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[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Willie_Dynamite:
Strange stuff. Just rooted my R800X via zergRush but when I try to remove stock apps, I keep getting "Uninstall not successful". The root process completed successfully and Superuser and BusyBox were installed. Not sure what I'm missing. Any ideas? :confused:
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Logseman:
You still can't uninstall system apps from the stock launcher. you have to use apps like Titanium Backup or Root Uninstaller.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noirelion:
when i dump system apps on my evo 4g i use root explorer &

use root explorer-go to system folder then.... Switch root explorer into r/w (read/write) mode button on top right.

Sounds like your in r/o (read only) mode.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paxChristos:
To make sure you have root,

https://market.android.com/details?...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5qb2V5a3JpbS5yb290Y2hlY2siXQ..

(Root check on android market, very useful app)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cl8rs:
Try Bloat Freezer from the market. Thats what I'm using.

Edit: its the free one
[HTC Sensation] scotcruz:
Hi all,

I just debranded my tmobile HTC sensation using the guide in the development section... Used recovery 5.0.8 (cant remember exactly) all good... Used sensation stock Rom 1.73 and really pleased with it..

Just got a question that when I first put the recovery on, the boot loader screen heading was **RECOVERY** in pink with white writing (never seen this before in any mods I had done) but then after applying the RUU 1.73 it now reads **LOCKED**.

This heading is right on the top of the bootloader screen just above:

Pyramid Pvt Ship S-Off RL.

I was also reading another thread on the development section about applying a stock recovery... Shall do that?

Please advise...

Cheers
[HTC Sensation] idavid_:
Run Revolutionary again

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[HTC Sensation] scotcruz:
Thanks for the reply again... Plz can you explain further... What would revolutionary do again?

Thanks
[HTC Sensation] CdTDroiD:
If you run a RUU it takes your phone back to stock... EVERYTHING stock, so you loose root and s-off etc.. you need to run through the guide again as if you just bought the phone and want to S-OFF it
[HTC Sensation] scotcruz:
I didnt exactly run the RUU, it wouldnt let me.. had to extract the img.zip from it and update the firmware that way..

I have attached the pic, please advise what should I do.. it the ***locked*** in pink
[HTC Sensation] scotcruz:
Guys... Any thoughts???
[HTC Sensation] scotcruz:
Anyone??
[HTC Sensation] malybru:
Hi,

Perhaps running Revolutionary again,will revert your phone back to unlocked.

Check the s-off guide in my sig.

:)
[TouchPad General] Jinjur:
Hey gang

just wondering if anyone has any idea of an eta on the zippy patches for our to's with 3.0.4 on them?

you know, the faster card, ripple removing, smoother scroling and muffling ones?

grabbed the f4 phantom kernel for 3.0.4 so things are buzzing along nicely but I'm looking forward to the above too.

on that note too, on a restart....the f4 kernel pumps loads of loading text to the screen. Can that be suppressed or hidden? Never happened with the uberkernel?

cheers

Andy
[TouchPad General] Daughain:
F4 is a beta kernel, uber is a release/stable kernel. Did you read up about testing feeds before enabling? That text is to help testers document what is going on and when, so I highly doubt anyone will be hiding it anytime soon.

Sent from my very "non-stock" TP.
[TouchPad General] Jinjur:
feeds have all been thoroughly digested mate, didn't realise that uber was a stable build.....I thought it was beta......sorry
[TouchPad General] Lothaen:
I was a bit sad to see the advanced shutdown patch is missing in 3.04
[TouchPad General] SpikeyPsyche:
I'm fairly certain I have the advanced shutdown patch installed successfully on 3.0.4.

You're talking about the one that gives you 6 different reboot/shutdown options or something like that, right?
[TouchPad General] Jinjur:
that's one of the few that has been updated to 3.0.4 bud, it didn't show as an update though. Just had to reinstall it

j
[TouchPad General] kevins7189:
i'm having issues with ssh to the touchpad after the upgrade. it stopped working with the key I had, so I generated a new one. now it wants to input a password in the key (when ssh'ing) even though it was not set up with one. any ideas?

