[Q] MMS pic spyware? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello xda, iv'e done extensive searching on this site and google, however have not found an answer to what im looking for so please forgive me/point me in right direction if allready discussed somewhere...my friend has an unrooted htc evo 4g on sprint and his ex gf somehow managed to figure out how to completely spy on his phone without ever having physical access to it, which until now i didnt think was possible unless you install faulty apps on your own, which he hasnt. he received a blank mms message followed by a basic one word text from her saying "LOL"...now his battery drains fast, everything runs slow on an otherwise fairly quick phone, and his ex keeps sending messages proving she knows everything thats on his phone. she was even able to find a private video he shot with his new gf of them (no further info needed lol) on his phone, and sent him texts commenting on how she was going to do the same moves she saw in the vid with all his friends for revenge. every half hour or so she sends a text telling him his exact location...sends comments on txts he receives...ect...so what is this? how would i find it? how would i delete it/block it from ever happening? im not a complete noob but beginner/intermediate for sure, any help would be greatly appreciated.
(i know i could root it and wipe everything/install custom roms ect, but he wants to avoid rooting for some reason, however if its the only way any helpful info from here would help me convince him)

Go to airplane mode and scan the app list under settings/applications/all for anything suspicious
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Markuzy said:
Go to airplane mode and scan the app list under settings/applications/all for anything suspicious
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nothing unusual just ended up returning to stock, re doing everything, and hopefully privacy guarded it

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[Q] People recovering my deleted texts!

So I decided to sleep over at my girlfriends the other day and woke up to her yelling at Me. The then got mad at me for testing other girls that were just my friends ( I know, It's kind of ridiculous). Anyways the strange part is I had deleted the messages and then she told me she knows how to view deleted messages. So I've been looking around online for a while now and I haven't heard of any way to view messages when they are deleted. Oh by the way she isn't very tech savvy. So any ideas how she is viewing messages that I have deleted? Also I'm using handcent, but the messages are not on the stock messaging app.
Any chance she installed some kind of app on your phone another time that keeps your texts and email in memory seperately. Oh yeah and find a new girlfriend, even though she was right she shouldn't be invading your privacy that much.
Pimpin ain't easy. In the meantime, you should keep a screen lock on it.
donatom3 said:
Any chance she installed some kind of app on your phone another time that keeps your texts and email in memory seperately. Oh yeah and find a new girlfriend, even though she was right she shouldn't be invading your privacy that much.
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It's possible but i haven't noticed anything... What would I look for and how could I get rid of it If there is one? But ya tell me about it.
BDawgTrap said:
It's possible but i haven't noticed anything... What would I look for and how could I get rid of it If there is one? But ya tell me about it.
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Mm it will be hard to tell with Android , anyways , some people is having problems erasing sms because they come back up in the device(I think is HTC sense.com ) but.you should just lock the screen, and if she ask you why you locked it , well tell her that you want to make sure if you loose it don't want anyone messing with it ha ha
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
serves you right. take care of business at home man.
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serves you right. take care of business at home man.
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What is that even supposed to mean ha. I didn't even use my phone over there it was just charging.
she lying dawg! trying to get you to admit to something without proof
best flex yo pimp hand and teach
NewZJ said:
she lying dawg! trying to get you to admit to something without proof
best flex yo pimp hand and teach
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She quoted the conversation almost perfectly ha... So either she has it sent to her phone VIA some spyware app that i haven't noticed, or she found a way to outsmart half the world and bring texts back from the dead... Ha any ideas guys? I don't like the idea that someone can read my deleted messages.
Time for a factory reset/wipe (get rid of any hidden software) and a lock code...
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tallspawn said:
Time for a factory reset/wipe (get rid of any hidden software) and a lock code...
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Ya maybe. It would be nice to know how she did it. Plus Idk how she will react to lock codes. I guess we will see.
From the msg list screen in handcent hit the menu button. Then select more. Hit delivery report. This shows all sent msgs but not received. Not sure if that is what she was looking out. from the report if you hit menu you can clear the log.
Freak I think that was it! Sweet! is there something like that on the stock messaging app or just handcent? Thanks a ton!
There are ways to recover erased text messages.
Most likely, you have a sms logger, something like smsbox.
As a side note, I would get rid of someone spying on me. Trust is a major part of a relationship, spying shows no trust, which dooms any future.
Make sure the sms/mms forward feature is disabled. Maby she set it up to forward your messages to her email or phone. (Messaging, Menu, Settings, Forward To...)
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Ahh the trials and tribulations of young love,...so many women so little time...they never understand.... Lol
put some fake texts in there , in jibberish.. When she asks what they are..say that you text in klingon... It will drive her nutts trying to decipher it...lol
tallspawn said:
Time for a factory reset/wipe (get rid of any hidden software) and a lock code...
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Or time to find a new girlfriend that isn't insecure, or trusts you...
get this app
The hidden message app. Been using it a while .. makes cheating a breeze ! It looks like a stupid stoner app. But really hides all messages and calls to a privite folder that u need a pw to get at !!
If you have Google Voice integration the Google Voice app holds a longer history.
Maybe you're really trying to get us to help you recover her deleted messages. Judy kidding. Maybe she's using Dexrex
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Text message app... please help

