WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED TO ANDROID?
Background:
Running a Samsung Galaxy J3v sm-337v (cheapest smartphone Verizon sells outright $168!) If anyone has info on rooting this phone LMK (told impossible)
My last phone was an unlock Blu (crap spy company)
Verizon doesn't allow unlocked non-verizon phones-VoLTE not authorized
The want to lock us in to thier bloatware/spyware.
I am on per-gig plan.
My phone is configured to allow as few permissions as possible. Default for most preinstall apps is to "allow modify system and allow draw over apps" yikes!
Disabled auto sync on all gmail, play, everything is manual sync.
Disabled all advertising and tracking options. (**** OFF i pay big $ for internet access)
Do not sync my stuff to google only email
NOW: Been out of the rooting game fir a min, installed No Root Firewall (wonderful)
W T F !?
Why are these effing companies sending so much information back and forth from my device COnSTANTLY!?
I expect google play transport services to be doing a little back and forth [every time I pwr my screen lol]
But Samsung Home Experience
Samsung Keyboard
Gallery!
MY Files (explorer)!
Game optimizing service (not a single game on this phone)
Chrome (never use)
Google Translate (hardly use)
Verizon "Security and Privacy" (ha)
Play Store (over and over)-disabled -i can get apk from web
A blank and unknown app 'balancing service' to "yandex.com" (russia)
And more
All of these are pinging servers 2-20 times a day when I am not using my phone even.
Do not tell me these are regular updates.
How deep down the rabbit hole do I want to go.
From an outside look it would seem they are litterally leaching info on all my pictures, files, possibly keystrokes, ect.
Again WTF?
Am I the only one?
P.s I am not a wanted criminal or doing anything illegal other than the occasional MJ joint.
It makes me mad AF tho.
Android (and apple i assume) have become vampires.
My phone should only do one notified updated and only access servers when i prompt it too!
This **** seems like it has gone too far
Any explanations, comments?
Ps. These ****ing image verifications are damn ridiculous!
Down with alphabet skynet!?
Does anybody have?
I would purchase any phone that has a BLANK (not even play store) Android and can still use Volte and CDMA on Verizon USA bands.
I could care so little to say goodbye to every Google app and service. The satellite imagery maps are thier only GOOD thing.
Facebook should have to pay 500 billion if you ask me, bankrupt 'em.
I tried to do this with the BLU tank on T-blowbile ,but no matter the patches the volte wouldnt stick.
If a device/platform exists I want to be the first to know.
I want to take back my digital ownership.
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Hi all,
Got a question that I'd like some guidance on.
Got a Lumia 710 the other week - great phone - and recently signed up for a trial period of Zune Pass (where you can download tracks and such for "free")
However - I had to reset my phone a couple of days ago and set it to link to a US Live Account I used to have by mistake.
As a result of this I got the extra Zune Music features in the player such as Artist Bios, Album Reviews, Smart DJ, etc.
I noticed that once I re-hard reset my phone back to the UK those features have disappeared.
So the question I have is - is there any way to either unlock these features under my UK phone setup (via a hack or other method) - or is there a way to be able to access them via the US setup, but still be able to purchase apps and music. Or is there a third way (the best of both worlds) to be able to have the phone setup in US mode, but be able to purchase items with a UK card (be it directly out of Microsoft or via a third party selling "giftcards" - as you can do with the iPhone)
They're tied to the Live ID. It may be possible using some high-privilege hacks (on a Lumia 710, this would require intalling a custom ROM) to change that region your phone things it's in, but I don't promise that will help with getting the services from the server.
I find the whole regional thing incredibly annoying, but apparently the world has a surplus of lawyers and some of them decided that more money could be made if contracts for such services were written with stupid regional restrictions in place.
WCR46 said:
Hi all,
Got a question that I'd like some guidance on.
Got a Lumia 710 the other week - great phone - and recently signed up for a trial period of Zune Pass (where you can download tracks and such for "free")
However - I had to reset my phone a couple of days ago and set it to link to a US Live Account I used to have by mistake.
As a result of this I got the extra Zune Music features in the player such as Artist Bios, Album Reviews, Smart DJ, etc.
I noticed that once I re-hard reset my phone back to the UK those features have disappeared.
