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How to reset Activesync (make it forget)?

ActiveSync has decided that my device must be called WM_Administa1,2,3,4 etc. I've deleted the Partners keys in the registry on my PC and device, but it still remembers things. Anyone know how to make it completely forget and let me name my own device?
Thanks

at45 said:
ActiveSync has decided that my device must be called WM_Administa1,2,3,4 etc. I've deleted the Partners keys in the registry on my PC and device, but it still remembers things. Anyone know how to make it completely forget and let me name my own device?
Thanks
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Not the answer you want. But honestly? Active sync is so retarded and has always been more of a pain than a gain.
And it's probably gone in WM 7... So, why not take this opportunity to "get in sync" with the better way this stuff is done now:
One such way is to use Google Sync -- and move all your contacts to a gmail account, which then has a google calendar associated with it. Once it is there, in the google cloud, then it can sync with your phone without active sync ever entering the picture again. Then you can just use the cable as a USB connection only.
It's been a while since i made this transition, but i am so less bothered by all the anxiety caused by active sync when going rom to rom etc.
STEP 1: getting outlook data to google - to then enable google sync, and contact sync.. i can't recall now if google had a tool for this, re exporting out of outlook for the one time to get gmail/cal in sync.
but there is an app that does it, called OGGsync -- and it works perfectly. only prob is it is not free, and cost $30 ... others may know of some other way to do this, if it appeals to you at all...
in the meantime, sorry for your problems. I ran into that, as we all have, many times. and frankly i never knew HOW to fix it... i thonk it always ended up being trial and error wasting hours ... and.. certainly your time is way more valuable per hour than $30 ... that was my view in the end.
good luck

Erm, no. Sending all my data to a 3rd party via the internet only to have them scan and index it before returning it to a machine one foot away from the first is not progress. There's nothing good about that model at all, and it's offtopic.

at45 said:
Erm, no. Sending all my data to a 3rd party via the internet only to have them scan and index it before returning it to a machine one foot away from the first is not progress. There's nothing good about that model at all, and it's offtopic.
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yeah well screw you for a ****ty attitude. You don't need to be an asshole. You can just say "that's not what I want". Most people on this site do not behave as you do, thankfully. But their numbers are growing and I would like to STAMP IT OUT. This site wasn't created for assholiness. have a nice day!

Ha. I didn't read that after the first few words. No need to. The 'net's full of people like you, which unfortunately means that the world is, and we've all met your local counterparts.
Anyway if you'd kindly get off my thread and be a prick in reality where less people have to put up with you I'm sure many users would be appreciative.
Back ONTOPIC it turns out the solution was to simply erase the Partners keys in the registries and re-install ActiveSync. Probably not ideal but only takes a minute to do and it works fine.
The keys are something like [HKLM\software\microsoft\windows ce services\partners]

at45 said:
Ha. I didn't read that after the first few words. No need to. The 'net's full of people like you, which unfortunately means that the world is, and we've all met your local counterparts.
Anyway if you'd kindly get off my thread and be a prick in reality where less people have to put up with you I'm sure many users would be appreciative.
Back ONTOPIC it turns out the solution was to simply erase the Partners keys in the registries and re-install ActiveSync. Probably not ideal but only takes a minute to do and it works fine.
The keys are something like [HKLM\software\microsoft\windows ce services\partners]
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oh coool!! thanks for the info!!i never thought if it that way..b.t.w. great attitude and you are smart !! we need that attitude in the whitehouse!! ,that was a cool burn

You two should joust.

just delet ur sycned phone from settings

[Q] Problem with Automatic Reinstall of ALL WP7 Apps

Hi,
I have one Problem with my HTC HD7: I tried lots of Apps and Demos and I deinstalled a bunch of it after that. But now after a few days I see all my deinstalled apps back !!! I don´t want them back, but Marketplace loads them down again without a question to me. How can I disable this ? I´reinstalled my phone 3 times with hardreset, no chance. And I don´t want to use a new live account, because I bought some apps and don´t want them lost. any ideas ?
Thank you.

lol! I find the situation kind of funny.
What I do is just uninstall them again on my device. I think it has got to do with the syncing on Zune. Don't know really, I have no idea. & yes, it would be nice if there's someone out there who knows exactly what to do. Share please.

