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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] leoni1980:
I really think this is a waste of time. Norton, F-secure etc make these antiviruses knowing FULL WELL that no genuinely threatening viruses are in the wild - at least none that I've ever heard of or experienced.

I'd be interested to know WHAT these programs are scanning for!

There is plenty of antivirus software for the symbian platform which in my experience only serves to hit speed and performance with absolutely no real-world use whatsoever. In order for a Symbian application that uses critical system rights to be installlable it must first be signed by Symbian - with this in mind it is virtually impossible for a dialler or other frightful gremlin to reach your phone.

I'm sure a similar principal applies to Windows Mobile devices. Besides, it's far more fun to spread a virus on a proper windows platform, with greater consequences, and a hell of a lot easier too.

I really think these companies make most of their money from paranoia, so I choose to ignore them and I will for a while yet.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] pachjo:
Fair comment as of course at the end of the day it is down to user choice.

I found f-secure and norton to be crap and would not run right, but airscanner both firewall and anti virus worked perfect on the htc stock rom.

L26 v8 & v9 are great and I prefer these over the stock rom as they are so much faster but to then get a app you just paid for not to work it is human nature to want to get it back.

I have never been hit by a virus etc on my laptop but still choose to use ZoneAlarm and my works VPN when necessary "just to be safe"

An example here is a local water supplier says many areas around here have a bug in the water so people should boil before drinking. Many say our own town is not affected so it does not affect us even tho same water comapny.

I say "I would rather play safe and boil the water then get the squits!" and wait for the comapny to give a global all clear.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] leoni1980:
there is that, but at least with your example there is evidence of impending health problems, however in this case there is little to support the need for an antivirus; no evidence of any great virus looming on the horizon, thus an antivirus precaution is to me overkill. who's to say that any mobile antivirus will even work? there's nothing to test these programs out with. The fact is that viruses are targeted at windows xp and vista pcs because almost everybody has them and they contain a lot of personal information. Mobile phones almost never have as much on them aside from contacts and perhaps random documents so to target a phone would never be as fruitful. anyone with any sense will encrypt sensitive information anyway as the likelihood of losing or having your phone stolen greatly outweighs the likelihood of a virus.

i think a better analogy would be to say that it would be like armour plating your car because you're heard about Securicor vans being hit for their money: the reality is that securicor vans have far more desirable contents for the higher-minded felon; your little phone (being the armour plated car) will only attract the attention of petty criminals.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] pachjo:
I like your way of thinking and take it on board. The reason I bought the antivirus and firewall in the first place was that I will need to connect to my online bank when abroad and wanted to be belt and braces lest some hacker et al intercepts or whatever and takes me up the back passage!

However this may be down to my lack of knowledge of what is considered insure and secure etc.

I know I need to ensure when entering any sensitive data it should be done on a https site. Also my bank ensures its customeres their site is safe and secure. I just wanted to ensure my side is.

Also, this is no way intended to call for a flaming attack on me as I have read some very heated debates on this site which in a way tends to stiffle what people may want to say but do not due to fear of a back lash.

Re my issue I am a donating user of L26 v8 (was on v9 but have reverted) and now the only problem I have is the firewall not even starting. So to have to repeatedly ask for help and not to get even a yes or no but instead read post after post of off topic sniping grates a bit.

chef/cooks etc are the good guys and everyone appreciates the hard work they do, I would not know where to start, but bottom line is a simple acknowledgemnet would not go amis. After all is it too much to ask if a $30 application which worked on stock rom does not work on cooked?

I would not know where to start and for all I know neither would the gurus but they are in a more knowledgable position than I.

If a "sorry I dont know or definitely not" was fed back I could take it up with the application vendor/creator. But being in limbo is frustrating
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] iti_uk:
Kaspersky does security stuff for WM, and had a free 30 day trial. I haven't had a rom that I've kept for more than 30 days so far anyway, so I've not hit any 30 day limits yet lol.

Chris
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] leoni1980:
I would wager a bet that you're safer using internet banking with your pocket pc than a home pc over wifi (even with an antivirus).

