guys is there any application for my x10 mini pro to hide files like photos and videos?
The best app for hide files: Hide Files
use hide it pro from here..the best ive used..
you can also just create a file which i'm assuming is for music or pictures you don't want showing up in gallery or music player apps create new file using folder organizer app or root explorer and call it .nomedia that way they won't show in the apps.
although this means technically all pictures in specified folder with a .nomedia file will result in all those pictures not showing in gallery.
To hide my photos and videos I use Hide Pictures in Stocks (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.theronrogers.vaultypro&feature=more_from_developer) it makes a "Stocks" app that after you put your password if you get wrong it redirects you to Google Stocks page, but if you want something free use this free version, the unique difference is that don't redirects you to Stocks page if the password is wrong (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.theronrogers.vaultyfree&feature=related_apps)...
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To hide my photos and videos I use Hide Pictures in Stocks (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.theronrogers.vaultypro&feature=more_from_developer) it makes a "Stocks" app that after you put your password if you get wrong it redirects you to Google Stocks page, but if you want something free use this free version, the unique difference is that don't redirects you to Stocks page if the password is wrong (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.theronrogers.vaultyfree&feature=related_apps)...
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Way too expensive. Try Beaver from the android market, it hides pictures and bookmarks, and has an integrated tabbed private browser, plus its cheaper:
Free version:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.crowbar.beaverlite
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Hi,
I use Greyblur and I am anoyed by the fact that I get different times a notification for some unwanted ads (not sure if this is Greyblur or any other app).
There is a star in the Status Bar and if you press on the information the browser opens with some unwanted recommendations (I call it SPAM).
So can anybody help to fix this.
Is this a regular Android function (e.g. a interface which every app can use)?
Where I should look to disable this function?
Thanks in advance.
It's not greyblur you must of installed a bad app. Review where you got your apps and be more careful.
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O.k., thanks.
But is there a way to track this application down?
What would be the procedure to do this; it's impossible to deinstall all apps...
Recomendations for what exactly? Is it Kongregade or app brain or pulse?
If you have time I'd say do this.
Back up with titanium backup
SBF back to stock
Install each app one by one
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Before reinstalling one by one, post an appbrain link so i can see what apps you have installed. I can then report back what apps to get rid of before just wiping everything.
there is an app called Share My Apps that will create a list for you of all the apps you have installed. much easier to post than to list them all manually
Hey...,
Many thanks for this input - which is exactly what I wanted.
So you believe it could be one of this apps: Kongregade, App brain or Pulse.
Yes, I use Pulse and App Brain.
After thinking over about the best way, I had an thought...
Would it be possible to freeze selected apps with TITANIUM, to see if the SPAM disappears?
Or would'nt this be a realistic way to check if one of the mentioned apps are causing this behaviour...
Really, to uninstall makes me crazy as you can see the list is long (needs at least 1/2-1 hour to reinstall - without a real guarantee not to reinstall the "bad boy" again...).
And many thanks in advance for going roughly through the app list.
~~~~~~~~~~ list of installed apps ~~~~~~~~~~
AdFree Android
Advanced Task Manager
AirportRemoteMonitor by Sojern
AppBrain App Market
Babylon 2Go Translator
BeyondPod Unlock Key
Booking.com
Bubble
Business Calendar Free
BW Animation Package
cab4me taxi finder
Calendar Event Reminder
Call Recorder Total Recall Dem
CallTrack
CamScanner -Phone PDF Creator
Car Locator
Car Locator Bluetooth Plugin
Catch Notes
CifsManager
Citrix Receiver
Compass
CSipSimple
DB Navigator
Dropbox
ES File Explorer
Facebook for Android
Fancy Widget
Fast Web Installer
Flash Player 10.3
FlightTrack
FlightTrack Pro Upgrade
Font Size (for root users)
FRITZ!App Fon
Gingerbread Launcher
Gmail
GO Contacts
GO SMS Pro
GO SMS Pro German language pac
GO SMS Pro SimpleBlue theme
GO Weather Animate Wallpaper
Google Maps
Google Search
HP ePrint service
HRS Hotel Portal
Ics Bot
Jewels
K9 for Pure widget
Kayak Flight and Hotel Search
Keyboard Language
LauncherPro
LauncherPro Plus Unlocker
LEO dictionary
Lookout Mobile Security
Lufthansa
Magnify
MoreLocale 2
MortPlayer Music (beta)
MyPhoneExplorer Client
MySettings Pro
myTaxi - Taxi auf Knopfdruck!
