So for whatever reason, I can't download certain apps ("this app is incompatible with your device"). I did some research, and tried the following:
-Market Enabler: spoofs build.prop to resemble another phone. Succesfully spoofed another, phone but still can't download apps
-APK downloader Firefox by code kiem: doesn't work, says it is incompatible
-APK downloader ext. for Chrome by evozi: doesn't work, says it is incompatible
-Amazon Market: thinks my device is incompatible as well.
I think I found a solution though: 1 mobile market seems to have the apps, free to download without device restriction. How safe is this store though? I tested it by downloading some apk files and testing the MD5 values against some known safe apps, and they match. Of course I only tested one or two apps though. Are they really the official apps?
The weird thing is there is another part of the website mod edit - link removed where you can directly download apk files after you provide the link from the google play store; however, the downloads are not even close to the size of the actual app. For example, I tried downloading HERE Maps (38 megabytes) and the actual download file size was ~ 6 megabytes. I tested Bing search (~1.6megabytes) and the file ended up 5.8 megabytes. It appends the downloaded apk file with *_quickdownload 330.apk. So while the apps downloaded through the store itself have the same file size and MD5 sum of the actual safe apps, for some reason this other part of the store that utilizes a link to google play has totally different app file sizes. Of course I was too chicken to install those other apk files as I didn't want to test it.
Here's an example of the same app downloaded from different parts of the website
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Anyways, if it turns out this store is safe, then that's fantastic news.
Personal opinion here, but based on your description, the site sounds a bit sketchy. In fact, trying to visit the site through my OpenDNS service (filtered DNS servers), they block it, reporting the site was banned for malicious activity.
It didn't specify exactly why the ban was enforced. Some apps may or may not have the author's permission to be hosted there (illegal), they might use deceptive tactics, they might push adware or malware, or something else.
That being said, the Amazon app store and AppBrain are also similar Play Store alternates, and the file you mentioned that was a different size could very well be their "front end" app used to keep track of your installed apps through them, as well as updates.
I would Google a bit to find more information, but again, I was unable to visit the site through a credible DNS service.
Good luck!
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Dude, I recommend not to download from the site. I googled it and most sources say it is malicious. You can try the app "All in One Downloader (AIO downloader)". I use that app and it is 100% virus free.
meghgoswami said:
Dude, I recommend not to download from the site. I googled it and most sources say it is malicious. You can try the app "All in One Downloader (AIO downloader)". I use that app and it is 100% virus free.
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This is another malware source.
No , that website amongst other similar aren`t safe , first of all it violates the XDA rule no 6
6. Do not post or request warez.
If a piece of software requires you to pay to use it, then pay for it. We do not accept warez nor do we permit members to request, post, promote or describe ways in which warez, cracks, serial codes or other means of avoiding payment, can be obtained or used. This is a site of developers, i.e. the sort of people who create such software. When you cheat a software developer, you cheat us as a community.
And secondly , the apps one may download could contain adware/malware
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Okay, this question may sound a bit weird. But there is a reason why I just want the ability to install high end apps.
Each day Google is giving 10 apps a day for Rs. 13.21 .. This is expected to continue for more 5 days I guess.
And most apps/games are incompatible with our device i.e. Galaxy Fit.
So, when we go ahead to buy them it doesn't allow you to buy because they are incompatible.
The reason I want to yet buy is soon I will be buying a high end phone. So, rather buy a few apps with this dirt cheap price now.
Any ways to fool Google Market and somehow just buy?
Out of all the research, I know that you need to edit the build.prop.
I did edit the ro.model.name value to Nexus S... but that alone didn't help.
Some more changes are required. Any help?
Thanks.
if you have any high end android around you
then just login to that mobile let it sync then go to play store app there select your account find the app that you want to buy then buy it stop the download the app will be added to your account then just rove your account from there
dheeraj (dhlalit11) said:
if you have any high end android around you
then just login to that mobile let it sync then go to play store app there select your account find the app that you want to buy then buy it stop the download the app will be added to your account then just rove your account from there
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I thought the same.. But unfortunately, none around.
Hmm, It's quite easy, search for a app called Mod Edit - no links to warez or ways around warez install it. It's kinda goole play applications lets you install all apps which are/aren't compatible. Search at google or android market.
