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Soon recieving HTC Titan - What now?

I'm getting my HTC Titan on the 25th and I wonder what I need to do right away I get it. What apps are "most have" and so on? I'm familiar with jailbreaking/rooting and so on so you guys know where I come from.

if i could do it all over again, i would export my contacts from google to live, as well as the calendar. that would eliminate a lot of clean up that i had to do (not saying everyone will have some conflicts, i had a lot of custom fields on a lot of my contacts, so numbers and addresses got duplicated).
other than that, just sign in when you get the phone. it's simple.
some good apps to get:
facebook (2.3 easily made the wp7 facebook the best on any mobile platform)
octrotalk (if you use google talk for chat/video calling
7pass (if you use keepass)
appflow (make finding good apps in the marketplace easier)
battlelog companion (if you play BF3)
flixster (if you like movies)
thumba photo editor
tvshow 2.0 or primetv (if you follow any tv series)
twitter (if you do that sort of thing)
vimeo
weather master
weave
wpcentral
xbmc remote by ashterisk (if you use xbmc)
youtube pro
shuffle party
z0mb1es (on teh ph0ne)
BBB: app-ocalypse
xbox live extras
then pick up a good navigation app (i use navigon, but these can get pricey)
and those are the apps i use

What app do you recommend for calendar, or is the stock one already good? I'm using WeekCal on my iPhone which can see the full week in a very nice way.
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The built in agenda view works really well. And day view. Doesn' t have week but i have so many appointments with week view it would be worthless.

i just use the native calendar app, works great and includes tasking. it's not as "pretty" as weekcal, but it works great and is easy to use and view.

Should I keep using these Chinese phones? (Doogee, BlackView)

I bought 2 Chinese smartphones: One is from a company called "Doogee", and the second is called "BlackView"
The Doogee one came with many weird apps preinstalled, so I installed Malwarebytes, and it detected 2 malwares. Both removed. After a day, Malwarebytes prompted me that a malware app is trying to install itself (one of those I removed!) - So I stopped using this phone. Hopefully did not risk too much of my personal information (passwords, emails, etc).
Meanwhile, the other Chinese phone I ordered has arrived. Knowing about those security issues now, I immediately installed Malwarebytes, and it detected that the Sound Recorder app is a malware, and is actually using data(?):
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@TroyGuard I would recommend to search for a custom rom build from source to get rid of that stock spy roms :good:

@TroyGuard
personally I wouldn't use them but as you have bought phones you probably want to.
Though on twitter recently Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y was asking for such phones to analyse, he'd probably be happy to get one!
So If no custom ROM then you should be able to freeze those apps, system or preinstalled, that are risky or unknown (though they often come back, so freeze normally better). If you read the recent threads you will find links to a number of ways to do this, eg using TWRP, ADB, apps like Debloater etc which may work on those phones
WARNING: be careful freezing system apps, freezing an essential app can make your phone unusable, check online first if in doubt
Change all your passwords after this is done, to be safe.
(though there is still the possibility of a hardware backdoor , but I've not seen any reports of this.)
(Note: you probably won't get automatic OTA updates anymore as the ota updater is often part of the problem, besides you would have to refreeze apps after new install, but might be worth updating manually if it gives you important security patches)

How to use Google Service on Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 pro

On the recent event in Munich, Germany, Huawei announced its new smartphone: Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro. With high-end technology units inside, the devices are very likely to be listed on top 1 android phone this year.
However, as one of the outcomes from the current tensions between China and the US, there's a big shortcoming for the series, which is GMS (Google Mobile Services) are no longer available on the devices. Huawei's CEO, Richard Yu has confirmed that GMS will not be preinstalled on Huawei Mate 30 Series, nor will sideload works.
Despite the fact that Huawei has its own ecosystem -- Huawei App Gallery, with a fair reputation to be considered exceed Google Play in the future, we do still need GMS presently. Think about all the data, such as game records stored there, you may lose a big part of it for changing a new device.
So what should we do? Just not using Huawei's new series? To our pleasant, ways for solving this issue has already been published on lots of websites with detailed tutorials. But, as a non-professional Android user, is there a simple method to deal with that? The answer is, yes.
I bet all of you have heard or used the virtual system before. By using a virtual system, we could handle varieties of situations easily which are thought to be hard-asses, and could expand the usage of our devices. So, as I just mentioned, the issue of Google Play & Huawei could also be sorted out easily by using a virtual Android system.
Let's see how it works here:
First off, we could download an app called VMOS, which could run an independent Android system on devices.
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From the picture, we could see VMOS could be downloaded from APKPure directly. Will it work for logging in accounts and downloading apps? Check these out:
Now, the issue has been solved without troubles. GMS and all the apps could be installed and run in this virtual system smoothly, instead of being banned by Google.
Anyway, as a loyal user of Huawei, I hope that in the upcoming new series, Huawei could provide us with rapid wows, and make its hard and soft products great.

