Anyone with easy access to Linux want to run the latest NC CM 7.1 stable through THIS to see if it works? I think it would be useful to be able to control access to data directly vice random permission blocking. I think it would be VERY useful to be able to not have apps not work because of access that you chose to block which is what this claims to do.
Edit: CM7.1 stable from racks11479 in post 5 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20923834&postcount=5
Edit(s): Latest Mirage from gumnaam.sur usually found near the bottom
tonydl said:
Another nice advantage is that we won't need an IMEI Generator with this app anymore - as PDroid can generate a random/fixed value here
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Is there a patch available for Nook
Not sure I see the necessary Nook patch for install.
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Not sure I see the necessary Nook patch for install.
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I think that JJ was asking for someone to run the auto-patcher script to create a Nook-specific patch.
I'm running Pdroid on my Evo and it is a really sweet app. Would love to have it on the Nook as well, but I don't have access to a Linux machine to run the script.
PDroid
Heck yea.. I use it too on my EVO CM7. Incredible how these apps try to get more their fair share of us. Got alot of apps to run on full block.
You requested and I had a minute so here you go. This is patched for the latest stable for CM7.1 for the Nook Color of course.
**As usual the disclaimers of me not being responsible for what happens to your devices is stated! Whatever you do, just don't blame it on me, go ahead and "blame it on the rain" if you want! **
PDroid Patch for Nook Color-CyanogenMod 7.1:
PDroid-v1.27-update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip
MD5: b0fe3b81d045f2ee291bdd7ed25fd187
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PDroid Restore Patch for Nook Color-CyanogenMod 7.1:
PDroid-RESTORE-update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip
MD5: b5d326969a4f2b52717c4bb3c4130d93
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-Racks
Great to finally have this.
For what it is worth, I initially installed the pdroid patch on the mirage 7.2 kang, but no dice. pdroid runs, but the battery icon and many settings are scrambled and/or unusable.
Back to cm7 stable it is. Pdroid is that great.
Many thanks to the Dev and the script runner.
Yea I tried too but put my Nook into SOD . I read elsewhere the suggestion to clear dalvik cache?..
I clear davlik with every flash just be sure. I can't say for sure that it would cause SOD just because Orbison so common with 7.1. I had eliminated the problem by upgrading to the Mirage kang with the SOD patch, but rolled back to 7.1 specifically to apply the patch for pdroid.
I am one of those paranoiacs that guards their info super jealously. It is a burden.
With the large number of people rolling up to MiRaGe though, I am hoping to stumble across a patch so I can permanently run that ROM until ICS comes out. I have burned the card for racks cm7.2/9 nightly dual boot, but haven't installed it yet. I will do so, but probably wont stick with it full time until I find a pdroid patch for the 7.2 kang at least.
If any of you kind souls has already made one, please let me know.
My Patch
Here's my patch for the MiRaGe Kang Build CM-7.2-RC0, build date 01-13-2012.
I made the patch on Ubuntu 11.x 32bit.
It works perfectly for me. The only time I get SOD, is when I keep WIFI on all the time, and the nook goes to deep sleep. But that SOD is regardless of whether I have pdroid installed or not. So I am sure pdroid has nothing to do with that SOD.
When WIFI off is set to 'never when charging' then I don't get any SOD.
Hope some of you can find this patch useful. and if so, please click 'THANKS'.
Paranoia is a very healthy thing
I wish I could thank you twice. I have been running tests with Droidwall, Shark for Root and Sharkreader among other apps, and you literally would not believe the amount of data that gets sent from your tablet, no matter how you try limiting permissions. I have found LBE to simply not stop it. Uninstalled two previously trusted apps just this morning after discovering they were sending packets to ad sites. I may share that info, after some more confirmation, but for now I am just glad I can control/block their information through PDroid.
If I have data sent out, I at least want to control its quality. Seriously, I don't have a PC where I am at, so I am relying on the kindness of strangers like you to keep me from chewing the walls.
Update: Atfter I applied tis patch, everything seems to work with Pdroid, but my battery icon reads as if it is charging when it is not plugged in, and has phone data bars instead if any battery indicator when the charger is attached. I had a similar problem when I tried the 7.1 stable patch on the mirage kang in the first place, although far more drastic that time. This is livable as is, although since I applied mirage's theme, i can't just replace the icon, or can I? Anyone know a fix?
Edit 2: changed the battery from icon to percentage in settings. No pictoral representation, but who cares, the info is there. Thanks again for posting that patch!
so this does work for Phiremod 7.1
I can verify it.
Well the 1st link works for it obviously, because it is 7.1 not 7.2
Patch for Mirage Kang build 7.2-RC0 build 0126
Here are the patches for the latest Kang build 7.2.
I installed them directly on top of the kang build, w/o having to reboot in between.
i.e. in CWM , wipe cache/dalvic-cache, then install kang build, then install pdroid patch, then reboot and enjoy.
Hit 'Thanks' if you found these useful.
My man! Every new build its a hard choice to either go without Pdroid or stay with older build. Until i can run thebpatcher through my nook itself, I will be relying on the largesse of the forum members ifbibwant to update. Luckily for me and others like me, XDA consistently takes care of its own.
