Hello,
I have several pre-installed apps on my smartphone. I’m not sure what their functions are, and I’m wondering what would happen if I disable or even uninstall them.
I’ve attached a screenshot of the apps in question. Could anyone help me understand the purpose of each of them?
Thank you in advance for your help!
None of those are in my preinstalled apps except microG Services Framework Proxy
Hi,
the “backend”-Apps are location-providers for microG and it’s even possible to install them from f-droid.
In my understanding, “fakestore” enables microG to fake the google-app-store.
It occurs to me, that maybe you don’t have the current version of iodé or at least of microG, because in the current versions, the backends" have been reduced.
I think it’s save to delete them, if you are on the current versions of iodé and microG. Check first, if you have the current versions. If you then have trouble with the location-services, you can install one of them from f-droid.
Yes, I’m using Iode 3.5 and I’m happy with it.
I have microG Services installed from F-Droid (apps for IodeOS), and everything seems to work fine, so I’m wondering why all the other apps from the microG category are needed?
I assume I should also install FakeStore and the microG Services Framework Proxy, but I’m hesitant because I don’t really understand why they’re necessary.
which phone?
iode 3.5 ???
Because they are part of the latest stable version of microG, which is what ships with IodéOS. 3.5 is still officially (from microG’s point of view) a beta version. To get 3.5, yiu have to allow Beta updates for microG in F-droid.
I believe [1] that the reason Iodé don’t ship 3.5 is that their build tools check for the latest stable versions of the included external components, which is a sensible approach for most apps: no-one wants to receive beta versions that may be broken. Those unwanted components will (should) disappear when microG get round to declaring v3 as stable.
[1] I know this is the case for LineageOS for microG
