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A debloated phone, a broken sports island and the app built to fix it
Claude debloated a Chinese-brand phone over adb, broke the live scores in the camera island, then built a replacement scores app.
Credits
- Reddit poster Fun_Dot1592 Source ↗
- Repository account hyperchat99999 Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
Debloating a phone can remove apps that a feature you care about quietly depends on, so keep the restore script handy.
The full story
The poster handed a phone full of preinstalled apps, ads and a lock-screen magazine to Claude Code, working over adb with no root. Claude listed every package, decided what was safe to remove, removed it and wrote a restore script.
One thing broke: live sports scores in the camera "island", which depended on one of the removed apps. Claude pulled apart the system UI to see how the island picks up notifications and built a replacement from scratch showing live football, cricket and US sports scores and F1 timing, as a roughly 150 KB APK. It tested it on its own emulator (354 checks, no failures), and a second pass with Codex caught further issues.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Claude debloated my phone, broke the one feature I cared about, then built me an app to bring it bacReddit poster: Fun_Dot1592Posted
The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.
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- The code: github.comRepository account: hyperchat99999
The project on GitHub.