Sony BRAVIA KD-65X82L, XR-65X90L and KD-55X82L Debloat List

Notes & quirks on this firmware

• Google TV 12 (API 31), build BRAVIA_VH22_M_PA-user 12 STT2.230505.001.S136 682241
• Also Sony BRAVIA XR-65X90L (2023, BRAVIA_VH22, MediaTek MT5835), US/Canada, build
• BRAVIA_VH22_M_UC-user 12 STT2.230505.001.S136 682241: every package below exists on it except
• com.vewd.core.integration.dia. Applied there on 2026-10-26 in three batches: batch 1, batch 2 without
• YouTube Music and Play Games (kept by choice), and batch 3. The TV was on Ethernet and setupwraith owned
• only the Wi-Fi network saved during setup, which is deleted when it is disabled (FORCE_SETUPWRAITH=1 with
• the owner's agreement). The launcher went in on the first try with HOME_KEY_SERVICE=1; the US remote's gear
• button is scancode 646 too. Reboot-checked: everything stayed disabled, Home stayed on the launcher, and Home,
• gear, app buttons, Input, the mic button and a power cycle checked on the real remote.
• Also Sony BRAVIA KD-55X82L (2023, BRAVIA_VH22), India, the same BRAVIA_VH22_M_PA build: every package below
• exists on it. Applied on 2026-10-27 in three batches, batch 2 without YouTube Music (kept by choice) and with
• the two commented-out apps there. The TV was on 5 GHz Wi-Fi and setupwraith owned that very network: it was
• forgotten and re-joined in Settings first, after which the network had a new ID and belonged to
• com.android.tv.settings, so batch 3 ran without FORCE_SETUPWRAITH. Re-joining without "Forget network" keeps
• the old ID and owner; check the cname again. com.qterics.da.product was still enabled after the first run of
• batch 1 and disabled on a second try. Launcher with HOME_KEY_SERVICE=1 on the first try; gear is scancode 646.
• Reboot-checked (tools/check.py: nothing drifted, Home on the launcher; power-on lands on Home); Home, gear,
• app buttons, Input, the mic button and volume hold-to-repeat checked on the real remote. Not lived with for
• days yet.
• Also Sony BRAVIA 4K VH22 (2023, BRAVIA_VH22, MediaTek MT5895; product code not read), Australia, the same
• BRAVIA_VH22_M_PA build: every package below exists on it. Applied on 2026-11-01 in three batches with a
• screenshot between, without YouTube Music and the seeds.* phone link (kept by choice), without batch 3, and
• with the commented-out Australian-unit lines at the end of batch 2. On Wi-Fi the saved network belonged to
• android.uid.system, not setupwraith, but setupwraith's RecoveryActivity still claims HOME, so launcherx and
• setupwraith both stayed enabled and the launcher took Home by the redirect route (as on the second and third
• examples/sony-bravia-4k-vh21 units): cmd package set-home-activity prints Success and changes nothing on this
• unit, so launcher/build-and-install.sh with STOCK_LAUNCHER=none HOME_KEY_SERVICE=1 (on Windows
• launcher/build-and-install.ps1 -StockLauncher none -HomeKeyService: parameters, not environment variables)
• ends on its Home check before it enables the helper; HomeKeyService was then enabled by hand, the same
• settings the script writes, with stock_home_redirect com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx in config.xml. The
• screensaver ships as dreamx's Backdrop, so livingfit went with no screensaver change. Reboot-checked twice:
• nothing came back on, power-on lands on the new Home with the helper bound, and the real remote's Home button
• opens it from inside an app. Same-day test, not lived with for days yet.
• Also a second Sony BRAVIA KD-65X82L (2023, BRAVIA_VH22, MediaTek), India retail, the same
• BRAVIA_VH22_M_PA build, bought with the B2B hotel suite and the Indian preloads on it
• (ro.boot.product.hardware.sku KD-65X82L, Settings' device name "SONY KD-65X82L"): every package below
• exists on it, and the marked block after batch 3 lists its extra preloads. Kept by the owner's choice on
• it: Netflix, the YouTube app, Google Play Games, the YouTube Music line in batch 2 (skip that line and
• Play Games there), the Assistant stack, Chromecast and firmware updates. com.tcl.browser was disabled
• and re-enabled a day later (the owner's dock browser), and sensingfusionservice, kept as unclear above,
• is off on it with nothing noticed. The Settings key goes dead with launcherx off here too: the
• keyboard-layout overlay in docs/devices/sony-bravia-4k-vh22-settings-key.md, not HomeKeyService (#1680).
• Applied on 2026-10-30 with tools/disable.sh, reboot-checked twice, lived with since; the remote's app
• buttons stayed alive through sonyvendorservice, and Home was checked from Netflix and after a reboot.
• Everything is DISABLED, not uninstalled. Comment out any line you want to keep.
• Based on examples/sony-bravia-4k-vh21 (same firmware build).
• Kept by owner's choice: Google Assistant (katniss, voicesearch, assistantadapter), Chromecast (mediashell),
• AirPlay/HomeKit, Sony updates, Apple TV app, Google TV movies, text-to-speech, UEI QuickSet.
• Kept as unclear: com.sony.dtv.sensingfusionservice (backed by a running sensingFusion HAL, likely the
• ambient light sensor) and com.sony.dtv.frame.
• Live TV / input app: com.sony.dtv.tvx. Keep tvinput.*, braviasync*, tvapi, sonysystemservice, imeproxy,
• irblaster/irbservice and all com.mediatek.*.
• ADB: the TV shows only "ADB debugging" (no separate USB toggle); it opens port 5555, and the "Allow USB
• debugging?" prompt appears on first connect. ro.adb.secure=1.
• Launcher: installed with launcher/build-and-install.sh, which disabled launcherx and set Home on the first try
• once setupwraith (batch 3) was off. Set live_tv_package and hidden_apps to com.sony.dtv.tvx. The remote's
• gear button stops working with launcherx off: it is scancode 646 (0x286, HID 0x0c0586, device "SONY TV VRC
• 001"), so settings_key_scancodes [646] with HOME_KEY_SERVICE=1 brings it back.
• The display runs a 1920x1080 override on the 3840x2160 panel at density 320; that is the factory state.
• Applied 2026-10-21 in three batches with a screenshot and crash-log check after each, then reboot-checked: all
• disabled packages stayed disabled, Home stayed on the launcher. At that boot com.sony.dtv.sonysystemservice
• crashed once ("GoToSleepInterface has already initialized") and restarted on its own; not seen before the
• debloat because no earlier boot was logged. Not lived with for days yet.
• Home away from the new launcher. Check `dumpsys wifi | grep -o 'cname=[^ ]*'` first: a network it owns
• is deleted when it is disabled. Here it owned only an unused 2.4 GHz entry, the TV is on 5 GHz
• (re-joined in Settings), so it ran with FORCE_SETUPWRAITH=1.
• On the A80L (VH22) with it off, com.sony.dtv.sonysystemservice asks for its provider every 500 ms and logcat
• repeats "Failed to find provider info for ...setupwraith": harmless, see docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md (#2853).
• HbbTV / broadcast interactive, unused without an antenna; hbbtvplayer itself is the commented Australian line in batch 2 above