yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trinnity66:
This is a harsh response to what I believe is a very valid question by the original poster. People ask questions because they have concerns or simply do not know the answer. They do not need people like you having a shot at them simply because they asked a question.

To the OP: The people who put together the custom ROMs you find on XDA are mostly genuine people looking to share their knowledge and experience by building ROMs that make our devices operate faster, smoother, and feature enhanced. They are not out to load them with malware to scam you and suck your credit and identity dry.

Having said that however, it could be done if the wrong person or group of people starting building ROMs with that purpose.

I personally will only ever download a ROM from a builder or group of builders who have a credible reputation here in the Forums to be sure.

I hope that eases you mind a little.

Take care.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erpurohit:
I didnt meant to be harsh... Sry if it feel so...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Supermannypr:
Thankyou.

I have always had that question. I have to agree on only installing roms from devs with a credible reputation, at the end of the day this is what I would use for everything and I need to feel ane be sure I am secure. Thanks for your answere, I can keep my peace in that aspect.

Thanks to all the devs that dedicate there time with their amazing Rom projects!! Keep up the great work!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] O-T:
Allmost every "custom" roms include a rooted kernel and CWM recovery. That will give anyone who can do "adb" operations the option to reboot your phone to recovery. Sim,pattern or pin lock doesn't matter as long as phone is in their hand.

Battery off - reboot to CWM, connect usb, and everything on your phone is available to copy to computer using adb commands.

The only way to secure custom ROM run by a rooted kernel with CWM is to ENCRYPT all files on your phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burakgon:
As a ROM Maker, I always care about every permissions for every single file. I everytime match everything true permissions but not 777 even if I fail 999 times.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlwaysDroid:
Think about this. Someone finds your phone, you had lost it. Turns off pulls out sim so you can't find its location, reboots into recovery, connects to computer, then adb shell and do the command dd /data. Dumps all the data into a .IMG file. Repacks it into an Odin flash able tar. Flashes to his phone. Has all your info.

I wouldn't worry though, most people know nothing of this. I don't worry :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] groksteady:
O-T and AlwaysDroid, you guys are absolutely right, but the OP still raises a legitimate concern. There's lots of other threat assessments that will rule out physical access. It's a matter of practicality. In some places, traditional martial arts self-defense training can help or save you, in others most clashes do not involve hand-to-hand fighting.

I'm typing on xda app, do forgive Mr for forgetting names, but others here are right, too. A developer's reputation goes a long way, and these teams also put their code out for others to see. I can't tell what's inside, but rely on the fact that others look at it to learn, compile themselves, cherry pick, etc. Also, I do prefer when devs post MD5s.

Back to OP, which primarily asked about data leakage, is there an android equivalent of Little Snitch on Macs?

sent from a telephonic device
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamXD:
Yes they are

use basic custom roms if u wish. . which r stable..

dont prefer nightlies/ alpha if u r a starter

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Nobody like frequent force closes.. do they ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Supermannypr:
Wow! I had no idea that someone could do that... I know that this has a very slim chance of happening, but is there anyway to avoid it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrkraver:
Yes, they are.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AJ:
since the source is open to all

and anyone could examine it

i would say they are somewhat secure
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlwaysDroid:
Not really :/ almost no one can do this, I mean unless the guy that finds your phone is a resident here or at roots wiki and even then, I doubt it. The thing is, as long as your rooted, your data just isn't as safe. You couldn't do that on stock, cause its not rooted. The only thing I could imagine for the future would be a recovery that asks for a pin code before allowing you to enter. Its unavoidable, and really nothing to worry about. Just turn off USB debugging when not in use, use dev options to only give apps root access and not adb (not sure if it stops it in recovery as well) and don't lose your phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] de333:
Apropos encryption

Is there a way to enable file system encryption in Cyanogenmod 7?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -star-:
AW: Are Custom Roms secure?

