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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Noto_81:
I think that my Hotmail and/or S4 has been hacked. Last Monday I received word that a strange email was sent from my account with a link to skin care or something like that, so I changed my PW. On Friday, I received an email from Outlook that says my account has been compromised and I should change my PW, so I did, again. Sunday night, I'm told that another strange email was from my Hotmail account, so I change my PW again, 3rd time within a week. Each PW wasn't overly hard, but always contained both letters and numbers, so not super easy to crack I wouldn't think. So I started to try to track down the source, I removed email accounts from my phone on Monday (I have the stock email app set to check 2 accounts and have yet to have an issue with the second account). I also noticed in the Hotmail access log that my account was being accessed in 2 other states while all this was going on. So, all was going well and today I set up the email app with my Hotmail account info so I could check my email from my phone. Within 2 hours, my account was accessed from out of state again, but as far as I can tell nothing was sent.

I've read that its pretty simple to send out an email using an account that you don't have access too directly, just set up to use as a sent address, nothing shows up in my sent items so that would support this possibility. It's the account access log that has me worried, they still seem to be accessing my account. I've had AVG on my phone for quite some time now and that doesn't pick up anything, tonight I DL'd Lookout and that also came back as a clear scan.

My phone is still stock, would a factory reset fix the issue? I'd question whether or not a reset would get rid of the keylogger/spyware/malware or whatever is creating this problem. What about rooting and flashing a rom? What else could be causing the issue? I'm afraid that if I close the Hotmail account that there would still be something on my phone that's giving others access to my accounts.

Sorry for the book, T.I.A.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Oishikatta:
I'm not familiar with Hotmail, but many email providers allow 2-factor authentication. I would definitely suggest using that if it is available to you.

Check the IP addresses on the accesses from other states - do they match your ISP? Sometimes ISPs give out addresses that show up as different states. If Hotmail doesn't show ISP, you can put the IPs into the search at http://bgp.he.net/ and it should show you the ISP.

It is indeed trivial to send email appearing to be 'from' any account without access/relation at all to the account. Unfortunately spammers often take advantage of that and there's not really anything you can do about it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Noto_81:
I did activate the 2 step authentication.

I did track the IP address and then Googled what came back from the search (Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon Wireless) and it appears that this is tied with VZ and the related towers. It just seems weird that at one point it says its being accessed in Minn and the next time in Colo but I'm in So Dak and haven't traveled far from home since all this started.

Regardless, last night another email was sent with my email being used as the sending address. I've decided to close my Hotmail account because of all the hassle. I'm still looking for some advise on whether or not I need to reset the phone or possibly root and flash my phone in order to get rid of anything that might be stored on my phone. Is it worth worrying about or should I just move on?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Oishikatta:
Can you PM me the full headers of the email that was sent? I should be able to see in them how it's being done -- whether through your actual account, hotmail's servers, or just forging your email as the 'from' address.

You'd have to get them from the person who received it... in gmail it's as simple as clicking the little arrow and then 'Show Original', but the method to show headers will vary by client/provider, should be easy to google though.

About the IPs, it's not unheard of to be assigned IPs from a state or two over. It's obviously not an ideal configuration, no idea why it happens, but it has happened to me several times in the past. But we can't say they were your phone unless you've been keeping track of what external IPs your phone has been getting...

It is a really good sign that they're not some weird server host in russia, etc... though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mike.s:
It's very common for spammers to forge a sender's email address - they can easily send spam which is "from" you without having any access to your account whatsoever. Some of that spam will get bounced back to you based on the use of your address, not because it was actually sent from your account. The bounced spam should include the headers it was originally sent with, from which one can tell where it really originated.