Thanks again to you and the ones before you. This is shaping up to be a nice companion thread to the ROM thread. I'm going to link to your post in that thread, so more people can find it.
Thanks for your work, gumnaam.sur!
I use your patch with the 01132012 Kang build, no problems so far (I didn't have even the battery icon problem reported by mateorod - though I use the special transparency theme).
patches Kang Build 02012012
Patches for the latest Kang Build (02012012).
Stay paranoid
Thanks a lot for building and sharing these files gumnaam.sur!
Another nice advantage is that we won't need an IMEI Generator with this app anymore - as PDroid can generate a random/fixed value here
I ran this and just can't see the advantage in running it unless I'm really paranoid about the what I do getting into strange hands. I don't do banking or anything other that I'm really concerned about others getting info about. Is there something I should be concerned about?
I am a little paranoid which is why I don't do banking and such from any android device. It even drives me nuts knowing my wife does some banking from her non-rooted droid incredible phone. It just seems to me that overall android is not secure enough to use for anything private. Am I missing something?
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KANG 02012012 using TapaTalk
I use Pdroid in conjunction with several other apps which gives me a pretty good idea of what is sending data from my phone. Any app I don't think needs to communicate with the internet for functionality, I block with the firewall and use the log to do discovery on any blocked packets. I have caught several apps (market, no less) attempting to send packets to bogus http sites (most likely keystroke captures) and also to group ad sites that presumably disburse to the developers by the visit.
Any app I feel does need internet access, I pair Pdroid with Shark for root and Shark Reader, and use a winnowing process to analyse any suspect traffic.
I have found very few market apps that are involved with much more than unethical ad traffic, which while irritating and scummy, is a little less than dangerous. I just believe in stymying the efforts of unscrupulous developers ad publicizing any results I find. Last week I found that the trending market app Cartoon Wars was using its permissions to register users info with KRNIC, which is the National Internet Registry of south Korea. I, personally, like to know when my info is being sold to foreign intelligence commissions, info related to permissions as varied as network location and imei(good luck on the nook, right?) to incoming phone numbers (HA!)
I use Pdroid to compromise the integrity of the data should anything fall through the cracks. The more unnecessary permissions I find, the more attention I pay. Good developers explain theirir permissions, and avoid asking for unnecessary ones. I should feel comfortable buying cables on amazon, and Pdroid helps me get there.
Wow! You've definitely got security. I'm just not as worried I guess, but I'm glad there are people like you that are keeping an eye out. I just can't see using so much time spying on the spies.
You have convinced me into looking into this further though. So thank you.
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KANG 02012012 using TapaTalk
Yeah, I I have trust issues.
Related
I have been looking for a good CM 7.1 based ROM and am having a hard time deciding on one. The main thing I am looking for is the advanced lock screen delay and timeout settings. I cannot tell if this is a difference between CM 7.1 and 7.0.3 or if it is just a setting that some ROMs have and some do not.
Can someone shed some light on this for me? Is there a way to add this functionality? (I care because work enforced a security lock on my phone for email access, but I don't want to have to type i tin EVERY time the screen goes off. iPhones and WinMobile don't. It seems to be a flaw in Android's ActiveSync).
Thanks in advance.
This feature is new in CM 7.1. However, other users have reported success using Delayed Lock + WidgetLocker apps from the market to effect the same functionality, though I am uncertain how well they play with the Exchange server's demands.
Alternately, if you really don't want this security lock feature at all then you can find versions of Email.apk that will just lie to the Exchange server about the phone's configuration. Then you can configure your lock settings however you like. Ah, the classic fallacy of a security model that trusts the client...
I actually like the security of the password. I just wish it behaved like ActiveSyns on every other type of device (Win Mobile, iphone, etc) and let you set a delay (defined by the system administrator) for when the device security locks, not every time the screen goes off.
I wish we had a good CM7.1 ROM. Oh Z, wherefore art thou?
Yeah, running a nightly (or a ROM that pulls from nightly) is currently the only practicable choice to get the feature.
I backported the feature's code to the CM 7.0.3 codebase and built a custom ROM for my own device. I wanted the feature but didn't want to run the unstable nightly on my primary phone. Well, "backport" isn't the correct term, because the feature was developed against 7.0.3 and was rebased to 7.1 for submission to the source repo. But you know what I mean (haha).
organophosphate said:
Yeah, running a nightly (or a ROM that pulls from nightly) is currently the only practicable choice to get the feature.
I backported the feature's code to the CM 7.0.3 codebase and built a custom ROM for my own device. I wanted the feature but didn't want to run the unstable nightly on my primary phone. Well, "backport" isn't the correct term, because the feature was developed against 7.0.3 and was rebased to 7.1 for submission to the source repo. But you know what I mean (haha).
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Care to share?
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You know, I realized after posting that I probably look like a jerk for not offering. I apologize. There are issues that seem to preclude this, however.
The target of the relatively minor code changes necessarily included one of the fundamental framework jars.
