[Q] Things moved and added unknowingly - Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Please, someone help me out...Is there a way to tell times my tablet has been used. There have been a few instances where apps have been moved, things have been deleted and last night, I got on and I had 5 extra pages added. I didn't do it. And nobody else could have done it around me. Does anyone have any clue what could be going on? Is there some kind of master password for all products or something or could someone on Samsung's end be getting in, like someone working for them? This is getting semi creepy.

I will say its not samsung. What have you flashed lately? Any suspicious apps? Could be a bunch of different reasons. Could be someone hacked your gmail(unlikely) and is using it on their device. Change your passwords.
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I have never installed them before. Just saw "aCar" was un successful while I was asleep.
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[Q] Need Root (A long story)

So a friend of mine dragged me into trying to help this woman who thinks her son was taken in by a cult. (I call it crazy but what do I know) He dropped off the phone an Atrix 2 and bailed. They want to see the deleted messages. Issue is that recovering them requires root and it seems I have that fun little issue that requires a factory reset before adb can figure out its magic. (I think a factory reset would create the deleted messages unrecoverable) Been reading every darn thread I could and still can't seem to find a solution. I kinda doubt there is one to be honest. But if anyone has something that might work I don't mind giving it a shot. Oh yeah you might notice its my first post but I haven't really had any issues with rooting before and to be frank I am just not really into these types of things enough to be able to give back to the community well. My apologies.
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Anything to be done?
Here's to the hope someone can help.
It's a tough life for the friend that knows how a computer works
thrownaround said:
It's a tough life for the friend that knows how a computer works
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Amen to that, brother! :sly:
Anyway, regarding your query, I looked around and found this. It doesn't seem to require root so it might be just what you're looking for. :thumbup:
Also if you factory reset it doesn't overwrite the memory so you should still be able to recover them if you know where to look and prey to god that the memory doesn't get overwritten by something else
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How to send a push manege to people around me (Bluejacking? Multipeer Connectivity?)

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Any ideas how to do that?
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Hi,
I recently met someone online who was a romantic type of encounter but the more we spoke the more creeped out I got by the things hes seemed to know about me.
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Thats the device I have. We 1st spoke on Kik and he sent me 2 pictures. One was of him that would not open an image. I tried to open it several times but it was just a blank picture.
The second I was able to view and download.
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