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I've installed and reinstalled android since the .7 builds before android 1.0 was out, i've installed using data images and ext2 partitions... I've put my time in, so i've had a G1 since december and have pretty muched stopped playing with my kaiser, I picked it up today and have been trying to do a NAND install of Poly's build with no luck... got the 320x240-Panel2-Tilt NBH installed and booting, along with poly's build dropping into the andboot folder... and updated to radio 1.71*, after doing a install to NAND (and wiping /data & /system)... I see that I have bad blocks on my mtdblock3 (NAND) when its mounted... I cant seem to boot android all the way, anyone else have a bootable android that has bad blocks... AFAIK most devices that use NAND work around potential bad blocks (Wii, XB360, etc) will it format around these blocks?
wow, I reflashed the .NBH, and still getting the same bad block error, set the phone down and was browsing the web and listening to TwiG, look back over at the phone and it WAS sitting on a shell on a blank line ie. "#", and started the NexusOne logo!!! so I guess its all good with bad blocks and all!
Now another question, I'm on a $9.99 featurephone unlimited dataplan for AT&T, if I throw my sim back in my Tilt, will they figure it out? I dont have my IMEI registered, but obviously they can see it... lol, I know its a little off topic.
I have 3 bad blocks on my Tilt and doesn't seem to be affecting anything.
Yes bad blocks are a part of every NAND memory device. I read somewhere that there is like a 5% failure rate on these types of memory. It's just how the tech is. However, there is a system built into it to keep track of the bad blocks, once it's marked bad, it will never be used. I also have 1 bad block and have had no ill effect on my kaiser. It just seems that the boot process lists which blocks are being reported as bad by the memory.
Hope this helps.
I have around 7 bad blocks, and OK with my sistem.hahahahahahaha.
jmhalder said:
Now another question, I'm on a $9.99 featurephone unlimited dataplan for AT&T, if I throw my sim back in my Tilt, will they figure it out? I dont have my IMEI registered, but obviously they can see it... lol, I know its a little off topic.
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Yeah they will. They figured it out in less than a week when I got my old Hermes. Even without my IMEI registered, and a custom ROM installed, my account on the site showed I was using a Cingular 8525. They automatically switched me to the $30 data plan. There was absolutely nothing I could do.
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"They" do know, but if you have a feature called "smartphone exclusion" you can get away with a $15 data plan, but as soon as you upgrade to a smartphone the exclusion feature is removed.
So, if you have two lines always upgrade the one that will not be using a smartphone, then switch sim cards.
The only way to know if there is a smartphone exclusion feature is for a rep to open your account and look at your feature codes, even the $0 features.
This probably doesn't make any sense, but I wish there was a way to block an IMEI, then no problem. In the past we could put all 1111's for an imei in the system as a non att phone and there were no reprocussions.
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I've wondered the same thing at times about the imei. It seems every time I went exploring the "making imei different' option, all I would ever get is the big lecture about stealing phones.
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Kinda like when you go buy allergy medicine and get carded, cause there are a bunch of losers out there doing something illegal with it.
I am not sure of the ethical issues with using 'too much data' or paying more, b/c I use my wife's Samsung Flite (insured non-smartphone) with $15.00 internet tethered bluetooth to my laptop, so eh...... I'm always a stickler for paying what I think something is worth to me, especially after a company has REALLY taken advantage of me a time or two. And btw, where I live, I only get 1 bar most of the time. Really, our phones hardly work, so we have skype on the PC to make calls from our home. They work great in the city that I work in, but i'm on a computer using google talk mostly. Can you say "Holes in the coverage map?" And yes, i've tried all the radios. Be it my kaiser, the old hermes, my wife's samsung flight, or the 3 we've had Blackjacks, theres just never been good coverage. So ya, I think i'm overpaying a bit. I just use my phone as a toy, a hobby, a see what it can do.
I've read about IMEI changing being illegal in certain countries. What about the USA? I mean seriously, I drive a car with no catalytic converter, but we don't have emissions checks in my state. Yes that means I'm breaking the law, but I also think that relatively speaking, i'd rather the police spend their time busting Meth labs than worrying about my car emitting 20% more stuff from the exhaust.
