This is driving me crazy.
I'm running Archlinux,
I've installed the SDK and Docker. (Not sure I really NEED Docker)
When I run
Code:
adb shell dumpsys batterystats --enable full-wake-history
in terminal, I get
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Enabled: full-wake-history
But when I try to pull the report, it doesn't exist
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adb pull /sdcard/batterystats.txt
adb: error: failed to stat remote object '/sdcard/batterystats.txt': No such file or directory
If I run a shell to my Device, batterystats.txt is nowhere so what am I doing wrong?
Following. I've been wrestling with battery historian all week too every chance I get 5 minutes here or there. It's never enough time to really jump into what's going on. I don't understand why it has to be such a PITA to use. Why doesnt Google offer this right on their website as a downloadable file? Why isn't the interface right on their site? Why do I have to go to a 3rd party (docker?) To download the app?
My issues lie in that whenever I get battery historian to actually show up in my browser when I select "browse" to look for the file nothing shows up in the box after I select the .zip I want to use.
Schroeder09 said:
Following. I've been wrestling with battery historian all week too every chance I get 5 minutes here or there. It's never enough time to really jump into what's going on. I don't understand why it has to be such a PITA to use. Why doesnt Google offer this right on their website as a downloadable file? Why isn't the interface right on their site? Why do I have to go to a 3rd party (docker?) To download the app?
My issues lie in that whenever I get battery historian to actually show up in my browser when I select "browse" to look for the file nothing shows up in the box after I select the .zip I want to use.
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Docker is another issue. If I have to go to localhost:port, what in the heck is the port??
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Docker is another issue. If I have to go to localhost:port, what in the heck is the port??
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There are some instructional videos on YouTube on how to get it all up and running. I can't speak to how well they work though since I haven't succeeded in it yet.
Schroeder09 said:
There are some instructional videos on YouTube on how to get it all up and running. I can't speak to how well they work though since I haven't succeeded in it yet.
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I’ll have to look those up tonight because I have to find out what is killing my battery. Even at night with night mode on, or whatever it’s called I’m still losing about 8 to 10% on average and I typically only sleep for about five hours and when I look at the BBB app or battery group, it shows that the phone is in deep sleep, so something is definitely not right
I finally found a walkthrough that actually works! This is for Ubuntu, I use Arch but once Docker is installed, the commands are the same
How to analyze the behavior of my smartphone with Battery Historian? - Greenspector
Learn how to analyze the behavior of your smartphone and battery with the Battery Historian tool. In this article, get a tutorial of use allowing you to collect the insights and key information of the system of your mobile.
greenspector.com
Battery Historian usage tutorial1) From your command line interface, launch the Docker image:
Code:
docker run -d -p 9999:9999 bhaavan/battery-historian
2) You can now access Battery Historian from HTTP://localhost:9999
You must now retrieve the detailed information of your phone’s system. For this, you must have previously installed the Android SDK and activated the developer mode on your phone.
3) Plug your phone into USB to your PC. (I had mine already plugged in before I started)
4) From your command line interface, retrieve the phone’s system information file with the following commands:
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adb shell dumpsys batterystats --reset
adb shell dumpsys batterystats --enable full-wake-history
adb bugreport bugreport.zip
5) You can now upload the file bugreport.txt in Battery Historian
Except I'm getting this error
Note: Could not parse aggregated battery stats
Did you ever figure this out?
Schroeder09 said:
Did you ever figure this out?
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I did get it to work, actually. When I get home tonight I'll pull my notes on how I did.
TBH, I used ChatGPT to write the correct commands to get it installed and working, including workarounds for errors in some of the commands and the first time I uploaded the zip file, it didn't work and then it just did - and I could decipher none of it! lol
ChatGPT for the win!
HipKat said:
I did get it to work, actually. When I get home tonight I'll pull my notes on how I did.
TBH, I used ChatGPT to write the correct commands to get it installed and working, including workarounds for errors in some of the commands and the first time I uploaded the zip file, it didn't work and then it just did - and I could decipher none of it! lol
ChatGPT for the win!
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So even after you got it working you couldn't understand the battery historian report? I was hoping to correlate a wakelock with an app. If I understand all this wakelock business correctly , a wakelock is a function provided by Android. Multiple apps can use a single wakelock. Seeing that you have a wakelock doesn't help determine what is causing it usually unless the name of the wakelock is very specific and has the app name in it.
