Sorry if this has been posted before, but I ran across this yesterday. An interesting read.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2090940/new-windows-malware-tries-to-infect-android-devices-connected-to-pcs.html
since it seems to be predominantly affecting S Koreans, it naturally brings to mind their crazy northern neighbors, but of course, it could be anybody.
The article also points out that older malware required the phone to be in USB mode, which may be why samsung removed USB mode capability from recent versions of their phones.
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Recently I found that someone close to me had been using a purchased spy prog. Thanks to Google alerting me that unauthorized login and sync occurred.
I quickly recognized the phone found the program and cancelled their membership since I originally made the account/email address for them and they told me what password to use. But somehow that phone has continued to sync from their phone.
To this point I've been being safe; I've been messaging or texting lies along w/ truth. Yet somehow all that information makes it back my a simple slip up of words by the other 2 ppl in house. They accidentally repeat in general something I mentioned in text/fb message/phone call/information/etc.
I've literally deleted everything I could find that was left after factory reset. (EVERY FILE!!) I had root and end up with a virus I couldn't remove & didn't want to factory reset. The virus took over screen and no matter what I couldnt get it off. In the end, only way phone company could get it off was access with use of a computer & prog to factory reset. While talking it updated from 6.0 to 7.0. So I'm going to have reroot.
QUESTION FINALLY: How to can I emove the hack or exploit ( or whatever it is) that is reporting or cloneing everything word & information? Yes, I've tried every possible virus/spy pro/spyware/malware/hack/exploit detector remover I read about. PLEASE advise.
The person( I suspect) is currently charged with domestic violence w/ prejudice, I cannot drop the charges they won't allow me. Due to it being domestic violence against someone disabled (me).
**SIDENOTE/QUESTION FOR LAWYERS. The Person was somehow released without bail and i was ordered to leave the house with literally NOWHERE wheelchair accessible to go?? The reason, I suspect snitch (for lack of better word), the Magistrate had already set the bail then a judge on SATURDAY OF A HOLIDAY WEEKEND changed it. Also its hand written, dunno whose initials are on it cant read them. I've NEVER nor has my victims advocate heard of that. I pay slightly less than 3rd of whole house payment accord to other person on the mortgage. I do not qualify for disability only pathetic SSI. The person is more than likely trying to find something negative on me. They have threatened to have me evicted untold times! Im an entirely different person after nearly dying 2 times and was close a 3 rd. That along with being on a ventilator 3 times...if that doesnt change someone you have a serious problem on and finally being in a wheelchair. All caused by a neurological disease. Might I mention I found an old sound recorder that goes with a spy cam according to one specialist and one genius old friend (haven't found hidden cam.YET!) in my room. I do *man* things in the room I pay for. Thought it was illegal to record with sound. Hell or without a person knowing considering by law I'm a tenant**
The person is beyond clueless about technology but their brother worked for govt many yrs ago installing, none other than CAMERAS. He now prides himself as being a computer expert & dev.(he's not bad). He knows LINUX exceptionally well.
Quick Question...should I go ahead with rooting or wait?
PLEASE HELP AND IF POSSIBLE FIND THE FOOTPRINT HE MIGHT HAVE LEFT BEHIND. PRIVATE MESSAGE ME IF NEED MORE DETAILS ON PHONE INFORMATION OR IF A LAWYER (I live in TN)
Galaxy S7 with exynos chipset.
Did have root until att updated after
removing weird virus. Will Root soon.
OK so some time ago i read a article that said the this phone (MI A1) emitted the most radiation of the phones they tested
this is the link to it i did search and there were similar articles everywhere. but i didn't pay that much attention to it cause i already had the phone and the figures were not that much high related to other phones.