Also, many of the preware openssh packages seem to core dump or don't work at all.
[TouchPad General] Lothaen:
I couldn't see it as anything available to be installed or already installed. :-(

edit: yeah i found it - silly me
[General Questions and Answers] MadTatter86:
I understand there are other threads about this however I do feel my situation is either unique or I've missed something in the other threads.

I've got an HTC Merge through US Cellular. I upgraded to Gingerbread 2.3.4 as soon as it was released through USC's website. Now I'd like to root and all that other stuff.

1.: I didn't S-off before the update. Does anyone know how to properly S-off 2.3.4 Gingerbread on a USC HTC Merge?

2.: I've never rooted a phone before, but I'm pretty sure I've read about it plenty and I'm ready to give it a shot. What's the best way to do this on my current phone?

3.: What are some good modded ROMs available for this device, if any exist at all? I've been interesting in Cyanogen Mod but as far as I've seen it's not supported on the Merge yet.

If anyone can assist me I'd appreciate it greatly. Thanks in advance. =)
[General Questions and Answers] scotty1223:
if you have adb set up and working,and have some knowledge of it,you can use drellisdees directions in this post,along with the new zergRush temp root tool from alpharev/unrevoked. donate to them both if it works for you.

download the zergRush tool from this post:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1296916 and place the file thats inside the .zip into the same folder as your other exploits(tools or platform-tools in ost cases)

below is his post,modified slightly,with the zergRush directions(bold) in place of the originaly froyo directions.

i also removed the parts about downloading your carriers RUU,and backing up your system for vzw since you said you were USC.

assuming you want to remain on rooted GB,just use the same RUU that you used to upgrade at the end where it says to run your carriers RUU.
[General Questions and Answers] kclive:
I got as far as the /data/local/zergRush and got this error:

[-] Cannot copy boomsh. : Permission denied.

adb push zergRush /data/local/

adb shell this will change your promt to a $

chmod 755 /data/local/zergRush

/data/local/zergRush

Any ideas?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] scotty1223:
that error comes from running zergrush twice. http://androidforums.com/merge-all-...simunlock-supercid-htc-merge.html#post3522248
[General Questions and Answers] akins47:
pls how can i run this commands with miniadb, i dont hav access to the whole android sdk tool...and besides, the zergrush binary link above aint workin..any other alternative dload link pls??
[General Questions and Answers] scotty1223:
zergrush is broken with newer builds. fre3vo worked for some. i would recomend you htcdev unlock in order to gain root access for downgrade.

follow directions here to htcdev unlock:

http://androidforums.com/merge-all-things-root/635459-unlock-htcdev.html

then follow directions here:

http://androidforums.com/merge-all-things-root/434029-root-s-off-simunlock-supercid-htc-merge.html

using the "htcdev" step 5 in post#2
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Globespy:
I turned on my tablet tonight to find a pop-up from the market to let me know about a new app available - Mobo Task Killer Pro.

I've never seen this except when I'm being advised there is an update to an existing app I've got installed... Not one I don't.

Anyone seen this happen before?

Whilst the app looks decent, and I've read that task killers are a waste of time especially on honeycomb?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobo.task.killer
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] phlunkie:
Got one on my phone this morning. Looking into turning this off.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
You guys probably install an app that has the Air Push service. it pushed ads to your status bar.

Get Air push detector, it will tell you which app is the culprit
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] phlunkie:
I saw the ad just now in dolphin. I think out may be that.still looking though.

Edit: have gtabsimiclock installed, maybe that?

Edit 2: got the airpush detector, nothing found.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] polo79:
i don't think its dolphin. only help i have is that i had an app called "wheelz" or something with a monster truck and it had the same air push notifications. hope that helps.

edit: that new app called "magiclocker main" has air push as well. btw, any app i come across that has them i reply to dev expressing my negative opinion of air push and uninstall the app. with enough of us doing the same we may see less of it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Globespy:
Thanks! Installed and found the culprit - free MP3 download app. Thing is, I like the app, and so I guess will put up with the occasional pop-up ad since it's not otherwise effecting the tablet.

