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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cyber Akuma:
I doubt it matters but, I have an Evo 3D.

Lots of articles out there on Antivirus apps for phones and their (mostly personal blogs) opinions on them.

Thing is, I am not too worried about viruses, I mostly just install apps from the Google or Amazon appstore, and sometimes sideload from XDA, so my vector for viruses is pretty small.

I am more interested in remote access to find my phone if it gets lost and stolen, and I figured since many antivirus apps now support this feature too, I might as well get both in one package (although I am usually weary of "Jack of all trades, master of none").

So yeah, not hard to see that Lookout and Avast are the two most popular. While I don't care about the other features that Lookout gives you such as phishing protection, backing up contacts (Dosen't Google already do this with your G-mail account?) and call history, etc. It does have one feature I do care about.... remote lock. I wouldn't mind buying Lookout... but you cannot, its a monthly (or yearly) fee instead.

I don't mind paying for the best (although $3 a month for a phone seems kinda excessive for me) but I don't know what the "best" is, especially since everybody grades them on their antivirus features while its the lost/stolen phone features that I care about. Avast has nearly all of Lookout's features (at least the ones I care about) for free though, except for the recently added "Signal Flare" feature that I thought was a pretty good idea.

Which would you recommend if I purely care about the phone tracking features and the security is just a bonus?

P.S. Is there any way Avast can be remotely controlled through some PC client or web interface instead of SMS?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cyber Akuma:
Also, any idea if once I root my phone, I can reinstall Avast with superuser permissions?

I read that Avast can survive even a hard reset if installed on a rooted device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SikkNazty:
The only "security" app anyone should ever invest in is Cerberus Anti Theft. Nuff said.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rakijaman:
Can survive only avast anti theft but not avast anti virus

Sent from my GT-S5660

---------- Post added at 05:48 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:44 AM ----------

Yeah

http://my.avast.com

But you need avast anti theft

After instal anti theft you can remove avast anti virus and instal other av protection. Avast anti theft still will be there in system partition to protect your phone/remote control

Sent from my GT-S5660
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidnoid15:
look at the price

Both products have a ton of features. But with Avast you get all the "extra" features for free. With Lookout, you need to pay to get all the features. And Avast *does* have a web interface for remote control (it didn't used to, but it does now).

And yes, Avast can even survive hard resets when installed on a rooted device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazee:
If Avast is anything like the PC version, you can shut down 8 out of 10 (or whatever the number is) shields, firewall, etc. with virtually no compromise. They are all over kill. You just need a file scanner that runs when an file or script is executed or copied to the device.

So on Avast for Android, can you turn off everything except Anti-Theft and the most primary/basic scanning function to minimize overhead and battery usage?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shiboby:
Does anyone know if avast anti theft features can be removed by doing a factory reset? I know cerberus can still wipe the phone as long as another rom isn't installed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaHBeR:
No they cannot be removed even with a factory rest if you have installed the Root version of Avast Anti Theft. This version goes in your system partition and is not deleted in a factory reset.

But if the ROM is changed or a Nandroid backup is restored which does not have your Avast Anti Theft installed then all features and control is lost.

Regards,

RaHBeR
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Antioch18:
Hi guys. I picked up a Sony Xperia SX (It comes with Android 4.0.4) a week ago and have been happy with it except for the battery life; it's not quite as good as my old Nexus One.

I've been looking at the battery usage stats and things seem ok except for "Android System." This collection of tasks takes up a LOT of battery and I have no idea why. Does anyone know?

I've turned off all my Google Account syncing and removed some of the pre-installed bloatware (for example, McAfee AntiVirus, but for some reason this still appears under Android System - does that mean it's not uninstalled? If so, is there some way to get into the system and actually remove this process?). The screenshots below are for a full days worth of very light usage: a few text messages, browsed one web page for a few minutes, and a very short phone call.

Are there any apps I can install that track battery/CPU/activity usage per process so I can zero in on what is keeping the device awake so much?

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it!

