yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Focus General] powersquad:
this worked a treat. after using the VPN hack, I couldn't rebrand my phone since it was locked again. i restored to pre-nodo using the zune software, ran chevron unlock again, deployed the samsung registry xap, typed ATT-US then pressed the write button then read button under 'String', made sure data connection is ON again. rebooted phone again and ran zune software. Zune found the at&t update + samsung update (all in one) and SWEET
[Focus General] Vanillalite:
I'm not getting the update either. I used the Samsung Registry Tool to go back to ATT-US, and that seems to have saved. Yet I'm still not getting the Samsung specific update. I have the NoDo update, but not the Samsung specific update.
[Focus General] powersquad:
it was an All in one update. if you read the changelog when the update screen comes up, it would have mentioned Samsung update at the bottom included.

anyways, you can tell if you got the samsung update, if you go in the camera app and see if 'anti shaking' option is now turned ON by default.
[Focus General] OGCF:
I just did the AT&T update after having debranded NoDo. No issued while updating but it felt like this update took longer than that one..
[Focus General] asiancuta:
another feature with the firmware update....

Capacitive buttons are temporarily disabled to prevent accidental "clicks": before the update, if you had an app open and you put your finger on the screen and dragged it down to the capacitive button area, you'd activate those buttons. Now you do not

source: http://www.wpcentral.com/new-features-focus-firmware-update
[Focus General] Pinger43:
Agreed, seemed to take the AT&T NoDo a lot longer to install...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogier666:
Some apps ask for more permissions than I want to give them.

With DroidWall I can take internet permissions away from individual apps, which is great for all those app that demand internet access even though they work fine without it. But what if I want to remove other permissions, such as access to my location or my contacts?

There is a manual way to edit unwanted permissions out of .apk files, but this method is not meant for human consumption.

Q: Is there an app that lets me allow/deny permissions per app?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevin@TeslaCoil:
It is not possible and is a very bad idea to do by modifying the APK.

I agree it'd be cool if Android was implemented to allow optional permissions. I hate adding permissions to my apps because I know some users don't want to give them. But Android is not designed this way.

Here's how I and just about every other developer would do something like make use of the READ_PHONE_STATE permissions to read your IMEI:

TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
String deviceId = tm.getDeviceId();

Without the READ_PHONE_STATE permission, the above could would do this:

It's possible for developers to write their code to handle not having a permission they expect to have:

String deviceId;
try { TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
deviceId = tm.getDeviceId();
} catch (SecurityException ex) {
deviceId = "1234";
}

However no app dev does this. And unless a future version of Android itself were to allow this, it's unlikely app devs would take the time to test and update their apps to gracefully degrade when the user has used some hacky method to restrict the app. (I wouldn't. I have to do enough testing already just supporting all the manufacture skins and custom roms.)

If you question a permission you should ask the dev. And if you don't like the answer, or don't trust the dev, you should avoid the app.

(DroidWall doesn't remove the INTERNET permission, it just firewalls off the app from using the internet. Looks like a network connection issue to the app, which already has to be handle gracefully.)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogier666:
DroidWall tells the apps it blocks that there is no live internet connection, even though the connection is alive and kicking for every other app. AdBlock works in a similar way: it doesn't deny apps from calling their banner farm, it just keeps it out of reach by redirecting the request to 127.0.0.1.

There are many ways to make apps believe they've got permissions that they don't really have.

For example, a permissions manager could spoof an empty contacts list for apps that want to read your phone book. Apps that want to know where you are for no good reason would only have to be fed some random coordinates instead of getting your real location.

Maybe Android was not designed that way, but one of the advantages of an open system is that you can make it do things beyond the original specs. If we root our phones and install custom ROMs to get rid of unwanted bloatware, why not apply similar techniques to get rid of unwanted app permissions?