It makes sense that as Android matures we will see more and more of this - afterall , Google is an advertising company that geniously used it's revenue to build software products! The fact that when you consider say the windows mobile store and the android store, there's a stark difference between the number of 'free' apps - the Reason? Advertising Revenue!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] phlunkie:
I do not have any of those apps installed. I did have notifications on in the market. Maybe that, for me.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
That notification only let you know of update available for installed app.

If you're getting ads something is pushing it there. I would just see what you install recently and try to single it out that way
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Electrocut:
Same here, on my Android Phone HTC Desire ...

I recently updated some Apps from the Market (including Adobe Reader, Angry Birds Seasons, Boat Browser, DroidWall, Layar, QuickPic), and 2 hours ago, a received my first "Advertisement Notification" :

"New app released, Mobo task killer pro"

I downloaded AirPush Detector: no application found, so the spammer application doesn't use the AirPush API.

We need to figure out which application is causing this ...
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] G.Ri:
I got the same suspicious notification ad for Mobo Task Killer on my HTC G2 (running CM7) earlier today. It's the first thing like this I've seen, so I started looking for the source and ended up here. I don't have any of the apps mentioned by anyone above except for Adobe Reader and Angry Birds Seasons, but I highly doubt those are at fault. Got the AirPush Detector and it found nothing. I'd really like to know where this originated from.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ranphi:
This also just happened to me today on my stock, rooted AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 phone. Both AirPush Detector and Lookout found nothing on my phone. (I've also got AdFree running on my phone as well).

Like others in this thread, I had recently downloaded the new Angry Birds Seasons game. I also had just downloaded a free game called Wordplay. I just now uninstalled both of those games on the chance that it's either of them causing this. (Don't care how fun Angry Birds is...if it's the culprit here, it's no longer welcome on my phone).

Reviewing my app install history via AppBrain, those 2 games are really the only likely culprits to my eyes...

Edit: There's also a post about this happening over at Androidforums:

http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid-x/433781-market-notification-new-app-malware.html
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] G.Ri:
If it was Angry Birds causing it, I'm sure there would be a lot more people reporting this than we're seeing, don't you think?

Don't have Wordplay either, so that's not the cause for me.

I can't think of anything likely in my recent install history.. Just updated Netflix and Superuser, installed Greedy Spiders, the pay versions of Android Agenda Widget and Alarm Clock Plus, and that's all I can think of in the past few days.

Is there a way we can see which apps initiated a notification?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ranphi:
I agree with what you said about Angry Birds except this might be a new enough event that it hasn't hit many people yet. Plus, you know that a lot of people would just ignore the ad in the notification bar and not bother to report it or search about it.

There's another thread about this topic going on over in the Anandtech forums:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=32462500&posted=1#post32462500

Me and 2 others have posted our installed apps there via links to the Appbrain web site. So far, below are the apps (minus Google apps) that the 3 of us have in common:

appbrain

angry birds/angry birds seasons

titanium backup

adobe flash player 11

soundhound

Facebook

Kindle

EDIT: Took out Amazon MP3 as it turned out not be common amongst all impacted devices.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] G.Ri:
Thank you for collecting that info and finding more forums.

I see what you mean about Angry Birds. Shouldn't rule anything out yet I guess.

I don't use appbrain, so no link, but I'll tell you which of those I have:

all angry birds

titanium backup

flash 11

soundhound

So you can eliminate these from the list:

appbrain

facebook

kindle

If I were guessing here, I'd look at Titanium Backup. Is it the free version all of you have installed?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ranphi:
Me and Anubis (from Anandtech site) both have the paid version of Titanium Backup, while the other guy is using the free version (from what I can tell by comparing our Appbrain app lists).