When I was developing the feature, I only compiled CM for the Droid Incredible. Didn't make sense to compile for platforms I can't use/test, especially given the next point.
It takes my machine 90+ minutes to compile a ROM for a platform.
I believe that if I gave you a flashable update.zip to replace the affected jars it would have a high probability of cacking your ROM and would result in bootloops. Not absolutely certain, but fairly concerned about the possibility. I believe you would have better luck running a nightly that people report as "relatively stable" in the forums (some nightlies are better than others).
When the feature was merged, I really thought CM 7.1 would be out soon. RC1 dropped a month *before* the new feature was merged. That sounds odd in retrospect, because most projects freeze feature additions before entering the RC phase of a release (ie. they accept bugfixes only).
I just assumed it was for an X10 since we were in the X10 forums. Since this phone isn't officially CM supported I'm at the mercy of ROM developers to make a nice CM7.1. There are a couple out there, and they all have issues. One is close, but the dev seems to have gone missing. I hope he returns soon.
Is modifying one jar file all that it would take? Which file? If I knew that I could possibly take the jar file from one of the CM7.1 ROMs for my device (which has issues) and put it into a 7.0.3 that works smoothly and be happy.
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Is modifying one jar file all that it would take? Which file? If I knew that I could possibly take the jar file from one of the CM7.1 ROMs for my device (which has issues) and put it into a 7.0.3 that works smoothly and be happy.
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I like your train of thought. Unfortunately, even if that were to work you would be unable to configure the feature, because the UI is in the CM Settings apk (ie. the apk that makes "CyanogenMod Settings" menu option appear in your Android settings). If you were to also grab the CM 7.1 settings APK and install it, then that would replace the old version. The CM 7.1 version has all sorts of changes, controls for other new features, and so forth; therefore, that would break much of your other functionality.
How conversant are you in software development? You may be able to join one of those CM 7-derived ROM projects for your platform. It should be relatively easy for someone with a CM dev environment configured for your platform to grab these patches via git cherry-pick and build a 7.0.3 "Gold Edition" with this feature added. Because it should be easy, you might be able to persuade one of those custom ROM developers to grab this feature and include it.
If you are interested, here are the links to my patchsets that were merged to implement the feature:
Framework Implementation
CM Settings UI
I believe the patches will merge "nearly cleanly" into a CM 7.0.3 derived branch. That is to say, if there are merge conflicts they will not be substantive and will merely involve wholesale cut/paste reordering of methods within the given class files rather than requiring a rewrite of any part of the actual implementation.
I know that this simple reordering is all I changed between my 7.0.3 development version and the 7.1-derived submission. Seems Steve Kondik did a little further rearrangement to accommodate other patches that had been accepted/merged while mine was pending. Same deal there: still should be relatively simple.
I'm not much of a developer, though I'm an IT guy with some unix background. I'll look at it.
Hey MoPho's - I've been using LBE privacy guard for a few months, and it seems to be working pretty good. I also do have aVast antivirus installed which has its own firewall/permissions, but I have left that disabled to have LBE nanage everything.
Now, my only main concern with LBE is just the uncertainty of how trustworthy or safe in better words the app actually is. A few posts here and there from our boards pound on these concerns of not being able to get in touch with developer, not open source, and if any data is leaking back to wherever (China origin?)
I see that droidwall has been suggested as an alternative, but from some comments - droidwall isn't always consistent in monitoring or loading up prior to app launch or allowing a notification versus manual navigation to droidwall to re-config newly installed apps.
Now, I don't install much and keep on main markets - having something like LBE was awesome to knock off a ton of unecessary permisions... saying that we need to monitor each permission prior to installing is a given, but some of them are just getting out if hand, and thus a permissions manager is so helpful.
I'm not sure of droidwall has improved / there seems to be also another permissions denied app, but haven't digged up on further info.
Thanks for chiming in - running stock OS sprint 2.3.4 with root only.
It would be still great to hear an opinion Posted from a month ago - cheers.
I use it as well and would like to hear some input!
Sent from my Motorola Electrify using Tapatalk 2
Pdroid is open Source and more advanced. But I couldn't try it because im on the cm9. Its only support gingerbread right now. Please test and inform us about it if you are using deodexed gingerbread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357056
Ah thanks, yeah unfortunately I am running simply stock sprint rom on the photon with 2.3.5 OS rooted via torpedo method. I clicked on over to the link though - looks great as pdroid was a big one people mention... and it being open source. If there was a way to run it without further modifying the photon stock os, that would have been awesome...
Anyways, if there was an alternate open source to LBE that's easy to install on a stock rooted photon - would be cool. Otherwise, it'd be great to hear that I probably shouldn't be as concerned to this app being closed sourced and to disregard all the questionable threads here on where our data if any, is being collected and sent to wherever. I saw a few posts on reddit.com about this, and nobody was too alarmed when scanning through LBE code... obviously, that's beyond my scope of knowledge - hence asking here
Unfortunately I've uninstalled LBE already as it seems that at this moment it is a dummy program when it comes to blocking other applications to connect to the Internet (the reason I had it installed in the first place).
