Most of the android phones I’ve had came preinstalled with something called “Mobile Services”. I normally remove it because it just keeps randomly installing apps and games that don’t want but I’ve never had an active phone plan on those phones. If I disabled it from my phone, would I still be able to send and receive calls and texts?

So far the only thing I have found out is that “Mobile Services” is an app that is only preinstalled on android phones who’s carrier is Tracfone.

Edit: Even though I wasn’t able to get an answer, I’ve decided to just disable it. I wont be manually testing it and I wont be updating this post with results. I no longer care at this point and I wont be responding to anymore comments about this.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    1•2 months ago

    I would try but I don’t want to disable something if I don’t know for sure that it’s safe to disable.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 months ago

      Disabling something on your phone will have no impact on your account.

      Without knowing the phone, and the exact package name, we have no idea what this is.

      Get the Universal Android Debloat Utility, it’s pretty good at letting you know what can be disabled.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        It’s not the account that I’m worried about. It’s hard for me to explain what I’m actually concerned about. I guess an example would be that the SIM card becomes invalid or something. One of the phones where I disabled Mobile Services has an effectively permanent error at the top of the screen that says “invalid SIM card”.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        I forgot to mention these in my previous comment but I’ve added some information about the app in my post. As for that app that you mentioned, I’ve never used ADB commands before and I don’t want to risk bricking my phone, so I don’t know if I’m going to use it.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 months ago

      ADB commands cannot permanently remove system applications, they can only disable them till you get around to wanting to enable them again. The problem starts getting ugly when you disable a lot of stuff at once and then something breaks and you’re too lazy to track down which component was necessary. A couple of applications are no problem. Of course, it’s been a year since I’ve tried ADB so RTFM. Don’t worry so much about it