I've stumbled upon this google security setting:
http://imgur.com/Rq1syoH
"Scan device for security threats". According to Google, "when this setting is on, it regularly checks your device activity and prevents or warns about potential harm."
That does not explain anything to me. Does anyone know what exactly this setting does?
Nothing weird about this. It does what it says it will. Let's say you accidentally download and install some malware. With that setting on it will warn you before you run it.
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So it doesn't do what it says in the description? It doesn't "regularly" check the phone, only if you install apps? Does this also mean, the setting is useless if you turned off app installations from other sources than the play store?
I wouldn't say that, simply because sometimes malware slips through the play store screening process.
Then how would the phone suddenly discover malware from an app, when the play store couldn't discover it? The play store and Android are from the same company.. Also, that doesn't match the description "regularly checks your device" at all.
Does anyone here ACTUALLY know, what this setting does?
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/2812853?hl=en
From Google. ?
I was just trying to help man, relax.
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Does anyone know if this is possible yet?
Tap&Pay are ready in Android 4.4, but if I got to play.google.com and try to get the APK it says it isn't compatible for any of my phones (big surprise) and if I try to sideload it, it first asks if I would like to install of the existing application (even though I don't see one) then if I click install it says "App not installed". (I am rooted just as an FYI)
lastly, www.google.ca/wallet directs me to a website that implies that Wallet IS available in Canada, and tells me to download the app from the play store, but then again, I try and it says My device is not compatible (Rogers Wireless LGE Nexus 5)
Is there something in my build.prop file that is preventing the install? When I look it is just listed as hammerhead and Nexus 5, I don't see anything that would prevent it from working, other then carrier being "unknown"
Thanks for any help, we have NFC everywhere now, I would love to be able to use it...
Did you ever figure this out? A friend of mine said he had no problem installing wallet and adding a card, however I have been unable to get around the location restriction when opening the wallet app...
Wallet comes pre-installed but it's disabled (frozen) if you're outside the US when Android starts up. You can see it in Titanium Backup and defrost it but when you start it the app will say it's not available in your region and close. The message makes reference to updating your Google home address so it might not be checking location with the phone anymore. I tried revoking Wallet's location access with APP Ops and it worked but still gives me an error.
Since upgrading to lollipop I'd noticed a couple of small niggles with me Galaxy S5. As I've not had to rebuild my phone since purchasing it, I decided a factory reset wouldn't do any harm. Since resetting, Google play services keeps waking my GPS and searching for my location, this happens every few minutes unless I turn the GPS off. I've got all the usual Google stalking features turned off (Google now, location history, location reporting) but I've still got the same issue. I've even reset again and unticked the box to restore my user data... But still Google want to know where I am.
Any ideas how to resolve this one? It's a pain if I have to keep turning my GPS off when I'm not using it, especially when I had no issue prior to factory resetting.
clattewell said:
Since upgrading to lollipop I'd noticed a couple of small niggles with me Galaxy S5. As I've not had to rebuild my phone since purchasing it, I decided a factory reset wouldn't do any harm. Since resetting, Google play services keeps waking my GPS and searching for my location, this happens every few minutes unless I turn the GPS off. I've got all the usual Google stalking features turned off (Google now, location history, location reporting) but I've still got the same issue. I've even reset again and unticked the box to restore my user data... But still Google want to know where I am.
Any ideas how to resolve this one? It's a pain if I have to keep turning my GPS off when I'm not using it, especially when I had no issue prior to factory resetting.
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It's more likely one or several of the myriad of apps/services on your phone. Do you have a weather app on your phone? Well, how's it going to know how the weather is, if it doesn't know where you are? Facebook by default wants to know where you are so when you post or send a message, it tells everybody where you are. Even apps like music streamers want to know where you are so they can tell you where you were when you heard something. Lots of apps that you wouldn't expect to use GPS in fact do. The vast majority of this data collection is completely innocuous and harmless, but you always have the option to disallow it. Or not use the app(s) as well; remember, it was you that granted the app GPS permissions when you installed it.
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It's more likely one or several of the myriad of apps/services on your phone. Do you have a weather app on your phone? Well, how's it going to know how the weather is, if it doesn't know where you are? Facebook by default wants to know where you are so when you post or send a message, it tells everybody where you are. Even apps like music streamers want to know where you are so they can tell you where you were when you heard something. Lots of apps that you wouldn't expect to use GPS in fact do. The vast majority of this data collection is completely innocuous and harmless, but you always have the option to disallow it. Or not use the app(s) as well; remember, it was you that granted the app GPS permissions when you installed it.
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Thanks for your suggestion, I don't think it is another app though. Prior to resetting my phone the 2nd and 3rd time I uninstalled any suspect apps one by one to see which one was the culprit. In the end I just went through the entire apps list and uninstalled/disabled everything I could, it made the phone really unstable and practically unusable but still didn't stop Google Play Services using my GPS every few minutes.
Any other ideas?
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Thanks for your suggestion, I don't think it is another app though. Prior to resetting my phone the 2nd and 3rd time I uninstalled any suspect apps one by one to see which one was the culprit. In the end I just went through the entire apps list and uninstalled/disabled everything I could, it made the phone really unstable and practically unusable but still didn't stop Google Play Services using my GPS every few minutes.