To test it out I used LBE to block an app that relies on the Internet to work and that other app kept updating with new content nevertheless.
I even restarted my phone (as some apps need a phone restart to fully work) and unfortunately there was no change. LBE doesn't seem to work for that purpose (at least not on my phone) so I was a little suspicious about it and removed it.
To be honest I didn't have much time to tinker with the other options in the app, but if it doesn't seem to be any good at one thing it's supposed to do I have doubts it would do it's job for the remaining functions.
Will be looking for an alternative. Suggestions are welcome.
Update: I've just tried the translated LBE Security Master App and this one seems to work.
Find it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422479
Download Link:
http://goo.im/devs/agrabren/cm10/shooter/cm-10-DisarmedToaster-0.1-shooter.zip
GAPPS:http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20120726-signed.zip
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Toolchain: GCC ARM version 4.4.3
Kernel Source: https://github.com/agrabren/android_kernel_htc_shooter
This is a Discussion thread for the rom and is only to be used for that purpose.
This ROM Thread is posted with Permission of Agrabren
WORKING:
SOUND
WI-FI
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Note I AM NOT the creator of this rom. IT IS AGRABREN
He gave me permission to post a discussion thread
I will keep this open until he feels like the build is alpha quality
I will then close this thread
I'm posting a thread as he has not.
Also If you phone explodes or you create a black hole I Take NO RESPONSIBILITY
I'm fine with the thread, at least until the ROM is stable enough to meet my standards to be posted as an alpha. People in the CM9 thread wanted to see it, since I had posted a build for the GSM phones (to test if I had the basic infrastructure working) and they were thrilled. So I posted for CDMA after the last builds came out.
Now everyone, settle down. You're all more than welcome to use this thread to discuss what works, doesn't work, and how to help each other make the most out of it.
This forum is supposed to be about helping each other. Is the ROM in development? Yes. Does it work up to my requirements for alpha quality? No. Why? Because the microphone doesn't work right. If that were fixed, I'd likely switch to developing for CM10 instead of CM9, because the camera won't kill me to get working and everything else is trivial between the two for me to not lose any time or features.
Thread moved to GENERAL - it will stay here as a discussion thread.
Edited OP and thread title to reflect that, also left a couple posts from agrabren so people know he's ok with this thread.
Any and all flames or name calling will get you an immediate infraction and likely a ban if you cross the line too much.
Keep XDA what it shold be, open and a place to learn.
Have a nice day.
im still confused why the dictionary exists in the OP? - why not just link to where that was copied and pasted from? its pretty distracting from the actual OP
Xda is the best...
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Can't wait to install this once I get home.
Thank you il Duce! I'm excited to see CM10 on the Shooter, and can't wait to see how far Agrabren and others take this rom!!
minieod said:
im still confused why the dictionary exists in the OP? - why not just link to where that was copied and pasted from? its pretty distracting from the actual OP
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It's the op decision to put what they want there. You'll live.
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Xda is the best...
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I agree.
I've been running this for a little over 12 hours now. It's very nice and makes me very excited to see where we can see Jellybean in the future.
Not Working:
4G will not enable
3D
Camera
Google Now/Search FCs
Headphones are not detected - sound continues to play through external speaker
Potential battery drain - BetterBatteryStats shows phone as awake 100% of the time, though I had an app running that may have been the cause of it
Watching Youtube can cause a reboot after 20-30 seconds
I also was unable to boot with the stock kernel, and if I had the newer ICS firmware it refused to boot at all with any combination I tried.
It's incredibly fast though, you can definitely feel the Butter in play. I'm very impressed with the ROM and will continue to run it until I go back to the USA, at the very least.
Hi.
I've been out for a bit, glad to see much hasn't changed (sarcasm).
One troll has already been banned from the mess that had to be deleted. Please behave yourselves, I really don't like spending my free time deleting drivel and banning people. The op has permission to post this, it's compliant, just discuss away. Don't be rude to each other.
Thanks and have a pleasant evening
Can't Wait
wwjoshdew said:
Thank you il Duce! I'm excited to see CM10 on the Shooter, and can't wait to see how far Agrabren and others take this rom!!
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I feel the same way.
I would feel better when an official RUU is available then I would start ROM'ing all crazy lol.
FusionNeo said:
I've been running this for a little over 12 hours now. It's very nice and makes me very excited to see where we can see Jellybean in the future.
Bugs:
4G will not enable
3D
Camera
Google Now/Search FCs
Headphones are not detected - sound continues to play through external speaker
Potential battery drain - BetterBatteryStats shows phone as awake 100% of the time, though I had an app running that may have been the cause of it
I also was unable to boot with the stock kernel, and if I had the newer ICS firmware it refused to boot at all with any combination I tried.
It's incredibly fast though, you can definitely feel the Butter in play. I'm very impressed with the ROM and will continue to run it until I go back to the USA, at the very least.
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4g is not integrated into this build , neither is camera , neither is 3d , neither is voice search - that is why those are bugs
Love the idea here, just dropped in to see only shooter, not shooteru.