Cooked ROMS invariably suffer compatibility issues which can have the most complicated or the simplest of explanations, however each differ from case to case.

Your problem may stem from wm6.1 itself - perhaps your antivirus is asking for rights to information that wm6.1's new coding will no longer afford it.

Did your antivirus work on any other 6.1 ROMs?

Remember 6.1 is brand new and I'm sure a number of software manufacturers are yet to fix all of their products to work with it.

Whatever the scenario you will be hard pushed to find many people in the cooking scene with ANY interest in mobile antivirus software as they are knowledgable enough to see the lack of need for it.

It would be a lot of time out of their schedule for something that would be insignificant to the majority of their downloaders, however I wouldn't personally flame you for asking.

For me a fix for the GPS issues in wm6.1 is a far greater concern.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] pachjo:
Tis nice to have such open and friendly chat, I appreciate it thanks.

I have Airscanner anitvirus and firewall, two seperate applications. Both worked on the HTC stock 6.0 and 6.1 ROMS with no performance hit of problems.

I only run the av manually, I do not leave it running in background.

I leave fw running all the time and had no issues with it.

Since I installed l26 v8 and l26 v9 fw installs but when I try to run it it just displays a message 'error 2'

I understand now about the majority not being bothered, but I would have at least expected a yes or no from l26 just out of manners (this of course presuming l26 has read my posts and chose to ignore - apologies if I speak out of turn l26)

If I finally do not get a response from the chef after a reasonable time it would sour my view on donating in future which is a shame as in the end we are all only trying to help each other.

But after all is said and done, your comments on the 'real' threat makes me feel a little easier! Thanks ;-)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] IzaacJ:
Symbian Trojans/Viruses

I can tell you wrong about that! I have a Nokia 6120 classic (S60v3) and I had a f*ckn trojan on it not so long ago, so now I juse Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0 on it, it includes an anti-theft module, so if anyone inserts a new simcard and entering the wrong unlock code, an sms/email is sent to your specified number/mail containing the number of the card inserted! You are also able to lock the phone through sms.

I'll recommend, at least Symbian users, use AV/FW, like Kaspersky's suite!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Stu_Can_Sam:
Another interesting view

I recently participated in a study as to the feasibility to creating a bot army using ppc's with one pc commander. It is entirely possible, but highly inefficient.

Trojonizing a ppc is possible, but would take serious complacency on the owner's part (opening SMS from unknowns or installing cabs from untrusted sources).

As for people sniffing your banking info from your ppc it is extremely unlikely. The way that your phone modulates your information takes several thousands of dollars (US not Canadian) worth of equipment to be able to decipher.

For thieves, hackers, and script-kitties, it is much easier & cheaper to sniff home pc's than the effort and cost of ppc's. Cloning your device is the only sure-fire way to quickly & affordably get anyone’s ppc info, and that's a story for another day!

Vigilance is the key…
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] khaytsus:
Since this silly thread got resurrected, I'll respond to the above..

What are the programs scanning for? Suckers that'll pay money for them. That's what.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Stu_Can_Sam:
Some interesting reading

Here is an article that I came across three months after we were discussing this topic. The long and short of it:

Yes PPC's & smartphones will be targeted in the near future, but will increase in threat only when mobile banking becomes more of a reality.

Some other funny tidbits in there too.
[Gionee M2] naviidgull:
#SHARE #GIONEEM2

Fly me 5.1.8.1 os for Gionee M2 based lolipop 5.1.1

os link:- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7PN61uAVja1U0x0MzBTQWJrQkE/view?usp=drivesdk

camera patch by munaa bro:- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7PN61uAVja1dWx5a0puS21PX2c/view?usp=drivesdk

fm fix patch by munna bro:- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7PN61uAVja1THpEN0RyaEVkeEk/view?usp=drivesdk

read carefully before install first install rom than install cam fix patch than first boot ur rom & after go to recovery & install camera patch than reboot

if u switch off ur mobile than dont in it first go to recovery than reboot othirwise u face bootloop

this rom storage fix by big thanks to munna bro

thanks for installation this rom
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renardiidx:
Hello everybody,

I'm not sure this is the correct section to ask for but I'll give it a try. Lately I've been playing a mobile chinese game called Summons Board without problems at all, until I've came up with the idea of switching over the more updated JP version.