Of course you could simply avoid apps that ask for too many permissions (but only if suitable alternative apps are available), but such a sledgehammer approach wouldn't be necessary with a permissions manager that gives you more subtle tools to tame your apps. This way you can have the best of both worlds: remove undesired permissions without throwing out the entire app.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAI Peregrinus:
It's been done in the lab, hopefully they release source. The paper is a pretty good read, and not overly verbose.

Can't post links, don't want to spam 8 posts for it, so Google for "Taming Information-Stealing Smartphone Applications". The paper is from NCSU.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogier666:
Exactly what I'm looking for. Let's hope it hits the market soon!

The long version (in pdf format): http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/pubs/TRUST11.pdf

The short version: http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=10052

Even shorter: http://apps.findingthis.com/utilities/android/taming-information-stealing-smartphone-applications/

Screenshot:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogier666:
Permissions manager for rooted phones from the author of Busybox: Permissions Denied.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aweaver33:
Unfortunately, it looks like Permissions Denied actually denies permissions rather than spoofing them, so I would expect most apps to crash as mentioned by kevin. The spoofing approach in the NCSU papers seems like the more robust approach unless and until Google implements optional permissions, at which point app developers would hopefully start adding graceful permission exception handlers.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krzych:
This is really the worst "feature" of Android. Someone should fix it really fast even creating a "shadow" distro with patched permission manager (if it cannot be done as an add-on).

Is anything new in this topic around?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LochNiss:
Did they ever release the TISSA app? I can't find anything about the app since last April.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogier666:
It doesn't matter anymore, 'cos now we have LBE, PDroid, and the built-in permissions manager of CyanogenMod.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneandroid:
i've been using lbe and it's been useful. it doesn't block every permission of an app but some things as internet (as droidwall), contacts, gps and sms/phone call it blocks. If you're looking for a real permission blocker, you may want to take a look at some cyanogen 7 rom. the app blocking is enabled on it, pretty handy for me.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] white-gecko:
Unfortunately LBE crashes my phone (black screen as soon as the background service starts) and Cyanogen Mod doesn't include this feature anymore. Are there any other permission manager apps? Since PDroid seams hard to setup.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogier666:
There's a new app called LBE Security Manager, but it's Google-translated from chinese to english so it may be hard to use.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1422479

Looks like the makers of LBE are focussing on their home market (population 1.35 billion) and ignoring the rest of the world.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Chavez:
Hi!

I have just got myself an android phone and I am lookign for a good permissions manager app - would be grateful for any solutions.

I've had a look at LBE, but it requires access to all your phone's functions!!! Seems silly to produce a security app that can MAKE CALLS and SEND MESSAGES from your phone!!

Are there any other alternatives for android JB?

Thank you!

PS I'm absolutely shocked by android's permissions policy - seems like a massive threat to me. maybe I'm paranoid =) I'd be grateful for any links to info about securing the phone.

Also I can't seem to set a root password but that's a different story 0_0
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogier666:
With the way Android is set up all permissions managers need a truckload of permissions to do their job. Once you give your security app root access the other permissions don't matter anymore. Whether it's LBE, Permissions Denied, or the built-in permissions manager of CyanogenMod makes no difference. Once you give 'em root access they can do whatever they want.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Chavez:
Thank you.

Can LBE from XDA be trusted?..

In my understanding Google does not provide any guarantees on apps downloaded from Google Play store (i.e. i've been warned about permissions when installing an app so it's at my own risk - is that right?

What is the general public view on android security then? Is it better to let one app take over the phone (eg lbe or permission denied)?

Thank you for helping an android newbie!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NYLimited:
I have used various versions of LBE without problems in the past (am not using it at the moment). You need to trust someone or something eventually.

Firewall can help.

ROM Toolbox has an advanced freeze option in app manager which can disable a number of intents, including start on boot, ad engines, analytics, etc. Of course, disabling things can at times have undesirable results but if you take notes of your changes they can easily be turned back on later.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogier666:
I've switched off everything in LBE Privacy Guard (Play Store version) that needs internet, blocked it with DroidWall (and later with AFWall+), and checked my router logs and packet sniffer. I never caught LBE going online when it wasn't supposed to.

