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[Android General] Omnius001:
Hi ppl in the xda hood

I just write to let you know that ChompSMS has now been flagged as malware, both on 2 phone here locally with Avast as scanner, and subsequently by upload to Virustotal, and flagged by some of the major names too.

This concerns both the 5.30 and the update from tonight to v5.31

As Im new, I cannot post urls, but you can dump the apk from both versions, upload for a scan, and have a look at the report yourself from virustotal dot com

XDA must decide if its worth it alarming the community, but better safe than sorry, right?

I guess it could be a false positive, and I do know things should not be rushed about accusations of malware developing, but seeing that several of the major scanners is flagging it both before and after the update, certainly raises my concerns.

I hope those of you who knows your way around decompiling and analyzing code will look into this, so that we can get more eyes on it than "just" the AV companies reports.

Sincerely, Omnius

After a bit of micro-investigating I have so far found these domains in the code, so if you do HAVE to use ChompSMS, (I do) you can ad them to your HOST file, just for the sake of it.

I dont know when or why they will be used but as they are in the code, there is a potential connection lurking in it. Decide for yourself, untill further ppl have a close look than mine.

Im not a dev of any sort, but I do know how to poke around to learn. Therfore please do not just take my words for granted until more competent ppl here have their say.

I do know that a few of these is for "normal" android app ads, and analytics and so on, but these are my finding so far, so filter our what you like it to connect to yourself. If you dont mind ads connections in-app, serve your wish, so to speak.

millennialmedia.com

gateway.textfreek.com

report.bitesms.com

nexage.com

inapp.chompsms.com

adserver.com

greystripe.com

smsgateway.chompsms.com

m.advc.us

cvt.mydas.mobi

rest.starttalking.com

mobileads.google.com
[Android General] kyokeun1234:
I used to love chompsms... now i guess I'm using GoSMS...
[Android General] nosit1:
All of them appear to be valid to the program. Half are ad for ads, the other half are for functionality in ChompSMS.
[Android General] zelendel:
I would be careful on using go SMS as well.

Antivirus apps will pick up any app that by passes any normal OS use. This always has been and always will be the case.

Anything with ads will always be flagged as it connects to an unknown server.
[Android General] crackers8199:
chomp was never flagged before the 5.30 update a few days ago...

really bothers me, i love chomp. i donated to remove the ads. i'm hoping they fixed it with 5.31 and the virus scanners are just still reporting it as a false positive. until it's sorted out though, i uninstalled...
[Android General] crackers8199:
Update : avg doesn't detect anything wrong with the newest version, 5.31.
[Android General] BigMatza:
Lemme tell you...

I noticed the new permissions requested in 5.30 (special access to browser history/bookmarks), and kinda shrugged it off. Dumb move on my part. Immediately upon launching 5.30, I get a notification from ADWLauncher that it cannot fit a new shortcut on my desktop (because the main page was full). So I'm naturally all like WTF... so I flip through my desktop pages to notice that ChompSMS had made itself a shortcut to searchmobileonline.com.

I also heard that it replaces your default browser home page and search method with the same. I use xScope exclusively, so I haven't been able to check that yet.

Delicious, Inc. has really crossed the line with this latest stunt. What were they thinking!? ChompSMS was the best Android messaging app IMHO. Why jeopardize such a great reputation? If it's money they were after, I'd imagine they could've raked in a nice bundle of cash for selling the product to another company.
[Android General] xHausx:
Does anyone have a copy of this apk that I could take a look at?
[Android General] IRASadPanda:
GoSMS is a security risk

Sent from Narnia
[Android General] ArdW:
I know this is a old thread but better than starting a new one.

I would like to ask if there is any news on this. I love chomp SMS, imo the best messanger for my taste. I have bought the pro version, to stay away from ads and unnecessary internet data. I have chomp on a brand new phone, no sim card, no messages, just activated chomp and my firewall instantly found chomp active on internet. I watched this for some time and really chomp was trying to do something even I did nothing with it.

important note: there is no data mining in any of their terms. Or at least I did not find anything.

So I contacted chomp about the behavior and they said that "they never seen this before" and suggested reinstall. I did, didn't help.

