Mobitv shutting down howard forums is xda next - General Topics

Did you see whats happening on Howard Forums. Apparently this could happen here.
Basically this is what happening. It turns out Mobitv stores links to their feeds in a plain text file that anyone with internet access can view. Apparently viewing this text file is considered 'hacking'. These feeds do not appear to be protected in an anyway and it appears anyone with a compatible phone can view them.
http://www.howardforums.com/announcement.php?f=157
Could The Moderator Please move this to the right forum. thanks in advance.

thats mobitvs own fault for being so stupid not using security

cuboosh said:
thats mobitvs own fault for being so stupid not using security
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What? I don't get what u mean

So wait what happened with MobitTV? I'm behind...

mobitv is trying to shut down howard forums for someone posting a glitch in mobitv's security and somehow thats ho-fo's fault

First of all, I don't know how this is related to Kaiser upgrade, but, anyway, after reading through their conversation, it is clear that MobiTV asked Howard to remove the links just like how Microsoft asked to remove ROMs from this website long time ago. I understand how one could think that those links are not violating anything but if the company already said so and is just asking to remove the links, then why not? Why escalate it?

Sorry about posting in the wrong thread but i asked the mod to move it to the right one.

Nah, it'll never happen to XDA. The mods here cave in pretty easy.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=309844&page=26

larsuck said:
Nah, it'll never happen to XDA. The mods here cave in pretty easy.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=309844&page=26
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Yeah, fight for our rights XDA-Developer Mods!!
p.s. don't ban me.

MobiTV is not trying to shut down Howard Forums, they are trying to get certain posts removed.

Am I the only one who finds it sad the president of Mobi-TV doesn't know the difference between site and sight?

BBowermaster said:
Am I the only one who finds it sad the president of Mobi-TV doesn't know the difference between site and sight?
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maybe he doesn't know English very well? There are a lot of english speaking people who don't know the difference between their, there, and they're!

Updated
Howard, great catching up today. Again, we're big fans of the sight and our intention was never to bring your entire sight down or to "censor the Internet" like we're being accused. The irony is that is quite the opposite type of company we are and as one of the leaders in new media, we couldn't be more supportive of the rights of sights like yours. Please know that our first priority is always to fix any security issues with our system and we're doing that. Additionally, we also have a responsibility to our content and carrier partners to reduce the impact of any breaches to the system once they occur and that was really the basis for the correspondence you had with our legal team.
I look forward to continuing to find interesting and vibrant insights from HowardForums.
Best regards,
Paul Scanlan
Cofounder, President
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Seems like they backed down

This glitch is the reason we dont have Sprint TV on our Moguls FYI.