Overlook Fing
Picasa Tool
Ping & DNS
PolyClock
Project Viewer
Pulse News
Pure messenger widget
Quickoffice Pro
RealCalc Scientific Calculator
Setting Profiles Full
ShootMe (Screen Grabber)
ShopSavvy Barcode Scanner
Silhouette Live Wallpaper
SiMi Folder Widget
Skype
SMS Backup +
Street View on Google Maps
Super Manager
SwiftKey Keyboard
Swype Keyboard
Symphony of Colors
Terminal Emulator
ThinkFree Office Mobile Viewer
Titanium Backup PRO Key ★ root
Titanium Backup ★ root
Trillian
TripAdvisor
TuneIn Radio
Vlingo Virtual Assistant
Voice Search
WavPlayer
WhatsApp Messenger
WidgetLocker Lockscreen
WiFi Buddy BETA
WIFREE - Free WIFI / Bookmark
XDA-Developers
XING
YouTube
Öffi - Public Transport Buddy
jochenthomas said:
Hey...,
Many thanks for this input - which is exactly what I wanted.
So you believe it could be one of this apps: Kongregade, App brain or Pulse.
Yes, I use Pulse and App Brain.
After thinking over about the best way, I had an thought...
Would it be possible to freeze selected apps with TITANIUM, to see if the SPAM disappears?
Or would'nt this be a realistic way to check if one of the mentioned apps are causing this behaviour...
Really, to uninstall makes me crazy as you can see the list is long (needs at least 1/2-1 hour to reinstall - without a real guarantee not to reinstall the "bad boy" again...).
And many thanks in advance for going roughly through the app list.
~~~~~~~~~~ list of installed apps ~~~~~~~~~~
AdFree Android
Advanced Task Manager
AirportRemoteMonitor by Sojern
AppBrain App Market
Babylon 2Go Translator
BeyondPod Unlock Key
Booking.com
Bubble
Business Calendar Free
BW Animation Package
cab4me taxi finder
Calendar Event Reminder
Call Recorder Total Recall Dem
CallTrack
CamScanner -Phone PDF Creator
Car Locator
Car Locator Bluetooth Plugin
Catch Notes
CifsManager
Citrix Receiver
Compass
CSipSimple
DB Navigator
Dropbox
ES File Explorer
Facebook for Android
Fancy Widget
Fast Web Installer
Flash Player 10.3
FlightTrack
FlightTrack Pro Upgrade
Font Size (for root users)
FRITZ!App Fon
Gingerbread Launcher
Gmail
GO Contacts
GO SMS Pro
GO SMS Pro German language pac
GO SMS Pro SimpleBlue theme
GO Weather Animate Wallpaper
Google Maps
Google Search
HP ePrint service
HRS Hotel Portal
Ics Bot
Jewels
K9 for Pure widget
Kayak Flight and Hotel Search
Keyboard Language
LauncherPro
LauncherPro Plus Unlocker
LEO dictionary
Lookout Mobile Security
Lufthansa
Magnify
MoreLocale 2
MortPlayer Music (beta)
MyPhoneExplorer Client
MySettings Pro
myTaxi - Taxi auf Knopfdruck!
Overlook Fing
Picasa Tool
Ping & DNS
PolyClock
Project Viewer
Pulse News
Pure messenger widget
Quickoffice Pro
RealCalc Scientific Calculator
Setting Profiles Full
ShootMe (Screen Grabber)
ShopSavvy Barcode Scanner
Silhouette Live Wallpaper
SiMi Folder Widget
Skype
SMS Backup +
Street View on Google Maps
Super Manager
SwiftKey Keyboard
Swype Keyboard
Symphony of Colors
Terminal Emulator
ThinkFree Office Mobile Viewer
Titanium Backup PRO Key ★ root
Titanium Backup ★ root
Trillian
TripAdvisor
TuneIn Radio
Vlingo Virtual Assistant
Voice Search
WavPlayer
WhatsApp Messenger
WidgetLocker Lockscreen
WiFi Buddy BETA
WIFREE - Free WIFI / Bookmark
XDA-Developers
XING
YouTube
Öffi - Public Transport Buddy
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Kongregate appbrain and pulse are all fine apps, but will all recomend new updates in your notification bar, you can change this in settings. In the op you said, ads for unwanted recomendations. I was, and still am unsure if you are refering to irelevant product advertising like a commercial, or if your being recommended flash games because you told Kongregate to notify you of new games (or a similar notification from a dif app). There is a malicious advertising plug in called "airpush" that devs could put in apps to advertise in your notification bar, it has caused a backlash against devs that use it. As far as freezing to test, yes you can, but be careful what you freeze and for this testing purpose maybe one at a time is the best way to tell what app is notifying you.
I will list the apps below that I know are not infected with airpush, all of these apps I use or have used before and they do not have airpush:
Adfree
Appbrain
Bubble
Bw animation package
Compass
Dropbox
Es file explorer
Facebook
Fancy widget
Fast web installer
Flash player
Gmail
Go contacts
Go sms
Gmaps
Gsearch
Launcherpro
Lp+ unlock
Lookout
Picasa
Pulse
Quickoffice pro
Realcalc
Shootme screen grabber
Skype
Street view
Swiftkey
Symphony of colors
Terminal emulator
Tibu
Tibu key
Trillian
Tunein radio
Vlingo
Voice search
Widgetlocker
Xda
Youtube
Hope that helps. Maybe others can add to the list of safe apps.
