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Ok, maybe I'm in the wrong place. But here goes.
My phone is trying to send text to paid numbers behind my back. I'm using prepaid so it doesn't work. I get a "You have insufficient funds to send this text" message daily, at random times.
I have no pirated apps. Everything on my phone came straight from the market. However, I've not installed a single one of the apps that was on the recent list all over tech sites.
I'm planning on reflashing with a different rom and changing all the passwords that were stored on my phone.
BUT.
Before I do this, I want to find out which app is causing this behavior. Any Ideas on how to find out what is sending random text from my phone (they don't show up in the messaging app)
viogrep said:
Ok, maybe I'm in the wrong place. But here goes.
My phone is trying to send text to paid numbers behind my back. I'm using prepaid so it doesn't work. I get a "You have insufficient funds to send this text" message daily, at random times.
I have no pirated apps. Everything on my phone came straight from the market. However, I've not installed a single one of the apps that was on the recent list all over tech sites.
I'm planning on reflashing with a different rom and changing all the passwords that were stored on my phone.
BUT.
Before I do this, I want to find out which app is causing this behavior. Any Ideas on how to find out what is sending random text from my phone (they don't show up in the messaging app)
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Install a android antivirus and firewall like Lookout.
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lookout finds nothing. All the other AV software fails to install. "Unknown error -18"
i have plenty of free space.
viogrep,
I wrote a novel, but then thought I should just ask a few preliminary questions:
Q1) does the error message contain any useful "hints", such as the destination number ?
Q2) if you use a logcat - capturing app, does anything show up in the logcat right around the time the message is generated which might provide some further clues?
There's a lot of different techniques you can use, but they require a bit of effort - not only to perform, but to explain, too.
Q3) Are you willing to post up the output of the "ps" command to a pastebin?
Q4) What apps on your phone request "SEND_SMS" privileges? You can find out with
Code:
strings /data/system/packages.xml > /sdcard/strings-pkgs-xml.txt
and then poking through the "strings-pkgs-xml.txt" file. When you see (for instance)
name="android.permission.SEND_SMS"
the immediately prior package is what requested it. Either that or you can do something tricky like
Code:
strings /data/system/packages.xml | awk '/<package name/{pkg=$2;}; /_SMS/{print pkg, $2;}'
bftb0
1. No destination number in the error. Sorry.
2. Also, no clues in logcat from what I've seen.
3. PS > http://pastebin.com/iUAfP9Yb
4. Besides the default gapps, the only other app with SEND_SMS priv. is Koxx Pure Messenger. (Purchased from the market, Have had for awhile, the sms sending is new)
Going to try to call my provider and see if I can get the number that's been denied because of funds.
*edit* No luck with provider.
I'd really like to know whats doing it so I don't install the same app once I flash. Luckily I keep nothing important on my phone. Its gmail account is actually a duplicate with my original forwarding to it. I'm a tiny bit overprotective over my email(address). :x
viogrep said:
4. Besides the default gapps, the only other app with SEND_SMS priv. is Koxx Pure Messenger. (Purchased from the market, Have had for awhile, the sms sending is new)
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I know that it isn't necessarily this simple, but if that really is the only other app besides the GAPPs with SMS priveledges, especially coupled with the knowledge that the SMS capability is new, I think you have your answer.
If you tried a new ROM and restored all but that one app, and the problem never happens again then you can be 95% sure. Only way to be 100% sure is that after a certain length of time without a problem (a week?) you reinstall Koxx and then if the problem starts happening again.
I looked through your "ps" listing.
Didn't see anything too obvious sticking out at me; there were a couple of non-market apps running though. I know that there is no theoretical reason why non-market apps would be malicious - on the other hand, I sort of wonder why they are not on the market... you know what I mean? What is stopping them? (In the case of Tubemate - which was actually kicked off of Google's market, my suspicions are even higher. I realize it was not kicked off because of malware; but still...)
These were the only processes that were either not on my phone, or I didn't really recognize.
Code:
com.dylan.tube = [Non-Market App] Tubemate
com.gau.golauncherex.notification = GO Launcher EX (READ SMS)
com.levelup.beautifulwidgets = Beautiful Widgets (LevelUp)?
com.revsodev.volumecontrol = [Non-Market App] Volume Control (Cyrket?)
com.swype.android.inputmethod = Swype?
com.tencent.research.drop = QQPlayer (no perms req'd?)
net.bajawa.battery = BattStatt (no perms req'd?)
org.sipdroid.sipua = Sipdroid VoIP + video
The Road Warrior has an idea which is sort of useful; but I'll modify it to use binary division.