I was hoping to see what apps are active while wakelock X is active. That would tell me what is causing the wakelock. Is this sound logic? We're you able to do this and see this with the battery historian report by looking at the multiple graphs it provides and overlaying them?
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So even after you got it working you couldn't understand the battery historian report? I was hoping to correlate a wakelock with an app. If I understand all this wakelock business correctly , a wakelock is a function provided by Android. Multiple apps can use a single wakelock. Seeing that you have a wakelock doesn't help determine what is causing it usually unless the name of the wakelock is very specific and has the app name in it.
I was hoping to see what apps are active while wakelock X is active. That would tell me what is causing the wakelock. Is this sound logic? We're you able to do this and see this with the battery historian report by looking at the multiple graphs it provides and overlaying them?
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And that's probably in there. The report I got looked just like screenshots of reports I saw when I was looking up BH, I'm just not savvy with reading them. You might do better
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And that's probably in there. The report I got looked just like screenshots of reports I saw when I was looking up BH, I'm just not savvy with reading them. You might do better
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Understood. I have yet to sit down and really attack it. I guess that shows that my battery issues aren't THAT big of a concern. Lol. Overall loving the P7P. Please do post back your notes on what you did to get BH working. Thanks in advance. Have a great day.
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Hi everyone,
as I was looking through a Catlog log, I found the need to see it colored for easier distinguishing between different kinds of logs and even filter out some of the types. Surprisingly, I couldn't find any tools using google that do that (only direct ADB logcats, which was inconvinient for me as I didn't have a cable at the time, but I imagine lots of people use Catlog to send logs to developers). I quickly threw up something to help me with that. As it was a really a sidenote in my task it expects a Catlog logcat and nothing different and will just be dumb when something different is presented. It's also very not optimized, but it still works quick enough. It's (at least not currently) a storage tool, you just paste the unfiltered, unformatted Catlog logcat into the box and press the button to get a formatted and filtered (if neccesary) logcat. You can also easily highlight the whole formatted and filtered logcat afterwards by using the link next to the button so you can copy and paste it easily to somewhere more useful if need be (I don't recommend Word though since it will run spell-checking and freak out at the number of errors )
I don't know if anyone will find it useful, but I thought I'd share. If people find it useful, I'll continue to work on it, maybe add filters like by a word or where the log comes from or parse other types of logs, etc... In the meantime, here's what I got:
http://www.bikonja.com/LogcatViewer
It's purely Javascript (with jQuery) and CSS based so it's even easy to pick up the source and modify (I've conviniently put all the CSS and JS within the div with the id "content".
Let me know if anyone actually uses it and if you have any feature requests.
Wonderful job! But still have bug to be fixed!
This is really convenient form ROM developers, thanks for you hard work! But after I post my logcat there(it's about 13033 lines), then I click the "Display new logcat" button, I found that not all the logs are displayed below. So I think may be you should also use a textarea tag to display the results that you have converted!
HansonZhang said:
This is really convenient form ROM developers, thanks for you hard work! But after I post my logcat there(it's about 13033 lines), then I click the "Display new logcat" button, I found that not all the logs are displayed below. So I think may be you should also use a textarea tag to display the results that you have converted!
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I am glad that you find it useful!
I have added an error log beneath the formatted/filtered logcat so you know exactly which rows (both by index and content) have not been parsed (since it was a FAST piece of work, I heavily rely on the CatLog syntax which does mean that even a tiny space in the wrong place could set off an error.
As I said previously, if people actually do find this tool useful, I will try to find time to implement whatever you need and of course, fix whatever bugs you encounter! So if you use this tool and have problems or suggestions, shoot
I like this one, but the website could not pharse some rows of my pasted logcat, why is that ?
DroidShift79 said:
I like this one, but the website could not pharse some rows of my pasted logcat, why is that ?
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I'm glad you like it. The whole thing was just a whim I decided to act on and was done in a very short time so I cut a lot of corners, that's probably why some rows were not parsed. If you could send me the rows that couldn't be parsed I'll see why they weren't and fix it.
The parser is currently very specific about what it accepts since, as I said it was a very fast whim, but if people turn out to actually like, use and need this tool, I'm open to suggestions and I'll continue to improve it to the point at which everyone will be happy
So please, suggest away and let me know what exactly you need, I'll cover it as soon as I can!
