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Google is watching us more than ever?
When Android know about you anything.
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original write by anonymous​
In this 5 minuts article we describe all the very weird things in Android, and we want to ask you - what do you say?
at first we saying that all of this is on built-in apps. Why to do that? ads custom, know what to upgrade for android, control in market, corperation with government entities like many times is past (Events in France on cooperation with cellular companys and government that they wiretapping your calls), read news, think about it - how google now know where you live, what you doing, where you visited.. and also you should take a look in this - https://history.google.com/history/ your all seraches and history.
One. (Shown all over the news) - "Next Android version will change the way the root work":
We asking, what happend to our "good times" Android experience? ("Open source", "Android will be different then iOS" Etc.)
Google want her privacy in system files, in control, in blocking permission root apps.
Keep reading, this was to notice what happend right now.
Two. Suspicious processes running in the background all the time
Three. Very Strange Permissions:
Hint: Android asks for credit card information on first running. ok its useful, fast, and great reason to take this details.
"Connect & Disconnect from Wi-Fi" - Dont cofuse we talk about other apps like "Factory Mode" etc. that running all the time in the background, why it need to turn on\off the Wi-Fi..? there is the main Wi-Fi settings, where YOU control the Wi-Fi, this is auto control. probably you not even see when Wi-Fi turned on it self. check in your built-in apps. its comfortable, came with the phone - you not need to install or update apps. and this came to many apps that nod need this. come on check it on few apps.
"Share your device's screen with another device" - Wow that was cool if was a built-in TeamViewer app! (wtf?!)
"Modify battery statistics" - in other words fake the battery status and deleting statistics, so the battery stats is not secure way to know what working and used the battery (!). (After long waiting for explain, they told me that is wrong spell. sure. the great perfect Google wrong in spell 4 official versions?! no, its modify.
"Downloading files without notification" - (you dont even noticed that something download, maybe right now)
"Add or modify calender events and send emails without host's permission" - In other words, the hosts is you. and emails send from you to another "mysterious" people. very smartly they put "Add or modify calender events" in start to hide this.
"Internet Browser" have permissions to - "Record audio" , "Take pictures and videos" (Allows application to take pictures and record video at any time).
"Mobile Tracker"! - Service that connects to the Internet and if your phone stolen you can lock him, wipe the device.
But I dont noticed that he canto call, send & read sms, record audio, share screen, read browser data (cookies etc.) and history, set an alarm in "Clock" (?), Access to NFC and more.
This was should be great options to my stolen phone. and very hurt for my private info.
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Four. System applications linked to each other. - if one is turned off - problems starting.
The Android system built like this, that system applications linked to each other - you can check with few programmers that know this.
This is a nightmare of every programmer, when something get wrong, - to start searching problems and fix them. maybe rewriting the whole code. but google wants this.
Well, its like we'll have to install GTA V,ARMA 3, and COD:Ghosts to play Pacman.
You have turned off one - the other will continue to operate
Five. Permissions granted to applications that not supposed to do that
Gallery - can record audio, calling, etc.
Adjust color (with this you set sharpness and color tone, this of course very small option in Settnigs) - can view sms, terminate processes, access Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and etc.
And more like in "Three".
Thanks for helping, google.
very small part of "Help" premissions. check it.
Six. Almost every app has strange permissions that it should not have, check it yourself.
Seven. p.s.
We expected that Google, the "can do anything" company, in couple versions of Android will greatly improve the system and make it run faster.
(damn, windows 7 has same requirement) Although that iPhone have barely one processor with two cores, running like a cannon against my SGS4.
True, it is Android, we have higher resolution and quality and have more things to handle - but we espect that this 4*4 cores (SGS4) "computer" do more.
Maybe just another hidden processes in the background causing it?
Factory Mode - for some reason gives all permissions that you can in cell-phone. Why this running on your device now?
Eight. The Smart Google
In few words they do on you the trick. they can say that all permissions need for some reasons, but is great reason to connect you to the Internet 24\7 365 day in year. and the all hints points on something else.
Last. We care.
we care that "Hangouts" replacing our default message apps (why to put 2 applications of texting? its like to use the same cameras to take picture. one for us, one for google.)
some people dont care, and they are right. we become indifferent that all the world dig in our lifes. but it should not like this.
what you feel if steal your credit card, watch on you in bathroom, have your "deleted" snapchat images, take a look on your sister?
And what if in one day I waill want to use this?
mmm.. not really
What you say?
for the great people that read this - you must change it, do somethig. take the glove.