Its all about saving money, because everyone is trying to get ALL of it from you.
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Can the imei on the kaiser be changed, or killed for that matter? Has it been explored?
And please, spare me the stolen phone lecture. I just don't think I can take it.
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And please, spare me the stolen phone lecture. I just don't think I can take it.
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How about the "It's illegal to change your IMEI number in most countries and you could face prison if you do it" lecture?
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I've read about IMEI changing being illegal in certain countries. What about the USA? I mean seriously, I drive a car with no catalytic converter, but we don't have emissions checks in my state. Yes that means I'm breaking the law, but I also think that relatively speaking, i'd rather the police spend their time busting Meth labs than worrying about my car emitting 20% more stuff from the exhaust.
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Pulling out the catalytic converter won't increase your mpg, as many modern cars actually require the back pressure. You'd have to also modify the computer, or own a car made in the 70's and older.
Its all about saving money, because everyone is trying to get ALL of it from you.
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I bought my Kaiser off Ebay, and it's actually made for the UK. Just to try and avoid having to pay a $25 fee for having access to unlimited internet. Course the 3G doesn't work with T-Mobile in USA, but I use 2G anyway to save battery power.
Cell phone industry is just one big scam. You can't afford to buy a new phone, unless it's under contract, and switching cell phone companies will cost you a disconnection fee. Not to forget that their cell phones are locked to them only, and requires you to beg for the unlock code.
Honestly wish that T-Mobile had a $10 fee for getting unlimited internet, cause relying on wifi is a huge hassle.
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Pulling out the catalytic converter won't increase your mpg, as many modern cars actually require the back pressure. You'd have to also modify the computer, or own a car made in the 70's and older.
I bought my Kaiser off Ebay, and it's actually made for the UK. Just to try and avoid having to pay a $25 fee for having access to unlimited internet. Course the 3G doesn't work with T-Mobile in USA, but I use 2G anyway to save battery power.
Cell phone industry is just one big scam. You can't afford to buy a new phone, unless it's under contract, and switching cell phone companies will cost you a disconnection fee. Not to forget that their cell phones are locked to them only, and requires you to beg for the unlock code.
Honestly wish that T-Mobile had a $10 fee for getting unlimited internet, cause relying on wifi is a huge hassle.
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Well i've officially derailed this thread. sorry. I'll go join the ranks of losers that I always complain about
BTW, my car doesn't have a cat cause its a 18 year old Cutlass Calais, and I'm not paying to put one back on where the original one rusted away. It does have a new exhaust however, and right where that cat converter goes is a nice shiny honda resonator from a civic Si (got it from a friend at college when he put an aftermarket exhaust on his car).
I don't think you'll get prison time in the United States for messing with your phone, I'm not sure either. I've never heard of it actually happening due to someone changing imei numbers in order to profit criminally in some way.
BTW, just to tie this thread back into its original form, i've gotten Bad Nand blocks reported one time. I flashed hardspl again using sdcard method, and haven't seen them mentioned in android boot since. Weird huh?
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BTW, just to tie this thread back into its original form, i've gotten Bad Nand blocks reported one time. I flashed hardspl again using sdcard method, and haven't seen them mentioned in android boot since. Weird huh?
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I get errors with bad nand blocks as well, but as someone mentioned, that's normal. It's like buying a LCD TV and you see a few dead pixels. That's normal, even though it pisses you off, knowing that companies dare make products with some defects. Even CPUs have this too. For example, when Intel or AMD makes CPUs, they pick the ones that happen to be made well. The ones with the less defects can clock higher, and therefore cost more money. The CPUs with the more defects get clocked lower, and sold cheaper. It's gotten to the point where some companies are disabling cores. ATI and Nvidia first did this with their videos cards, disabling pipelines that were bad. Now AMD does this with their Athlon and Phenom CPUs, by disabling 1 or even 2 bad cores. Good news is that, many products were sold without defective cores or pipelines, and if you know what you're doing, and lucky enough, you could turn cheap products into expensive ones.
