When I went into clean up in settings, it says cleaning up WeChat Storage.
Has anyone else seen this?
There is no WeChat app installed on the phone, what the hell is this all about?
Lols. trying to find it as well ... It's a Chinese spy..
Doesn't matter. It is optimised for wechat as it leaves alot of temp rubbish from photos and whatnot. Don't pay attention to it. It shouldn't affect your phone performance.
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Hi Guys,
I have a question/idea. Maybe its already done and you give me a hint on how to install it.
There are a bunch of apps that I really like but I dont like their security requirements like accessing Contacts, System settings, account data.
I agree that some may need it for their functionality, but some apps abuse it or have unnecessary rights.
I wonder if someone could write an app that intercepts those requests and returns dummy or empty data. For example, the app wants access to my contacts, it gets a dummy contact or an empty list returned but not my real list etc. Making the app think its is getting live data. The new app should allow to choose which app will get real and which get blank data or dummy data for sensitive things like accounts, contacts, system stuff.
That way the app would still work but my data is safe.
I guess it would almost have to work like a Rootkit hooking into system functions and figuring out the calling app.
Does this exist? Would this be something for CM7?
I read a lot of ppls reviews out there saying I am not installing this app until you remove such and such security right. This should be the best solution.
Let me know.
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Hi Guys,
I have a question/idea. Maybe its already done and you give me a hint on how to install it.
There are a bunch of apps that I really like but I dont like their security requirements like accessing Contacts, System settings, account data.
I agree that some may need it for their functionality but some apps abuse the it or have unnecessary rights.
I wonder if someone could write an app that intercepts those requests and returns dummy or empty data. For example the app wants access to my contacts, or it gets a dummy contact or am empty list etc. Making the app think its is getting live data. The app should allow to set which app will get real and which get blank data for sensitive thing like accounts, contacts, system stuff.
That way the app would still work but my data is safe.
I guess it would almost have to work like a Rootkit hooking into system functions and figuring out the calling app.
Does this exist? Would this be something for CM7?
I read a lot of ppls reviews out there saying I am not installing this app until you remove such and such security right. This should be the best solution.
Let me know.
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This should be in Q&A.. And there is an app for this.. LBE or LBE Lite.. Also, yes it is a function of CM7. While I'm answering though, I will say that I block almost all permissions that are unnecessary and I've never had a problem with any of the 125 apps I use.
LBE vs CM7
Well, as outlined above, CM7 and LBE are the two best options. I figured I might as well outline the pros and cons of each.
CM7 Application Permission Removal:
Pros - Built-in, no popups, technically faster.
Cons - Not all-in-one interface per say, more annoying to set a large number of apps permissions.
LBE:
Pros - Available on more phones, popups allow you to decide on a situation by situation basis whether to grant permissions, all in one interface, nice looking UI.
Cons - Not built in, popups CAN be annoying, different color scheme from stock android.
P.S. I'm not sure if this happens for everyone, but it probably does just because of security system conflicts in CM7 and LBE, but LBE doesn't seem to be able to start and run on CM7, so you can't have the best of both worlds
thanks guys for the quick responses!
I am trying LBE and so far like what I am seeing
THANKS!
According to 3G watchdog pro, as attached...
An entity called "Android System" is downloading something all the time which makes my data plan full to the cap pretty fast. I can't also restrict it to wifi only.
How do I disable that with or without root, (preferably without root since I've been waiting for official ICS update)
My firmware is the latest version.
Thank you so much xda.
To disable it you switch off your phone. It's like asking Why is "windows 7 hogging up all the data. Can I erase it?"
In most cases though "Android System" isnt the culprit. Could be Ads, if you are playing free games and use free apps. If i were you i'd factory reset, only use Watchdog pro and see how it acts. Then install basic apps, like Facebook etc, then see how it acts.
But im most certain that the ads are what you are having problems with
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To disable it you switch off your phone. It's like asking Why is "windows 7 hogging up all the data. Can I erase it?"
In most cases though "Android System" isnt the culprit. Could be Ads, if you are playing free games and use free apps. If i were you i'd factory reset, only use Watchdog pro and see how it acts. Then install basic apps, like Facebook etc, then see how it acts.
But im most certain that the ads are what you are having problems with
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Oh well, in win7 I can block the system itself from hogging the data, but that's not the point.
My mini just got back from service center, as its second time for the screen to f**ked up completely, the phone came back empty, but mind you, Sony service center in Thailand is really really bad. Anyway, the apps with ads also display separately and that I have blocked their data consumption by restricting them to wifi-only via 3g watchdog. Also, my auto-sync is off all the time.
Back in the time before factory resetting I tried Onavo to block it, didn't work.
The phone is downloading something by itself that I have no idea what they are, so frustrated.
Hey guys I need some help not in resolving this but in finding a way to resolve it...as weird as that sounds.
I've searched on google and here in the forums and there doesn't appear to be any clear answer to the problem.
The problem is that last week, my battery was drained like crazy (no this is NOT a battery drain post!), so after going over the usual BBS stats and logs, I narrowed it down to Media / Download manager / DRM protected media (each app will report it differently). I also noted that my data plan got sucked up with more than 300MB downloaded. Since then it's happened twice more, downloading about 90MB each time.
Going into settings, data usage and disabling background data use for Google services will fix the data use but it doesn't address the problem.