Suck big time
Finally installed a sd card in my Focus(after 2 months). MS has got to come with a better way. Zune put about four of the fifteen apps I had back on the phone. When I used Zune Marketplace to put the others on there, I got the message alreay purchase. So what put it on the damn phone! I go to the phone marketplace. Search for the apps, when I try to download them I get a message saying tap here. It says uses Wi-Fi or your PC to download. Don't have Wi-Fi and when I tried to install from PC nothing happened. I really loved WP7 until today. Unless I go sit outside a McDonald's I won't get my apps back.

agreed that this needs to be fixed. you can delete downloaded songs through zune, but not apps.
I will ask @ZuneSupport

[Q] Could someone make a custom ROM that steals personal information from users?

Recently I received a notice from Google saying that my account was accessed from Russia. I also recently installed a custom Android ROM onto my T-Mobile HTC HD2. I was thinking, pretty much anyone can take the Android OS, make a custom version, and release it for download, right?
If so, is it possible that the person who created the custom Android ROM also modified it so they could steal my personal information? I really do like the ROM I am currently using and would not like to switch if I don't have to, but this whole Google thing has me paranoid now.

I have had my facebook lock down a few times from that kind of thing. But never out of the country. Did you check if mock locations is enabled? Settings - Applications -Development. Not sure id that could be the issue, but it is possible it was your phone reporting as another location.
Sent by Supersonic!

Now Google has sent me a second notice, AFTER changing my password, so this is really starting to bother me. I tried changing that Mock Locations setting, but it was already disabled. Just to be sure I haven't entered any of my new passwords into my phone yet since this last incident and I'm going to see if I still have problems.

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Now Google has sent me a second notice, AFTER changing my password, so this is really starting to bother me.
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That's not good. Stay away from those warez & p0rn sites that end in ".ru"
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Watch out.
Are you sure google is sending these messages?
And does the mail contain a link for you to click on sayiong to change your password?
Alot of times the mail themselves are the scams. And are in most cases sent using the google account but from another server.
Could you copy paste the headers...leaving out your personal mail. In Outlook you can view this by opening the mail File->Info -> properties.
You should see internetheaders there.
Copy paste them. Dunno how to find them in Gmail havn't checked yet gonna see later how to view them in Gmail

Anything is possible, someone making a ROM could put whatever they wanted in there.
It's probably not the most likely way your account would end up compromised though, it could be anything from random hacking to malware on your PC.

Well, that's a good question. It's something that I wonder myself and that sometimes concerns me.

I have ESET antivirus installed and regularly do quick scans on my PC, but I suppose that wouldn't catch everything.
As far as the Google notice, it is not an email message. The notice appears in a red box with bold text at the top of my inbox when I sign into gmail, and I also checked the URL to make sure I was actually on Google.com.
I remember when I looking for ROMS to download, this particular build (can't remember the name) had the most thread views out of all of them at the time, so hopefully someone else would have noticed this issue by now if it was part of the build...
Anyways, thanks for your help. I'll try running an in-depth ESET scan to see if anything comes up.

I took it a step further and don't use any google account on my custom ROM at all. the less I rely on apps and cache data the better.

I always thought about that. Just me being cynical I suppose. Some of these deevs just do it for the love

I never thought of that before, maybe I should be more careful in the future..

Thank you gr8 idea...

lude219 said:
I took it a step further and don't use any google account on my custom ROM at all. the less I rely on apps and cache data the better.
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What are you doing where you'd really need to worry about that? Just seems like using an android phone without a google account would be a pain.

[Q] phone security. My phone has been hacked

I have a general question for all droid phones.
To make a long story short I have a crazy ex-wife that constantly hacks into my phone. When I get a new phone she tells me the model.
She reads thru my text messages and at times has even sent texts to my contacts.
At times when I open my phone she displays her facebook picture on the phone.
Does anyone know how to stop this???
I heard that droid phones are easy to hack by using something with the email system. If this is true is there any way to stop this?
This constant hacking is driving me crazy. My service provoder will not help no matter who I talk to.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Jerry

Yeah get a restraining order... The perfect way to deal with a crazy X. Been there.