So the question I have is - is there any way to either unlock these features under my UK phone setup (via a hack or other method) - or is there a way to be able to access them via the US setup, but still be able to purchase apps and music. Or is there a third way (the best of both worlds) to be able to have the phone setup in US mode, but be able to purchase items with a UK card (be it directly out of Microsoft or via a third party selling "giftcards" - as you can do with the iPhone)
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Hi,
I have a UK Zune pass, tied to a UK Hotmail I.D. and a UK debit card, and whilst Album reviews and Artist Bios are not available, the Smart DJ feature is.
Hope that helps.
Regards
Garrickus
Set it up like mine. We're kinda in the same boat but I'm in NZ and we DO NOT have Zune Pass.
I have mine set up with a US account, I use a legal US address with permission from the owner, and a valid US number. Although I use an NZ visa debit card, only it charges me after the currency has been converted from USD to NZD. All works ok, but in Xbox I cannot purchase MS points as the address I have in my account, and the address on my debit card are different, hence verification fails. But this can be solved by purchasing prepaid cards or via zune software so not really a big deal for me.
And regarding to your post, the features are tied to the country of your account is set to. Not Live ID but Zune Account and Xbox Live share the same information. You can change the country of your Live ID but this WILL NOT change the country of your Zune or Xbox Live account. So if you want a full-pledged windows phone, you're better off with a US account, but if you want your phone to go local and loyal to your country, then set it up as UK. In my case, NZ has barely any features, its like having a stripped down version of windows phone - no zune pass and those other zune features, no bing music, no IE tap-to-call, no US apps like iheartradio or netflix.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
Well, can we really use any software or service from the US anymore?
Is Google gone bad or is it just the US security madness that is really really ***ed up and Google keeps being the saint of the internets?
We sure need alternatives, there have to be SOME consequences!!!
Proposals:
Google-free Android by choice
fully end-to-end-encrypted communication
standard encrypted phone AND sd card
a permission system that is one (like Pdroid)
What do you think?
I bought a smartphone off ebay to run with my budget sim-only contract, lovely spec on the face of it - Octacore 2GB RAM, 4.3 Android. I've done this before with a smartphone running 4.2 and had much fun. This time I'm rather stumped on a couple of issues.
I have already rooted this phone, and the real problem is that I can't access the hidden 'system' settings to change the default app 'play store' equivilant away from a chinese app, which opperates in 'chinese', would you believe?
This means I can't readily identify the tools that might help, prior to downloading them, and in anycase, although I haven't really pursued it to a great degree, it seems almost impossible to use the shopping cart of this app.
I've got as far as downloading the usual playstore app from Google.com, and it apparently loaded - but when attempting to use it (similarily with gmail) the app opens and closes within a second, although the settings say it is running.This means I'm stuck with poor bloatware and cant upgrade to match the units seeming sweet specs.
My google account says it recognises my device and some apps I've attempted to download have stated that they will be 'installed soon', but disappear into the ether.
The search default is also baidu in chinese, although I've installed an English browser.
Is there a ready solution that I'm missing?
Build Id = ALPS.JB3.MP.V1.37 - sorry can't put a link in yet, of course.
Google maps Engine..
Or to put it another way....Google maps engine has never worked ( my feeling is the system files are defaulted to a Chineses alternative) and I obviously cant work any app that involves GPS.
I've rooted this phone but cant find an app from china to let me play arround with system permissions.
I have to ask.....is this area considered 'dark' as I write, over 100 views and not a single coment.
Shoe-e said:
I bought a smartphone off ebay to run with my budget sim-only contract, lovely spec on the face of it - Octacore 2GB RAM, 4.3 Android. I've done this before with a smartphone running 4.2 and had much fun. This time I'm rather stumped on a couple of issues.
I have already rooted this phone, and the real problem is that I can't access the hidden 'system' settings to change the default app 'play store' equivilant away from a chinese app, which opperates in 'chinese', would you believe?
This means I can't readily identify the tools that might help, prior to downloading them, and in anycase, although I haven't really pursued it to a great degree, it seems almost impossible to use the shopping cart of this app.
I've got as far as downloading the usual playstore app from Google.com, and it apparently loaded - but when attempting to use it (similarily with gmail) the app opens and closes within a second, although the settings say it is running.This means I'm stuck with poor bloatware and cant upgrade to match the units seeming sweet specs.
My google account says it recognises my device and some apps I've attempted to download have stated that they will be 'installed soon', but disappear into the ether.
The search default is also baidu in chinese, although I've installed an English browser.