I had it happen when I used the android movie download app. It was useless and spammed thee hell out of me.
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Thanks for your response.
To be more clear: it is not ONLY product related or update recommendations.
They spam me with commercials from different areas.
But maybe I'll have an eye on it to see what they offer, maybe this is an way to identify the app and make it public + ban.
It would be good to have a public black list...
And last but not least: I was searching, but Airpush (at least what I can see in the market) is not installed. So it's not this app...
Best regards and thanks.
I also had been spammed by the app "Live wallpaper LED" bu DrHU. beware of this app
try scanning your phone with AirPush
it won't block whatever is causing it but it'll identify which app is the culprit and let you uninstall it.
Addons Detector is like that airpush app on steroids... bit more functionality.
Once installed, run a scan. Then choose the bottom filtering option to see who's using airpush.
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I had this exact same thing. A little star on the notifcation bar saying I won an Ipad2, and then redirected me to a spam website.
In my case it was actually caused by a Final Fantasy 13 guide app.
I reported the app, deleted it, and it looks like google pulled it from the marketplace.
jeranon said:
Addons Detector is like that airpush app on steroids... bit more functionality.
Once installed, run a scan. Then choose the bottom filtering option to see who's using airpush.
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Addons Detector flagged Zarley for push notification adds.. its never spammed my notif bar ever and it definately doesn't contain the Airpush "virus".
Airpush (which advertises here on xda) offers this type of ad. I can't tell you if its them or not, but check out airpush.com for info on their permanent opt-out feature. I was intrigued by their revenue claims until I saw their methods.
jeranon said:
Addons Detector is like that airpush app on steroids... bit more functionality.
Once installed, run a scan. Then choose the bottom filtering option to see who's using airpush.
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I had the same issue and installed Addons Detector and it found 4 apps using different push notifications. I uninstalled all 4 apps and no pop-ups so far. Thanks
Hey,
I was spammed by Awesome Wallpaper app that way
i noticed you use go launcher. I have noticed that some of the free themes have had airpush built in to them. you might try and use another theme and delete the ones you currently have. This worked for me.
Here's the deal with the way I share photos. I don't do social media, I don't have "walls" anywhere. I show pictures to my wife and folks and they send pictures to me. But doing this via email the way we do now is cumbersome. Snap...open email...attach...no not that one, the other one...delete...attach...add email addresses... etc etc etc. And that's not even addressing the issue of file size limitations.
I need something super simple that allows sharing of 1-4 pictures quickly after taking them without having to manage a whole social media app in the process. Does something like this even exist or am I not a market that anyone cares to create an app for because my photo use can't be monetized by a marketing manager?
Thanks guys! Any app suggestions would be great. If it could work across Blackberry as well that would be great. All I can find is flickr??
I just use my dropbox account. added my mom to the photo folder and she can just go to the dropbox website. The dropbox app makes it very easy to upload photos right after you take them. This works for you too. If they just upload photos to the shared dropbox folder you can view them from computer or phone. Only problem is you don't get any notification of new content like you get with e-mail.
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Vault—the Ultimate in Privacy Protection
Vault hides your confidential SMS messages, contacts, call logs, pictures and videos. It’s the BEST app for Android users to hide SMS messages and call history from prying eyes! It keeps your private stuff hidden, giving you complete control over your privacy and security.
With Vault, you can:
1. NEW in 2.0! Monitor who’s trying to see what’s on your phone and photograph them in the act. This feature requires an Android 2.3 (or higher) device with a front-facing camera.
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3. Import your sensitive SMS text messages to Vault. Strong encryption and password protection ensures they’ll be hidden from everyone but you.
4. Make your private contacts invisible. Simply add a number to Vault and any calls or messages from this number will only appear in Vault. They’ll no longer appear in your phone's native SMS folder and call logs.
TIP: We recommend adding your most commonly used contacts to
Vault. If your phone is lost or stolen, you won’t have to worry about anyone accessing your contacts or messages.
5. Protect your real Vault by creating one or more “fake” vaults. If someone insists that you give them your password and display your secret messages, you can show them the “fake” vault. Problem solved!
Check it on market Market link
Send me a PM for download link
theme
what's this theme on the screenshots?
This app lost all of my contacts that I stored in it and since it deletes them from your android contacts I can't get them back. Photo/video seems to work but definitely would not recommend this app for anything you wouldn't want lost.
despotisminc said:
This app lost all of my contacts that I stored in it and since it deletes them from your android contacts I can't get them back. Photo/video seems to work but definitely would not recommend this app for anything you wouldn't want lost.
