Hello, I would like to ask about a pretty strange thing on my Z5, I have been using my rooted z5 for a quiet long time now. Never seen something like this before. But today, I found a really odd thing. You can see it from three screenshots of the "app list" from three apps; greenify, lucky patcher, titanium back up. [attached below]. as you can see, they show all system apps, I remember that they never shown me so many system apps like that before. They show apps like "com.xxxx.xxxx" etc. I know they are systems apps, but normally, they would only show apps like camera, contact, phone, playstore, etc. I suspect something suspocious is going on on my phone, but I don't know what. Can anyone tell me what it is?
Thanks
(+) Any apps; not only greenify, lucky patcher and titanium back up, that show "app list" will show all system apps too, but not so many system apps like that.
I am so consfused.
If you happen to have a rooted phone, doesn't necessarily need to be Z5, all kinds of model. Please send me the screenshoots of your greenify's, lucky patcher's, titanium back up's app lists.
i had lucky patcher installed and i think those apps are meant to be shown i cant remeber exactly but i do remember seeing them on these apps titanium backup and luckypatcher etc no i dont think its a strange thing but more of a access to more things during root which is usually the case for all the devices hope i helped i think it also changes depending on what rom you have deodexed etc i may be wrong but it might be the case
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Hey there,
I was surfing through the android market days ago and found some interesting news, non pleasant ones i may say.
I took the applications Granny Smith and Big Great War Game to give it a go, installed them, and failed to check the onscreen advice, so install was successfull.
The applications were working properly, tested it, but i noticed my notification bar had an extra app going, ads mostly, regarding other available purchases. Yes i know some apps do this on a regular basics but this isn't the case. As one of the apps referred above asks for SU privileges, (both are games), and when i tried to uninstall them, i get always "Uninstallation not Successfull". Also, it appears two install apps for each one, example: Granny (240kb) and Granny (14mb). Either way you simply cannot uninstall them.
I then tried the root explorer to hunt these b*astards down manually, after a quick search, i did managed to delete every trace. But though it was done properly, the damn icon still appears on my apps list, and with various uninstall tools available, simply gives you error after error.
Down side is, so far you may think this is harmless, after all its publicity and there are a ton of apps doing the same. Right?
Well, not quite. You see, the apps run with the system constantly, with 3G or WIFI or not, not appearing on any task killer, and thus completely draining your battery in 1hr tops.
I would like to know if anyone encountered any issue relevant or similar to this case, as is critical to at least inform the customer the malware capabilities of such apps.
If needed or for experiment use, you can ask me for the apk files, i saved copies of it.
Cheers.
I have a (4GB) Tronsmart TS7 (some times known as a Alps Glacier TS7). It's a Chinese MTK6589 based phone running Android 4.2 purchased from geekbuying.
For the most part the device is stock, there are next to no pre-installed apps apart from the usual, and the only additional apps I have installed are: Playstation, Steam, ColorNote, Shuttle+, Root Explorer DI Radio, Chrome & Gmail
The problem I have is that there are apps appearing on the device that I am not installing. So far it has been the same set of apps that appear:
Mobo Market
UC Browser
TrustGo Security
DU Battery Saver
337 Game Master
GameCenter
(there may be more)
These apps don't start appearing right after a factory reset, but start to arrive 1-2weeks later. They also seem to be packaged similarly; when I say packaged I mean opening them seems to prompt with the same menu & style (accept licence etc) before it gets to the main app. Also, after you open the app from the app drawer it then creates an icon on the desktop. Maybe opening it actually does the installing?
The apps themselves seem to be legit.
I have factory reset the device (twice), and changed my Google password but they are still appearing. They don't show up in my Play store history so they must be coming from elsewhere.
My main concern is that if it is downloading things without my permission, what might it be uploading ? Not to mention wasting my 3g data etc.
So I have a few questions:
Should I be (really) worried?
Is there a way to monitor this? eg connect to a wifi hotspot and packet capture the network traffic? or maybe use a process monitor (the ones I've tried so far haven't shown anything) to see if there is some sort of script in the background?
Can it be stopped?
Thanks in advance, I would be interested to know if anyone else has/had this problem?
I have the same problem.
I haven't tried flashing some other ROM yet, but I guess that is the only way to get it to stop installing those things.
Have you actually found any other roms to install?
For anybody's information:
You may have noticed how you always end up with a 'Tronsmart.mp4' video file appearing in your gallery app. This is damn annoying since it appears twice, once on the internal and once on the external SD card. There is an '\system\app\CopyTest.apk' file which creates both of these. Should be safe to delete it and thus prevent the file(s) appearing
I have actually decompiled this apk. It works as a service that runs when MEDIA_UNMOUNTED or MEDIA_MOUNTED is invoked, and does absolutely nothing else.
I have the same problem, those random apps installing and the video always in my gallery. I have managed to stop tge apps by using a firewall and allowing only my apps that i want to use the internet. I havent found a solution though to fix the problem. Probably tronsmart is spamming its customers...
mariosm1cy said:
I have managed to stop tge apps by using a firewall and allowing only my apps that i want to use the internet.
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What Firewall did you use? I might be able to use something like that to pinpoint the app that's causing this.
Sory for the late reply. I am usin "android firewall" free from google play store.
USB debugging disabled stopped it on mine
edit: not that easy, wasn't enough. made some cleanup by disabing/removing some system apps. seems to work so far although there are still some strange events like superuser crashing and right after that system downloader.apk reappearing. haven't seen any other junk coming back
these are the apk's i removed:
systemupdateassistant
systemdownloader
omacp
mtkbt
midtest
galaxy4
fusedlocation
engineermode
engineermodesim
cds_info
basicdreams.