Yea I derailed myself. Anyway, after messing with Android on my Kaiser for 5 hours, I decided it wasn't ready. There's 6 issues that bothered me. Doubt any of it is related to bad nand blocks.
#1 Random features don't function unless you restart phone. Couldn't play MP3's because format wasn't supported. Restarted phone, and now I can play MP3's. There's a lot of instances where restarting the phone will fix a problem, but that brings me to the second issue.
#2 Restarting phone can cause it to not boot. Wouldn't be a huge problem if I didn't need to restart often, but I do. Usually, pulling the battery and holding the power button for a while, usually fixes it for me.
#3 Random freezing. You never know when your phone will just freeze. I got it to freeze when changing my ring tone.
#4 Installing applications must be in internal memory. A specific Android related problem, but annoying as hell. There's a solution to this, but it requires me to partition my SD card, and format it as ext2.
#5 No offline GPS. Again, specific to Android but something I can't live without. I heard Ndrive can do it, but I'd rather use the GPS that comes with the Android. I'm sure there's a way around it, but no good step by step guides to do it.
#6 Can't send audio with texts. I'm not sure if this is a Android issue, or if I needed to restart my phone. I love being able to send pictures and music formatted in the AMR format to friends, but for the life of me I couldn't select any AMR audio to send with texts. I could attact pictures with no problem, but couldn't find any of my mp3's or amr files. The same could be said about changing my ring tone to a mp3, as it just couldn't see it.
Did what i said to you in the other thread help with the sticky boot, and the lockups?
You mean the 3.29 boot loader? It still happened when I flashed it. Though, I did notice that Android booted faster, but that maybe my perception.
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How about the "It's illegal to change your IMEI number in most countries and you could face prison if you do it" lecture?
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Its not illegal in america, it IS undoubtably illegal in lots of europe... its obviously illegal to exploit that to do malicious things... but whatever, the knowledge to do so is obviously NOT illegal, I'm VERY tired of that argument... that kind of info IS on this site... also, claiming illegality in the US will require citing law for me to really take ANY credibility in it...
*once again, I'm only promoting the KNOWLEDGE to be able to modify this, not the actual act... obviously there are a TON of scumbags that want this info to push devices illegally in the EU, but I personally could give a crap about them.*
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Its not illegal in america, it IS undoubtably illegal in lots of europe... its obviously illegal to exploit that to do malicious things... but whatever, the knowledge to do so is obviously NOT illegal, I'm VERY tired of that argument... that kind of info IS on this site... also, claiming illegality in the US will require citing law for me to really take ANY credibility in it...
*once again, I'm only promoting the KNOWLEDGE to be able to modify this, not the actual act... obviously there are a TON of scumbags that want this info to push devices illegally in the EU, but I personally could give a crap about them.*
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I guess someone totally missed the smiley at the end of my post.
As for the knowledge how to do it, it took be approx 5 seconds to put a search in to XDA's search box and come up with the results how to do it. Try it yourself instead of complaining about it.
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I guess someone totally missed the smiley at the end of my post.
As for the knowledge how to do it, it took be approx 5 seconds to put a search in to XDA's search box and come up with the results how to do it. Try it yourself instead of complaining about it.
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I've searched, and used good forum etiquette, no need for the harshness, i've tried the single piece of software available that isn't INTENDED for the Kaiser, and I couldn't get it to work, also couldn't find any reports of it working for the Kaiser. PM me if you have any other info.
Please PM me too. I've performed the same searches and haven't found anything useful.
Actually changing your IMEI in order to get a service you have not paid for would be fraud, which I believe would be a felony charge at least.
There are US laws on the book regarding changing electronic "serial numbers" on mobile communications devices. They don't say IMEI (this was to deal with ESN cloning fraud in the late '90s with analog cell phones) but if you actually read the laws as they are written - you'd see they could easily interpreted a lot of different ways.
And in todays climate of anti-terror paranoia, I'm sure that changing your imei might also be construed as an attempt to avoid legitimate surveillance, i.e. wiretapping, which uses the imei in order to intercept traffic to and from a suspects device.
