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Newbie and I swear I'm hacked

I have had this phone fur a year and I know I'm hacked. Apps open by themselves and I always have high data usage. I took a few screen shots that I thought might be helpful? Haha please help!!!!

I highly doubt you're hacked. I see you have the Facebook app installed; that's known to drain your battery. Have you gone into its settings to make sure it's not set to auto-refresh at high intervals? I think the default is every 15 minutes. What about Google+? Is it set to automatically upload your photos and videos? And finally, I see you're on Sprint, which has LTE almost nowhere. Is your LTE set to on?

Bro.. why not try a full wipe 'coz if your phone is infected your privacy is exposed lol

Facebook app is installed yet auto sync is disabled. I keep having apps download on their own yet I disabled auto update. Not to mention my location services are jacked up
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jemeljc said:
Facebook app is installed yet auto sync is disabled. I keep having apps download on their own yet I disabled auto update. Not to mention my location services are jacked up
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Are you using Google Now? That's known to destroy battery life by at least 30% (its been tested). Turn that off. It keeps your location services running 24/7.
Worst case, I'm not sure if your device is rooted or not (it doesn't matter), but try and wipe it and "start over" if you can. Make sure your contacts are synced with Google, and if your photos are on your internal storage, move them to your computer or your SD card. Then go into Settings -> Security -> Factory Reset.

Can u explain these?
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jemeljc said:
Can u explain these?
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It looks like logcat is logging signal strenght of your 3g, and your mail app is checking for new mails.

It might be your voicemail app... Unless you changed the icon that isn't stock TW. But yeah definitely just do a factory reset or Odin back to stock...
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mm971106 said:
It might be your voicemail app... Unless you changed the icon that isn't stock TW. But yeah definitely just do a factory reset or Odin back to stock...
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Nah, that's the Sprint Voicemail app's logo.

Portable WiFi

As the title say I want to know if there is a way to turn on WiFi hotspot without turning off WiFi I saw this feature in one of my friend's phone he was running 2.3 (Gingerbread). Is there anything like this for KitKat (4.4.2) ? Please recommend external apps or method.
Thanks

arun483 said:
As the title say I want to know if there is a way to turn on WiFi hotspot without turning off WiFi I saw this feature in one of my friend's phone he was running 2.3 (Gingerbread). Is there anything like this for KitKat (4.4.2) ? Please recommend external apps or method.
Thanks
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So what you want to do is connect to WiFi hotspot and WiFi at the same time?

arun483 said:
As the title say I want to know if there is a way to turn on WiFi hotspot without turning off WiFi I saw this feature in one of my friend's phone he was running 2.3 (Gingerbread). Is there anything like this for KitKat (4.4.2) ? Please recommend external apps or method.
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its not software related, its built in to the phone itself. most phones cant handle both connections at the same time.

Aurimazs said:
So what you want to do is connect to WiFi hotspot and WiFi at the same time?
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No turn on hotspot to provide WiFi to other device without turning off WiFi so that it will not consume my mobile data
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Kobro said:
its not software related, its built in to the phone itself. most phones cant handle both connections at the same time.
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I guess there might be somethong
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If so it isn't possible to do it manually only trough apps, I suppose.
Try search Google for it if not successful try search in Google Play you might find something
If still not successful then I'm out of options
Edit: Unless you find out a way to create 2 different Wi-Fi's with the same connection. To do it you will need to go to your Internet Connection Settings trough your IP in any browser to find the IP go start than search CMD press ENTER then type Ipconfig and it should be under IPv4. Then copy your IP place it into browsers address bar pres enter. You will be provided to enter login and password. So type admin to login and admin to password. And from there you are all alone.

arun483 said:
No turn on hotspot to provide WiFi to other device without turning off WiFi so that it will not consume my mobile data
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Whuuut?
So, where's the data connection coming from then?