On the second try, they told me that it is connecting because of ads, but I had the pro version (and they knew it). So no luck.

After the third attempt, they said that chomp is sending once a day info that it is installed so they know how many installs they have. :rolleyes:

This sucks a lot. Security concerns appears instantly.

I think it would be worthy to literally sniff a bit around this, since so many people is using chomp.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Everything Install Guide[\url].

《Enjoy》

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[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
On cwm you can go all the way down just keep on clicking down with the volume and than once at the bottom of the screen it will start moving
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Couple of tips.

- Don't like the Market spewing new apps on your home screen? Just disable it in the settings.

- The persistant search bar can be disabled in Trebuchet's settings.

- Nova Launcher is an alternate to Trebuchet. I'm using it. It has a couple of useful features, like grid size. You can also disable widgets in the drawer, and get your standard long-press menu back. I highly recommend doing this if you use Beautiful Widgets, as that will spam up your widget drawer. Use AppWidgetPicker 2.0 pushed to /system/app to take care of this.

- Want your 4G toggle? There's a widget for it. It'll show up in the quick panel later.

Unfortunately, the voice actions are not available as of yet. Voice Search can be downloaded from the Market, but the speech-to-text as demonstrated on the GNexus is nowhere to be seen. It's an upstream issue.

I haven't explored VVM yet, but will post when I've got something. EDIT: As of right now, VVM is just plain not happening. I switched to Google Voice, which works well at the moment.
[Epic 4G General] SpicyBurrito:
I love it. It doesn't feel like an alpha. The only feature I hate is that the cancel and ok buttons have switched so the cancel button is now on the left side and ok is on the right side. I keep cancelling when I think I'm pressing ok because I'm used to the other way.

Not that I won't get used to it.
[Epic 4G General] j00manji:
I think the whole launch was beautifully executed, the only thing keeping me from staying on CM9 at the moment is that I cant restore the data from my apps.
[Epic 4G General] gooch1025:
The soft keyboard is a pain and I can't figure out how to set a static IP for wifi. Battery percentage doesn't work. I like how the LED notifications are fixed and how haptic feedback is back and working way better. The ROM overall is very fast. I backed up all my apps and contacts/SMS with mybackup pro and everything works perfect! Has anybody figured out how to get visual voicemail working?
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Only thing I'm not digging is no face recognition unlock... hope they incorporate soon... or maybe I'm missing something
[Epic 4G General] brooksyx:
Its on there. Change your settings under the security settings.

I like it so far. Just hope they keep fixing bugs and adding features as they get introduced to cm9.
[Epic 4G General] b16flybye:
This really doesn't feel like an alpha. Its not perfect but man I can't believe we were spoiled with this. Thank you to everyone who gave this to us. The og epic feels new.

Sent from my C9AN0GEN-MOd EpicOG
[Epic 4G General] luna_c666:
Can we get swype to work (does it work now? Why haven't I tried before asking this question smh) ?
[Epic 4G General] kobby2k6:
i have been running it for an hour and I like it so far but It can't be daily driver at the moment..

Most of my favorite games don't work or freeze (my biggest complaint)

asphalt 6 crashes

blood and glory doesnt work

deadspace doesnt work well due to the multi touch issue

street fighter IV crashes

few lags, but the rom is really smooth

camera recording issue (already noted by cm) and few minor bugs (like showing battery percentage in status bar doesn't show) and a few fc's here and there..

I haven't used the GPS for a while but it fine so far.

The CM team is amazing for the awesome rom (cm7 as well) and I am loving it so far...i am definitely donating

I think this rom is more a beta because it only has a few quirks to work out imo
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Yep I found it now... but can't get it to work for the life of me... played with it for an hour but nothing...
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Get the Swype beta.
[Epic 4G General] gooch1025:
You don't need swype beta. Just download one of the themed swypes in the apps section and flash it. Just make sure you mount system in CWM and unmount when you're done.
[Epic 4G General] gooch1025:
The blue theme looks great with ICS!
[Epic 4G General] a454nova:
Its killing me too.

Why not? Titanium backup is working fine...

