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[ROM] pffmod Revoke permissions & Privacy mode

Long time no see.
Any way there is a new build this one is based on the latest and greatest from CM 7.1. the download link is below.
Spoofed permissions:
READ_PHONE_STATE - You can now make your device return spoofed data from the methods protected with READ_PHONE_STATE permission. There is a demo app
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you can use to see the effect of spoofing and revoking READ_PHONE_STATE permission. Run the app revoke or spoof run the app again.
Since majority of time spend on READ_PHONE_STATE spoofing was about laying the needed infrastructure for spoofing in general, expect new spoofed permissions shortly.
ROM info:
This is a preview build bases on CM7 nightly builds. Some things may not work some features may be missing.
Some applications may not work properly with revoked permissions.
You can revoke permission of SYSTEM applications!!! DON'T DO IT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.. However reboot resets the permissions of the system applications so you probably can recover.
If an application is running changing some permissions like say INTERNET will not be fully applied until the application is restarted.
If you come from CM7 nightly or CM7 RCx you probably don't need to wipe. I something is not working do a wipe.
Google apps are not included. You need to download them separately and flash them right after the ROM.
It will probably require ClockworkMod 3.x to flash properly.
You uses it at your own risk and I cannot be held responsible for the consequences.
Some technical stuff:
If an application checks for its permissions it will appear that all required permissions are granted. This is done to keep some ad networks code happy. As far as I've tested this is safe since the permission check is done at the remote end of the call when protected method is invoked. Please report your findings.
Screen shot:
This is the extended Manage application screen.​
Download:
update-pffmod-7.1.0-Desire-KANG-signed.zip
old builds:
direct link: update-pffmod-0.9.1-Desire-DEV-20110418-signed.zip storage provided by: http://onlinestoragesolution.com
direct link: update-pffmod-0.9.0-DESIRE-DEV-20110328-signed.zip storage provided by: http://onlinestoragesolution.com

Wow, This is so quick, I read about it in Reddit day back. Thanks! Still there are lot of discussion about this between developers.
Details here
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...rmissions-cue-mass-force-closing-as-a-result/

ukanth said:
Wow, This is so quick, I read about it in Reddit day back. Thanks! Still there are lot of discussion about this between developers.
Details here
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...rmissions-cue-mass-force-closing-as-a-result/
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Actually I've submitted this to CM
here is the original thread for Desire HD http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12161601#post12161601

Great patch though Personally I feel this is great addition.Thanks for this! I'll try this and let you know.

new build with data spoofing see the first post.

Neat!
Is this based on something close to nightly 41? There's been a major bug recently, which caused many issues, it's fixen in #41.
http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=bravo
p.s.
Please add this to the CM branch...

JDima said:
Neat!
Is this based on something close to nightly 41? There's been a major bug recently, which caused many issues, it's fixen in #41.
http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=bravo
p.s.
Please add this to the CM branch...
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This is like current git

Swapping real IDs for the word "spoofed" is quite obvious, and, IMHO, might cause problems if an application stores it as an integer value. Why don't you just return random numbers?

I'm working on something that will generate plausible data from the calling app package name. I'm just too impatient and decided to release it early.
The other thing is that it's bean too long since the last release

And a final request. Please do something with the usability Maybe a dropbox underneath each of the permissions. Best if colored - red for "revoked", yellow for "spoofed" and "granted" without highlighting. Currently, a brief view at the list of permissions totally misses their states.
Yes, I do understand the engine is far more important than bells&whistles, but as for me, the mod is quite ready for everyday use, and I'd be happy to see it more user-faced.

JDima said:
And a final request. Please do something with the usability Maybe a dropbox underneath each of the permissions. Best if colored - red for "revoked", yellow for "spoofed" and "granted" without highlighting. Currently, a brief view at the list of permissions totally misses their states.
Yes, I do understand the engine is far more important than bells&whistles, but as for me, the mod is quite ready for everyday use, and I'd be happy to see it more user-faced.
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Interested in helping with that?
Just grab AppSecurityEditablePermissions.java, app_editable_permission.xml and app_editable_permission_item.xml from http://review.cyanogenmod.com/4055 and start hacking

New build... Link in the first post.

[App] Root Call Blocker needs testers

Hello guys, im the developer of Root Call Blocker, an advanced call and SMS blocking app for rooted phones.
The app's home is here at XDA:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1051274
We have had multiple reports that blocking is not working sometimes on the American sammy phones, so we need some nice people to do some testing.
You can use the Groups function of the Lite version to do the testing - it gives you almost everything youd want from the app anyway.
Please post comments here, but also use the "Write to us" dialog in settings.

This is great, my bug with calls comng through sometimes when call waiting with more than 1 number was fixed in 165! Thanks a lot!