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you can't talk about pirating apps
Lets be very clear here the link that has been removed is a well know app for getting hold paid apps for free, this type of talk is not allowed on XDA and giving links to such apps/sites is an even bigger NO NO.
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The-Hulk
I've tried edit build.prop and using an application on PC to download incompatible games/apps but unfortunately no effect -.-
Hi,
Sometimes an app (.apk) is either simply not available through Google's store, or it might say "not compatible with your device", etc. There can be various reasons why a person might download a .apk from somewhere other than a "trusted" source.
If this was a file for my PC I could test it in a "sandbox", and I could scan it with both Microsoft Security Essentials and Malware Bytes Antimalware.
On my Android phone(s) I'm not aware of something like the "sandbox" option, and I don't really want to run an "antivirus" program on my phone. Is there an easy way to scan .apk files on the PC to see if they are rogue apps, might send SMS, "phone home", or otherwise mess with other applications or the system software installed on my phone?
Lets give another example: say I thought 15 minutes was not long enough to evaluate a relatively expensive Android game (it certainly isn't!) and I want to test it out first. Let's assume my only option in that case might be an illegally downloaded copy from unknown sources. Of course, we shouldn't do that. But if we did, how could we know if the file is safe and not risk installing some Chinese spyware?
About Android AV programs: anybody know how effective they are? Do some defend against "trojans" - I would think these days trojans are 99% of problems and viruses mostly a relic of the past?
My biggest concern is actually just unwanted crap that runs in the background which eats up battery, makes my phone warm (which I hate), or, perhaps even sends SMS message [this would be even worse because I don't have a text message plan].
EDIT: I see web pages with tiles like "new study finds Android antivirus apps not effective" and articles like this one: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/...bouncer-does-it-offer-enough-protection/17981
Do we have an easy way to boot Galaxy S3 off of "external" SDCARD instead of internal memory?
Search play store for avast antivirus, completely free, updates daily and works really well (firewall. Anti theft. And many more Features
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stock rom unrooted
I found this website, maybe it can help someone.
h t t p://scan.netqin.com/en/
Maybe someone can post another one...
an easy way to check for safe apk
The easiest way to check for safe apk is to have one gmail account and another "whatever" email account. Then just send the apk from the gmail one to the second account, gmail always find viruses in any apk and stop the process to join the file (virus alert). Bad point is you are limited with the size of the file you wanna send.
Nowadays, even pc antiviruses can detect viruses in apks. I would rather not burden my phone with any android antivirus,since they are literally battery hogs.
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Go here and upload the APK
http://anubis.iseclab.org/
Anubis is a service for analyzing malware.
Submit your Windows executable or Android APK and receive an analysis report telling you what it does. Alternatively, submit a suspicious URL and receive a report that shows you all the activities of the Internet Explorer process when visiting this URL.
Andrubis executes Android apps in a sandbox and provides a detailed report on their behavior, including file access, network access, crypto operations, dynamic code loading and information leaks. In addition to the dynamic analysis in the sandbox, Andrubis also performs static analysis, yielding information on e.g. the app's activities, services, required external libraries and actually required permissions.
Found a good one too
apkscan.nviso.be - give it a try. Drag and drop - wait for the upload - than click SCAN . Wait for a few minutes. That`s all. Unlike ANUBIS it has a resolution at the end of the analysis . Usually helpful.
You can also email the file to [email protected] and it will email the report back in about ten minutes. Virustotal can display some interesting info, for example it said that Lucky Patcher is a "Potentially Infected Hosts File (v)", as reported by VIPRE and AVware.
Virustotal also has an official android app.
The Netqin scanner is also an android mobile app.
Late answer, sure, but I think ClamAV is what you want. You also want its bytecode signature file, and to speed things up, you only want that single file (speeds up things quite a bit).
It is the only offline apk scanner i know of, and as for its efficiency i cannot say, but it seems like it is what you are asking for.
An alternative would be to install something like BlueStacks and remap your "Windows shared folder" (through registry) to the folder you have your apk files in, and then run BitDefender on it. BD is by far the most pernickety AV app out there for Android.
I'll have to check out bitdefender (it's also included on virustotal.com)
apkscan.nviso.be seems to be pretty good at analyzing files for suspicious activity, and it also uploads the file to virustotal for you. Then you can copy the sha256 hash into the virustotal's search, to get all the gory details.
anubis.iseclab.org limits files to 8 megabytes.
