Philips 75PUS8505/12 Debloat List

Notes & quirks on this firmware

• Android TV 12 (API 31), firmware STT2.230526.001, security patch 2025-11-01
• ro.product.model=TPM191E ro.product.device=PH9M_EA_5599
• Fingerprint: Philips/PH9M_EA_5599/PH9M_EA_5599:12/STT2.230526.001/4215:user/release-keys
• TP Vision build: MediaTek MT5887, 2 GB RAM, armeabi-v7a only. Vendor packages use the org.droidtv
• prefix. The 2020 sets got this Android 12 firmware (211.x) in 2025; nothing here was checked on
• the earlier Android 9/10 firmware.
• Same board AND firmware build as examples/philips-tpm191e (identical fingerprint), with another
• owner's choices: DLNA stays here because Média binds it; Alexa, the e-sticker, Fitness Buddy and
• Apple TV are off; and org.droidtv.fastip goes to DO NOT DISABLE, the SOURCES drawer dies without
• it. Every entry was checked on this TV with dumpsys package and dumpsys activity services. The
• org.droidtv layer is also shared with examples/philips-50pus8517 (PH1M_EA_9970A, Android 11).
• Second unit: Philips 58PUS8555/12, Italy, same device PH9M_EA_5599, same fingerprint and firmware
• STT2.230526.001 (security patch 2025-11-01), wired Ethernet, nothing on USB. Every package of this
• list was present and the list went on unchanged, in four batches with a screenshot after each
• (disable.ps1 on Windows): Assistant, Alexa, Apple TV and YouTube Music off, Chromecast, DLNA and
• the firmware updater kept. 36 packages were disabled in all, counting the 16 uk.co.freeview.* and
• org.droidtv.freeviewplayers entries that this Italian unit also had off out of the box. After one
• reboot the disabled list was identical, Home resolved to com.gathin.tvhome and the Home and SOURCES
• keys were pressed on the real remote. Applied on 2026-10-31; not yet lived with for days. The stock
• launcher was disabled by launcher/build-and-install.ps1, and the TV still boots to Live TV
• (org.droidtv.playtv) by itself. Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube, Disney+, Kodi and RaiPlay were
• installed; the dock was set to YouTube, Kodi, Prime Video and RaiPlay.
• Everything is DISABLED, not uninstalled. Comment out any line you want to keep.
• Stock launcher: com.google.android.tvlauncher
• Live TV app: org.droidtv.playtv
• Already disabled out of the box on a Czech unit, so NOT in this list (restore.sh would turn them
• on): Netflix, Prime Video, Play Games, org.droidtv.freeviewplayers and 15 uk.co.freeview.* apps.
• Launcher handover, two things that differ from the script's assumptions on this TV:
• 1. The first cold start of the freshly installed, not yet compiled launcher takes longer than the
• 10 s `am start -W` waits on this 32-bit MT5887, so build-and-install.sh stops with
• "Status: timeout" although the launcher came up fine (it was the resumed activity and drew its
• first screen). The remaining steps (pm grant, cmd package compile -m speed, set-home-activity)
• were run by hand. Updating the already installed launcher later started in 2.2 s and the
• script ran through on its own.
• 2. The stock launcher's HOME filter has priority=2, a third-party launcher's always 0, and Android
• picks the higher priority before it looks at the preferred activity. So with the stock launcher
• still enabled, set-home-activity succeeds and the HOME role moves to com.gathin.tvhome, yet the
• Home key still opens com.google.android.tvlauncher. The new launcher only takes over once the
• stock one is disabled, as note 3 in examples/philips-55oled707 found on the Android 11 board.
• After each batch: logcat -c, 30 s of an idle TV, logcat -d, then group lines by shape and look
• for anything repeating several times a second (see quirk 5 in examples/philips-50pus8517). The
• only loop on this TV before and after is adbd retrying the USB gadget about once a second while
• USB debugging is on; it is not caused by the debloat.
• A soundbar on HDMI ARC that goes to standby on its own silence timer sends <Set System Audio Mode>
• off and <Terminate ARC>, and the TV shows "TV reproduktory aktivní" (TV speakers active). With
• Home on screen and nothing playing that happens during testing too; it is the soundbar, not the
• debloat.