Start with a freshly installed, clean ROM, and only install half of your apps. (I would put all of your most frequently used apps in the first half, and delay any non-market apps as long as possible). Here's how this goes:
- if the "half" you put on the phone is trouble-free (long enough to know the SMS popup thing is not going on), then, install half of the remaining apps, and wait again to see if there is a problem.
- if the "half" you put on the phone develops trouble, then you know that the problem app is in that group. Wipe the phone and re-install all prior "halves" (that caused no trouble), but split the current half (the group containing the suspect app) in half, and only install that. Proceed in this fashion until you are down to the app which causes the trouble.
If you have 128 apps on your phone, and you wait 1 day between installations, it will take 7 days to find the malicious app. (And if you don't get a failure within the first two days, your phone will have 3/4s of it's apps installed - that's not too bad).
The thing is though, even if you had an app compromise your phone, it might not be an "app" that is doing the dirty work any longer. For example, the most recently discovered malware ran rooting exploits against the device, and once successful, downloaded and installed "other stuff". That "other stuff" could be native binaries. So, examining permissions in the system manifest doesn't necessarily guarantee that you have exhaustively looked at your phone, or discovered all possible means of interacting with the SMS system.
It might be "just an app", though - and if it were me, the first ones that I would suspect are non-Market apps, or apps that *cough* got downloaded from "freeware" sites.
Thanks for the responses. I actually did a fresh flash last night. First thing I installed was tubemate (running through non market apps) and it did it. Ironically I added some money to my account to see if I could get the number it was trying to text. Apparently it still couldn't go through.
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I had a game from a Chinese developer that stole my gmail. Log into yours from the website and see if you get a red warning.
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viogrep said:
Thanks for the responses. I actually did a fresh flash last night. First thing I installed was tubemate (running through non market apps) and it did it. Ironically I added some money to my account to see if I could get the number it was trying to text. Apparently it still couldn't go through.
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I'm always amazed when something I suggested actually works. LOL. It's just that I'm used to things being more complicated than I hope.
Glad you figured out the trouble!
Thanks bt and RW for the help.
As far as the gmail thing... I use a different gmail address on my phone with email forwarded (different pass)...
If it gets taken I just stop the forwarding and make a new one. Makes things a more simple. Sure, they can see past emails, but they cant request passes/info from other sites... (I also monitor the login IPs in gmail, religiously. Just a habbit.)
viogrep said:
Thanks bt and RW for the help.
As far as the gmail thing... I use a different gmail address on my phone with email forwarded (different pass)...
If it gets taken I just stop the forwarding and make a new one. Makes things a more simple. Sure, they can see past emails, but they cant request passes/info from other sites... (I also monitor the login IPs in gmail, religiously. Just a habbit.)
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You're welcome. You could just change your password from the web if your phone gets stolen.
Especially since it's the gmail address you use on your phone that everything is sync'd to, not the one that's forwarding to it. So if you got another Android phone you'd lose all your contact info and bought and installed apps info, calendar and such. Unless you sync them manually which is so much harder in my experience.
Or you could use one of the many free apps out there that would let you remotely do many things to your phone. Turn the GPS on, triangulate your phone, make your phone scream, do a factory reset to erase everything...
Just a suggestion.
Its been a few months now that i have been noticing that my facebook app is using around 75% of my data plan capacity.
for starters i have 250mb every month as free data plan. it never used to happen initially but suddenly since feb/march my fb app has started using up data plan so much that within 4 days it would have used up 75 % of data plan!!!
after uninstalling fb from my phone, i checked data usage for 2 months and lo and behold it never went more than 75%!!
i have switched off all the app syncs through the phone settings menu and also the app settings menu and still this happens!!!
the second most data usage app is the Android OS Services...
any ideas guys????
A few things:
-How often does your Facebook refresh it's news feed?
-Does this happen when you're signed out of the app?
-Try installing Onavo, you can limit the app's usage from there if you don't manage to solve the problem
-Did you update the Facebook app around that time? If so, try installing an older version of the Facebook app and see if the issue goes away.
@RootTurtles: answer to your questions
1. i have set the app to never refresh.
2. i have never tried that.
3. I forgot to add that I also use onavo ever since i notice the quick depletion of my monthly data cap. i have set restrict to wifi on almost all programs including fb, viber and plenty of other apps. Out of all these fb will continue data transfers even on my network.
4. the fb app is the latest version. how and from where will i get previous versions of fb???
I've attached version 1.8.2 of the app, give that a try.