Just realized this is probably not going to work completely as my biggest issue was vibrate mode not being set properly...
Will work on solutions tomorrow
This is going to be a very rough draft of what I got here.
Long story short, Silent mode doesn't work on Lollipop and beyond, Thanks Google
Therefore Llama is borked.
Simple fix will try to make better later (I am no programmer for sure), for now this is my simple solution.
I know this doesn't allow you to quickly change phone to silent but it does allow you to at least let Llama do it for you.
Also I've only tested this on Lollipop, Time willing I'm going to attempt to get this working on Marshmallow tomorrow or later this week.
3 simple apps made in Tasker that implement the new Do Not Disturb Mode, that can be run in Llama.
To get working:
1. Install desired Apps
2. Grant Notification Access
3. Add a new action to llama
4. Select Run Application
5. Select 1 of the 3 attached apps depending on what you want to happen.
Will post pics later but I think it's pretty self explanatory if you use Llama
Future plans:
1 app where you can call the activities of the app instead of running an actual app.
A button that opens Notification access so you can enable the app.
GTDarthYoda said:
Just realized this is probably not going to work completely as my biggest issue was vibrate mode not being set properly...
Will work on solutions tomorrow
This is going to be a very rough draft of what I got here.
Long story short, Silent mode doesn't work on Lollipop and beyond, Thanks Google
Therefore Llama is borked.
Simple fix will try to make better later (I am no programmer for sure), for now this is my simple solution.
I know this doesn't allow you to quickly change phone to silent but it does allow you to at least let Llama do it for you.
Also I've only tested this on Lollipop, Time willing I'm going to attempt to get this working on Marshmallow tomorrow or later this week.
3 simple apps made in Tasker that implement the new Do Not Disturb Mode, that can be run in Llama.
To get working:
1. Install desired Apps
2. Grant Notification Access
3. Add a new action to llama
4. Select Run Application
5. Select 1 of the 3 attached apps depending on what you want to happen.
Will post pics later but I think it's pretty self explanatory if you use Llama
Future plans:
1 app where you can call the activities of the app instead of running an actual app.
A button that opens Notification access so you can enable the app.
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This is working for me on stock LG lollipop 5.1.1. I will test and see if I notice any excess battery drain due to the notification listener service. Thanks for helping fix Google's mess up.
If you want I can play around with this some more but I finally gave up on Llama
Llama is dead Hasn't been updated 11/21/2014 So I've switched over to Tasker utilizing wifi
I'm thinking of trying to figure out how to make my own app that can possibly launch tasker tasks but using a similar cell tower scanning/saving system as llama but right now I don't have the time or know how.
Ok I've played and I think I figured it out!
If you select run app shortcut in lama, you can run tasker tasks from there!
I might be bringing llama back!
GTDarthYoda said:
Ok I've played and I think I figured it out!
If you select run app shortcut in lama, you can run tasker tasks from there!
I might be bringing llama back!
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I've been thinking if switching to tasker but have been using llama for years and everything is see up. I know you can run intents and locale plugins. Don't know if there is a way to use those features. So far your apks are work well for me. I think I have everything set up right. Thanks again.
I know what you mean
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I might be bringing llama back!
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Hey man, please bring Llama back. This is the best profile app i've ever seen: fast to set, easy to config, no-battery draining and very useful.
:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
Edinho376 said:
Hey man, please bring Llama back. This is the best profile app i've ever seen: fast to set, easy to config, no-battery draining and very useful.
:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
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I am using llama again. But I'm using it with tasker and a tasker plug in.
If you want i can write up my setup for ya?
You will need autonotification, tasker and llama but it works 99% of the time wwithouta hitch
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I am using llama again. But I'm using it with tasker and a tasker plug in.
If you want i can write up my setup for ya?
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Hey dude, thanks for yours good will, but i wrote that hoping that somebody would continue the development for this app or similar for the whole community. Unfortunately i don't have skills to do this, but just looking how many times Llama was downloaded from Google Play you can see this is an incredible app everybody likes. It is useful and easy to setup... I am very sad since it don't work properly in newer android versions. :crying: Already sent e-mails to Kebab Apps but no answer, this is a great lose for everybody since this app was unique.