There's one problem though, it has root detection and this makes the app crash at the beginning.

I tried rootcloak, hide root from supersu, magisk v6, magisk v7 + auto magisk, none of them worked. Any idea on how can I make this game start?

For reference, this is the app we're talking about:

https://apps.qoo-app.com/app/1731

Thanks for any help in advice.

EDIT: Using a Note 4 N910F with RAMROM MM
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fahadiqbal25:
i have connect my lenovo s60-a with pc and it is connected with aport qualcomm hs usb qdloader 9008 but when i try to flash it it show me some error like

Sahara Version:0

Start Sending Programmer

Download Fail:System.Exception: Unable to download Flash Programmer using Sahara Protocol

at QC.QMSLPhone.Phone.QPHONEMS_SaharaArmPrgDownload(String sFileName)

at QC.SwDownloadDLL.SwDownload.QPHONEMSSaharaDownloadArmPrg(UInt64& version, String armPrgPath)

Download Fail:Sahara FailSahara Fail

Finish Download
[ONE General] ferivon:
I'll try to make it as simple as I can.

Here is what I want:

CyanogenMod with root privileges

Full control over which app, service or system component can access my data and the Internet.

(at the moment for instance I can't alter the "network access" privileges of my apps)

Safe to use speech recognition software

Safe to use, sophisticated navigation software

My questions:

Is that even achievable without a ton of work?

Is there a simple way to flash CyanogenMod without pre-installed bloatware? (e.g. Google apps, Skype, Cortana, ...)

Which tools should I use to make sure that apps can only access what I want them to?

Is there speech recognition software for Android that doesn't require Internet access?

Is there a navigation app that is capable of using the offline maps of Google Maps without requiring an Internet connection?

(e.g. Google Maps makes itself useless if you don't update from their servers every 30 days)

From your experience, do apps refuse to work when you deny certain privileges?
[ONE General] maxed4901:
Dude- You should start developing your own rom in this case.

But consfused here and at this point i think you dont know.

CyanogenMod & Cyanogen OS

Assuming- when you said, cortana etc etc--- i think you are on cyanogen OS.. Which is the original OS for 1+1.

1- To achieve, you need to work.

2- Some optimized COS builds in XDA one android dev section- try a search. but not latest 13.1.2-ZNH2KAS3P0. Root using SuperSU. and use system app uninstaller to remove apps you dont need. Some debloater zips also lurking around in XDA. If you install CyanogenMod, then no need of gapps flashing if you dont use google account.

3. you can stop background data for the apps you dont want. Settings in most roms.

4. Speech recognition can be used offline after u download all languages of your choice. Not 100% and dont use it.

5. Try Maps.me. i didnt know google map needed to be force updated every 30 days unless some one restructures the entire landscape and routes.

6. Certain apps refuse to work if you dont grant permission. yes. its like telling some 1 without hands to eat from hand,.

:good:
[ONE General] ferivon:
Thank you so much for your reply. I indeed did not know that there is a difference between Cyanogen OS and CyanogenMod. But if I understood you correctly, CyanogenMod comes without gapps. (I hope it also comes without Google Play Services?)

The offline speech recognition you linked to seems to be from Google. I bet it will require Google Play Services and an Internet connection after some time, just like Google Maps does and I'm really afraid of that.

I might give Maps.me a try, but I think Google Maps still has by far the best most detailed and correct maps especially when it comes to POIs.

I would consider using official Google Maps, if there was a 100% safe way to wipe all the data the app collects before I allow it to update the maps. Alternatively, maybe I could download the apps from a second device and just copy the map data over to my main device every once in a while.

An even more crazy approach might be to spoof the time/date data for Google Maps so that it thinks the 30 days haven't been reached yet.