Is there a ready solution that I'm missing?
Build Id = ALPS.JB3.MP.V1.37 - sorry can't put a link in yet, of course.
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Hey peeps. 3 weeks and countless hours - that was how long it took for me to get GSM into my new machine and getting it to behave as it should. Turned out the first most basic method, dated July 2020, worked. Read in many forums that this machine, regardless of EMUI version, could not resolve the Play Protect issue, but for some miraculously reason, mine worked. So just to be safe, I used the machine for about a week for everything except activities which needed SIM, i.e. calls and line-dependent texts. Banking, work emails and platforms (including all firewall and security protocols), games and apps including those which require my Gmail account, wired/wireless connection both incoming and outgoing - all was working as it should throughout the week.
Then when it came to officially switching over the last remaining part, i.e. cloning over data (mostly texts, phone book, call records and stored media) from the old over to the new, using Huawei's Phone Clone app. So I was careful not to select any apps to clone (the first attempt I blindly clone the whole machine content without customizing which caused GSM to start acting up with the notification & Play Protect issues the minute the process completed, then it was back to square 1 restarting the entire process), so I 2nd attempt I only selected texts, directory, call history and media to be cloned over. Did not even pick anything which is remotely associated with any app, e.g. Whatsapp media where left behind worried that the issues would resurface.
Unfortunately, to my despair, 2nd attempt concluded the same with the 1st, i.e. GSM is no longer Play Protect - aside from notifications, which I can easily ignore, more importantly is my banking, work and Gmail-linked games/apps are as good as dead. So at this point I am at wit's end on how to get my records and stuff migrated over. Of course I could resort to traditional approach of uploading into Cloud and/or OTG/Hisuite sync, but troublesome and wouldn't be seamless or complete.
So wanted to check with the community here, if anyone on any Huawei devices (since GSM is properly in place already, this issue on data migration would not be device-dependent) have any similar issues in the past and managed to uncover alternative methods to get this done. Worse case scenario, will have to resort to the conventional methods, though not ideal but not left with much choice now that my P20 Pro is nearing its shelf life.
Thanking all in advance for reading and/or responding with any viable recommendations. And apologizing in advance for the long-winded post and/or if there was already a similar thread in the past on the same subject which I may have missed.
Cheers,
-K-
Hi there,
did you ever got over this?
Cheers
X4ce
Yup, finally got over this after countless attempt. End up phone-cloning just the media only, nothing else. Apps were reinstalled one by one on the new machine, messaging history and phone book via cloud, phone history unfortunately can't be migrated. Avoid signing in to Huawei account, tho it's easier to use that service to copy stuff over. With that, everything in order and GMS remained intact and behaving as it should - its been 4 weeks now since officially moved over to my new Mate 30 Pro 5G with a fully-functioning GMS/Playstore which is Google Pay Protect certified.
NocturnalBear said:
Yup, finally got over this after countless attempt. End up phone-cloning just the media only, nothing else. Apps were reinstalled one by one on the new machine, messaging history and phone book via cloud, phone history unfortunately can't be migrated. Avoid signing in to Huawei account, tho it's easier to use that service to copy stuff over. With that, everything in order and GMS remained intact and behaving as it should - its been 4 weeks now since officially moved over to my new Mate 30 Pro 5G with a fully-functioning GMS/Playstore which is Google Pay Protect certified.
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Hi, have a Mate 30 Pro 5G too as you.
How did you get Google Play Protect certified ??
x4ce said:
Hi there,
did you ever got over this?
Cheers
X4ce
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Hallo! x4ce!
Did you not have that phenomenon?
NocturnalBear said:
Yup, finally got over this after countless attempt. End up phone-cloning just the media only, nothing else. Apps were reinstalled one by one on the new machine, messaging history and phone book via cloud, phone history unfortunately can't be migrated. Avoid signing in to Huawei account, tho it's easier to use that service to copy stuff over. With that, everything in order and GMS remained intact and behaving as it should - its been 4 weeks now since officially moved over to my new Mate 30 Pro 5G with a fully-functioning GMS/Playstore which is Google Pay Protect certified.
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Can the problem still occur?