Enjoy... and remember, an update is always just around the corner!

Could you guys please test the following behavior for me:
1. How the app behaves when a blocked number attempts to connect during call waiting
2. How a blocked caller is handled when "Dont answer" is set as the reject method and you are currently on the phone and have not enabled blocked call vibrate notifications within the app itself
Dont forget to send logs with descriptions as well.

Come on people, i really need some feedback on this!

Come on guys - feedback will help me help you!

Awesome, working perfectly here thanks. Dont thing ive ever had issues with this app (maybe once had to do a manual license check)...

Thanks, could you please test the behavior i described above? Its very important!

Guys, an update has been rolled out. It contains an important new workaround thast needs to be tested.
It may help those people who have data issues, especially on LTE enabled phones sometimes.
Please help me test this by installing the app, rebooting and waiting for data to return with the screen on. Please wait 3 minutes at least before sending logs via "Write to developer" in the app.
Dont forget to include a description. Thanks!

Working perfectly for me! Thanks, this is absolutely top class. Ive been using CM as well, great app too.

Enjoy. And dont forget that im always checking these threads, ao comments and suggestions are welcome!

Any issues to report?

Maybe found a bug... just maybe
This actually sort of saved my a$$ so not sure if I should list it as a bug or not LOL anyways I'm using Miui on a HTC Desire Z and I loaded my root blocker pro and added a password and put it in hidden mode. I always back up my blocking settings so I forgot how to load root blocker pro when it's hidden, so I went into the settings into manage applications, then I uninstalled root call blocker and re-installed it and said no to the restore, got into the setting and restored manually. Could be a security flaw, what do you think?

There is no way to prevent this other than taking your sd card out. Its an android flaw.

Yes, its a problem with android itself!

Any issues to report?

Not sure if it the app or not. I have an evo shift. Im using the free version and ever since i installed rcb i lose all service sometimes, data and phone. A reboot fixes it. Like i said i never had this problem before i installed rcb. On a lighter note it works great awesome app! I will be buying when i figure out if it rcb or not
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RCB will only interfere with data at first run, so it isnt the app. Bad radio, bad signal, pretty much lots of possible reasons...

Ok, i did find that it is blocking all picture mail(mms). Is there a setting to fix it?
ftgg99 said:
RCB will only interfere with data at first run, so it isnt the app. Bad radio, bad signal, pretty much lots of possible reasons...
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Supremly transmikked! Sense in disguise

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Ok, i did find that it is blocking all picture mail(mms). Is there a setting to fix it?
Here is a screenie of what it says
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Unwanted SPAM messages in drop down

I must have installed something that included an 'advertise to you' clause. How do I find out what it is so I can get rid of it. Pisses me OFF!
I get a message every day along with a star in the top bar till I clear it, telling me I have won an iPad. AAARRRGGGGG!
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Wow, that would be annoying, did you try adfree?

You've installed something that's doing that. I had something similar myself but was lucky enough to identify the culprit (it was an MP3 downloader).
You can either post your complete app list here and hope someone recognises the app that's causing it, or you can factory reset and rebuild your phone app-by-app.
Another idea would be to round up any suspect apps (one's not installed from the market or ones that do "naughty things") and freeze them with Titanium Backup. If the problem goes away then you know you've narrowed it down.

Got rid of it.
Read another similar post that suggested it was Air Push. Downloaded Air Push Detector and it identified Mechanical gear live wall paper. Uninstalled it so its gone now. Shame cos I liked the wall paper.
I thought though that it would allow me to keep it but disable the spam.
Speaking of, I'm really concerned about some of the permissions that may invade my privacy. For example, I wonder if an app that requires access to my contact list is just accessing it to provide the service it is designed for or if it is sending that info back to the designer or marketing companies for the purposes of information gathering or further advertising.
Is there any way I can block these permissions on a grand scale without individually setting them with 'Permissions' app, which of course only works on a rooted unit. My TAB is rooted but my SGS2 is not and won't be till its out of warranty.

As an example:
An app called Wi-Fi Finder has a permission to 'directly call phone numbers'. I mean WTF. Firstly why does it need this permission and secondly WTF?
What possible reason could this app have to do this and who would it call and whats the privacy repurcussions for me?

techno-update said:
Wow, that would be annoying, did you try adfree?
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Seems that requies the phone to be rooted

Addons Detector should find the culprit.

You're not going to be able to handle permissions at all if you're not rooted. The only apps I've seen for handling permissions do it on an app-by-app basis. I've not heard of anything that do it at a system-wide level. Obviously doing it at the system level would cause problems for the times when apps do legitimately need permissions you've blocked, but you're the user - that's your choice.
Maybe it's time to learn to dev

There are a few apps in the market that you can get to block these. I've still noticed the odd spam msg will get through though.