So for some reason my text message app always shows 1 hour behind on all the messages I receive. I hate that it does this cause it never shows the newest one last and I am having to search for the message that was sent...
Anyone else experience this? Or know how to fix it?
I am using the stock HTC messaging app... I know it is not a rom issue cause I can switch between roms and it stays the same. Unless this is a wide spread issue I am unaware of.
Running Synergy
Sms time fix in the market.
Mods, suggest closing before he gets flamed to death...
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Thanks a bunch
FLAME! FLAME! FLAME!!!!
ok..... That wasn't so bad, was it?
Just use search for future reference! Have a great day, Valued Customer!

SpeedROM wifi mms problems

I know that you guys are going to tell me to search through the thread. I'm actually not a noob I just lurk a lot.
I flashed SpeedROM 4.0 and now I am unable to send mms messages (redundant) while I'm connected to my WiFi. I searched all over that thread to find a fix and all I came up with was to install Android 4 ICS Messaging SMS over the Play Store. tried it. it came up with an error "Duplicate Provider Authority" Any help?
I also found out that there's no notification of messages on the lock screen nor does it chime/vibrate/notify when you receive a message from an unknown number
Si_Wolfbane said:
I know that you guys are going to tell me to search through the thread. I'm actually not a noob I just lurk a lot.
I flashed SpeedROM 4.0 and now I am unable to send mms messages (redundant) while I'm connected to my WiFi. I searched all over that thread to find a fix and all I came up with was to install Android 4 ICS Messaging SMS over the Play Store. tried it. it came up with an error "Duplicate Provider Authority" Any help?
I also found out that there's no notification of messages on the lock screen nor does it chime/vibrate/notify when you receive a message from an unknown number
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It's a general problem with the amaze on ICS, it's widespread, so don't expect a fix anytime soon.
It never happened on the stock ics with sense 3.6. If I knew how to do all of this stuff I would help. My best guess is that the answer is in the stock ics ROM. I have my stock backup if anyone needs it for study
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Do a battery pull... That will drop all the power out of the phones radios and force them to reset. Thus fixing mms hopefully
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I tried that already. I actually know all of the basic trouble shooting steps. my last two theories are either the coding for the room is just wrong or I need to flash the kernal which I have nO clue how to do
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You do realise I'm on stock ICS right? If you read the wifi thread that's in this very sub forum, you'd see it's not just me that has the issue, many members here as well, go over to tmo's forum and check the ICS bug list thread, you'll see a damn long list of others there as well.
Si_Wolfbane said:
I tried that already. I actually know all of the basic trouble shooting steps. my last two theories are either the coding for the room is just wrong or I need to flash the kernal which I have nO clue how to do
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my guess is on the kernel needing to be flashed/reflashed for the mms/wifi thing. as to the other issues, no clue. have you tried running stock ics yet?
Yeah I had stock ics for a while before I switched. I don't know how to flash the kernal though. Honestly if I knew how, I'd just put stock ics mms.apk in the.zip but I tried that already and it canceled the install. Don't know how to do that either
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Just reflashed the kernel, same problems still exists. I'm confused now as to what to do.
Si_Wolfbane said:
Just reflashed the kernel, same problems still exists. I'm confused now as to what to do.
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Then go stock, see if the problem is still there or not.
Si_Wolfbane said:
I know that you guys are going to tell me to search through the thread. I'm actually not a noob I just lurk a lot.
I flashed SpeedROM 4.0 and now I am unable to send mms messages (redundant) while I'm connected to my WiFi. I searched all over that thread to find a fix and all I came up with was to install Android 4 ICS Messaging SMS over the Play Store. tried it. it came up with an error "Duplicate Provider Authority" Any help?
I also found out that there's no notification of messages on the lock screen nor does it chime/vibrate/notify when you receive a message from an unknown number
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"Duplicate Provider Authority" means that you are trying to install something that the phone already has system flags dedicated for(this explanation could be a little better).. Speedrom already has the MMS app, use a root tool, titanium backup - something to remove mms.apk from the system/app folder, then you will be able to install the one in the market -- not that that is a sure fire fix.. but one thing at a time. Try that, that is the only reason you couldn't install.

SMALL TRICK FOR HIDING "last seen" on WhatsApp.

