Question Why are there My Cricket and Cricket Partners apps installed as system apps on my AT&T phone that was bought as an AT&T phone brand new?

[Sdub74]

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[mustang7757]

Welcome to AC!
They are owned by Att so there is something possible to do with that .

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Where did you buy it? Directly from AT&T, or from some 3rd party like through Amazon?

 

[Sdub74]

Welcome to Android Central! Where did you buy it? Directly from AT&T, or from some 3rd party like through Amazon?

I bought it from Walmart but it came in an AT&T package

 

[Sdub74]

Welcome to AC!
They are owned by Att so there is something possible to do with that .

I could understand AT&T applications being on a cricket phone because AT&T owns cricket but I cannot understand the smaller company apps being on AT&t's. They're still two separate companies.

 

[Sdub74]

Welcome to AC!
They are owned by Att so there is something possible to do with that .

And what was really crazy was that the my cricket app had permissions to do everything from transferring files to turning on and off the Bluetooth to turning on and off Wi-Fi reading files and changing settings. You could also record audio video I mean there was absolutely no way to uninstall it or to disable it and it wouldn't let me take it off of using a high battery percentage. I don't think that is normal on an AT&T phone for there to be cricket apps.

 

[mustang7757]

I could understand AT&T applications being on a cricket phone because AT&T owns cricket but I cannot understand the smaller company apps being on AT&t's. They're still two separate companies.

And what was really crazy was that the my cricket app had permissions to do everything from transferring files to turning on and off the Bluetooth to turning on and off Wi-Fi reading files and changing settings. You could also record audio video I mean there was absolutely no way to uninstall it or to disable it and it wouldn't let me take it off of using a high battery percentage. I don't think that is normal on an AT&T phone for there to be cricket apps.

Take it up with Att customer service

 

[B. Diddy]

It may be that AT&T preinstalled the apps to move between AT&T and Cricket easily, and since they're part of the same company, it was felt to be a reasonable thing for them to do. As mustang7757 suggests, you can complain to AT&T about it.