Its part of the gapps. did you install them?
[Epic 4G General] Marvlet:
WOW! If this is an alpha release, what is the final release gonna be like? Will it give happy ending massages too? Great Work! Love it!
[Epic 4G General] J3ff:
Would someone who has it installed report about what happens when you put it in a dock?

ie. does it redirect sound, is the sound good? (for example it has full audio range and bass)
[Epic 4G General] kryptoniteman:
............
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
Well cm7 doesn't even do that so I wouldn't hold my breath... Also there's no Google car home app for ics right now. Won't let you DL from the market
[Epic 4G General] danipoak:
do we have a fix for this yet?
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Yes they did.
[Epic 4G General] danipoak:
Could you point me to it I'm not finding it in this thread or any others in search.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Check the first page of this thread and click on status and visit the site. There you can fine the info your looking for.
[Epic 4G General] danipoak:
I think we are talking about different issues here because there is no mention of the select keyboard bug on any of the sites listed on the first page or in this thread other than what I quoted above. Thanks for looking though.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
During the first alpha there was a bug where the screen keyboard would not go away when using the physical keyboard. All issues have been taken care of with the keyboard as far as has been noted. You need to reinstall and before wiping dalvik and wiping cache.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Ive been noticing there are allot of you downloading the apk and I would like to know your thought and if its helping you with beta CM9.
[Epic 4G General] danipoak:
Yeah we are thinking of something different. I am just getting a notification up in the system try to select the keyboard I want to use when I use the virtual keyboard. I do not use the stock android keyboard but use the flext9 keyboard of swift key. I can post a screen shot a bit later to help clarify it.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Well I would just wipe user data, wipe dalvik, wipe cache. Good luck though
[Epic 4G General] 2348z:
Visual Voicemail works now but is very buggy.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
I use youmail. Works great
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
I will say this sites where I used to only be able to view mobile even with dolphin HD now come up as actual desktop with cm9. I'm guessing its the ics!
[Epic 4G General] samsungd700:
my carrier does not allow conditional call forwarding so i can not use google voice / youmail and all those for a voicemail box.... they insist that you use their non vmm service. i have what was once called Northcoast PCS. its their way or the highway,,,, they dont even have 3g... an epic with only 1xrtt.....
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Who is your carrier? And there is suppose to be a way to use sprint voice mail on cm9 which has all ready been established I just went the you mail route for simplicity. Let me know if you have yet to figure it out and I'll look into it for you.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Beta 2 is out everyone leave your comments, tips, and experiences below.
[Epic 4G General] faceless:
Beta 2 is amazing!

speaker volume is back to where it was on stock, maybe even a little bit louder!

everything is running smoother than before.

keep up the amazing work!
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
I'm glass to hear that because for a while I felt the speaker volume was lacking do I reverted to clean gb which fixed it. I'll be back to cm9 later tonight.
[Epic 4G General] acegolfer:
calendar didn't work with beta2 even on fresh install. back to beta1.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Did you also factory reset, wipe cache, and dalvik, most importantly factory reset? That's happened to me coming from and also reverting back to clean gb. Also happened after I odin'ed back to gb and fresh installed. Don't know why it happens but try factory reseting as well and remember to back up your apps, contacts, etc... first. So far so good for me and I'm not having any problems yet.
[Epic 4G General] DestinedChaos:
I have the same problem actually, but I'm stuck on Alpha 2 due to it being a specific ROM release for my carrier (to get working MMS) so I'm not sure if a fix has been released. If I had more posts, I could show you the screen cap of the issue lol
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Is not sprint your carrier? And why wouldn't beta 2 work for you anyways?
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Beta 3 apparently is going to fix the gps problem, as well as a known netflix fc that's been happening. Won't be out till probably my guess is late april before dead days(finals week). Didn't know about the gps though.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
So can anyone concur that fixes have been made to the gps, and is the battery life any better with the beta 3.update?
[Epic 4G General] b16flybye:
I can easily tell my battery life is rejuvenated. Cm3 is the best yet all around!
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Thanks brother.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Been on beta3 for about half a day now and so far so good. Battery is moderate and everything seems to be flowing nicely together with no notciable lag. Will definately be trying out the gps later on today for a good hour maybe 2 hours to check if it locks and disappears like it did in previous updates for me.
[Epic 4G General] wolfie359:
VVM has a couple options so far. Google Voice being number one. Others are the YouMail VVM Plus and PhoneFusion VVM, both free from the App Store. I haven't tried either of those and don't intend to because I don't like my voicemails being stored somewhere I may not trust.

