{"package_name":"com.samsung.android.gru","label":"Galaxy Resource Updater","device_count":47,"observation_count":71,"user_facing_count":65,"first_seen":"2025-05-05T17:48:10Z","last_seen":"2026-09-18T01:54:07Z","guidance":{"summary":"A Samsung component that every observation on this site reports as \"Galaxy Resource Updater\", untranslated in every locale recorded, so the label is a product name rather than a localised description. Unlike most of the components documented here it is not purely internal: this site records it as user-facing on 61 of its 67 observations, so on most devices it is visible to the user rather than hidden. It is preinstalled and Samsung-signed with certificates that also sign the framework, and it is marked Play-eligible on 2 observations, so it is capable of being updated outside firmware on at least some devices. Samsung publishes no package-level documentation setting out what it does.\n\nIt is grouped with com.samsung.android.scpm above for a concrete reason rather than a thematic one: both declare the same pair of Samsung permissions, com.samsung.android.permission.READ_SCPM and WRITE_SCPM, so this component requests read and write access to the same namespace. Whether either is granted, or exercised at runtime, is not something this site records. Beyond that it declares WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS, PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS, DUMP, SUBSTITUTE_NOTIFICATION_APP_NAME, POST_NOTIFICATIONS, SET_ALARM, INTERNET, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE, the Samsung account permission com.samsung.android.samsungaccount.permission.ACCOUNT_MANAGER and com.sec.android.app.setupwizardlegalprovider.GETDOCUMENT. A component that starts at boot, sets alarms, fetches over the network, writes secure settings and can post a notification under another application's name is consistent with the label: something that pulls resources down on a schedule and applies them on behalf of other Samsung apps. Which resources, from where, and for which apps are not documented by Samsung and are not claimed here. Consumer sites describe this package confidently, but the ones found were app catalogues and forum threads rather than anything that could be relied on, so they are not cited.\n\nOne observation worth recording because it is unusual: package size in this site's sample ranges from roughly 25 KB to 3.2 MB. A 25 KB build is too small to be the same functional payload as a 3.2 MB one, which suggests some devices ship a stub that is filled in later rather than the full component. That is a reading of the size spread, not a sourced fact.\n\nVersion note: like com.samsung.android.scpm it is absent from every Samsung Common Criteria mode application list checked here, covering Oreo, Android 10 and Android 11. On this site it is observed from API 31 through 37, with versions 1.0.00.21 to 1.4.27.0 and target SDKs 30 to 37, so it appears to have arrived around Android 12 and to have been developed steadily since. The exact release it was introduced in could not be sourced, and whether its role has changed in any recent Android version could not be sourced either.\n\nFor Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use there is no documented role in enrolment or policy. Two points matter for a managed fleet. It is user-facing on most devices, so unlike a hidden service it is something users may see and ask about, and on a locked-down kiosk that visibility is itself worth deciding about. And it can write secure settings and fetch content on a schedule, which is a legitimate thing to review on a fleet that expects its device configuration to change only through policy. Neither is a reason to remove it blind: its dependents are undocumented and it shares a permission namespace with at least one other Samsung component. Where it must be suppressed, Samsung documents blocking a preinstalled app by package name through Knox Manage's application policies; test on a single device first.","safe_to_disable":"caution","sources":[{"title":"Galaxy S21+ 5G (SM-G996B, Android 11) Common Criteria mode application list - Samsung Knox Documentation","url":"https://docs.samsungknox.com/CCMode/G996B_5G_R.pdf"},{"title":"Galaxy S20 5G (SM-G981U, Android 11) Common Criteria mode application list - Samsung Knox Documentation","url":"https://docs.samsungknox.com/CCMode/G981U_R.pdf"},{"title":"Galaxy S20+ 5G (SM-G986U1, Android 10) Common Criteria mode application list - Samsung Knox Documentation","url":"https://docs.samsungknox.com/CCMode/G986U1_Q.pdf"},{"title":"Galaxy Note9 (SM-N960N, Android 8) Common Criteria mode application list - Samsung Knox Documentation","url":"https://docs.samsungknox.com/CCMode/N960N_O.pdf"},{"title":"Enable or disable a specific system app - Knox Manage - Samsung Knox 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