You should lock your phone. iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and WP7 all allow you to use a 4 digit code or something else (pattern, password) to lock your phone. Don't tell her what it is, and she won't be able to unlock your phone. I would be surprised if she has the ability to "hack" past that.

raydowe said:
You should lock your phone. iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and WP7 all allow you to use a 4 digit code or something else (pattern, password) to lock your phone. Don't tell her what it is, and she won't be able to unlock your phone. I would be surprised if she has the ability to "hack" past that.
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Minus, or so I am guessing, she isn't any where near him when she does it...
In other words, the phone could be in his pocket, and she would still be able to hack it...

I've never heard of anything like this being done without physical access or even knowing what model phone the person has, have you? I guess if someone had access to your google account they could remotely install apps through the marketplace.

It looks like she has access to your google account sync to your droid and installed any "spy" app. Try changing your account's password, do a factory reset and don't allow any backup.

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they could remotely install apps through the marketplace.
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If she has his email and password, I can see it possible. But either way if the phone company wont do anything. Then the easiest way is to serve her with a restraining order. My ex was this way and I had to freaking move states in order to get the hell away from her.
Even so she still followed and harassed me in the state I am in. Not in person. Electronically. I just ignored her, and the problems went away eventually.... His ex sound pretty persistent. That gets annoying QUICK! like you start having evil thoughts annoying.
Therefore I say get a restraining order. You may even be able to get a fee wavier if you qualify for it.

Change your google passwords, phone co. account password (if you pay online) lock you phone and any other accounts associated with your phone. Do get a restraining order!
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Wow I feel sorry for you man it sounds crazy... Hope you can life through it and fix everything.

raydowe said:
You should lock your phone. iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and WP7 all allow you to use a 4 digit code or something else (pattern, password) to lock your phone. Don't tell her what it is, and she won't be able to unlock your phone. I would be surprised if she has the ability to "hack" past that.
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You're missing the point, this crazy woman is his ex wife so there's no way she's putting her hands on his phone but she hacks him anyway from remote !

Your wife is really crazy to do such things! Get a restraining order. Change every account associated with the device. Create new ones. Hope things would definitely change!

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It looks like she has access to your google account sync to your droid and installed any "spy" app. Try changing your account's password, do a factory reset and don't allow any backup.
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sorry but why do not allow any backup? what's the problem with the backup? I was hacked in a similar way and the only thing I did was clicking on a fake video I was tagged on Facebook, which installed a remote access tool. And similarly to the author of this thread, the hacker can now read my whatsapp, facebook, instagram and gallery pictures no matter how many password I change or 2FA. I would like so much to get rid of it.

Question Most frustrating virus ever

I have a virus attached to my phone / google cloud and I can not shake it. I've tried multiple anti virus apps, all of them found absolutely nothing on my phone. I have factory reset my phone 3 separate times,the last one,I did not import my contacts list( that's where the virus first attacked) . And somehow, my contacts appeared a few hours later. All with the same problem ( see supplied screenshot) please someone ,help. It has been going on for 6 months now and I have not found one other person to have a similar issue!? How can I be the only one affected smh

It's been a long while since I had a Galaxy (S5), but I help my sister and my mom with their S20 and S22...
Apologies if I am a bit obvious & obtuse -- but you haven't mentioned what I'm about to suggest -- but I remember getting that when my phone book was set to display email addresses and not only contacts with phone numbers. As with the Middle Eastern contacts, I imagine that THAT might've been a "virus" or something, which synced to your Google or Samsung account, and it simply keeps getting re-synced every time you reset your device and/or just re-synced in general after a time.
You may/might need to delete the entries manually from your Google account and/or your Samsung account contact lists -- and then finally your device.
If anything, a "virus" does not survive a factory reset...you either have to re-install or re-download the virus in some fashion (whether knowingly or not) after the reset...
Good luck with everything!