Aurimazs said:
If so it isn't possible to do it manually only trough apps, I suppose.
Try search Google for it if not successful try search in Google Play you might find something
If still not successful then I'm out of options
Edit: Unless you find out a way to create 2 different Wi-Fi's with the same connection. To do it you will need to go to your Internet Connection Settings trough your IP in any browser to find the IP go start than search CMD press ENTER then type Ipconfig and it should be under IPv4. Then copy your IP place it into browsers address bar pres enter. You will be provided to enter login and password. So type admin to login and admin to password. And from there you are all alone.
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Already tried that ipv4 thing there is nothing related to there
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Planterz said:
Whuuut?
So, where's the data connection coming from then?
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From wifi to which I am already connected
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arun483 said:
From wifi to which I am already connected
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So, if you already have wifi, why do you need to use your phone as a hotspot, if one already exists? Or are you looking to use it as a repeater?

Planterz said:
So, if you already have wifi, why do you need to use your phone as a hotspot, if one already exists? Or are you looking to use it as a repeater?
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I think he wants to enable both the things just to increase his router range? Isn't it?

arun483 said:
Already tried that ipv4 thing there is nothing related to there
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Then I'm out of options

its 2015 is there anything we can do about this?

Android OS Data Usage

Hello, so over the past month I've noticed a huge spike in data usage and it's from Android OS. I've used 1.08 gigs in about 3 weeks. Anyone else having similar issues? No new apps installed. Running the latest version. Hope someone can shed some light on this for me!
Thanks.

lespaul0143 said:
Hello, so over the past month I've noticed a huge spike in data usage and it's from Android OS. I've used 1.08 gigs in about 3 weeks. Anyone else having similar issues? No new apps installed. Running the latest version. Hope someone can shed some light on this for me!
Thanks.
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Go into settings and then Data and tap more in the upper right hand corner and restrict the background data on apps that you don't use.. I pretty much have everything restricted because when I open it the data will work fine in the foreground just not in the background after it's closed. Saves me a lot of data!

MrMike2182 said:
Go into settings and then Data and tap more in the upper right hand corner and restrict the background data on apps that you don't use.. I pretty much have everything restricted because when I open it the data will work fine in the foreground just not in the background after it's closed. Saves me a lot of data!
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If I restrict all background data will I still receive notifications for email, messages, Facebook messages, hangouts, etc...? And I can't restrict background data for Android OS. It's grayed out.

lespaul0143 said:
If I restrict all background data will I still receive notifications for email, messages, Facebook messages, hangouts, etc...? And I can't restrict background data for Android OS. It's grayed out.
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No don't restrict all of it or you won't get the notifications just do as many as you can that you don't use so it stops using data when you aren't using them.

MrMike2182 said:
No don't restrict all of it or you won't get the notifications just do as many as you can that you don't use so it stops using data when you aren't using them.
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Okay. But do those apps fall under Android OS? I already have background data turned off for just about everything.

lespaul0143 said:
Okay. But do those apps fall under Android OS? I already have background data turned off for just about everything.
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Yes they do... What model phone do you have? Verizon? Because when I updated to MM 6.0 it was draining the battery in less than 2 hours of screen on time and killing my data and I wasn't about to accept that so I downgraded back to Lollipop! I get a good 8 to 12 hours of screen on time now. I do think the only way to fix the battery problem when updating is to factory reset the device first so there's absolutely nothing on it and then update to MM 6.0..

MrMike2182 said:
Yes they do... What model phone do you have? Verizon? Because when I updated to MM 6.0 it was draining the battery in less than 2 hours of screen on time and killing my data and I wasn't about to accept that so I downgraded back to Lollipop! I get a good 8 to 12 hours of screen on time now. I do think the only way to fix the battery problem when updating is to factory reset the device first so there's absolutely nothing on it and then update to MM 6.0..
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Verizon Note 5. And my battery isn't the issue. Data is. And why would Android OS be listed separately if all the other apps are also listed separately, showing their own data usage?

Bump. Anyone?

lespaul0143 said:
Bump. Anyone?
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They're listed separately so you can see which one is using the most data, that way you'll know which one it is.. The other thing is, you need an OS in order for anything to run obviously which is why I said they all run on the OS. But like I said they're separated for a reason.

