I noticed that there is a process / app "Gadget Guardian" that is always running. I think it is some sort of phone locator / remote-wipe app. But why would I need it when there is already Google's Android Device Manager?
Also, please share what other apps that I should be disabling.
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I went through my Heros settings and found that in "menu>settings>applications" theres a check-box named "unknown sources" which while checked allows install of non-Market applications.
Why is there such a setting? Since Android OS is open-sourced, isn't the whole point that everybody should be able to upload apps to the Marketplace without Google having to accept them first? If it is like that, why wouldn't all apps be on the market place?
The only reason i see for this is so that you would be able to install apps that Google wont allow, but if they don't allow the app, why would they have a setting so you can install it?
Please tell my why there is such a setting.
Thank you /nofowuw
my only guess is that that setting is equivalent to a Release of Liability form. Any damage caused by apps installed from external sources, not on the Market where it can be rated and commented upon (maybe filtered too?) cannot thus be blamed on Google?
nofowuw said:
Why is there such a setting? Since Android OS is open-sourced, isn't the whole point that everybody should be able to upload apps to the Marketplace without Google having to accept them first? If it is like that, why wouldn't all apps be on the market place?
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The fact that Android is open source has absolutely *nothing* to do with the Market. There are many reasons why a developer might not want to put their apps on the Market - a core consideration might be that they want to sell their apps, but paid apps are not available in their region, so perhaps they want to use a different distribution method.
Similarly, in some regions, Android phones do not ship with the Market app at all, presumably because Google charge a licence to ship their closed source apps.
Regards,
Dve
google does not check the apps in the market. every app comes to the market, but there is the self-controlling mechanism: if several users complain about an app (and rate it bad) it will be taken out of the market. also you wouldn't install an app that has 1 star and several warnings in the comments. this way you can be pretty (not 100%) sure that the app from the market won't harm your phone. last but not least through the market it can be tracked down to the dev who created the app.
now if you download an app or someone sends it to you all that is gone. no user ratings, no comments, no dev. this is why you have to check that box when you want to install apps from other sources...
ohh, ok... umm.
So how do you install these applications? Just put the application-file on the SD and the phone does the rest? Is there any community that host a library of apps to download?
Since i live in a non-full market region and cant buy apps, i guess this can be usefull for me
Using some nifty Android emulation inside of a gadget, you can play and run premium Android applications as if your PC was an Android device.
The install of the program was painless after a 117MB download.The program runs in the background, waiting for you to spawn an instance of one of your favorite apps. What is excellent on Bluestack’s part is that they include 10 pre-installed apps for you to try it out.
Currently, both the Windows program and Android App are in alpha right now. Bluestacks itself is a very polished release, and does not feel like an early version at all. The Cloud Connect app on the other hand is not nearly as functional. Some force closes were experienced, and some apps would not sync. The largest complaint however is that the Cloud Connect app uses Facebook for authentication. This is a bit puzzling, and probably unnecessary. However, seeing the quality of the Bluestacks program, it is a good bet that the developers will take care of the issues with Cloud Connect, and perhaps find another way to authenticate other than Facebook.
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Anyone know how to install it for all users? It is only installed for my user account, and I'd like my family to be able to use it on their accounts.
You mean your windows account ??
Yes. Bluestacks runs fine on my Windows user account, but the gadget is not available for other users. And while the the Start Menu > Bluestacks > Bluestacks Gadget shortcut is available on all user accounts, the shortcut does nothing for them.
So I have lately I have bought a Chinese Smartphone and when I looked at Settings -> Apps -> All some of the apps have a full access to my smartphone which is rather scary, can someone please help me identify which service/app shouldn't have a full access to my phone and also is there a website in which I can type the name of a service/app and it would tell me which permission it requires ? So this is the list:
Atci_service
BSPTelephonyDevTool
com.mediatek
com.mediatek.batterywarning
Common Data Service
EngineerMode
Factory Mode
FotaProvider
Fused Location
Google Account Manager
Google Play services
Google Play Store
Google Services Framework
Input Devices
Key Chain (A lot of permissions)
MmsService
MTK Thermal Manager
Phone
Phone/Messaging Storage
Schedule power on & off
Settings
Settings Storage
Shell
SIM Tool Kit
SmartcardService
System UI
UpgradeSys
User Dictionary (Why does it have a full access to my SMS/MMS and full network access (?)
YGPS
Search Application Provider
Google Contacts Sync
Google Backup Transport
Google App
Very Suspicious Services/Apps:
MTK Android Suite Daemon (e.g it can read phone status and identity or do everything it wants with a SMS or MMS (?) )
MTK NLP Service (What is this and what does it do
MTK Thermal Manager (Why does controller for a battery needs to have a full access to Android (?)
MTKLogger (Is this a spyware (?)
Omacp (e.g it has access to a "Modify secure system settings" or can do whatever it wants with either phone call or SMS/MMS.
Phone (I have two of them and the first one have handful of permissions where the second one has a full access to Android (?)
Shell (What is this ? It mainly has access to " access extra location provider commands, interact acreoss users etc, is it possible that this might be a backdoor ?)
UpgradeSys (I have never noticed it on another smartphone, same as Shell.)
Normal (What is this app ?)
LocationEM2 (Again, what the hell is this app ?)
What I don't understand is that many apps/services has permissions which they shouldn't have .... I have tried to for example find out what's LocationEM2 or MTKLogger but I have ended up with nothing ....
I was also thinking about rooting the device and install some firewall to block incoming connections to such apps/services which are suspicious or what's better remove such permissions. Also I know that Common Data Service can serve as a backdoor. Also I didn't connected this device to a Wi-Fi as I want to sort this stuff out first and it's a bit scary what's going on underneath the mask in this smartphone with services/apps and I must admit I'm a bit concerned about credentials used on such device. Also what's weird is that most of the services/apps I can't disable when for example on Sony Xperia M2 I could do it with most of them.
Can someone give me a hand here please ?
Kind Regards
Key Chain is a serious Virus i know.
Key Chain is a serious Virus i know. On other i have same question. I need to know about those app.
hi, i have an android app that is installed on certain devices. I tried different kiosk app but none is really working so i want to hire a dev to make a simple rom as a KIOSK, where the user will be only able to open my app.
If the device gets rebooted or powered it will launch my app and won't allow to do anything else outside the app.
Who is available for such job ? contact me please
Hello everyone, newbie here.
I have simple led display units controllable by an app called "Led Space", the app itself is sufficient but my company wants to modify the application or create a modified version of the app. I tried reverse-engineering the app to understand how it works, but with my little knowledge in Android app development, I didn't know what I was looking for. So my question is, how do apps control and send messages to wifi connected devices.
PS: the device has its own wifi access point, and all I have to do is connect the phone to that access point and the app does the rest.