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.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge running Android 7.0.
Percentage-wise, screen almost always takes up the most battery (normal for phones) and Android System generally falls into second place.
I'm not having any issues with my phone's battery life.
I was just wondering if it's possible to see*which packages within Android System use the most battery?
If anyone's curious, here's the package list for Android System on my phone:
AASAservice
Android System
ANT+ HAL service
Application installer
Assistant menu
AuthService
Backup and Restore Manager
BBCAgent
Beaming Service
BIuetoothTest
bootagent
Camera test
CIipboardSaveService
ClipboardUIService
Colour adjustment
com.android.waIlpaperbackup
com.samsung.android.radiobasedlocation
com.samsung.android.sm
com.samsung.android.sm.provider
com.sec.android.app.wfdbroker
com.sec.bcservice
com.sec.epdg
com.sec.vsimservice
Device maintenance
DeviceKeystring
DiagMonAgent
DRParser Mode
EmergencyManagerService
Enterprise Sim Pin Service
Error
Filter Installer
Find My Mobile
Fingerprint
Fused Location
Gear VR Service
HwModuIeTest
IMS Service
Input Devices
Interaction control
Key Chain
Knox
Knox SetupWizardCIient
KnoxAppsUpdateAgent
KnoxFoIderContainer2
Launcher
MhdrService
MTP application
OM Customize
Perso
Phone
Private mode
Quick tooIs
Samsung ApexService
Samsung MirrorLink 1.1
Samsung setup wizard
Samsung text-to-speech engine
SamsungDLPService
Security policy updates
Security storage
SecurityLogAgent
SecVideoEngineService
SEMFactoryApp
Service mode
Settings
Settings
Settings Storage
SharedDeviceKeyguard
SilentLogging
SKMSAgentService
SmartFaceService
Software Update
Software update
Sound detectors
SVC Agent
SysScope
TetheringAutomation
Themes
tuiService
UIBCVirtualSoftkey
Universal switch
Update apps
USBSettings
Wallpapers
WIanTest
King Mustard said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge running Android 7.0.
Percentage-wise, screen almost always takes up the most battery (normal for phones) and Android System generally falls into second place.
I'm not having any issues with my phone's battery life.
I was just wondering if it's possible to see*which packages within Android System use the most battery?
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Try some of the app monitors in the PlayStore
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=app monitor&c=apps
my question is as above in the title
btw i saw about replucant on gnu's website
thoughts about it?
how would it protect my privacy
and i have been told that even if i start using repulcant google service will be another privacy threat
i want to know also how google services can be privacy threat do they have malicious code made by like other trackers (like windows trackers ...websites... etc..)
The most basic thing you should do:
do not grant various apps on your phone the permission to access your album, contact, sms or email, location and so on, unless you really need to use their functions that require such permission.
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The most basic thing you should do:
do not grant various apps on your phone the permission to access your album, contact, sms or email, location and so on, unless you really need to use their functions that require such permission.
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ik ! but i want to protect myself from the tracking or spying of google
Root your device, preferably a 'clean' way (without questionable root software that can do more harm than good). Make a TWRP backup or similar, just in case you stuff your device.
Allow installation of apps from unknown sources in "Security > Unknown Sources". Then install AdAway (ad-blocker) from f-droid.org. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/. F-droid is officially linked from the AdAway website https://adaway.org/ since it was banned on the Google Play Store, which is testament to how much of a threat it is to Google.
The key (to me) is to kill Google's main revenue first: ads. Along with the revenue of all the other adware/tracking/spyware creators who wish to do business on the Spyware Store. The second way to kill them is to use ad-free apps as much as possible (f-droid.org can probably cater to most needs).
Installing a keyboard that doesn't spy on you is fairly important to me. You might consider AnySoftKeyboard or others from f-droid.org. After switching to the new keyboard, uninstall your default Google keyboard using your preferred root uninstaller. You can use Play Store apps like Titanium Backup to uninstall & backup if you wish. You can download Play Store apps without using Play Store by just getting their APK files on sites like https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ though some apps and games will require Google Play Store and related spyware to run. To me, those that do require Google Play Store and related spyware components aren't even worth considering.
Uninstall every single Google app on your device. Including Voice components. Plus the Play Store and related Services Framework and heaps of other Google Spyware. I have finally started to compile a list of those I have found to be safe to remove, so if you need more details, I might be able to help a bit.
There are usually better apps for Mail, Contacts, Maps, Gallery, Calculator, SMS, messaging, Calendar, Camera, etc. They are freely available without tracking/analytics, adware & spyware. An extremely good place to start inorder to get the basics are the Simple Mobile Tools apps from Tibor Kaputa https://simplemobiletools.github.io/
If you want to spend your money, consider giving it to guys like this.
Some root uninstallers I have tried have been extremely unreliable, leaving your device essentially bricked after they fail to start after removing a component, or by giving you dumb error messages after removing a safe component that other root uninstallers have no trouble with. Regrettably, I have yet to find a decent open source root uninstaller. At the moment I am using Titanium Backup to uninstall unwanted apps and components from Google, unwanted spyware from the chipset manufacturer & unwanted spyware from the device manufacturer. Personally I don't use any of the stock apps, including the stock launcher. All of these companies have a long history of customer privacy violations. All profit from profiling you and selling you out to their partners.
There are useful (adware/tracking-infested) Play Store apps like MyAndroidTools that allow you to disable certain components from certain apps which might also be useful to you. This was available on Google's Play Store but now does not appear. I use it for apps like Firefox, to disable the Crap Components I do not want running.
You might also consider XPrivacy or XPrivacyLua which gives you more control over what apps can do. You might also consider changing your DNS settings from Google's to another with apps like DNS man.
Google is the Spyware King at the moment with literally billions of devices in use, eclipsing Microsoft and Apple soyware in terms of numbers of devices in use.
You have many different ways to protect your Android phone. You should use a strong password and backup your phone. Here is good article about it: imei.info/news/android-privacy-protect
You can just check it.
Hi,
I've recently tested user profiles on android devices (samsung galaxy tab a android 8.1 and xiaomi mi a1 android 9) and they seem very hard walled from each other, yet the switching between them is surprisingly fast and easy. Now my question, could they be useful to isolate untrusted apps from the main profile that's linked to my online accounts? With untrusted I mean generally harmless but nosy apps from the play store (with a blank google account ofc).
Thanks in advance for your answers!
Hello!
I have 2 questions about the system software:
1) The annoyng ADS in the system apps was removed with the recent updates? For example, now when I'm using the weather app I still see the ads banner?
2) In particular on the Exynos version (european), when I start the phone for the first time, there are some Google apps? Or I have only the Samsung browser on default (without Chrome) and only the various Samsung Apps?
Or I have 2 browsers (Chrome and Samsung Internet), 2 assistants (Bixby and Google assistant), 2 Payment system (Samsung Pay and Google Pay) for default?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Hey there. Here are some answers based on what I experienced (Edit: had => experienced)
1) I haven't actually ever seen ad outside the Galaxy Store ever before, but is supposedly removed (will be in OneUI 4, anyways).
2) You get both and the apps which don't come preinstalled can be installed.