MrMike2182 said:
They're listed separately so you can see which one is using the most data, that way you'll know which one it is.. The other thing is, you need an OS in order for anything to run obviously which is why I said they all run on the OS. But like I said they're separated for a reason.
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So they're using twice the data? That's what my phone is showing...

lespaul0143 said:
So they're using twice the data? That's what my phone is showing...
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Personally I don't know what your phone is doing since I can't see it but just because they're displayed in a way that you can see them all doesn't mean they're using twice the data.

MrMike2182 said:
Personally I don't know what your phone is doing since I can't see it but just because they're displayed in a way that you can see them all doesn't mean they're using twice the data.
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True. I just don't know what changed. Just out of the blue Android OS started using 10+ times the amount of data.

lespaul0143 said:
True. I just don't know what changed. Just out of the blue Android OS started using 10+ times the amount of data.
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Did you do anything at all before this started to do that? If not, maybe you should try factory resetting the phone because I know data isn't cheap anymore!
By the way, there's also network monitoring tools on the play store that you can try out so you can pin it down to which process is using it all up.

I did nothing new / different. Factory resetting is annoying. What's the best app to pinpoint which process it is?

lespaul0143 said:
I did nothing new / different. Factory resetting is annoying. What's the best app to pinpoint which process it is?
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Personally I think this one is good .
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=msd.n2g.n3g
Or you can try this one..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.kfsoft.android.TrafficIndicator

MrMike2182 said:
Personally I think this one is good .
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=msd.n2g.n3g
Or you can try this one..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.kfsoft.android.TrafficIndicator
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Thanks!

So, still no update. Those apps don't measure specific apps or anything. But it's pushing 2gb a month of data.

I'm also looking for answers.
Android OS used 1GB data in one day in the backgroud (uploading). So it's not updates.
I'm not using Cloud or any other backup service.

Disable app from internet?

So after upgrading to marshmallow Portal doesn't work. It keeps trying to download even though everything been downloaded and then says there was an error. I've uninstalled and reinstalled a few times and each time it installs it downloads the data fine and let's me play. Once I close it and reopen it it does the same download and fails. Turning off wifi makes it work but that's annoying.
Is there a way to just stop the app from accessing internet as of my wifi was off?

Hawkhell said:
Is there a way to just stop the app from accessing internet as of my wifi was off?
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Of course! Netguard. The best firewall for Android.

Niii4 said:
Of course! Netguard. The best firewall for Android.
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I tried all those apps and it still has the download and fail crap. I spend over an hour last night using all of those apps.

Did you configure Netguard properly?

I believe so. I'm fairly sure I've tried everything with the app. I tested it on Facebook and Facebook wouldn't connect.

You should block WiFi and mobile by default. Also, show and edit system apps! Maybe the game uses a system app to go online.

Looks like it uses Google Play services.

What is org.codeaurora.btmultisim?

I am using an app called My Data Manager to try and track down something using crazy amounts of data on my device. It has shown org.codeaurora.btmultisim use over 1gb of data (wifi and LTE combined) over the last 24 hours.
This is 85% of my usage and is the only thing on the app that I have no idea what it might be. Does anyone have any tips on what it is or what might be using it?
Thanks!

In not sure what it is but been checking it out might be Best to uninstall as this is what i have found on
https://skyeye.trustlook.com/mobile-app-threat-report/md5-3EEA61FA423DC529EB01C616BDA37A4C/

I don't have any option to remove or disable. Only FORCE STOP. It's not using any storage and barely any memory -- but I feel like something is controlling it or using it to transfer data.

Package disabler Pro from the play store will be able to disable it

*Detection* said:
Package disabler Pro from the play store will be able to disable it
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I disabled it, rebooted and it's still showing up and using data at a crazy rate.

wotan2525 said:
I disabled it, rebooted and it's still showing up and using data at a crazy rate.
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Same here. Anyone get to the bottom of this?
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It's a multisim toggle?

wotan2525 said:
I disabled it, rebooted and it's still showing up and using data at a crazy rate.
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Compile this then disable it:
https://github.com/MilanParikh/Adhell2