PDroid is safe too, but very hard to build into your ROM.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] belek1979:
How about permission managera under Android 4.3? No root needed...

Is it possible to unlock APP ops without an third party APP? Just editing some file? I have got root
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.bauer:
Any news on the topic since the removal of AppOps? I'd really appreciate seeing a solution comparable in ease-of-use to iOS's permission popups.

Best of course would be if this was a native Android feature, since its ubiquity would force App developers to rethink their strategies and not require trusting a third party with root permissions.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogier666:
Plenty of news. LBE Privacy Guard is old news. The best permissions manager is Xprivacy. It's not as simple as the iOS popups, but Xprivacy gives you much more control over what apps can do.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] 3rdstring:
To start, I really appreciate all you've done to help the XT720 community out, you've made my phone a much more functional piece of equipment. My question is about the location / name of the icons for your added functionality in the power menu, the Reboot & Recovery icons. I was able to theme the others with a morph (thanks to your fix :D ) but I haven't found those yet to try & math them up. I've attached a screen shot to help explain what I mean.

Thanks again for all your efforts.

Chuck
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Mioze7Ae:
They're inside framework-res.apk but the path is different depending on whether you have the metamorph fixed version (recommended) or the initial metamorph-incompatible version.

After the metamorph fix they're res/drawable-hdpi/reboot.png res/drawable-hdpi/recovery.png.

In the old depreciated one they are res/drawable-hdpi-v4/reboot.png res/drawable-hdpi-v4/recovery.png.

Did you apply a morph that you expected to have changed those, but they didn't change? If there's a different consensus/recommendation for the filenames from other ROMs (esp. Milestone ROMs), I can rename them to improve compatibility/reduce theming effort. I'm learning most of this as I go on the XT720 and have no experience on other phones.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] 3rdstring:
I used a CM7 morph (through ZipThemer so the incompatibilities get skipped). From the screen shots there should be a Reboot Icon in there somewhere, but no Recovery.

Thanks.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Mioze7Ae:
It looks like they call their reboot icon ic_lock_reboot.png and I see some google hits for ic_lock_recovery.png. I'll add it to my todo list for the next version.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] syrenz:
That's a very nice theme. Wish there was a blue and black one (honeycomb) like that that I could easily put on Khal's V4 ROM. Or is there?

Gotta change the current dark red theme, not really a fan of it...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] *Omnipresent*:
Courtesy of Lisa @ Mobile Tech Review

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=40455
[T-Mobile LG G2x] t-mizzle:
It's a sleeper. Sites that should stick to simply reporting news instead of reviewing made bad remarks about the phone, back around MWC and CTIA.

As for Lisa's review, she knows what she is a credible source of info. When she makes a statement like "dropping her Nexus S over the G2X", there is weight to that statement.

If I were to grade the phone, I would give it a 8.5 which is a whole grade, maybe even more than what I would give to any other current T-Mobile phone.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] peacekeeper05:
It seems that she really liked G2X and prefer it more than her nexus S. Good initial review overall, she's a credible and unbiased tech-reviewer so i can take her words
[T-Mobile LG G2x] brian6685:
That really is a great review

Nexus S
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mr.orange303:
+1 i thought it was a good job.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] *Omnipresent*:
Sleeper of the year imo. I wonder if it has full hdmi mirroring? Haven't seen it mentioned yet. Not a deal breaker if it doesn't have it. Notice how the g2x ips display outshines sammy's vaunted super amoled screen. Didn't see that coming:D
[T-Mobile LG G2x] t-mizzle:
Very impressed by LG lately. 1st to market with a dual core phone, also 1st and only to the market with a OMAP4 phone, IPS and HDMI, not encrypting bootloader...

I hope the G2X sells really well, LG deserves Motorola customers to migrate over to LG.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] samnada:
Lisa said in her video review that it does have HDMI mirroring.

