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dying to try damageless's v1 rom, but;
wtf is SecretControlModem.apk (and odex)
maybe just being paranoid...
I had a previous post about this. It was in the original 2.1 flip and them posted. No one ever answered me. So, it's not Damage's.
google search gives nothing either. it references these threads. fishy.
Why don't you flash and pull those files out and see what happens
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google search gives nothing either. it references these threads. fishy.
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Yea, just pops up our posts. lol lol It could be wired tethering, but I don't think Damage has it?
i am
also im not saying anyone has DONE anything fishy with their roms... (we're all basically using the same rom now anyway, whole lot of cut and paste going on) its just weird that this package is referenced NOWHERE
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i am
also im not saying anyone has DONE anything fishy with their roms... (we're all basically using the same rom now anyway, whole lot of cut and paste going on) its just weird that this package is referenced NOWHERE
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Except by you and me. Our posts are the only ones that pop up about this.
I saw that in the Eris dump when i was playing with it. The way i figure, if it's some call home tattletale app built into test software, it calls back to verizon and I have unlimited data - at that point I chuckled and stopped caring.
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I saw that in the Eris dump when i was playing with it. The way i figure, if it's some call home tattletale app built into test software, it calls back to verizon and I have unlimited data - at that point I chuckled and stopped caring.
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Huh?
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gbhil said:
I saw that in the Eris dump when i was playing with it. The way i figure, if it's some call home tattletale app built into test software, it calls back to verizon and I have unlimited data - at that point I chuckled and stopped caring.
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so we can just ditch that one right...
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Huh?
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it comes from the Eris dump. If it's some tracking software put in there to keep people from sharing it, it will call back to Verizon. It wont cost me anything, since data is free.
then i realized i was getting freaked out over phone software, so I just laughed at myself and installed anyway.
It very well could be something that whoever leaked it out put in. I don't have anything I care about on my phone. I'm not suggesting it's safe, just that I thought I was silly.
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so we can just ditch that one right...
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Can't hurt to try it.
Just pulled them out.
Phone, SMS, MMS, Email still work
market works
I un-apk'ed so to speak...and it was just an icon.
um... can we have some of the original developers comment on this ? lol
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um... can we have some of the original developers comment on this ? lol
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It was in the Eris ROM. I don't know why any of the other devs didn't catch it.
how do i remove this? i tried it via root explorer and it didn't work...
hmmm. under further inspection i believe it takes screenshots as it contains the same exact instructions as shootme in the apk. very strange. kinda scary. i remember someone on said on the forum where the eris was leaked tht the guy who posted it will be able to see everything you do and he and the guy who started the post has only 1 post on xda to this day
but no big worrys lol it also contains png's with htc's logo.
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how do i remove this? i tried it via root explorer and it didn't work...
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Yea how do we get rid of this? If it's taking screenshots wouldn't they be stored somewhere on the phone - at least temporarily?
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Yea how do we get rid of this? If it's taking screenshots wouldn't they be stored somewhere on the phone - at least temporarily?
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im not sure. in the resources theres nothing to specify that. its like it takes a screenshot when you do something to trigger it and bam it sends? lol creeeepy
I've tried examining the apk myself, where are you seeing instructions that relate to ShootMe? Is it not also possible it is similar because you are looking at aspects of the APK that would be shared across most APKs in general?
Not saying this isn't something malicious, just curious what we have to suggest that it truly is.
I'm hoping its a case of "Paranoia will destroy ya", but I supposed it is possible we are all running some kind of screen-grabbing trojan. In the meantime, either follow gbhil and remove them, or hope its something legit we just don't understand.
This is tough to explain...
At random points a friend of mine tells me that I am sending stange text messages that look like this:
"ME:<Subject: > - What game?"
According to what I see in my text history, It is being sent from my phone. Now out of the 20 or so people I have active text sessions with, she is the only one.