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Igo8 3d Navigation

Happy to report i just got my hand on north american maps and this program works a charm on the kaiser. Only thing we need now is fm for rds tmz.
***MOD EDIT***
Link to warez site removed.
how big are the map files? I have the older igo and the usa maps take up about 1.8 gigs.
somehow I don't think posting a WAREZ site is with site policy...
lcohen999 said:
somehow I don't think posting a WAREZ site is with site policy...
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Do you want a tissue? Cause you sound like your about to cry...
Classy, very classy
Have fun when you are banned
lcohen999 said:
Classy, very classy
Have fun when you are banned
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why would you even try to be a tattle tail... people like you really annouy me. If you don't like what the guy posted stay out of his thread. Instead your all tryin to be some hero or something.
your really smart man...
SDatl404 said:
why would you even try to be a tattle tail... people like you really annouy me. If you don't like what the guy posted stay out of his thread. Instead your all tryin to be some hero or something.
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grow up, its not about being a "tattle tail" its about keeping this forum alive and problem free, to help develop xda devices. Creating problems via copy right issues is not the way to go for this great forum. Finding web sites with illegal software is very easy, but this web site is not about that, so relax!! and learn to spell.
Does igo8 use different maps then the previous version?
SDatl404 said:
why would you even try to be a tattle tail... people like you really annouy me. If you don't like what the guy posted stay out of his thread. Instead your all tryin to be some hero or something.
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First of all he isnt tattling... this post wasnt even reported, but us mods and admins do read these forums as well... Second of all he was letting the OP know that posting warez or links to warez site's is prohibited. XDA does not support warez nor condone the use of them.
ahson said:
grow up, its not about being a "tattle tail" its about keeping this forum alive and problem free, to help develop xda devices. Creating problems via copy right issues is not the way to go for this great forum. Finding web sites with illegal software is very easy, but this web site is not about that, so relax!! and learn to spell.
Does igo8 use different maps then the previous version?
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Oh give me a break. Like any agency cares whats going on in this forum. LoL I have a song for you bro....
Sleep with the window open
Sleep till tomorrow
Be my hero
"Be without being lonely
Try to open
We try to open
Hoping for a hero
I want something
I want everything
I want nothing
Nothing else
I want someone
Not just anyone
Be my hero
Keep what is secret
Secret
We can believe it
Be my hero"
I have igo8 + italy map + 3D italy buildings active + pois + WEST EUROPE DEM File (to view 3d terrain, ~300Mb) on my kaiser....
It goes a little slow, a pause every 1,5 sec...
SDatl404 said:
Oh give me a break. Like any agency cares whats going on in this forum...
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Actually the agencies DO care - that's why the Hermes Forum had to remove a lot of the shipped rom downloads to prevent the site being closed, chefs have to re-cook their roms to remove non-freeware apps etc, etc.
We all know people use the warez sites, but to keep THIS forum open we have rules which we must follow. If you don't like it or want to get mouthy that's your choice, but you'll end up being banned or no one helping you when you have problems.
I merely stated that the new igo works well and looks great, the site i linked to is not a warez site as there is no programs to download from that site Please remove my post if you feel that strongly about it.
Also i don't care if it is illegal or not i will try out a program before i buy it. Otherwise i would have thrown out over a grand on **** navigation software like navigon, route66 and so on
Don't visit the site if you don't agree!!!!!
Also i would like you all to know that TomTom sold over 40 times because of my recommendation and so will igo8 once their poi's have more coverage and once their traffic updates can be received through data connection.
XDA-developers is a great website to say the least and i would never consciously jeopardize their operation i do not feel that the link i posted pointed towards a warezsite especially since a simple google search pulls up that very same site and google has tried their utmost to keep from displaying such sites (officially)
I personally strongly believe that if you are going to use a software title (no matter pc, pda or elsewhere) you should buy it as a lot of hard working people rely on the income!
However this beeing said in todays market there is too much crap software floating around and there is no way of getting your money back for software you don't want to or can't use so we have to let each other know what works and what doesn't and IGO8 works as opposed to all other navigation programs except TomTom which is all i really wanted to say here!
SDatl404 said:
why would you even try to be a tattle tail... people like you really annouy me. If you don't like what the guy posted stay out of his thread. Instead your all tryin to be some hero or something.
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Just Ban him- The world would be a better place with 1 less idiot.
manimore, sent you a PM
duncstar said:
manimore, sent you a PM
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says in you sig that you use garmin xt, does that run smoothly for you bc it doesn't for me and other then that it is quite nice. Still no competition to TomTom but better then most.
Garmin
manimore said:
says in you sig that you use garmin xt, does that run smoothly for you bc it doesn't for me and other then that it is quite nice. Still no competition to TomTom but better then most.
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Yeh Garmin mobile XT runs really well, no problems at all. Its the maps that do it for me, they are just so much more beautiful than tomtoms, and the POIs are massive, its got my local pub in there!!
Your right though, no competition to tomtom, still the best. But you dont know unless you try..
iGo 8 3D
Got it installed, but its well buggy, might wait for the official release
Or try again?
duncstar said:
...the POIs are massive, its got my local pub in there!!...
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Funny - finding my local has never been a problem, it's finding the way home after 11pm that I struggle with...!
full test results
After a significant testrun it is well buggy with missed phonecalls during navigation and sound lost and trouble exiting.
Once again proves the point of trying before buying
Hopefully the full release will cure these issues because it is fantastic piece of software!
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Just Ban him- The world would be a better place with 1 less idiot.
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If you ban this douchebag... atleast we wont have to look at the lame pictures in his profile.

XDA FTP down? (Yes it is - read the Announcement!!)