So far I've only installed Android studio
I've written alot in Java but never touched Android code. We'll see if I can figure it out. Don't have alot of spare time on my hands so we'll see what I can do.
I noticed that something has been using too much cpu, because sometimes i'm using an app and it suddenly minimizes, but it doesn't close completely, it happens on videos and stuff, and it's kinda annoying, so i wanna know if i can see which apps are using how much cpu to solve my problem, any ideas?
Indirectly with a battery tracking that shows system apk usage.
Google doesn't want us to see the truth.
Many times it's a Google system apk doing it too.
blackhawk said:
Indirectly with a battery tracking that shows system apk usage.
Google doesn't want us to see the truth.
Many times it's a Google system apk doing it too.
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So, there isn't a way to see it exactly? I mean, i guess it can be done with root, but i am non-root, and i wouldn't root my device just for something that i will use one time
xDIEGOSHOOTEDx said:
So, there isn't a way to see it exactly? I mean, i guess it can be done with root, but i am non-root, and i wouldn't root my device just for something that i will use one time
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Nope. Not rooted either.
After having countless great tools available with XPx64 and W7, Android is like a barren desert.
Troubleshooting a newer Android is now like playing wackamole.
Accubattery has a useful discharge current overlay feature... works with Pie not sure about Q.
When streaming vids on the browser higher usage spikes are normal. On all my apps this uses the most battery. All my browsers use about the same amount of cpu cycles/power when viewing vids.
You need something like a Task Manager on Windows.
James_Watson said:
You need something like a Task Manager on Windows.
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Yes, but since i haven't found one, i doubt it's possible
xDIEGOSHOOTEDx said:
I noticed that something has been using too much cpu, because sometimes i'm using an app and it suddenly minimizes, but it doesn't close completely, it happens on videos and stuff, and it's kinda annoying, so i wanna know if i can see which apps are using how much cpu to solve my problem, any ideas?
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Gsam battery monitor app also tracks app usage
xDIEGOSHOOTEDx said:
Yes, but since i haven't found one, i doubt it's possible
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No such thing unless you use abd to enable the required permissions.
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No such thing unless you use abd to enable the required permissions.
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Sorry, i forgot, adb is by pc conection, isn't it?
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Sorry, i forgot, adb is by pc conection, isn't it?
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Yes. Never used it but probably should to be able to access the advanced features in some of the apps. DevChek is one.
Karma Firewall uses almost no battery, it's a VNP freeware app that works great.
Let's you see what's hogging the bandwidth/battery and lock them down as needed. Best firewall I've ever used; it's always running now.
I've got an A32 5G that functionally performs ok. it's had some slow loading pages recently and some YouTube videos buffering, which I attributed to the recent system updates as well as the move to 5g in my area. I still think these are the likely sources of my lower performance, but. . ... I went to grc.com and ran their Shields Up test the other day, probing all common ports. my results came back that I have a port 179 open about 95% of the time (meaning I've ran the test quite a few times since then, only a few of those times it showed stealth). appx. 10% of the time I ran the test, it showed port 1, and port 1&2 closed, but not stealthed. the other test results showed them to be stealthed.
prior to now, and when having my friends run the tests on their phones, my former and everyone else's current results were 100% stealthed.
my questions -
1. can a few of you with the same phone as me run the same tests and see what your results are. (it's at grc.com, then Shields Up, then Shields Up, then proceed, then All Service Ports)
2. short of resetting the phone, how do I find out the source or cause of this port being open? (I've done a lot so far, none of which has helped, so I won't bore anyone just yet)
3. is there a better section to post this in?
See if you can ID the app using it with a firewall.
If running on Pie or below Karma Firewall will detect apps accessing the internet.
If you can't ID and eliminate it, factory reset.
You are what you install and download, exercise caution.
This is what I get when I run that check:
the only apps on my phone are Firefox & Brave browsers, CX File Explorer, File Viewer, New Pipe, SMS Backup & Restore, and a few games from Yiotro.
never been on Facebook, nor any other social media
blackhawk said:
See if you can ID the app using it with a firewall.
If running on Pie or below Karma Firewall will detect apps accessing the internet.
If you can't ID and eliminate it, factory reset.
You are what you install and download, exercise caution.