This is Sprints VVM said to be fixed but I haven't yet tested it.

epicaokp.blogspot.com/2012/05/aokpcm9-fixed-sprint-visual-voicemail [dot] html

*replace the [dot] with an actual one... Can't post links yet.

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I'm on CM9 B3, GPS works great! 5/5 Locked in my basement apt in under 20 seconds from fresh boot. Just watched 2 episodes of Bones on Netflix with no issues or FC's.

Also tested the new fix on Sprints VVM, app its self seems to work great, no visual issues. Haven't had a chance to test an actual voice mail yet...
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Yup GPS is great and chose to use youmail services since it says the individuals name when I don't have there number saved. Everything so far running great no complaints here, but have yet to try themes!
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Forgot to mention the keyboard back light is not working
[Epic 4G General] Gil1957:
Restoring Contacts

Just a quick one. How do I restore my contacts on my phone. They were saved prior to the upgrade, but I can't find the way to restore the names to the numbers.

Thanks
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Saved how? Nandroid back up, titanium back up, SMS back up, Google sync?
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
If nandroid advanced restore data (not recommended if coming from another rom) titanium restore data on contacts and if google sync sign in to gmail or the play store so your accounts sync
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Don't forget if you used SMS backup it should be saved on the SD card and by reinstalling the app you can restore.
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Never used sms backup so had no idea... thanks for info for that...
[Epic 4G General] Ragnar:
SMS backup usually only saves your sms messages, it doesn't save mms and it did not save contacts? At least not when I used it. The best way to always have contacts backed up is using google. Instead of phone storage to enter contacts. Once sync and everytime it syncs your backup with most current.

Sent from a phone...
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Exactly and that's why it's called SMS and not MMS backup. Don't worry I made the same mistake. But yup that's what's Google's sync is there for and now Google drive to back up the rest of your digital life.
[Epic 4G General] Ragnar:
No I didn't make that mistake, I was explaining that it does not back up contacts or anything else other than sms messages. But thank you.

Sent from a phone...
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
Related to cm9 beta 3 I noticed that some apps are showing up in app drawer for example sound recorder is one and for some time keyboard was not on but fixed when I rebooted. Overall GPS is great and stays strong though it could be a little bit more responsive especially on a non cloudy hot summer day. Have yet to try themes but will right now for the hell of it.
[Epic 4G General] Frostacious:
How are all my old epic junkies?
[Epic 4G General] ICStevenC.:
You can't change the battery icon on the status bar. The option is there but it is not functioning.

Also, the status bar brightness control is not working. Other than those little bugs, everything is working great.
[Epic 4G General] gooch1025:
Figured out how to set static IP on wifi, and google voice works perfect for voicemail as long as you configure everything right. The only thing I don't like is this damn keyboard. Flashing another to you ROM doesn't fix it but at least I got swype.
[Epic 4G General] j00manji:
@a454nova, I understand Titanium Backup works but when I went to restore data from fruit ninja (I have a pretty sweet high score I wana keep on there) the game does a FC. I read on the CM9 progress site " Currently CM9 does not tolerate CM7 or other /data. " so I guess its normal to not be able to restore data.
[Epic 4G General] xopher.hunter:
Anyone else have an akward scrolling experience across all launchers?
[Epic 4G General] ICStevenC.:
No, but I'm having an awkward experience scrolling around the browser.
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
My launcher scrolls pretty fast but can obtain lag if I finger frenzy it :)

I do get kind of snap scrolling down and up xda though...
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
Don't play with this puppy on the charger it becomes a very hot tamale ;)
[Epic 4G General] XxLostSoulxX:
For those having issues with scrolling go into samurai kernel thread for nightly 28 and I believe on last page darkierawr has a smoothscrollingmod for Rc0 for CM9.
[Epic 4G General] ICStevenC.:
Thanks, I'm going try this right now and see if it works.
[Epic 4G General] Orion78:
Incredible rom for an Alpha build.. But Im noticing a few strange bugs..