Also, surprised the display is better than the Sammys.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] XPLANE9:
Unless you see them in person, you can't really compare them. After all, you are viewing a super amoled screen on a lcd computer moniter. Trust me, I never though super amoled was much of an improvement over the Nexus One's amoled screen, but big difference in person.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jRi0T68:
It looked to me that the Nexus S didn't have brightness turned up all the way. I'm doubtful that when I compare my Vibrant and G2X side by side in a store (and I will) that the G2X display will be better. Still, I'm highly interested in this phone. Enough to buy it outright, possibly. Just wish I knew if SGSII would be coming to T-Mobile, and when.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mingkee:
I can tell G2x has pretty good screen if it's not better than SGS (including NS).

The phone itself is snappy and the screen has pretty good response.

It has 2GB for applications and 5GB for others (mass storage).
[T-Mobile LG G2x] *Omnipresent*:
I would be very surprised if the reviewer (Lisa is the site admin/owner) made such a rook mistake in her review. I played with a g2x at my local tmo store that had a g2x demo phone. The display looked excellent even at less than 50% brightness.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] arielext:
the nexus S does look like it's turned down low (for every day use i reckon?); i know i have the o2x down to the lowest possible at night; damn it's bright! I can only compare it to a cm7 loaded dhd and my pref. is almost no light at all at night and if i'd take a screeny now it would show the o2x 10x brighter then the dhd. Doesn't mean they are tuned for the same brightness though :)

The o2x screen is awesome don't get me wrong
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Chalup:
Agreed. To hell with Motorola. It cracks me up how their "high end" phones like the Droid X are terrible performance wise. Every graphics intensive game's reviews are full of complaints by Motorola users that the game simply cannot run. The Atrix on the other hand is very cool; however,the encrypted bootloader and AT&T destroy it :(
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Lootes:
I compared my NS to the G2x yeaterday, Google maps at the same location and both brightnesses turned up to max. The LG screen is more vibrant, crisp and has better colors. But still doesn't beat the blacks of sammys SMOLED screen.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] skyhigh2004:
I just got done doing the same thing at a t mobile store by me, and I would have to agree blacks are the only thing the sammy screen does better.

sent from my side of the galaxy....
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DeFiant*X:
Is the website down? For some reason I can't get it to open in Chrome. Tried IE9 too.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] peacekeeper05:
The G2x screen is definitely better than a SGS and NS. More vibrant, crisp and has more realistic colors. Though i must agree that a superamoled black is still better than IPS's black. What i love about the screen is that it's bright and even under direct sunlight, you can easily see what's on the screen. So if you came from NS or SGS, you won't be feeling that you did some downgrade on the screen department
[T-Mobile LG G2x] t-mizzle:
I stopped by the store for some hands on time with the demo unit. (On a side note, people like the strangest apps. Stuff that was installed on the phone made me go WTF a couple of times) Despite the abuse the phone took, it ran very well.It feels very good in hand and good build quality, no creaking or visible gaps.

As for the screen, the review was dead on, not that I doubted Lisa to begin with. I've been following her work for 3 years now, I would describe her as a real cell phone guru.

The display looks very crisp and colors are very natural.

I fired up this site to get a feel for the display: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/02/pakistan_daily_life.html

While AMOLED is still better at displaying black, the IPS takes the cake in every other category.

I would be hard pressed to find a flaw in the way it performs. As for the looks (more so the back of the phone) it's a matter of taste. I would have preferred a flat back with no camera bulge and a less "look at me" metal strip. Ideally the strip should have served as a kick stand since it was already part of the phone.

As for the front of the phone, there is very little one OEM can do when displays take up ~90% of the surface. While I can live with capacitive buttons, call me old fashioned because I am still hoping for a phone with actual buttons. I think a phone with physical buttons could top all else and in the process make distinction to stand out compared to all other slabs on the market.

The O2X has been out for quite some time considering how smartphones age fast, I don't think it's fair to compare it to phones that aren't even out yet.

