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I assume that the phone was rooted, since you managed to delete a system app. I also assume that you don't have a backup (Titanium Backup or a nandroid, for example). If one or other of those assumptions is not correct then please say, because there will be other solutions (if you have a backup, restore it. If you aren't rooted you shouldn't be able to actually uninstall a system app, so maybe just try rebooting the phone). BTW if you are rooted and fiddling with the system at all you really should take a backup before you start.

You can find the apk for Google's Daydream VR app here. I assume that is the "Daydream" you mean, since there are other apps of that name. You could try just installing that and seeing whether it works. I expect that that will install it as a user app, but if it works then why worry about that. If it needs to be installed as a system app you could try using Titanium Backup to convert it to one.

Another option is just to reflash the phone with stock software. I'm not familiar with that model so can't tell you where to find this or how to do it, but if you've rooted the phone you hopefully know that already (because rooting without working out how you'd fix the phone if something went wrong is asking for trouble).

On the other hand, Daydream has been discontinued, so do you actually need it? Sooner or later you'll need to get used to life without it, as your next phone won't have it.
 
And I did not root the device....I uninstalled at my Phone Master app area.... Further more, the app and among others such as android sheared library, double cutout etc are not visible on apps area, and even they don't appear among system apps on Xender.
 
I've been using Android for 11 years and never heard of a "Phone Master app area". Is this some Infinix thing?

If you were able to remove Daydream without rooting the phone then either (a) the phone came already rooted, or (b) it was not actually installed in the /system partition. If the latter then just downloading the apk and installing it should be fine. Be careful where you download from - the link I provided is to a site that's generally pretty safe, but downloading apks from random websites and installing them is very risky.
 
Okay... The Phone Master app is a system file manager app.
But it seems you have not verify the particular system apps I'm talking of about... To locate or discover such apps on your android phone, go to settings and scroll up or search App manager----- click on App settings----- and at your top right corner, click on more options button, then finally click on Show system apps. After the process, all apps on your android phone will be listed both user's and system apps.
Those apps am talking about have the same image or logo.
Their image is the same image you see during the process of data factory reset...
These system apps can be deleted or uninstalled without rooting the device.... Please check and assist me to install the deleted daydream app if you can do so.
 
markatta07 said:
Okay... The Phone Master app is a system file manager app.
But it seems you have not verify the particular system apps I'm talking of about... To locate or discover such apps on your android phone, go to settings and scroll up or search App manager----- click on App settings----- and at your top right corner, click on more options button, then finally click on Show system apps. After the process, all apps on your android phone will be listed both user's and system apps.
Those apps am talking about have the same image or logo.
Their image is the same image you see during the process of data factory reset...
These system apps can be deleted or uninstalled without rooting the device.... Please check and assist me to install the deleted daydream app if you can do so.
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OK, so "Phone Master" is Infinix's file manager app. Fair enough, if you've only used their phones you won't know that it's not a general Android app.

As for the rest, yes, that's how you make the system Apps settings include system apps in the list. BUT the apps that have a generic icon (which varies with Android version, and possibly manufacturer) are not necessarily system apps that can be uninstalled without rooting, On my phone (Pixel 2, Android 11) all of them offer "Force Stop" and "Disable" or just "Force Stop" (with Disable greyed-out) as the only options. This includes "Basic Daydream", which is the closest to the Daydream app I have installed. So if your phone allows you to uninstall them it isn't like most Android phones, and that's where the confusion is coming from.

As for re-installing, my only suggestions are those I've already made: find the apk at a safe site like apkmirror.com or apkpure.com (where I linked a Daydream apk from in an earlier post), or else reflash the device (if you can get the firmware from somewhere).
 
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