Perhaps a CDMA thread title, or people posting whether they are gsm or cdma.
We all want to ditch sense after all.
scariola said:
Love the idea here, just dropped in to see only shooter, not shooteru.
Perhaps a CDMA thread title, or people posting whether they are gsm or cdma.
We all want to ditch sense after all.
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you can get a fully functioning cm9 rom (no sense) for gsm in the gsm developers section
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4g is not integrated into this build , neither is camera , neither is 3d , neither is voice search - that is why those are bugs
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Oh I know, I wasn't expecting them to work. I just wanted people to be aware of what isn't working, even if it's things people shouldn't expect to work.
FusionNeo said:
Oh I know, I wasn't expecting them to work. I just wanted people to be aware of what isn't working, even if it's things people shouldn't expect to work.
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:good: - OP should be updated reflecting a "not working" feature set
Found another bug - attempting to watch Youtube for more than 30 seconds or so causes a reboot. Will update my post to reflect this (in 5 minutes, due to my lack of user permissions). I agree that these bugs should be listed in the OP, to make them easier for people to find as well as remove all the posts like "DOES FOUR GEEZ WORK" from people who only choose to read the OP.
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you can get a fully functioning cm9 rom (no sense) for gsm in the gsm developers section
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yes, a cm9 and cm10 Rom if you know where, the thread hasn't been created for 10 yet.
Was just hoping someone could find out why audio goes out after phone connects call through SIP(Internet calling) ?
Problem with all cm9+ roms, by 3 different gsm devs.
Titanium backup won't restore Facebook.
It's not critical, but it is a problem I've been having. Unchecking Facebook fixes it.
It hung on something else too - had to force close TB a couple times, but I got most of my stuff back.
Over all, very fast, and the phone (the old neglected bit some people actually use to talk with other people verbally, rather than via txt) works well.
I've also had issues downloading paid apps from the market - and TB warned me that my device ID had changed. It offered to change it back, which also crashed TB.
After restoring accounts from TB (and possibly the device ID as well - not sure if that completed or not), the market issues have gone away.
Well, I’m sure that it isn’t a secret for anyone, CM7 has been and still is my favorite rom for my Defy(s). I’ve been using it since the day Quarx’s brought IP Tables support to it – hence allowing me to use Droidwall as an Android firewall. I could then selectively allow/deny internet access to any installed app [having internet access permission that is…]. This is a first and important security step, but like anything, this has limitations; apps that do ‘really’ need internet access are then free to send (and receive) whatever their Android permissions allow them to get a hand on. For that, CM7 has a neet feature called ‘permissions management’ that allows you to control each app’s permissions individually. This option works fine BUT the problem is that the apps that you control that way often lose functionalities, stop working altogether or even throw you an error message telling you that the app’s permissions have been altered and that you will not be able to use it unless you reset them.
So how to solve this potentially very critical security flaw without losing apps functionality? ==> PDroid.
Thanks to xda user measel, I’ve just recently discovered this wonderful piece of software and I don’t think that my Defy will ever live without it from now on. The app itself is not really a new one and I’ve decided to create this thread to spread to word around and in the hope that it will be helpful to other Defy owners conscious about their data privacy.
WHAT IT DOES:
• More than just blocking apps Android permissions, it lets you control each individual app’s access to private information (user + system);
• It allows you to block and, in some cases, let you either use random or custom private data;
• It will also (if desired) warn you on any root or privacy info access, all that with an easy to figure out and use user interface [see pics];
• And best of all, applications will not crash when their access to private data is blocked unlike with Permission Denied (using LBE Privacy or alike or with CM7).
Disclaimer: I’m only the messenger and I take no credit or responsibility for anything that you’ll do with your phone from here on.
HOW TO:
Original thread by the dev [go have a read and give your thanks to svyat]
Pre-requisites:
- Make sure that you did not use Titanium Backup to integrate sys Dalvik into the rom [if you don’t know what that means, chances are that you didn’t; ignore it];
- a PC running Windows;
- a CM7-jordan/Jordan-plus build;
- PDroid patcher v1.31 (v1.27 also work but the latest version (v1.32) from the link above doesn’t work for the Defy. So I’m attaching v1.31 here which I’ve found with a little digging through that thread;
- the PDroid.apk itself [Market link] or [Dropbox link from the dev];
=> If you don’t have access to a PC running Windows or just don’t want to go through the trouble of patching process described below, you can head over to measel’s CM7 nightlys | info collection thread and locate the build you are using; he was kind enough to provide us with patches for most of recent Jordan builds. So go and grab your applicable patches and give thanks to him.
=> If you’re running CM9 or CM10, this patcher will not work for you, but there are alternatives - namely: the ‘auto-patcher’ or even the PDroid v2 [I’ll give links to those later]. Just go read the last few pages of the original thread, there are quite a few mentions/redirections to those over there. [please don’t ask me about questions about those as I did not try them just yet]
Note: PDroid is an ongoing but currently ‘on hold’ project [because, like someone said before: devs sometimes have a life outside Android...] which works perfectly fine as it is if you follow the next few steps below.