Not that i'm being a killjoy, I just had a look for ways of changing imei, and found a few ways of doing it, i'm just about to point anyone in their direction, since i'm in the UK
Hello, I have recently found a Sony Xperia on my seat while travelling on a plane. (I can't know whether it's the Arc or the Arc S). But, the thing is, the phone is locked so I can't access anything on it. Does anyone know how can I delete the password in order to use the phone?
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Hello, I have recently found a Sony Xperia on my seat while travelling on a plane. (I can't know whether it's the Arc or the Arc S). But, the thing is, the phone is locked so I can't access anything on it. Does anyone know how can I delete the password in order to use the phone?
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Yes but I won't tell you. Turn it in to the appropriate authority
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don't be that guy. just return it.
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Well, how do you guys expect me to return it if I can't even access the contact list or anything on the phone?
Don't even tell me to give it to the list and founds, we all know that it's useless.
I actually asked almost everyone on the plane whether it was their phone.
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Well, how do you guys expect me to return it if I can't even access the contact list or anything on the phone?
Don't even tell me to give it to the list and founds, we all know that it's useless.
I actually asked almost everyone on the plane whether it was their phone.
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Then that's the responsibility you have not upheld because you wouldn't even turn it to the lost and found
It should also be noted that you mentioned in your original post that you wanted to unlock the phone to use it. Not return it.
In the end, if you want to keep it for yourself instead of doing the responsible thing, that's entirely up to your conscience
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Because i said "use it" then it clearly implies that I don't plan to return it? English isn't my first language but I don't think it is contradictory. I can "use it" to access the contacts, etc.
You may say I'm irresponsible and all kind of stuff, but I think I was kind enough asking everybody on the plane whether the phone was theirs. Like it or not, you would have done the same in my place, try and give it back if the phone is the belonging of someone in the plane, if not, then too bad, I keep it.
I'm not a liar, I plan to keep the phone, as I said, I found it on a plane. The owner probably is in india, england, or whatever country.
You can judge me but be honnest, I did the necessary, giving it to the lost and found is just completely useless.
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Because i said "use it" then it clearly implies that I don't plan to return it? English isn't my first language but I don't think it is contradictory. I can "use it" to access the contacts, etc.
You may say I'm irresponsible and all kind of stuff, but I think I was kind enough asking everybody on the plane whether the phone was theirs. Like it or not, you would have done the same in my place, try and give it back if the phone is the belonging of someone in the plane, if not, then too bad, I keep it.
I'm not a liar, I plan to keep the phone, as I said, I found it on a plane. The owner probably is in india, england, or whatever country.
You can judge me but be honnest, I did the necessary, giving it to the lost and found is just completely useless.
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you should've mentioned that you asked everyone on the plane. when someone says they wanna bypass a lock screen they want to access the info. at least in my eyes.. you refuse to turn it into lost and found because you think its "useless" .. scoff. you found a free phone and your intentions are to keep it . plain and simple. did you leave the Sim card in it?? maybe they'll call it. but as long as you keep saying you want to keep it .. you look like a thief in my eyes. just turn it into lost and found even if you think its moot
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Yes, the Sim card is still in it, but if the phone is locked what do you think I could have done?
Damn, Lost and Found is a scam, and you know it perfectly that it would have been useless, the only thing that would have happened was either the phone would rot on a shelf or another idiot would take the phone.
I did ask everyone on the plane. You can act like I was a thief and think you are an angel but you know I did the right thing. Lost and found would be useless, you just can't admit it.
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the only thing that would have happened was either the phone would rot on a shelf or another idiot would take the phone.
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Or the person it belongs might have enquired, "has anyone found a Phone". Not everyone who works in "lost and found" is a scally....
A $2,000 tip is huge for any Las Vegas cab driver, but then Adam Woldemarim, a 42-year-old Ethiopian cabbie, did someone a huge favor: He turned in a lost laptop case stuffed with $221,000, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
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- http://www.usatoday.com/story/ondeadline/2012/10/08/las-vegas-cabdriver-taxi-money-found/1619863/
abdelbachir said:
Hello, I have recently found a Sony Xperia on my seat while travelling on a plane. (I can't know whether it's the Arc or the Arc S). But, the thing is, the phone is locked so I can't access anything on it. Does anyone know how can I delete the password in order to use the phone?