System encryption is a 4.1 feature; not with cm 7

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scarookie:
Well, Samsung stopped updating this capable phone which is similar to the nexus s(they claimed it can't handle ICS or jb while nexus s gets the latest firmware) Custom ROMs especially jb ROMs make your phone feel new unlike stock which are outdated. Just flash one from a credible developer & u won't regret
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eirwn:
There is no motive from the developers. What should they get? Your FB passwords? And sell them to your girlfriend?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasuy19:
Agree

I am 100% agree, with the your comment bro. We should install the ROM from recognized and good reputed developers. :)

:good::good::good::good:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 16kzx81:
Really? So if there was - just for the sake of argument - a backdoor or a keylogger on your phone that was placed there by a dev, you're saying they would get nothing out of that? Is a bit naive dont you think?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garygrubb:
They can take your credit card info and bank account credentials. There are bigger things than your imaginary girlfriend.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spyhopping:
Bankng info hacked shortly after installing custom ROM

I used Franken Kernel, TWRP, Lineage and also tested CM. Thankfully my bank put a stop to it very quickly. If you want security don't do this your banking. cloud documents, and social media will be vulnerable. From now on I'm locked down to factory settings.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMysticWizard1:
I've been curious about that idea of ROM Makers including key loggers and such.

I have recently noticed random text messages from Uber to confirm my account. Thinking more in depth about it, I have had a few times when I try to log into my banking app and they tell me I must reset my password because I've have too many failed attempts. And the real kicker. Someone used my Starbucks login in another state the other day. When I called Starbucks to report unauthorized activity she said she could see on her end someone logged in on a phone and made a purchase in person using my account name and password.

Really strange and kind of suspicious that this could all be unrelated, seeing I switched to a new ROM about 2 months ago. It is a ROM from a known group of developers that I had downloaded and installed off this forum.

Really makes me wonder...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kkakckk:
Hey guys

So I just got LtE network in my phone just about a week ago and it was pretty fast but it was draining my battery. So I went and switch back to gsm/hspa and guess what I can't switch back to lte......

Btw I am on sky Ics ROM and have been trying to read the forum but I can't seem to find a fix, any suggestion?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jahcure:
Try *#2263# select lte then menu key end then *#2263# select automatic then end and u should be good . Try this without sin in phone

Sent from my Skyrocket
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kkakckk:
Thank You so much
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jahcure:
Ur welcome

Sent from my Skyrocket
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mymusicathome:
So jealous... I want LTE in my area (Edmonton) :)

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727R running SKY-ICS 4.2F6-2.7
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jahcure:
once you go LTE is very hard to go back
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Deevusone:
I upgraded to CM9 stable version yesterday, and I don't have LTE

I went to *#*#4636#*#* and selected LTE/GSM auto (PRL), and I added the Rogers LTE APN settings.

i also have baseband I727RUXLF3

help please.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Alexandre-P:
Do you have an LTE SIM card from Rogers? If you don't have an LTE SIM card, you won't register to LTE network, even if you add the APN in the list.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Deevusone:
Yes, i do have an LTE sim card. Anyways, I deleted the LTE APN settings and created a new one, and just entered ltemobile.apn under the APN field. I left the MMSC address and APN type blank, and i was connected to LTE (4G).
[General Questions and Answers] Nakulkhanna:
Guys I have Sony Xperia go which I bought recently... Few days ago I noticed that my phone screen was turning on again n again by its self.. Now it has started to happen every now and then, the screen turns on by its self, just like when we hit the power button n it shows lock screen n turns off when we do nthn.. But after 15-20 secs it turns on again.. I dont know if it happens in my pocket also or not..

So guys do you have any idea what's this problem and how to fix it?? Plz help me out..
[General Questions and Answers] lreyes:
Its a app that's making it do that....do you have any apps that put ads in your notifaction bar or any crappy looking apps with no put in design? Then uninstall them.
[General Questions and Answers] Nakulkhanna:
Okayy I'll check it out... Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] sssmokeee:
Specially disable weather apps or notifications and chk if it happens again. I had the same problem and turning off auto time & date update solved my problem .. weird !! :silly:
[General Questions and Answers] Nakulkhanna:
Found the problem... It was an ad app ' top offers ' which was putting ads in notification bar.. It didn't know that was the thing causing the screen to turn on.. But now its fixed.