Any other ideas?
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Try this:
http://androidforums.com/threads/is-there-an-app-to-track-which-app-uses-gps.732746/
how about "Android Device Manager " .. is that disabled?
There are a lot of guides about how to fix this. It isn't always the same service that is an issue...but you can try and disable some of the ones that are known to be problematic. For example see post #3 in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785128
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Title pretty much says it all. I have the box checked for notifications for app updates via the Google Playstore, but it seems the only way I can find out if there is an upgrade for an app I'm using is to manually open the app and check. Do I need another setting checked besides the "App updates available" under the notification settings or something? Thx!
-Matt
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Title pretty much says it all. I have the box checked for notifications for app updates via the Google Playstore, but it seems the only way I can find out if there is an upgrade for an app I'm using is to manually open the app and check. Do I need another setting checked besides the "App updates available" under the notification settings or something? Thx!
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It could just be because it's a new phone and you haven't spent much time with it yet to figure out it's standard behavior.
I've noticed that on every one of my phones that the Play Store often waits until particular events occur before notifying you of app updates. I always set mine to check but there are a lot of times that I go in and check manually and there are updates available that it didn't tell me about. However, if I don't update and just wait a while, it eventually notifies. It just seems to wait for a particular time of day or for X number of updates to become available or for your phone to do something specific first. I frequently see a lot of stuff happen on my phones right after I complete a telephone call (which I don't make/receive very often), like suddenly I get the Play Store notification and the silly "Login to Facebook to sync your contacts" notification, stuff like that. Sometimes it happens right after restarting the phone. It's just odd behavior. Play Store has always been this way for me, across many different smartphones.
Not to say that there isn't a specific problem with the S6. There still could be. But it's possible that it's just standard Play Store behavior.
Hey folks,
so although I deactivated the f***** password manager, it still keeps asking me for EVERY password in EVERY app if I wanted to save it. I can't seem to get rid of this behaviour.
What I tried up to now:
deactivated the PWM via my google account settings on my phone
reactivated and deactivated it again to see if it was just some setting that had gotten stuck
turned the phone off and on again
started chrome -> settings -> password, although I assume this is an app-internal value
opened my phone's account on my pc, altered the value here (I could see both on the PC when I turned the PWM on/off on the phone and vice versa, so the value change works, but google chooses to ignore it)
Is there anything I have overlooked? Is there any additional value that needs changing? Other google services, for example syncing my contacts (at least those that my old phone didn't eff up) worked without any problems.
As another approach to get rid of this sh***y behaviour: is google's password manager a standalone app, can I just uninstall it via ADB?
Dunno if anything of this is important: Phone is a Sony Xperia 10 II, unrooted, three days old.
In case I forgot any useful information, please ask.
Welcome to XDA! Seems like you did everything to turn off the Google account PWM option. It's not a separate Play Store app.
Only thing I can think of is there's a another Play store 3rd party PWM app installed like LastPass or Sony bloatware app, etc...
Thanks mate!
Nope, there is no other password manager installed and I tried my very best to get rid of all the bloatware I could find and thought to be safe to uninstall. Also, the password saving question bears the Google-"G", so it shouldn't be any 3rd party program.
Is there anything else I can do except being frustrated and annoyed? =/
Sorry for potentially asking a dumb question, but im at my wits end here.
Is there any way to completely disable OTA updates, with the stock ROM on the Pixel 4a?
Asking because i have turned automatic updates off in settings and it STILL checks and STILL force updates the phone after a week or so. This is extremely frustrating as i have very specific versions of certain apps installed, eg Google Keyboard, Vanced YouTube, Pre stories Twitter etc. They are all configured exactly how i want and when it updates it installs the latest versions and consequently ****s all the settings up at the same time. This means i have to spend a few hours uninstallling, reinstalling and re configuring the whole ****ing phone again.
So yeah, is there a way? I am rooted with magisk if thats of any benefit. Ill do anything, even if it fundamentally breaks google play store/services and requires ghetto apps like LP/Autostarts etc. I just want my device how I want, not what some trillion dollar company wants.
My last device was a Mi A2 Lite and it behaved itself perfectly before i destroyed the screen. Starting to regret this upgrade.
When you say "I have turned automatic updates off", did you do this in the play store app? If so, good.
But, you can also try these extra steps:
1) Turn on "Developer Mode" on your phone (do search for how to do this). Then go into developer options and turn off "Automatic System Updates".
2) Then do the changes I did in this post:
How do I stop update notices?
I'm rooted with Android 10 on my pixel4a. I don't want to upgrade to 11 just yet, but I keep getting the annoying update notices. Is there an app or module I can freeze with titanium to turn off the notices?
forum.xda-developers.com
Since doing these, I have not seen an "Upgrade to Android 11" (I'm on A10) message and I have not noticed any apps being forced updated.
yeah google play updates are disabled. which is interesting because after the phone updates, it re enables them, as well as a bunch of other permissions in settings!
and yeah ive disabled auto system updates in developer options, which is what im pissed about because it still updated the phone without my permission whilst i was asleep last night.
ill try and force freeze those components you listed, see if that kills it.
i might have a poke around the autostarts app later and see if i can do something there, thats if it even works with android 11.
the last time i had to do this was on my nexus 7 running kitkat lol