ive been trying to download the latest radios for WM 6.1 I keep getting a 404 when I click on any of the links provided. Is anyone else having this problem?
jspetrino said:
ive been trying to download the latest radios for WM 6.1 I keep getting a 404 when I click on any of the links provided. Is anyone else having this problem?
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Just a suggestion, you might want to read the announcment on all of the Forums by Flar...
This is on the front page and at the top of the kaiser forum stickies
http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=378
ah, well i guess i have to wait to get my latest WWE radio... are there mirrors anywhere?
jspetrino said:
ah, well i guess i have to wait to get my latest WWE radio... are there mirrors anywhere?
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This goes beyond just not searching... At this point you're not even reading. There are several radio rom posts in this forum.
Mods: Please shut down this waste of space thread.
Well it had to happen, in fairness, I know announcements are sometimes overlooked. Maybe they should be in 72pt extra large BOLD or something.
Actually I think I will leave this thread to drift around, just in case others fail to see the announcement. It will save folks having to answer if others have the same question.
Mike
mikechannon said:
Well it had to happen, in fairness, I know announcements are sometimes overlooked. Maybe they should be in 72pt extra large BOLD or something.
Mike
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I think the 72pt font also needs to flashing and changing colors to really get people attention...because obviously reading is a lost art in this day and age.
AllTheWay said:
I think the 72pt font also needs to flashing and changing colors to really get people attention...because obviously reading is a lost art in this day and age.
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Well, maybe not so, AllTheWay. I mean I feel kind of sorry for the poor guy. I mean, obviously he can't read and he has such a nice device. I can only imagine what contract he signed for his cellular service. It probably has an ETF of his first born or a kidney or something.
Maybe if the default announcements would show as a PM notice (that couldn't be turned off until a user hit's x number of posts) with a sexy man or woman (don't want to discriminate ) that reads the announcement with word highlighting for the user to follow along with. Maybe then people will actually read...
Or maybe not.
most people nowaday prefer to ask questions and want to get answer right there. They dont read anymore, not even skim/scan. Next time if you have an announcement, create a flash movie with audio that speaks what you want and put it up here. If they dont read the word in the flash movie, they could still hear.