I've been through various ROM's and have had this problem follow. Logic tells me its her phone based on the facts but I can't prove it. I've done a Google search and that returned nothing. Searched around the XDA site and didn't turn up anything.
Has anyone experienced anything the same or similar?
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This is tough to explain...
At random points a friend of mine tells me that I am sending stange text messages that look like this:
"ME:<Subject: > - What game?"
According to (1.)what I see in my text history, It is being sent from my phone. Now out of the 20 or so people I have active text sessions with, she is the only one.
I've been through various ROM's and (2.) have had this problem follow.
Logic tells me its her phone based on the facts but I can't prove it. I've done a Google search and that returned nothing. Searched around the XDA site and didn't turn up anything.
Has anyone experienced anything the same or similar?
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Now excuse me if I am not following you, but
First you say : 1
And then you say : 2
How does something you can see in your phones text log become her phones problem?
It is your phone and it is prolly an app you install since it follows you, or a friend in your midst as they follow you too.
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Now excuse me if I am not following you, but
First you say : 1
And then you say : 2
How does something you can see in your phones text log become her phones problem?
It is your phone and it is prolly an app you install since it follows you, or a friend in your midst as they follow you too.
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Yea I know, But I've been running with only stock apps for the past 24 hours and it happened again last night. I'm puzzled. Out of all the people I text it just goes to her phone.
Might have to keep my eyes out for the friend in the midst
If its showing as sent from your phone in your phone, then logic would dictate that your phone is the source of this issue. When switching roms, did u do a full wipe before reflashing? Are u sure u are not restoring any apps or configurations whether if its synced with Google or titanium backup? Perhaps u have apps stored on your sdcard? Just a few things to think about.
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Maybe your excessive drinking is the cause "drunk texting." Admit it, it's okay, we've all done it. Lol
Sorry, can't say that I have ever experienced that, maybe a friend or flatmate is joshing with you.
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Lol. This is also a plausible explaination Haha.
Nochips4me said:
Maybe your excessive drinking is the cause "drunk texting." Admit it, it's okay, we've all done it. Lol
Sorry, can't say that I have ever experienced that, maybe a friend or flatmate is joshing with you.
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What game?
Sorry I meant to say was it looks like you're the problem
Do you sync htc sense? I've had the same thing happen and it only happened after flashing a rom and logging into htc sense. Not sure how or why but it would re send a few texts.
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cant be any worse then me talking to someone. and hearing someone else cross talk into my phone lol, but they cant hear me
This is a new one for me. It HAS to be some sort of malware. My phone keeps calling people on its own, and when its calling them it shows on my phone that they are calling me! It's not in my pocket when it happens most of the time, so I've ruled out pocket dialing. Has anyone seen this issue or ran into anything similar?
I can't help you, but it would help if you posted what changes you've made to your phone.
ie: rom, theme, addons, dialer
Cranky...
I'm running a fresh install of infused 1.6. Its been quite some time since I have installed anything. I installed Lookout to see if would find anything. It didn't. My phone has done this 3 times to 3 different people in a 5 hour span. All with the same situation. It says I am getting a call from them, their phone says they are getting a call from me.
No one else has seen this issue?
If it's still happening try reflashing.
Have you installed any newer apps prior to this incident?
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Oh yeah, that's my relationship restore feature. It helps you reconnect with old friends.
gtg465x said:
Oh yeah, that's my relationship restore feature. It helps you reconnect with old friends.
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Excellent feature, Sir! The other devs got nothing on this! Although, I wish it would atleast connect the call when we both answered. Haha
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Oh yeah, that's my relationship restore feature. It helps you reconnect with old friends.
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That's why everyone is calling me for money!.
Cranky...
Take off the speed dial shortcuts from your desktop.
You sure someone isn't using g the evil operator app on you?
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i've done this to people through prankdial.com, sombody may be screwing with you, have you received other prank calls latley? Recieve any calls from your "neighbor" asking why you keep stealing thier newspaper, or form Kirpal asking why your daughter came to his house and kicked his dog as well?