Hey Friendz can we really hide "last seen" on WhatsApp..??
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Yes there is a small trick, which i found out yesterday..
For me i have a samsung galaxy 5 and no internet on my phone(but it also works on phone data plan) i use Wifi, the trick is for me to have wifi on so i can recieve messages and once i do, i just turn off my wifi and then open the whatsapp message. after that you can even type a reply if you want send it, close whatsapp completly and start your wifi again. it wel then send the message but you wont have come online, my friends still think its freaky that i was last online 3 days ago while im still talking to them the only downside is that you yourself then cant see when someone else was last online cause to get that information you need to be in the message and online. hope this helps.
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ddamani9 said:
Hey Friendz can we really hide "last seen" on WhatsApp..??
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Yes there is a small trick, which i found out yesterday..
For me i have a samsung galaxy 5 and no internet on my phone(but it also works on phone data plan) i use Wifi, the trick is for me to have wifi on so i can recieve messages and once i do, i just turn off my wifi and then open the whatsapp message. after that you can even type a reply if you want send it, close whatsapp completly and start your wifi again. it wel then send the message but you wont have come online, my friends still think its freaky that i was last online 3 days ago while im still talking to them the only downside is that you yourself then cant see when someone else was last online cause to get that information you need to be in the message and online. hope this helps.
Dont Forget To Hit Thanx:thumbup:
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I've tried this before but sometimes it's quick troublesome...
Last seen gives troubles whenever you don't to reply somebody else
droid wall firewall switching may work too
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Markuzy said:
droid wall firewall switching may work too
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thanks! It's much better than the previous method!
But it would be better if it can automatically connect whatsapp again when I return to homescreen, so that msg can be sent and last seen can be hid as well!:fingers-crossed:
ddamani9 said:
Hey Friendz can we really hide "last seen" on WhatsApp..??
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Yes there is a small trick, which i found out yesterday..
For me i have a samsung galaxy 5 and no internet on my phone(but it also works on phone data plan) i use Wifi, the trick is for me to have wifi on so i can recieve messages and once i do, i just turn off my wifi and then open the whatsapp message. after that you can even type a reply if you want send it, close whatsapp completly and start your wifi again. it wel then send the message but you wont have come online, my friends still think its freaky that i was last online 3 days ago while im still talking to them the only downside is that you yourself then cant see when someone else was last online cause to get that information you need to be in the message and online. hope this helps.
Dont Forget To Hit Thanx:thumbup:
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Wow, it really works, thanks!
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ddamani9 said:
the only downside is that you yourself then cant see when someone else was last online cause to get that information you need to be in the message and online. hope this helps.
Dont Forget To Hit Thanx:thumbup:
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yes that you can just take another phone add a contact that you want to see and you can spy their status without being seen! I'm surprised you didn't figure this out obviously you can do many tricks for this. one is saving multiple data profiles for whatsapp and it requires root
another way for anyone, stock unrooted phone, is installing and uninstalling or clear data, change sim etc etc
sk1887 said:
yes that you can just take another phone add a contact that you want to see and you can spy their status without being seen! I'm surprised you didn't figure this out obviously you can do many tricks for this. one is saving multiple data profiles for whatsapp and it requires root
another way for anyone, stock unrooted phone, is installing and uninstalling or clear data, change sim etc etc
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hi,can u tell us how to make multiple data profiles?and how does it work?
jawadCH said:
hi,can u tell us how to make multiple data profiles?and how does it work?
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you need to use titanium backup, make a backup of whatsapp. Then delete whatsapp data and create a new account with a new phone number.
You might need to move the old backup from /sdcard/TitaniumBackup saved as .tar.gz to some other folder and then you can swap whenever you need to change profile.
I hope you can understand what I mean!
maybe I'll try it
thanks! It's much better than the previous method!

Text Messages Show Up As Wrong Contact Name

Anyone experience this? My gf will text on her LGOG and when she receives text the wrong name pops up but under the #info it shows the right names #. You think having her contacts transfered over from her iPhone to her Android at at&t is causing a problem.
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I had this happen a couple of times after flashing new ROMs. It seemed to fix itself after a couple of reboots.
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I had this happen when I had the same number saved under 2 different names. I'm not sure how it happened, if this is the problem just delete the wrong one and it should fix itself.
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My wife is seeing the same problem on her phone. She will send a text to somebody but the reply will say it is somebody else. Rebooting the phone then assigns the message to the correct person. We have already checked the contacts to see if there was any duplicate info, but that is not the issue. Might just run a custom rom and hope that fixes the problem.
miller7796 said:
My wife is seeing the same problem on her phone. She will send a text to somebody but the reply will say it is somebody else. Rebooting the phone then assigns the message to the correct person. We have already checked the contacts to see if there was any duplicate info, but that is not the issue. Might just run a custom rom and hope that fixes the problem.
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can't be of much help but I can say it's happened to me on custom roms. really curious about this. clean reflash seemed to fix it.
ryancnap said:
can't be of much help but I can say it's happened to me on custom roms. really curious about this. clean reflash seemed to fix it.
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I thought about going that route, but ended up just flashing Vanilla RootBox on it instead. Haven't had the problem on that rom. Now just the occasional reboot.
I had this problem this morning received text from my wife under my coworkers contact info as though it came from him. When I replied back under his contact info she received the reply. Very frustrating. He hasn't replied to any of my text this morning. May not be receiving them.

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