but this Feb i came to notice something weird, that is when i keep my phone in the right side of my laptop the screen of my laptop dies. it does not blink it does not change colors it straight up goes blank . i first though something might be wrong with my specific laptop or phone but as my college provides its student with laptops every student in my class has the same model so i tried it and yes it happens with every laptop of the same model. i tried it with different phones (thankfully the college didn't provide those so we had a variety) and none of the other did this(this is still for like 9-10 different phones i could find). Also this is not just my phone as one of my friends also have the same mi A1 and his also causes the screen to blank out . Have also tried it with airplane mode on and it still causes the screen to die
this post is to ask why this is happening, is radiation the cause or something totally different
here is the link to video for reference (i couldn't post video link cause this like my first post) check comment
sorry for the video quality my phone was the subject so i didn't have anything else of my old phone to record it on
still cant get the links
cant get no links even in comments
please search for my phone is super radioactive....... on imgur
also as per people on imgur saying that my phone magnet might be tricking the screen lid close magnet in my pc , i did place a magnet(yes i did for the sake of science) the same location my phones speaker magnet should be and it did nothing. i did not run it all over my laptop though cause for obvious reasons.
I am trying to identify my phone's real manufacturer.
I am almost completely deaf in my right ear, partially deaf in my left ear and (since 2016), suffer severe Tinnitus.
In 2017 I replaced a "Doro PhoneEasy 740" phone with an "Amplicomms PowerTel M9500". This is sold in the UK by Action on Hearing Loss (the trading name of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf) as a Hearing Aid Compatible (HAC) Android phone achieving M4/T4 capability.
Support for this phone is difficult, the Amplicomms email system replies in German that there is a server problem, and the telephone support was an ordinary landline, and very difficult for me to hear. Their only solution to my problems was a factory reset.
In July 2017, a wireless update failed, but the phone still worked until April this year (2018), when I was forced to do a factory reset as I would not connect to the phone network.
I could not find any mention of a model M9500 anywhere on this, or other forums, and the boot menu is in Chinese.
Both "Settings>About phone" and Bluetooth devices recognise the phone model as an "M9500_type_F100"
Since the factory reset, Google Play now recognises the phone as a Hipstreet M9500 Type 100, but I cannot find such a device anywhere on the web, certainly not on Hisptreet's own website.
The phone has the following features :- Dual SIM, 4G LTE, 2.4 & 5GHz wifi, 5" screen, SOS button on the rear, 2 and 8 Mpixel cameras, Android 5.1, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal SD (I think), sound levels up to 40dB phone and 90dB loudspeaker, and claims HAC of M4/T4.
I am in severe doubt about the latter feature as it is not really anything like as good as my Doro 740, that was only M3/T4 HAC rating. There is considerable interference when trying to use it with my hearing aids on loop.
The phone as supplied has a "seniors" interface that can be disabled so full Android OS is available, unlike my Doro.
The reason I have had to retire the Doro is that that it also has "simplified" interface that is locked down that cannot be bypassed, the Developer Options cannot be enabled, believe me, I have tried. All Doro Support suggest is to buy their later version.
Does anyone have any idea where I can get detailed technical documentation/certification ?
I am fairly ofay with the basics of Linux and learning the variety of implementations of android, so not a complete newbie.
Uncledulgaria
Uncledulgaria said:
I am trying to identify my phone's real manufacturer.
I am almost completely deaf in my right ear, partially deaf in my left ear and (since 2016), suffer severe Tinnitus.
In 2017 I replaced a "Doro PhoneEasy 740" phone with an "Amplicomms PowerTel M9500". This is sold in the UK by Action on Hearing Loss (the trading name of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf) as a Hearing Aid Compatible (HAC) Android phone achieving M4/T4 capability.
Support for this phone is difficult, the Amplicomms email system replies in German that there is a server problem, and the telephone support was an ordinary landline, and very difficult for me to hear. Their only solution to my problems was a factory reset.
In July 2017, a wireless update failed, but the phone still worked until April this year (2018), when I was forced to do a factory reset as I would not connect to the phone network.
I could not find any mention of a model M9500 anywhere on this, or other forums, and the boot menu is in Chinese.
Both "Settings>About phone" and Bluetooth devices recognise the phone model as an "M9500_type_F100"
Since the factory reset, Google Play now recognises the phone as a Hipstreet M9500 Type 100, but I cannot find such a device anywhere on the web, certainly not on Hisptreet's own website.
