/system/app/MonkeyScript.apk
/system/app/MonkeyScript.odex

What are these? Did Kyocera goof and leave a development/testing app on the phone?

 

Not quite true, the search results for "monkeyscript.apk" show this post. Most useful Google search EVAR.

If someone has a Rise or Hydro (if that has it too) to guineapig removing those files I'd sure like to know what happens. My phone is my daily driver though so I can't guineapig it like that.

 

As part of learning a new trick this monkey decompiled MonkeyScript.apk and MonkeyScript.odex and just for kicks recompiled it to a deodexed apk too, and attached it to this reply.

Ook. Ook.

edit: Now all I need to do is learn Java/Dalvik to figure out what the hell any of it is, right? ;p

 

This github repo is for that thing, I don't think it's related.

I don't know crap about Java, but looking at the baksmali'd source for MonkeyScript.odex it looks to my untrained and inexperienced eye like it is in fact the android Monkey put to practice.

In other words a stress test app the Kyocera devs were using and forgot to take out of the production build. OOPSIE.

edit: Their version of it anyway, the actual Monkey is a built-in Android binary that generates kind-of-random events to test apps with. This is it and it's supposed to be there. The Kyocera MonkeyScript is I think their version of a Monkey that tests the hardware and software as a whole, and it's definitely not a standard Android app.

 

Seems pretty clear that it is what I think it is. It should be safe to remove it. Who wants to find out the hard way? ;p

 

I don't think so, ##33284# brings up the debug menu but wants MSL which I don't have yet. ##3282# brings up the data menu where you can view but not edit without that MSL.

There's a code searcher thing in the market, "Secret Codes Revealer" is the name, that checks all the installed apks for USSD codes and it didn't show one for this MonkeyScript package.

edit: Unless you know what you're doing DO NOT execute any of the codes that app brings up. You could wipe all your data or possibly even brick your phone.

 

Unfortunately that appears to be for a WinMo phone. I'll poke at it but not having one of those phones may be an issue.

The MSL/SPC apps in the market don't work, not any of them. There is no ril.MSL on the Rise which is what most of them read out.

For the hell of it I tried "getprop | MSL" in a terminal. Expected it not to work, wasn't disappointed.