Zero off: Make a nandroid backup of your current phone setup.
First off: Create the patch for your rom:
To work, PDroid first needs you to mod 3 framework files and push them onto your phone. To do so, all you need to do is to execute the PDroidPatcher.exe. file [extract it from the zip attached] and point it to the CM7 build you are using. Let it do its thing and it will create a CWM recovery flashable zip and an undo (RESTORE) one.
Second: Flash the patch:
Just boot into recovery, wipe cache and dalvik and install the patch and boot up.
Third: Install the apk
That’s it!, you’re now ready to go your list of installed apps and start controlling your privacy accesses.
Warning: again, go read the original thread for a how to on how to backup your PDroid settings and/or use TB to do so.
HOW TO USE:
Well, it’s all pretty obvious and with a bit of common sense, you will easily figure out how and what to set up. By default, nothing is blocked and apps are free to access data. So you’ll have to go through your list of installed apps and set up each individual data access and then try them out. For example, logic would tell us not to block the ‘GPS/Network Location’ data to maps related apps nor block ‘Accounts credentials’ to apps dealing with user IDs and passwords like Email or social apps.
I can’t give you detailed instructions here (it’s not the point of this thread anyway), but if like me you already use Droidwall, you can first leave alone all the apps that you’ve black listed for internet access [pic 2] since they won’t do anything with your private data if they can’t send it back home… There is also an option within the app to ‘hide all the safe apps’ [which do not have an internet permission]; check it to reduce the size of your list of apps to configure.
From experience, I’d also suggest you to keep an eye on the apps requiring a password to run since blocking Device or Subscriber ID might mean that you’ll have to always enter passwords each time you run the app that would otherwise be remembered by those apps. As a rule of thumb, I pretty much choose the ‘use random’ option whenever it is available (just to minimize problems with the app on blocking completely – I’m not even sure this is a valid argument here…) or block everything else when it’s not and finally, I leave ‘Network Info’ allowed since it basically only lets apps know if you connected to internet or not [who cares if they get your wifi’s SSID or not…].
But again, you’ll have to fine tune the whole thing for each and every app and run them to check for full functionalities – but at least they won’t crash on you… Finally, you can pinpoint potential problems/solutions by turning off the general PDroid notifications option and by turning on a specific app’s ones [pic 3].
Happy privacy enhancement!
/AL
As usual!
Quality guides from lovely []AL[]
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nogoodusername said:
As usual!
Quality guides for lovely []AL[]
Why not move to Android Apps forums?
I don't want a tapatalk sig!
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"lovely AL" wow! you surely are the first person to tell me anything like this here on xda.
..not sure if I should be flattered or run away by homophobia - hehehe! :laugh:
Well, I didn't mean to make it a guide when I started writing it, but like always I had things
to say and the post got longer and longer.. so I guess that we can call it a sort of guide...
But I truly like the app and believe that along with Droidwall, that should be installed on every phone.
In fact, Google should look at this and incorporate something similar into Android.
OK, I'll go reply to your PM now... cheers!
Edit for your question: because like I wrote in the OP, I'm just the messenger and not the dev of the app.
The app also works mostly for on phones running CM7 and even not all the phones support it either.
So I wouldn't publish this widely without at least asking permission to the dev. But here for Defy owners fellows,
I know it works fine and again, I think that it is pretty much an essential app to have.
9 downloads/1 thank;
Leeches, I see leeches everywhere!
Shhhiiiiii- You got me excited! I thought I'd find a patch for the Quarx rom! So far auto-patcher can't patch Quarx's CM10 roms. Nor do I understand why that's so but that's why I'm not a dev.
Excellent app
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KicknGuitar said:
Shhhiiiiii- You got me excited! I thought I'd find a patch for the Quarx rom! So far auto-patcher can't patch Quarx's CM10 roms. Nor do I understand why that's so but that's why I'm not a dev.
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Well... sorry to hear that; I had no clue that it doesn't work with Quarx CM10. It seems to work for some other JB builds/phones... But like I wrote on the OP, I haven't tried any of this on CM9/JB yet. So again, too bad that this thing is a no go for now. I hear that Quarx is very busy outside Android's world as of lately so it might not be a good time to ask him about this - might also be low on his priority...but who knows, someone might read this and find an answer for you.
ps: quite an avatar you got there :silly:
an thanks for the link to the auto-patcher thread; it might be useful to others and it'll save me the search when I update the OP with it and your comment eventually...
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Excellent app
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Well thanks but again, just I'm just a messenger here and not the dev... :highfive:
Actually, I use DroidWall , so.. can uninstall this app? And right now, JUST USE pdroid! Right?
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juan296 said:
Actually, I use DroidWall , so.. can uninstall this app? And right now, JUST USE pdroid! Right?
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I still use both...they are quite different apps and don't do the same at all. Droidwall is a firewall that let you control if an app has access to internet or not; PDroid controls what private information each app can access.
Like I wrote on the OP, any app that is blocked by Droidwall doesn't need a PDroid setup, but apps that need internet connection could be free to get private information from your phone if you don't use PDroid...