Edit: The attachments don't seem to be showing up, so here are some direct links:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Antioch18:
Friendly evening bump. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] armandocorti:
Android system

try changing your kernnel
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Antioch18:
Unless someone's made a build for this device, I have no idea how to do that. :\
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChipJapan:
I have the same phone and same problem.

Have you rooted it?

If so you can use a root uninstaller to get rid of the bloatware

I installed juice defender yesterday and there seems to be a slight improvement.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidlover123:
Anybody here tried wild blood???

Is it working on tab 2?any problem with it???
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tapan15in:
Yes it is working perfectly good no problems...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
Hi

Why is my homescreen updating or rewritten so often? Have realy gone through my widget settings but it still looks like a memory problem to me.

Please what can i do about it?

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivas95:
Search for something called 'Pimp my rom' on XDA. Flash that and in aroma select keep launcher in memory. :)

Otherwise stop clearing ram. :P
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
Sorry to say that i have not yet rooted or modified my device. So i guess i have to live with it and hope that JB is removing this ****ty behavior.

Can you (or someone else) tell me why this is happening... is it low memory or what? It happens just out of the blue, it does not do this every time with one condition some time it does and some time it does not. Almost kind of a random behavior.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srivas95:
Do you often clear the ram from the task manager? This causes the launcher to be cleared as well and it'll have to redraw every time you press home. Just restart the phone and don't clear memory so much from the default Task manager. It should solve your problem.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
No i never use it because my thought was that this is managed automatically...

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
I've noticed that it is just my fancy Widgets and folder organizer that is rewritten sometimes. My facebook icon does not.

Is thoose two badly made then or what?

Skickat från min GT-I9300 via Tapatalk 2
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] rocktonic:
hoping somebody can help me with this problem... with my dinc2, when i plug it into my mac, it charges but nothing else. the mac doesn't seem to recognize anything has been plugged into it and the phone doesn't seem to recognize it's been plugged into a mac. no prompt for connection type, nothing. i set the default connection to mass storage, i've reflashed from cm7.2 to stock, nothing seems to get the connection working properly. is there a chance the usb port on the phone has broken in a way that still allows it to charge but not to transfer data?

thanks for any advice!
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] adammwhiles:
It could be the port...only reason I say this is that when my port was going bad I would plug it into my pc and windows would say unrecognized USB device and I couldn't see it as a drive.

Was is working before? Have you changed anything since the last time it worked? Have you tried on a windows pc?

If it is the port you can grab one off eBay for under ten dollars.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] rocktonic:
it was working last time i used it, which was in august. it just sat around since then. i have a windows boot on my mac, i tried it in there with similar results. it at least acknowledged that it found a device but it couldn't load the drivers. trying to load them manually was a no go, for whatever reason windows wouldn't let me select the one i downloaded. as in the button to select a file was grayed out. i'm not a superuser with windows. or mac or android apparently :(
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] brymaster5000:
If you don't have another computer or USB and all you want to do is transfer files...you could always use something like dropbox or an ftp app.

Sent from my ViperDinc
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] rocktonic:
i'm actually trying to repurpose it to use as a lojack for my car with cerberus. i have a headunit that has a rear usb input and would play music from it, if it would work as mass storage.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] EVoorhees:
Wow, that is a really good idea for it... Anyways, since I don't drive.... It may be the port like someone said above, or just the cable that was used. If you have tried different cables on different computers, than you might have a dead port that can only charge.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] rocktonic:
thanks! here i thought it would be easy too. i did try several cables and two computers. rats. i really thought it would be strange for the port to be able to charge though and not transfer data. oh well.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] jgfan1972:
My DInc did the same thing. It started not being able to transfer data, and eventually quit charging. Replacing the port is a simple 5-10 minute job. And like another poster said can be had for about 10.00 on ebay.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Truckin'Ain't4Sissies:
They're cheap enough to carry around a spare :D

-Truckin-
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] rocktonic:
yeah i ordered a new one. should be here in a few days. thanks for the help guys!
[Android General] Mahesh89:
If Sony really produces an Xperia Nexus like this it would be awesome :D:cowboy::laugh::good:
[Android General] TheChaoticLlama:
That looks soo ****ing sexy.
[Android General] freesoul27:
I want this to be next nexus device.
[Android General] jacklebott:
I think sony should base it on the Xperia Play :P
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] eMZi0767:
Hello, I've got a question.

