Re: How many packages are installed on your Android phone?

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:24:09 -0000 (UTC), Marion wrote :

It looks like T-Mobile is pulling some funny business here by installing
those apps (presumably during a system update) as I didn't install them.

Digging, I found out that T-Mobile is pulling some funny business on us!
 <https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/t-mobile-appselector>
  "45 days after activation... You will... get a recommendation for    apps that you may enjoy. AppManager will run every 45 days unless    you opt out of the service."
Darn right I want to "opt out" of that wondrous service that apparently
installed a bunch of games onto my device (as if it wasn't full enough). I just turned off "special access" to those "Sprint" factory apps:
 Settings:Usage Data Access > Device Manager > on/off (turn it off!)
 Settings:Usage Data Access > T-Mobile Diagnostics > on/off (turn off!)
The lesson here is that it might be useful to not only back up your
user-installed APKs, but to spit out a listing of them based on when they
were installed (or updated) and what app did that installation or update.
Back to the original topic of app number, Muntashirakon App Manager shows  961 total packages, 404 of which are "System apps" & 557 are "User apps".
 45 of those apps are "Uninstalled apps" (mainly the original bloatware).
 916 are listed as "Installed apps" (which is good that the math works).
 248 are listed as "With splits" (Andy, what does that really mean to us?)
 241 are listed as "Frozen apps" (I'm not sure why so many are frozen?)
Here's how to get that information for your phone using Muntashirakon:
 a. Start Muntashirakon & wait for it to populate the apps on your system
 b. Press "List Options" at the top right & select a desired sort & filter
    Examples of sorts: Last update, Trackers, Total size, Last used, etc.
    Examples of filters: User/System apps, With splits, Frozen apps, etc.
 c. Longpress on any one resulting app & check the box at bottom
    [x] Select all (this will give you a count of those types of apps)