Installed the 'air push detector' and found the ad apps n uninstalled them :D hopefully it won't happen again.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] vinnyjr:
Vinny
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ronin4740:
Maybe there's caring and help available for you in the Rezound forum?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nastyneon2001:
I bought it.for 60 and it barley had any battery life,,,,so i charged it,,,,after fully charged i unplugged.it and it thill had the chargin symbol in the battery,,,,so i turned it off,,,,now nothin wont even light up and i tried volume up.and power key still nothin,,,,,anyone got anything?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C4SCA:
it happen the same to me, i charged my phone and i turned it off to refresh some ram. and now it doesnt turn on, no lights no vibration!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qccoles:
New charger, new battery, problem solved.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C4SCA:
NO NO NO AND NO. it tried my nexus friend's battery and mine didnt turned on
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nastyneon2001:
Well what i did was took the battery out and held the power button and put the battery back in and there yu go,,,,i just got tired of havin to do it everytime it.died or whatever so i went to sprint and they gave me.the evo
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Deepsword:
I installed Chainfire3D and now it's stuck in the boot up google screen and I can't even enter recovery mode since no buttons work on the bootloader mode for some reason. Is there anyway I can even get to the recovery mode without going to the bootloader?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Deepsword:
Got myself into the ClockworkMod recovery mode via connecting my phone into the Nexus Toolkit. However the power button doesn't work for some odd reason so I can't select any of the option so it's pretty much useless. I tried re-flashing/restoring my phone with the Toolkit but the USB debugging is disabled. Sigh... talk about bad luck..
[Touch HD General] TarekElsakka:
Hey there,

A close friend of mine has a HTC Touch HD and he never updated its ROM or anything because, well, he's not really familiar with the whole Windows Mobile or HTC world in general, and neither am I.

It has recently been freezing way too much and I believe that's because it has never been formatted, updated, or anything. Therefore, I borrowed the device from him in an attempt to try and fix that.

I'm familiar with Nokias, BlackBerries, iPhones, and have actually owned a couple of HTC phones but for a short while and never really bothered with backing up, updating, or such.

Can someone please guide me on what to do? I believe it has Windows Mobile 6.1 and the latest is 6.5 (according to research I've done). There is also something called ROM which is the OS, I suppose, that you install on the device, and I found hundreds of ROM and I don't know WHICH one to install or even HOW to install it.

I have also downloaded HTC Sync from HTC's website but it's not detecting my phone at all. Right now I downloaded Windows Mobile Device Center for Windows 7 64-bit in an attempt to connect with the device and backup or w.e.

Thank you so much in advance and please help me!
[Touch HD General] mfsr98:
Installing ROMs is eassy on XDA. There are a lot of guides! For example, go to the windows mobile ROM development and search for what you want!

Maybe this info will help you:

-a ROM is a file which contains the OS you want to install. To install a ROM, you must connect your phone to USB and use special tools (use a guide to know);

-BUT before flashing, you must have SPL, which is a bootloader unlocker so you can install any ROM you want. And you can also update your radio.

Just basic info, check the guides please!
[Touch HD General] TarekElsakka:
Thank you for your reply, mate. I swear all I've been doing is checking the guides and the FAQ and I still cannot manage to do the HSPL unlocker, unfortunately. It keeps giving me an error. I'm going to try in a couple of hours and see what I can come up with.

Can you please link me to any ROM that is WM6.5 and working fine? I really don't care what is missing from or added from it as long as it's working.
[Touch HD General] Hakim Rahman:
read the sticky, where all the guides and the rom link there
[Touch HD General] TarekElsakka:
Thank you guys very much. I read the guides in the threads (BlackSTONEhenge Hyper) and the guide on how to do the HSPL thing and it worked!

Right now I am at 80% of the WM6.5 ROM installation. Hopefully everything turns out great in the end.

By the way, all I needed to backup was the SMS messages and the contacts, and I did that on a site called Bloove. Right now I can see them on bloove.com in my account, but does any body have any idea how to restore them on the HTC device using Bloove?

Thank you very much.
[Touch HD General] mfsr98:
no idea.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ExodusC:
Hi everyone. I'm not new to Android by any means, I've been using it for several years. However, the Galaxy S3 is my first Samsung device, so it was one of the first times I've had to play around with Odin.

I've never used the Mobile Odin program, but does it support our Galaxy S3 variant? How useful is it? Does it have the functionality from normal Odin that we would need?

For example, could I keep a stock system.img on my external SD and use Mobile Odin to go back to stock from something like CM10?

Forgive my ignorance, but like I said, I'm pretty much totally new to Samsung devices.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] &roid:
Mobile Odin is awesome. Works with S3, but

not

ours. Verizon's locked bootloader prevents us from being able to use it. It otherwise is a great tool for flashing ROM's, and kernels without a computer. Back in the day on Ginberbread it also used to support modems.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tykalx:
is this possible now that the bootloader has been unlocked

if i want to mobile odin back to stock to update to the next ota

http://youtu.be/3o1zYFqmqOU
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Legato Bluesummers:
Yep. Mobile Odin has worked on our phones for a month or two now. I've used it to go back to stock once. And stock rooted once. Worked fine.

