Other

com.android.phone

Risk: With care
Source: Android itself
What it is: Other

What it is

AOSP Dialer

Removing this package breaks the software update/download and install screen on Samsung. WARNING: for me, it breaks the phone app completely with call routing enabled. Not sure about other cases.

Commands

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.phone

To put it back:

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.android.phone

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.