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[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phill360:
Today I installed the app following the instructions but after a reboot it won't go past the Amazon Logo. Does anyone have any tips on how to fix it?

I don't have ADB access to the device via the network have not tried via USB
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wonslung:
Problem downloading firetv-bootmenu-1.0.img

No matter what i do this file wont' downlaod from mediafire. Can somene PLEASE upload it to another location. It should have a mirror anyways right? I've been attempting to download it for hours.

Thanks guys
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DavePDX07:
FTV now goes to Wired network on reboot

I've got 2 FTVs that I've updated to the latest CWM, Boot Menu, and pre-rooted firmware. Everything works great except on reboot, sometimes instead of joining the wireless network, the units report that they can't find the network and show that they are wired, which they are not. Forgetting the wired network solves the problem only until the next reboot. Is it possible that the latest custom rom has wired as the default instead of wireless?

Thanks for all your great work.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsung lo:
Can I Downgrading from lollipop to miui 4.4.4 with no any problems??thx
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seavolv:
Lg Flash Tool Install KK, then root, then TWRP and Miui
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsung lo:
oh this look so disturbing

:eek:
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seavolv:
first time is always the worst
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ceymoonie:
Hello.

I have rooted my Shield Tablet a while ago, but I tried installing a dark theme and everything goes wrong.

It wont boot, but I was able to use ABD tools to open CWM Recovery and factory reset. But I was too confident of everything going to work, so I installed SuperSU.zip from the recovery and booted it. But now it doesn't start again, but now I don't have USB debugging enabled.

So I'm stuck here now. Could anyone help me?

Regards Casper.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vrsdroid:
Is it the camera module or some kind of motherboard?

I'm confused it works well from the freezer and I want to replace the faulty part but don't know what the faulty part is.

Opened it up earlier today only damaged the case slightly and it took 10 mins.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danny201281:
The problem is with the Camera Module. HTC confirmed this as a manufacturing defect, they would have fixed it for free.

Anyway to the best of my knowledge the problem was inadequate heat shielding for the Camera Module. Over time heat from the phones internal components (Processor, Battery etc) damages the lens inside the Camera Module producing the purple hue you see in your images. The warmer the device the worse it looks hence the reason it works ok after being in the freezer.

I sent my to HTC for repair I don't know exactly what they did but it came back good as new and so far the problem has not returned. Maybe they replaced it with an upgraded camera module or the same module but improved the heat shielding. Or maybe they just put the same module back in and the problem will return although I've never heard of it coming back after a HTC repair, only time will tell I suppose. ;)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otij:
if you removed the back you can lift the camera and insert a thermal insulator , without having

to take apart everything ; you can put a thin plastic .

i could put a small circular magnet behind the camera myself when i was trying to fix the focus problem ,

there is some room.

Also put your phone in power saver it could help for the high temps.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vrsdroid:
Thanks for the replys, I did try lifting the camera even inserted something to the back of it and left it hanging out it still had the problem so I guess it just needs replacing May aswell replace the battery while I'm at it!

Thanks again
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vrsdroid:
Quick update, I jjust replaced the camera module and it still has the pink tint now I'm lost anyone have any idea what's going on?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vrsdroid:
Does anyone know what is going on? perfect camera during the day but still pink/purple at night or dark I thought this would have been fixed after changing the module but obviously not is there anything else i can try?

And for those who have taken apart the camera module whats with the little sensor type thing on the camera modules ribbon? is that where the problem lies? a little square box lies beneath the copper heatshield it looks just like a megapixel sensor but is completely covered up.
[Android General] freeofcost:
I stumbled upon these links that talks about spying whatsapp account (same whatsapp account on two phones with same number)

gohacking . com / spy-on-whatsapp-messages /

gohacking . com / spoof-mac-address-on-android-phones /

I found it little interesting and wanted to try this out but I did not have two phones so I decided to download an emulator and finally got through a rooted bluestacks tool. Everything was ok until i tried to spoof mac address of bluestacks. Upon researching a bit, I found that mac address of bluestacks cannot be changed since it is a virtual device.

My question is, if I do the other way round, i.e., if I spoof my mobile device mac address using terminal emulator and busybox and give it my bluestacks mac address, will that affect my phone? I know that I will have to reinstall whatsapp on my phone because the mac address is changed and I can do it. Just wanted to check what all things will affect if I change the mac address of my phone.

I want to try this and find out if it really works but at the same time I dont want to take any chances with my phone....
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wouterwp:
Hi all,

A while ago I managed to install LightJB thanks to this forum; the phone became a lot snappier because that ROM had ditched a bunch of bloatware.