My phone does this all the time...then I realize it was my kids
Stop drinking mine does this all the time .Oh and um detailed billing will get you in the dog house fyi.
Well I want to wipe this piece of **** thing, this phone is having so many problems it is a refurb so that explains it...
Have you guys ever had any problems like... here's one
Sometimes my phone freezes, then when the screen turns on the four main icons (phone web, email etc..) are oriented portrait while staying in their same spot, basically rotating 90 degrees to the right.
What the eff...
Also what will happen to my apps which I spent money on... will I have to buy them again? (of course not that sounds like a ****ty corporate world talking)
Also do you guys think that I have a virus?
This random app popped up in one of my windows, called "search" the icon is a magnifying glass this happened to me recently and I installed norton, **** me man viruses for phones?
I did not install this app, nor put it on my screen... so I'm assuming that it is not my work.
Somebody's got to make money somewhere I Guess...
If you guys could answer my questions, I'd be greatly satisfied.
Thanks
Your paid apps are backed up by google, after wipe, just go into the market hit menu/my apps. I'm guessing your stock?
And I would just wipe and see if that fixes your issues. Wiping deletes pretty much everything on your phone except the sdcards. Before you wipe go into accounts and settings and back your **** up with google such as contacts, wifi passwords, i think even apps...then wipe
The apps you bought on the market are saved to your gmail account.
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Nevermind I was too late.
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Thanks guys
I am rooted but not many of the roms appeal to me
I'm waiting to develop my own design (on my blog) or if somebody else builds it
I don't mind the stock stuff, I run the Infusion kernel for 1.8ghz speed
Damn I have to do all this crap again...
Thank you guys for the response
I've had freezes too. It's not always the phone but apps.
As like others have said, doing a data only wipe will clear out all installed apps and app data, any user created content like media and docs is saved to sd or extsd and won't be cleared with a data wipe.
After you perform the wipe, be aware of what apps you install and the affect they have on your phone. Don't just start mass installing everything again. Also be aware of all widgets you setup on home screens as they start services that stay resident and take up CPU and RAM.
These smartphones are basically PC's and are subject to the same potential for problems that plague PC's. Too many programs running together.
If your phone has true hardware problems..remember the steps leading up to the hang condition and attempt to replicate it. If you can't replicate it easily it may be a transient condition, otherwise try an alternate method to narrow down what part of the phone is failing.
If you can I.D. the problem and you're sure it's the hardware, take it to AT&T and explain it to them. They may give you an exchange right in the store and transfer your data to the replacement. No charge.
And as always before any major change...BACKUP YOUR DATA!!!!!
Thank god for Google! What would the world be without it? I hope you guys don't plan on answering that question. Lol
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Well this is my fourth phone
My first new phone had a cracked screen, (first mistake) sent it to asurion for replacement for $99.99 then this was stolen by some ****s
Then I got another one sent to my home, this one was stolen off of my porch, so I filed that either FedEx never delivered it or it was stolen from my porch.
So this is my fourth phone from asurion, I have ended my insurance since I don't need it as I have used my two phones within 6 months
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Well this is my fourth phone
My first new phone had a cracked screen, (first mistake) sent it to asurion for replacement for $99.99 then this was stolen by some ****s
Then I got another one sent to my home, this one was stolen off of my porch, so I filed that either FedEx never delivered it or it was stolen from my porch.
So this is my fourth phone from asurion, I have ended my insurance since I don't need it as I have used my two phones within 6 months
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Do you live in the hood?. Crummy ass ppl sounds like Florida to me cause that's where I'm from and that **** happens here.
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@Green..If your rooted, use Titanium Backup, you can choose the apps you want to re-install instead of all at once.