Oh boy....
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Google SUCKS! From now on, I will be boycotting all google products. I will also be boycotting any other brand who violates MY privacy.

Point #1 is all wrong, there's a big diference between Android as an OS and AOSP.
AOSP = open source
All the rest = closed source

I have been using App ops starter and is closely watching the permission i should allow. but still i doubt that GOOGLE is not letting us to put various restriction that should have been there.
Damn it GOOGLE.

Mod Edit
All very interesting , but not relevant to the S4
Please take this to OT
Thread closed
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Privacy concerns about AOKP - Best alternative of Cyanogenmod, AOKP, Replica, etc?

I currently have AOKP (Maclaw) installed on my Samsung Galaxy SIII Mini, but as I was looking through the apps, there was one particular app that got me slightly concerned. It´s called Panda and when I click it, the only option I have is to "Enable Energy Save Mode", yet that utterly simple app has FULL access to the entire phone.
Firstly with Panda, you do not have the option to uninstall it the easy way, so a noob is forced to have it there.
If you try to forcibly stop Panda in the app manager, it will restart itself automatically.
Further more - Panda have the perrmissions to
- directly call phone numbers
read phone status and identity
- read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
send MMS messages
- take pictures and photos
- record audio
- approximate location (network-based)
precise location (GPS and network-based)
- modify your contacts
read your contacts
- read your own contact card
- modify or delete the contents of your SD card
- disable your screen lock
- set an alarm
- read Google service configuration
use accounts on the device
view configured accounts
- read terms you added to the dictionary
- change system display settings
modify secure system settings
retrieve system internal status
- change network connectivity
change WiMaX state
connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
connect and disconnect from WiMaX
control Near-Field Communication
full network access
view network connections
view Wi-Fi connections
- access Bluetooth settings
pair with Bluetooth devices
- re-order running apps
retrieve running apps
run at startup
- draw over other apps
- control vibration
prevent phone from sleeping
- add words to user-defined dictionary
- change your audio settings
. read sync settings
read sync statistics
toggle sync on and off
- expand / collaps status bar
- modify system settings
read battery statistics
read Home settings and shortcuts
test access and protected storage
write Home settings and shortcuts
- full permissions to all device features and storage
- Set global theme
..meaning I guess that this Panda app has full administrator/root permissions.. - ..but why?
Why does a seemingly useless application like Panda have root permissions, which in turn also makes it fairly difficult to remove? What is the application Panda´s true purpose? Why is it there in the first place? What does it do, exactly?
My concerns with these alternative smartphone operating systems is that there might be an Ubuntu/Debian scenario, where Debian is a nice clean OS giving you the very basics and letting you choose whatever extra you want from there, whereas Ubuntu comes with a lot of extra stuff that you do not really need and / or should be given the ability to choose if you wanted to install or not, upon install.
So, I guess my question to the experienced, security- and privacy-oriented smartphone-OS user is:
What is the best alternative smartphone OS that gives you a simple OS without anything extra such as that suspicious Panda app?
In other words, which smartphone alternative out there today can be trusted the most to respect my privacy? I would of course look into Firefox OS if it was available.
Am I being overly paranoid about AOKP? Should I just keep that, or perhaps Cyanogenmod is the way to go? Or perhaps I am missing an even better solution?
Thanks.

You know you can easily disable those permissions with app ops, do you?
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GXGOW said:
You know you can easily disable those permissions with app ops, do you?
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Not with the Panda application you cant, and thats using the original App Ops with 4.3 support.
If you access App Ops to edit permissions for Panda, you arent given a single permission to alter.
The App Ops I am using works just fine with other applications, and I can easily alter permissions - but with Panda, not so--I cannot edit a single permission of Panda´ s, and yet that application has full access to my entire phone.
Panda is an application that seems to come by default with the MacLaw releases, at least on AOKP - I havent tested their Cyanogenmod release yet.
That Panda bear logo of this particular Panda app that I am talking about is the same Panda depicted on http://maclaw.pl - so it kinda begs to question - why is there an application like that with the AOKP MacLaw releases in the first place? Does that app gather information? Can it be accessed remotely? What exactly does it do?
The Panda "Teddy" logo:
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You could upload the app to VirusTotal and if nothing is picking it up then send it to a AV provider that you like as a suspicious file and they'll check it over.
Or upload it and post the link here and I'm sure someone who knows far more than I do) could look it over.