Just now, I ran a PC system scan with Ad-Aware which detects in the file "LightJBv1-2.zip", a trojan called "SMSspy". The ROM is too big to upload, but its size is reportedly 417 MB (437.476.670 bytes), and the size on disk is 417 MB (437.477.376 bytes). Unfortunately I have not written down from what mirror I downloaded the ZIP file, but it was a link listed here as I slavishly followed all suggested steps. I did a search for 'virus' and for 'LightJBv1-2' and did not find any report on this. This leads me to believe that more people have downloaded the file. Possibly the ROM has been used as a basis for other ROMs (I am quite a n00b, so perhaps this is a dumb remark:cyclops:).

I was wondering whether this might be a false positive, or perhaps if someone that has the LightJB v1-2 installation file on his/her PC could try to verify if the Ad-Aware scan was correct or not?

I am using some government services that require an SMS verification system, which makes me worry a bit..

Kind regards and please do let me know if more info is required,

Wouter
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Henkate:
Whats the file name which antivirus find it as virus?
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wouterwp:
thanks for the reply. I have made a screendump to prove my point about the ZIP (attached). I then unpacked and scanned the contents hoping Ad-aware would pinpoint the file containing the SMSspy.GD trojan. However, it did not find anything :eek: Does this mean it is a false positive? I don't know, but Ad-aware does continue to find this Trojan in the ZIP file...

F-Secure has written about the SMSspy trojan and what the code does. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to post a link there, but searching Duckduckgo with this "On Android threats Spyware:Android/SndApps.A and Trojan:Android/SmsSpy.D." does bring up the site immediately. I'm reckoning someone could change some values in that code to make a phone running the hacked app send data to himself. Perhaps someone on this forum recognizes where this code may be put and help with this search. Anyone with the F-secure virusscanner could also download the LightJBv1-2.ZIP file and go through the contents.

I have scanned several more times since then and no suspicious file was found... I downloaded the Avira scanner hoping that it would find SMSspy.GD too, but to no avail. Avira does find code of Rootor.RH (listed as a virus in their database) in the Superuser.apk files, but I'm guessing that is a false alarm that has to do with the function of the Superuser app.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Henkate:
My antivirus ( G Data antivirus) find in harshjelly rom a virus too in MobileTrackerEngineTwo.apk and at description was writing something like Android.Riskware.sms... I scaned with same antivirus same apk from system folder from stock jb firmware and it doesnt find any virus. So i dont know what to think or what to say...
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wouterwp:
I have it!! That is, Avira did find it this time:

(Dutch version, reporting "[DETECTION] Contains code of the virus ANDROID/Smsspy.S.Gen")

Apparently, the classes.dex file in the DSMLawmo.apk contains the Trojan code. What does this file do and who can open the APK file and check whether the code from the SMSSpy trojan (see my previous post about the F-secure forum message) is actually being misused??

best regards, Wouter

Attached:

- screendump showing Avira found the virus in the DSMLawmo.apk file,

- the Avira log (also finding code of another virus in Superuser.APK - I am guessing this has to do with the fact that Superuser is root-related and therefore scares the virusscanner),

- and.. the infected APK file. I renamed this file to make sure people don't run it unintentionally. SO please, only run the APK if you know what you're doing! I take no responsibility for any damages coming from running it (as a matter of fact, I might be a victim myself as I installed and am still running JBLightV1-2 on my Samsung Advance S). I do think the importance of uploading this file outweighs the risks as developers may have unwillingly and unknowingly contributed to spreading malicious code through this great community. It may - after all - also be a false positive, but two scanners have now found the SMSSpy trojan independently.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denius011:
Please tell me how to remove G data Internet security ? When I try to remove from Goole Play, tell me to the this application is Administrator on device, and I must deactivate first , and try remove ?

How to deactivate???
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xmacx3:
Try in Settings --> Security (on CM11, on Stock look for something similar)

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9070 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kryyss:
XDADev Forum i9300 ROMs contain trojans

Just bumping this post as it appeared on google when I looked up the smsspy.s.gen virus. The Avira database had this to say:

The file is a malicious Android application that undermines the security of the device or the privacy of the user. Typically, Android malware attempts to steal personal or account information, gain access to device functions via backdoors, send text messages or dial premium numbers, and lock or encrypt the device so the user must pay to unlock the device.

Operating System: Android.

This piece of malware is able to steal sensitive information.

Aliases

AVG: Android/G2M.R.FB4923BB003A

Avast: Android:SmsSpy-KB

Dr. Web: Android.SmsBot.439.origin

ESET: Android/TrojanSMS.Agent.AAJ trojan

Kaspersky Lab: HEUR:Trojan-Spy.AndroidOS.SmsThief.es

So in general, this isn't some harmless adware and what is more disturbing is that my anti-virus didn't detect the trojan when I downloaded the I9300XXUGNH4.LiteROM zip file. The trojan also appears to remain dormant for several weeks before activating. It's damage isn't limited to Android since it was hijacking Java files on my PC and dropping a Bladabindi backdoor virus into them. I also found that another APK file called DSMLawmo contains the same virus. So in short, the xdadeveloper forum is a minefield of trojan software which the administrators really need to do something about since it undermines the trust of it's users.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jwleonhart:
What is the best auto task killer? I've been using advanced task killer by rechild from the market and it leaves a lot left to be desired in the way of automatically killing tasks.