As a T-Mobile customer, I really appreciate high end phones since they have been very hard to come by.

It definitely deserves to be treated like another Nexus phone with it's minimal deviation from the stock google experience, not just UI but the bootloader aspect as well. The fact that it's HSPA+ capable on all GSM networks in the US is important as well.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
After seeing that review, I'm literally salivating. When she hooked up the phone to the TV and played back a 1080p video with no stutter whatsoever to be noted, I was sold. Playing my mobile games on the TV - awesome. But the device was so snappy it was incredible! The only lag I noticed was when NOVA was first starting but I've noticed all Gameloft games seem to take forever and two centuries to load up...

And that screen is just... absolutely incredibly stunning and smooth. Keep in mind that S-AMOLED use the pentile matrix display... essentially cutting your actual resolution in half. This is why S-LCD and other LCD technologies (including IPS) tend to have more readability on the same screen size. HUGE downside for S-AMOLED. There is a marked difference in the pixellation on my S-AMOLED Captivate and my regular old LCD EVO and my S-LCD Inspire. I find it easier to read smaller text on the two LCD devices than the S-AMOLED device and I'm willing to trade that off for less darkness in my blacks.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] *Omnipresent*:
Confirmed! Cnet's early hands on states the G2X has "full hdmi mirroring". That is a huge bonus feature, that not many smartphones can boast. Being able to output anything on the G2X's display to an external monitor, including home screens, webpages, etc is awesome.:)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] TheMightiest1981:
For me it's already a done deal, I'm dropping Verizon Wednesday, selling my droid x and picking up the G2X. I had T-mobile before with the Samsung Vibrant and believe it or not I had far better experience than with Verizon. All the talk about the samoled screen, is funny though, because IPS is far more energy efficient, samoled isn't made for web browsing at all. Samoled screen only conserve energy when displaying black, displaying a white backdrop web page consumes 3 times more power than normal.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] coldest~~~:
The G2X is out of stock when I ordered on Friday night... does anyone know how long does it take to restocked? Iam already in the waiting list...

Sent from HTC HD2 with Android
[T-Mobile LG G2x] nate420:
this thread needs to be moved to the new G2x forum found here

contacted mod

@clodest

please check the G2x forum and tmobile.com forums for any info regarding the "back order"

*** also note that if you used WIREFLY or any third party vendors tmobile is not at fault for any back order info! you must contact the company you bought it from...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] *Omnipresent*:
Full review is up.

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/phones/T-Mobile-LG-G2x.htm
[T-Mobile LG G2x] peacekeeper05:
another unboxing from phonedog.

very smooth phone....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exJ2E5_1-Ag&feature=feedu
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Baltham_Erathos:
Since I'm about 90% certain I'm buying a G2X on the 20th, I'm a Moto customer who will be moving to LG. :)

My previous 2 phones were Motorolas (Razer v3x, I think it was, on ATT then a Cliq on T-Mobile), and won't buy them again. Cliq is a neat piece of HW, but their SW support for it has been awful, and their communication with their customers has been a case study in what not to do. If not for the developer community and the custom ROMs for it, I'd have tossed it years ago.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mingkee:
Motorola is ****, period.

I seldom have luck with their products from random volume raise on S9 to no signal problem with WiMax modem. I swear to God I will never, ever, ever, ever buy their product again!!!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] avetny:
screen better than nexus s? ahahahaahhaahahah BULL****
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mr.orange303:
Stop trolling. U couldnt sound more jealous. Every post is about how ur ns is better. Then why r u hanging out in the g2x forums?...

Pfft......
[T-Mobile LG G2x] avetny:
because I just get my G2x from t-mobile....do u need receipt from t-mobile?!hahhhhhah ...and I can say know than my screen is bull****!!!!!!!! nexus s got amazing colors! !!!!!

so get lost.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] avetny:
so I got ( on 10% battery, on saved mod)

G2x:

37.700- linpack

80.1- Neocore

27.000- Quadrant Benchmark.

my phone got no root., everything is stock.