Radio ROM 1651406

Qui posto il link
Solo RADIO
ROM e RADIO
i'dont have the kaiser. sorry
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For the reasons read the following post
Why are you releasing my ROM in a different file with "TEST" at the end? This pretends that it's an official HTC release or something.
You even copied the extra space that I mistakenly put in my Thread in my protocol version (25.81 .40.02H) instead of (25.81.40.02H). And, my updates and startup logo are in the ROM.
This I do not like very much...
AllTheWay and myself have had the radios on our 4shared sites since they came out. Sounds like he might have got it from the place we don't speak of.
thats one of the problems with Xda these days anything you put up is subject to people stealing and calling there own. Start taking out some rgu files so people can't recook what you make. I have stopped posting my roms here period its a nother sad day around here...
Thi has to be a joke. I cant imagine whats in the head of these guys who steals stuff, repost it and claim its their stuff. Thats insane.
I wonder if he didn't just get it from PPCW and post it here. Maybe he is not claiming it as his is what I am saying. Maybe thought he was just providing a service to everyone here by posting. HELL, I don't know, maybe he is reposting as his. Who knows.
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I wonder if he didn't just get it from PPCW and post it here. Maybe he is not claiming it as his is what I am saying. Maybe thought he was just providing a service to everyone here by posting. HELL, I don't know, maybe he is reposting as his. Who knows.
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Maybe yes, but it has the same name as NoThrills rom.
I accidentally found these links
I have posted them here even if I do not have interest because I have the trinity.
What is the problem?
Copyright?
I have made here for the good of the community.
Thank you for your kindness.
confortable costumer said:
I accidentally found these links
I have posted them here even if I do not have interest because I have the trinity.
What is the problem?
Copyright?
I have made here for the good of the community.
Thank you for your kindness.
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I just found it odd that someone would try this just after NoThrills released it. This proves to me he/she had good intentions. No harm no foul in my book.
confortable costumer said:
I accidentally found these links
I have posted them here even if I do not have interest because I have the trinity.
What is the problem?
Copyright?
I have made here for the good of the community.
Thank you for your kindness.
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If you're not to blame, you're not to blame. Could you tell me where you got this links though?
The main problem I have right now is that there have been over 1500+ downloads of my ROM, over 30,000 thread views, people are very pleased with it (generally speaking), and I have only seen 7 donations so far.
Out of which, 5 people are Germans! And then people still say that Germans aren't kind Furthermore there is one English person and one Greek person who have donated.
Seriously though, the donations are not important. However, it does bother me when I see my ROM, which I intentionally left 'open' for other cooks to look at, used as basis for other ROMs, or distributed on Hong Kong BBS's, Dutch usenet groups, Arabian websites, and those people are not sent here for information/help/thankyou's/donations, so I know that more people are enjoying it.
I don't mind people using this ROM as a base ROM. I left this ROM 'open' for a reason. I'm not here to make money. Just give credit where credit is due, that's all.
I don't want to cripple my ROMs so you can't easily re-cook them anymore, but I see it might be a neccesity.
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I just found it odd that someone would try this just after NoThrills released it. This proves to me he/she had good intentions. No harm no foul in my book.
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i absolutely agree. he didnt make a big bragging post about it. it seemed that he really put it here, just in case it would be of use to us. as he said, "i dont have a kaiser" at the bottom of his post. he seemed sincere about the fact he was just trying to help. dont kill the guy
NoThrills said:
If you're not to blame, you're not to blame. Could you tell me where you got this links though?
The main problem I have right now is that there have been over 1500+ downloads of my ROM, over 30,000 thread views, people are very pleased with it (generally speaking), and I have only seen 7 donations so far.
Out of which, 5 people are Germans! And then people still say that Germans aren't kind Furthermore there is one English person and one Greek person who have donated.
Seriously though, the donations are not important. However, it does bother me when I see my ROM, which I intentionally left 'open' for other cooks to look at, used as basis for other ROMs, or distributed on Hong Kong BBS's, Dutch usenet groups, Arabian websites, and those people are not sent here for information/help/thankyou's/donations, so I know that more people are enjoying it.
I don't mind people using this ROM as a base ROM. I left this ROM 'open' for a reason. I'm not here to make money. Just give credit where credit is due, that's all.
I don't want to cripple my ROMs so you can't easily re-cook them anymore, but I see it might be a neccesity.
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It is on the PPCW site.
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Nicely put kwill. ****, he probably didn't even know who cooked it so that he might give them credit. No-one has been harmed that I can see.
@NoThrills
Most are lurkers and not helpers/givers. Did you really expect to recieve a slew of donations? Most around here take take take and never give.
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Now that is crap in my book. The man just copied the links over from PPCW, hell yes I looked to verify it so sue me, and he gets abused for trying to help out. This forum has turned to ****.
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For the reasons read the following post
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Thanks for removing the links, I don't blame you at all
so lets jump all over the guy/girl for trying to give back. what a crock of ****.
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see my post above. it is verified. this is **** in my book.
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@NoThrills
Most are lurkers and not helpers/givers. Did you really expect to recieve a slew of donations? Most around here take take take and never give.
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No, like I said, the donations are not important. A thank-you post is enough, but with all these 'custom' releases, people are not being redirected to XDA-Developers.
There's a reason I put a password on the file and only put the password on this board
But I do find it puzzling to see that over 900 WWE downloads, only 2 people donated, and for a 'lousy' 200 GER downloads, 5 people donated. Germans are cool in my book
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Now that is crap in my book. The man just copied the links over from PPCW, hell yes I looked to verify it so sue me, and he gets abused for trying to help out. This forum has turned to ****.
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I already sent the guy a PM telling him thanks for removing the links, and making clear I don't blame him at all. Just like I posted here.
NoThrills said:
No, like I said, the donations are not important. A thank-you post is enough, but with all these 'custom' releases, people are not being redirected to XDA-Developers.
There's a reason I put a password on the file and only put the password on this board
But I do find it puzzling to see that over 900 WWE downloads, only 2 people donated, and for a 'lousy' 200 GER downloads, 5 people donated. Germans are cool in my book
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I understand but the links he provided were from PPCW which is where over half of the stock roms come from around here. How the hell was he supposed to know who cooked it, if the link actually pointed to a cooked rom and not a stock rom, and everyone jumped all over him and all he was doing was trying to give back.
EDit:
please dont think i am jumping on you NoThrills. My rant has not been pointed at you at all. I just cant believe we demonized the guy and he was trying to give back.
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I understand but the links he provided were from PPCW which is where over half of the stock roms come from around here. How the hell was he supposed to know who cooked it, if the link actually pointed to a cooked rom and not a stock rom, and everyone jumped all over him and all he was doing was trying to give back.
EDit:
please dont think i am jumping on you NoThrills. My rant has not been pointed at you at all. I just cant believe we demonized the guy and he was trying to give back.
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Let's call it the nature of the beast. There has been a lot of BS going on in this forum now a days, and some of us are reactionary because of this. That's why we're all human guys we make mistakes now and then, I'm sure the OP understands this, we're all just trying to protect an original piece of work and give credit where credit is due. Sh*t Happens.
Ok, I'm confused.
NoThrills releases the same rom on PPCW with the radio and all named the same. Then, someone comes along, trying to be nice and give back and we jump them. Then NoThrills gets upset because no credit has been given and the donations don't add up like he/she wants. If the credit or the donations is what NoThrills was after then why not post on XDA only instead of posting to XDA and PPCW? Makes no sense to me. Please someone clarify for me.
austinsnyc said:
thats one of the problems with Xda these days anything you put up is subject to people stealing and calling there own. Start taking out some rgu files so people can't recook what you make. I have stopped posting my roms here period its a nother sad day around here...
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Say it isn't so!!!
So we should not expect any more masterful ROM's by you!
P1Tater said:
Ok, I'm confused.
NoThrills releases the same rom on PPCW with the radio and all named the same. Then, someone comes along, trying to be nice and give back and we jump them. Then NoThrills gets upset because no credit has been given and the donations don't add up like he/she wants. If the credit or the donations is what NoThrills was after then why not post on XDA only instead of posting to XDA and PPCW? Makes no sense to me. Please someone clarify for me.
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Excuse me? I never have even *been* to PPCW! Why on earth would I post my ROM there? I love discovering stuff that sparks my interest. That is why I have visited XDA-Developers for years now. NoThrills is my alter ego because I need a disguise if I release these ROMs. I do *not* condone any way of piracy, hell, I have licenses for every single piece of software on my computer, mediacenter, laptop, etc.
I do not care for the donations. It's fun to get, true, but I am also very amazed at the size of some donations. $1/€1 is plenty, while some people (yes, I'm looking at you Germans and Greeks) are sending me amounts of €20,- or more. I did not expect that.
But back to the issue, because there is too much focus on the donations, which are not important here!
The point that got me 'upset' is that people are distributing these files everywhere, modified and all.
Why do you think the password is "i got this file from xda-developers.com" ?
Why do you think my compressed .exe says "Go to xda-developers.com for the password"?
Because I want people to come to this community. I want people to contribute to this community. I want people's minds sparked just like this forum has sparked mine. Don't you think that if it was all about the donations, I wouldn't have 'protected' my ROM for cooking?

