Safe to delete apps after freezing? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

Went through the following steps:
1 - From SYSTEM-APPS and moved many .apk and .odex to ext sd card. I thought this would essentially "uninstall" them by being in a diff laocation. They still appeared in app drawer, so
I used Root Browser to freeze them. now they SEEM gone from app drawer, but,
they still present!! How do I get rid of this stuff
btw - I identified and renamed and moved all the files related to OTA so not sure what happening here...help!

Pretty much have most moved and renamed except for these. Can anyone point me to the specific files and are these safe to also move/rename?
"Generic" Email
"Generic" Contacts
My Files
S Voice
Video

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[Q] Moving apps to SD card

I know this probably has been asked a few hundred times, but for some reason I couldn't find the thread anymore that I remembered.
Currently running GSB v2.5 | GingerBread 2.3.3 [CM7.0.0 RC4 NIGHTLY].
Can someone link me to the thread that had a list of apps that are safe to move? Just can't seem to find it.
Also under:
Settings >> CyanogenMod settings >> Application >>
1.) Allow application moving >>
Does this need to be checked? I do not want to move apps that don't support to be moved or have trouble running from the sd card (such as apps with widgets, system apps, social media etc.)
2.) Install location >>
It gives me the option of automatic, internal and external.
If I check "automatic" and download/install a new app, will it automatically go to the sd card if the app supports it?
Moving apps via: "Settings >> Applications >> Manage Applications >> Move to SD card"
is ok or is there a different method I should be using?
Thanks in advance.
Neera said:
I know this probably has been asked a few hundred times, but for some reason I couldn't find the thread anymore that I remembered.
Currently running GSB v2.5 | GingerBread 2.3.3 [CM7.0.0 RC4 NIGHTLY].
Can someone link me to the thread that had a list of apps that are safe to move? Just can't seem to find it.
Also under:
Settings >> CyanogenMod settings >> Application >>
1.) Allow application moving >>
Does this need to be checked? I do not want to move apps that don't support to be moved or have trouble running from the sd card (such as apps with widgets, system apps, social media etc.)
2.) Install location >>
It gives me the option of automatic, internal and external.
If I check "automatic" and download/install a new app, will it automatically go to the sd card if the app supports it?
Moving apps via: "Settings >> Applications >> Manage Applications >> Move to SD card"
is ok or is there a different method I should be using?
Thanks in advance.
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I'll just address the questions that I have answers to, of course.
1. Yes, you should check Application Moving. I've found that even with Titanium Backup's "Restore to original location" checked, that it won't put apps on the SD card unless CyanogenMod Application Moving is turned on.
2. I have External selected by default, but I find that some, or possibly all installations don't respect this anyway. I use a free version of a market app called Install Manager for root users, which then prompts me (not for market installs for some reason, but for side-loading apps from the SD card) for where to install stuff.
I don't know what Automatic does; I assumed it might install apps which at least officially are able to be located on the SD card. FYI you can manually (at least with that CyanogenMod Application Moving checked) move some apps than can't officially be able to be moved, and Titanium Backup (Under Menu/Batch) can move almost all apps, it seems, and they function fine AFAIK.
Once I backup with TB, restores (with that option in TB to restore to original location checked) go back to where I already moved the apps, no matter what the method.
3. Yes, you can move apps using the built in Android App Manager, or there are market apps to help, too. I use a combination of apps depending on what works best at the time. The afformentioned Install Manager and AntTek App Manager. There is also an Apps2SD Pro, which doesn't improve Apps2SD, it's just another interface for moving the apps around. I don't know if there's a free version. I think you can use Install Manager even after the app is already installed to move things around.
SD Apps not reappearing on home screen after reboot
Hello,
roirraW "edor" ehT: First of all - thanks for all of your input on these forums, many great ideas and answers coming from you - much appreciated!
Wondering if this topic has anything to do with an issue I have noticed now on GSB 2.7 and 2.8. After rebooting, and after all of the apps saved on my SD show up on my home screens (going from the generic green android icon to the app's icon), there have been 2 occasions where one of the apps never appears. The generic green android icon sits there instead. When I click it just states the app does not exist (that's a paraphrase). So it appears that the app is never pulled in from the SD card back to the home screen.
I updated my CM7 and TB settings after reading your comments, so this may have already fixed the issue going forward, I don't know.
Any thoughts? Hope my scenario makes sense!
Thanks!
ozzyager said:
Hello,
roirraW "edor" ehT: First of all - thanks for all of your input on these forums, many great ideas and answers coming from you - much appreciated!
Wondering if this topic has anything to do with an issue I have noticed now on GSB 2.7 and 2.8. After rebooting, and after all of the apps saved on my SD show up on my home screens (going from the generic green android icon to the app's icon), there have been 2 occasions where one of the apps never appears. The generic green android icon sits there instead. When I click it just states the app does not exist (that's a paraphrase). So it appears that the app is never pulled in from the SD card back to the home screen.
I updated my CM7 and TB settings after reading your comments, so this may have already fixed the issue going forward, I don't know.
Any thoughts? Hope my scenario makes sense!
Thanks!
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Thanks and your welcome! Maybe others can donate to the devs for me since I never have any money to. Are you absolutely sure the affected app was successfully moved to the SD card? Some apps, no matter what method, will never move to the SD card. I haven't found many after all methods have been used (Titanium Backup batch moving for the most part), but there are some.
Yes - I am sure. One of them was the XDA premium app. It would reappear reboot after reboot on my home page, but then it suddenly didn't one time. I had another app do the same thing. It seems to be a random issue. It still shows up in my list of applications and shows as being on the SD card. So I simply removed the vacant android icon and put the apps back on the homepage. Not really a big deal, was just curious if anyone else had seen this issue.
Thanks again!