Basically, PDroid has no way of blocking all internet access; it only blocks apps from reading private info (or scrambles it by returning info like random network location or sim ID#...)
Tonight i showed installing CyanogenMod on my Galaxy S4 live at a cryptoparty.
After reboot, the device showed up with exactly all that Google bull**** i wanted to get rid of - and i still can't uninstall it!
I really wonder:
Where is that ROM project that claims to allow for a Google-free experience?
I mean a real FOSS ecosystem. One that can be secured from sinister interests.
Those CyanogenMod guys, however, have ultimately lost my trust tonight.
Any hints, out there?
blausand said:
Tonight i showed installing CyanogenMod on my Galaxy S4 live at a cryptoparty.
After reboot, the device showed up with exactly all that Google bull**** i wanted to get rid of - and i still can't uninstall it!
I really wonder:
Where is that ROM project that claims to allow for a Google-free experience?
I mean a real FOSS ecosystem. One that can be secured from sinister interests.
Those CyanogenMod guys, however, have ultimately lost my trust tonight.
Any hints, out there?
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Why would CyanogenMod have lost your trust? CM does not come with proprietary Gapps included. What is in the package is very clear and spelled out. But the % of people that prefer their phone sprinkled with Google goodness far outweigh the % of people who feel the need to be so secure that they have to partially neuter the functionality of the phone in some form or another. Anyway, you can check out the NoGapps project here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...tmctr=(not provided)&__utmv=-&__utmk=34876962
Is CM11 just missing a switch to keep the GApps of the former ROM or drop them?
es0tericcha0s said:
Why would CyanogenMod have lost your trust? CM does not come with proprietary Gapps included.
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Well, then explain what i find in my Harddrive: (see attachment).
I haven't figured out yet why these GApps persistently stay on my phone no matter how often i wipe /cache and /system and reinstall CM, but i do guess something has changed in their policy.
Maybe it's just a missing switch that should ask me if i want to keep them or drop them?
What bothers me even more, is that i can't uninstall GApps. I can just deactivate them, where what i seek is pure absence of code. Operating virginity fu(king system.
And what makes me lose trust in CM is that, coming with the commercialisation, this windows installer comes up with this clean black box window that just says "downloading" or "installing" for ages, leaving me without any clue about what is currently transferred - and in what direction.
"Theoretically, the CyanogenMod installer could easily have uploaded literally every bit of my private data off my phone within that time."I guess everybody would feel a lot better if the installer eats the good old .zip i feed it, or at least reports which one it is downloading and at what bandwidth or percentage.
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Anyway, you can check out the NoGapps project…
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Thanks for that, man. It's so refreshing to learn about these little steps in the right direction. Will definitely support them!
I much prefer to just download the roms myself vs. using an installer. That would eliminate the "What is it doing??" issue. http://download.cyanogenmod.org/ - I didn't know which version of the S4 you have, so couldn't be more specific. The only time Gapps should be persistent across wipes (though shouldn't happen if you wipe the system...) is when the Gapps you are using also includes a script to save the Gapps across updates. Look in your /system/etc/init.d folder and see if you have any scripts in there you don't recognize or say something about Gapps. CM does come with a few of the open source Google apps included like Voice Search and such. But you can uninstall the apps that you do not want with a file manager that has root access or a system app remover app like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jumobile.manager.systemapp You can also remove unwanted apps BEFORE you install if you have the rom zip on your PC combined with a PC app like 7zip that will allow you to open as an archive (regularly unzipping with break the signature of the rom) and deleting the apps from /system/app before you flash.
Keep in mind that disabling will typically be better than uninstalling the app because the end result is the same : not in the app drawer, not able to run, can't use CPU processes, etc. but if you do decide you need it, it is easy to enable, reboot, and use the app again. Removing the apps from /system does not give your phone more usable space for other apps or anything like that since the apps we install get put into /data/app not /system/app whose partitions are already set. Now, you can throw apps from /data/app into /system/app and save some space like that, but you have to give those apps the right permissions as well as some do not like to update properly when there.
Other alternatives include seeing if there is a solid AOSP build for your version of the S4 and use the NoGapps project, or to learn how to dev yourself.
Currently, CyanogenMod helps google to maintain a trap
Again i appreciate your words, es0tericcha0s.
As described before, these scripts work for Google, making their Apps happily survive any attempts to really wipe my own phone.
Today's stock ROMs contain bloatware and spyware, which every proprietary component with root privileges must be considered to be.
Rather than saving memory or improving performance, my goal is to teach to as many "normal" people as possible an easy way to setup trustible alternatives.
I know everything can be accomplished in a root shell, but the way out of this observation hell must be prepared for the masses now.
Starting with Dominik Schürmann's article about An Android without Google i will continue focussing on Replicant.
"As soon as Cyanogen and his team offer a simple exit door to the trap they currently help Google to maintain, i shall be in peace with them again."
blausand said:
Again i appreciate your words, es0tericcha0s.
As described before, these scripts work for Google, making their Apps happily survive any attempts to really wipe my own phone.
