Privacy concerns about AOKP - Best alternative of Cyanogenmod, AOKP, Replica, etc? - Security Discussion

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.

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Android | You have been hacked by Google

Google is watching us more than ever?
When Android know about you anything.
READ THE DUMB F&Q - CLICK ME
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.
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All very interesting , but not relevant to the S4
Please take this to OT
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[APP][4.4+][Root]ToolWiz Privacy

We are thinking of separating APP Freeze and Privacy Freeze and make two different Apps.
With ToolWiz Privacy you can still protect your personal info against big data tracking of APPs. In addition, we will add album locker to protect your photos from spying eyes and small tools to clear your browser history.
APP Freeze will be an independent APP aiming at extending battery life and avoiding big data roaming bills. We help you better manage your smartphone by killing background service of APPs and preventing them from auto-start.
What do you think of the idea? Your opinion is more than welcome.
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Hey,
We are a small team focusing on android security and we developed a tool called ToolWiz Privacy. This APP aims to protect android phone users against data collecting and ads pushing APPs. Moreover, we want to help users extend battery life of their smartphones.
Now we have our beta test version(1.01) and we would like to invite you to join us and make it better.
ToolWiz Privacy has two main functions—APP Freeze and Privacy Freeze.
You can freeze your APPs so that they are completely locked and banned from being active or running in the background. The frozen APPs can only be opened from ToolWiz Privacy.
You can freeze your privacy so that APPs can only get access to your fake personal information. You can edit fake privacy info (fake phone number, location, IMEI…) yourself and block unwanted actions of APPs(sending and receiving text message, making and receiving phone calls…) in settings.
It’s the first APP in the world to help you to get rid of big data tracking and it makes your Android phone keep running for more than 20 hours without charging.
Check if you are able to use ToolWiz Privacy:
Android Version 4.4+
Rooted Phone
Restart after update
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version: 1.0.1
View attachment app-btows-release-1.0.1.apk
Fixed minor bugs on the UI
Fixed the bug causing slowness during update
Added the function to disable auto-start for APPS
Version 0.105 : View attachment app-btows-release-0.106.apk
If you have any questions and comments:
Please be free to replay below or contact us via [email protected]
Hope you enjoy it!
We need your suggestions to improve our tool.Any replies are welcome!
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We need your suggestions to improve our tool.Any replies are welcome!
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Does the privacy freeze allow me to prevent an app from sending notifications? Some apps send notification spam.
famewolf said:
Does the privacy freeze allow me to prevent an app from sending notifications? Some apps send notification spam.
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Of cause, you can go to app settings and check on the 'Block Notification Bar' item. And add the app into Privacy Freeze.Just try it!
ToolWiz Privacy said:
Of cause, you can go to app settings and check on the 'Block Notification Bar' item. And add the app into Privacy Freeze.Just try
it!
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Tried your app and unless I misunderstood you have 1 set of "fake data" used by all the apps....this is not going to work out well as you might want SOME apps to be able to get your real location but still be unable to send or receive text messages....or stop one app from sending notifications but allow everything else....ideally you need to be able to specify what needs to be faked per app. I also found various spots where the english text had "shadow" chinese characters behind it.
Finally autostart and background running should be considered seperate when "freezing"....I might have music apps I want to allow to run in background but NOT autostart on bootup......and vice versa I might have an app I want to run on bootup such as changelog droid that grabs the list of changes to apps that have been updated since last boot but NOT allow it to run in background. It looked like app freeze was an all or nothing thing.
Good luck with the app.
famewolf said:
Tried your app and unless I misunderstood you have 1 set of "fake data" used by all the apps....this is not going to work out well as you might want SOME apps to be able to get your real location but still be unable to send or receive text messages....or stop one app from sending notifications but allow everything else....ideally you need to be able to specify what needs to be faked per app. I also found various spots where the english text had "shadow" chinese characters behind it.
Finally autostart and background running should be considered seperate when "freezing"....I might have music apps I want to allow to run in background but NOT autostart on bootup......and vice versa I might have an app I want to run on bootup such as changelog droid that grabs the list of changes to apps that have been updated since last boot but NOT allow it to run in background. It looked like app freeze was an all or nothing thing.
Good luck with the app.
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Thanks for your suggestions, we've updated a new version apk file in this post. And our developers are heading to solve the problem you've mentioned, configure different 'fake data' for every single app.Maybe you can see that in next version.
Actually when an app is frozen by our tools, autostart and background services can be configured separately.Just click the app you added, and you can see that autostart and services are list separately, moreover every background services can be configured as you want.
If you want some apps not running in background, just try it! And we'll do better!
This app has a lot of potential, so far so good.. I would like to also privacy freeze system apps tho , and also choose fake info specifically for each app, Like this app.. ???
Raidel™ said:
This app has a lot of potential, so far so good.. I would like to also privacy freeze system apps tho , and also choose fake info specifically for each app, Like this app..
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Thanks a lot, freezing system apps and editing fake data for each app are already on our TODO list.
Maybe you can meet with them a few days later.:laugh:
This is a promising application, but is there a way to ignore certain apps? It's annoying to see the red when I know the app that's in the red to be safe.