****, I don't even have to lock up here in Texas...its amazing how some ppl are these days, stealing mail? really?
Yeah it sucks man
And I filed my phone stolen, and yet Asurion keeps bothering my friend (I used his phone to call them) to return the other phone...
I'm like what the eff man! I don't have it!
Damn people, stealing mail, they don't steal any of my airplane parts but then my phone? ****...
yes I do have Titanium Backup installed
Is there a way to do like a system diagnostic to see if anything physical has failed on my board? Not that it is something that I can do anything about... but I was curious.
Thanks for the responses!
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Yeah it sucks man
And I filed my phone stolen, and yet Asurion keeps bothering my friend (I used his phone to call them) to return the other phone...
I'm like what the eff man! I don't have it!
Damn people, stealing mail, they don't steal any of my airplane parts but then my phone? ****...
yes I do have Titanium Backup installed
Is there a way to do like a system diagnostic to see if anything physical has failed on my board? Not that it is something that I can do anything about... but I was curious.
Thanks for the responses!
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Sounds like classic shady corporate behavior man.
And I could be wrong but I have never heard of such an app
Hey, is this a normal web browser page?
I feel like I may have been obliviously using my web browser and typing in all of my **** while I'm using a virus browser
This happens to be that app that appeared randomly on my screen but with a magnifying glass with the name "search"
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Hey, is this a normal web browser page?
I feel like I may have been obliviously using my web browser and typing in all of my **** while I'm using a virus browser
This happens to be that app that appeared randomly on my screen but with a magnifying glass with the name "search"
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Don't use that one. Had it before. Original is the At&t Yahoo page, but the other is of course, Google.
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Kevinr678 said:
Don't use that one. Had it before. Original is the At&t Yahoo page, but the other is of course, Google.
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Yeaaah that one looks pretty sketchy lol
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Thank god for Google! What would the world be without it? I hope you guys don't plan on answering that question. Lol
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Happier?
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Your screen shot looks iffy, green.
If I were in your shoe, and you don't mind stock.
And your paid apps are backed up in google.
I would go to /settings/privacy and reset the dang thing.
Then put it in download mode and odin the thing to a stock of your choice, whether it's 2.2.1 or uckj4(2.3) where super1click still works. hell, odin and reset a few times.
download your apps new from the market
Don't get on porn sites on your phone and things like this wont happen. Lol
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Don't get on porn sites on your phone and things like this wont happen. Lol
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Yeah...listen to mtease. He speaks wisdom from extended experiencs.
Ya, I've locked up a few phones in my day because of that. Lol
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There was this guy vandalizing some stuff in my street. I told him to stop while recording video of the event. He forced me on the ground bruising my neck and damaging my teeth, let me go when I promised to delete the video. How can I recover the video? Any help is very much appreciated.
You wouldn't happen to have your photos/videos back up to Google do you? That's terrible that happened to you I'm sorry.
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grim489 said:
You wouldn't happen to have your photos/videos back up to Google do you? That's terrible that happened to you I'm sorry.
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I turned that off because mobile data used to be very expensive here...
Thank you for your compassion
84Guzz said:
There was this guy vandalizing some stuff in my street. I told him to stop while recording video of the event. He forced me on the ground bruising my neck and damaging my teeth, let me go when I promised to delete the video. How can I recover the video? Any help is very much appreciated.
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Where this guy at? ima fkin swing my iCrap device at him and crack it and smack it on his face with the glass shards and everything or use like an ipad and smack him repeatedly across the face.
Seriously though i think you should take this to the police first.
Edit: just noticed not in US, umm try Local authorities of what you got there.
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Where this guy at? ima fkin swing my iCrap device at him and crack it and smack it on his face with the glass shards and everything or use like an ipad and smack him repeatedly across the face.
Seriously though i think you should take this to the police first.
Edit: just noticed not in US, umm try Local authorities of what you got there.
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I did, but they said there's nothing they can do without actually capturing his ass. Thanks for being angry together with me, it helps a lot.