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you must return to your settings before uninstall the app... i did the same mistake first time but my luck was that i chose to hide only the videos... so before uninstalling turn back to show contacts, videos, and other things that you selected to hide
I think you have a folder on your sdcard (the app folder) and there must be the things that you chose to hide.. cheek it
i have format my hp without backup my file on vault 1st...then after format i install vault back...my old file cannot open...please help me to recover back my file...
Does anyone know of an app that can actually hide other apps?
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Needs a file explorer. I have videos that I need hidden, but the app can't find them.
Help
I accidently cleared the Data of this app… I've reinstalled it, but it doesn't show the previous ones :'(
What should I do ?
I've searched that long time
Thanks a lot
Hello again guys
I was just wondering what you allthink the best apps are for galaxy s2, or more generally android.
Cheers,
Tangent5
Tangent5 said:
Hello again guys
I was just wondering what you allthink the best apps are for galaxy s2, or more generally android.
Cheers,
Tangent5
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The best apps are the apps that serve me most.
ES File Explorer - file manager
PowerAMP - excellent mp3 player. The only Android app I paid for in my life.
Advanced Task Killer - terminate apps you dont want
SwiFTP - FTP server to access your phone as FTP
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This is true.
The apps that work best for me may be different for you and vice versa, so it depends highly on what you'd like to do with your phone. That said, here are a few I'd recommend:
Google voice - visual voicemail, free additional phone number, free texting
Lookout security - antivirus for your phone, as well as a GPS locator to help find your phone if you lose it
Flixster - Movie times/theaters/reviews
Dolphin Browser HD - replacement for stock internet Browser
Play Music - Google's cloud-storage-based music player
Shazam - Identifies song and artist information using your phone's microphone
Weatherbug - Weather forecasts
Ringdroid - make your own ringtones from MP3s
Root Explorer
Titanium Backup
Opera Mini Browser
aCar
What category of apps are you looking to know the best for? That'll make it easier to make a list of our favorites.
Titanium backup
Mybackup for SMS/MMS and call logs
GoSMS Pro
File Expert
Droid Wall
Lookout
Viber for free calls and SMS
Friendcaster - excellent facebook alternative app
Swiftkey X - awesome keyboard
Beautiful weather - weather, date, and time widgets, highly customizable
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Thanks guys!
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PowerAmp for music, Facebook for chat and Cut the Rope for fun!
If you're rooted, SetCPU, Root Explorer, and Titanium Backup are must haves
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I forgot about Go Launcher. Hands down the best home launcher replacement
Remote Desktop - let you control your phone from your browser
DropBox - cloud storage
Viber - free wifi calls
Waze - free collaborative gps navigation
Google Goggles - scan everything and get info (qr codes, logos, artwork, landmarks etc)
xda-developers...
Best apps To customize your android: (ICS)
a) Fed up of your boring touchwiz launcher which is standard on all Samsung phone, Download and install
i) Nova Launcher
OR
ii) Apex Launcher
b) Transfer Pics, Contact and More from your android to your computer or friends using android
Bump
c) File sync important files with your comp and android device
i) Dropbox
ii) Google Drive
d) Instantly save the pics you click to Google + cloud server
Download Google+ app on your Device make a google Plus account and activate "Instant upload" set "when to upload"
e) Quick note taking app
Evernote Never forgets
f) Multi Platform smartfone messenger
Whatsapp
g) News reader with Facebook and Twitter integration
Flipboard
Google currents
h) Keep your ringer off for a set time duration by just pressing the (-) vol button
Shush!
i) Use the front facing camera and have a skype video conversation
Skype
j) Whats that tune playing on the radio / TV
Soundhound
Just this app may be one you like to be on your Android: Google Android Updates.
Most useful apps to me :
Adaway : good bye annoying apps!
Network Monitor Mini : monitor how fast my speeds are, Download and Upload
Pandora
Facebook
Craigslist mobile
keygenjukebox : sometimes i like to listen to midi's on the go
Battery Monitor Widget Pro : Very Very handy. Also allows you to set the mAh of your battery if you got the aftermarket big battery (I have a 3600mah)
Google Maps : duh i dont like to get lost
Whatsapp
Google reader
Google Drive
TubeMate
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Using a Moto G Play (2021) Android 10-11 here but this applies to many new phones who's company transitions their stock documents, gallery, etc apps into third party ones such as "Files by Google" or the like.
Though, each time I want to choose a file when using another app, the stock Files application opens up after disabling "Files by Google" meaning the stock documents app is still there.
I want to know if there's a way to have it so I can pull the original Files app as a usable and standalone app on my home screen rather than finding a document managing app on Google Play.
The original DocumentsUIGoogle.apk is shown in the phone's app storage but it's not shown as it's own application where one could simply add as an app in their home screen.