Any good recommendations? Thanks!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
best would be if everyone thought so, but in reality, best is what you think is best, as best will differ for every single person. i like fast reboot pro. it doesnt actually reboot your device, it just frees your ram memory like it is being rebooted.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vikramjatt11:
I don't think you need a task killer in Lollipop, you haven't for a few years now.

If you do want to kill activities, you can just enable "do not keep activities" in developer options.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
that just wont let other apps open. many android people dont think that we need a task killer, as android will free ram when needed. and thats fine, thats their belief. for me, android doesnt do the job good enough, for how i use the device. for me, android is a little lazy to free ram. and when it finally does, it slows down any device. so, i can change where i want it to free ram, but its still a little lazy, so i free ram myself, and am much happier about it.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schale01:
A task killer is generally not needed nor recommended for any android version over 4.0. The OS will automatically fee memory when needed. Most phones upgraded to lollipop have ample memory and killing idle tasks serves no purpose and only ibcraaes the app load time when it is relaunched.

If however you must close a task for whatever reason you can do so directly from the system settings under apps>running>select force stop. You could even setup a shortcut to this on the home screen.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PDP///M:
Exactly. Unused ram is wasted ram. Task killers are bs! Don't use these garbage apps! I keep all my apps open and still only use 1/2 my available ram.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jwleonhart:
Well yea I only force stop if a program is not responding... But wouldn't keeping a program active in the memory use up precious battery life?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PJcastaldo:
No. When an app is jot in the foreground it is not using CPU cycles so there is no battery drain. Consumed ram does not affect battery life.

However killing an app totally will cause a greater amount of processing to open the next time you use it and that will equal more consumed battery.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoninRyan:
You're better off with greenify. Especially if you're rooted.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jwleonhart:
Posted below is an image from the greenify app analyzer... What should I do? Select all those apps?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aergern:
I generally do not Greenify widgets but apps such as Facebook, Allcast and others that I don't constantly refer to. It's up to you what you use it for though. With 5.0.x folks can no longer Greenify "system" apps such as youtube, G+ and whatnot .. which is kind of a bummer.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] certx:
I don't care what anyone says....android absolutely still needs a task killer. And I'm pissed off that atk no longer works. I have a note 4, and my available memory is now half what it was, and it DOES effect performance because android is still one big memory leak! Geeees!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Using task killers is just slowing your device down. Android is not like windows with its lousy ram management.

As for samsung devices those will always be slow due to the crappy way Samsung does software.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] certx:
Well, that's funny. ....I might be new to xda, but not in the least new to android phones and tablets. The funny thing is, all my Samsung devices have been plenty fast. And surprisingly (not really), that only holds true WHEN I'M ABLE TO KILL ALL THE BS MANUALLY. It is for this reason that ANDROID still needs a task killer. If there were ONLY ONE flavor of android, completely stock, on EVERY manufacturers device, on every carrier, then that might not be the case, but then again that would be Microsoft Windows, now, wouldn't it? And not android. Android's best feature is that it's customizable.

As for telling me that using task killers is slowing me down. ......EXPERIENCE SIMPLY PROVES THAT FALSE. If that WERE true, then rebooting the phone (the only easy way to kill all tasks now) wouldn't show a notable improvement in speed, and not rebooting wouldn't result in degradation of performance over time. And neither of those are evident in empirical experience. Not rebooting DOES result in degrading performance over time, and rebooting DOES result in notable increase in performance.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
That is because of Samsung lousy software. Take a look at any nexus device and you will see weeks of not rebooting without a bit of slow down or lag.

Your experience is not relevant as it is Samsung based which means it is not pure android. It's a distro like many Linux distros. Also your experience with Android is pointless as android is still new.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] certx:
So then it's just that you don't like Samsung and that you have a love affair with nexus, not that you have any real valid argument to support your sentiment about task killers. OK. Great. Happy for you. Now that we got your phone love situation figured out, let's honestly discuss the lunacy of your opinion. It is completely nonsensical. OOOOOHHHH it's a Samsung. The way they do things, blah blah blah. News flash, supergenius, Samsung holds 65% of the android market. Like Samsung or not, they dominate the market, so if android on their devices has memory leaks, 65% OF THE MARKET needs task killers. It doesn't take Stephen Hawking to figure that out. Further, Android launched in 2008. That's 7 years ago, and is the lions share of smart device OS's. This hardly qualifies as "still new".