[Q] Accidentally uninstalled stock clock application

So.
Being a new android user, I messed around with my phone without a full understanding of what would happen if i uninstalled a core application. I assumed incorrectly that Titanium Backup would allow me to reinstall applications, and then uninstalled the stock clock application thinking that it was one of the many clock widgets.
Could someone upload their stock Clock application apk here, or advise me as to how I can restore the stock clock (preferably without having to flash the original ROM)?
poofish said:
So.
Being a new android user, I messed around with my phone without a full understanding of what would happen if i uninstalled a core application. I assumed incorrectly that Titanium Backup would allow me to reinstall applications, and then uninstalled the stock clock application thinking that it was one of the many clock widgets.
Could someone upload their stock Clock application apk here, or advise me as to how I can restore the stock clock (preferably without having to flash the original ROM)?
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Here. I backup all of the apk that I want to remove. Hope this is what you want.
Is this the stock clock application, like the one used for alarms and such?
EDIT: I attempted to install ClockPackage.apk anyway by using Root explorer, and then moving the apk to /system/app and installing it from there, but it says 'Application not installed.' Am I doing something wrong?
poofish said:
Is this the stock clock application, like the one used for alarms and such?
EDIT: I attempted to install ClockPackage.apk anyway by using Root explorer, and then moving the apk to /system/app and installing it from there, but it says 'Application not installed.' Am I doing something wrong?
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This is for clock, alarm, stopwatch etc. Put the apk on the root of your sd card and install from there. Don have to move it to system/app.
poofish said:
Is this the stock clock application, like the one used for alarms and such?
EDIT: I attempted to install ClockPackage.apk anyway by using Root explorer, and then moving the apk to /system/app and installing it from there, but it says 'Application not installed.' Am I doing something wrong?
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LOL YOU DID THE SAME THING AS ME. (except no one bothered to reply to my cries for help and I had to figure out everything myself)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070083
1)keep your clockpackage.apk in system/apps
2)download this .odex file
3)put the file in system/apps, remember to mount r/w in rootexplorer to enable pasting it in there, then mount r/o when finished
4)turn phone off.
5)turn phone on.
Mmmm, same here but I lost the weather widget due to samsung app update. Any one!
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
jeanclaudevandamme said:
LOL YOU DID THE SAME THING AS ME. (except no one bothered to reply to my cries for help and I had to figure out everything myself)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070083
1)keep your clockpackage.apk in system/apps
2)download this .odex file
3)put the file in system/apps, remember to mount r/w in rootexplorer to enable pasting it in there, then mount r/o when finished
4)turn phone off.
5)turn phone on.
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zomg jeanclaude i love you. i spent two hours that day freaking out about how i just mutilated my phone. thanks again
Anyone else this worked for? No luck for me. Clock dosent show up and Application not installed error when trying to run clockpackage.apk
ec95 said:
Anyone else this worked for? No luck for me. Clock dosent show up and Application not installed error when trying to run clockpackage.apk
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Did you add the odex file as explained above?
Yes i followed the guide as described. I have the odex and apk in system/apps folder. Funny, another clock widget im using is showing my next alarm.. but no alarmclock..
Followed the guide above, apk and odex showing in app system/app but still not available anywhere on the phone.
Anyone recommend a third party clockpackage from the market?
Used sgstools to kill my clock so used it to reinstall it to.
added a extra script,
echo "this will reverse the klok hack"
busybox cp -f /sdcard/sgstools/ClockPackage.apk /system/app/
(you might have to remove it fist if you have been messing around to get it working again)
I did the what the above guide said and could not find the app in the application menu. Help!
will reloading the stock firmware fix this issue?