Sent from a GlaDos Baked Potato
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
For real

http://www.androidcentral.com/pooplog-review-number-one-app-number-twos

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Darkendes:
Looks pretty ****ty.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iUseJuGGZz:
Lol

Epic.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] g_ding84:
So funny. Lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
I guess if your Doctor ever asks you how your turds have been lately, you can whip out your smartphone and show him
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PanchoPlanet:
Holy sh** a crapp app!

Pp.

Sent from my ginger infused Mayan calculator.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tarellel:
How sh-itty is your phone now?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Shadow_God:
Lol....thats funny, they got an app for everything
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] enimnick009:
for modded gmail visit

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1828741

i have themed the lastest version of playstore v3.7.15 to pure black ...

it was simple to just decompile n swap some pngs n some java code n all done ..

if i got tyme frm my work will get out more differnt colored themed playstores n much more ..

to add it to ur phone follow the instructions

1.copy the apk to ur phone ..

2.using file explorer copy it to system/app..

3.before coping do a back up of ur playstore(vending.apk for gb or phonesky.apk for ics.. )

4.change the permissions to rw-r-r

5.for gb roms its vending.apk n for ics roms its phonesky.apk..

here 's the link....

http://www.mediafire.com/?g1xe7bz8d65l5h2

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if u liked my work just a little THANKS will work ... ￼￼

will continue for more latest versions
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] warface123:
nice job :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] john9:
Simple and stylish.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] wojtek267:
Watch out, we've got badass over here..
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] voetbalremco:
AAANDDD its gonee!!!!

just kidding
[LG Optimus 2x] rxjx:
Can someone give me the link where I can download the tun module for Lg optimus 2x p990 with Temasek's unofficial CM7 rom build 130, Im planning to use droidvpn and this is what I need. Thanks in advance.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] pdaman01:
Is there a possibility for getting root and CWM recovery on this device? i have achieved to get into E3 Recovery, Bootloader mode, and some other test screen.. i posted pics and a description on how to do it. i would really like to get root on this device, i can can help anyone in all ways possible.. p.m. me.

Link to video is in a text file..
[Thinkpad Tablet General] 1806:
I wait for S2109 root too...

I want buy this devise, but without root its difficult use it...

I wait for S2109 root too...

you can find on support.lenovo.com Open Source Code:

fih_uboot_0618.tar.gz 10.7MB

kernel_s2109.tar 445MB
[Thinkpad Tablet General] pdaman01:
how to obtain these files

Hey how do I find the files u are talking about? Like a link?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] pdaman01:
nevermind got em

Maybe someone can start developing on the uboot.bin and the system image to obtain some root access :)
[Thinkpad Tablet General] polakko:
Hi, I own Medion Lifetab S9512, which is a branded version of the Lenovo S2109. I am not sure what Android version is the S2109 shipped with. If it is 4.0.3 you can root it using the method from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1439429, as the method is confirmed to work with S9512. The other possibility, which works also for 4.0.4 version is to use CWM recovery. I have compiled a provisional version for S9512 and it should work also for S2109. Installation instructions and the download links are available at German site (don't worry, my posts are in English, posted under the nick of el_fuego ): http://www.android-hilfe.de/medion-lifetab-s9512-forum/278439-clockworkmod.html
[Thinkpad Tablet General] brandoramo:
WOO!!!

Awesome! thank you so much! the CWM root worked perfectly. However, the driver from the SDK folder wasn't recognized so I just used the Lenovo ADB driver that came shipped with the device and that worked just fine. Took me about 20 minutes to complete - that includes resolving the driver issue.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] luckyjay:
Niiice

OK, so the CWM method worked great on my S2109. I had the 4.0.4 update.

Two things:

1) The Lenovo drivers are at Lenovo's support website. Just search for "adb interface driver"

2) In step 3 of el_fuego's instructions, he says "add following to both the [Google.NTx86] and [Google.NTamd64] sections:", add this instead:

;Lenovo S2109
%SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_17EF&PID_748B&REV_0100
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_17EF&PID_748C&MI_02
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_17EF&PID_748C&REV_0216&MI_02
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_17EF&PID_748C&MI_00
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_17EF&PID_748C&REV_0216&MI_00
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_17EF&PID_74CC&REV_0216
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Jittery Jim:
How easy is this root? I'm not really familiar with the process and don't want to brick the device, which I'm concerned about as I don't quite understand the directions.