com.google.android.flipendo Copy

Labelled "Extreme Battery Saver", this is a Google package preinstalled on Pixel phones. Its label matches the Pixel feature of the same name, and a Pixel sysconfig file in a mirrored vendor tree for the Pixel 4 XL (coral), with the comment "Allow Flipendo in power save", exempts this package from power save restrictions. Google's Pixel help documents the feature rather than naming this package, so the tie between the two rests on the label and that sysconfig entry and is an inference. On this site it is recorded on Pixel models from Pixel 6 to Pixel 10 Pro across OS API levels 31 to 37, none of the observations mark it as user-facing, and where this site holds signer data it is signed by a Google-classified key that also signs the Android framework, a platform-level key. Google's help describes Extreme Battery Saver as an extension of Battery Saver on Pixel 3 and later phones, set under Settings, Battery, Battery Saver, Extreme Battery Saver. On top of what Battery Saver limits, it pauses most apps (paused apps do not send notifications), slows the CPU, turns off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning for location, turns off the work profile, drops the screen timeout to 30 seconds and stops any current hotspot or tethering. The user can choose "Essential apps" that stay unpaused, and can temporarily unpause a paused app. This site records the package requesting permissions including SUSPEND_APPS, MODIFY_QUIET_MODE, MANAGE_USERS, TETHER_PRIVILEGED and WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS, names that line up with those documented effects, though that correspondence is an inference. This site aggregates permissions across observations rather than per build, so which builds declare each of them cannot be established. Version note: Google's help says some Battery Saver steps work only on Android 11 and up. The mirrored coral sysconfig file says the entry "Will be present on pre-2020 devices for dogfooding", which suggests the package was present on some pre-2020 Pixels for internal testing; the cited sources do not date the feature's public release. No specific change in the package's role tied to a later Android release was found in the sources cited here. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use, no management role is identified in the sources cited here, but the documented feature matters on managed Pixels: if a user turns Extreme Battery Saver on, Google states that the work profile turns off and most apps pause, which could include managed apps not chosen as essential. Whether an EMM can prevent the feature being turned on could not be sourced. If this package is the Extreme Battery Saver component its label indicates, disabling it would be expected to remove that mode; the wider effect on Battery Saver could not be established, so test before disabling.

• Use Battery Saver on your Pixel phone - Pixel Phone Help →
• pixel_experience_2019.xml (coral) - TheMuppets proprietary_vendor_google →
• Package provenance for com.google.android.flipendo - Android System App Database →

• Signed by Google's own signing key (the same key Google uses across devices), so it is a Google-provided preinstall that updates independently of the system image, though 5 different Google signing keys appear across the fleet. It also signs the Android framework, so it is a platform-level key on its device(s).
• Its largest observed manifest declares 32 permissions: 1 runtime (user-granted), 23 signature or system-level, 5 install-time and 3 vendor or uncatalogued. The signature/system share marks it as a privileged component, not an ordinary app.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.