Exiting from an unexitable app to get to the OS - General Topics

Hi guys,
A colleague of mine is currently looking into a win mob device and the security of it.
Upon startup, an applications auto starts that runs fullscreen.
This app does not have any exits buttons etc that allow you to exit the app to get to the underlying OS.
I know nothing of the hardware that it is being run on but need to know any short-cut keys, techniques, etc for breaking out of a "locked" environment that would be much appreciated.
One thing that came to mind was the possibility of rebooting the winmob device but preventing the app from autostarting.... is there anything like a winmob safe mode?
Cheers in advance

You could program one of the hardware buttons to take you to the "today" screen.

joemanb said:
You could program one of the hardware buttons to take you to the "today" screen.
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Except that would require you to be able to get to the settings in the first place.

phillips321 said:
Hi guys,
A colleague of mine is currently looking into a win mob device and the security of it.
Upon startup, an applications auto starts that runs fullscreen.
This app does not have any exits buttons etc that allow you to exit the app to get to the underlying OS.
I know nothing of the hardware that it is being run on but need to know any short-cut keys, techniques, etc for breaking out of a "locked" environment that would be much appreciated.
One thing that came to mind was the possibility of rebooting the winmob device but preventing the app from autostarting.... is there anything like a winmob safe mode?
Cheers in advance
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There are apps that do safemode but it doesn't sound like you're in a position to install any apps... you can try to connect to your PC and see if ActiveSync will connect and from there you can delete installed apps (assuming the thing popping up shows up on the apps list) and then try to reboot. Otherwise, just hard reset the device ands tart with a fresh OS.

You could make a program or link on an SD card in folder 2577, which should start automatically when inserted into the device.

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Phone Completely Messed Up

Okay, heres the problem im having, after the install of Manila 2.1 for my Fuze my phone's completely messed up. When I click anything on my screen it clicks something about 2 spaces down. For example on my WM 6.5 Unlock Screen, if I click a 3 it clicks the 9. I don't know what to do. I can't use my phone and its the same problem for everything: Games, Apps, Home Screen, etc.
Broman400 said:
Okay, heres the problem im having, after the install of Manila 2.1 for my Fuze my phone's completely messed up. When I click anything on my screen it clicks something about 2 spaces down. For example on my WM 6.5 Unlock Screen, if I click a 3 it clicks the 9. I don't know what to do. I can't use my phone and its the same problem for everything: Games, Apps, Home Screen, etc.
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So uninstall it. Did you flash manila for a different device?
No, I didn't flash the Manilla, it was a cab file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=542113
Have you tried re-aligning your screen?
Go to Settings/System/Screen and click align screen and follow the directions.
dwizzy130
I tried re-aligning but I do it, it moves to the next target thing, I finish and it re-starts the process.
EDIT: When I tap the target nothing happens, if I make a circle around it it goes to the next target but still restarts the process.
Broman400 said:
I tried re-aligning but I do it, it moves to the next target thing, I finish and it re-starts the process.
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Hmm.... I say backup and hard reset. I know no one likes to hear that but I think it's the only (and best way) to fix a problem like this.
dwizzy130
How do I backup my games and program? i got like 100+ games and apps. And save files for the games, and how could I remove Manilla 2.1, I tried and it said it wasn't successful.
i recommend sprite backup if u have it, and if u got a micro card with some extra space backup on there as well or transfer to ur computer via activesync and as far as uninstalling manila, have u disabled it from today screen and tried uninstalling again? might be the case....
Now I can't even unlock my phone, i click everywhere on my screen but the WM 6.5 Unlock Slide Bar doesn't click or slide.
I had the exact same problem a couple of weeks ago, screen was not aligned and the calibrate screen program just went round and round. The problem seemed to start when the phone ran flat, it wouldn't charge properly either (it intermittently showed the charging icon and took forever to get any kind of charge). In the end I turned the phone off and charged it over night and the next day the screen was fixed and the battery fully charged. I have not had a problem since.
How do I turn the phone off, I tried last night but I cant get passed the unlock screen and holding the power button doesn't work?
Broman400 said:
How do I turn the phone off, I tried last night but I cant get passed the unlock screen and holding the power button doesn't work?
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If I were you, I would hard reset then flash back to stock ROM, then see if your issue is resolved (which I am 99% certain it will be).
If you can get it to sync, your all set, if not you'll have to flash via SD card.
Also, obviously removing the battery will turn it off.
Id hard-reset but I got too much apps and games, and what'll happen to my saved game files?
Broman400 said:
Id hard-reset but I got too much apps and games, and what'll happen to my saved game files?
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They'll be all gone. That's why backing up regularly is a really good practice.
dwizzy130
Broman400 said:
Id hard-reset but I got too much apps and games, and what'll happen to my saved game files?
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Either that or you figure out how to uninstall the manila that hosed you up.
Do you install your aps to your SD card or device, if SD card, you're fine, if device, you will lose your data.
You could either have a brick full of games or a phone that is able to have games work again.
Use SKTools for uninstall. If that doesn't work, hard reset.
I got the games and apps and everything on my SD Card, but if I hard-reset itll remove them from my Games and Apps folders and they won't be in my Add/Remove Programs List. Any program back that up? I got SPB Backup but never used it.
SKTools is the only effective way I've found to uninstall Manila.
But, I can't even unlock my phone anymore, I click the Unlock Thing and it doesn't click and my computer doesn't find my phone.
Sync your phone and explore it with your computer... Grab whatever saved data you need... Then hard reset or flash another rom...