jeanclaudevandamme said:
LOL YOU DID THE SAME THING AS ME. (except no one bothered to reply to my cries for help and I had to figure out everything myself)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070083
1)keep your clockpackage.apk in system/apps
2)download this .odex file
3)put the file in system/apps, remember to mount r/w in rootexplorer to enable pasting it in there, then mount r/o when finished
4)turn phone off.
5)turn phone on.
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I did the same thing, but when i restart my phone, the clock in not in the app drawer, when i go to TB, it is there, but with a line through it and it won't restore, all attempts to install the apk is failing too... what can i do?
The link for the odex file is down. Also, I'm trying to get this app working on CM7. Is that doable? I love CM, but a couple of the samsung apps are miles beyond what comes with Cyanogenmod - namely the clock, and the camera. I understand I can't swap the camera app, having looked into it, and I'm ok with that. The clock, however... I gotta have my samsung clock back!
Parse Error
I managed to get the ClockPackage.apk and the ClockPackage.odex from another device (running on 2.3.5 instead of 2.3.6) and now I get the following error while trying to install the apk:
"Parse Error: There is a problem parsing the package"
Does anybody know what to do?
Contacts app backup please help
hi, I recently updated my sgs2 i9100p (NFS) to ics via kies. Its orange but I unlocked now 4.0.3 with baseband ver i9100PBVLP6. an orange bloatware called 'contact backup' irritated me so I decided to uninstall it with Titanium backup. but in a hurry I uninstalled stock contact app. now there is no contact and in every 5-10 second phone freezes and error msg comes-' unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped'. Please help.
AnalogClock.apk + ClockPackage.apk seem to work together.
I used SystemApp Remover to disable ClockPackage.apk, (thought it was a bunch of unnecessary Clock widgets), but stock Clocks package stopped working. I tried enabling it, copying ClockPackage.apk, and still could not. SuperSU logs indicated that all operations succeded normally, but it simply would not work.
I thought, maybe it messed up with program data, permissions, etc., so I removed/deleted both, restarted, then simply copied .apk file for both back. Only then it worked.
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bnayak said:
hi, I recently updated my sgs2 i9100p (NFS) to ics via kies. Its orange but I unlocked now 4.0.3 with baseband ver i9100PBVLP6. an orange bloatware called 'contact backup' irritated me so I decided to uninstall it with Titanium backup. but in a hurry I uninstalled stock contact app. now there is no contact and in every 5-10 second phone freezes and error msg comes-' unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped'.
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There are applications that access data, and there are applications that provide that data. For example, for contacts, you could have many applications that use it (Email, Messenger, Call Logs, etc), and one application that provides it. In case if you accidentally delete data provider (in your case contacts), and if that data provider is essential to running your phone, you will ruin your phone. You might be able to restore it, but I would recommend using Odin to flash correct official firmware. Search in forum "i9100 Android Development".
mirbeksm said:
There are applications that access data, and there are applications that provide that data. For example, for contacts, you could have many applications that use it (Email, Messenger, Call Logs, etc), and one application that provides it. In case if you accidentally delete data provider (in your case contacts), and if that data provider is essential to running your phone, you will ruin your phone. You might be able to restore it, but I would recommend using Odin to flash correct official firmware. Search in forum "i9100 Android Development".
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U are right. I think I uninstalled contact provider, the main contact app. I tried to find solution for all day but coudn't. Tried to flash original stock rom which I have downloaded (i9001PBVLP6) but odin didn't detect my phone in downloading mode. I had to make my phone work anyhow so I flashed Wanamlite 11 with cwm which is ok but not fully functioned on my nfc version sgs2 (now I know the importance of back-up). Now I want my original stock rom back. tried with cwm but didnt work, Odin doesnt detect my phone. any help regarding flashing this stock rom, please?

