I have [MAG cLK] NexusHD2-Gingerbread V2.7 [GRJ22 Android2.3.4] rom on my HD2. I have facebook too, as everybody.
In settings -> sync I only allowed for Gmail sync for contacts,gmail and calendar.
(I have background data and auto-sync activated in settings).
Facebook is off. And pretty much everything besides google sync.
In facebook application all notifications, refresh interval are off.
I'm using traffic monitor from radiopt to monitor data usage.
I noticed, during the night, 12.00-8.00 AM, facebook keeps making traffic: about 600KB per night. (~500 download, the rest upload).
What does it do? why it's going on internet if i have everything put on manual or never and no sync for it?
Other processes that use my data are
- android.uid.phone:10001 (dialer and dialer storage) = ~40kb per night
- android.uid.system:1000 (this has the account and sync services) = ~50kb per night. I suppose this one has to do with push services for gmail.
- com.google.uid.shared:100017 (network location, caledar sync, contacts sync) = ~150-200kb per night.
Anyone knows exactly what is being transmitted from which process?
And the main question , what is facebook doing??
Another question: how can i edit the startup programs, something like msconfig on Windows.
sharky2007 said:
Another question: how can i edit the startup programs, something like msconfig on Windows.
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maybe there are better apps for this, but Optimize Toolbox has a.o. an option to selectively disable startup programs
Personally I think the contacts provider (and other providers)in Android is a huge security risk. Every app and it's brother wants full access to your contacts so they can mine them for usable information. This can be just to add easy links to friends or to spam them with advertisements or offers to identity theft.
I've started using a pim manager that does not access Androids contact provider, calendar provider , tasks or other providers in it's operations.(And I really wish it was open source)
I have already removed the Google sync apks from my device and have removed contacts, calendar in the past. But not the providers.
It might cause some badly written apps to crash.
But I can't forsee any other serious problems.
Ideas? Thoughts?
Honestly sounds like a good idea..
Myself I decided to go for a while without any gapps and any other "store" installed on my phone.
My contacts are imported from a .vcf file which i update manually when needed.
I also have installed AFWall+ and i blocked the internet access to pretty much all the other apps including the system ones.. (everything i could get away with basically )
This could be a solution as well but it's rudimentary one at the moment.
nutpants said:
Personally I think the contacts provider (and other providers)in Android is a huge security risk. Every app and it's brother wants full access to your contacts so they can mine them for usable information. This can be just to add easy links to friends or to spam them with advertisements or offers to identity theft.
I've started using a pim manager that does not access Androids contact provider, calendar provider , tasks or other providers in it's operations.(And I really wish it was open source)
I have already removed the Google sync apks from my device and have removed contacts, calendar in the past. But not the providers.
It might cause some badly written apps to crash.
But I can't forsee any other serious problems.
Ideas? Thoughts?
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I already don't have Google apps on my device.
Everything blocked with afwall+ using profiles so things only get net when I'm using them on the net.
Fdroid is where I get 90% of my software and from the internet for much of the other 10%
I have a old phone with nothing on it personal at all. Which has play store for the 3 or 4 paid apps I need, it does updates for them and a few free ones. I copy the apks over to my daily driver.
I constantly hound developers on play store to support offline devices and not to implement features that break the app when there is no internet. Even app I don't use lol.
(I have 2 tablets and far too many old phones.only two devices are online(some are local lan only))
Someone should start a offline foundation. But being online it might be ridiculous..
I too removed contacts by using /system/app mover from f-droid. It was unintended as I wanted them as a user application but they wouldn't work like this and the icon vanished, that was fine with me for a long time. The other day I wanted contacts for signal (and telegram also won't work without them). I restored the application files from a backup,
For reference in /system/app/ the missing files were
SecContacts.apk
SecContactsProvider.apk
Other contacts programs like Simple Contacts can't run without a system permission called com.android.contacts and without those files in /system/app the permission doesn't get created at boot. The result being that no contact creation is possible.