KforTouchPro problems.....

Hey guys, i've got a problem. First off, KforTouchPro works fine on my HTC Touch Pro, i can configure buttons fine for Morphgear, PocketGBA, SmartGear etc, it works wonderful. And as everyone that uses this app already knows, you have to switch the setting to MS IME before you launch your game emulator, or else you can't configure the keys. Well, my problem is, after i'm done playing a game, sometimes I forget to switch the setting back to default, and whenever i do a reset or shutoff my phone, it hangs at the screen right before it shows your homescreen and touchflo3d tabs.
Basically, for those that use EnergyROM, it hangs at the screen that shows you the black & blue background with the word EnergyROM 3.0 in the bottom left (or something like that, can't remember). That means you can't do anything at all, since there are no buttons etc for you to press as the home screen is not fully loaded, so basically you got a semi-bricked phone as no matter how many times i try to turn on the phone, it just hangs there, which results in me having to do a hard reset in the end.
To prevent this, you MUST restore the KforTouchPro setting back to the default setting, but sometimes ppl forget and this will cause a semi-bricked phone, which is very risky and quite dangerous.
So, is anyone else having the same problem as me?? Is there a solution to this??
And lastly, what's the difference between KforTouchPro and KforRaphael??

Is it safe to remove On Screen Phone 1.0

Hi
I use to uninstall/remove unwanted apps using Titanium Backup. I find an application "On Screen Phone 1.0". Is it safe to remove this app? What does this app do?
many thanks..
yes, it`s safe. This app is using to connect to your phone by someone from technical support if you have a problem.
LG On-Screen Phone
LG On-Screen Phone is a application to control your phone from your computer desktop dont know if it's safe to delete but saves you having to touch your phone when it's connected to your computer
feckineck said:
LG On-Screen Phone is a application to control your phone from your computer desktop dont know if it's safe to delete but saves you having to touch your phone when it's connected to your computer
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Before removing I backed it up and removed it. All i could feel is that the touch sense became more harder.. I do not see flying response... I reinstalled it and I could see the difference in screen response..
It may be just coincidence...

exiting out of android & back to windows

hey
just wondering if there was a way of exiting ANDROID OS and back into Windoze 6.5?
PLS NOTE i am not talking exiting an app.
I booted from WINDOWS and i want to go back into Windows after faffing around with Android.
TIA
You can't be so vague, maybe you should give us some background info such as what phone you have?
Am I right in guessing you have a HTC HD2? In that case, you should ask here.
it says it is a htc 8282 ... whatever that is ... when i connect it to windoze it says its a HTC dream
is it possible to exit android and back to windows.
the only way is to take out the battery as none of the buttons work, not even the power one
SOLVED IT in marketplace ... an app that reboots and powers off.
Pity they can just exit android and back to windows instead of rebooting
juzsayin said:
SOLVED IT in marketplace ... an app that reboots and powers off.
Pity they can just exit android and back to windows instead of rebooting
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Android is not running on top of windows. The app that runs Android reboots the phone before Android runs. (If it's like it was when I was first running Android on my HD2.)

