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com.google.android.pixelnfc

Risk: Safe
Source: Manufacturer
What it is: Other

What it is

Application that checks the SKU of a Pixel device to Region Lock the Felica chip (Japanese NFC technology used in E-money cards) of the phone to prevent non-Japanese people from using it.

Removing it will make the Osaifu-Keitai crash upon start-up but will not cause any bootloop.

Patching it (ROOT), however allows people with a Felica Chip to add IC cards to their phone and use it to pay while in Japan.

Commands

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.pixelnfc

To put it back:

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.google.android.pixelnfc

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.

Depended on by

Remove this package and the ones below may stop working.

com.felicanetworks.mfm.main

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.