Are you sure the "out of state" access isn't just legitimate access to the account from your phone? IP addresses are logical, not physical. The geoIP databases which try to map addresses to locations aren't perfect, and your cell carrier may in fact be associating your phone with an IP mapped to a different state.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] arpitsinghi:
Hi, can any body tell me whether lucid logic gamextend optimization is there in note 3 neo also? It is available in note 3 incase you are not avare. Also can some one let me know whether this could be ported to note 2?

another interesting feature found in galaxy s5 is the ultra power saving mode which turn everything in black and white any ROM's available for note 2?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] leojab:
Wow.. good news.. I did not know it is already in Note 3.. How can we confirm it..

Would also love the Ultra power saving for S5 !!
[Sailfish General] Sous_USSR:
Right now I am experiencing battery issues with my current iphone, as well as getting really bored of it. That is why I wanted to change to android (try out what has been done so far). But then I saw the news about Jolla and considered it as a good choice either (I was using nokia n9 before iphone abd liked MeeGo a lot). The compability layer with android also was a feature making Jolla look as a good alternative. But the processor in Jolla looks a bit old (I don't care a lot about pixels, but performance is important). Also I have lack of understanding, whether the features of os like ART and "project butter", which makes android much smoother, are available for Jolla. I am very much interested in cool features like other halves and alien-dalvik, but can't understand whether the dual-core processor is enough to run android well. At the moment I see two alternatives for myself which are Nexus 5 (benefits: camera, resolution, latest android features, quad-core processor) and Jolla (sailfish OS is a huge benefit itself, disposable battery and the other half concept, the nerdy "linux feel", sd-card). Also the Jolla phone is not yet available in my country officially (they promise to enter Russian market by summer), but I can predict that the price for these two devices won't be significantly different. Can the users please leave comments on Jolla's performance? E.g. in high-quality games or apps which use a lot of processor's resources. I would like an advice on which device to your mind is better.
[Sailfish General] Whippler:
you are talking about running android on jolla hardware. i assume you mean just apps and not the OS -.-'. Sailfish runs really smooth on Jolla, and Alien-dalvik is plenty efficient to run android apps on this hardware. ofc some demanding games might not run all that well, but who cares, its a phone not a psp. Also android "project butter" just bogged it down and made it worse for me.. the update after that actually made android a lot slimmer. Also they are android OS updates so it doesnt matter for Jolla at all. Jolla runs just the alien dalvik virtual machine to run android apps, not android os.

Also i'm not going to buy android device anytime soon, it's just a crappy google bloated OS, that needs expensive high end hardware to run smoothly.
[Sailfish General] GuestK00192:
probably one of the most ignorant post this month on XDA. Congratz !
[Sailfish General] Cream$ickleHJ:
Android OS>Whippler
[Sailfish General] Daycrawler:
What?! You must be kidding and if not get some education. Android's use of resources is poor to say the least. It's a virtual machine running on a kernel coded in a different language. Remember when you had a dual core 1.5GHz processor in a PC? You could do everything, everything was fluid. Android launches a virtual Java on Linux and is SLOW. Check out Windows phones. Games work smooth on 2 cores @ 1GHz. On the same hardware on Android these same games can be unplayable.

That's why Google pushes science-fiction hardware in phones. To run at least smooth.
[Sailfish General] nisu4717:
Totaly agree with u..
[Sailfish General] pocthird:
the advantage of android is that you have the choice (custom roms if manufacturer doesn't update your phone , launchers , zram, install apps to sd or use link2sd ...) the other thing is that i have a galaxy mini 2 (cheap low en 512ram 800mhz) i play most wanted in high quality, gangstar vegas, shadow gun,vice city and you say android is not optimized ? for mini 2 there is even cm11 android 4.4 working smooth eventhough samsung didn't update the phone , and google doesn't push any hardware as it is oems who do it and with kitkat 4.4 android can now run with lower ram than 512 , about sd cards just by anything but nexus