I want to root my stock Xperia S. However Bin4ry's method has failed and now adb and vibrations aren't working, so I had to reflash rom (just system, no wiping etc) :crying: . So I decided to root it manually (push su and Superuser.apk to respectively /system/bin and /system/app). Will it work? Unlocking bootloader IS an option if it is required, however I don't want to downgrade to gingerbread.

Thanks for replies.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ben36:
Well just unlock the bootloader and fastboot an auto rooting kernel
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] eMZi0767:
Thanks

Thanks. I am busy right now, so could you please link one ?

EDIT: Found one
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jthrift:
I've noticed through my tapatalk application I am only able to post in the General Threads but not development threads. Its odd that I can start a new post within general but am unable to reply or ask questions in both the development threads on all posts.

Can anyone assist me with this? I've tried searching for an answer to mo avail so... please help.

@jthrift

Sent from a rocket ship called earth.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] The Root:
You don't have enough posts to post anywhere else. It's a rule to prevent n00bs from creating threads in the dev section that cause devs to lose their minds and k0nane to post the nyancat song until a mod shuts the thread down.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jthrift:
Haha, alright then. I see. I normally just go with the flow, but today I had some input about a rom and no dice. All is well now though. I think that this post put me over the counter and allowed me to reply within a thread in dev.

Thanks for the ultra speedy reply.

Sent from a rocket ship called earth.
[RAZR i General] pOOBAH1973:
Enjoy!

http://sourceforge.net/motorola/razr-i/home/RAZR i/
[RAZR i General] The Jones:
More?
[RAZR i General] pOOBAH1973:
Didn't find the chocolate sprinkles?
[RAZR i General] mattlgroff:
I couldn't find sprinkles but I am repo syncing vanilla android ICS now... will take a few hours.

EDIT: Source is finished... but the kernel source is corrupted upon download.
[RAZR i General] freak4dell:
Hopefully it was just a bad download, or if not, hopefully Motorola reuploads it soon. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with this phone.
[RAZR i General] mattlgroff:
Happened to another developer as well. I have reported the issue to Motorola and hopefully they will fix it. The MD5's matched on all the mirrors I tried to the source, they simply uploaded a corrupt zip to all of the mirrors.
[RAZR i General] JackyJack:
This phone looks incredibly open !

I'm gonna buy one for sure I already love it !
[RAZR i General] farsanx:
Sure! It will be hard to choose between new LG Nexus and this one....
[RAZR i General] freak4dell:
Very easy choice for me...the LG Nexus is too big.
[RAZR i General] cbanbury:
Are you sure it's corrupt? Seems to untar fine on linux...
[RAZR i General] tags07:
Looks like Motorola fixed the kernel sources now. It works fine now.
[RAZR i General] mattlgroff:
They fixed it about an hour ago :D
[RAZR i General] turl1:
I wondered how different was it from mainline kernel, given that it's x86; after answering my own question I uploaded the the kernel release to my GitHub, in case it's more convenient to anyone. It's basically v3.0.8 tag + the Motorola release unpacked on top.

https://github.com/turl/linux-razr-i

I don't currently own a RAZR i so don't expect to see me much around here in the future. The phone does certainly look like a good device to hack on, however. If only I had unlimited monies like those guys on "troll science" :p
[RAZR i General] wozn:
Thanks for your work turl1
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike2k4u:
Hello and sorry ahead if its a copy I couldn't find the info I was looking for by searching the site,so here it is

I'm currently running i9100XXLF2

And I wish to get the official update for jb 4.1.1

My Samsung app on PC and the check for update on my phone do not find anything new I know there is a polish area update (Europe as I got it)

I live in Israel and wonder if I get my phone broken by updating the wrong version,should I wait for official international update or I can use the polish one?