[Huawei GMS] TWOYi open-source alternative to Gspace or VMOS

I dislike the popular replacement solutions for GMS as they aren't open-source and some are full of ads.
The closed-sources software I reffer: SandVXposed / SlimVXposed, VMOS, VPhoneGaga, GSpace and some other variants based on, newer, closed source variant of VirtualApp.
So, here it comes Twoyi.
Twoyi will run a container version of Android, fully editable, a top of existing OS. It's similar to VirtualXposed (same author), only that let you customize OS, support GMS, root, etc. .
The public OSS release variant on Github version is outdated at 0.5.4 and got screen tearing problems.
Latest released version is > 0.7.X can be found in the Chinese CoolApk and works fine.
Don't worry, the menu is in English. You can install GMS from the menu inside the app.
The source is not yet released for latest version.
What lacks is ability to create app shortcut on Home Screen, so you need to open the Twoyi in order to access GPlay or other apps.
Performance comparasion using Geekbench 5: TwoYi - 2281, Native - 2337. The drop is insignifiant.
Tested on Huawei Matepad 10.4, HarmonyOS 2.0, Android 10.
Discussions on Telegram, other media and chat.
This is not my app, and it's still doesn't have a proper OSS for latest version, but at least developer seems to be active.
Still don't recommend to use it for accounts that you want to remain secure.
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Hi dear, thanks for the tips! now i'm using GSpace, in order to have Netflix in max resolution, Will I have the same things also with this?

It is very good app but it has 2 problem
1-root doesn't work properly and titanium backup can't work with that root .also super su app doesn't work properly however root checker app says twoyi is rooted and some apps like lucky patcher works fine
2- twoyi randomly freezes
I use 0.7.5 version and tested it on samsung s20 fe and android 12 AND EXECUTED ADB COMMAND ViA BREVENT

Is there a shadowban on Google Play? Has anyone experienced this?

Hello! I have a lot of apps on Google Play. Some of them have more than 500.000+ downloads, one even about 2.000.000. Since there is a war in my country (I'm from Ukraine), I haven't been developing apps or monitoring my Google Play profile for a long time, more than a year.
During this time, I received one suspension of an unpopular app because of a double interpretation of a phrase in the description of the main page of the live wallpaper ("Saves maximum battery" - I meant that it was a resource and energy-efficient app, but the Google Play administration decided that this is a function that cannot be implemented physically and suspended the application according to the Deceptive Behavior policy), and several removed applications, because I placed links to my other Google Play applications in the settings and did not notice it as advertising.
Now that I have the opportunity to work again, I looked at the statistics and was shocked - my top apps that had more than 5,000+ installs per day don't even have 10.
I also finished and published two apps that I had started to develop before the full-scale Russian invasion. But unfortunately, in two weeks they don't even have 500 installs, and almost all of this traffic is from users of my other old apps.
Has anyone else experienced something like this? Is this a shadow ban or just a natural process when you don't pay attention to apps on Google Play for a long time?

IMO there is no way to tell for sure if Google Play has imposed a shadowban.
That's what ChatGPT states:
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Why not directly contact Google in hope to get your question answered?
Slava Ukraini (Слава Україні)

Героям Слава!
Thank you for your response.
I haven't really contacted Google support yet, but it's unlikely that it will help. Instagram and TikTok also do not officially recognize shadow bans, but they definitely exist.
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IMO there is no way to tell for sure if Google Play has imposed a shadowban.
That's what ChatGPT states:
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Why not directly contact Google in hope to get your question answered?
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AlisonT said:
Героям Слава!
Thank you for your response.
I haven't really contacted Google support yet, but it's unlikely that it will help. Instagram and TikTok also do not officially recognize shadow bans, but they definitely exist.
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Ghost, or green mode. You can test it... depending on the site it will be detectable in various ways. Not undetectable
Gookill does this crap wholesale with their search engine so I wouldn't doubt they do it whenever they like. Especially for money.