,the architecture of android doesn't make any problem of performance so stop talking about kernel coded with different language as i even played vice city on lg l3 with 380mb of ram and 800mhz , the only recource consuming issue on android is widgets , lockscreen widgets and all the usable freedom but thats what makes it cool , android makes 70% of smartphone population , if it is crap why is it so loved , btw in your pc you dont a have a simple arm architecture which makes pc 1gh mire powerful on a pc , for windows phone it has 2 games on its store .
[Sailfish General] carepack:
because android was long time the only really alternative to ios maybe?
[Sailfish General] MooNWalker:
That's not the advantage of Android, that's the advantage of open source development model, something that Sailfish OS can also brag about, even more so than Google-driven and Oracle patents encumbered Android.
[Sailfish General] pocthird:
windows phone existed also , keep in mind also that android is an old project it was just bought by google , android existed before the launch of the first ios device

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sailfish , firefox os and tizen are rather cool as they are open source and most of them support android apps , but i personally love android ui , and as i told you i could run hd quality games in very low end phones with android i dont know if it will be possible with these other systems , for google bliatware cyanogen doesn't have any google product it's you who flash gapps
[Sailfish General] MooNWalker:
IMHO Sailfish OS has even more cool UI than Android. Unlike Android Sailfish doesn't rely on Java VM or frameworks, using native code instead, and so is less resource hungry than Android. Applications can be written in HTML5/Javascript/QML or in native code, with no Java pieces whatsoever, allowing those "HD quality games" possibly running even smoother (though not by much, considering they're written in NDK on Android as well). As to Google bloatware - yeah, ROMs like CyanogenMod don't have it, but even without it Android is still encumbered by Oracle patents, according to the ruling of the Federal Circuit.
[Sailfish General] pocthird:
i am ceptical , i doubt something better than android might exist , for performance native code doesn't always mean more performance as java version used by android if i am not wrong is java 6 which is optimized , for relying on frameworks it may be difficult to add functionality to the system without that , i'm getting excited for sailfish :p as it seems very androidish without android negative sides , now we have to know if android apps are running well on sailfish as its more software related because of absence of emulation (arm ) its works like wine on linux i guess
[Sailfish General] MooNWalker:
1st, there is always something better, depending on your usage, preferences, resources, etc.

2nd, while native code truly doesn't always mean better performance per se, it does generally mean lower resource consumption (no VM/JIT overhead) and lower latency, regardless of the Java version we're talking about. ART might change that in the future, but for now Sailfish runs smoother on single core 512MiB RAM Nexus One than Android ever had.

3rd, there are plenty other frameworks that are not patent encumbered. Like open source Qt that Jolla Sailfish team chose for their interface.

4th, how do you define "androidish"? As far as I can see it uses different interface navigation methods (much more gesture based and less dependent on specific location of touch), it has different architecture (much closer to "real" desktop Linux distributions), it has different APIs (HTML5/Javascript/QML and native).

5th, Android apps can run not only on ARM because Alien Dalvik doesn't work like Wine (which, BTW, can run not only on Linux). It's a VM, just like the original Android Dalvik. Except that whereas Android overall is just one giant Java stack running in Dalvik on top of Linux kernel, with even UI part being just another Android app, Alien Dalvik has to integrate with existing user space with it's own UI - correct me here someone who knows more about architecture of the Dalvik and/or Alien Dalvik.
[Sailfish General] pocthird:
androidish means beauty and freedom (plenty of apps also especialy launchers that i hope exist in sailfish) for architecture everybody knows x86 and mips are not well supported by developers there are few apps and games that support them , dont dream of running mobile apps on linux if you dont have an arm machine , emulation is just horiblly slow, correct me if i am wrong but running mer+naemo+vm is very close to android with dalvik vm (recouce consuming) :)
[Sailfish General] MooNWalker:
It is possible to get even Windows to be beautiful and there are (or were) plenty "launchers" for Windows as well. It is possible to make Windows look like Android (and vice versa). Does that make Windows Mobile "androidish"? I think not.

