Hopefully this is in the right place, just found this and figured maybe it'd help enlighten a few people about Knox...
http://m.infoworld.com/d/mobile-tec...ecurity-229994?mm_ref=https://www.google.com/
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Mistertac said:
Hopefully this is in the right place, just found this and figured maybe it'd help enlighten a few people about Knox...
http://m.infoworld.com/d/mobile-tec...ecurity-229994?mm_ref=https://www.google.com/
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Yep, crapware that Samsung pushed so they could say they support enterprise.
In reality to use it you need to subscribe to one of the services that manage it.
It cannot be managed through exchange.
The majority of people don't need it .
The big issue with enterprise is email security. Touchdown provides the isolation very nicely.
It's too bad really. The Verizon S4 isn't half as fun as it could be between knox and the bootloader
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So, if one is rooted, can the Knox crapware be safely removed from the phone?
I'm by no means a pro at all this stuff so maybe someone else would know for sure but I froze everything to do with Knox with TiBu
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Mistertac said:
I'm by no means a pro at all this stuff so maybe someone else would know for sure but I froze everything to do with Knox with TiBu
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You can freeze the app stuff but they still have a flag either in a flash memory or a one time programmable memory that records when you attempt to do something unapproved with the bootloader.
So what if the knox flag is tripped? Why do I care if I am not planning on returning it for warranty? Is there a reason beyond that?
TheAtheistReverend said:
So what if the knox flag is tripped? Why do I care if I am not planning on returning it for warranty? Is there a reason beyond that?
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It's not the planned stuff I worry about. It's the unplanned stuff.
But is there any reason that we know of currently? Does it disable 4g? does it brick your phone? Does it prevent your phone from receiving future updates?
I must be missing something. All this hubbub can't just be about warranty.
Titanium Backup lists 4 "knox" apps:
KLMS Agent 1.0
Knox 1.0
Knox Notification Manager 1.0
Knox Store 1.0
Are they safe to freeze and/or uninstall?
jwhistler said:
Titanium Backup lists 4 "knox" apps:
KLMS Agent 1.0
Knox 1.0
Knox Notification Manager 1.0
Knox Store 1.0
Are they safe to freeze and/or uninstall?
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If you have a custom Kernel you have to uninstall or delete them or you will get this weird message. I copied mine onto my sd card and my computer, uninstalled on my phone. Just as back up
jwhistler said:
Titanium Backup lists 4 "knox" apps:
KLMS Agent 1.0
Knox 1.0
Knox Notification Manager 1.0
Knox Store 1.0
Are they safe to freeze and/or uninstall?
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I think there are also 2 coms that contain Knox that I also froze, just look carefully
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I have been getting some spam notifications i don't know where they are coming from. Please see the screenshot below. Help me take care of this. Thanks.
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i have been getting these 2 but cant think of anything new i have installed since they started to appear
Its an app you have recently installed. Uninstall that app and they go away or download airpush blocker to get rid of them. But If I were you guys just uninstall that app I hate those stupid notifications
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I'd recommend getting an antivirus software for Android.
Sadly even mobile phones nowaday need such software regardless of OS and manufacturer.
Either avast (free) or Dr.Web Beta (also free) are excellt and additionally report such Spammer apps.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en
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+1
Works well
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Now that we have some root access, I figured we could use this thread to report what apps we've successfully frozen/uninstalled, and using which app.
So far from using Rom Toolbox (Pro) I was able to freeze the following:
-Amazon
-Amazon Kindle
-Backup Assistant Plus
-My Verizon Mobile
-SEAndroid
-Setup Wizard
-Sync Service (backup assistant)
-Verizon Login
-Verizon Mobile Security
-Verizon Remote Diagnostics
-Verizon Tones
-Verizon Navigator
-Verizon Voicemail
-Voice Recorder
Uninstalled:
-NFL Mobile
-Audible
Cant find/figure out:
-Viewdini apk (no idea what this even is)
-VZW Mobile Hotspot apk
-Audible Re-installs itself.
Some of the apps were stubborn and needed to be frozen a couple of times for it to stick.
I have frozen via TitanBU:
All things Amazon related
Appstore release 4.56
Backup Assistant Plus
Basic Daydreams 4.2.2
Beauty Face
Best Face
Bluetooth test 1.0
Blurbcheckout
Briefing
ChocoEUkor
Chrome
Come2uSPoker
CoolEUKor
DirectShareManager
DirectConnectManager
DroidSeriftalic
ELMAgent
Faceunlock
Flipboard
FWupgrade
GooglePlaybooks
Googlemagazines
GoogleTV/Movies
GoogleMusic
Google+
GroupPlay
Help 1.0
LocalFOTA
Match3VS
MobilePrint
MobileTracker
MobilePrintSvc
NFLMobile
OmaDrmpopup
Pagebuddy
RoseEUkor
Shealth
SSBooks
SSHub
SS Sans
SEAndroid
Setup Wizard (Both)
Share Music
Story Album / Widget
Sync Service
Talk Back
Travel Travel Wallpaper
TripAdvisor
VZWLogin
VZWRemote
VZWTones
Viewdini
VZWNav
All Yahoo
Wow, you don't like Chrome, huh?
PEOPLE YOU DON'T NEED TO ROOT THE PHONE TO FREEZE AND APP ICECREAM FIXED THIS WHEN THEY INTRODUCED ITS OWN VERSION OF FREEZING AN APP WERE IN JELLY BEAN WHICH MEAN YOU ALREADY HAVE THE ABILITY TO FREEZE AN APP WITHOUT ROOTING DUHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! AND YOU DON'T NEED A ROOTING APP TO DO SO!
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PEOPLE YOU DON'T NEED TO ROOT THE PHONE TO FREEZE AND APP ICECREAM FIXED THIS WHEN THEY INTRODUCED ITS OWN VERSION OF FREEZING AN APP WERE IN JELLY BEAN WHICH MEAN YOU ALREADY HAVE THE ABILITY TO FREEZE AN APP WITHOUT ROOTING DUHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! AND YOU DON'T NEED A ROOTING APP TO DO SO!
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Wow. You're such an android wizz. Teach us your mighty ways, brilliant one, because apparently we don't know anything about android, which is why we are rooting.
/scoff
I dunno if you're joking or serious. Hard to tell, but from the way your write in all caps, have horrible structure, and have faces spread throughout your post, I'm inclined to think you're joking...or just really ignorant and/or stupid.
yyhd said:
Wow. You're such an android OS wizz. Teach us your mighty ways, brilliant one.
/scoff
I dunno if you're joking or serious. Hard to tell, but from the way your write in all caps, have horrible structure, and have faces spread throughout your post, I'm inclined to think you're joking...or just really ignorant and/or stupid.
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http://m.blogs.computerworld.com/19...evloc&q=frezzing+an+ice+cream+app&v=134000000
Click the link!!! and read instructions !! Should be the same for jelly bean!
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gabrielpina4 said:
http://m.blogs.computerworld.com/19...evloc&q=frezzing+an+ice+cream+app&v=134000000
Click the link!!! and read instructions !! Should be the same for jelly bean!
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/facepalm
He's serious.
You do know that the built in disable feature cannot disable every app, right? Hence one reason some of us root out phones.
Disabling app is the same thing as freezing if YOU watched the Google videos from there YouTube channel they explained it but Google is not gona use the stupid word (freeze) so they went for (disable) its exactly the same effect and does exactly the same thing nothing different at all !
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gabrielpina4 said:
Disabling app is the same thing as freezing if YOU watched the Google videos from there YouTube channel they explained it but Google is not gona use the stupid word (freeze) so they went for (disable) its exactly the same effect and does exactly the same thing nothing different at all !
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DUH!!!! Freezing is the same as disabling. I'm sure we all know that here on XDA.
I'm not going to continue this discussion because you obviously are too ignorant to know better as to why we want to root our phones and freeze/disable apps.
yyhd said:
DUH!!!! Freezing is the same as disabling. I'm sure we all know that here on XDA.
I'm not going to continue this discussion because you obviously are too ignorant to know better as to why we want to root our phones and freeze/disable apps.
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Then plzz enlighten me all I'm saying is if removing appS IS your only reason to root then don't root at all BEcause YOU can do it without root noW if wanna flash RomS and change kernels and change cpu FREQUENCYS then by allllllllllll means DEFINITELY ROOOOOT ..
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gabrielpina4 said:
Then plzz enlighten me all I'm saying is if removing appS IS your only reason to root then don't root at all BEcause YOU can do it without root noW if wanna flash RomS and change kernels and change cpu FREQUENCYS then by allllllllllll means DEFINITELY ROOOOOT ..
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I could be mistaken but i think when you don't root, there isn't ALWAYS an option to disable an app. I know on my wife's phone there are some apps she has to leave in the app drawer because when you go to disable it, the "disable" button is greyed out. You can't click it.
If you root, you can disable EVERY app, even the ones with the greyed out buttons.
But i'm sure if i'm wrong you will correct me with all caps and annoying exclamation points
I feel dumber for reading this thread (past the first couple responses).
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gabrielpina4 said:
Disabling app is the same thing as freezing if YOU watched the Google videos from there YouTube channel they explained it but Google is not gona use the stupid word (freeze) so they went for (disable) its exactly the same effect and does exactly the same thing nothing different at all !
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If only you could disable every app... On the S3 and Note 2 there are several pre-installed Google, Samsung, and Verizon apps that can't be disabled or removed without the use of root.
joshw0000 said:
I feel dumber for reading this thread (past the first couple responses).
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I concur...
So do I open an app and place my phone the freezer and let it get frozen? And if I re-enable the app.. am I an enabler?
joshw0000 said:
I feel dumber for reading this thread (past the first couple responses).
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Seriously!!!
sk337sk337 said:
I concur...
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I concur your concur.
notown775 said:
So do I open an app and place my phone the freezer and let it get frozen? And if I re-enable the app.. am I an enabler?
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YES!!!! LOL
andross77 said:
I could be mistaken but i think when you don't root, there isn't ALWAYS an option to disable an app. I know on my wife's phone there are some apps she has to leave in the app drawer because when you go to disable it, the "disable" button is greyed out. You can't click it.
If you root, you can disable EVERY app, even the ones with the greyed out buttons.
But i'm sure if i'm wrong you will correct me with all caps and annoying exclamation points
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he better not correct you since you're correct. lol. i just didnt want to argue with dumb.
Just to clarify, by freezing applications it doesn't remove them, it just stops them from taking up system resources?
vanydotk said:
Just to clarify, by freezing applications it doesn't remove them, it just stops them from taking up system resources?
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Correct.
All i have to say is one thing and hope this guy can comprehend .... If root is pointless to "freeze/disable" apps and only for flashing roms... then explain to us how you can disable Verizon apps without root (like VZ Backup Assistant) cause without root, the disable button is gone or grayed out.
wow...came here to see what apps people had uninstalled (instead of just freezing them) and all i got was dumber!
so...to try to salvage this thread....
what apps have you uninstalled without issue?
thanks
Rooted my phone using the Vroot method and did some surveying with permission manager, xPrivacy and I stumbled upon a mysterious app called MtkCamera (com.example.cameraroot). I have no recollection of ever installing this app. I find this suspicious because I use permission manager on other phones running ICS and never have to deal with this app before. Considering all the apps listed are installed from Google Play Store, I decided to restrict all permission and uninstall the app. Check out the permissions list.
lex xander said:
Rooted my phone and did some surveying with permission manager, xPrivacy and I stumbled upon a mysterious app called MtkCamera (com.example.cameraroot). I have no recollection of ever installing this app. I find this suspicious because I use permission manager on other phones running ICS and never have to deal with this app before. Considering all the apps listed are installed from Google Play Store, I decided to restrict all permission. Has anyone come across this app before?
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I removed it right after I found its existence.
If root fail then we see toast notifications that restore successful and this app we can see in multitask... I think it is for reverting back if root fails...
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Mmmh this doesn't sound good.
Was about to root my newly received Ultra
newstar said:
If root fail then we see toast notifications that restore successful and this app we can see in multitask... I think it is for reverting back if root fails...
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I'm not convinced. Looking at the network permissions, it doesn't make sense why it would need to control network access.
lex xander said:
I'm not convinced. Looking at the network permissions, it doesn't make sense why it would need to control network access.
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If you not sure if you want to remove it yet, put it behind a firewall
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtschohl.androidfirewall
or freeze the app
appreciate the warning
Any devs here want to decompile it and see what it does?
LordManhattan said:
Any devs here want to decompile it and see what it does?
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I rooted with Vroot, installed english SU and then removed the Chinese SU using the vroot app and I don't have the app installed.
Removed it as soon as I saw it. Better not run it, and remove it does nothing to the root.
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baileyjr said:
I rooted with Vroot, installed english SU and then removed the Chinese SU using the vroot app and I don't have the app installed.
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Sure, but what does it do? Does it steal your contacts? Send SMS'? Log your IMEI? Log your keystrokes? Or is it nothing out of the ordinary? Who knows!
I could decompile it myself, but I have no idea what to look for, so that's a complete waste of time.
We can make a game out of this. Post what you think it does, and we'll see who wins The winner gets an Xperia Z1 (image from the internetz).
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A quick Google search reveals that "MTK" is MediaTek, a Taiwanese semiconductor company that's in the smartphone business, so I guess that's something? Still doesn't tell us why MediaTek's camera thingy is installed on some Ultras, though.
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I vrooted too.
Is this thing only visible when using certain security apps?
I cannot find it in list of settings〉apps
I cannot see such process running either. I have not uninstalled anything since vroot
LordManhattan said:
A quick Google search reveals that "MTK" is MediaTek, a Taiwanese semiconductor company that's in the smartphone business, so I guess that's something? Still doesn't tell us why MediaTek's camera thingy is installed on some Ultras, though.