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If anything, a "virus" does not survive a factory reset...you either have to re-install or re-download the virus in some fashion (whether knowingly or not) after the reset...
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Not true. Rootkits do just that. Remember the infamous XHelper?
Does a Factory Reset Remove Viruses From Your Phone?
Running a factory reset on your phone can potentially clear out a persistent virus that is otherwise hard to remove. But does it remove all viruses?
www.makeuseof.com

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Not true. Rootkits do just that. Remember the infamous XHelper?
Does a Factory Reset Remove Viruses From Your Phone?
Running a factory reset on your phone can potentially clear out a persistent virus that is otherwise hard to remove. But does it remove all viruses?
www.makeuseof.com
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I did not know about this. Can something like XHelper implant itself without root access? I have my doubts OP had root access in any state in the number of factory resets performed...
And -- although I have not looked into the URL or XHelper -- it doesn't look like that or other rootkit "viruses" purpose would be what happened to OP -- merely changing and/or inputting random contacts...

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Can something like XHelper implant itself without root access?
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Yes, that’s what happened. It used some exploit in Android to hide itself in the system partition.
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it doesn't look like that or other rootkit "viruses" purpose would be what happened to OP
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This is not the case with OP. He simply has to clean up his contacts.

I did manually erase all contacts after the last time, within 5 hours they were back. 435 contacts erased and brought back. It's mind numbing.

What is this xhelper?

muffintop75 said:
I did manually erase all contacts after the last time, within 5 hours they were back. 435 contacts erased and brought back. It's mind numbing.
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Have you given any 3rd party app access to your contacts? They are coming back because they are being resynced from cloud. You have to delete them from your Google account (assuming that’s what you use) as well as any other account that you have added.
1. On your mobile, sign out of your Google account that is having these contacts. And delete all contacts on your device.
2. Delete all these contacts on the web (using a browser on your laptop). Do this on all your cloud accounts that have your contacts.
3. Once it is cleaned in the cloud, add your Google account back on your device.
You don’t have any virus.

It's as @TheMystic says, we'd be willing to bet that something is resyncing your contacts from a cloud; at the very least it is not a virus.
Unless the virus' only purpose is chaos, there's no reason a virus would do this action -- it's just not how modern viruses work nor their purpose. They open exploits to either damage your system (OS-wise), hold you ransom, or obtain your information. Maybe back in the 70's and 80's and early 90's, there were viruses whose only purpose was to wreak havoc and delete as much data as possible, now viruses are meant to somehow get monetary returns -- creating random contacts would in no way get any "hackers" any money.

I did as instructed. We will see lol. Thank you very much for your time. I am wondering something though. If this is not a virus,what do I call it? It's something, I have to have a name for it. And I really want to find out who caused it

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I have a virus attached to my phone / google cloud and I can not shake it. I've tried multiple anti virus apps, all of them found absolutely nothing on my phone. I have factory reset my phone 3 separate times,the last one,I did not import my contacts list( that's where the virus first attacked) . And somehow, my contacts appeared a few hours later. All with the same problem ( see supplied screenshot) please someone ,help. It has been going on for 6 months now and I have not found one other person to have a similar issue!? How can I be the only one affected smh
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Dont think so its a virus.
first - stop syncing of contacts from google drive. Delete all contacts from google, if you can.
use this app - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.makelifesimple.duplicatedetector
this will remove all duplicates - name and number based, empty contacts, email ID's etc.
Had the same issue years ago, turned out to be sync issue with google.

So far so good it's been two hours. And everything still looks good. One thing the mystic suggested had me check my settings , I had ,for some reason, allowed 3rd party access to my contacts. Why would anyone ever want random web sites to have access to their contacts? Why is that even a setting? Lmao But no matter, it's turned off now. And I also followed the mystics other suggestions. For once ,I feel confident that this solved my issue. But only time will tell. It was taking weeks for my contacts to erase themselves before. But it all makes a little more sense to me now. I will keep you guys updated. ,thanks again for all your help ,this forum thread did what months of me searching online,and going from one tech "guru" store to the next. Every single one of them said( in some form) " the only way to get rid of this issue is to start a whole new google account, and to not access my old account,from my new one" . I refused to believe that. They were all just being lazy because it wasn't 15 years of THEIR life that was getting erased . So thank you for helping me find a real solution