This is what I get when I run that check:
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the test I was referring to was this one
and I'm on Android 12. the firewall approach is null with that?
mr_horsepower said:
the test I was referring to was this one
and I'm on Android 12. the firewall approach is null with that?
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Lol, I scanned that exe with Virustotal and while most might trust it... I don't!
Android 12 will gut firewall apps not designed to run on it. Even 10 does this.
A big reason I still run on Pie; functionality for trusted apps.
Nuke it if there's any doubt. Change Google account password, check if its been breached.
Likely something you installed...
blackhawk said:
Lol, I scanned that exe with Virustotal and while most might trust it... I don't!
Android 12 will gut firewall apps not designed to run on it. Even 10 does this.
A big reason I still run on Pie; functionality for trusted apps.
Nuke it if there's any doubt. Change Google account password, check if its been breached.
Likely something you installed...
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how do you keep your system from updating?
mine is set to only do it over wifi, and I never use wifi (literally never) and eventually it gives in I guess and downloads it over my data connection. I've got auto updates on the play store turned off and I've never had anything update without my choosing to, again, thru just the play store.
I'm fairly certain that Steve Gibson, the guy that runs the Security Now site and podcast is a 100% safe environment.
*I also realize my recommendations on what's safe and what's not mean nothing, especially given the thread I just started, lol.
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how do you keep your system from updating?
mine is set to only do it over wifi, and I never use wifi (literally never) and eventually it gives in I guess and downloads it over my data connection. I've got auto updates on the play store turned off and I've never had anything update without my choosing to, again, thru just the play store.
I'm fairly certain that Steve Gibson, the guy that runs the Security Now site and podcast is a 100% safe environment.
*I also realize my recommendations on what's safe and what's not mean nothing, especially given the thread I just started, lol.
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I use a package disabler to block OTA updates.
A nasty little app...
I think his site's probably ok, but caution is best when in doubt. My current load is over 2 yo and runs very well.
I've just spent the past 5 hours doing a full restore on my phone. I just ran the scan again and I got the same effing results. will someone please, for the love of all that is good in this world, pretty friggin please, run that scan and see if they get the same port open? please.
you don't even have to do the whole scan, which takes all of 30 seconds. just type 179 in the box and hit enter. it will open open to another page and you hit the 'probe this port' button. it's Steve Gibsons website. it's safe. he's one of the grandfathers of internet security.
Lol, doesn't sound that safe judging by your results. You should have loaded just that app and scanned. May be a false result.
No known rootkit can survive a factory reset on Android 9 and up. So either it's a normal result, glitch or you reloaded the malware... probably one of the games.
Install Karma Firewall (it may not install on 12), one by one block 3rd party apps and so on, then scan until you find it.
Or factory reset again and run the scan... first.
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Lol, doesn't sound that safe judging by your results. You should have loaded just that app and scanned. May be a false result.
No known rootkit can survive a factory reset on Android 9 and up. So either it's a normal result, glitch or you reloaded the malware... probably one of the games.
Install Karma Firewall (it may not install on 12), one by one block 3rd party apps and so on, then scan until you find it.
Or factory reset again and run the scan... first.
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didn't reload the games (they're zero permission games from an awesome source though). I did a reinstall of DDG browser, File Viewer, SMS Backup & Restore, and Textra. I went through all my permissions and deleted all the b.s. bloatware, fired up the browser and went and ran the test. same results. I've ran the test a bunch over the years, first time with that result ever a few days ago.
I'm going to order a new phone tomorrow. if I'm lucky, it'll be in in time for me to blow this thing up on the 4th.
*I also ran the test at a few other port scanners prior to the reset. one of 3 didn't show the port open, the others did. I haven't rechecked it at those places after the fact
*it doesn't sound like you're familiar with Steve Gibson or his work. it'd be worth poking around his website a little. also listening to or reading transcripts of his weekly podcast he's done for years. that website is as pure as the driven snow.
blackhawk said:
Lol, doesn't sound that safe judging by your results. You should have loaded just that app and scanned. May be a false result.
No known rootkit can survive a factory reset on Android 9 and up. So either it's a normal result, glitch or you reloaded the malware... probably one of the games.
Install Karma Firewall (it may not install on 12), one by one block 3rd party apps and so on, then scan until you find it.
Or factory reset again and run the scan... first.