I downloaded a zombie game (cant remember which one) and i started getting the same spam messages frequently.. Just look back to any games you previously downloaded right before this started happening and delete it
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Ad detector bu lookout will tell you what app is causing that
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glacierguy said:
Ad detector bu lookout will tell you what app is causing that
Sent from my AT100 using Tapatalk 2 Beta-4
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Worked fine on Nexus s 4.0.3!
Ad Detector (TrustGo)
great detection and has direct uninstall from it's UI.
It detected that Phone locator was the cause of those ads + SWTOR Status

Takerz said:
Worked fine on Nexus s 4.0.3!
Ad Detector (TrustGo)
great detection and has direct uninstall from it's UI.
It detected that Phone locator was the cause of those ads + SWTOR Status
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I think I used Air Push detector to detectit was a Gear Live wall paper I had insalled over the weekend. I just didn't put 2 and 2 together. Couldn't just disable the spam. Had to remove the app :/ Pity. I liked it.

Go Keyboard
I found out who is using the Green Smiley Face ad notification on the progress bar. Its from Go Dev Team. They have an app for keyboards. Go Keyboards. If you have it, then that's the ass app.
Sucks cause I like their work but hates ads enough to delete it. I sent them a long message about killing it for me and will warn who is pushing ads.
Blahhh blahhh blahhhh

[APP/ROOT] CheatDroid - Shared Preferences Editor

Hi there!
In the last few weeks I developed a little toy which might especially be interesting for developers or "hackers". And since most of the users here are at least technically interested, I found that this forum might be the right place to introduce this app.
» Official Website
» XDA Labs App Page
A video says more than words:
» Demonstration Video on YouTube
Download
» https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/download/com.androidcheats.cheatdroid
Screenshots
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Push. Any comments or feedback is greatly appreciated.

Will this app work with drag racing?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

Why don't you try out yourself? However, I checked out Drag Racing and unfourtunately it seems like that game at least does not store money via Shared Preferences.
Anyway, I want to state again that this app is rather developed for scientific purposes and for those who are just curious. I think that quite a lot games unfourtunately do not use Android's Shared Preferences to store relevant data. Try it for such purpose, but I do not want to make any promises. I just emphasized that point in the hope of getting a little more attention, but people do not seem to be that interested in that app anyway.

Push again.

... and maybe once again. :/

Push once again. Can't believe, that people acually rate this app bad (two stars) because it needs root access! What the ****... However, I do not believe that it was someone from this forum. But anyway - kind of makes me angry, haha. :/

null0R said:
Push once again. Can't believe, that people acually rate this app bad (two stars) because it needs root access! What the ****... However, I do not believe that it was someone from this forum. But anyway - kind of makes me angry, haha. :/
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lol, just forget this kind of feedback mate...
all this kids with ZERO technical background, never ever willing/able to "understand" what they are doing/using
i like the app, will play arround with it before i post some feedback.
anyway thanks in advance and good luck with the app!

It's perfect.
I like i like.
Compliment.

Thank you, guys. That were finally some constructive and nice comments...
Unfourtunately, the majority of Android users, however, seems to be dumb. I just received another two comments. They both rated the app one star.
"scheise ...x" (which is german for "sh*t")
"f*cken root"
Well, thats some very constructive feedback, I love it. :/ Stupid idiots.

Great app , mate. I am really pleased about it. I'm glad that requires root. Not everyone should have this, if you know what i mean
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xyron_2k said:
Great app , mate. I am really pleased about it. I'm glad that requires root. Not everyone should have this, if you know what i mean
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
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users without shouldnt even have the posibility to rate such apps (wich need root to install)
as they can't try it why they should have a opinion?

True words. But what am I supposed to do else but checking if the app gets root access at the start and displaying an error if it doesn't? Unfourtunately, there is no option at the developer console to disable the download for unrooted phones. :/
But thanks for feedback.

Thank you very much for building this app - I thought it was just what I was looking for! However I have a problem although I'm not sure its necessarily the app's problem. Basically I'm editing the preferences for a live wallpaper which looks in a folder for photos to display. Using your app I can open the preferences file and edit the string relating to the path of the folder. However it has no effect on the app - regardless of whether I open,restart or manipulate the app - all that happens is the preference file gets overwritten with the previous values. Its almost as if the live wallpaper isn't doing a getpreferences call?