Do you have any Facebook related widgets on your device?
i still have the same problem after installing fb version 1.8.2.... first i tried with the app signed in!!! the same thing happens...then i tried by signing out of the app...still the same......too much data usage!!!!! oh and i forgot to add that the fb app causes my battery to discharge very quickly....so in other words......the title should read...."facebook app causes extreme data usage and extreme data discharge!!!"
after that i un-installed the fb app everything is back to normal!!!! no extreme data usage or battery discharge!!!
If you havent already done so...try the following..
- In the phone setiings .. go to Data usage..select the facebook in the listed app..click the restrict background data box
- In the phone settings..got to accounts and syn...set it to..Off
- In the latest FB official app...go to settings..change the refresh interval to ..Never
@woodstock i have tried all what you said but still fb uses data......i have uninstalled it now...only thing i don't understand is your first point
"In the phone setiings .. go to Data usage..select the facebook in the listed app..click the restrict background data box"
i don't have that option. i'm running gingerbread 2.3.5 I9100XXKI4 with kernel [email protected]#2
That option is in ICS.. It stops selected apps from using data in the background.. Just what you need
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any other suggestions????? anyone anybody somethin anything i want to use fb on my phone but the minute it is installed data usage goes thru the rooooooooffffffff!!!!!
Any solution for this??
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Any solution for this??
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u can try 'Friend Caster' as an alternative to FB and see
Any solution that dosen't involve friendcaster?
Yes, don't use FB nor FC.
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facebook 25 GB background data in 10 days
Hi all
i have bougt The new THL 5000 mobile phone and changed the factory rom with dimid v3 Rom. I played around and one month later, i receive the incredible invoice from the Provider: the shocking amount of CHF 3000.-, about 3200 US$ for 25GB data traffic is wanted from me. I cant beleve how this could happen. The included traffic Limit in my contract is 500MB only. This means, that 1GB costs 100 Swiss Francs.
The screenshot 1 Shows, that Facebook has caused the large traffic. Screenshot 2 Shows that there is Zero foreground traffic, all Background traffic. This shows, that not i initiated the download, the Facebook-app startet from itself. I also wonder, what the hell did they download to my phone, or even worse, what did they upload?
I immediately uninstalled the app.
Problem:
The provider is not willing to reduce the invoice, because he sent me 3 SMS to warn me. In fact i did not interest my much, because i was not realizing, that a down-or upload is ongoing right now.
What shall i do? it must be a faulty Facebook app, which caused this traffic. In my opinion Facebook must pay this invoice. I could not find a Facebook customer or complaint helpline. Does anybody know how this is possible, or where i can get help? Please help!
Thanks
Kukuk69
Kukuk69 said:
Hi all
i have bougt The new THL 5000 mobile phone and changed the factory rom with dimid v3 Rom. I played around and one month later, i receive the incredible invoice from the Provider: the shocking amount of CHF 3000.-, about 3200 US$ for 25GB data traffic is wanted from me. I cant beleve how this could happen. The included traffic Limit in my contract is 500MB only. This means, that 1GB costs 100 Swiss Francs.
The screenshot 1 Shows, that Facebook has caused the large traffic. Screenshot 2 Shows that there is Zero foreground traffic, all Background traffic. This shows, that not i initiated the download, the Facebook-app startet from itself. I also wonder, what the hell did they download to my phone, or even worse, what did they upload?
I immediately uninstalled the app.
Problem:
The provider is not willing to reduce the invoice, because he sent me 3 SMS to warn me. In fact i did not interest my much, because i was not realizing, that a down-or upload is ongoing right now.
What shall i do? it must be a faulty Facebook app, which caused this traffic. In my opinion Facebook must pay this invoice. I could not find a Facebook customer or complaint helpline. Does anybody know how this is possible, or where i can get help? Please help!
Thanks
Kukuk69
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Definitely the Facebook app problem. You could sue them if you want but I doubt it will work. Perhaps all you can do is leave feedback: https://m.facebook.com/help/344911968960524?refid=69
Sorry with your what you have to deal with.
Disclaimer: I don't have a lot of time at the moment and I'm french speaking... Sorry for the rushed "how-to", I'll clean it and add details up when I'll have more time. Feel free to add your 2 cents!
1. You need a device running Android 4.2 (no root needed).
2. Create a new user as usual (follow the Android tutorial).
2.5. Verify everything is ok for this user.
3. Once done, go into this new user settings (don't switch back to your main/admin account).
4. Add a new account, this time use the Google account on which you paid for your apps.
5. During the add account tutorial, make sure you unselect ALL syncing stuff. Very important!
6. Go to settings / applications and deactivate all the apps you don't want the new user to access (ex: gmail, calendar, etc...).