CM12 Privacy Guard - WiFi Scan for Location always active?

As no one in the Q&A forum could give me an answer, maybe here someone knows what's going on "under the hood".
Privacy Guard tells me that location is constantly active using Wi-Fi scan with the settings app although I've Wi-Fi turned off:
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That is annoying as first I do not want my location constantly monitored and second this maybe also is not "battery friendly".
Anyone knows what's going on here exactly? Is it true what privacy guard tells me?
On CM11 the settings app was not constantly monitoring the location using Wi-Fi when Wi-Fi was turned off.
First have you gone to main setting>wifi>setting button>advanced>scanning always available and make sure its disabled. This is one of those crappy things google.just cant help.itself.not slipping i the and tries to cover it with goog.intentions which are questionable. It purposely buries it way down in setting even those that want to be sure its off may have trouble finding. Also if you look at.the wording its supposedly there to help other apps have your location but also adds "and for other purposes". Which in legaleeze means wide open and to google means we are going to log all the info we can to use for our profit.
Anyways make sure that is off first and formost. After that I will include someother info below to consider and just some FYI stuff you may or maynot be interested in.
I dont know what apks.you have loaded but I know if you have gapps installed there is a number of call home features built into it and if anyone knows how to.bypass things in android its google dev team. It is for this reason i deal.with the inconvenience of not having gapps. Choosing instead to side load or use fdroid and other alternatives for googles various apps. I duckduckgo for searchs. Privacy apk if I wanted to tweet or FB. Email I use a paid service but there are a jumber of free that do not log. I also keep things local and sync it with my pc so nothing is left on servers. You can even setup cloud storage in a way where it acts as a virtual drive and everyrhi g is encrypted while on the cloud but decrypts locally on the device so its seemless.on the users end.
Secondly even without any of these sort.of apps installed google has built in a quasi call back function into the kernel. Its main use is to identify when a data network connection is behind a captive.portal. The setting not accessable from the UI is global captive portal. Its what is the cause of the ! you may sometimes see on the signal bar animaton. Android gives you an option to disable it thru a terminal windohus by changing captive_portal_enable setting from 1 to 0. But interestingly enough its been found that even when set to disabled the system will still use the global captive portal entry regardless. Its setting is to client3.google.com IIRC.
The other issue is that if you have disabled captive portal you will lose the ability to save the config in wireless networks for any network that does not broadcast its ssid or any that is a captive portal which are basically all the commerical wifi such as starbucks book stores libraries etc.. See goggle wants all that info so they can map the worlds wifi network aps (you can now see one way they have found to use this with their up coming release of cellular service where one of its main features is to auto offload both data and calls to any open wifis it has access as they come in range. Thus dumpings its costs and load to.those other companies offering free wifi to its customers and the community)
Interestingly it only does this to wifi not cellular data even though it scans and indicates both with the "!".
The way to stop this is either change the global captive portal to loopback i.e. 127.0.0.0 or you can host a basic webpage your device.
You can do the same for the ntp service as well as it too calls out automatically regardless of.settings in the UI.
The other possibility of the location leak could be from someother app you may not have disabled network or location from that has a call home feature.
You could put a network scanner and log what ip and then see based on its owner to figure out the program.
Another idea is to run a firewall and creat a script to stop all of this kind of leaks. I would recommend AF+Wall.