What I would really like is a modified version of the system app that passes contacts data to the calling program depending on individual contact entry permissions with regard to each calling app; one list for telegram, another for signal etc. I gather that recent android versions above 6.0.0 have functionality to check calling application certificates so something along these lines should be possible. For earlier versions it might be necessary to switch between multiple contacts databases before starting the messaging app and also removing it from the autoboot list.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/permissions/defining
Hi, I have a Samsung Galaxy S8+ which I purchased 3 or 4 months ago but I have never used it.
The device has been stored in a drawer because the first time I logged in I could not find a way to block Internet access for specific applications.
Now I would like to start using the device, but only if I can block Internet access (mobile data AND Wi-Fi) for specific applications.
I do not want to allow Internet access to applications like Contacts, Messages, Goople Play Store, Google Play Services, Gallery, etc., etc., etc.
So the question is:
How can I block Internet access (both mobile data and Wi-Fi) to all the applications I choose to? I am not talking about third party apps like firewalls... I want to block Internet access using the built-in (stock) apps/features/whatever... I mean by making use of the options that the device has by default.
Thanks in advance!
No there's no way to limit one app from getting to the Internet built into the phone. You could turn off the sync settings for some of them like Contacts, Gallery, etc.
I have to ask, why does it matter if those apps can get to the Internet? I mean how do you expect to install apps if you were able to block the Play Store?
Un-sync is the only thing you can do, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard&hl=en is the other option.
What do you mean you can't? What about adhell2? As far as I know, it has internet permission for individual apps, and it doesn't need root...?
mjones73 said:
No there's no way to limit one app from getting to the Internet built into the phone. You could turn off the sync settings for some of them like Contacts, Gallery, etc.
I have to ask, why does it matter if those apps can get to the Internet? I mean how do you expect to install apps if you were able to block the Play Store?
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Many of those apps have permissions like "storage", "phone ID", "contacts", "calendar", "camera", "microphone", etc...
Therefore, when those applications are given Internet access they will be able to send all our data via the Internet ...
That's why it's so important to block them having Internet access.
For example, if an application has access to your data, to your storage or your contacts, it stands to reason that it should not have Internet access...
Google or any other companies are not my tutor or my parents (I'm old enough to have grand children). They should not have, simultaneously, access to my storage data, contacts, calendar, and Internet access to send out all those data and info...
My son has a Huawei P10 and that device allows the user to block Internet access to specific apps.
So if this Samsung device does not have a way to limit specific apps from getting to the Internet, then the phone is a spyware device...
With the due respect, only a completly fool would use such a compromised device.
Note: my biggest problem is not Google Play Store because it's an app which I could use without allowing permissions like "storage", "contacts", and such. But I don't use Google Play Store. I use F-Droid and (if needed) Yalp Store.
Niccolò Paganini said:
Many of those apps have permissions like "storage", "phone ID", "contacts", "calendar", "camera", "microphone", etc...
Therefore, when those applications are given Internet access they will be able to send all our data via the Internet ...
That's why it's so important to block them having Internet access.
For example, if an application has access to your data, to your storage or your contacts, it stands to reason that it should not have Internet access...
Google or any other companies are not my tutor or my parents (I'm old enough to have grand children). They should not have, simultaneously, access to my storage data, contacts, calendar, and Internet access to send out all those data and info...
My son has a Huawei P10 and that device allows the user to block Internet access to specific apps.
So if this Samsung device does not have a way to limit specific apps from getting to the Internet, then the phone is a spyware device...
With the due respect, only a completly fool would use such a compromised device.
Note: my biggest problem is not Google Play Store because it's an app which I could use without allowing permissions like "storage", "contacts", and such. But I don't use Google Play Store. I use F-Droid and (if needed) Yalp Store.
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I was gonna say maybe use tinfoil around your phone . If you decide you want to use internet on a specific app remove the foil. But IDK if it'll work though.
dalanik said:
What do you mean you can't? What about adhell2? As far as I know, it has internet permission for individual apps, and it doesn't need root...?
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Hmm i'll have to look into that.
eddyo1993 said:
I was gonna say maybe use tinfoil around your phone . If you decide you want to use internet on a specific app remove the foil. But IDK if it'll work though.
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Couldn't he just keep the phone in his tinfoil hat?
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Couldn't he just keep the phone in his tinfoil hat?
