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Tried to ungoogle my Android device, but accidentally removed a vital package, and neither it or Google Play Store reinstalls through ADB or APK's

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I've got an unrooted Coolpad Porto S running on Android 5.1. I tried to ungoogle it but accidentally removed a vital package. The apps I have been trying to reinstall were com.android.vending and com.google.android.webview (I don't have concrete evidence, but after uninstalling it, I am unable to access any browser application like DuckDuckGo or even Steam) by using pm uninstall -k --user 0 APP. I've been trying to install those back using APKs I got from APK Mirror, but if I do through my phone or through adb, they appear in the app list as "Downloaded", however they're also "Not installed for this user". I tried installing them through using adb install -r app.apk command, then going into adb shell mode and using pm install -r --user 0 app.apk, but still the same result. If I don't use the -r option, it just gives me INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS error. If it helps, upon doing pm enable --user 0 com.android.vending, it gives me Error: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: attempt to change component state from pid=4418, uid=2000, package uid=10015error. After tinkering about for a bit, I am still having a ton of issues with doing that. If it helps, I found the base apk location for the WebView app. It didn't work trying to pm install -r --user 0 directory, because INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT, but I managed to get the crash in logcat.
E/installd(  263): DexInv: --- END '/data/app/com.google.android.webview-1/base.apk' --- status=0x0100, process failed
I/PackageManager(  777): Dexopt done on: com.google.android.webview
W/PackageManager(  777): Package couldn't be installed in /data/app/com.google.android.webview-1
W/PackageManager(  777): com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerException: scanPackageLI
W/PackageManager(  777):        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.scanPackageDirtyLI(PackageManagerService.java:6343)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.scanPackageLI(PackageManagerService.java:5635)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.replaceSystemPackageLI(PackageManagerService.java:11107)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.replacePackageLI(PackageManagerService.java:10917)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.installPackageLI(PackageManagerService.java:11432)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.access$2800(PackageManagerService.java:248)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService$6.run(PackageManagerService.java:9278)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:815)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:104)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:194)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)
W/PackageManager(  777):        at com.android.server.ServiceThread.run(ServiceThread.java:46)
D/PackageParser(  777): isGmoROM() return false
I/PackageManager(  777): Linking native library dir for /system/app/WebViewGoogle
I/PackageManager(  777): Perform pre-dex opt for package: com.google.android.webview
I/PackageManager(  777): Installation done for package: null
V/PackageManager(  777): + starting restore round-trip 20
V/PackageManager(  777): No restore - queue post-install for 20
V/PackageManager(  777): Handling post-install for 20
I/art     (  777): Explicit concurrent mark sweep GC freed 28070(2MB) AllocSpace objects, 23(1188KB) LOS objects, 14% free, 22MB/26MB, paused 1.836ms total 161.529ms
I/art     ( 9195): System.exit called, status: 1
I/AndroidRuntime( 9195): VM exiting with result code 1.
Not sure if it helps, but here it is. Anyone got any ideas?
Asked by Miuzu (41 rep)
Jun 16, 2021, 07:22 PM
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