There are plenty x86-based (Intel Atom) Android devices out there, they are supported, they run mobile apps, they are not ARM, and they don't have to emulate anything, they just need to run a Dalvik VM. One of those machines even has a subforum on XDA - Dell Venue.
[Sailfish General] pocthird:
many apps dont support x86 just look at android x86 problems it has issues with even popular apps like terminal ide or many video editors and games , for windows phone yes it would be relatively androidish if it wasn't closed source
[Sailfish General] MooNWalker:
Ok, list those apps. And then compare that list with the list of apps that work w/o any issues. Most of the applications will work on x86 without any issues whatsoever thanks to the fact that Dalvik VM allows them to be completely independent of CPU instruction set. The only thing that needs to be dependent on CPU architecture is the underlying Linux kernel (which is already very much cross-platform), some of the system libraries like the Bionic libc, and the Dalvik VM itself (or ART). User apps need to be adapted to x86 separately only if they use NDK instead of traditional Java. I had x86 Android running on my frigging netbook and had no issues other than poor graphics performance and the awkwardness of keyboard and mouse input on a touchscreen-oriented OS.

Ah, but that's exactly what I was talking about: Android sure is more free than Windows, but Sailfish is even more free than Android. Android's code is (mostly) open source, but it's still encumbered by Oracle patents. Android's code is not developed solely by one company like Windows, but it is still mostly driven and controlled only by Google. Sailfish on the other hand is not encumbered by Java patents and is largely based on community projects like Mer. Remove the Sailfish's proprietary UI and replace it with Plasma Active or Nemo Mobile instead - and you got fully open system. In fact, the progress of porting Sailfish to other devices depends on progress of adapting Mer to those devices. In case of most common Android devices - adapting it using libhybris.
[Sailfish General] pocthird:
btw will sailfish support root apps ?
[Sailfish General] MooNWalker:
Just like any other more "traditional" Linux distro, out of the box.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigjimslade:
I'm trying to downgrade my LG G2 D802 32GB from KitKat to Jelly Bean, but I can't find the right firmware for my software version. I need the Jelly Bean firmware for a 32GB D80220b-BUO, or any others that are compatible and will not brick my phone. Does anyone know where I might be able to find such files?

Ultimately I want to use the KitKat 4.4.2 ROM from another country on my LG G2. I bought my phone in China and it doesn't have Google Services authorized on it, which makes the phone pretty crappy. Unfortunately it is already updated to KitKat and unrooted, so I need to downgrade it to Jelly Bean, then root it and then install the European ROM in order to get Google services enabled. Anyway, that's my plan, but I'm open to alternatives if you know of any.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.
[LG Optimus G Pro] Awaishashmi:
I have a problem to answer incoming calls. I miss mostly even with button.

I'm using g2 apps base Rom. On my g pro e240f.

Plz help anyone knows how to solve it. Plz
[LG Optimus G Pro] harrisnehal:
I am also facing the same problem on my OGP f240k using G2 V5 rom.

For the time being solution, i select home button to answer my calls.
[LG Optimus G Pro] stfly:
The lag induced missed calls is a known issue with JB dialer. I use this alternate answering app:

Full Screen Caller ID PRO https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androminigsm.fsci

I tested several others before settling on this. It works very well. Very rare glitches. Allows you to answer a call by pushing an onscreen button and is not resource hungry... It behaves very well, I've checked it often with wakelock detector. But remember, you have to take your time setting it up initially as you should with all apps of this nature.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mswlogo:
What a calamity of errors. Many my fault.

So I try to activate online and it fails. Doesn't say why.

Call them up and they said seems to be a problem with your SIM Card.

Now keep in mind my seal was broken. But I assume it just let loose in shipping.

I had the HTC One before this phone.

So I go to open the SMALL slot on the right assuming the small one was the SIM Card.

Nothing in there. Well no wonder they can't activate it.

Look in Box and the Card is there with SIM card missing.

Damn someone stole it, I'm thinking.

I asked can I go to store and get one, no. You'll have to send phone back (that I just put an $18.00 glass screen saver on).

So then I try my old SIM Card from HTC One. No it won't fit. So they are gonna send me another.

Hang up.