Cure for Chinese Notification Spam & Random App Installations

I recently obtained a Star N9500, which is a Samsung Galaxy 4 clone. It's a very nice piece of hardware, with the exception of the pre-installed spamware apps. I'm going to detail how I discovered which system apps were the culprit so that you can follow a similar procedure on your Chinese Android device.
The symptoms are Chinese language spam notifications that when touched will immediately begin downloading some other app, most often a game or Chinese social networking/dating app. Other times, Chinese apps would just randomly install, or links to other Chinese sites would appear on the home screen. The problem is that there is no obvious app to uninstall to stop this from happening, AdAway doesn't prevent it, and none of the ad network / push detectors or blockers available in the Play Store found anything wrong. These apps are buried in the phone's firmware, and this must be solved with detective work.
The removal process requires your phone to be Rooted.
The first thing that I did was to Google the name of each and every .apk in the /system/apps folder. You'll have to use the Translate feature for most of the results. Only one app I Googled got a hit called “uuplay.apk”. Turns out that this is a known Chinese Adware app. I proceeded to rename it with a “.dis” extension with ES File Explorer and felt I solved the problem...but I didn't.
Sure enough the notification spam continued, so I knew there had to be more. None of the APKs in the system apps folder resulted in any Google hits, so I had to figure this out myself.
I proceeded to use ES File Explorer to copy every file in the “/system/apps” folder to my desktop computer. Next, I used 7-Zip to unzip every APK to my RAMDRive. I started to look at the individual files with Notepad++ but found this quite tedious. Then I realized that Chinese apps probably access Chinese servers with a “.cn” domain.
I fired up Agent Ransack and did a search inside all of the decompressed app files for “.cn”. Sure enough, two hits on “GoogleUpdate[3738].apk” and “GoogleService[3738].apk”. I looked inside the “classes.dex” files and sure enough found links to Chinese sites located at “http://g.10086.cn”. I also found mention of “com.google.system.king”. Ahhhhh that makes sense, because I noticed that the SD Card ended up with a folder of the same name with Chinese looking files inside, such as “hziee”, and also “jrinfo.cfg”.
I Googled the king string and found a Chinese site that described the app as “Android application management, convenient and practical, Fool phone management experts.” Ah-ha!!! So I renamed both of those APKs in the system app folder with a “.dis” extension, rebooted my phone and voila – no more spam They didn't fool me, and hopefully this post will help someone else out there with this infestation.
I attached the spamware app APKs from my phone to this thread for additional deconstruction by anyone interested. I'd be curious to know to what extent they would go in downloading spam.
~Cevyn L (FastMHz)
Yes, be careful with those Chinese phones.
Some of them has self-register apps that send expensive sms messages to China. Some of them have also apps similar to those you mentioned.
Usually, you can delete the whole /system/vendor/app folder, full of Chinese crap.
Some of the apps are also located in the /system/app folder. Best way for non-experienced users is to search for apps description over the net if you're unsure of what a certain app does.
MTKDroidTools has some predefined apps list and can automatically remove Chinese stuff for you, but still there's a chance some new or differently named app is installed on the phone.
Ofcourse, for any of these manipulations you need root access.
Yeah I can imagine some of them have some nasty stuff loaded in, so definitely a good idea to scrutinize every app for anything suspicious. I think doing what I did above on any Chinese phone to search for any apps with links to .cn based domains isn't a bad idea, even if spamware isn't an issue. I also only use prepaid SIMs in these things for a reason
UPDATE 08-09-2013:
Quick Fix: If your phone has the same rogue files as mine did, root your phone, and delete the following from /system/apps: UUPLAY.APK, GoogleUpdate[3738].apk, GoogleService[3738].apk, SystemThread[3738].apk, Backup_File[3738].i, projectmkmassags.apk, and smsreg.apk.
I completely decompiled the APKs to Java code and found these strings inside:
http://61.160.234.133:9090/date/getDate
http://g.10086.cn/gamecms/wap/game/wyinfo/700144311000?channelId=12068000
http://www.ccinchina.com/blog/uploa...111109151143_MzI0NzM3NjgwNjMxMTM3NzA3NQ==.jpg
http://117.135.133.9:8080/source/ap...id_2-3-28-6_1000934d.apk?imei=352520130058754
http://117.135.131.9:8080/push_4/push.action?imei=value
http://61.160.242.35:8080/pro_5/pro.action
/datang_gaohong/
SilentClient.apk
shurufa_01.apk
BaiduBrowser_Android_2-3-28-6_1000934d.apk
None of those other APKs were present, but a datang_gaohong folder was on my SD card, as well as a folder called LogicDownloads that referenced these types of filenames. I deleted all of them and haven’t had them come back. I deleted a bunch of other non-dangerous bloatware as well. The phone is now about as perfect as I could imagine one being. Battery seems to go forever now as well.
