I’m having trouble reinstalling OpenEUICC. I uninstalled it from the Preinstalled Apps menu because I was having an issue with my eSIM not being recognized. I thought that reinstalling might fix the problem. However, I’m now unable to fully reinstall OpenEUICC.
When I reinstall OpenEUICC from the Preinstalled Apps menu, it appears to install, but no app icon is available. I can see that the app is installed, but I can’t open it or add a new SIM via: Network & Internet → SIMs → Add SIM.
I’ve tried reinstalling it multiple times through the menu without success. Installing it via F-Droid doesn’t work either, probably because it’s a privileged app.
I’m not sure if it makes a difference, but I’ve relocked my bootloader.
I’d also like to add that only after reinstalling it from the Preinstalled Apps menu and then installing it via F-Droid does OpenEUICC appear in the Settings → Apps menu. Installing it only from the Preinstalled Apps menu isn’t enough. However, there’s still no app icon in my launcher and no Add SIM option available.
I just managed to fix the issue by going to Settings → Apps → OpenEUICC, tapping the three dots in the upper-right corner, and selecting “Uninstall updates.” It displayed a message saying: “Replace this app with the factory version? All data will be removed.” After confirming, the app became available again in the menu.
For anyone experiencing the same issue, here’s what I did:
Reinstalled it via the Preinstalled Apps menu
Rebooted the phone
Installed it via F-Droid (which only made the icon appear in the app menu, allowing me to perform the “factory reset”)
Finally, uninstalled the updates as mentioned above
You can now update it via F-Droid again, and OpenEUICC is working properly again.
With us now providing the OpenEUICC app via our F-Droid repo I wonder if possibly you needed to remove the update as the bundled version as part of “Preinstalled Apps” at the system level was the pre F-Droid repo version.
There is a bit of uncertainty in my understanding on how this is all handled, but I may do a bit of testing as the Preinstalled Apps behavior when the extra variable of updates from the F-Droid repo being applied seems to cause a bit of a mix up at times.