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Just lost my phone today
Just asking if someone can access my banking app (pageonce) or if sence I contacted T-Moble and they issued me a new sim card that I'm now safe?
the only thing I cant think to do is change all my passwords. Any other sugestions?? Please I dont want to get F* on this
Derzicom said:
Just lost my phone today
Just asking if someone can access my banking app (pageonce) or if sence I contacted T-Moble and they issued me a new sim card that I'm now safe?
the only thing I cant think to do is change all my passwords. Any other sugestions?? Please I dont want to get F* on this
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I hope the first thing you did was call your banks 24 hour customer service line.....??????
And yes if your web access password for banking is the same as your android apps change it....
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Usually banking apps don't store passwords. But if you use the same pass as you do elsewhere, change them and call your bank to give them a heads up so they can monitor the account and alert you of suspicious activity.
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thanks! Just called the bank and changed pw to be safe. Should I change my gmail password as well?
by the way it was almost (not really) funny to see my phone move farther and farther away from me in Latitude. That was the first thing I looked at when I realized it was missing.
Yes, change that as well as your google password is definitely stored on your phone.
And on your next phone get Lookout Mobile Security. You can track your phone, make it scream (loud noise to find it, even if its on silent) and remotely wipe the phone.
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And on your next phone get Lookout Mobile Security. You can track your phone, make it scream (loud noise to find it, even if its on silent) and remotely wipe the phone.
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+1, and recently police in different cities across the states have used Lookout Location Services to track the theif and arrest them, returning the android phone to its rightful owner.
Thanks for all the help
Update: A good samaritan called, she found my phone and wanted to return it. So we setup up a time and place. The funny thing is when I got home my replacement phone was in the doorway! Now I have two phones!!
I then called t-moble to ask what to do next. I cant beleive what they told me, "Just keep the phone!" She had do make sure they were not monitoring the phone for activity, but after that she transfered the phone to my neice's number and gave me a free monts internet!!!
I cant beleive my luck!! And my neice is all smiles
steps I took after losing the phone
1) Checked google latitude on pc and saw my phone moving farther and farther away
2) Called t-mobile. They canceld the sim and reissued a new sim. But latitude nolonger updated the phones position.
3) Changed my google pw
4) Changed all other personal pw's
I'm on my third Android phone, and the last two are still "active" (?) in Google Play, on the website. With my first phone, I didn't have to "Choose which device to install on". Now I do, and I want to know how to get rid of the other two devices. I don't have access to them and never will again. I sent the first one to a dev on SDX, across the country. The other one I only had for six days, and traded for my current device. So, there's no reason for them to be up there. (Both were wiped before I got rid of them, so neither of them can even get into my Google account.)
P.S. Is there any way to get Google to forget I ever had an app? I've tried a bunch of apps that didn't work and I really don't like them in my "All" column under My Apps, in the phone app. But that's not as big a deal.
I think this will work
Open the Play Store from your PC
Go to Options (right upper corner, a gear icon) and select the option that appear.
Click on Devices tab, and untick the devices that you don't wish to see
About forget all downloaded apps... sorry, I dunno how do it
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Must be a way to do this.....
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@RoberGalarga: That seems to have done it. Doesn't delete them but removes them as choices. Oh well. Thanks!
@lufc: Thanks for helping my topic find the right forum.
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I wil confirm, after extensive past research that beyond hiding the device on play, you cannot remove it, or your previously downloaded apps from play.
It's really annoying and renders the my installed apps thing basically useless after a while...
I find it shocking that you cannot de-associate a device from your account. I wonder if there could be dangers of getting my apps to the next user of that device?
jrock2004 said:
I find it shocking that you cannot de-associate a device from your account. I wonder if there could be dangers of getting my apps to the next user of that device?
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No your safe on that matter, as you should be doing a factory reset from within settings options before passing/selling it on.
I believe the reason Google do not allow you to remove devices is statistic based as they are able to make android seem more popular than it actually is by combining both active and inactive devices to increase its market share. (Just my opinion on the matter not an actual fact)..
Well, I did do the factory reset so the data is wiped. Thanks
jrock2004 said:
I find it shocking that you cannot de-associate a device from your account. I wonder if there could be dangers of getting my apps to the next user of that device?
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None. They would need to sign into your Google account. Factory reset the device before passing it on and there will be no danger of that.