mine ends all like GoogleService[3774]
i didn't understand if all those apps you listed on the last message , we should delete em all or only the one in capslock ?
sorry my questions i'm a bit newbi ;(
Delete them if you have them.
Also, zip up the "GoogleService[3774].apk " and any other 3774 apps you have and attach to a message on this thread...I'll look inside for Chinese links. Interesting you have a different set of numbers in brackets on yours, could be a version indicator or something.
Thank You
thank you for your reply , haven't deleted em all only ( uuplay ) so here are the others , hope is what you wanted . So if if delete those ones i won't have chinese apps news and autoinstall ?
Help, I can´t remove them!!!!!
Hello all,
First of all sorry for my bad English, it´s not my first language and thank you very much for helping us.
I have a N9500 with chinese applications and I´ll post all the applications in app folder. I try to delete:
GoogleUpdate[3774].apk, GoogleService[3774].apk, SystemThread[3774].apk and smsreg.apk
But I can´t delete or rename them, why? I´m root in the phone but I only get errors when I try it.
I´m using "ES FILE EXPLORER" for deleting them.
Again thank you very much
rodxyz said:
Hello all,
First of all sorry for my bad English, it´s not my first language and thank you very much for helping us.
I have a N9500 with chinese applications and I´ll post all the applications in app folder. I try to delete:
GoogleUpdate[3774].apk, GoogleService[3774].apk, SystemThread[3774].apk and smsreg.apk
But I can´t delete or rename them, why? I´m root in the phone but I only get errors when I try it.
I´m using "ES FILE EXPLORER" for deleting them.
Again thank you very much
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check if you are in r/o or r/w mode. you got a small task on the right corner . if you are in r/w , change in r/w hope it will solve
Thank you for this thread, I have been searching for a couple of days now for this!
I also have been wondering how I get these weird apps in my phone everytime I wake up, and find it already installed.
I noticed the folders you said which I also deleted, hoping it would fix the problem.
Anyways, thanks a lot for sharing this.
By the way, I really don't know how I got this malware, not really sure if it was preinstalled in my Cherry Mobile Superion TV2, or got it somewhere else in the apks I recently downloaded and installed.
Sent from my Superion TV 2 using Tapatalk 4
Thanks guys, your thread helped me a lot.
Just removed uuplay.apk and uuairpush.apk.
Deleting/renaming them via ES Explorer didn't work for me, I had to use Root App Delete. Even that initially seemed to fail to remove the fake Google Play app, but then came up with a prompt to tap here to force removal, which worked.
Rebooted and done deep ESET scans yesterday and again today, looks like it is all gone. :laugh:
SmsReg
Guys
Plz help me....
In my apps list i could see SMSReg listed. to remove this... i cannot find UUPLAY.APK, GoogleUpdate[3738].apk, GoogleService[3738].apk, SystemThread[3738].apk, Backup_File[3738].i, projectmkmassags.apk, and smsreg.apk. in my phone (micromax A110Q)
can any one help me ASAP?
How to delete SmsReg
I donno how to delete smsreg....
can any one explain the each step to delete/rename the APKs (UUPLAY.APK, GoogleUpdate[3738].apk, GoogleService[3738].apk, SystemThread[3738].apk, Backup_File[3738].i, projectmkmassags.apk, and smsreg.apk)
i found SmsReg.apk on my device and i delete it using Root Explorer.
Any faster way to find the culprit?
My Chinese phone Kolina 100+ always loads a spam website, whenever I try to open a link.
This happens with both stock and Dolphin browser.
Adaway and ad push detector only stopped ads in applications.
Not this annoying homepage.
Same kolina 100+ and same spam website. After rooting the phone with kingo root, I uninstall the stock tweeter. Seems ok now
stephane.tranngoc said:
Same kolina 100+ and same spam website. After rooting the phone with kingo root, I uninstall the stock tweeter. Seems ok now
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I don't have this application installed, so it's not coming from there.
Yes, I don't see this application before I scan my phone with Kaspersky anti-virus (and force the program to analyze system applications). So you probably have the same problem.
stephane.tranngoc said:
Yes, I don't see this application before I scan my phone with Kaspersky anti-virus (and force the program to analyze system applications). So you probably have the same problem.
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You mean that this twitter app is hidden and only Kaspersky can reveal it?
I searched with Rootappdelete app and there is no twitter app in system apps.
Hi there,
I have a problem. I recently got a Huwaei GX1s ( Huwaei SC-UL 10 ) phone from China. I have changed the language to English but once I get inside any apps already there or installed from its apps store they are opened in chinese language. I tried to download google translator but it doesn't download even Google Play Store won't open.
How can I solve this problem of Chinese language in apps???