A bit of background: I've been using custom ROMs for years, and finally settled on Slim ROM (which is based on CM10), running on a Galaxy Nexus, so an OTA is out of the question. Also, this is the first time this has ever happened. Ever.
What I need help with (I've also searched and found nothing yet that could help me):
I want to know what the hell is downloading and from where.
That's it. How can I do that? Is there a way to check active connections, bw used and where they're coming from? Some log? Some app that will monitor this for me and tell me where it's downloading all this crap from? I've tried to use disk usage apps to see if any directory is larger than 350MB but all I can see is my photos and music which has always been there, nothing new. Maybe one of the privacy apps that could scream at me something like "this app is trying to connect to this server here". I need details.
I could easily wipe the device and install OS again, but I feel I should really find out what the hell is going on before anything else.
Many thanks to all in advance,
Hi there, dumb question. The girlfriend (Sony Xperia Z3, full stock) cought something. She's getting popup ads all over the place. Small ones, fullscreen ones... but it's only within Chrome. On the desktop I'd say it's some evil addon and it looks exactly like that. But Chrome for Android doesn't do addons. It must come from some rogue app.
I can't find anything for the life of me. The phone has never been rooted so it can't be much. However, her boy sometimes does what kids do and that is download everything that looks like a game. He just does that from the Play Store and usually she kills it immediately.
I let three different killers have a look (Avast, Bitdefender and Kaspersky) and none can find anything.
There is no suspicious app to be seen anywhere.
Yet the ads keep popping up.
Any ideas?
The problem is only within chrome? No popups when using other apps?
^ Indeed. It kinda looks like lots of adware related stuff you'd find when googling the problem. But none of the solutions have worked so far.
If it wasn't so annoying and pissed off the GF so much, I'd actually say this is 'cool' in a twisted way. I even checked if it's the new kind of malware that can root Androids but nope, unrooted still.
Haha: D optimistic attitude. Have you tried does the problem go away if you uninstall and reinstall chrome? Not the most elaborate solution but maybe the simplest one.
If you can't fix it, and are desperate to fix it, you should
1. Root and download ad away
2. Uninstall completely and use another browser (Idk if this needs root considering I don't know if chrome is a system app or not)
Well, the simplest solution did it. Delete Chrome's cache, delete Chrome's data, done.
Of course now I'm intrigued HTF something that intrusive is even possible via the browser alone.
Your best bet would be wiping the phone and flashing stock firmware
There are at least two apps (that I've noticed) which seem to act strange when I run them again after running them once. The strangeness vanishes if I go into recent apps, swipe the app away, then run it from scratch. I get annoyed at having to do this frequently. Would one of the many background app killers out there achieve the same effect automatically without me having to swipe the app away? Any recommendation for a killer I can restrict to just certain apps? Is there any setting on the s21 to say "never cache this app in memory"?
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There are at least two apps (that I've noticed) which seem to act strange when I run them again after running them once. The strangeness vanishes if I go into recent apps, swipe the app away, then run it from scratch. I get annoyed at having to do this frequently. Would one of the many background app killers out there achieve the same effect automatically without me having to swipe the app away? Any recommendation for a killer I can restrict to just certain apps? Is there any setting on the s21 to say "never cache this app in memory"?
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No offense but it sounds like the issue is with the apps and using an app killer to autokill the app is nothing more than band aid. The app killer would be yet another service that will run in the background using up your resources. I think you would be better off contacting the developer and see if they will allow you to submit logcats so they can fix the issue(s). This would help you and potentially help others as well. I would also see if there any alternative apps that can do the same thing.
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No offense but it sounds like the issue is with the apps and using an app killer to autokill the app is nothing more than band aid. The app killer would be yet another service that will run in the background using up your resources. I think you would be better off contacting the developer and see if they will allow you to submit logcats so they can fix the issue(s). This would help you and potentially help others as well. I would also see if there any alternative apps that can do the same thing.
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The most irritating one is the Chase mobile app. Attempting to contact the "developer" gets me chase customer service who wants to help me reinstall the app. Pleas to forward my mail to the actual developer are met with total incomprehension .
Okay. We might try going deeper here. Did the problem always exist or did it start randomly? If each one was working fine at one point it could be an update from the developer broke Apps. Did it start after an update to the app or the phone Rom?
Did you customize and/or disable the os or rom baked services/apps?
How long have you had the phone? Did you upgrade from android 11 to 12 and do a factory reset? Just some questions to see if there might be other root causes.
Everything is stock with all system updates from samsung applied. I'm pretty sure it started after an app update. The chase app insists "You are not connected to a network", but since I was just on chrome looking at web pages, that seems unlikely. It acts more like the app doesn't clean up everything correctly on exit, then if android keeps it around in memory, it has trash in uninitialized variables when starting back up again. I've gotten pretty good about swiping it away from recent apps, so even if they fix the bug someday, I'll probably keep doing it from reflex .
Have you looked at recent comments for the app on the play store? Are there similar complaints that started around a certain time? That would be a definitive indicator if it was an update issue.
I commented about it and since then 15 people have found my review helpful, so maybe that means they have the same problem.
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I commented about it and since then 15 people have found my review helpful, so maybe that means they have the same problem.
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Yeah...that is unfortunate. It looks like you may have to wait on the company and developer to fix it.