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Yes he can. He can call it a phone accessory.
Take a look at "Datally: mobile data-saving & WiFi app by Google"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.freighter
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gesbon said:
Take a look at "Datally: mobile data-saving & WiFi app by Google"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.freighter
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If Datally allows control that'd be great. You can control an apps permissions, but none are directly internet.
Niccolò Paganini said:
Many of those apps have permissions like "storage", "phone ID", "contacts", "calendar", "camera", "microphone", etc...
Therefore, when those applications are given Internet access they will be able to send all our data via the Internet ...
That's why it's so important to block them having Internet access.
For example, if an application has access to your data, to your storage or your contacts, it stands to reason that it should not have Internet access...
Google or any other companies are not my tutor or my parents (I'm old enough to have grand children). They should not have, simultaneously, access to my storage data, contacts, calendar, and Internet access to send out all those data and info...
My son has a Huawei P10 and that device allows the user to block Internet access to specific apps.
So if this Samsung device does not have a way to limit specific apps from getting to the Internet, then the phone is a spyware device...
With the due respect, only a completly fool would use such a compromised device.
Note: my biggest problem is not Google Play Store because it's an app which I could use without allowing permissions like "storage", "contacts", and such. But I don't use Google Play Store. I use F-Droid and (if needed) Yalp Store.
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I guess I'm a fool because I don't care if Google is syncing my data so I could also get to it from my account via my PC..
Maybe you should stick to a Huawei P10 or a flip phone I guess...
Funniest thing ever!! He is complaining that his son can block internet access on his Huawei device, and then complains that his Samsung cannot due the same and therefore is a spyware device. EVEN THOUGH HUAWEI HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE SPYING ON US CITIZENS BY THE FBI!! Like if u actually cared about your privacy you would stick with Samsung and stay far far away from Huawei
If you have root, use any firewall app available on Playstore such as AFWall+ or Droid Firewall
Niccolò Paganini said:
Many of those apps have permissions like "storage", "phone ID", "contacts", "calendar", "camera", "microphone", etc...
Therefore, when those applications are given Internet access they will be able to send all our data via the Internet ...
That's why it's so important to block them having Internet access.
For example, if an application has access to your data, to your storage or your contacts, it stands to reason that it should not have Internet access...
Google or any other companies are not my tutor or my parents (I'm old enough to have grand children). They should not have, simultaneously, access to my storage data, contacts, calendar, and Internet access to send out all those data and info...
My son has a Huawei P10 and that device allows the user to block Internet access to specific apps.
So if this Samsung device does not have a way to limit specific apps from getting to the Internet, then the phone is a spyware device...
With the due respect, only a completly fool would use such a compromised device.
Note: my biggest problem is not Google Play Store because it's an app which I could use without allowing permissions like "storage", "contacts", and such. But I don't use Google Play Store. I use F-Droid and (if needed) Yalp Store.
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Hello, i have same concerns with you. Have you find solution to this problem ?
Stock Samsung Apps like samsung music, calendar, camera etc. sending information to internet. I don't want this.
I used to use lineage os before, and this process was so simple. But now i have a s10e. I can't block internet access per apps.
Jail break your phone for true control (definitely worth it), everything you need to know is online. Tin foil ???
Found any solutions? I'd really be happy to find a way to do this without rooting my s10e.
And if you're only solution is still tin foil and think it doesn't make any sense, buy yourself a brain before answering please.
Kojackk said:
Found any solutions? I'd really be happy to find a way to do this without rooting my s10e.
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Grab Activity Launcher on the Play Store (the one by Adam Szalkowski) and search for "Manage App Data. You can restrict access to mobile data and wifi on a per-app basis.
Whether you are concerned about Privacy or just that Facebook is consuming most of your limited mobile data, these 10 settings got you covered.
Well, if You log into the Facebook App (in this case Android App) here are my top 10 settings that you should Change and my reason for telling you to change it.
#1 SAVE YOUR LOGIN INFO (ON THIS DEVICE)
DON'T DO IT at least for security reasons. If you log out of the device, your login info still remains there if you didn't wipe Facebook app data and that could lead to a security breach.