Another way to avoid malware is:
when installing an update to an already-installed version of an application, it will 99% of the time prompt you to update an existing app. There's been rare instances where some apps do use a new digital signature (for example when spotify had a big security hole, and for awhile there were two apps by spotify in the app store).
One other way to tell, as a final check when launching the apk for installation on the phone: the icon will not have the right icon. I've installed apps before that I thought came from a trusted source, but the icon was not right. In fact, I was considering not posting this publically, so the "bad dudes" would not update their methods.
Another tool I found:
http://andrototal.org/
Although it might be a duplicate of virustotal.
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Another tool I found:
http://andrototal.org/
Although it might be a duplicate of virustotal.
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I just tried out this site. To me, it appears to be the most thorough virus testing site that I have seen. It takes some time for it to complete the scans. mainly because it scans the file with about 7 or 8 different scanning engines. Just just have to keep refreshing the page every few minutes to see if the results have updated.
I will be using this one as my go to site for apk scanning.
Just install it on the default emulator in the Android SDK
You can also install your apps on other emulator live bluestacks(best for games), jar of beans(best for rooted app) and windroy(the lightest)
Hit thanks if this helps
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I'll have to check out bitdefender ...
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Your signature photo ... awesome ... Bad Dudes
By using GDATA security , When you want to install an app the GDATA will scan it befor installing
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Use google scanning service VirusTotal to scan any app, secondly always use secure source. There are many well reputed apk sites but I personally use apklink.com , on this site required apk file is just a click away and its quite easy as well...
be safe & secure
This threads out of date, but it has me thinking I want to use something as mentioned in several replies to OP.
Are there any sites, or apps that can warn me if an .apk (for example) has malware etc.?
Thanks in advance for any help, including a link to another discussion that may have my answer
denise1952 said:
This threads out of date, but it has me thinking I want to use something as mentioned in several replies to OP.
Are there any sites, or apps that can warn me if an .apk (for example) has malware etc.?
Thanks in advance for any help, including a link to another discussion that may have my answer
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Malwarebytes can detect malware.
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I tried this site and I like it because it goes into a lot of detail after analyzing and sends me a report in email. It was mentioned, and it is still available to use: https://apkscan.nviso.be/
Thank you for the heads up on MB, I use that on my PC and works great
You can use virustotal.
If you downloaded an app that requires Amazon app store verification and for whatever reason you want to bypass that,
Download Lucky Patcher (you can find it in Google) and search for you app, long press it and choose Remove License Verification, Auto Modes, just check "Auto Mode (Amazon Market)" and press Apply.
Now try launching your app; in my case, it redirected to the amazon appstore website.
So just download the amazon appstore and install it (around 5 mb). You do not have to login. Launch your app and it should work, if it doesn't re-patch it the same way with Lucky Patcher.
Hit the Thanks button if that helped.
Note: Trying to use your app with Freedom will remove the patch so just don't use it.
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If you downloaded an app that requires Amazon app store verification and for whatever reason you want to bypass that,
Download Lucky Patcher (you can find it in Google) and search for you app, long press it and choose Remove License Verification, Auto Modes, just check "Auto Mode (Amazon Market)" and press Apply.
Now try launching your app; in my case, it redirected to the amazon appstore website.
So just download the amazon appstore and install it (around 5 mb). You do not have to login. Launch your app and it should work, if it doesn't re-patch it the same way with Lucky Patcher.
Hit the Thanks button if that helped.
Note: Trying to use your app with Freedom will remove the patch so just don't use it.
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No.
Discussion of such apps as Freedom and Lucky Patcher are not allowed on XDA. Please take a moment to read the rules of the forum here:
6. Do not post warez.
If a piece of software requires you to pay to use it, then pay for it. We do not accept warez and nor do we permit any member to request, promote or describe ways in which warez, cracks, serial codes or other means of avoiding payment, can be obtained. This is a site of developers, i.e. the sort of people who create such software. When you cheat a software developer, you cheat us as a community.
Apps such as these do little else except allow users to pirate/hack/steal potential money from developers. Discussion of these apps is forbidden on XDA.
Before i begin, i know that there is a new version of Pandora out and i know that there is a new version of the Pandora PATCH for Xposed BUT those newer versions are very BUGGY and this combination of Pandora and Patcher versions are what i have found work the BEST together FLAWLESSLY!