Accidentally Deleted Bluetooth Share?

The problem:
I rooted my Galaxy Ace and installed an app called Root Cleaner. Though it did a good job on cleaning up the internal memory, the app also had an option to uninstall system and non-system apps. It so happened that I accidentally tapped on Bluetooth Share and it got uninstalled without asking any confirmation. Now, whenever I try to send a file via Bluetooth, it simply gets queued and refuses to be sent.
//pics go here, unable to submit them due to 10 post limitation...
So I realized I messed up. I had to find a way to re-install Bluetooth Share.
What I tried to do:
I rooted my friend's Galaxy Ace (both of them are 2.3.6), compared the programs in /system/app and sure enough BluetoothPbap.apk was missing from my list. So I copied the .apk onto my sd card, then copied it to the /system/app directory. Total Commander asked me for rw permissions, I just pressed ok and the file got copied. I tried installing the .apk, but I simply got "Application not installed". I looked around for ways of re-installing system apps, but one page suggested simply leaving the .apk in the /app folder and re-staring the phone. After doing so Bluetooth Share was back on the system app list, yet it is still unable to send any files.
Sooo... Help? What I suspect right now is that the .apk file I got might be in some way incompatible with my device, though I got it from and Ace with the same version of Android, could this really be the case? Any advice is welcome.
Oh, and another interesting thing. After doing everything mentioned above, I tried deliberately uninstalling Bluetooth Share and reinstalling it. The BluetoothPbap.apk disappears from /system/app, but when I paste it in and try to install it, It asks if I want to replace the application. In other words, It's asking me if I want to replace something that isn't installed, so I have no idea how to explain this.

[Q] Gallery won't work, need stock apk

Well, my girlfriend updated her Galaxy S3 a couple of days ago, and suddenly the gallery wouldn't work. It just showed up as com.sec.android.gallery3d in the app drawer. I've done everything in my power, even rooted the damn thing, but nothing seems to work.
Amidst my ferocious attack on the problem I seem to have gotten rid of the "faulty" gallery apk and can't find a good one via google that works.
Odd thing is that at first the com.sec.android.gallery3d app was missing from /system/app. When I did a search for "gallery" I found SecGallery2013.apk that was called "com.sec.android.gallery3d" in it's properties. Kind of like a symlink I think.
That original SecGallery2013.apk is now gone with the wind for some reason (my ADHD took over a while). I actually found a com.google.android.gallery3d that works (but not original) and com.sec.android.gallery3d-2be92cef98aab5194d4ae68382324577.apk (took away the number at the end of course) that seems to be the original, but crashes constantly.
I'm at a loss, hence why I did the topic name "need stock apk", as that might fix things.
Though somewhere on the filesystem (I'm still somewhat of a noob as to how android is built) there were once a folder called com.sec.android.gallery3d which is not there anymore. Any attempts at installing the apk has, obviously, also failed.
I've read almost every other possible solution, but all of them seem to be under the impression that I would have the sense to backup every single thing...
Help!
What android, firnware are you running right now?
You can get the gallery app from any STOCK BASED flashable zip (many lite version roms available in this forum). Just open the zip, look under system/app or something similar, take the apk file, put it in system/app of your own phone with rw-r-r permissions, then reboot.
Stock system apps can't be just installed, they must be manually placed in system/app directory.
Try to flash Google Apps from CWM or TWRP (I assume you already flashed CWM or TWRP with Odin)
A brief explanation of Google Apps:
Apps like Play Store, Gallery, Camera, etc... Or the stock proprietary software made by Google are all in this one zip file called GApps, All you need to know is how to flash ZIPs (easy as 1,2,3) and the GApps for your android version.
Other options:
Find another 3rd party Gallery alternative from Google Play (EASIEST)
Flash CyanogenMod or an alternate ROM (Too risky just for getting gallery back)
Just get the images from the device to your computer
Well that's all I got, PM me if you need anything, hit "Thanks" if I helped you

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