com.samsung.sait.sohservice Copy

Reported on devices as "SoHService", this is a Samsung background service with no launcher entry in any observation here. Samsung does not document it by package name in the sources cited here, so its role is inferred from the label and from the permissions recorded for it on this site: alongside ordinary background permissions (foreground service, run at boot, wake lock, network state) it declares two Samsung-defined permissions to read and write a "BSOH" provider. SoH and BSOH are the usual abbreviations for battery state of health, the measure of how much of its original capacity a battery still holds, so on the evidence available this appears to be the component that tracks that figure. In our sample it is signed by a Samsung OEM key that also signs the Android framework. Samsung documents the surfaces that such a figure feeds. Its own battery support material describes a progressive battery notification raised when the battery requires a check-up, and battery status being checked through Phone diagnostics in the Samsung Members app. For fleets, Knox Asset Intelligence carries a battery health insight that, in Samsung's words, "provides a summary of your device fleet's overall battery condition and how much of its original charge the battery can hold", grading devices as Good, Normal, Weak or Bad, and Samsung notes there that it only performs battery diagnostics on devices with non-replaceable or smart batteries, where charging cycle data is available. None of those pages names this package as the on-device collector, so the link between the two is inference rather than something sourced. Version note: on this site it appears only on Samsung hardware, from API 34 through API 37 (Android 14 to 17), at versions 3.0.218 to 3.4. The version numbering suggests earlier generations exist on older releases, but nothing cited here establishes when it was introduced, and no source describes a change in its role across those releases. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use, no enrolment or policy role is identified in the sources cited here, and the package has no launcher entry in this sample. Its value is indirect: battery condition is one of the more useful fleet signals on shift-based and trolley-mounted deployments, where a weak battery shows up as a device that dies mid-shift, and it is battery state of health that the Knox dashboards report. If this service is the collector its name suggests, disabling it risks losing that reporting and the user-facing check-up notification while saving very little, which is why the rating is caution rather than safe. Where it does need to go, Samsung documents blocking a named preinstalled system app through Knox Manage application policies; test on one device and confirm battery reporting still arrives before applying it to a fleet.

• Battery health - Knox Asset Intelligence - Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Galaxy Battery - About Battery - Samsung Support →
• Enable or disable a specific system app - Knox Manage - Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.sait.sohservice - 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 19 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 (580 packages, 11729 observations).
• Its largest observed manifest declares 8 permissions: 1 signature or system-level, 4 install-time and 3 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 0.1 MB to 6.6 MB across the reporting device profiles, so the build differs substantially between them.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.