But I would still be very concerned about Google Play Services. Would microG be sufficient for my purposes to replace Google Play Services?

edit:

Okay, I have a rooted CyanogenMod without gapps now on my OPO.

edit2:

I have Xposed with modules "Xprivacy" and "Per App Hacking" installed now.

Xprivacy is an app permission manager and "Per App Hacking" can be used to spoof the system time an app will see. Hopefully I'll be able to fool Google Maps with it.

edit3:

I have microG installed now. Hopefully this will be enough to run Google Maps.

I really need to make sure I understand Xprivacy before that though.
[ONE General] tofu:
My recommendations:

1. I recommend full device encryption with long and secure boot password and easy to use pin lock screen password. Here's more info: http://xdaforums.com/general/security/guide-separate-passwords-encrypted-t3048072

2. Get an email address from a provider that respects user privacy i.e. Riseup. https://riseup.net/

This is one the most important things to do if you don't want google / yahoo / microsoft scanning your email for surveillance / marketing purposes.

3. Use apps from F-Droid. It's an app "store" for open source apps.

4. Always use Afwall+ to have control over which apps have access to internet. Even better if you use Afwall with combination of Orbot. This way you can route some apps through tor (need a custom script though). Orwall does the same thing more easily.

5. Instead of closed source Supersu, use open source superuser http://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/wip-selinux-capable-superuser-t3216394

6. For maps I recommend openstreetmap. Download Osmand from F-Droid. It has navigation too.

7. For cellbased location provider, use unified location provider found from F-droid. It's connected to microg projects.

8. For encrypted SMS use Silence from F-droid (recipient needs the same app if you use encryption).

9. For encrypted instant messaging use Conversations (XMPP client) from F-DROID. Or Riot (which will soon have strong encryption).
[ONE General] ferivon:
Thanks for your input 5chdn! Most of the stuff you mentioned it already on my phone. :)

I made some progress yesterday and I'd like to share my current configuration:

All the apps I mention in this post are (at the time of writing) available in F-Droid, unless stated otherwise.

Everything I mention in this post is free and open source, unless stated otherwise.

Recovery Image: TWRP

ROM: CyanogenMod

'Apps' that have to be flashed:

SuperUser (this roots your phone which means you can grant root access to apps)

Xposed (provides a lot of important privacy tools)

Apps:

F-Droid (app store that provides free open source apps)

AFWall+ (manage which app can access the Internet)

Autostarts (manage triggers that apps can use to start themselves)

AdAway (can remove ads from apps)

Xposed Modules:

BootManager (manage which apps can start on boot)

Xprivacy (manage/spoof app permissions for privacy)

Safely using Google Maps offline

permanently

:

Please note: Google Maps is not open source.

Install microG (open source alternative to Google Play Services)

The installation complete installation consists of:

'microG Services Core' (aka 'GsmCore') (app)

At the time of writing this app is NOT available in F-Droid. This app also automatically installs 'µg unifiedNlp (NO GAPPS)' for you.

'microG Services Framework Proxy' (aka 'GsfProxy') (app)

'FakeGapps' (Xposed module)

'FakeStore' (app)

'XposedGmsCoreUnifiedNlp' (Xposed module)

'LocalGsmNlpBackend' (app)

'NominatimNlpBackend' (app)

'µg unifiedNlp (NO GAPPS)' (app) (will be installed automatically!)

Install 'Per App Hacking' (Xposed module)

Use this module to spoof the system time/date that Google Maps sees e.g. to '2016-10-14 10:00' so that offline maps don't become outdated. The feature to spoof the time is called 'time machine'.

I would really like to improve what I got so far and share it with the community.

If you know of anything that could help improve privacy please tell me.

I do not mention things like device encryption, passwords, lock screens etc, as these are a separate issue.
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] raushan123:
I have tried some custom roms on my moto g4 plus {xt1643}. But non of them support volte. Any developer who is working on volte working rom plz must reply.......

Thanks,, all the roms i used in moto g4 plus was very good only the problem was with volte
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] SoNic67:
The US version (XT1644) supports VoLTE (more exactly Enhanced LTE) with original FW.

