Is there any way for me to bypass an app to think I'm an entirely new android device?
These are all the things the app tracks to see if you're a new user or not. I have a rooted android.
I tried using android faker, app cloners, device emulator pro, and island. The app still detects something's suspicious. I've been trying to figure this out for months, please help.
(btw im a new android user so excuse me)
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May be the app in question checks the device ID of your Android device, which can make it appear as a new device .
If that is true then note that suppressing the checking of device ID by an app is not recommended, as it may violate the terms of service of the app and could potentially harm your device. However, if you still wish to proceed, you may be able to achieve this by modifying the app's code or using a third-party app that can modify the app's behavior. Please note that modifying an app's code can be complex and may require advanced technical knowledge. Additionally, it's important to remember that any modifications made to an app may cause it to behave unpredictably or even stop working altogether.
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Hello,
I have a question not really related to rom development but I hope it is okay if I still ask it here.
My question is: "How deep can I go with an App inside the Android System".
Let me explain. For my thesis in university I need to develop a possibility on how to monitore the behavior of apps. Achieving this by altering the Android System itself is a bunch of work but not very complicated or new. So my Prof asked me if I could do this with just an App - my first thought was NO, but before telling him I thought that I could ask you guys/girls
Topic is on: Monitoring Apps with focus on
- Contacts access (does App xyz actually reads the telephone book and which data is read).
- Calendar (does App xyz reads the calendar)
- Internet Access (does App xyz sends data to a server - to which server - or does this app retrieves information from the internet).
... (... means -> the more ideas the better )
So what I'd like to know is: Does anyone of you has an idea how I could achieve such thing and/or can you tell me how deep I can go into the system with a simple app (doesn't matter if via API or direct IPC or ...)
Thank you very much
Would it matter if the app required root access? I'm sure with root access you could achieve your goal. Not sure if you could without root.
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Hi a rooted phone is the second possibility - rooting and installing an app is still better then the need to setup with a complete new rom.
Do you have any ideas how I could do this with a rooted phone - i thought about writing some kind of a rootkit but somehow this don't seems to delight my Prof
There seems to be a whole class of software that already does exactly that for not rooted and rooted variations. Check market for any backup software, backup contacts/logs/SMS/apps with data external SD or send to cloud. Pretty much every option seems to be covered under that heading.
Something for you to check out anyway
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IF you have an idea how you can achieve the above mentioned using a custom rom then you already know which features you will be overridding, in that case create an app that does all that and show's some graphs and features on screen. Just like busybox installer stuff.
just had to say this cause of the threads title...thats what she said!
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Please mind the "with an App" supplement
Hi.
I tried to search but couldn't find any solution for this issue.
I know making a real unremovable app is impossible, but I hope I'll be able to find a way to make an app harder to remove.
I want to make some kind of parental protection app.
it should be installed easily without much technical knowledge ( preferred that it will work on unrooted devices).
the app should be hard to remove or disable by the phone user.
who ever installed the app should be able to remove (probably with a password in the app settings).
I don't care if technical users will be able to easily remove the app.
I also don't care if the users will know that the app is installed on their device
I guess the simplest solution will be to some how hide the app from the app drawer.
I saw some where that Cerberus has that option but I guess it requires a root.
another solution might be if there is an option in the android os itself setting an admin password that will not allow
the user to install or remove any apps without the password.
any ideas if how to approach this ?
This is surely not a complete answer, but maybe a point to start with.
In android, you can write services: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html
A facility for the application to tell the system about something it wants to be doing in the background (even when the user is not directly interacting with the application). This corresponds to calls to Context.startService(), which ask the system to schedule work for the service, to be run until the service or someone else explicitly stop it.
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And there is a possibility of receiving a message if the uninstaller of an app is started: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html (ACTION_UNINSTALL_PACKAGE).
Google will probably help you on how to use these things
Thanks I'll have a look
David:D said:
This is surely not a complete answer, but maybe a point to start with.
In android, you can write services: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html
And there is a possibility of receiving a message if the uninstaller of an app is started: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html (ACTION_UNINSTALL_PACKAGE).
Google will probably help you on how to use these things
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I often give out loaner phones and recently have had a wave of theft and damage to my devices. I need a way to make for say a limited profile on devices that will not allow borrowers to delete my tracking apps and preferably a way to remote wake device... I have multiple devices so this is not specific to just one device. Been thinking maybe tasked would help me achieve this?
There is nothing you can do with the state of Android. A simple factory rest or flash will remove anything you may do
Hello there!
I use a Motorola Moto G6 that's running on Android 9 Pie (Build no. PPS29.118-11-1) and I was wondering if there was a way to block certain apps from being installed on my device by their package name. I want to be able to do this for the same reason I use very strict settings on Digital Wellbeing: self control.
I know that you can install and block apps and I know that you can use parental settings on your phone but that simply won't help in this situation. I'm also aware that an app with these capabilities might not be available. My question isn't if it's possible now or with the utilities currently provided through apps developed for my Android OS; I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to block apps by their Package Name in any way and if it's impossible to make (in theory) an app that can do it.