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IMO, you should keep the phone and let the person call his phone. Since you can't unlock it, the phone would be useless to you. If the guy doesn't give a damn, then I wont know what to do with it.
Now to the subject of unlocking...
There is no way to bypass this except to use Google account or by flashing the phone with SEUS. The Google account must be associated with the phone, however.
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jezz... i see people on this forum saying that they can make their phone can do everything but jerk them off...hell some one may even have an app for that...but i just want some help on repairing the antenna on my R800x i am getting no signal what so ever and it is absolutely a hardware issue....please smart guys help me out... this is the only reason i joined xda...
As I realize you want to get your phone working, there is no need to create three threads in two different forums. Also, you may want to ask a little nicer.
Anyways... if you thinks its the Cell signal antenna here is a photo in this link that tells you what aspect of the phone the antenna is. If it is the antenna your best bet would be to buy a back cover replacement from say eBay. I bought a couple in the past for around 5-10 bucks and your Wifi, Bluetooth, and cell antenna's are in there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24791423&postcount=52
eBay listing
(this one is quite high, if you watch you can find them for half that price.)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AT-T-Sony-E...415?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20ce4c0e7f
Just do a search for Xperia PLAY back.... then search for the photo of the image above
seriously though, if you feel it is your antenna broken, just snag a replacement back and see if that resolves it... its super easy to swap out. I have done if three time.
cool..i'll shut up now
i do thank you for the response....my aggressiveness paid off....sorry for my A/hole ways...i just did not get a real answer until now...you rock:laugh:
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i do thank you for the response....my aggressiveness paid off....sorry for my A/hole ways...i just did not get a real answer until now...you rock:laugh:
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No worries. I am sure everyone here has at least once been in a bind where they were freaking out and wanted a solution fast. I really would recommend you look at buying a new back for your play. They all worm the same so no need to look for a r800x back.
Good luck and if replacing the back sizes it please reply back to this thread. So that if others have a similar issue they can use this thread as a answer. Good luck.
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I was recently contacted by an old friend to help with an issue. He was a victim of privacy invasion on his S4, hidden instances of webcam and phone cameras, exporting of personal information, etc. Now he has come to me for help. I have looked at his logs and whatnots, but nothing really stands out. So, I am wondering if any of you have experienced the same problem? If yes, please provide me a complete list of all the apps you have installed on your device. Since I do not own an S4, it is hard for me to create the issue. The only answer is to get this community to pool together and get me the device (which would allow me to dev for the S4 and bring the greatness of the Lightning Zap! kernel), or for you guys that have experienced it, to help me find a common link.
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I was recently contacted by an old friend to help with an issue. He was a victim of privacy invasion on his S4, hidden instances of webcam and phone cameras, exporting of personal information, etc. Now he has come to me for help. I have looked at his logs and whatnots, but nothing really stands out. So, I am wondering if any of you have experienced the same problem? If yes, please provide me a complete list of all the apps you have installed on your device. Since I do not own an S4, it is hard for me to create the issue. The only answer is to get this community to pool together and get me the device (which would allow me to dev for the S4 and bring the greatness of the Lightning Zap! kernel), or for you guys that have experienced it, to help me find a common link.
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Is there any more info you can give about it? I haven't noticed anything personally, but I also haven't been looking.
Would be nice to see you here on the S4 there, pal.
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Is there any more info you can give about it? I haven't noticed anything personally, but I also haven't been looking.
Would be nice to see you here on the S4 there, pal.
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Hey man! How goes it? I would love to have an S4 but it's just not in my budget right now...but at about 600 bucks (with no contract) who can afford it...lol
Although, I am up for my new every 2 upgrade... but it is for AT&T, and I'm not sure of the compatibility between the i9500, and the AT&T model (not sure of the exact model number).