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and to clarify, it's not an app. you go there with your browser and click on a button. it's just a web page, it's just a button. you don't even need Javascript to be on at his website.
*and while I appreciate your offering up that .apk, I'm not in the habit of sideloading apps from a barely known source. that's a small example of what makes this problem I'm having so perplexing.
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and to clarify, it's not an app. you go there with your browser and click on a button. it's just a web page, it's just a button. you don't even need Javascript to be on at his website.
*and while I appreciate your offering up that .apk, I'm not in the habit of sideloading apps from a barely known source. that's a small example of what makes this problem I'm having so perplexing.
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Won't run in my browser. Tried disabling a few things that might have blocked it, no go.
My current setup hasn't had any malware issues, has been fast and stable for over 2 years so I'm not playing with it further than this for no good reason.
I don't have in depth knowledge of these protocols. Been a long while since I setup a router. Meh, although I'm curious about this... but it's your rabbit hole to chase down. It's a pretty deep hole.
Karma Firewall been updated.
NetGuard is fully functional on 12, root not needed. I haven't played with this yet.
Install a firewall and see if you can spot it...
if you went there, and proceeded like this, with or without Javascript on (my default everywhere is its off unless I decide to give sites that liberty), I can't see how in the world it's not running. I appreciate your time regardless.
A link be nice...
Here's would I got on my N10+/Pie:
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A link be nice...
Here's would I got on my N10+/Pie:
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that's the unplug and pray test. I can't provide a link to anything (try anything you would be able to create a link from at a typical site and you'll see it doesn't work there) but the main page because of the way his site is set up. here's hopefully a better picture of what you are pressing, and what to choose instead.
*check your link, which doesn't go where you think it does, and he explains why not.
I was unable to download PixelFlasher, V4.8.1.0 from https://github.com/badabing2005/PixelFlasher/releases, to my PC because Avast AV detected an issue. So, I remote logged into a Linux system, used wget to get the file, then transferred it to my computer. Again, Avast complained about a virus and quarantined the file.
I recovered the file from quarantine and uploaded it to www.virustotal.com so it could be checked out. This site reported the following:
Acronis (Static ML):: Suspicious
Avast:: Win64:Trojan-gen
AVG:: Win64:Trojan-gen
Jiangmin:: Trojan.Generic.horqm
McAfee-GW-Edition:: Artemis
I have never before had any issues downloading files from github. So, should I be concerned or not?
Technically anything that does anything to a device is considered *malware* by AV software nowadays... If you really have concerns over it, you can:
Check the source code yourself on GitHub, if you have the know-how
Don't use it. Pixel Factory images provided a flashall.bat or a Linux/Mac exec by default, you just need to modify a few lines to make it works, which is what I've been doing this whole time:
Open the flash-all.bat with a code editor, I'm using NP++
Find the line that says:
Code:
Fastboot update -w xxxx.zip
And change it to
Code:
Fastboot update xxxx.zip --skip-reboot
You can ask @badabing2003 himself as he created the program why specifically those would be flagged and I'm sure he can offer more insight. But I've been using it for months and it's solid. I will also say even when I used to use the flash all manually back in the day those would get flagged by safe screen also. So it's a lot of false positives when it comes to those kind of batch commands.
TBH, Avast is not even necessary, not to mention, it's just not good AV, in MY opinion.
You can read up here
I'm not going to play with Avast or any other AV on every release.
It's an open source project, you can scrutinize it and decide if it is a risk you're willing to take trusting the code instead of Avast.
There was a time when consumer AV was needed.
Now you're better of without 3rd party AV.
badabing2003 said:
You can read up here
I'm not going to play with Avast or any other AV on every release.
It's an open source project, you can scrutinize it and decide if it is a risk you're willing to take trusting the code instead of Avast.
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Bottom line is, tons of people - most of who are very tech savvy - are using PF every month without issues and we would know if there was a problem
I don't question PF, it is the AV system on my computer that is causing the issue. Did some reading and AV is still needed, but they can be a major pain...
groston said:
I don't question PF, it is the AV system on my computer that is causing the issue. Did some reading and AV is still needed, but they can be a major pain...
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Windows Security is more than efficient now to protect from bad stuff. All the 3rd party stuff is mostly bloatware now
groston said:
I don't question PF, it is the AV system on my computer that is causing the issue. Did some reading and AV is still needed, but they can be a major pain...