Hi guys.
My Xperia Z3 compact, as every Sony device, was born full of bloatware, like various content markets for apps and multimedia, apps that I will never use, Google Play apps and Sony apps which do the exactly same things, all the Google+ integration (I have not a Google+ account and I don't want it), etc.
Now I'm wondering if it's better to keep all this garbage in a "Garbage" folder on the app drawer and simply ignores it or disable all of them in the App settings menu. I've always chosen to deactivate the garbage in order to avoid updates downloading and save system resources (so battery life), but a friend suggested me to only ignore them cause they don't significatively waste resources and you can't never know exactly if and when a process call another one that if disabled generates loops and instability.
What you think about it?
Inviato dal mio Sony Xperia Tablet S attraverso l'app ufficiale xda-developers
I have the same phone too...I put them all in a folder and forgot about them...
after reading this im going to disable them i think
maybe i'll not disable google+ even though i dont use it but i think hangouts needs it
ishaang said:
I have the same phone too...I put them all in a folder and forgot about them...
after reading this im going to disable them i think
maybe i'll not disable google+ even though i dont use it but i think hangouts needs it
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I don't use Hangouts so I've not any problem with the lack of G+.
But you should not take your decision over what I wrote, cause mine was only a question because I've not even the answer. You should wait the answer from someone expert.
Nevertheless, if you try before and after disabling please report your impressions.
Not quite sure, but as long as you're not rooted, I don't think you can do anything drastic.
So everything you can disable should be safe and is that program alone.
I personally disabled almost everything I could on my Xperia Z3. You can't disable system apps and so on as long as you're not rooted. Also I think it's only system apps that works "over" each other. What I mean is when not rooted, disable app A does not in any way affect app B.
That would be another case if rooted and disable system app A which could cause system to crash.
What apps i can remove on Xpera M2 D2303 4.3/4.4.2/4.4.4 Without any "stopped working" error later on?
I really hate bloatware and sony's apps, i removed some google apps, xperia care but there Is more sony stuff i want to remove safely...
anyone knows?
Guys?
Try searching ther was article on Wikipedia i found few months back, and use Titanium Backup for backup then delete. You can remove almost all apps in app drawer, i removed Gmail, stock mail app, some of Google aps, and T-mobile apps.
Good Luck.
Xperia M2 D2303 on K.K. 4.4.4
Since you can remove them, you are rooted. So you can freeze the apps you think you'd want to remove and see it that causes any issue. They do not get updated and shouldn't consume RAM nor CPU anymore. If you really want to remove apps, first freeze them and if the phone works fine remove them later.
Oh, another thing. I noticed that some apps in the preinstalled KitKat were actually installed in /data (Facebook, Twitter). Just go in the launcher drawer and select uninstall. All the ones with an "X" can be safely removed.
Im using System App safe Remover and some many apps are key module
What it means
ImArlet said:
Im using System App safe Remover and some many apps are key module
What it means
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It means they are part of Android.. You sure don't want to remove them. Don't get obsessed about removing apps, it doesn't do much. The space you free in /system won't be really used (well, yeah. You can always move some of your downloaded apps there to save space in /data. A process that must be repeated every time an app in /system gets updated, though). Apart from that and maybe from some wakelock issues it isn't really worth it. KitKat manages the RAM decently.
Otherwise another thing you may do is to remove/freeze the redundant apps. When you get prompted about which app should be executed for a specific action you may remove the one(s) you're not using.
The other night I went to the Google Playstore to find an app' I wanted to try.
I found it but the phone was acting weird.
I did some checking and in Security/admin privileges I found something I'd never seen before.
It was called "Android Digital Management".
I searched around with my file explorer and found nothing.
Hmm?
I then removed the Playstore updates and disabled Play store and it's account manager ...... I always do to save power.
I went back and checked on ADM and it was gone.
My SD Maid app' was complaining about only a partial root as well as some of my other root apps' not working correctly.
Thank God for TWRP recovery.
I had a two week old backup that I installed from recovery and everything is great now.
Has anyone else ran into this?
I am rooted aswell, and when checking the area u stated, i dont have a Android Digital Management, but its called Android Device Manager, same initials, that is checked and Greenify, quick reboot and Wheres my droid are unchecked. What app is your device administrator after what you did??
I believe they are (just my opinion).
It really seems that the once touted "open source" OS is going the way of IOS for "security" reasons. I know this is a supposed to be for my protection but it is a serious curtailing of our ability to do as we please with our device.
Google took the first major step down the slippery slope of a locked OS when THEY decided we don't need an external sd card.
I know they're locking up security exploits but it really seems that soon what we loved about Android will be gone and it willl just be another OIS or Windows phone....
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I am rooted aswell, and when checking the area u stated, i dont have a Android Digital Management, but its called Android Device Manager, same initials, that is checked and Greenify, quick reboot and Wheres my droid are unchecked. What app is your device administrator after what you did??
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Ah,that sounds like it.
My bad.
I was so pissed after it happened,I guess I screwed up the name......you got the idea though.
If you uninstall the updates to the Google Play apps',that thing goes away.
I notice when I go to the Playstore that they like to update my app' resulting in phone restarts.
This time the last restart presented a PlayStore screen in a format I hadn't seen before.
That"s when everything went downhill.
Some games are, remember mine rooted note 3 can't even detect the game marvel future fight