Any info or help will be appriciated

Thanks ahead
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samydroid:
Are you running I9100XXLF2 or I9300XXLF2? If you're asking for flashing Polish jb rom on your S2 then you're definitely going to break it!

If you have international S3 i.e. GT-I9300 then flashing polish version won't break your device. But since you're confused about it that's why I'd advise you to wait for a week or so because Samsung has started rolling out JB updates and your country might get it soon.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike2k4u:
Its GT-I9300XXLF2 thanks for the info ill wait then because I want it to be the official samsung update
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uckons:
so far as your SGS3 is international you can use Poland version, i've been use it, i'm from indonesia and my SGS3 flashed by poland version, all looks good, but i don't know why the stock music player doesn't recognize my music folder on external SDCard.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike2k4u:
I had similar problem with nightly on sgs2 I did reset to the phone and it worked good afterwards try many regarding the music to the phone and let the player find them again

First try recopying then reset depends on u

Hope it helps
[Gen9, Gen10 General] cajl:
http://update.archos.com/9/gen9/gen9_4.0.24/firmware_archos_it4.aos

Version 4.0.24 - October 10th, 2012

Android: IceCream Sandwich 4.0.4 version

Media Center: network indexing on network shortcut menu (+), network shortcuts creation is proposed on network share directory long press

Media Center: new simplified Movie/TV Shows/All Video views

Media Center Video: new video information view with backdrop display and chooser (click on backdrop to change it)

Media Center Video: poster can be changed by clicking on it in the video Information view

Video Scraper: faster media information retrieval process. Note that in the migration process, all your video scraper information will be lost.

Subtitles: ability to download and save subtitles for network shares

Media Center: add video search

Media Center Music: Album art swipe gesture support

Remote control: control your tablet with your TV remote through HDMI on TV compatible hardware (directional pad, multimedia and color TV remote keys)

Archos Remote: support of remote touch pad

Wi-Fi: new more robust driver

Media Center Video: fix audio desync for some MPEG4/AVI files

Media Center Video: fix MPEG PS/VOB audio track selection

Media Center Video: fix UPNP playback of large files (>4GB)

Media Center Video: fix seeking in some TS files

Media Center Video: fix playing certain MKV files

Media Center Video: fix playing certain H264 files

Media Center Video: improve DVD/VOB playback in case there are IFO files present

Media Center Video: add support for MPL2 subtitle format

Media Center Video: improve playback of H264/AAC TS files
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
Hi !

Thanks Cajl !

I'll root the new version soon ! ... I hope to be ready even tonight !

Good luck ! :good:
[Gen9, Gen10 General] sheepytoo:
oh bugger !!!!!

it seems there may be a problem, both myself and my partners son tried to update, him with the system update and myself downloading the update from the Archos website.......... we are both hung on boot !! any ideas guys ???:(
[Gen9, Gen10 General] Avenger 2.0:
Same problem. Is there some kind of recovery? Have never had sde or root.
[Gen9, Gen10 General] sheepytoo:
i have tried to get into the recovery menu but all i get is a blank screen ,...............not good
[Gen9, Gen10 General] TcT:
Mine also hangs at the boot logo. Didn't have SDE or alternative firmwares installed. Just got it friday.
[Gen9, Gen10 General] AlexLE79:
Please, please, please wait.

The update is done in 3 steps. The second step only shows the Archos logo but seems to need up to 5 minutes or more before finishing.

Don't restart, shut down or remove usb cable (this is only for have enough power while updating).

From the update process:

-- Restarts

-- Update Process Step one (Archos start logo and progress bar) ... Around 2 minutes on my device

-- Update Process Step two (Archos start logo only) ... Please Wait the device is updating! Took 2 min on my device.

-- Update Process Step three (Optimizing App X from Y applications) ... Around 3 minutes on my device with 100 apps installed.

-- Login Screen
[Gen9, Gen10 General] sheepytoo:
my partners son waited 40 minutes i left mine an hour before trying to get the recovery menu up. but no luck there.

i have been on the archos lounge french site and they're are people on there with the same problem:(
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
Hi !

I managed to successfully install !