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Not to sidetrack but I've run nothing but Windows Defender and Malwarebytes on my Windows machine for over 10 years, no problems. And trust me, I've been done it all on there.
groston said:
I don't question PF, it is the AV system on my computer that is causing the issue. Did some reading and AV is still needed, but they can be a major pain...
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If you must use an AV as "AV is still needed", every AV I've worked with/on was able to whitelist a folder and/or program or, even, you can disable it while you would install and/or run PF...right?
So there shouldn't be any reason why you couldn't run the latest version and run it proper...
HipKat said:
Not to sidetrack but I've run nothing but Windows Defender and Malwarebytes on my Windows machine for over 10 years, no problems. And trust me, I've been done it all on there.
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I agree with this and have employed similar. Actually, years ago, I would go about it a lot more aggressive and paranoid and would run Defender, Malwarebytes, Superantispyware, and Comodo firewall concurrently! It did wreak havoc on my cpu usage sometimes, but then again I dealt with a lot of custom programs and patches/cracks/packages and such.
If I felt (relatively) confident and secure about it, I would have to disable all 4 if need be to work on certain things.
So I'm sure OP can do it with the AV that's being utilized...
simplepinoi177 said:
If you must use an AV as "AV is still needed", every AV I've worked with/on was able to whitelist a folder and/or program or, even, you can disable it while you would install and/or run PF...right?
So there shouldn't be any reason why you couldn't run the latest version and run it proper...
I agree with this and have employed similar. Actually, years ago, I would go about it a lot more aggressive and paranoid and would run Defender, Malwarebytes, Superantispyware, and Comodo firewall concurrently! It did wreak havoc on my cpu usage sometimes, but then again I dealt with a lot of custom programs and patches/cracks/packages and such.
If I felt (relatively) confident and secure about it, I would have to disable all 4 if need be to work on certain things.
So I'm sure OP can do it with the AV that's being utilized...
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Wow! Superantispyware. I forgot all about that one!
HipKat said:
Wow! Superantispyware. I forgot all about that one!
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I hate to go OT a bit here, but...
Yeah, back then, those 3 were the best (possibly only) real-time protection happening as well as the foremost ones you should/would use when cleaning a PC of any malware; hence the heavy load on CPU usage at times.
In any case, if I could temporarily disable/turn-off all 4 of these so I could run a "rogue" program, it shouldn't be too difficult to do it with a current AV -- even if my examples are rather out-dated...
If anything, all of those AVs had the option/ability to "submit" a program to be reviewed by the company to whitelist and/or scrutinize so it wouldn't pop up as a false-positive in the next version/update....
simplepinoi177 said:
I hate to go OT a bit here, but...
Yeah, back then, those 3 were the best (possibly only) real-time protection happening as well as the foremost ones you should/would use when cleaning a PC of any malware; hence the heavy load on CPU usage at times.
In any case, if I could temporarily disable/turn-off all 4 of these so I could run a "rogue" program, it shouldn't be too difficult to do it with a current AV -- even if my examples are rather out-dated...
If anything, all of those AVs had the option/ability to "submit" a program to be reviewed by the company to whitelist and/or scrutinize so it wouldn't pop up as a false-positive in the next version/update....
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SAS was the best portable scanner you could run. It was really, the first one I ever ran as a portable. Thanks for that memory!
Hands and head are the best Antivirus
D3NMOH said:
Hands and head are the best Antivirus
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true enough... "don't install stupid stuff" is probably the best way to go about it...I can attest to (because, unfortunately, I've done the opposite on purpose more than enough times and have paid for it in one way or another)...
But PF has 100s (maybe 1000s) of users and is actively discussed and developed here on XDA from a RD...it's definitive that it is safe and is coming up as false-positives to any/all AVs...
PF manages ADB, Fastboot and reads output data from them.
When one application interferes with another, antivirus always says it's dangerous. It is high time we understood this logic
D3NMOH said:
PF manages ADB, Fastboot and reads output data from them.
When one application interferes with another, antivirus always says it's dangerous. It is high time we understood this logic
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False positive.
K1nsey6 said:
Windows Security is more than efficient now to protect from bad stuff. All the 3rd party stuff is mostly bloatware now
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Apart from ransomware...It's not quiet decent in that department.