As for the invasion of privacy issue, I'm trying to get more details on it. But I'm really thinking the malicious code started on his PC and drifted to his phone. And if it's the trojan I am thinking, then it attacks usb devices by making all the contents of that device hidden and appearing as if everything was deleted. Easy to get rid of, and easy to fix provided you have admin level access. Oh, and it was specifically made to attack Windows 7, but can leak out to other versions of Windows. Reason #1 to switch to Linux: Hackers HATE Windows and Bill Gates! lol
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Hey man! How goes it? I would love to have an S4 but it's just not in my budget right now...but at about 600 bucks (with no contract) who can afford it...lol
Although, I am up for my new every 2 upgrade... but it is for AT&T, and I'm not sure of the compatibility between the i9500, and the AT&T model (not sure of the exact model number).
As for the invasion of privacy issue, I'm trying to get more details on it. But I'm really thinking the malicious code started on his PC and drifted to his phone. And if it's the trojan I am thinking, then it attacks usb devices by making all the contents of that device hidden and appearing as if everything was deleted. Easy to get rid of, and easy to fix provided you have admin level access. Oh, and it was specifically made to attack Windows 7, but can leak out to other versions of Windows. Reason #1 to switch to Linux: Hackers HATE Windows and Bill Gates! lol
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I mean, what were the indications? Like, what made your friend say "Man, I do believe my privacy is being invaded." You say nothing suspicious showed up in logs, the instances of camera and data exports, etc were all hidden... what gave the indication that it was happening?
A friend of mine recently had a very similar problem with his iPhone.
We quicly determined that the answer was that his phone was cloned using a scanner, which gave the bad guy power to hack into the device at the ESN level. Very hard to trace in any kind of logs, especially since the bad guy would have the ability to purge logs.
Your buddy might have someone similar. My friend was in Russian when this happened though, much less common in the US.
Skipjacks said:
A friend of mine recently had a very similar problem with his iPhone.
We quicly determined that the answer was that his phone was cloned using a scanner, which gave the bad guy power to hack into the device at the ESN level. Very hard to trace in any kind of logs, especially since the bad guy would have the ability to purge logs.
Your buddy might have someone similar. My friend was in Russian when this happened though, much less common in the US.
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I asked him for more info and specifically what led him to believe this has happened. I am waiting for his reply. Here is th main snippet from his initial email:
I have been the victim of a very discreet but maddening invasion of privacy through my phone and also my PC and laptop computers via key logging, hidden instances of webcam and phone cameras, exporting of personal information, etc. I believe it to be a reoccurring problem via persistent data, local and cloud based storage, and corruption of my MBRs on most of my storage media. I know enough to be dangerous, but have yet to find any significant marker that points to faulty reflash process at least on my telephone.
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He gave me some good logs, but I really don't have much to go on. With the statement about his MBR's, I think his computer was actually attacked and subsequently, his phone and possibly other usb devices have been compromised...
He has MBRs on most of his storage devices?
But I think he probably got Ratted on his computer, the guy controlling the computer saw he had an android phone and installed an android rat onto it when he plugged it in next.
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Hello everyone,
Long time mystified lurker, first time poster.. before you jump my arse please know that I have searched the forums to the best of my abilities. I am only able to find answers regarding custom kernels/unrelated posts. I have an unrooted completely stock out of the box ATT carrier locked S20 Ultra 5g (SM-G988U) with the Snapdragon 865. Please forgive me because I am learning and doing my best to provide relevant information. But within my recovery logs for last_kmsg I get a big NOTICE stating tace_printk() is allocating extra memory and that IOMMU DebugFS has been enabled. I cannot seem to figure out why this notice is appearing and I cannot get any explanation from ATT or Samsung. I recent called ATT via 611, after being connected to a manager and laying out my question, I was hung up on and my sim card was no longer recognized. I tried putting my sim into a carrier unlocked moto g7 play and it also does not think I have inserted the sim. I had to go into the ATT store to purchase a new simcard and the new one works perfectly. My data was never turned off in my account and my sim card was supposedly still active according to the store employee.