You could also just ask him yourself, but I don't think he'll be collecting your personal information. The only thing that app does, is turning off one CPU core and setting the governor to OnDemand. That's all I know.

PSA root apps, or mods to the system don't really need to declare permissions, they can obtain the same functionality other routes. Don't judge the safety of an app just based on it's permissions.

Sorry for Apple Fans ! 15 powerful Apps only for Android

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Android's advantage is more than iPhone App, because compared with greater freedom can be adjusted in accordance with the user's preferences.
Although most of the Apps can be found on Android phone and iOS, but certain Apps can only be used on Android phone.
For example: Let you look at the film and also talk to friends pass messages's App、Freedom to expand the phone storage capacity's App.
On the Android, you can definitely find more interesting than the iPhone's App. When you are sharing the App with friends, remember do not tell Apple Fans, because they can not use！
Mobile art museum " Muzei " can let your phone desktop to be mobile art museum.
Automatically put your phone every day to replace the tablecloth into different paintings, it feeling very artistic ～
"Hoverchat" let you sending message without interrupting ongoing things.
App - Hoverchat allows you to use the phone at the same time be able to do anything at any time to pass on the message with friends, the "Anything" is also include watching movie.
Transparency and depending on the size of the dialog box can be adjusted to your personal preferences.
"Google Keep" keep your write down ideas at anytime & anywhere by the App.
Google Keep is a flexible tool for notes. It has many different colors labels for your memo and pictures, if you use recording, it yet can automatically convert speech into text.
Using " Cover " let your favorite App at the unlock screen
Cover can find the App for eliminating troublesome to rummage the page. Different for the case where you are, smart of the moment to help you put most likely will use the App put on the unlock screen.
" LetsGoApp " the best App To SD for Android 4.1 above.
100% move and execution the App within the MicroSD or USB OTG, save a lot of space in the phone's internal storage to store other data, for example: Music、Video、Photo ..... , and you can also sharing the MicroSD and OTG inside's App to your friends, that if they had install LetsGoApp.
Cerberus: Probably by far the best anti-theft App
Cerberus is not only track your stolen phone. It also allows you to text message from the remote control and your phone browser, for example: let the alarm sounded、clear data、lock phone by password, even open recording or view gangster's call records.
" Lux " let you full control the brightness of the screen
In the dark, Lux can let phone's screen brightness be transferred is less than zero. You can also turn on the「Night Mode」, and in the future, Lux always will automatically reduce the brightness of the screen.
" Locale " Single-handedly to control all details of the phone.
This automated App can make your phone according to your environment、Battery charge、Callers、Time to make a difference.
For example: You can set the phone reverse after it automatically muted、Automatically reduce screen brightness, when the charge is less than 20% .
Google's " Sky Map " Make stargazing to be fun.
Google's Sky Map make people for easily to understand the constellation. As long as holding the phone point to constellation, that you will get info about constellation.
" Link Bubble Browser " Change the way you use the browser.
This App is to help you to save time. When you click the link, it will automatically open the link's page in the background, and you still can continue view your own page, until the new page's loading is complete. And then you just click the bubble of link side, it will be show new page！
" VLC’s media player " Basically, all video files has support to play on your phone.
After downloading VLC’s media player, this App can support all video formats.
" tTorrent " is a P2P download tool for mobile device.
The mobile P2P tool tTorrent, let you easily to download torrent, assuredly downloading include any files.
" Mighty Text " Reply the phone's message by computer.
Through Mighty Text, you can reply the phone's message by tablet computer or PC, it can be performed within Gmail, so you no longer need to hiden to reply message, if you are in a meeting.
" Tasker " Tailored to your exclusive phone.
There are more than 200 built-in phone settings. You can be based on different time, weather, date, gadgets, events and other variables make your phone react differently. It even has a built-in platform for the manufacture and sale of your own App.
" UCCW " Design their own unique desktop gadget.
UCCW let you design their own unique desktop gadget. First select a built-in UI visual setting, and then select what gadget and diskplay mode you want to show. In addition to doing the font change, you still can add picture、weather forecast、clock、calendar、battery charge、recents、Gmail .......
After reading these super large exclusive App for Android, maybe there are so many Apple Fans will crying！
Don't forget sharing this thread to your Android friends, after you had read it.
http://www.tshopping.com.tw/thread-241485-1-1.html

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push~

It so good
I try it~

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This stupidity has gone on for long enough.
All of your threads are being spammed by your multiple accounts, giving bogus feedback.
THREAD CLOSED!