Hi privatesam. This might be too late to answer, but anyway... Well, I have no idea what could be the matter here. I would make sure that the wallpaper app is not running in the background. I don't know if that helps. I hope so.
Well, friends, I made a small update this sunday. Basically, I just improved the UI a little bit. And - to be honest - I included another monetization method than AdMob, since my income was that bad with those AdMob banners (eCPM at around 0,05 $...) and I put a lot of work into this app. I'm sorry... I hope, you are not mad at me. I just wanted to give it a try (for those being interested, this ad network is called StartApp Mod Edit: Link Removed. - read about it first, for example here).
Again, please don't be mad at me for trying out this more "intrusive" ad network... Most of you won't notice it anyway I guess (using AdAway).

Hi. Let's give this a push.

Toy defense 2
Hi buddy, can you tell me if or how can I use this for cheat in the Toy defense 2? I think it is imposibble, but I am LAMA thanks for response

I did a small update yesterday. I included some support/help texts and removed some intrusive advertisement due to lots of negative feedback and some false virus alerts (still using StartApp, though). And also because of the Google Play Store policy changes, of course.
A also found a video on YouTube. It does belong to me. I distance myself from its content and the shown use. It is somehow a proof, however, that my app works and how it works.
@honza.chlan:
Since no developer is forced to USE Shared Preferences, this app (Toy Defense 2) might use another way to store their settings. For example on some servers in the internet. CheatDroid does not work everywhere.

Push.

sharing my review onplay store here..
With android available as cheap as 50 bucks,dumb people are getting on the train, don't know what root is,andd blame the dev for it,ITS NOT A ROOT YOUR PHONE APP, NEITHER WORKS WITHOUT ROOT,and if you can't get these simple fkin lines in your mind,then God save the devs, BTW,hats off to dev for working,for making my gaming easier and yes it's your right to earn something you worked on by having ads and our right to block them by adaway,hehehe
FYI contributed my full thanks limit to you today,cheers

How reliable is Android Permissions Controller?

I have never used the Permissions Controller timeline to view when apps accessed something on my device. That's because I have taken time to configure permissions for every single app on my device, and assumed Android would ensure that apps are forced to adhere to my settings.
But then I saw this news today:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654856617723301888
I wanted to check if something of this sort is happening on my device too. And yes, it turns out to be true in my case:
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Background access is NOT allowed under permissions:
Why did Android allow Meet to use my Camera in the background?​

TheMystic said:
I have never used the Permissions Controller timeline to view when apps accessed something on my device. That's because I have taken time to configure permissions for every single app on my device, and assumed Android would ensure that apps are forced to adhere to my settings.
But then I saw this news today:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654856617723301888
I wanted to check if something of this sort is happening on my device too. And yes, it turns out to be true in my case:
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Background access is NOT allowed under permissions:
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Why did Android allow Meet to use my Camera in the background?​
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Another thing, there isn't even an option to "allow" Meet to use the camera in the background.

ethical_haquer said:
Another thing, there isn't even an option to "allow" Meet to use the camera in the background.
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I will keep checking the timeline every now and then going forward.
I have set Knock Knock to OFF. So I really can't think of any good reason why the app was allowed background access, and especially when such an option doesn't even exist as you said.
This Knock Knock feature is another configuration that exposes Google's hypocrisy. First of all, there is absolutely no reason to keep it turned ON by default. Despite several complaints and feedback, Google has still kept that setting ON by default.
Unfortunately, most users aren't even aware of this stupidly named feature that doesn't actually 'knock' to get the users' permission to open up the camera.

TheMystic said:
I will keep checking the timeline every now and then going forward.
I have set Knock Knock to OFF. So I really can't think of any good reason why the app was allowed background access, and especially when such an option doesn't even exist as you said.
This Knock Knock feature is another configuration that exposes Google's hypocrisy. First of all, there is absolutely no reason to keep it turned ON by default. Despite several complaints and feedback, Google has still kept that setting ON by default.
Unfortunately, most users aren't even aware of this stupidly named feature that doesn't actually 'knock' to get the users' permission to open up the camera.
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TheMystic said:
Unfortunately, most users aren't even aware of this stupidly named feature that doesn't actually 'knock' to get the users' permission to open up the camera.
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Which feature are you referring to? The "Ask every time" one?

ethical_haquer said:
Which feature are you referring to? The "Ask every time" one?
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Looks like you don't use Meet.
This setting:
By default, if someone calls you on Meet, he/ she will automatically be able to see you/ what's happening at your end even before you answer/ don't answer.
What sort of a creep at Google thinks this setting should be ON by default?

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Looks like you don't use Meet.
This setting:
View attachment 5906293
By default, if someone calls you on Meet, he/ she will automatically be able to see you/ what's happening at your end even before you answer/ don't answer.
What sort of a creep at Google thinks this setting should be ON by default?
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I don't trust Google, so yeah I don't use their stuff. I'm really not surprised they have it on by default, sadly.