• TP Vision telemetry. org.droidtv.gel runs inside the candeebug process. 17 TV components bind
• candeebug's CollectionService (channels, playtv, settings, tptvservice, tvpowermanagerservice,
• usbbreakin and others); none of them retried after it was disabled. Idle log unchanged, except
• that the storage monitor's 10-minute pass now logs "TvStorageCULLogger: Binder NOT available"
• only a client of epgdata, not the other way round. Idle log unchanged afterwards.
• separate packages: org.droidtv.eum itself keeps running and must stay (see below). The persistent
• tptvservice storage monitor asks demome for the size of its clips every 30 s, and did so before
• too; with demome disabled it logs "iDemo null" at the same 30 s pace instead and its 10-minute
• pass still completes. The demo clips (~410 MB) stay on disk, disabling does not delete them.
• stop starting. Nothing binds them. Idle log unchanged.
• katniss only binds into it as a client, mediashell kept running with the same PID afterwards, and
• casting from YouTube and a Chrome tab still worked.
• The default keyboard is Gboard, so typing is unaffected. Idle log unchanged.
• Disabling katniss makes Android clear secure voice_interaction_service and assistant to "", and
• restore.sh does not put them back; after a restore, either pick the Assistant again in Settings or
• settings put secure voice_interaction_service com.google.android.katniss/.search.serviceapi.KatnissVoiceInteractionService
• settings put secure assistant com.google.android.katniss/.search.serviceapi.KatnissVoiceInteractionService
• playback, but nothing in the system binds it and dumpsys audio was identical before and after:
• output stayed on HDMI ARC (mMainType=0x8) to a soundbar, and sound and remote volume were checked
• by ear afterwards. Keep both if you own Play-Fi speakers.
• The app itself does not stay disabled: after the next reboot it was back at enabled=1, with
• "AudioOutService: PlayFi Enabled" logged during boot, as examples/philips-tpm191e and
• examples/philips-55oled707 also found. So it is commented out; the soft AP stayed disabled.
• /system/product/app) with a Play Store update in /data, so Settings only offers "uninstall
• updates" and "disable"; disabling is enough, /data had 2.8 GB free.
• examples/philips-50pus8517: disable the launcher FIRST, it holds a provider reference into
• tvrecommendations. After disabling tvlauncher, run set-home-activity again (Android drops the
• preference when the set of HOME apps changes); Home then resolved to com.gathin.tvhome, and both
• an injected KEYCODE_HOME and the remote's Home key landed there. tvrecommendations also owns the system
• notification panel, which is gone device-wide afterwards.
• ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── DO NOT DISABLE on this TV, checked on the unit: USB media org.droidtv.contentexplorer ("Média"), org.droidtv.exoplayerservice (its player: contentexplorer drives IExoPlayerService, ~83 MB but needed to play files from a USB stick), org.droidtv.usbbreakin (USB service), org.droidtv.dlna (contentexplorer binds its UPnP services at start; kept, not tested without it) Bound by persistent xtv org.droidtv.eum, org.droidtv.ambihuecommon, org.droidtv.settings USB / ADB com.mediatek.backgrounddetection (holds USBDebuggingService) SOURCES key org.droidtv.fastip (Philips FAST ad-supported channels). It looks like a promo add-on and disables cleanly: no retry loop, the FAST input leaves dumpsys tv_input. But the remote's SOURCES key opens org.droidtv.channels/.sources.SourcesDrawerActivity, which checks for FAST channels first; with fastip gone it logs "isFastIPChannelsInstalled false", fires org.droidtv.fastip.START_INSTALLATION_FAST_PROMO_PAGE instead of showing the list, nothing answers, and the drawer vanishes on every press. pm enable brought it back at once, no reboot. Test SOURCES with the real remote: an injected KEYCODE_TV_INPUT carries no scancode (757 here) and Philips ignores it. The rest tuner, inputs, HDMI-CEC, power, remote, Ambilight, firmware update and the HbbTV browser engine were left alone, as in the DO NOT DISABLE block of examples/philips-50pus8517; all of its package names are present here except org.droidtv.xtvsystem.