Improve Performance Of Your Android Device With All In One Toolbox

With daily use, your Android may suffer specific yield losses due to overloading or increased my junk files. With All in one Toolbox, improve that performance immediately can be as simple as pressing a button on the screen of your Android.
1. IMMEDIATE OPTIMIZATION WITH ALL IN ONE TOOLBOX
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According to statistics, every day more than 4 million apps are downloaded and installed and on average, each user installs between 25 and 30 new apps on your Android , in addition to those originally used to include the manufacturer or network operator.
Although these data do not imply that all these apps are used at the same time, if shows that, even in a timely manner, the processing power of your device can be seen collapsed by the simultaneous use of several apps or Storage Space can quickly be consumed because of temporary files and junk files generated by all those apps that you have installed on your Android … and even some you’ve deleted.
The use of this application can solve this problem and, on this occasion, I want to show the effectiveness of one of them: All in one Toolbox .
Imagine that all the inhabitants of your city decide circulate simultaneously on the same street. Probably they cause a significant bottleneck both on the street in question, and in adjacent.
Well, something similar happens in your device when you run multiple apps simultaneously, the processor capacity collapses to solve all requests.
This breakdown does not always occur because of poor management Android RAM , in most cases is the lack of optimization of the apps themselves that cause the collapse.
In this situation, it is best to close the least important step to give priority to those which are actually using. With All in one Toolbox that is as simple as touching a button.
Start by finding and installing All-in-one Toolbox in Google Play and start the app.
In her internal storage capacity and its use is shown, the use of RAM and storage of the user. Then you can choose between two alternatives with the same result. The first is to touch on the central indicator of RAM and immediately start optimizing your Android to give higher priority to services that require more resources.
The second alternative is to touch the icon Empowerment . Then analyze the apps that are loaded into RAM and will propose closing the least important.
At all times you can uncheck any of the select apps to avoid arrest. Then click on selected Detention and indicated my will stop giving higher priority to other to speed up performance and responsiveness.
[ Interesting: Top 70 Latest Android Apps For New Smartphone Users ]
2. CLEAN THE JUNK FILES FROM YOUR ANDROID
Another important aspect which also affects, to a lesser extent, the performance of your Android are junk files.
These files are usually residual error logs apps, temporary files or orphaned and forgotten after uninstalling the app. These files slow down the overall system performance because it must spend resources to organize and manage thousands of files you really are useless.
Perform periodic cleaning of these files helps to improve the performance of your Android and recover some of the lost storage space.
Doing so is as simple as the optimization process that you have seen in the previous step.
Touch the icon Clean and analysis of files will start. The results are classified into several categories depending on their nature.
Among them it is common to find files cache apps, temporary files or even obsolete remnants of uninstalled apps or longer.
Tap on a category to check that indeed everything that has been detected can be removed and is not included any documents you want to keep.
If everything is correct, click on Clear and the selected files will be deleted.
3. A BOX FULL OF TOOLS FOR ANDROID
In addition to the options to optimize the use of RAM and storage space , All-in-One Toolbox has some additional features that allow you to better manage your files and applications on your Android.
As its name suggests, All in one Toolbox is a complete toolbox that in addition to optimize the system , allows you to manage installing and uninstalling apps , backup or control apps auto start with the system .
To access these additional tools, tap on the icon guides . Here is a list of the various tools available is displayed.
One that have seemed more attractive is what allows you to customize the apps that are started by the system. Tap on the tool ON .
Then the tab User Apps, shows you a list of the applications you’ve installed and that are started by the system when you turn on your device. If you want to speed up the start of your Android , switch off the you do not need. You can also disable the start of some apps built into the system.
Go to the tab System Applications and disables do not use.
Pay special attention to disable the apps in this section, as some of these apps are essential for the correct functioning of the system. If, for example, you use the app for Gmail to manage your mail, you can disable the start of the native Mail app Android since it will not be of any use.
This is not Disabling the app, just you prevent it from loading into memory at startup.
4. INSTANT CLEAN YOUR ANDROID PHONE
If you want to further reduce the steps to optimize your Android , you can create a shortcut to the optimization options or cleaning .
To do this go to the respective sections in All in one Toolbox and click on Options . In the menu that appears, tap on Create a shortcut and a new shortcut on your home screen is created.
Clicking on it will run directly the task of optimizing or cleaning without starting All in one Toolbox.
Article forwarded from waowtech