Again guys, so sorry for the dummy talk... thanks for sticking with me so far!
This may or may not sound stupid but it appears I may have a virtual machine running on top of my android system?? I ran a GPU Benchmark and my GPU Load never increased from 0% and my CPU seemed to have been doing all the work.
I cannot get answers from XDA forum searches,, Googling, ATT, Samsung, employer and I am genuinely concerned because I work for a financial institution and at one point had my work email configured on this device. I handle lots of PII so I have been taking unpaid vacation to try to figure this out without much luck.
I have not and could not possibly cover everything I have tested/searched/noticed. I am basically either a lot dumber than the average bear or my internet searches are being filtered to make this troubleshooting extremely difficult. At this point I am going out of my comfort zone to post online for the first time ever on any forum so please be gentle with me. Also, I could literally talk for days about what I've done and what I have figured out these past couple weeks so PLEASE ask me questions if you have any. You can mock me and call me stupid, please just do so in a manner that details where I am going wrong.
Sorry for the crappy sentence structure and grammar... I was a sailor and not a college student for a reason! Thanks for any support you can provide!
Much love
so you went looking into device kmsg logs and found something u dont understamd and assume thats what killed ur sim card?
lol
thats normal output on many samsung devices.. its not anything nefarious.. not sure what u mean about a virtual machine running lol.. i suppose if u installed and set one up maybe ones running?
either way it sounds like ur device is fine/normal and ur just looking into stuff u dont quite understand.. and i can guarantee att or sammy reps etc know less than most ppl lol
that being said, sim cards can fail sometimes and need to b replaced.. ive had a few die randomly over the years.. it happens. It also indicates bad sim seeing as how it didnt work in ur other device eithet.
Bootsie needs help said:
Hello everyone,
Long time mystified lurker, first time poster.. before you jump my arse please know that I have searched the forums to the best of my abilities. I am only able to find answers regarding custom kernels/unrelated posts. I have an unrooted completely stock out of the box ATT carrier locked S20 Ultra 5g (SM-G988U) with the Snapdragon 865. Please forgive me because I am learning and doing my best to provide relevant information. But within my recovery logs for last_kmsg I get a big NOTICE stating tace_printk() is allocating extra memory and that IOMMU DebugFS has been enabled. I cannot seem to figure out why this notice is appearing and I cannot get any explanation from ATT or Samsung. I recent called ATT via 611, after being connected to a manager and laying out my question, I was hung up on and my sim card was no longer recognized. I tried putting my sim into a carrier unlocked moto g7 play and it also does not think I have inserted the sim. I had to go into the ATT store to purchase a new simcard and the new one works perfectly. My data was never turned off in my account and my sim card was supposedly still active according to the store employee.
Again guys, so sorry for the dummy talk... thanks for sticking with me so far!
This may or may not sound stupid but it appears I may have a virtual machine running on top of my android system?? I ran a GPU Benchmark and my GPU Load never increased from 0% and my CPU seemed to have been doing all the work.
I cannot get answers from XDA forum searches,, Googling, ATT, Samsung, employer and I am genuinely concerned because I work for a financial institution and at one point had my work email configured on this device. I handle lots of PII so I have been taking unpaid vacation to try to figure this out without much luck.
I have not and could not possibly cover everything I have tested/searched/noticed. I am basically either a lot dumber than the average bear or my internet searches are being filtered to make this troubleshooting extremely difficult. At this point I am going out of my comfort zone to post online for the first time ever on any forum so please be gentle with me. Also, I could literally talk for days about what I've done and what I have figured out these past couple weeks so PLEASE ask me questions if you have any. You can mock me and call me stupid, please just do so in a manner that details where I am going wrong.
Sorry for the crappy sentence structure and grammar... I was a sailor and not a college student for a reason! Thanks for any support you can provide!
Much love
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I have noticed this same thing. The warning message obviously states that it is unsafe for production use therefore how is this supposed to be normal? I am just as concerned with this warning message as you are. I hope someone that knows something more about it will come forward and provide an answer that actually offers some kind of real explanation as to what is going on here.