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  Hidden 'Cookies' - Where Are They? Anon <Anon@nospam.invalid> - 2026-10-04 14:59 +0000
    Re: Hidden 'Cookies' - Where Are They? Old McDonald <eieio@patch.corn> - 2026-10-04 08:11 -0700
      Re: Hidden 'Cookies' - Where Are They? Boris <Boris@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-04 15:20 +0000
    Re: Hidden 'Cookies' - Where Are They? Anon <Anon@nospam.invalid> - 2026-10-04 15:19 +0000
    Re: Hidden 'Cookies' - Where Are They? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-10-04 16:27 +0100
      Re: Hidden 'Cookies' - Where Are They? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-04 14:59 -0400
        Re: Hidden 'Cookies' - Where Are They? Old McDonald <eieio@patch.corn> - 2026-10-04 13:32 -0700
          Re: Hidden 'Cookies' - Where Are They? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-04 18:15 -0300

#156261 — Hidden 'Cookies' - Where Are They?

Does anyone know how to activate 'cookies' on the Samsung Galaxy J7 and 
Galaxy A25 5G phones, or any other phones?

(I'm not talking about tracking cookies.)

At least I think these little hidden tricks were called cookies.  They 
weren't well known, but were put on the phones by the developers, and one had 
to press or swipe different settings (usually in 'about phone') in a certain 
order to get the cookie to present itself.  One was a kaleidoscope effect, 
and an other was a dancing bear.

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#156262

On 10/4/26 07:59, Anon wrote:
> Does anyone know how to activate 'cookies' on the Samsung Galaxy J7 and
> Galaxy A25 5G phones, or any other phones?
> 
> (I'm not talking about tracking cookies.)
> 
> At least I think these little hidden tricks were called cookies.  They
> weren't well known, but were put on the phones by the developers, and one had
> to press or swipe different settings (usually in 'about phone') in a certain
> order to get the cookie to present itself.  One was a kaleidoscope effect,
> and an other was a dancing bear.

Easter Eggs?

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-easter-eggs-818694/

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#156264

Old McDonald <eieio@patch.corn> wrote in news:119tqb9$m1m$1@dont-email.me:

> On 10/4/26 07:59, Anon wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to activate 'cookies' on the Samsung Galaxy J7 and
>> Galaxy A25 5G phones, or any other phones?
>> 
>> (I'm not talking about tracking cookies.)
>> 
>> At least I think these little hidden tricks were called cookies.  They
>> weren't well known, but were put on the phones by the developers, and
>> one had to press or swipe different settings (usually in 'about phone')
>> in a certain order to get the cookie to present itself.  One was a
>> kaleidoscope effect, and an other was a dancing bear.
> 
> Easter Eggs?
> 
> https://www.androidauthority.com/android-easter-eggs-818694/

Yes, thank you very much.

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#156263

Anon <Anon@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:119tplc$42t$1@dont-email.me:

> Does anyone know how to activate 'cookies' on the Samsung Galaxy J7 and 
> Galaxy A25 5G phones, or any other phones?
> 
> (I'm not talking about tracking cookies.)
> 
> At least I think these little hidden tricks were called cookies.  They 
> weren't well known, but were put on the phones by the developers, and
> one had to press or swipe different settings (usually in 'about phone')
> in a certain order to get the cookie to present itself.  One was a
> kaleidoscope effect, and an other was a dancing bear.

Ah, I just found the one on the Galaxy J7.  Settings>About phone>Software
information> and keep tapping Android version 

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#156265

Anon wrote:

> Does anyone know how to activate 'cookies' on the Samsung Galaxy J7 and
> Galaxy A25 5G phones, or any other phones?
> 
> (I'm not talking about tracking cookies.)
> 
> At least I think these little hidden tricks were called cookies.  

sounds like you mean "easter eggs"?

depends what version of android you have, try
Settings > About phone > Android version

then keep pressing the android version entry like a madman until 
something happens ...

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#156267

Andy Burns wrote:
> sounds like you mean "easter eggs"?
> 
> depends what version of android you have, try
> Settings > About phone > Android version
> 
> then keep pressing the android version entry like a madman until 
> something happens ...
 
Long ago I debloated my phone by listing all packages & then googling what
each package did such that removing com.android.egg stops that nonsense.

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.egg

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#156269

On 10/4/26 11:59, Maria Sophia wrote:
> Andy Burns wrote:
>> sounds like you mean "easter eggs"?
>>
>> depends what version of android you have, try
>> Settings > About phone > Android version
>>
>> then keep pressing the android version entry like a madman until
>> something happens ...
>   
> Long ago I debloated my phone by listing all packages & then googling what
> each package did such that removing com.android.egg stops that nonsense.
> 
> adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.egg

Can I uninstall Android system Easter Eggs?

Android system easter eggs are built-in, lightweight features included 
by the operating system developers. Because they are integrated into the 
system software itself rather than installed as separate applications, 
you cannot uninstall or remove them.

That's the answer from "Ask Play" on my Pixel.

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-easter-eggs-818694/ says:
The Easter egg app is a system app, so you’ll require root access to 
uninstall it. Deleting system apps is not recommended, so we advise 
users against interfering with the Easter egg app.

There are easter egg apps from the Play Store. Maybe you removed an app 
that Samsung gave you. Maybe you did remove Android's integrated egg. 
Your phones are probably broken but you don't want to tell us about that.

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#156270

Old McDonald wrote:
>> Long ago I debloated my phone by listing all packages & then googling what
>> each package did such that removing com.android.egg stops that nonsense.
>> 
>> adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.egg
> 
> Can I uninstall Android system Easter Eggs?

Of course you can uninstall (almost?) anything on the phone.
It's perhaps dangerous to remove "some" things. 

But not this superfluous thing.
 # Uninstall the Easter Egg package for the current user
 adb shell pm   uninstall --user 0 com.android.egg

In fact, the way I debloated my Android was the following sequence:
 1. adb listed all the packages & I googled for what they did
 2. adb removed the ones I didn't want
 3. If that screwed up the system, adb put them back

Note that luckily, for system apps, you can *always* put them back.
 adb shell cmd package install-existing com.android.egg
 
But without root (or Shizuku in some instances), you can't remove it from
the system partition, which is what your response was actually telling you.

Note: Once I used Shizuku to wipe out the Samsung TTS files off the system
partition of my unrootable (USA-spec) Samsung & that I couldn't put back,
so the moral of the story is regular adb (without Shizuku) won't hurt you.

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