com.samsung.android.dqagent Copy

A Samsung platform component that devices report under the terse label "DQA". Samsung ships it as a standard part of its firmware: it is listed as "DQA", package com.samsung.android.dqagent, in Samsung's own Knox Common Criteria mode device documentation, which inventories the applications preinstalled on a given model. What Samsung does not publish anywhere found is a description of what the component does, so this note states only what could be sourced and does not expand the abbreviation. This site's own record adds the provenance. It is preinstalled and Samsung-signed with certificates marked as also signing the framework, it has no launcher entry (no user-facing observation), and it declares a small permission set: ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE, CLEAR_APP_USER_DATA and Samsung's own HQM_NOTIFICATION_PERMISSION. A privileged phone-state reader that starts at boot and watches network state is consistent with a diagnostics and quality reporting role, though the specific data it gathers is not published and is not asserted here. At the feature level, Samsung does document that it collects "diagnostic, technical, error, and usage information", including "error reports and dump logs", and exposes a Send diagnostic data control under Settings, Security and privacy, More privacy settings. Whether this package is a contributor to that pipeline could not be sourced, and the site's provenance record does not settle it either way. Version note: this site's sample spans target SDK 31 to 37 with version names from 3.0.05 to 3.8.01, and Samsung's Knox Common Criteria mode documents list much older 1.x and 2.x builds on Android 10 and Android 11 era models, so the component has been maintained across many releases. Whether its role changed across those releases could not be sourced. Given that no description of its function is published at all, assume nothing about what it does on a current device from its name. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use, Samsung's Knox documentation records the package in its preinstalled application inventories but does not describe it, and no evidence was found that it takes part in enrolment or policy enforcement. Where it matters is data governance: if a deployment needs to limit vendor telemetry, the documented control is the diagnostic data setting rather than acting on this package. Because its function could not be established with confidence, no disable recommendation is given here; anyone considering it should test on a single device first.

• Galaxy S21+ 5G (SM-G996B, Android 11) Common Criteria mode preinstalled application list - Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Galaxy S20+ 5G (SM-G986U1, Android 10) Common Criteria mode preinstalled application list - Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Samsung Privacy Policy - usage and log information →
• Use Security and privacy settings on Galaxy phones and tablets - Samsung Support →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.dqagent - Android System App Database →

• Signed by the device maker's own signing key (Samsung), so it is an OEM preinstall, but 2 different certificates appear across the fleet, so OEMs ship their own builds of it. It also signs the Android framework, so it is a platform-level key on its device(s). Inferred from the certificate appearing only on Samsung devices (508 packages, 10196 observations).
• Its largest observed manifest declares 5 permissions: 2 signature or system-level, 2 install-time and 1 vendor or uncatalogued.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.