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com.android.overlay.gmscontactprovider

Risk: Safe
Source: Manufacturer
What it is: Other

What it is

Checked in miui 14.

Incorrect named thing to sync metadata contacts or gms?

metadata_sync_pacakge com.google.android.gms

No effects after remove.

(detected on miui 14 with android 13 phones)

it's an unused overlay.

Commands

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.overlay.gmscontactprovider

To put it back:

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.android.overlay.gmscontactprovider

Every removal listed here is per-user only: the system image is untouched, and the restore command puts the app back from the copy already on the device. Nothing is downloaded.

This is not the directory. Here we say what a package is in general; what happens on your particular television is on your model's entry, and that one wins. The same package can be dead weight on one set and hold the home screen up on another.