Security breaches crop up every now and again, they happen to both the biggest and smallest companies, but this latest exploit is a particularly odd one. It turns out that certain MediaTek based smartphones can be remotely rebooted from a simple text message.
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French blogger Korben discovered the vulnerability, which you can see an example of in the video at the bottom. The exploit involves simply texting the seemingly harmless “=” symbol (without quotes) to a handset, which then causes the smartphone to turn off and reboot.
One supposed solution to this problem is to just install an alternative message app and stop using the one that comes preinstalled with the smartphone. However, Korben has found that the problem can still persist even when switching over to another ROM. This suggests that the bug is actually coming about from a combination of software and hardware issues, or something inbetween, that is only affecting a small selection of MediaTek based manufacturers.
This application allow to check & test MediaTek Bug on your device (FREE): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vn.androidblog.mediatekbugchecker
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Hello there.
I have two devices that share almost the same hardware (same chipset, just different display), so I successfully ported framework from one to the other (G14 to G11i). The thing is that camera app from G11i had really nice features when compared to camera app from G14. Even more important than that is that auto-focus is not working any more, so I was trying to port that app as well. The thing is that the app doesn't appear on app drawer.
Can someone please guide me on what can be the cause for this? I have attached both apk's.
Is there any developer willing to help?
Here's a log while trying to install the Camera application.
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Do you think this could be the problem why the app doesn't appears on the drawer (if I push it to /system/app)? How can I make the app signatures match those in android.media?
I have managed to solve this problem by modifying AndroidManifest.xml and re-signing the application. This may be useful to others.
(off-topic: it's just a pity that no one showed up for help)
By no one answering this you did just what you were supposed to. You learned how to fix it yourself. Its what XDA is all about. Learning something new and how to fix your issue. Glad you got it working.
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Guys,
As in the topic. I keep getting this popup: Do you know which application generates this sh*t? I do not have any memory optimizers installed
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Download Airpush Detector. I've had a lot of luck with it finding apps that cause popups.
This application does not work for me.
I am still struggling to find what is causing this. I installed Permissions explorer and listed all applications with draw over other apps permission (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW). There is nothing there that that could be potentially showing the message. One thing that I have noticed is that if I am on the home screen and long press the back button (which is mapped to kill app via All in One Gestures) this pop up shows up.
I also installed OS monitor which shows all processes currently running and also exported system log showing all events. However, the log consist of 5500 lines for just 2 minutes of logging and it is very difficult for me to find anything there.
Any ideas, anyone, please? Is there any other permission worth checking or any other application worth installing to finally find what is causing this?
Hello,
So, I have 2 SAMSUNG S8+' and, I use pretty much both, as in, all the time.
I work in SAMSUNG Notes all the time, be it for casual reasons or otherwise.
However, although I did notice this difference before, I didn't really look into it to figure out what's going on...
So, the problem is, when I go into the "more font color options" and or "more font background color options":
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I happen to be displayed a different menu on both phones:
Above screenshot from the phone I'm currently posting this thread from, and:
This one displayed on my 2nd Phone.
NOTE: Both phones have the latest app, software and system version and or update, and are also setup the very same way in-app settings and options as well as app settings and permissions. Also also, I re-installed the apps, cleared cache(s) and verified if there is anything different on one phone than the other (which obviously shouldn't be (and wasn't) since both are setup to be identical), as well as restarted a few times in the process, cleared memory (isn't the issue) and tried finding answers on my own.
App Version:
So, my question is:
How and why, are they displayed differently and how could I change either of them to display the other?
Samsung has this Dual messenger feature that allows you to have two running instances of your messenger and social media applications.
Today i started seeing in my apps list in settings a bunch of "Dual" apps that i never enabled and are just there and I cant uninstall them and some I cant even disable.
Below are some examples
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The only legitimate one that I enabled was whatsapp
I am afraid the security of my device is compromised, and I did a threat scan in the settings, it scanned all my apps, but weirdly it did not scan those dual ones which is making me become more sus.
Any info provided could be a great help, thanks.
That is normal. They are needed for Dual apps to work.
Dual Apps feature enables a secondary user on your system which starts with User 10, 11, 12, etc.
Each time a new user is created, some system apps are automatically cloned to the new user environment.
So, don't worry. Your system isn't infected and this is no security threat.