7. Launch the Google Play Store and select your main account, make sure you protect application purchase by a PIN.
8. Installed a paid apps under this account.
9. Enjoy!
WARNING 1: I had an issue with Google+ when I deactivated it, it removed the updated version (so when I switched back to my main account, I needed to update the app through Play Store). May happen to other apps.
WARNING 2: I don't know if it's related or not, but in the process, I needed to reboot my Nexus 7, it was slow and unresponsive (a process or app was sucking a lot of CPU cycle). But, it did not happened again.
TIP: Use email app instead of gmail to sync the other user mails.
CAVEAT: Experienced users or clever children may find how to reactivate the apps you locked, so you may want tu use an app locker instead of the "deactivate method".
It's not perfect but it works, it's enough for me. My daughters will enjoy their games and I know they will not mess the system. Tested on my Nexus 7 but I'm pretty sure it will work on all Android 4.2 devices.
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Ok so how do you use the same app on all users without installing it on every user, because would that just take up some memory?
Thx
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Disclaimer: I don't have a lot of time at the moment and I'm french speaking... Sorry for the rushed "how-to", I'll clean it and add details up when I'll have more time. Feel free to add your 2 cents!
1. You need a device running Android 4.2 (no root needed).
2. Create a new user as usual (follow the Android tutorial).
2.5. Verify everything is ok for this account.
3. Once done, go into this new user settings (don't switch to your main/admin account).
4. Add a new account, this time use the Google account on which you paid for your apps.
5. During the add account tutorial, make sure you unselect ALL syncing stuff. <=== VERY IMPORTANT!
6. Once done go into settings -> applications and deactivate all the apps you don't want the new user to access (ex: gmail, g+, calendar, etc...).
7. Launch the Google Play Store and select your main account, make sure you protect application purchase by a PIN.
8. Installed a paid apps under this account.
9. Enjoy!
WARNING 1: I had an issue with Google+ when I deactivated it, it removed the updated version (so when I switched back to my main account, I needed to update the app through Play Store). May happen to other apps.
WARNING 2: I don't know if it's related or not, but in the process, I needed to reboot my Nexus 7, it was slow and unresponsive (a process or app was sucking a lot of CPU cycle). But, it did not happened again.
TIP: Use email app instead of gmail to sync the other user mails.
CAVEAT: Experienced users or clever children may find how to reactivate the apps you locked, so you may want tu use an app locker instead of the "deactivate method".
It's not perfect and it works, it's enough for me. My daughters will enjoy their games and I know they do not mess with the system. Tested on my Nexus 7 but I'm pretty sure it will work on all Android 4.2 devices.
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mr.acarlton said:
Ok so how do you use the same app on all users without installing it on every user, because would that just take up some memory?
Thx
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You can't for now, every user have it's own copy of the app.
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You can't for now, every user have it's own copy of the app.
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If you set up the new user like you described, then every time the new user installs an app from the Play store, that was already installed by another user, it won't download again, it will only create an icon for it. Data that is created by the app (like save data, etc...) on the other hand will allocate new space, specific to that user.
Br.
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Hi!
I have finally decided to upgrade my ancient Nokia phone and am looking at the Z2
I was hoping some of you kind people could help me with some questions as the shops don't seem to be able to help....
1. Email: I have several email IMAP accounts (some accounts with multiple identities). Some of the accounts have folders with over 10000 messages (no that was not a typo ). Can the default Email application handle this?
2. Can the default calendar sync with multiple other Google calendars (e.g. mine, a generic holiday and my wifes)
3. Can the default Music application read MP3 tags and display my music by e.g. artist or albumn ? (and display media art) ?
4. Can the default Gallery application display my photos in folders e.g. by date? Or do I have to view them all at once? (which I imagine could lag after a while).
5. I know the Z2 has a stamina mode which looks excellent. Can it e.g. turn off wifi when I leave home and turn it on at the office?
6. Can I configure the phone to store photos, videos (and for those applications that support it e.g. maps) on the SD card by default?
7. Can I deactivate applications that I don't use (and will that survive a reboot). I am aware I can't fully remove applications unless I root the phone.
8. Is there any difference in time between charging the phone via USB or magenetic charger?
9. Can I customise the home screen i.e. its not locked down is it?
Thanks very much!
No idea about 1, 2 but a yes on everything else. 5 can be solved using location based wifi. The difference between magnetic charger and USB is that you can't transfer data through magnetic port. Apart from that charging speeds are the same. And no home screens can be fully customised.
Hope that's enough info for you, I'm loving my Z2 and would recommend it over any other flagship this year to anyone.
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1 is possible in terms of the several IMAP accounts, and I doubt you'd see any issue with lag from having 10,000 emails (though I wouldn't know exactly, as my largest one is around ~2,000). The application doesn't load them all at once though, so I don't think there'd be any issues with that.
2 is something I do on the daily. I have an appointments calendar, my workout calendar, my school calendar, and a holidays calendar, and they all sync fine.
3 yes.
4 yes, folders are a thing, but I have several thousand pictures, and if I choose to view them all at once, it works flawlessly.
5 is a no, *I think*. I don't use stamina mode, and I get at least 30 hours of battery life with pretty heavy texting regardless, so...
6 yes.
7 yes, and even though you can't fully remove a few applications without root, most all of them can be disabled without root.
8 no, not that I know of. I use both, and they both charge pretty fast.
9 yes, not locked down.
#5 - there's a built in function that turns off wifi when you're out of range of saved wifi networks and then turns the back on when you are in range again. Works well.
Thanks all for the replies
Greetings to all - first post here - and glad to have found such a huge community!
I got myself a Redmi Note 5, running MIUI Global 10.2 (Android 8.1.0...)
On my phone's Second Space, certain specific apps won't start - or rather: they do start, but as soon as I try to "log in using Facebook" and validate, a "givenapp have stopped" message appears.
Given apps DO WORK on 1st Space. (I've tried installing from 1st and from 2nd Space, allowing them on one or both Spaces...)
If I allow the app on both Spaces, they DO WORK on the first (main) Space, but still not in the second!
After the 2 apps I already used presented this bug I've tested 4 other similar apps, and the bug persists.
Incriminated apps are all "social" (=dating, blame me!) all installed from the PlayStore.
It doesn't matter if they're used on both Spaces or not. I have Facebook Account linked to Mi Account, and all permissions given to said apps. I send crash report every time, and have posted it through "Feedback" too.
Thank you for reading, and for any help in understanding this bug
ps: there is a thread with kind of the opposite problem: https://forum.xda-developers.com/poco-f1/help/games-apps-space-default-space-t3865722
Andremidis said:
Greetings to all - first post here - and glad to have found such a huge community!
I got myself a Redmi Note 5, running MIUI Global 10.2 (Android 8.1.0...)
On my phone's Second Space, certain specific apps won't start - or rather: they do start, but as soon as I try to "log in using Facebook" and validate, a "givenapp have stopped" message appears.
Given apps DO WORK on 1st Space. (I've tried installing from 1st and from 2nd Space, allowing them on one or both Spaces...)
If I allow the app on both Spaces, they DO WORK on the first (main) Space, but still not in the second!
After the 2 apps I already used presented this bug I've tested 4 other similar apps, and the bug persists.
Incriminated apps are all "social" (=dating, blame me!) all installed from the PlayStore.
It doesn't matter if they're used on both Spaces or not. I have Facebook Account linked to Mi Account, and all permissions given to said apps. I send crash report every time, and have posted it through "Feedback" too.
Thank you for reading, and for any help in understanding this bug
ps: there is a thread with kind of the opposite problem: https://forum.xda-developers.com/poco-f1/help/games-apps-space-default-space-t3865722
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1) Have you added play games app to your second space too?
2) Did you try downloading the apps in second space itself instead of moving/use both space etc?
Schumanzuar said:
1) Have you added play games app to your second space too?
2) Did you try downloading the apps in second space itself instead of moving/use both space etc?
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Hello Schumanzuar, thank you for you rinterest!
1) Dunno what Play Games app has to do with this, but yes, I have now (formerly I had disabled it on both spaces).
2) I have tried downloading them from 1st, 2nd, enabling one way and the other... same result.
Thing is, why should one Space behave differently from the other when all (as far as I see) settings are the same?
I noticed that I don't have access to "Developper Options" on 2nd Space, even if I enabled this on the 1st (can't enable it on 2nd)
Ok, just a brief note to update on this problem: 4 of the 6 apps received updates today, and after that 2 of the 4 managed to connect via Fb.
So I guess the problem is really app-based, and maybe those apps receive the crash-logs? Pity for the other apps that did not patch up...
So FB does not work for me in second space. It crashes, even apps that require FB login crashes
I have the same problem...any solution?
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I have the same problem...any solution?
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same here .. gettng same issue