com.sec.android.app.volumemonitorprovider Copy

A Samsung platform component labelled "VolumeMonitorProvider" in every observation on this site, and named the same way in Samsung's own published Common Criteria application lists for Galaxy devices, so the name is Samsung's rather than a guess. It has no launcher entry, no observation here is user-facing, and none is Play-eligible. Its permission set is the best evidence of what it does. Alongside WAKE_LOCK it declares MODIFY_AUDIO_ROUTING, which the Android platform manifest describes as allowing an application to modify audio routing and override policy decisions and marks as not for use by third-party applications, and WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS, described there as allowing an application to read or write the secure system settings. The set recorded here also includes com.sec.android.app.volumemonitorprovider.GET_VOLUME_DATA, which sits in this package's own namespace, and one in Samsung Health's namespace, com.samsung.android.app.shealth.hearing.permission.SET_VOLUME_DATA. This site records the permissions associated with a package rather than which component defines them, so reading the first as this package's own permission is inference from the namespace. Read together with the package name, that points to a provider that records volume exposure and makes it available to other components, with Samsung Health's hearing area as a named consumer. Samsung documents a Hearing feature in Samsung Health that monitors sound levels and warns about exposure risk, though the page describes ambient monitoring with a Galaxy Watch and does not name this package, so the link is drawn from the permission name rather than from Samsung documentation. What data it holds, and for how long, is not published. Two further details are recorded rather than inferred. The aggregated permission set contains no INTERNET and no ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, so nothing on this site suggests the component talks to the network itself. It also declares com.wssnps.permission.COM_WSSNPS, a permission this site already notes on other Samsung components such as the brightness backup service, whose purpose could not be sourced. Permissions are aggregated across observations rather than per build, so which builds declare which cannot be established here. Version note. Samsung's Android 11 era application lists record this package at version 1.2.02, while builds sampled here carry version names from 14.0.02 to 17.0.00, which track the platform release number rather than continuing the old sequence. That reads as a renumbering onto Samsung's platform-aligned scheme rather than as fifteen major versions of work, but the point at which it changed could not be sourced. Observations run from API 31 to API 37 with a target SDK roll-up of 31 to 36, and builds from roughly 657 KB to 1.45 MB. Every observation is on a Samsung device, under two Samsung signing certificates that also sign the Android framework. Nothing sourced indicates the component has been superseded, replaced or modularised at a particular Android release. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use it has no enrolment or management role and presents nothing to a user, so an administrator normally meets it in an app inventory. Two things are worth weighing before touching it. It declares audio-policy permissions, and a declared permission establishes what a component may do rather than what it does, so whether it exercises them, and what disabling it would do to volume behaviour, could not be sourced. Against that, the only consumer identified here is Samsung Health's hearing area, drawn from a permission name; whether anything else consumes the same data was not established, so a fleet that does not use Samsung Health cannot be assumed to have no consumer at all. On balance it is best left in place unless there is a specific reason to remove it, and then only after per-device testing that includes media playback and volume control with a headset attached.

• core/res/AndroidManifest.xml (MODIFY_AUDIO_ROUTING, WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS) - Android platform source →
• Use the Hearing Health feature with your Galaxy Watch9 or Watch Ultra2 - Samsung US →
• Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G (G998B) Application List - Samsung Knox CC Mode documentation →
• Galaxy Z Flip 5G (F707B) Application List - Samsung Knox CC Mode documentation →
• Package provenance for com.sec.android.app.volumemonitorprovider - 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 7 permissions: 2 signature or system-level, 1 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.