Also, to clarify: 2 of us (from Anandtech site) had Angry Birds Seasons installed while the third person had Angry Birds installed. Looks like (according to the Android Market web site) that Angry Birds Seasons latest update was 10/21/11 while Angry Birds hasn't been updated since 8/30/11, so I guess that degrades my suspicion that it might be Angry Birds/Angry Birds Seasons. :confused:

---------- Post added at 08:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:02 PM ----------

Thanks for sharing what apps you have in common. That really knocks the list down to a small number and I'm not seeing any comments in the Android Market right now that make any of those 4 apps sound like they're responsible for this ad that popped up in our notification bar.

The mystery continues... :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] G.Ri:
Hmm.. I'm going to email the dev of Mobo Task Killer Pro and see if they can (and are willing to) shed some light on this.

Also, just noticed this in their market comments:

"Amazing

[5 Stars] by Blanca– October 23, 2011

Amazing! I woke up to an alert to download this and it's awesome. I've been on the internet for about 4 hours and it barely got to 80%. Great app!"

EDIT: and this:

Not the greatest app ever...

[2 Stars] by Nick– October 22, 2011Spam

but I'm more concerned with it being advertised in my notifications when my phone started, who told them the phone I paid for is their billboard?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ranphi:
Thanks, that's a good idea...although looking at the page on the Market for that app of theirs, I don't see any contact info for them whatsoever; no email, no web site, no blog...that seems awfully suspicious to me. Did you find contact info for them somewhere?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Hilfey:
Hi,

I started a similar thread on another forum site before I found this. I don't have any version of Angry Birds (once did, but SBF'd it away 6 months ago).

The apps I have in common with the list here are:

Titanium Backup (Pro)

Adobe Flash 11

Soundhound (<<< my best guess)

Thanks to those of you looking into this! The permissions for that task killer seem way out of line to me,

p.s. This happened for me on a Droid X
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
Been using Soundhound on my TF and phone, never had an ad notifications
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ranphi:
Yeah, I've had Soundhound (the paid version) for a long time and never had any such issues with it. I really hope this stupid ad isn't being done via some new OS exploit in Android. I know it's much more likely that it's happening through some app using that damn AirPush or SlingLabs service, but it's worrisome not being able to verify how it happened. :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] phlunkie:
I have these 4 in common. (on captivate)

all angry birds

titanium backup pro

flash 11

appbrain

I did have the gsimiclock, and uninstalled it.

I saw someone mention best buy app doing push. I have that.

I did not see it on my transformer. It has all the angry birds , titanium and flash 11.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] shaqim:
I do not have soundhound or titanium backup installed, but i still got the ad this morning. The problem is that i cant remember if i got the notice on my xperia x10 or the transformer since i was really tired this morning when i saw it :p
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] G.Ri:
Hey guys. Got a very quick reply from the Mobo team. The day of delay was my fault. :P

I actually couldn't find the contact info from the web market, but from the market app their email was available. Here's the messages so far:

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:39 PM, [G.Ri] wrote:

I as well as many other Android users have recently received a notification from an unknown app that read "New App Released - A smart task killer to free your phone's memory is now available for download", and linked to the market page for your app. I'm interested in finding out what involvement your team had with this and how these notifications arrived on our devices. I don't necessarily have an issue with your application, nor this method of advertising, but I do have an issue with the lack of transparency about it that I'm seeing here. Any details would be highly appreciated.

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:05 PM, taskkiller Mobo <mobo.task.killer@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback and sorry for any inconvenience caused.

We are cooperating with a 3rd party promotion platform which agrees to advertise our app. We are sorry that their method of promoting our app make you uncomfortable and we have already told them to stop adopting this advertising method.

If you do have further more questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us.

Looking forward to your reply!

--

Best regards,

Task Killer Team

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:05 PM, [G.Ri] wrote:

Thank you for the quick reply. I'm very glad to hear that you are unhappy with these practices as well. But I'm very concerned with how this got pushed to my device, and so are other users. So, if you can, it would be a lot of help if you would give me the name and contact information of the "promotion platform" that is responsible for this, and also any information you have on what applications or methods are used to distribute these messages.

