[Android Apps and Games] krzych:
A BIG WARNING FOR ALL LBE USERS!!!

I'm sorry to inform you all folks, but LBE Privacy Guard is no good for you.

I was using it about two months or more. I was REALLY HAPPY to have it.

But now, I have a warning for you!!!

I'll try to explain why shortly, then, you can experiment by yourself but DO A NANDROID BACKUP FIRST!!! (and recover after finishing tests).

1. First of all, its buggy. It is really buggy.

a) I have never seen an application which has all installed apps browser which can OMMIT FEW APPS. LBE's can. Believe me, it happened few times. Sometimes reboot helps.

b) Internet permissions tab does not sort the apps in any understandable way (seems to sort them depending on install time, but NOT ALWAYS) - it seems like unsorted bunch of names and you can SEARCH YOUR BLOCK-DESIRED APP which can last YEARS. If you do not use notifications to set all up, you're lost buddy... but... read next point...

c) After installing an app, LBE is proposing to set up permissions for it... but AGAIN, NOT IN ALL CASES. There are circumstances that LBE won't propose anything!!! So if you depend on notifications, you are already lost.

d) It crashes ocassionally (or should I say, rather often). What is it the reason to have an application which is supposed to protect your privacy when it creates time-holes with NO SECURITY AT ALL (if you do not double-protect yourself wit a firewall). Yep, all the data which can go away by the network, probably WILL.

e) Developer DO NOT ANSWERS MAILS. I even offered him to help in the development of this FREE app. He never responded. And I already KNOW about few bugs WITHOUT READING THE CODE which I could fix.

2. Point 1e is in my opinion A REASONABLE. A "free" SECURITY PROTECTING application that has access to ALL YOUR DATA is NOT OPEN SOURCE. WHY? Because...

Yep, unfinished sentence, it's not an error/mistake, it has a reason TOO.

3. I reflashed my ROM COMPLETELY. From a scratch. Why? Because I had lags like hell, reboots, force closes of random apps, google-services-framework crashes (?!? it's an BASE SOFTWARE for most of Android apps!!!) just after trying to read contacts or position (yep, I blocked it, application allows, so I did it, i do not use contacs sync nor google maps, so it is VERY REASONABLE) and other whole system malfunctions. And no, not only at this ROM. At previous one too, but then I wasn't away it CAN BE LBE. And yes, I am NOT SURE, but believe me, I'm a developer many many years - there is nothing more suggestive than it was LBE Privacy Guard. I will check it by nandroid snapshots after installing all apps needed by me.. Then, I will report the status. Until I started using LBE, I had NEVER ANY PROBLEM like instability. NEVER. I didn't even knew that Android can reboot itself without my permission!!!

So... If you CARE, do not use it. I just STOPPED after MONTHS.

There is only one way out. COOPERATION, and this dev does not cooperate. Nor does open the source.

To be honest, I would like better second solution because talking with the dev which simply does not listen has no point.

REALLY DISAPPOINTED USER.

PS. To write such "low level" (which LBE is not really - it's probably based on hooks) application you have to be PERFECT DEV with really LONG EXPERIENCE or THE ONLY DEV which does it, otherwise your work sucks (and that's why I'll look for other works like this - which are suggested by few posts before mine).

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By the way - is there any person who is still using this application able to set up IPTABLES log chain to log any LBE activity outside the smartfone? Would be nice countermeasure against stealing data by this application. I'm able, but I won't install it again, I respect/need my stable system too much.