I was on 4.0.7 Root version before ! ( also I have SDE un-official installed ! )

Go to SDE -> Reformat System -> Reformat Device -> copied 4.0.24.aos file on device and reboot ! took about five minutes before they opened !

Now I'm on Root version 4.0.24 !

Good luck ! :good:
[Gen9, Gen10 General] sheepytoo:
hi there surdu_petru, i'm afraid that can't be done .

device will not boot, also when i try to get into recovery (power on/volume+ ) all i get is a blank screen on both of our tablets

it seems i'm stuck....... any thoughts ?

---------- Post added at 09:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:27 PM ----------

surdu_petru sorry for incomplete information both are 101 g9 on 4.0,7 factory rom
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
sorry ...I do not understand "surdu_petru sorry for incomplete information both are 101 g9 on 4.0,7 factory rom" ... what do you mean ?

...but you can try to reset your device and than to return on SDE !

so :

press and keep about 10 seconds ( or more 11, 12 - perfect ten ) power button - now release power and - press & keep volume down and also press and keep power button until the interface SDE will appear ! Good luck !:good:
[Gen9, Gen10 General] BagbKa:
I have the same problem. Hang on boot (after installing waiting about 20 min and nothing), no sde, no recovery, just green led and dark screen. Reset tablet with power key 30 times
[Gen9, Gen10 General] AlexLE79:
I have the "Archos 101 G9 Turbo 16GB, 1.2GHz" version and I updated from 4.0.7 to 4.0.24. My Archos is NOT rooted, deodexed or SEDed or anything else.

So to get any hint there need to be more information.

1) What Archos device do you have.

2) From which system do you update? (Normaly 4.0.7 stock, unmodfied, ...).

3) SEDed/rooted or not?

4) How you try to install the upgrade? (From System settings, from PopUp question, uploading file from pc)

5) What did you do?

6) Which visual steps happened while upgrading?

I think thats needed to get a direction waht maybe failed.
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
i !

Same here , I have the same device , but I was on Stock 4.0.7 Root version ...and also I do not have installed official SDE !

...just reformat device on un-official SDE and applay the new update 4.0.24 ...and all seems to be well ! :good:
[Gen9, Gen10 General] TcT:
I have an 101 G9 Turbo 8GB 1.5 Ghz. Updated from 4.0.7 to 4.0.24 via on device archos update. Didn't had any custom rom or SDE installed. Hangs in 2nd upgrade step (reboot after initial reboot with progress).
[Gen9, Gen10 General] Extreme_One:
Curiously I'm not being offered the latest update from system settings Archos updater (101 G9 Turbo - on stock 4.0.7) - even if I manually view 'System Updates'

Perhaps, because of issues others are experiencing, Archos have pulled this firmware so the auto-update feature is no longer available?

I think I'm happier waiting until I'm advised of an update.

Also, I can't resist commenting on how this is the strangest version number yet!
[Gen9, Gen10 General] surdu_petru:
HI !

I think the problem is the following :

- all those who have installed the official version SDE must first reformat the device before applay the new update 4.0.24 !
[Gen9, Gen10 General] BagbKa:
Device 101 Turbo 1.5 1024ram

Official SDE activated

From original 4.0.7

Flash In the recovery with reformat device

Flashing complete as always with progress bar. Done. And thats all. Game over.
[Gen9, Gen10 General] sheepytoo:
i have two 101g9 both on stock 4.0.7 firmware

one was updated from system update, the other was with a download from official Archos web site.

after going through the update possess neither will boot past the initial boot screen

after leaving them for 40 and 60 minutes respectively i tried to do a hard reset and try to do a recovery.

however it will not go into recovery all that happens is that i have a totally blank screen.

and as i say t6hats on two devices that got the update from different places

:mad:
[Gen9, Gen10 General] AlexLE79:
The update is only checked every 24h, maybe the last check isn't 24h ago and your last check was before officialy releasing 4.0.24

---------- Post added at 11:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:11 PM ----------

That seems to be not the problem:

- BagbKa have the original SDE and reformated

- sheepytoo was on stock 4.0.7

Both with the error.