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I experienced device association issues when I tried to listen to the music I have linked with my Google Music account. To deactivate a device, go to play.google.com/music and select settings. Click settings and then it will allow you to "deactivate" devices.
Source: Google support
dstylazz said:
No your safe on that matter, as you should be doing a factory reset from within settings options before passing/selling it on.
I believe the reason Google do not allow you to remove devices is statistic based as they are able to make android seem more popular than it actually is by combining both active and inactive devices to increase its market share. (Just my opinion on the matter not an actual fact)..
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If that's the case, it would seem I'm a great customer.
Trial&Errors when trying to fix market on my N7A2 left 11 inactive devices in my list, in addition to 2 phones I've sold long time ago, plus the active phone and tablet..
Find it a bit annoying having them there in the list, but atleast they can be unchecked so that they dont appear in the list when you install apps.
Even when you disable a device so it's no longer visible, it's just a matter of time until it comes back again. They don't stay hidden indefinitely
*************EDIT, this is no longer valid and hasn't been for a while. Google does not allow removal of devices from Google Play at least since 2014**********
I have been looking for a solution for this too.
Here's my findings:
1. if you still have your phone with you, delete the cache and data of Google Services Framework app (just as you do when trying to force an update check), and it will be gone. Of course you need to be signed in, otherwise it doesn't do anything. Yet, dont do anything with google play, otherwise the phone will be reappearing. Just reset it and forget it.
2. if you already got rid of the phone, simply wait 9 months (not one day more not one day less) since your last used date. I have verified and confirmed this time frame with 4 devices now. Took an extra week only for a tablet to disappear.
lellobello said:
I have been looking for a solution for this too.
Here's my findings:
1. if you still have your phone with you, delete the cache and data of Google Services Framework app (just as you do when trying to force an update check), and it will be gone. Of course you need to be signed in, otherwise it doesn't do anything. Yet, dont do anything with google play, otherwise the phone will be reappearing. Just reset it and forget it.
2. if you already got rid of the phone, simply wait 9 months (not one day more not one day less) since your last used date. I have verified and confirmed this time frame with 4 devices now. Took an extra week only for a tablet to disappear.
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Great info. This actually saved a life...
lellobello said:
2. if you already got rid of the phone, simply wait 9 months (not one day more not one day less) since your last used date. I have verified and confirmed this time frame with 4 devices now. Took an extra week only for a tablet to disappear.
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I believe you are right on the phones. However, on tables, I still see 3 tablets I tested after 3 weeks. On the tablet point do you mean 9 months and 1 week or only 1 week?
Booboo64 said:
I believe you are right on the phones. However, on tables, I still see 3 tablets I tested after 3 weeks. On the tablet point do you mean 9 months and 1 week or only 1 week?
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He means 9 month and a week.
http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2407656
It is not possible to completely delete devices listed under Settings on the Google Play website.
Hi, I'm still quite new to Android.
I tested the Galaxy Note 2 device today on a demo unit, and logged in with my gmail account to try out the features...
So is that device now stuck to my account forever?
AjunNg said:
Hi, I'm still quite new to Android.
I tested the Galaxy Note 2 device today on a demo unit, and logged in with my gmail account to try out the features...
So is that device now stuck to my account forever?
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Same story here. Tested another S3 with my account. Now I have 2 S3's in my account.
Does anyone know of a way to add an account to the market without linking it to the gmail or any other apps? Basically I would like to link my gmail account into the market on my wifes phone without everything else bring affected. I've been looking around for something on this for a while and have had no luck. My wife wants some apps I've had but doesn't want to spend on it since I already put out the money for them. I even have paid apps dating back to day 1 of the market even having them.
I've wondered how to do this myself because when you hit the menu button, it shows account(s). Seems you should be able to switch between two or more. What if your Gmail gets hacked and you have to disable it? You lose all your apps and such. They should link it to your IMEI but there are so many things that run off Gmail (Gmail, Market, G+,...), I doubt that would work.
Back to your original question. What I do is make a back up of mine with Titanium and then copy the files to my PC and put them in my wife's Titanium folder and just restore them that way. She can't get updates, but most of them are incremental anyways. If something big happens in an update, I just update it on my end, back it up and do the switheroo on hers. I also "Detach From Market" on her phone so she doesn't get the update notification. Might seem unethical if I was doing it for you or someone else, but she is my wife and we are the same household, so I think it is fair enough.