NocturnalBear said:
Yup, finally got over this after countless attempt. End up phone-cloning just the media only, nothing else. Apps were reinstalled one by one on the new machine, messaging history and phone book via cloud, phone history unfortunately can't be migrated. Avoid signing in to Huawei account, tho it's easier to use that service to copy stuff over. With that, everything in order and GMS remained intact and behaving as it should - its been 4 weeks now since officially moved over to my new Mate 30 Pro 5G with a fully-functioning GMS/Playstore which is Google Pay Protect certified.
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Hi you said you had Google Pay Protect Certified? Is that meant you can use your phone for contactless pay like the pay wave in Visa?
If it is the case, how you installed your GMS? I got GMS installed but horrible delay of Gmail notification and don't have the Google pay protect certified therefore couldn't use contactless pay in my phone. Otherwise work okay.
The Google Maps app before sometime in 2020 or early 2021 used to recalculate without a problem if you missed a turn, if you had the maps of the area downloaded and the app set to "Wifi only".
But for well over a year now, Google Maps simply refuses to recalculate if you miss a turn any more, even if you've made sure to take all the steps I've mentioned.
If you miss a turn, you have to stop and manually enter the route again, or else have data turned on and then it will recalculate as it used to. So if you run out of data, as people on set data plans often do, then Google Maps becomes essentially useless as a reliable car sat nav even if you have the maps you need downloaded offline.
So I guess this is a Google decision to force their users to use more data, maybe they don't like people using their app economically in that way? Perhaps they resent people trying to save money and are trying to force you to spend more money on data?
Why are tech companies always determined to make things worse? They always needlessly remove functionality from their products that just make the users' lives more difficult.
I did read speculation online that this is just a "bug" and Google plan to fix it, but I don't believe that. The Google Maps app has behaved in this way for so long now that I can't see how it is anything other than a deliberate move on the part of Google. I don't understand why Google Maps still pretends to offer offline functionality when the reality is it does not any longer and hasn't for a long while now.
Report Google your issue.
What's the point? There are threads on their support forums where people have reported it, they clearly don't care as it's been this way for over 2 years now. I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas as to why Google have decided to do this, or what exactly they have changed in their app.
I guess a lot of people just dismiss my views on this as me being a cheapskate who should just pay for the data to use Google Maps, but what about when you go to a foreign country and have no roaming agreement? Just pay the rip off data fees per MB?
Maybe people think I should just buy a new sim card in each country, and just pay pay pay all the time rather than being able to download maps and navigate offline? Maybe that's the answer and I'm in the wrong?
triangulumair said:
The Google Maps app before sometime in 2020 or early 2021 used to recalculate without a problem if you missed a turn, if you had the maps of the area downloaded and the app set to "Wifi only".
But for well over a year now, Google Maps simply refuses to recalculate if you miss a turn any more, even if you've made sure to take all the steps I've mentioned.
If you miss a turn, you have to stop and manually enter the route again, or else have data turned on and then it will recalculate as it used to. So if you run out of data, as people on set data plans often do, then Google Maps becomes essentially useless as a reliable car sat nav even if you have the maps you need downloaded offline.
So I guess this is a Google decision to force their users to use more data, maybe they don't like people using their app economically in that way? Perhaps they resent people trying to save money and are trying to force you to spend more money on data?
Why are tech companies always determined to make things worse? They always needlessly remove functionality from their products that just make the users' lives more difficult.
I did read speculation online that this is just a "bug" and Google plan to fix it, but I don't believe that. The Google Maps app has behaved in this way for so long now that I can't see how it is anything other than a deliberate move on the part of Google. I don't understand why Google Maps still pretends to offer offline functionality when the reality is it does not any longer and hasn't for a long while now.
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Have you tried clearing cache and data for Google Maps?
Maybe Google made changes to Google Maps to improve accuracy, changes that require data to be enabled to more accurately pinpoint your actual location while navigating.
triangulumair said:
What's the point? There are threads on their support forums where people have reported it, they clearly don't care as it's been this way for over 2 years now. I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas as to why Google have decided to do this, or what exactly they have changed in their app.
I guess a lot of people just dismiss my views on this as me being a cheapskate who should just pay for the data to use Google Maps, but what about when you go to a foreign country and have no roaming agreement? Just pay the rip off data fees per MB?
Maybe people think I should just buy a new sim card in each country, and just pay pay pay all the time rather than being able to download maps and navigate offline? Maybe that's the answer and I'm in the wrong?
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I'm using OsmAnd+ offline with OpenStreetMap, and I'm very satisfied. Actually, I don't use anything by Google, no Google Play Services by microG.
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