[Q] CyberBounty.com is reliable?

Hello,
I've just been contacted from this Amy Kassar from CyberBounty.com... anyone has already worked with them? Are they reliable?
Many thanks
tiwiz said:
Hello,
I've just been contacted from this Amy Kassar from CyberBounty.com... anyone has already worked with them? Are they reliable?
Many thanks
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Just putting my opinion out there.
I have never herd of them before,
and I'm big into the tech world.
Advice.. tread lightly
nett0 said:
Just putting my opinion out there.
I have never herd of them before,
and I'm big into the tech world.
Advice.. tread lightly
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I never heard about them either, but I'm new in the AD world... I'm trying to take a look at their web reputation and I found something encouraging but I'm not really sure about them...
Cyberbounty is NOT a reliable company
No Cyberbounty is not a reliable company, they have a tainted reputation in the market and many have their payment pending with them. I'm not posting any links here, as might be against the forum rules, so you can check it in the Google itself, just search for the company name and go through the few links in the page 1.

Question Can somebody please look at this code and tell me what is wrong with my phone?

Root file system - https://ibb.co/0DN4PR1
One of many, many suspicious files - https://ibb.co/VNGwr1S
I have been through numerous phones and the problems persist. It always starts with multiple Google authentication SMS texts. The a DCB authentication text. Then the entire file system end up looking like alphabet soup. I can't code but I can read, and I fear my device is affecting others devices. If anybody has knowledge in coding could you please take a look, especially at the second link I posted? There are files and folders that I know don't belong. Thanks.
this post is really strange, before requesting others to open suspicious links, what exactly are you asking for? this is fishy…
It's just screenshots., it's an image sharing site. I'm just asking if somebody can take a look at the code and tell me wtf is going on with my phone, and my life for that matter. Literally every single thing I own is ruined. I cannot flash, I cannot reinstall OS's. My router us fuct. It started in 2019 and I've been through more devices than I can count. I can't even begin to tell the story but it all dtarted when a guy that lived in my apartment hacked my S9 and gaming PC and was using the devices to order drugs to the residence.
I'm really just trying to find somebody, anybody that will look at what I'm looking at and try to find any sort of possible solution. My life has been completly destroyed.
Sorry for the rant, but, anyways, they're just large screenshots that are too big to post.
I think you would get a better response by actually posting the screen shot instead of posting a link. Especially after what you said your roommate used you account for. Nobody wants to click on a link that they have no idea what may happen.
butchieboy said:
I think you would get a better response by actually posting the screen shot instead of posting a link. Especially after what you said your roommate used you account for. Nobody wants to click on a link that they have no idea what may happen.
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