Unwanted TTS Voice languages

[Sonora]

I don't know when it happened, but I definitely know that I bought S24 ultra without TTS voice languages. A few months ago, without my knowledge and permission, Hindu, Russian, Polish, Mexican Spanish, Vietnamese and Thai TTS voice languages ​​were installed on my ultra. And now they are in the system and I can neither disable nor uninstall them. That's the behavior of malicious programs, these languages are completely unnecessary and useless, why is Samsung forcing this nonsense, it should have been an option, not a coercion. 

When I want to report unwanted language, Google warns me that the website apps-support-samsung.com is suspicious and that it is not sure that it is from Samsung. Google says that the reasons for suspicion can be the following - the page is private, or it is new, or it is rarely used visits.

[kakha_k]

I do not rber for 100 percent but yes, I think I did updates before I deleted all the unnecessary languages by Shizuku+Wireless debugging+SD Maid SE.

The main thing is that there is nothing wrong with updating unnecessary languages. So, why not give it a try?

Yes, of course, I have full, purchased version of SD Maid SE.

But I'm not trying to persuade you to buy the full version. Never, ever.

[SteveSimons]

So I understood what was the issue. It's a bit tricky.

I both updated all the languages in Samsung Shop and purchased SD Maid SE Pro and still was NOT seeing the languages in the AppControl as you mentioned so to remove them.

The thing that it is needed to happen is to not only update the languages in Samsung Shop, but to go to the Language Packs menu in the phone settings and update them, as downloading them from the Samsung Shop only installs the main base language pack.

Once the languages are also updated in the Language Packs menu in the phone settings, you will be able to see them in SD Maid with all the tricks you mention.

Now you can delete everything and end up with now seeing new languages to be installed in the Samsung Shop updates list.

For each language you will see 2 files in the AppControl menu, so I imagine that one is the base file downloaded from the Samsung Shop, and the other one is the update downloaded from updating the languages directly from the Language Packs menu in the phone settings.

Removing both, you will still end up in seeing the languages in the Language Packs menu but marked as they should be updated. If you hit update, they will be updated and download both files (that will be seeing again in AppControl list in SD Maid SE Pro). If you don't touch anything, you will have nothing in AppControl and not see them as updates in Samsung Shop, ending up in not having any extra TTS language in both phone and Samsung Shop updates list.

Ps:  The only doubt that I have is that maybe the 2 files that I see in the AppControl list are indeed the update files for that language, and that the base language downloaded from Samsung Shop updates is stored somewhere else, ending up in still having the language somewhere in the phone memory, meaning that it could possibly be that to remove the language you should remove them from the Language Packs menu in the phone settings, but you will end up in having them relisted in the Samsung Shop updates for future updates.

Hope this helps clarify.

[kakha_k]

Sorry, but no. What you have said, it's mainly only theory.

Everything was that simple. As I've said, I removed unwanted language packs as I described very above. After many many months they never relisted anywhere. Not in GALAXY store, not anywhere else.

[SteveSimons]

I practically did the same as you, and I don't have them in my Samsung Shop update list just like you... But if you go in the Language Packs menu in the phone settings you will see them all over there still marked as they need an update now.

If you go in the Delete menu on the top right and select and delete the extra languages , you will not see the extra languages in the Language Packs menu list anymore, but they will pop up again in the Samsung Store updates list again.

If you go and install all the updates again from Samsung Store, they will come up again in the Language Pack menu, marked as they need to be updated, just as you end up the same way as you do all you thing.

What I think is happening here (and YES it is only a theory as I don't have any proof) is that I think Samsung could force you to have those extra languages installed, meaning that you install them from the Samsung Store and they ares stored somewhere invisible to me, and that the only thing you could do is to avoid installing single language updates to reduce overall space usage.

[SuperMatt]

No,  you can't. I've tried that. It does not work. 

[knsrtl]

What worked for me was

1. installing them through the Samsung Store "Update" [2. maybe optional: go to Settings, General Management, Language packs. Update the language(s) once more there]

2. Go to Settings, Apps, find all unwanted TTS apps and disable them

3. Go back to the Language packs settings and remove them again.

The store shouldn't show the TTS apps as updates again