For some reason, whenever im texting I keep getting "select your input lang" notification pop up in the notification bar..

And My 4G signal icon is showing no signal.. Normally its full where I live.

could this be an issue with the EL30 modem?
[Epic 4G General] ICStevenC.:
I don't know what a tamale is but I can definitely second this. I left it charging for a couple of hours and when I picked it up I was so surprised by the heat that I dropped it. Good thing that this phone never really breaks when dropped. :D
[Epic 4G General] J3ff:
I've broken two of them...........just from a 3 or 4 foot drop..
[Epic 4G General] johnbarry3434:
Not a bug, pops up when using the on-screen keyboard.
[Epic 4G General] LakersEB:
My issues:

1) seems any app that gets rotated into landscape won't rotate back.

2) google voice widget isn't showing messages on the homescreen

Otherwise, same bugs as others. Great job devs, loving it!
[Epic 4G General] Orion78:
Thanks, yeah thats what I figured.. Guess I wasnt use to it
[Epic 4G General] lilajrestnom:
Is this going to have nightly updates too?
[Epic 4G General] Gavisann:
Besides what others have said, the rotation lag is a little to long for me. For an Alpha, this is great work and I love it!
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
FYI, Beautiful Widgets is a battery-drainer, possibly due to geolocation issues. Will be testing the latter later. Fixes will be in later public builds.
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
Nope weekly
[Epic 4G General] Orbiting234:
Impossible. That's because our 4G firmware is still on DH24 like it has for the past 17 months. Only the 3G/Wifi modem is getting updates and currently on EL30.

Most likely the number of bars per db of signal needs to be adjusted on this rom.
[Epic 4G General] latindor17:
Wait are you a dev for CM9? or a messenger? Im just curious lol. I still respect you a lot for what you did on SRF. Ran that as my daily driver up until the official GB.

Speaking of battery drain, I left my phone on over night with 3G data and about 25% was gone when i woke up, anybody else have issues with battery life on CM9?

Other than that, it was a great rom but i had to switch back to CM7 because of the issue mentioned above.
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
I hang out in the sooper seekret CM dev IRC channel, but I'm not a dev. Any fixes will not be my work. I've just been testing things out, and asking when appropriate about different things.
[Epic 4G General] juanaraya92679:
Running Smooth

Running with Samurai kernel, supercharge update9 rc5 script, and nova launcher. UV-50 all and 100-1200 in voltage control. This is amazing, i would not call this an alpha, its a beta in my eyes. and my daily driver.
[Epic 4G General] shirpaj:
Loving it so far... Can't wait until the voice to text is incorporated. As noted there are a few glitchy things with notifications/status bar and prior to flashing the Samurai Kernel I was seeing some weird display issues when moving between apps (horizontal lines across the top half of the screen). That seems to be gone now though.

After flashing the Samurai Kernel I got an authentication failure when turning on 4G but it resolved with some tweaking.

My battery does seem to be draining faster but that may be a settings issue... or the fact that I can't put it down.

Many MANY thanks to all the devs that devoted their time and effort to this and those already working on tweaks!
[Epic 4G General] ac16313:
Nice info there :)
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
There is no WiMAX modem.
[Epic 4G General] luna_c666:
Anyone experiencing the hiss when pressing buttons? It is most noticeable with headphones on..it makes me think that ics has a setting to enable animation sounds? Why else would my audio jack initialize and hiss static if ics wasn't preparing it to play a sound?
[Epic 4G General] ac16313:
Nicer info?
[Epic 4G General] iSaint:
Wow never thought I'd see the day :)

The OG Epic owners definitely deserve this more than any other community on XDA
[Epic 4G General] Orbiting234:
Firmware version then. Picky, picky, PICKY! :P
[Epic 4G General] shane6374:
This looks like a good place to post. I need a volunteer on CM9 to help me test a theme. No n00bs as I'm not 100% sure this will work since I no longer have an epic to test on. My main issue is with the update-script since I haven't been around pretty much since mtd hit.

Thanks
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I have no commitment to my CM9 setup yet so I will test it for you.