In all your infinite wisdom, do you truly have no clue how ludicrous your statements are?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
Gotta love noobs with an attitude........ :rolleyes: Was kindergarten closed today?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
First off before you start going off at the mouth you should understand someones history before you jump to conclusions. how much of the market samsung holds is pointless. Mainly when most Samsung devices here are not running samsungs Touchwiz software.

I am no fan boy of any OEM at all. They all have their issues. As does the OS.

Now I have used every samsung device that has ever been released up to the s4. Where I walked away from them when they lied to developers. 3rd party developers are what made them popular and like HTC they turned their backs on the developers. ITs only a matter of time until they follow the same route.

Yes 7 years is still very new in the terms of OS. The OS is still so new that it cant even take advantage of the hardware that oem are using in their device.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] certx:
Heh... "noob" ... LOL Attitude. LOL No... brains. One could easily say "supergeniuses" with an attitude... expecially when they have such a high opinion of themselves that they are completely blind to the truth from those arguing against them. ... making a statement like "Gotta love noobs with an attitude" is highly indicative of the inability to admit that the "noob" is completely right.

---------- Post added at 04:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:23 PM ----------

You continue to argue "device maker", when in reality that is a completely pointless argument. Gasoline produces high carbon emissions when burned, so we shouldn't use it. Right. True. But sense less than .0000001% of motor vehicles use anything else, .... well... you see the point I'm making there I'm sure. Market share DOES matter. Regardless of any downside you may perceive in Samsung devices... they are still currently the majority of devices in use. You completely contradict yourself also.... In one... Android doesn't need task killers. In another "They all have their issues. As does the OS" ... so then it does still need task killers.

Now...I completely concur. One should not be jumping to conclusions about someone, of whom they know nothing...... For example.... I'm a 30 year veteran programmer and software developer. I've worked on everything from IBM OS/VS1 and OS/VM, to DOS, to AT&T Unix, to SCO Unix, to VAX, to the very first version of Linux before there even was a RedHat, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc, before Gnome and KDE and the rest, from MS Windows v 3.0 up through Windows XP, 2000, etc. and all the NT's and other MS Server OS's in there. I've worked in the cell phone industry for several years, up to and including during the development and release of Android at the beginning. I've used several different devices, including the crappiest devices ever produced in the world (Huawei... who makes the Nexus by the way- I used one once. ONCE!).

So... when you start arguing "device makers" rather than the actual subject (whether or not task killers are still helpful), YOU HAVE NO ARGUMENT! That's not a "noob" statement Mr. gee2012 ... it's a statement of fact .... and anyone who would think that they can insult someone like me, with a statement like that, is less than worthy of the disccussion with me.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Look I have had enough of your attitude. here you are just another noob.

Yes I said there are issues. As you seem to have an issue with reading, I never said Android needs task killers.

For someone that says they have worked on soo many things you seem to miss the fact that the OEM does matter as each one uses different distros of android. Touch wiz is as different from stock android as windows 98 is from windows 10.

Now with your attitude maybe its time to decide if you are worthy to even be here.

Now as this topic has been talked about to death over the years and it is going no where.

\Thread closed
[NFC Hacking] cybhunter:
Hi everyone,

I've been following near field communication since I got the rugby pro last April, hoping to ultize it for contactless payments and a possible means of a transist fare option. The problem I faced was the OS (4.1.2 and 4.2.2) did not offically support NFC for these purposes (long story about ISIS/Softcard, Google Wallet, Simply Tapp and the secure element). Recently I aqquired an S5 active since Kit Kat and above support host card emulation (in addition a software emulation of the secure element). While looking on youtube, I came across this intresting video.

http://youtu.be/d4NmYdMAAHU

In a nutshell, the modern readers that HID Global has the abilty to reconize mobile devices, and via a backend (and what could be assumed as a tokenization) allows access control.

Within the last couple months, the corsponding apps appeared on the play store and the iTunes store. This may end up being the kick that NFC needs

Thought it was worth mentioning here.

Joe
[Samsung Galaxy Alpha] tileeq:
I am in the process of buying a galaxy alpha phone and in the store where I am to buy it, the unit that is put on show for testing had a kernel number of 3.11.x. So I would like to know if that kernel ia newer than the 3.4.x or older and whats the difference between them.

Thanks to anyone capable of explaining it in a simple way.
[Samsung Galaxy Alpha] Alecsandru90:
11>4 so

the newer kernel=more fixes + optimizations+features
[Samsung Galaxy Alpha] modpunk:
Are you sure? Samsung released only version 3.10.9 Kernel sources so far.
[Samsung Galaxy Alpha] tileeq:
Yes I guess you were right but still its newer than 3.4.x.