Again, thank you for any information you can provide. It seems like you aren't responsible for distributing these advertisements, so it isn't really your issue, but I don't know of another channel to obtain any help in this matter.

Just to be clear, I'm not out to boycott your application, the people who have advertised your application, or any of the applications they may have used to distribute these messages. I'm simply concerned with how I received the message. I'd like to contact all the parties involved and let them know why I and other users find this kind of advertising off putting. When you don't know where the advertisement is coming from, it makes you feel like your device isn't secure and you aren't in control. These ads have a negative impact as it actually makes some users suspicious that the product being advertised is malicious. All I'm looking for is that applications that use this kind of advertising make it clear that they are doing so.

----end of emails

I just sent the last one 10 minutes ago. I'll post any reply I get. Hopefully they can help us get to the bottom of this.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
Seeing reports of this poping up in lots of other places.

One thing in common is it advertise Mobo Task Killer and AirPush Detector

is coming up empty.

Wondering if it's something new we don't yet know about.:D
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ranphi:
@G.Ri - Thanks a bunch for taking the time to write up that email and then post the response you got back here! Really appreciate it! :)

I'm glad to hear they've decided to stop advertising their product that way, but like you I really wanna know what app(s) they were pushing their ads through! I don't want any app that does that on my phone!!

I was monitoring multiple threads and searching at different times throughout the day today for any new info but I didn't find anything that had an answer for us, unfortunately. :(

Thanks again, G.Ri! Please keep us updated if you get any further responses from them. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jerofld:
Here's something to ask:

Do all of you that have this problem have "Unknown Sources" checked in your Applications settings? A lot of you are also rooted, because Titanium Backup is mentioned a lot.

How much web browsing do you do? Do the websites offer to install the Android app of that webpage for you?

A webpage may be backdooring an app onto your Android, and you may not be any wiser because it's being installed through a browser. I know these things generally alert us. But with SuperUser being borked the last week or so and if the OS wasn't preventing outside apps from installing...it could have been the perfect storm. And I doubt Lookout is designed to look at /system too hard.

So, if you're rooted, I'd suggest you get an app like Autostarts (or a free equivilant) and see what apps are loading on boot. Because I am willing to bet that this has creeped into your /system/app folder. If you're not rooted, I'd recommend you download https://market.android.com/details?id=com.joeykrim.rootcheck and see if something back door'd a root exploit onto you without your knowledge. If you are rooted when you shouldn't be, back up what you need and factory reset. If you're already rooted, try using the autostarts or whatever and report what it is to Google.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] AlbertHu:
Hi, I'm a dev of mobo task killer, one of you has sent this post to us. We are cooperating with a 3rd party platform which promotes our app for us. However, we did not expect that this promotion method has caused some many people uncomfortable. And we have already asked them to stop. Our app is used to free memory, speed up phone and save battery and it is not something malicious.

Again, we feel sorry for this. But if you do have questions, you can also email us at Mobo.task.killer@gmail.com
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ranphi:
Hi AlbertHu -

Thanks for taking the time to enter this thread and make a post here explaining things from your end. I'm sure most of us that have been talking in this thread appreciate you doing so. :)

I think the biggest concern we all have is that we don't know how exactly the ad that was promoting your Mobo Task Killer Pro app got pushed to our phones. I know that there are at least 2 companies out there (AirPush and SlingPlay) that like to advertise on Android phones by pushing ads into the notification bar of the phone but none of us in this thread were aware we had any app installed on our phones that would allow use of AirPush (or whatever means were used to have the ad for your product appear on our phones). What we'd really like to know is what app(s) are being used to achieve this because I think we'd all prefer to not have such apps installed on our phones.

Would you be able to tell us which app(s) were pushing the ad for your app? It would be greatly appreciated!