Woodrube said:
Might seem unethical if I was doing it for you or someone else, but she is my wife and we are the same household, so I think it is fair enough.
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I've thought about the unethical aspect as well and the way I see it it's no different then if she watches a movie I buy.
Her phone isn't rooted (yet), I've had trouble with the adb aspect of it and from what I've read using super one click and adb is the only way to do it. I was going to root it because the my touch q has way too much bloat and it bogs down performance.
As far as using titanium goes, I have done that in the past but so many apps have verification now it can be a pain. This way would give her free range over what WE paid for.
For the longest time, possibly since buying the phone, I felt my phone has ghost vibrations. Eventually I decided to install a notification logger. I then realized that for some reason Download Manager is downloading an image, and it's always the same image. I don't know where it's downloading it from, but I copied the image filename and pasted it into my Google photos and turns out it's a photo of my ID.
Now I'm really scared that there may be spyware on my device.. Is there a way to find out who is calling Download Manager or from where the file is being downloaded?
Have you try to fully reset your phone?
Sh!t, I would factory default in a heartbeat and carefully look at the apps I reinstall, especially those with "access to photos" permissions. This is serious.
That being said, it's an Android phone by Huawei, so yes, you are spied on both by Google and Huawei
I think US politics against Huawei and general fear mongering is getting out of control. If people are that paranoid about big-brother then stop using tech, coincidentally the only proven and factual case of spying and massive over-reach has been the US government, not China.
enrique71 said:
I think US politics against Huawei and general fear mongering is getting out of control. If people are that paranoid about big-brother then stop using tech, coincidentally the only proven and factual case of spying and massive over-reach has been the US government, not China.
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Chill....that was a joke if you notice that emoji.
enrique71 said:
I think US politics against Huawei and general fear mongering is getting out of control. If people are that paranoid about big-brother then stop using tech, coincidentally the only proven and factual case of spying and massive over-reach has been the US government, not China.
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I think a Huawei employee stole some testing robot from T-Mobile. LOL or allegedly did.
TheAddict94 said:
For the longest time, possibly since buying the phone, I felt my phone has ghost vibrations. Eventually I decided to install a notification logger. I then realized that for some reason Download Manager is downloading an image, and it's always the same image. I don't know where it's downloading it from, but I copied the image filename and pasted it into my Google photos and turns out it's a photo of my ID.
Now I'm really scared that there may be spyware on my device.. Is there a way to find out who is calling Download Manager or from where the file is being downloaded?
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Google, Huawei, Samsung, wat ever brand, know you better than ur parent, especially Google, it know where u work, where u eat, where u sleep, what road u took ... you name it.
These make me think of movie "Terminator", may be one day Google is Skynet
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I got ghost vibrations as well it starten when 8 downloaded an GIF
Where do you think Huawei got a copy of your ID from? Do you think your phone went into your wallet while you were asleep and stole it? And after stealing your ID why would Huawei want to download it onto your phone?
The spyware you suggest sounds both increadibly sophisticated and amazingly stupid.
If you actually are seeing anything remotely similar to what you describe it is likely activity by a third party app you installed and that you gave a copy of your ID to.
Huawei Wallet is the only Huawei App I know of that might store a copy of your ID but you would actually need to provide a copy of it first.
I don't think is spyware either. In my case I have OneDrive syncing some files (mostly personal stuff), so what I see in a notification logger is exactly as you describe: Download Manager downloading randomly downloading some files to your device.
There are 'phantom notifications' happening on a regular basis. They disappear before your very eyes. I think they are all Huawei subsystem actions that somehow trigger a notification but not fully... What the OP is claiming is pretty insane, though. Can you clarify? At some point in time, you had to have used your phone to take a picture of your ID - right? I mean, the camera didn't do that by itself. Was it a banking app? Was it trying to buy bitcoins? Was it applying for your porn permit in the U.K.? Was it your dissasociative schizoid fragmented personality betraying you again? Are you the anomaly? Do you live at the CERN facility? Did Dolly wear braces in Moonraker in the timeline where your picture ID was taken?
Okay, I've made some progress with trying to figure out the culprit. It's somehow related to Google Photos. I never downloaded any photos except that one (the photo was taken on a different device and I used the download option to keep it on my device for a banking app).