Enabling Push Notifications on Oppo A77 (Australian version)

Hi Everyone,
I recently purchased an Oppo A77 (in Australia), and am very impressed by the cost of the phone and the excellent hardware (Octa-core processor, 4 Gigs of RAM, and 64 Gigs of Storage - all for AU$350, or AU$300 on special!!!).
It has taken me some time to get used to ColorOS, which is Oppo's UI for Android. Make no mistakes an Android purist will struggle with this OS because it has clearly been designed to mimic the iPhone!
Once I got my head around the fact that there is no traditional Android menu and that all App icons must live on the home screen (just like on iPhone) I began to enjoy using ColorOS.
However there are at least two functional issues which I have noted with my A77, and the most glaring of these is the fact that it does not do Push notifications by default for almost all apps.
To make things interesting there are four individual settings, in four different locations, which must all be set correctly for Push notifications to work!
Section 1 - Add Apps to Startup
In order to save battery the A77 only starts what it sees as essential Apps.
As a result the first step in our process is to enable Apps at startup for which we wish to receive Push notifications.
a). Open the Security App (looks like a 'shield with a tick inside' on my A77)
b). Click on Privacy Permissions
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c). Click on Startup Manager
d). Enable Apps which you want to startup with the phone (e.g.: Yandex Mail)
Section 2 - Enable Apps for Priority Notification
a). Open the Settings App (looks just like the one on an iPhone!)
b). Select App Management
c). Select All
d). Select an App of interest (e.g.: Yandex Mail)
e). Select Notification Manager
f). Enable Priority Notification
Note: You may also (optionally) want to enable 'Notification Light Flashing' to make it easier to see when a new message is present (should you not hear the phone)
Section 3 - Stop Apps Optimization
a). Open the Settings App
b). Select Battery
c). Select Energy Saver
d). Select the App of interest (e.g.: Yandex Mail)
e). Turn off Freeze when in Background
Section 4 - Lock Apps in Background
a). Start an App of interest (e.g.: Yandex Mail)
b). Press the Home button (to clear the screen)
c). Press the Recent Apps button (square button to the left of the Home button)
d). Lock App (of interest) by dragging down on it
The lock icon can be a little hard to see due to its size and transparency. Furthermore only one icon exists and it looks like an unlocked padlock. Make no mistake the unlocked padlock icon actually indicates that the App is now locked. Whereas the absence of a padlock icon indicates that the App is not locked!
At times the Security App may ask you to 'Optimize' your phone! Ignore alerts of this type as the phone is essentially asking you if you want to stop certain Apps from running at Startup; these will be the Apps that you have deliberately decided to start!!!
Following the instructions above will result in the Apps of your choice running at all times, and this does consume additional RAM, however with 4 Gigs of RAM to begin with I have not found this to be a concern. Furthermore additional battery consumption will occur, however in my experience the extra consumption is negligible.
Additional Apps which I have enabled at Startup are Carsales, Dropbox, Find My Device, Outlook, Roomster, Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Disk. Under normal operating conditions I usually have in excess of 1.5 to 2 Gigs of RAM spare despite having these Apps running.
Kind Regards,
Davo

Thank you!
Thank you so much! I purchased an OPPO r11s plust and not receiving e-mail notifications was driving me crazy.

Hi, i am user of OPPO F7 and i don't have startup setting rest all i applied but still no notification

Legend.
Absolute legend, thanks heaps.
Found myself in the same situation after the death of my Sony Xperia, and had tried everything but my alarm app and a couple of others kept getting force-closed and/or failing to show notifications after going to the background no matter what. That final tip for dragging down to lock an app in the app manager was the thing that did it, worked a charm. :good: