloatware itself.
So the thread stays.
FWIW, i can find none of the mentioned Apps on my Fairphone4
brot@brot-thinkpad-t14s ..iversal-android-debloater/target/debug (git)-[main] % adb shell cmd package list packages | grep fet
package:com.google.android.safetycenter.resources
brot@brot-thinkpad-t14s ..iversal-android-debloater/target/debug (git)-[main] % adb shell cmd package list packages | grep music
package:com.google.android.apps.youtube.music
brot@brot-thinkpad-t14s ..iversal-android-debloater/target/debug (git)-[main] % adb shell cmd package list packages | grep happy
1 brot@brot-thinkpad-t14s ..iversal-android-debloater/target/debug (git)-[main] %
(1 is the errorcode of grep not finding the string)
At least some of the apps you listed are made by…
… so a provider based in Taiwan, which is the country the dev team is based in (and the FP4 is sold as well).
You have somehow ended up with a taiwanese FPOS build.
We’ve had a similar case before, did you travel to Asia in the last few months by any chance?
I’ve not left the UK for 10 years, I’ve had my FP4 for 9 months
Interesting, did you #contactsupport yet?
Somehow the updater placed you in an area that’s marked for that update. I thought that would be based on cell network, but maybe it’s a GPS glitch, very weird
Didnt read at Github, whats your OS build number?
FP4.SP1Y.B.041.20230109 is the build number shown in settings
I have exact the same issue. I bought a used Fairphone4 here in Austria and did the setup. Over night these Taiwanese apps appeared from google play store (can see this in my google play account view). I have the exact same build number. I was glad to found this post, because i thought something sketchy is going on.