After deleting all apps my phone does not work anymore

So first of all I have a S5 neo which I have rooted. I wanted to achieve that there is no way to access the data on the phone without physical access to it.
So I have everything with Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, LTE, UMTS or GSM unsoldered from the motherboard. It worked except for the problem that the phone only started in safe mode so I could not use my own apps.
First I updated Lineageos from the official 17.1 to the unofficial version 18.1 with this ROM https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...1-0-0_r49-lineageos-18-1-28-nov-2021.4292703/ .
Which in itself worked but it still starts in safe mode even when setting up.
Then I had the idea to uninstall system apps via TWRP. Since probably because of the missing components a system app throws errors why it goes into safe mode. So in TWRP via advanced -> file manage in system gone and have thought in my infinite wisdom, since I do not know if it repairt I remove all apps, if it solves my problem I can narrow it down later which app exactly. So first priv app and app folder completely solved.
Now to my current point of view. It does not boot into Lineageos (who could have imagined that XD). So it comes as far as in the boot animation (green curved line where always a circle moves from right to left).
When I try to boot in TWRP it just loops the Samsung logo and then when I release the buttons it tries to boot back into Lineageos.
When I try to boot into download mode it works up to the point where it says warning and I have to press volume up to advance or volume down to cancel. Whereas in here all at once the volume dasten do nothing more. and no the keys are not broken because otherwise I would not have come into the menu.
USB debugging and the like is of course not aktieviert, because I just installed a new ROM.
I don't intend to do anything illegal with the phone, as you might think, it's just a backup idea that I'm implementing for fun.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do?
My only idea right now would be to solder the EMMC memory from another mainboard to my current mainboard.
Chigoma333 said:
So first of all I have a S5 neo which I have rooted. I wanted to achieve that there is no way to access the data on the phone without physical access to it.
So I have everything with Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, LTE, UMTS or GSM unsoldered from the motherboard. It worked except for the problem that the phone only started in safe mode so I could not use my own apps.
First I updated Lineageos from the official 17.1 to the unofficial version 18.1 with this ROM https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...1-0-0_r49-lineageos-18-1-28-nov-2021.4292703/ .
Which in itself worked but it still starts in safe mode even when setting up.
Then I had the idea to uninstall system apps via TWRP. Since probably because of the missing components a system app throws errors why it goes into safe mode. So in TWRP via advanced -> file manage in system gone and have thought in my infinite wisdom, since I do not know if it repairt I remove all apps, if it solves my problem I can narrow it down later which app exactly. So first priv app and app folder completely solved.
Now to my current point of view. It does not boot into Lineageos (who could have imagined that XD). So it comes as far as in the boot animation (green curved line where always a circle moves from right to left).
When I try to boot in TWRP it just loops the Samsung logo and then when I release the buttons it tries to boot back into Lineageos.
When I try to boot into download mode it works up to the point where it says warning and I have to press volume up to advance or volume down to cancel. Whereas in here all at once the volume dasten do nothing more. and no the keys are not broken because otherwise I would not have come into the menu.
USB debugging and the like is of course not aktieviert, because I just installed a new ROM.
I don't intend to do anything illegal with the phone, as you might think, it's just a backup idea that I'm implementing for fun.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do?
My only idea right now would be to solder the EMMC memory from another mainboard to my current mainboard.
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I would throw it away at this point, it isn't worth the money, the time or the effort.
Find something else to tinker with, just don't destroy it the way you did this device.
Why take the approach on unsoldering?
Etherway.... , yes just throwing it away at this point is the best thing
FKX1997 said:
Why take the approach on unsoldering?
Etherway.... , yes just throwing it away at this point is the best thing
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also if the data is confidential, try drilling through the EMMC
I got it working again with the help of a Samsung USB jig.

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