Today's stock ROMs contain bloatware and spyware, which every proprietary component with root privileges must be considered to be.
Rather than saving memory or improving performance, my goal is to teach to as many "normal" people as possible an easy way to setup trustible alternatives.
I know everything can be accomplished in a root shell, but the way out of this observation hell must be prepared for the masses now.
Starting with Dominik Schürmann's article about An Android without Google i will continue focussing on Replicant.
"As soon as Cyanogen and his team offer a simple exit door to the trap they currently help Google to maintain, i shall be in peace with them again."
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But I'm certain that the scripts that keep the apps are from the developers, and not Google themselves since they aren't the ones who bundle the Gapps for our use with roms, and that script to keep them across flashing is helpful to more people as is often requested to make it easier to update the rom without a complete reflash.
Ah, I forgot about the Replicant program. I had seen it pop up before but couldn't remember the name. I do a lot of android modding at my shop and it's just something that no one ever asks me to do, so never really bothered to get that far into it. People who know about it are typically gonna be able to do it themselves and the ones that don't know often are not the type of people wanting to relearn how to use their phone. I just weigh the pros and cons for Google's oversight of my phone vs not using some of my favorite Google apps easily like Maps and Gmail and the pros of Google win every time, for me. Luckily there are alternatives though as that is what keeps things moving along. I triple boot with Ubuntu Touch and FireFox OS on my Nexus 5, so it's not like I am against alternatives at all.
You could go full out security geek style and rock this: http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5441642/blackphone-silent-circle-geeksphone-pre-order-launch
Peace after all. A short apology.
Since i tampered quite a bit about cyanogenMod in this thread, i should at least tell how i finally got rid of GApps.
I installed OmniROM just to learn that it's wizard leads me into even wilder Google service agreements than CM did.
(So, unfortunately, i haven't seen and felt it at all )
After that, just out of sheer curiousity, i went into the "advanced" menu of the ClockworkMod bootloader. Surprisingly, the wellknown "clear dalvik cache" was hidden there. So i did and also installed CM over, restarted, earned an endless loop in the Cyanogen Account wizard, did "wipe data /reset", installed CM once more, and finally rebootet into a virgin CM that seemingly didn't contain any GApps anymore.
So, in fact i thank everybody who contributes to a better smart phone experience and of course the community behind what is now venturing as "CyanogenMod". Always remember:
"Don't be evil!"
blausand said:
Since i tampered quite a bit about cyanogenMod in this thread, i should at least tell how i finally got rid of GApps.
I installed OmniROM just to learn that it's wizard leads me into even wilder Google service agreements than CM did.
(So, unfortunately, i haven't seen and felt it at all )
After that, just out of sheer curiousity, i went into the "advanced" menu of the ClockworkMod bootloader. Surprisingly, the wellknown "clear dalvik cache" was hidden there. So i did and also installed CM over, restarted, earned an endless loop in the Cyanogen Account wizard, did "wipe data /reset", installed CM once more, and finally rebootet into a virgin CM that seemingly didn't contain any GApps anymore.
So, in fact i thank everybody who contributes to a better smart phone experience and of course the community behind what is now venturing as "CyanogenMod". Always remember:
"Don't be evil!"
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Just another reason I prefer TWRP recovery as it has the dalvik cache in the regular Wipe menu.
If you don't want any Google stuff on your phone don't have an android or flash a completely different os, cyanogen, omni or just about any ROM in this forum will be based off Google. You can probably flash pure Debian but that won't do you much good if you want to use it as a phone. So youre stuck with hoping someone ported Firefox os or Jolla or Ubuntu touch or whatever.
Your other option would be getting something akin to pdroid or imbed some framework spoofing, some of which may be done for you if you look into your device forum.
But compiling about cyanogen or any other custom ROM is silly as not one of them claim to be Google free or even suggest it, and not installing gapps won't mean there is no Google 'stuff' as its still running android
Best of luck in your endeavors
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Android withour Google: Pdroid permission control.
demkantor said:
If you don't want any Google stuff on your phone don't have an android or flash a completely different os, cyanogen, omni or just about any ROM in this forum will be based off Google. (...)
Your other option would be getting something akin to pdroid or imbed some framework spoofing (...)
But compiling about cyanogen or any other custom ROM is silly as not one of them claim to be Google free or even suggest it, and not installing gapps won't mean there is no Google 'stuff' as its still running android
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Thanks for commenting.
I was thinking that Google's initial contribution to android is both open source and promised to stay away from google's servers. Am i wrong with that?
I've never tried Pdroid. To be honest, the approach shows clearly how conceptually failing the whole perrmission system of android is. And since it is so crucial to the architecture of android, i guess in the next 2 years the real long term killer mobile OS will appear.
I'm also writing this because cyanogenMod is driving me crazy with some bugs and shortcomings, and today i checked the Replicant website and nothing has changed since march.
http://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-os...web-gaming/?part=propeller&subj=news&tag=link
Maybe Firefox OS will become what you want, my guess is that a couple more years and it will work out the kinks and those with a dislike of apple Google and Microsoft will have another choice. Well also jolla looks promising
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