I'm not sure how it can be done. Can it be done by having an app that reads through an app that's attempting to be installed and generates bricked app directories where it should chuck out the app's resources so it can't be installed? Maybe. Can it be done by cancelling the installation request of an app that has a Package Name matching one inputted into a list on the hypothetical app in question? Not sure. If anyone knows the answer to those two proposals or has their own suggestions, please do your best to answer my post and keep in mind, this has to be done without the phone being rooted.
An additional but important factor: this is about self control. I can easily bring myself to not remove or otherwise disable restrictive measures on my phone, but I'd like to know if I can make it so that you cannot remove a Package Name that has been blocked in the phone no matter the method used in the first part (other than uninstalling the blocker app, of course).
Regards,
Yoki Aza
I'm a long time developer but brand new to Android, with my having past experience developing in Unix systems as well as a lot using Cygwin in Windows. I have a newly-installed App that seems popular called 'C Locker'. So far, I've just got the Free version because I'm trying it out to see if it does what I need. Unfortunately, it's now crashing with the Settings that I've enabled, and as a general developer, I'm interested in seeing if I can glean information from the Bugreport (or whatever else I can use...perhaps even gdb on the device itself?) to help me know what specific Settings might be the problem being that there are so many of them and I would prefer to gain some type of help from my phone in figuring out what the bad settings might be that I've enabled that are causing the problem rather than to spend all day flipping them around. I've already scanned through the Bugreport after uploading it to my computer, examining all of the references it makes in there to "com.ccs.lockscreen" with this apparently being the process name for the C-Locker program. I've seen indications in there where it indeed shows that it has crashed, but I couldn't yet discern if it is able to give me pointers as to what the cause of the crashes might have been. Is that possible to gain such information out of these Bugreport files? Or is there a way to run it directly in gdb on my device to perhaps see the stack at the time that it crashes, for which the names provided might help to discern what specifically it was trying but failing to do at the time? If it helps, as an intended future Android developer, I've already gotten Android SDK set up on my computer, although I haven't yet really used it much to speak of for anything. I also have adb working from my computer to the smartphone and even have rooted it using a rare method being that I have an older phone purchased years ago via Amazon that I didn't activate until about a month ago. (It's an LG G4 VS986 version 13B so I couldn't use the popular rooting method for version 11A but instead had to use the "Injection" method which took me FOREVER although I finally got it to work!) And just in case it helps perhaps even to bypass a direct answer to this question (although it will still of course be appreciated), my Settings within C Locker involve having set it to be a Device Admin and to bring it up as the first App upon Reboot as well as I've selected within the Root category to make it a System App as well as my then having Disabled ALL things that typically show on the screen (such as 9-1-1, camera, Etc). I had left it set to the default "Gesture" Unlock method, but whenever I bring up the App again and go into "Unlock Methods", it now immediately crashes each time (as well as upon Restarting the phone!). So this covers the majority of the most significant of the Settings that I've made on it so far to the best of my recollection. And I feel that if I could get some indications from the system as to what the specific errors may be when its crashing (or from a stack trace or whatever else), then it might help me to discern what specific Settings are creating the problem being that perhaps I just have an odd (rare) combination of Settings on it that I can tweak to get it working. My goal is to ultimately get a lockscreen App that I can use a Pattern type Unlock with that allows an UNLIMITED number of Failed Attempts (so that it won't ever Factory Reset my phone after the 10th or ANY number of failures!!!). I also--as mentioned above--don't want ANY shortcuts whatsoever being accessible BEFORE the phone is unlocked...not even 9-1-1. Anyway, so if there's a way to glean information from the Bugreport (or from whatever other methods available) to find the specific cause (involved errors) of this or any other App that's crashing that I do NOT have the source code for (being that I of course am not its developer) then it will be greatly appreciated to know how to best find this information. (And I promise that I've already searched extensively on Google but couldn't filter out its replies all being based on the idea that I'm the developer of the App that's crashing, with my even trying adding phrases such as "not my app" and "not the developer of" Etc to no avail...lol). Thanks.
By the way, if I shouldn't have combined the 'C Locker' Settings details into this post, then please just let me know because I'm new to posting here. Also, unfortunately, if I don't receive any help with this right away, then I'll be forced to start testing different Setting combinations anyway, which would then of course solve this problem but without knowing truly what exactly was causing the issue. Even if so, it will still be helpful in the long run with other potential App crashes to get the answer to this general question.
Unless not disabled by user, all runtime activities in Android are logged, so app crashes and their reason also. You can view this log by means of Android's logcat command-line tool or by means of a LogCat Viewer app. My POV: logcat is essential for determining what an app and the Android OS are doing while the app is running on a device.
BTW: Android's log can be filtered per package, too.
Thanks!
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Unless not disabled by user, all runtime activities in Android are logged, so app crashes and their reason also. You can view this log by means of Android's logcat command-line tool or by means of a LogCat Viewer app. My POV: logcat is essential for determining what an app and the Android OS are doing while the app is running on a device.
BTW: Android's log can be filtered per package, too.
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Thank you, and since posting this, I've been learning more about Android Studio and have used it to actually see the stack trace within the "Android Monitor" pane there in order to find the instant reason why the/ANY (meaning 3rd party as well) App is crashing at the time! Thanks again for the help!