#2 TURN OFF LOCATION.
Facebook uses your location for mainly ads and other kind of profiling so, always turn it off. That doesn't mean that Facebook won't know your location but at least they'll have to do a little more work to Get it (as I'll show later)
#3 TURN OFF START VIDEO IN TIMELINE WITH SOUND FROM SETTINGS
Anyway, this mainly serves Facebook interest were ads that pop up on timeline plays Automatically. At least, give yourself the chance of being the one to click on an ad because the title is catchy or the thumbnail interesting.
#4 TURN ON OPEN LINKS EXTERNALLY.
You should be the one to choose which browser opens URLS from inside Facebook App. If not, Facebook will automatically track your browsing history, activities and behaviors
#5 CLEAR YOUR BROWSING HISTORY
Since you have turned on open links externally, it is important that you also clear any browsing history left on Facebook.
#6 AUTO PLAY VIDEOS ON MOBILE DATA AND WIFI
May not be bad if you are on unlimited data plan but come on, on mobile data too? by default? Not a good news if you are on limited data. Moreso, this dumps a lot of data on app cache.
#7 & #8 ADS PREFERENCES
Ads Preferences setting is interesting because it has a lot of settings on by default that makes you want to wonder why they are on by default. There are two major parts I looked at here - Your information and Ads settings you just have to turn everything off.
#9 OFF-FACEBOOK ACTIVITIES - TURN IT OFF!
This one is so deep we made a YouTube video for it you just have to turn it off.
#10 Privacy settings.
There are loads of settings in the privacy settings that you need to change by default. You really need this one...
Bolumstar said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= https://youtu.be/GHlxCvJHkmY
Whether you are concerned about Privacy or just that Facebook is consuming most of your limited mobile data, these 10 settings got you covered.
Well, if You log into the Facebook App (in this case Android App) here are my top 10 settings that you should Change and my reason for telling you to change it.
#1 SAVE YOUR LOGIN INFO (ON THIS DEVICE)
DON'T DO IT at least for security reasons. If you log out of the device, your login info still remains there if you didn't wipe Facebook app data and that could lead to a security breach.
#2 TURN OFF LOCATION.
Facebook uses your location for mainly ads and other kind of profiling so, always turn it off. That doesn't mean that Facebook won't know your location but at least they'll have to do a little more work to Get it (as I'll show later)
#3 TURN OFF START VIDEO IN TIMELINE WITH SOUND FROM SETTINGS
Anyway, this mainly serves Facebook interest were ads that pop up on timeline plays Automatically. At least, give yourself the chance of being the one to click on an ad because the title is catchy or the thumbnail interesting.
#4 TURN ON OPEN LINKS EXTERNALLY.
You should be the one to choose which browser opens URLS from inside Facebook App. If not, Facebook will automatically track your browsing history, activities and behaviors
#5 CLEAR YOUR BROWSING HISTORY
Since you have turned on open links externally, it is important that you also clear any browsing history left on Facebook.
#6 AUTO PLAY VIDEOS ON MOBILE DATA AND WIFI
May not be bad if you are on unlimited data plan but come on, on mobile data too? by default? Not a good news if you are on limited data. Moreso, this dumps a lot of data on app cache.
#7 & #8 ADS PREFERENCES
Ads Preferences setting is interesting because it has a lot of settings on by default that makes you want to wonder why they are on by default. There are two major parts I looked at here - Your information and Ads settings you just have to turn everything off.
#9 OFF-FACEBOOK ACTIVITIES - TURN IT OFF!
This one is so deep we made a YouTube video for it you just have to turn it off.
#10 Privacy settings.
There are loads of settings in the privacy settings that you need to change by default. You really need this one...
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What great advices thank you
Or else, uninstall the Facebook crap and use a browser with an ad-blocker to access. Better yet, delete the application altogether. With the number of times, Facebook has leaked user data, I would advise to not use it at all.
arsenalfan001 said:
Or else, uninstall the Facebook crap and use a browser with an ad-blocker to access. Better yet, delete the application altogether. With the number of times, Facebook has leaked user data, I would advise to not use it at all.
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The post is actually for people who, for some reasons, still use Facebook... ?