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So the reason some people do not have can be simply because they do not have a TW firmware. Have a TW firmware and got it after vroot. But where would be the point for vroot to put a malicious apps on your phone when they can do anything they want while rooting your device? Maybe you should not take your phone with you on the bathroom, they may record you hahahaha.
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jewelkobayashi said:
I vrooted too.
Is this thing only visible when using certain security apps?
I cannot find it in list of settings〉apps
I cannot see such process running either. I have not uninstalled anything since vroot
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Which country firmware do you have?
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bASKOU said:
Which country firmware do you have?
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I have VN Firmware .510
So your theory about TW firmware might be valid.
jewelkobayashi said:
I have VN Firmware .510
So your theory about TW firmware might be valid.
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sounds valid to me.
LordManhattan said:
Sure, but what does it do? Does it steal your contacts? Send SMS'? Log your IMEI? Log your keystrokes? Or is it nothing out of the ordinary? Who knows!
I could decompile it myself, but I have no idea what to look for, so that's a complete waste of time.
We can make a game out of this. Post what you think it does, and we'll see who wins The winner gets an Xperia Z1 (image from the internetz).
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So you don't find the following permissions suspicious?
Change network connectivity
Connect and disconnect wifi
Full network access
View network connection
View wi-fi connection
Pair with bluetooth devices
Allow wifi multicast reception
Call me paranoid, but I think this is a spying app...
this app with us from the beginning.
this is what I found -platform for the bottom and top of the camera for a detailed explanation of the process and the introduction of the frame code
that does seem suspicious.
Is the view that this root method is trustworthy?
Trying to weigh up if all is well before I root.
Cheers
I was really annoyed about the stupid notification about rooted apps after rooting my GN3.
Fix? Download Titanium Backup and search for anything with 'Knox' in it. As always I backed up to SD card just in case. Deleted the apps, rebooted phone and now I don't get the stupid message anymore.
Screw Samsung Knox lol
I've seen a lot of people mentioning Knox, but mine wasn't pre installed (it is on the phone as a link to install) and I haven't gotten any notices for root or root apps yet. Lumen bar was annoying though, I got rid of that.
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Kortekn said:
I've seen a lot of people mentioning Knox, but mine wasn't pre installed (it is on the phone as a link to install) and I haven't gotten any notices for root or root apps yet. Lumen bar was annoying though, I got rid of that.
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Not rooted yet(only cause I haven't looked how to do it yet) but I don't see anything with Knox. Agree with the Lumen bar comment.
Removing /system/app/KNOXAgent.apk should take care of the notifications.
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I just Froze the Knox Notification, and they went away. It even cleared the notification that as there. The only issue im having is with Xposed, spoofing the system to read official instead of custom.
* I got it, I was missing a step. Forgot to update it * Whoops!
BlackWolf757 said:
I was really annoyed about the stupid notification about rooted apps after rooting my GN3.
Fix? Download Titanium Backup and search for anything with 'Knox' in it. As always I backed up to SD card just in case. Deleted the apps, rebooted phone and now I don't get the stupid message anymore.
Screw Samsung Knox lol
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Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2482359
I along with a bunch of people have root and am just curious what are some of the things you guys are itching to do or have done right away. I figure this could be a place where we share ideas.
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billymaloney3 said:
I along with a bunch of people have root and am just curious what are some of the things you guys are itching to do or have done right away.
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Removing all the bloat would probably be the number one thing people Will be doing.
But rooting allows so much more.
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1. Titanium Backup to remove bloat
2. Get Google Wallet back.
3. Get all my Tasker scripts that required root working again.
No more ads...
wy1d said:
1. Titanium Backup to remove bloat
2. Get Google Wallet back.
3. Get all my Tasker scripts that required root working again.
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+1 on wallet
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I installed Wallet right from the Play Store... haven't rooted my phone yet.
1. Titanium backup
2. no more ads!
3. AutomateIt (it's like Tasker) now can control app specific GPS on/off toggle.
4. I'm going to debloat the crap out of the phone
5. GMD GestureControl (get my swipe to Alt-Tab between apps back)
I almost never get a phone before it's been rooted, and in the few days that I've used the note 3 without Root, I've come to realize that rooting is pretty important in my day-to-day usage.
toddnbrown said:
I installed Wallet right from the Play Store... haven't rooted my phone yet.
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Are you able to pay with Wallet? I thought we could install it but the Verizon Note 3 would not allow us to pay with it.
What do you mean no ads. I have no ads now. What about DPI. Note 2 was all about 240 DPI. what's the hot DPI now.
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since we have no recovery option yet are you guys jus editing the build.prop to get tap to pay to work on wallet?
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Get a sound enhancer.
Viper4android
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Please take this discussion to the earlier created thread on the same topic. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2481634