[App][4.2+] personalDNSfilter - block malware domains, ads and trackers without root

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You want to block ads, tracking, analytics and malware domains system-wide (in browsers and apps) and don't want root (or you can't root)?
Check out personalDNSfilter by Ingo Zenz @ ZENZ Solutions!
Block ads using hosts file via local VPN connection and custom DNS (optional).
Features:
- Open source
- Supports rooted and non-rooted devices
- Lightweight (<400 KB approx.)
- Negligible RAM consumption (~15 MB approx.)
- Battery friendly
- Inbuilt DNS changer (can use custom DNS)
- Hosts blocking
- Domain blocking
- Supports pattern blocking (ads)
- Supports manual adding domains for whitelisting & blacklisting
- Supports DoH & DoT
- DNSCRYPT-PROXY integration (can start, stop and work together with dnscrypt-proxy)
- Supports application whitelisting for excluded apps from getting filtered
- Can do network wide blocking on your home network (requires root)
- No data mining (your data is your data - privacy first)
- Desktop version for PC & Raspberry Pi
- Also works as a network logger (users can see what domains are being connected to device)
Website:
http://www.zenz-solutions.de/personaldnsfilter-wp
F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dnsfilter.android
Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dnsfilter.android
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UI redesign, icon and website: t-ryder
Translations:
@dogiex, @yshalsager, Lukas Novotny, @Taivotat2, @dugi9991, @Primokorn, @gaich, phihungchrome
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Some more hosts sources for those who want to play around with the settings...
HostsSources · AdAway/AdAway Wiki · GitHub
Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck (as much)
FilterLists
personalDNSfilter was updated to version 1.50.2 on March 19, 2017.
Just found this, I'm surprised it's not got a following.. light and easy to use, seems a good alternative to dns66 and the likes.
Can we change/edit the local file FILTERHOSTS.TXT?
Will it get downloaded again and over-written?
Great app, thanks for heads up.
steamrollerpark said:
Can we change/edit the local file FILTERHOSTS.TXT?
Will it get downloaded again and over-written?
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By default it will be overwritten. But you can add custom filters within the dnsfilter.conf (see filter.host = true|false settings).
Alternativly it is possible to disable the automated filter download so that the FILTERHOST.TXT won´t be overwritten.
Just check dnsfilter.conf file for details. It contains a good documentation of the different settings.
Sorry, these might be some dumb questions, but really trying to get this to work on an Android phone running 7.1.1:
1) do I need to check "Advanced settings" in order for those settings to work? If I don't check it, I can't scroll down to view the logs, unless I'm missing something
2) Also, any reason why some of my custom entries in the "Advanced settings" doesn't work? (I put in entries to be filtered and those are still allowed in the log and entries to be allowed, but those are still blocked.) I've hit Reload filter and Restart and sometimes it works, but more often it doesn't.
3) Lastly, any reason why other times my entire "Advanced settings" erases? How can I get those entries to persist?
Thanks for putting this app together, hopefully once I know what's going on I'll be able to use it much better.
Kevin
kevvyc said:
Sorry, these might be some dumb questions, but really trying to get this to work on an ...
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Advanced settings unfolds when clicked, set values, untick and the put in values are active but hidden in the GUI. Set a custom reload intervall for testing to see (days until next reload).
Use a text editor to edit the right files inside the pDNSf folder in your storage. You will find examples and descriptions there. Just have a look at the even more advanced settings playing around with the configuration files. Quit the client, edit files, start the client again and reload.
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Advanced settings unfolds when clicked, set values, untick and the put in values are active but hidden in the GUI. Set a custom reload intervall for testing to see (days until next reload).
Use a text editor to edit the right files inside the pDNSf folder in your storage. You will find examples and descriptions there. Just have a look at the even more advanced settings playing around with the configuration files. Quit the client, edit files, start the client again and reload.
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Yes .... better edit the dnsfilter.cfg file. In addition: the advanced settings within the GUI only allows to edit the filter URL and reload interval. In case invalid values are added, it will be reset to the previous valid entries (Check for messages in the log area)
iz-) said:
Yes .... better edit the dnsfilter.cfg file. In addition: the advanced settings within the GUI only allows to edit the filter URL and reload interval. In case invalid values are added, it will be reset to the previous valid entries (Check for messages in the log area)
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Thanks for the heads up guys. I was looking in the Android/data folder for the settings, but I should have just looked at the root folder. Okay, I've got everything to work now!
Kevin
Help translating pDf to the top 30 languages!
join the project here:
https://crowdin.com/project/personaldnsfilter
Finnish language done [emoji6]
Translation to the 30 top languages ... here we come. More and more are willing to help. Very nice.
And we got an icon update:
... a bit more material designish
I guess it's in the next update.
Go on dev .... thumbs up ??
FYI; I created a fork of the app. Not much changes, just for fun and learning.
https://personaldnsfilter.t-ryder.de
t-ryder said:
FYI; I created a fork of the app. Not much changes, just for fun and learning.
https://personaldnsfilter.t-ryder.de
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Can you please advise what the difference is in your fork? All I can see is that yours supports v5+ while the original supports 4.2, but I don't know why.
kindlyoldbear said:
Can you please advise what the difference is in your fork? All I can see is that yours supports v5+ while the original supports 4.2, but I don't know why.
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Please read the release changelog coming with the sources downloadable @ the website.
thank you so much for this great app
Using android 6 the fork version doesn't install (not rooted phone), whereas the original does. How do I know why?