The phone has the following features :- Dual SIM, 4G LTE, 2.4 & 5GHz wifi, 5" screen, SOS button on the rear, 2 and 8 Mpixel cameras, Android 5.1, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal SD (I think), sound levels up to 40dB phone and 90dB loudspeaker, and claims HAC of M4/T4.
I am in severe doubt about the latter feature as it is not really anything like as good as my Doro 740, that was only M3/T4 HAC rating. There is considerable interference when trying to use it with my hearing aids on loop.
The phone as supplied has a "seniors" interface that can be disabled so full Android OS is available, unlike my Doro.
The reason I have had to retire the Doro is that that it also has "simplified" interface that is locked down that cannot be bypassed, the Developer Options cannot be enabled, believe me, I have tried. All Doro Support suggest is to buy their later version.
Does anyone have any idea where I can get detailed technical documentation/certification ?
I am fairly ofay with the basics of Linux and learning the variety of implementations of android, so not a complete newbie.
Uncledulgaria
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Is this your device?
http://amplicomms.com/index.php?en_powertel-m9500
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Is this your device?
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Yes, that is my phone, but as you will see, the real technical details are rather sparse.
Similarly, the online shop gives no more information. (As I haven't yet done 10 posts I can't post any links.)
Search:- action on hearing loss shop phones t548-amplicomms-9500
They all claim that it is M4/T4 compliant but it does not perform as well as my Doro did with my hearing aids.
When the phone is put near my hearing aid when the aid is on loop there is interference that makes it of no use.
I have checked out the M4/T4 (HAC) compliance, it is an FCC requirement if the phone is for sale to deaf people in the USA.
Search:- fcc consumers guides hearing-aid-compatibility
It seems to me quite possible that, going by the statement on that page, the HAC requirement is all about loudness and magnetic (loop) signal strength, not about interference via the magnetic loop sensor. I am hoping that, by tracking down the original equipment manufacturer, I could find out on what basis they have claimed M4/T4 compliance and whether other purchasers of the phone should be warned, or establish if mine might have a problem. As I said in my first post, my past experience of Ampliconns support has not been good.
Knowing the manufacturer and chipset would also give me more confidence of success should I want to root the phone at some time, or perhaps upgrading the Android version to a Go edition, as I am constantly tweaking the install to keep the apps I want.
The simplified interface shown in all the blurb can be turned on and off via the settings menu. It really is set up for people with poor motor skills and low levels of computer literacy. I run mine with the full Android 5.1 GUI.
I'm sure I'll get some haters, who think I am simply nuts but this is a REAL problem that I've got to solve.
For the last 6 years I've had a mysterious stalker and hacker, who renders most of my and my family's devices nonfunctional and breaks into my accounts and generally makes my life much harder. It has recently come to light that it isn't a hacker SINGULAR but at least 3 guys, hellbent on destroying me: my daughter's father, her uncle, who is a military hacker and their friend, who managed to ingratiate himself with me, until my daughter's father confessed, when I confronted him with evidence against him and his brother, saying he didn't mean for it to get this out of hand. Well, thanks for the heads up but it's a little late, because it IS this out of hand and the wheels of justice grind slowly.
Meanwhile, I am still hacked, even worse now, because his brother got out of the military and moved back to town and has a lot more time and access now. Calls and texts are being intercepted so frequently, that I now use Google Voice/Hangouts to communicate, knowing that nothing I say is ever private but at least people get my messages and I get their calls that way.
I'm looking for a job and I need a device that he won't be able to spy on, so I went to Best Buy and purchased a phone card and moderately priced android phone and took it home to resume my job hunt. I planned never to call any of my usual contacts with the phone but just use it for work stuff. Within hours, it was acting buggy and when I restarted it, it did not go to the regular black screen that says "your device is encrypted for security" but showed my regular background and said "please enter your password when starting android". On my note 8 and 9, that would often happen and when I went to security options, secure startup would be disabled. I checked and secure startup was still supposedly enabled. In ADB "adb shell getprop ro.crypto.state" returned "unencrypted".