Then I thought I should see what's behind the Big Slot.

Dam there is the SIM Card. Idiot. Just never expected it to be in such a large slot, especially when HTC One wasn't.

Call Back. Still won't activate.

She says the SIM Card is activated on another line.

It was already tied to my wifes line that I used the upgrade on.

So she released it and all was good.

Just a heads up in case someone else activates on another line. I don't think anyone else on the planet would have made the other mistakes :( Long day.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] exSD:
Are you with Sprint? I wasn't aware they used SIM cards at all.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mswlogo:
They have them in "global" phones.

Not sure it was the SIM card that was tied to the other line.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] ticklemepinks:
u can use the one from your htc one og but you sure you looked in the right slot and not the sd slot?
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] fr0st420:
I used my wife's upgrade to get my m8. I used chat to activate with no problems. Your Sprint representative must of been less skilled :)
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Doomstang:
I used another line's upgrade. I tried to activate on my account page and it failed. I then turned the phone on and it began auto activating so I shut it off immediately (since that person doesn't live in the same house). I did the Sprint Chat and it took the rep a few minutes but she finally got it activated correctly for me.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] regalpimpin:
If you ordered it on her line, then booted it up. It will automatically try and activate on the line it was ordered for. So that was the problem... Should have just contacted them before ever booting it up to get it set to yours first. no biggie.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] datajosh:
Sprint uses SIM cards for all LTE phones now.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] exSD:
Awesome. Didn't know that
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mswlogo:
I never booted it until after I called them. It was a trivial issue in hindsight. I'm just giving others a heads up.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] dsk00185:
The same thing happened to me.

My suggestion speak to someone on chat, they seem to be more knowledgeable.

When i called customer care spent an hour and he was unable to do it.

When I did it in chat an explain what happened 15 minutes later I was up and running.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] jkt97401:
I stole my nephew's upgrade and it went very well! (For me) :victory:
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] slayer69:
All of these!!!!! I did the same thing with both my m8's I ordered. I used my upgrades from 2 other lines...then when the phone came in I tried the online activation (which failed) then just clicked on the chat button and the nice person on the other end had me up and running in no time. :good:
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] RayTrue04:
Bingo! Amazing how people don't realize LTE is a GSM technology and requires a Sim. Even the first LTE phones (EvoLte/GS3) has them. It's just the older lte devices weren't userswappable and were built in.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mswlogo:
I have a 64GB Card in my phone.

I can switch it to Mass Storage USB. But all that shows up is a "Emulated CD" (like you get on some USB Sticks) and it has HTC Sync Install Kit.

You can't delete it or anything.

How can I access my SD Card Via USB Mass Storage?
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] gbritton:
Testing with a 32GB microSD card I have seemed to work. It initially came up in "HTC Sync Manager" (MTP) mode, but tapping the "USB File sharing" notification and selecting "Disk Drive" caused 2 USB Storage devices to appear, one CD-ROM containing the HTC Sync Manager software, the second storage device was the microSD card (which was automatically unmounted on the phone).
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mswlogo:
Thanks.

My SD Card at some point just went off line. Working Now.

I think it was working, because Camera asked about putting photos on SD Card and I said yes. But I'm not sure if that was perhaps the internal SD.

I pulled SD out and in and now I get two USB Storage Devices.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Mr Davo:
Hi Everyone,

I have just unlocked, and rooted my HTC One XL. However whilst I am able to enter the boot menu (by holding power down + volume down), once I select 'Recovery' I am presented with the message below.

HTC logo

I followed the instructions at this excellent YouTube resource: How to Root HTC One X

Furthermore I downloaded the appropriate file through htcDev; but this being said I didn't see my specific phone in the list of models, so I chose "Other model" (or something similarly worded).

I used adb to install an appropriate CWM Recovery.img, and every ran as I expected.

It is only when using the boot menu that the issue becomes apparent.

Any help here will be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Davo
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] exad:
That warning is normal after unlocking the bootloader. It's a disclaimer.