Purpose:
Enable Unlimited Skips, No Ads and Download song by pressing "Thumb Up" :good: button
Requirements:
Must be Rooted, Jellybean or KitKat, Xposed Framework installed.
Installation:
1. Download and install Pandora APK
2. Download and install Pandora Patch APK
3. Activate in XPosed and REBOOT
4. Open Pandora Patcher and adjust settings to your liking.
5. REBOOT (just to be safe)
6. Open Pandora Log In and select a station or create a new one.
7. Plress the "Thumbs Up" to download the song.
8. Press the "Thank You" on this Post.
APK's Attached.
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Attachments removed as they enable options that are only available on the paid for version.
@gregbradley
Let me know if you come across any problems.
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Let me know if you come across any problems.
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Not allowed to post warez per XDA rules.
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Not allowed to post warez per XDA rules.
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This is the same app found in Play Store, just an older version.
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This is the same app found in Play Store, just an older version.
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Talking about the patcher, not Pandora. The patcher is a hack that allows you to bypass the free version so you don't have to get the paid version.
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Talking about the patcher, not Pandora. The patcher is a hack that allows you to bypass the free version so you don't have to get the paid version.
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Warez=noun
software that has been illegally copied and made available.
I didnt illegaly copy any application. I found the patch here on XDA and am making it available to my G2 friends.
ingoljosh said:
Warez=noun
software that has been illegally copied and made available.
I didnt illegaly copy any application. I found the patch here on XDA and am making it available to my G2 friends.
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Touche
the download playing song feature doesnt work for me
It's not working for me either. I'm running stock 4.2.2. I uninstalled the module, rebooted, installed the model, activated and rebooted. The Pandora folder wasn't added to the music folder either.
ingoljosh said:
Warez=noun
software that has been illegally copied and made available.
I didnt illegaly copy any application. I found the patch here on XDA and am making it available to my G2 friends.
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You're right, but also wrong.
It may not be warez perse, but it violates pandora's teams of service. This is the same reason this patcher had been removed from the official xposed repositories. By posting it on xda, if xda leaves it available then ultimately pandora may hold them responsible.
http://www.pandora.com/legal
From the summary:
Pandora can only be used in the United States, New Zealand, Australia and those countries' respective territories.
From Section 9:
You agree that you will not:
(i)use the Pandora Service to download or reproduce copyrighted materials;
(ii) copy, store, edit, change, prepare any derivative work of, or alter in any way any of the tracks streamed through the Pandora Services;
That said, the "software" being illegally made available in this case is the digitally copy of the songs that are illegally downloaded through the use of this patcher. This makes it a form of warez since the intent is to enable music piracy.
Also, the bit about finding it on xda just means that there's someplace else in the forums that someone didn't report.
Though, if the mods don't care... Kudos, seems like it should do what it claims.
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When you install an app from third-party, your phone may pops up a message like “For security, your phone is set to block installation of apps obtained from unknown sources.” So you may doubt about the safety of the app. Is it safe? Does it contains virus?
Actually, app from unknown source does not mean it is unsafe. But equally we can not trust it completely. The app is not allowed to publish on official site like Google Play Store because it infringe its policy. Facing the situation, the best solution is to find an alternative app on official app store. If you fail to find and really need the app, here is what you need to do:
Check if the app has virus. Go to the official to see whether the app has verified by any anti-virus software. Take InsTube as an example, you know it is verified by CM Security, Lookout Security and McAfee on instube dot com.
Read some decent reviews or comments. Though the app has passed through some safety verification software, the app may still harmful. For example, I want to download SnapTube, which has passed through safety verification, to my Android phone last year. I thought it is safe previously, but I changed my mind after reading some decent reviews. The reviews show that InsTube apk requires many important permissions from my phone, which let me worry about my privacy.
Anyway, consider carefully before installing an app from unknown sources. If you haven’t other option, just download it from its official site.
You can read a review to know why the apps may not that safe；
https://blog.instube.com/is-snaptube-apk-safe/
To check for a Virus drop the app into https://www.virustotal.com or in https://androidobservatory.org/
on open source apps you can look at the permissions being used from the AndroidManifest.xml file
You can run the app on a virtual machine if needed