I'm not sure it'd work for you but you could try downloading Dumpster from Google play. The only thing is idk if it recovers deleted files or it recovers files deleted after the app is installed.
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I'm not sure it'd work for you but you could try downloading Dumpster from Google play. The only thing is idk if it recovers deleted files or it recovers files deleted after the app is installed.
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Just sample .png... Thanks for this, I'll keep it on there, just pushing my teeth back in place now
84Guzz said:
I did, but they said there's nothing they can do without actually capturing his ass. Thanks for being angry together with me, it helps a lot.
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WHATTT!?????????????? You should be mad at your country for not hunting his ass down.
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WHATTT!?????????????? You should be mad at your country for not hunting his ass down.
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I know, it was just 10 minutes. If you ever come to the Netherlands remember it pays to be a criminal.
84Guzz said:
I know, it was just 10 minutes. If you ever come to the Netherlands remember it pays to be a criminal.
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For all of you wanting to help:
I'm going to go to sleep now, it's 06:30 am over here. If your want to help catch this bastard, reply to this thread with a way to recover deleted videos from a Nexus 5.
I'm sure he was just a dumb kid, as he let me go after deleting the video + some dumb tutorials i shot. I think it would be the best thing to let him know not to do stuff like this again.
Thank you XDA, you're the only place to turn to after paying 1$ a minute trying to reach google, I got more response from you compared to a multi billion dollar company.
Email me at guusvandersluijs at gmail dot com
should have punched him dead in the face!!!
Maybe you can email google and see what they can do in recovering data.
At least they would tell you if that sector has been overwritten or not.
http://www.android-data-recovery.org/google-nexus-5-data-recovery.html
donno if this works,was the first thing that came up after googeling "recover deleted files nexus 5"
and go see a dentist,you dont wanna lose your teeth!
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You can try this method. I used it on my galaxy nexus, but don't see why it wouldn't work on the nexus 5. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
[GUIDE] Internal Memory Data Recovery - Yes We Can!
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The first thing to do would be to STOP USING THE PHONE. The more you use it, the higher the chance of the data being overwritten and thus unrecoverable. Remember, "deleting" something only marks it as available on the disk/flash memory.
http://www.icare-recovery.com/free/android-data-recovery-freeware.html
As above, if you carry on using the phone there's a chance you might write over the deleted file, any chance of recovery then becomes much more difficult, maybe even impossible. Try some of the software that's been mentioned above, if the files not been overwritten you should have a good chance of recovery.
84Guzz said:
For all of you wanting to help:
I'm going to go to sleep now, it's 06:30 am over here. If your want to help catch this bastard, reply to this thread with a way to recover deleted videos from a Nexus 5.
I'm sure he was just a dumb kid, as he let me go after deleting the video + some dumb tutorials i shot. I think it would be the best thing to let him know not to do stuff like this again.
Thank you XDA, you're the only place to turn to after paying 1$ a minute trying to reach google, I got more response from you compared to a multi billion dollar company.
Email me at guusvandersluijs at gmail dot com
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correct as the past few posts say if you havnt overwritten that area of your internal storage where the video was saved you should no problem using some recovery tools to get the deleted information. I work as a security analyst doing forensics and e-discovery. I recommend the program r-studio to recovery deleted information. you will have to pay for it unless you can find a free copy on the internet.. lol but you can also get a trial of it which will let you recovery files smaller than like 1mb which might not help you but you can at least use the trial to determine if the video is recoverable.
You can also use diskdigger. The free version should do what you need it to
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Thank all of you for your help. I tried several tools, with varying results.
Sadly I can't seem to get anything watchable back. I got a couple of bruises and my jaw still kinda hurts, but it's nothing permanent.
I got an app that can undo removal of photos and videos for the next time something like this happens, also I should be more carefull not to put myself in harms way again. People are unpredictable.
This thread can be closed.
Are you rooted? If not, we're at the end of the road.