Now, AFAIK, all the "custom" ROM's around here are based on CM13 - and CM does NOT support VoLTE (don't know why, maybe licensing issues).
[Galaxy Note 3 Neo Accessories] rajjana:
Dear Friends,

can you please tell me N7502 Mother Board Match with N750 Display?
[Galaxy Note 3 Neo Accessories] Devgarden:
It almost matches with it but some changes are there bcos of version
[Moto G4 Questions & Answers] JKASS5:
I think my Persist partition is corrupted. Can anyone make a copy of /dev/block/platform/7824900.sdhci/by-name/persist and upload a copy for me? Or any suggestions on how to recover repair this in order to get a cell signal?
[XDA Assist] kithemm:
Hello I just bought a android phone 2 weeks ago so far love everything about it but only one thing that I have question with is

when Im on a phone call when I hit home button it take me to home screen with little phone icon on top left is this normal?

I thought every smartphone should show some kind if banner or indication to show you that you are on a phone call.

screen shot here

http://xdaforums.com/picture.php?albumid=13660&pictureid=54326

can anyone just tell me the reason why

does it because Blu software or company or android lollipop ?

if I update it to android 6 will this fix?

I've try more than 10 apps on app store non of them show banner after hit the home screen.

if all Blu phone are like this please tell me so I can buy other brand phone.

please help

Thank you.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers] prembhullar:
I did install cm14 few days back n couldnot found VOLTE working for me so i did install miui8 back again

Yesterday found on forum that volte works with new 21/9 version. I tried newest version but in that version .volte worked for me but second sim slot there is no network.. i tried wipe again n found both sim works fine but NO VOLTE now .. is there anyone whoz usin cm14 n gettin both sims work fine with voLTE
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers] parmeet0172:
Wat about CM 13 nightly? Do volte work on cm?
[Networking] pasan:
Hello all, a quick question regarding FieldTest. My Softbank is stuck with radio 1.14 and it does not show the E icon when I force it into GSM only. EDGE reception has been verified because my dad's Prophet almost always displays the E icon. So my question is, since the radio ROM in my device is so old, does it no indicate that I have EDGE reception, or does not go into that mode at all? Here are some screen shots from Fieldtest; it shows some values in the EGPRS categories, does this mean the phone does switch to EDGE? any help would be most appreciated.
[Networking] bravo261:
the icon has been problematic on certain phones with certain roms, but if edge is available in your area, then if you're getting gprs, you should be getting edge, since they are really the same thing. do a speed test next to the prophet and see
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] leonman44:
Ok guys , i am making a temp throttling limit mod for G5 for rooted phones on stock rom both kernel , i could succesfully remove some limits (Gpu , Lcd , Ram and Cpu big throttling limit at 60c) Next limit is up to 85c and without dropping the cpu like before , personally i think that most people would be safe to have their cpus up to 75c but is 80c safe? For me its up to 90c (never burned a cpu , never but always a first time!) I know that some guys are grumpy for getting their phones warm and they prefer having less performance and big throttling and thats why LG did that on stock but i love performance , so thgis mod is only for gamers and performance maniacs that doesnt want to see their phones lagging!! So what do you think about the max cpu temp that i should give on people in order not to cause any problem? :confused:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeffBea:
Marshmallow factory images never a problem flashing. Ever sense Nougat came along I can not flash the system.img in fastboot without getting the dreaded "error: cannot load 'system.img' ". I've tried the trick by adding the extension to flash smaller chucks of data with the command line.

I used flashfire to update with no problem but this takes all the joy of doing it manually.

I know other users have had this problem also. Did anyone come up with a solution for this problem yet? Thanks.

Solved:

Seems that my Platform-Tools program was not updated as I had thought. I had thought it was a "One Button" update type of program but apparently certain parts or updates need to be updated first then other parts can be updated. So long story short for anyone else having this problem make sure the all updates are applied to Platform-Tools.

Thanks for all the help!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cameljockey1:
Yes this has happened to me and I was stuck almost. I had to load the system image to a otg and flash it in twrp and that's when it would go.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leeum:
Have you tried flashing using LxMultiTool