[APP][5.0+][FOSS][ROOT/ADB] App Manager : Most Advanced App Manager For Android

App Manager
Note: I am not the developer of this app. I am just posting it here (After taking permission from the developer) so this amazing app can reach to more people who likes tinkering with Android.
This app is developed/maintained by muntashir akon and is completely open source.
Yet another Android package manager and viewer but...
Copylefted libre software (GPLv3+)
Material design (and a nice UI)
No unnecessary permissions
Install Bundled APKs/APKM
Does not connect to the Internet (the permission is required for ADB mode)
Displays as much info as possible in the main window
Lists activities, broadcast receivers, services, providers, permissions, signatures, shared libraries, etc. of any app
Launch (exportable) activities, create (customizable) shortcuts
Block any activities, broadcast receivers, services, or providers you like with native import/export as well as Watt and Blocker import support (requires root)
Revoke permissions considered dangerous (requires root/ADB)
Disable app ops considered dangerous (requires root/ADB)
Scan for trackers in apps and list (all or only) tracking classes (and their code dump)
Generate dynamic manifest for any app
View/edit/delete shared preferences of any app (requires root)
Display running processes/apps (requires root/ADB)
Display your app usage, data usage, and app storage info (requires “Usage Access” permission)
Share APK files (hence the use of a provider)
Clear app data or app cache (requires root/ADB)
Batch operations: clear app data, disable run in background, disable/kill/uninstall apps
One-click operations: block ads/tracker components, block components by signature, block multiple app ops
…and other minor features such as installing/uninstalling/updating/enabling/disabling apps, displaying app installation info, opening in F-Droid, Aurora Droid or Aurora Store. This single app combines the features of 5 or 6 apps any tech-savvy person needs!
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{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Downloads - GitHub Releases
Contribute - Github
Translate - Weblate
Documentation - Check it here
Help/Support/Suggestions - Telegram
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Good afternoon:
Thank you very much for your application.
I am using version 2.5.20 : https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager/releases/tag/v2.5.20 which is the latest stable one.
Is it possible to use 2.5.24 : https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager/releases/tag/pre-v2.5.24 as stable ?
Best regards
How can i save the current list of apps? I have set filter of disabled apps , and i want to save this list.
Thanks,
Oh wow. I find this app manager convenient unlike others. Thanks for developing and posting this.
Looks amazing, thankyou.
Can you move apps to sd card?
that is some crazy good polished app, with professional documentation. By the way, Warden and TitaniumBackup or log viewer inside. Only wish it was better for active permission enforcing, i can't see how to apply app ops in batch, keep permission enforced later or apply profiles on new apps.
I've been using this for a few months.It's by far the best app manager out there. Good luck to the dev!
What happened to the telegram group? It says link invalid
I dont know if this is working as it should. Suppose i ingnored a persmission of contact to truecaller app, then app shouldnt get access to my contacts but after sometimes it resets to on. And truecaller displays all my contact names rather than their original name saved in their databases.
Now is it supposed to work like that or sending blank response to a permission request should work here..?
Thanks for the app.
Regards
Amazing work, thank you
I blocked some Google play services with app manager, and phone (galaxy note 8) keep restarting. As it boots to android and see the launcher, it restart.. I'm rooted and have twrp. Can i delete some file in twrp to unblock everything i have blocked with app manager?
Thanks,
Wow""
Just passing by from this thread, and installed this application to see its level and found a brilliant work ..
Admirable work
Best wishes dear friend
I'd love to disable few app ops like run in bg etc for Google but there are literally no app ops available for Google when i try to open that app here (pls look at ss)
I need your help !
I clicked the the 1-CLick Ops > block trackers > no > block
Now all the apps (except system apps) won't open. Instead the android app-info opens and I have 3 options (uninstall, stop, hide). Unfortunatelly there is no more the option to open an app
It's not even possible to open the AppManager anymore
@PratapShiv Please check your inbox. Thanks a lot.
Regards
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