Advertising

com.hiya.star

Risk: Safe
Source: Manufacturer
What it is: Advertising

What it is

also called android-ss-service-lib (Samsung-exclusive)

Third-party that provides caller profile information to help consumers identify incoming calls and block unwanted ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiya_(company)

https://hiya.com/

NOTE : Never trust a company which promotes spam blocking features

https://itmunch.com/robocall-caught-sending-customers-confidential-data-without-consent/

Have a look at their privacy policy. That's... pretty scary : https://hiya.com/fr/hiya-data-policy

Needed for Samsung Smart Call (com.samsung.android.smartcallprovider)

Commands

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.hiya.star

To put it back:

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.hiya.star

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.samsung.android.smartcallprovider

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.