com.samsung.android.settingshelper Copy

Labelled "SettingsHelper", this is a Samsung system package with no launcher entry. No observation here is user-facing and none is Play-eligible, and this site records the label SettingsHelper across the locales in its sample. Builds are recorded between roughly 2.2 MB and 3.2 MB. No Samsung documentation for it was found in research for this note; the search results that named the package were APK catalogue listings, which are not a basis for a claim. Its name places it alongside the Settings app, but what help it provides to Settings is not documented in the sources cited here, so its specific function should be treated as undocumented rather than inferred from the name. The permission set recorded here is the most concrete evidence cited here. It holds nine entries: INTERNET, READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE, RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, VIBRATE and WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS from the Android platform, com.sec.phone.permission.SEC_FACTORY_PHONE, and three permissions in a Samsung namespace named deepsky: com.samsung.android.app.deepsky.permission.ACCESS_SERVICE, com.samsung.android.app.deepsky.donation.provider.permission.DONATE_ACTION and com.samsung.android.app.deepsky.feedback.provider.permission.SUBMIT_FEEDBACK. The Android platform manifest describes WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS as allowing an application to read or write the secure system settings and marks it as not for use by third-party applications, and describes READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE as read access to privileged phone state, used internally. INTERNET allows it to open network sockets. Requesting permissions named for a deepsky service, including what the names indicate are donation and feedback providers, suggests this package calls on a Samsung service of that name rather than the other way round; what that service is, and which package declares those permissions, cannot be established from the sources cited here. This site aggregates permissions across observations rather than per build, so which builds request which permissions cannot be established. Provenance: this site records it only on Samsung devices, 37 distinct device variants, under a single Samsung OEM certificate recorded as also signing the Android framework, a platform-level key. Version note. Observations here run from API 34 to API 36, version names run from 1.0.15.0 to 1.0.25.0, and this site's target SDK roll-up reports 34 to 36. Those are independent roll-ups across observations rather than a per-build pairing. The package has not been observed below API 34 in this sample, but when it first shipped, and whether its role has changed across Android releases, could not be sourced and is flagged here as an open question. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use, no enrolment or management role is identified in the sources cited here and it presents nothing to a user. Because it carries a platform-level signature and requests WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS and RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED in the aggregated sample, disabling it offers no clear benefit and could have firmware-specific effects on settings behaviour that could not be sourced. It is best left in place, and only touched with careful per-device testing. Fleets with a strict data posture may want to note that it requests INTERNET alongside the deepsky permissions; what, if anything, it sends is not documented in the sources cited here.

• core/res/AndroidManifest.xml (WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS, READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE) - Android platform source →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.settingshelper - Android System App Database →

• Signed by the device maker's own signing key (Samsung), so it is an OEM preinstall, and that single certificate is consistent across all 17 device profiles. 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 9 permissions: 2 signature or system-level, 3 install-time and 4 vendor or uncatalogued.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.