Seems like i have multiple problems. I try to explain the history. Everything started with this: Many pre-installed apps broken since 6.8
I had the same situation with icons from removed preinstalled apps appearing in the launcher. At the beginning, there was no issue reported so i tried to install and uninstall the apps with the preinstalled app menu mutiple times. I rebooted every time. But it only solved the problem only till the next reboot. So i decided to go one step further and removed the apps via adp shell pm uninstall --user 0 packagename. (That’s most propably my mistake here.) The icons where gone and everything fine till the 6.9 update. I don’t know if the preinstalled app function was broken before the update or not. I never checked again. But after the update to 6.9 some icons appeared again. I again tried everything to get it back to normal but nothing worked. Yesterday late night I had an idea to check if it is related to the user. So I created a new user and logged in. But saw also some corrupt app icons. I then removed all preinstalled apps and reinstalled it with the preinstalled app feature. And suprise. Everything was back for the new user. Even the OpenEUICC icon. I can even open OpenEUICC. So i went back to my user and same as before. The OpenEUICC icon is still gone. I then wanted to put everything back. I logged into the new user and extracted the apk-Files from all the apps via the F-Droid client. Went back to my profile and installed all the apks, to make sure there is the original version from the IodeOs installed. I also used adb to activate all the apps.I also activated all apps in the preinstalled app menu and rebooted. Everything appeared again except the OpenEUICC-icon.
I know that it is extrem difficult to find a solution with me changing everything. To summarize it:
- OpenEUICC shows up in the app list in the settings but not in the launcher. And that’s the same whether I install it via the preinsatlled app menu, F-droid or the extracted apk.
- Aurora store is back. It never went in the same state as OpenEUICC. It was always shown in the launcher if it was shown in the app list in the settings. At least that’s how I recall it
But for now it is back and working. - I had the F-Droid issue twice till now. It shows the update button on the app page. If I hit the button, it starts the download and it even seems to install something. But after that, it immediatelly shows the update button again. Like the update was never started. Also a restart of the F-Droid client shows the update button again. Same goes for the installation of OpenEUICC. If I click the install button, it downloads OpenEUICC and seems to install it. But after that, the install button appears again.
- I also had the situation where i changed something in the preinstalled app menu and a reboot didn’t change anything. Sometimes a adb connection helped to trigger the script to work on a reboot and sometime selecting more apps to install/remove helped.
I don’t know if everything is somehow related. But the Aurora store is back, the updates can be bypassed with the F-Droid Basic client and the not working preinstalled app script can be trigger with a adb connection and disconnecting the phone while restarting. Not the cleanest solution but it works. The only remaining issue for me is the missing OpenEUICC icon. Its strange that the apk from the new user profile is not working on my user profile. Also i tried to run an adb shell pm clean packagename on OpenEUICC to rule out a issue with the user data for OpenEUICC. Still the same. It seems to be installed but it also seems not to be installed.