I uninstalled the banking app and disabled GPhotos (can't uninstall it), the issue persisted. I was worried because it was my ID and I assigned malicious intent to some unknown third party. I've re-enabled GPhotos.
Now, I've downloaded two more photos, this time just food pics. And now I get three times the ghost notifications. One for the ID, and two for the food.
Good news - it's likely not malicious intent.
Bad news - it's somehow related to Google Photos and/or Huawei. It's a bug that still occurred after I disabled both the download manager (it enabled itself) and Google Photos (it didn't enable itself, and even with clean data the issue occurred).
TheAddict94 said:
Okay, I've made some progress with trying to figure out the culprit. It's somehow related to Google Photos. I never downloaded any photos except that one (the photo was taken on a different device and I used the download option to keep it on my device for a banking app).
I uninstalled the banking app and disabled GPhotos (can't uninstall it), the issue persisted. I was worried because it was my ID and I assigned malicious intent to some unknown third party. I've re-enabled GPhotos.
Now, I've downloaded two more photos, this time just food pics. And now I get three times the ghost notifications. One for the ID, and two for the food.
Good news - it's likely not malicious intent.
Bad news - it's somehow related to Google Photos and/or Huawei. It's a bug that still occurred after I disabled both the download manager (it enabled itself) and Google Photos (it didn't enable itself, and even with clean data the issue occurred).
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I have exactly the same, some how download manager service kills and restart and b8ving the ghost notifications
Yeah it's called Huawei ID, login and let it upload all your contacts and messages to a Chinese server. ?
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Darkat70 said:
Yeah it's called Huawei ID, login and let it upload all your contacts and messages to a Chinese server. ?
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How is it differ from Google backup?
BTW, if you don't want Huawei ID, get the Canadian version. It was disabled.
Amowagou said:
How is it differ from Google backup?
BTW, if you don't want Huawei ID, get the Canadian version. It was disabled.
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LoL not much really, Google are probably worse.
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LoL not much really, Google are probably worse.
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Yeah, no.
I too am certain my mate 20 Pro is spying on me, it randomly says call ended even when iv not been in a call. I don't have any control of weather 'hey google' is active when the screen is dark, the option is greyed out in the off position but my phone regularly lights up from dark into Google assistant when nobody in the room said ’hey google’ or anything like it. I also cannot delete or retrain my voice pattern. Both options that should normally be buttons are no longer clickable links.
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I too am certain my mate 20 Pro is spying on me, it randomly says call ended even when iv not been in a call. I don't have any control of weather 'hey google' is active when the screen is dark, the option is greyed out in the off position but my phone regularly lights up from dark into Google assistant when nobody in the room said ’hey google’ or anything like it. I also cannot delete or retrain my voice pattern. Both options that should normally be buttons are no longer clickable links.
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Seems like there's something horribly wrong with your device. Maybe you should do a factory reset
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Yeah, no.
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Eerr Yes
Google Maps Timeline, where you have been, how long you were there, Google Opinion Rewards, I visited McDonald's the next day I got a survey asking which restaurant I'd been to which had McDonald's as an answer, this has happened when I parked outside JB hi-fi and other locations too.
Then there's Google assistant listening to what we do, which they probably analysis just like Alexa
https://www.news.com.au/technology/...u/news-story/d1fc9557a03909f9b845fb9003434e22
So tell me that Google are not big brother, watching our every move.
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Hi,
I reinstalled OS on my phone and forgot to backup my authenticator app (QR)codes so now I can not acces any of my 3 IG accounts. Unfortunatelly I dont even have 8-digit backup codes. Only option which left was a "video selfie" , but I got a reply to my email in about two minutes saying, that verification failed with no reason told. Depsite the fact that I have pictures of myself on my account.
Is there any option to recover my accounts or are they gone forever?
Thanks!
Whats 2FA service do you use?
Google (with that gray thing on the logo)
vasik006 said:
Google (with that gray thing on the logo)
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Nope, ur forked.
I guess now I'll just have to wait for IG support to be fixed, which will probably never happen. Ever since Meta bought it, the whole platform has been collapsing...
In the future, use Authy. It sacrifices a bit of security, but has backups, which is really useful, and in my humble opinion, worth it.
Thanks for recommendation. I will move my codes for other apps (Discord, Google...) into it.