I returned the phone and purchased a Google Pixel, hoping their physical security device MIGHT be more effective than Knox at protecting me from this guy. I purchased a brand new sim card and spent another 50 bucks on a phone card, from a different company.
Since my daughter's father has moved within a half-mile of me (despite having no contact with her and very little with me) 4 times now, I speculated that he was, perhaps, using a directional yagi antenna to scan my area for new device beacons and then (skip forward a few steps) find out what apps are installed on those devices, to determine if they are mine. With that in mind, I never even turned the Pixel on at my house.
That night, I took the phone to a random emergency room with secure wifi, to which I know the password and proceeded to set it up. I made a new google account, as usual and installed a bunch of random apps, such as black dating apps (since I am white, I figured that, if my theory was right, it might throw them off my scent) and games I would never play and apps for banks of which I am not a member. By the first time I restarted the phone, still at the emergency room, it had the exact same problem. It purported to be encrypted but (adb later verified) it was not. Apparently, the cheap phone faired slightly better than the pixel, in this department, because the first one was reencrypted upon reset, while the Pixel was not. I never activated or inserted a sim card in the pixel and while I had my regular phone and tablet along with me, they were powered off, in the car.
I was pretty sure, after the first phone was compromised, that I was onto something with my beacon frame theory but it would not explain what happened at the emergency room, unless there is a tracking device in my car, which IS likely, because I continually find my car torn up in all sorts of ways. They even broke off the panel on the driver's door with lock and window switches and the lid of my center console and I continually find the carpet pulled away from the trim. Then again, they also put something caustic in the wiper fluid tank, which destroyed both tank and windshield, so it could also have all been done simply out of malice.
Having no better ideas, I ran a bug detector over my car and found that there IS a radio signal being emitted from somewhere around the gearshift or cd player. I took apart the area around the gearshift and found nothing. In that department, the only remaining possibility is that they've actually put something inside of the cd player itself, the screen of which quit working a while back. I have the ribbon cable to fix it, so maybe I'll get lucky when I crack it open in a bit. The signal DOES appear strongest at the CD player but it could be anything, even catalytic converters can emit radio signals.
Assuming my bug theory is wrong, does anyone have any other idea of how these guys could have discovered and hacked those phones? I've got to find a way to evade these people or I'll never have anything like a normal life, until they're finally in jail.
Wow!
I have not heard of such hacks, even when it comes to national security.
What is the motive of these three people ?
I have no clue but with there skill in not sure an iphone would fare much better
A friend's daughter died a couple of years ago. At the time the death was ruled accidental overdose. Long story short, the police and coroner didn't investigate much of anything and what they did, was shoddy. The case was closed and friend was able to take possession of two of her daughters android phones, one was on network, other just used on wifi. Friend does not have any of the passwords and can't get into them.
Since then, new evidence was discovered that shows close to 100% she was murdered. The police however have refused to reopen the case. Friend has tried everything and recently started a Facebook group (#AnswersForMeagan) as a last resort. Group has taken off and much more info discovered. They are getting a lot of attention so today the Sheriff called my friend and they will be meeting soon.
That said, the sheriff didn't know of the two phones. Friend is obviously apprehensive about turning them over, afraid they could botch things up again, or even intentionally mess up the data (there are indeed bad folks corrupted by the money of trafficking and drugs). This is SC. Is anyone aware of a good place that can get into the phones and minimally save off a copy of the data? If you were doing this, what would your process be?
I used to root my android back in the gs3 days. Before that I actually had a palm Pre. I'm IT, I know my way around well, but I haven't fooled with things for several years. Worst case I can help the friend with the right process, but I'd rather a current professional do it.
Strange question and kind of way off topic, but I used to come here all the time and know someone will have advice. If you're interested, come join the group on fb.
Thanks,
Chuck
If on phone MTP mode is enabled and phone supports a USB-C connection then it should be possible to retrieve user-data stored on phone.
MTP functions a lot like USB mass storage. For example, an MTP device shows up in Windows Explorer so you can browse and transfer files.