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Hi everyone... as i'm pretty much stuck with my device... i'm gathering all the information we have found on the hotkeys.
Yeah, i'm so bored to try random key combination...
And yeah (2) there are some new key combs... (ha!).Anyone brave enough can help booting with the remaining keys hold.
Tested keys (pair): q , w, r, m, b
Enter APX mode (Nvidia flash)
Hold U+S+B+ Power
Prints nothing, enters APX mode
Enter Ms Pink Bootstrap mode (aka SBL mode)
Hold L+S+ Power
Prints nothing, enters SBL mode
Clear Storage memory (reset phone)
Hold C+B+ Power
Prints a Phone image (and reboots)
Unknown, possibly downgrade the phone to original OS
Hold R+B+ Power
Prints a "reboot" arrow (and reboots)
Was reading up on Fuses, Lock Bits, and idenitified the Samsung moviNAND 8GB is part "KLM8G4DEDD-B101". Using the Samsung's Decoder pdf, found "S3C49VDX01 Controller" so did a google search and found this website
http : / / forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S_Series
There's a few modes on that galaxy phone. The button combinations probably won't work but if you are bored, try them out.
Not so bored but, they dont work. This mobile is a PITA wherever you look at it.
I did the "R+B+power" on my KIN TWOm and i got the reboot screen, then i got a screen saying "Updating modem Please do not remove battery." i got scared and took out the battery. then when i put it back it it said the updating modem thing again and i just let it sit, it finished rebooted then asked me to set up my phone and it was asking me for my windows live email, but it wasnt working so i click setup later. I had the kin studio on my KIM TWOm of course it didnt work but this might help someway.
Interesting, maybe it's a kind of restore hotkey (who knows hehe).
My problem is that it doesnt work removing the battery (removing for a little time) or letting it update (i left it about 2-3 hours updating and autoresetting till the battery died).
Maybe you could connect to verizon and get the OTA update.
If you didnt have the Loop (for kin studio) before, it just mean, as expected, that the kin twom is just a kin two with a software update removing loop and restore-able with this hotkey.
I do not recommend its use though
I now have the original KIN software on my phone using this method. Irritating that it will not sync with my hotmail, most likely because of no cloud server connection. I have lost all of my contacts.(thank god for the facebook phonebook) The spot is convenient. I find it interesting that the phone still retains the original OS.
If the original software is back, can't you use Microsoft Exchange Active Sync to synchronize contacts? Have you lost other stuff, like Zune music, etc?
I have a couple of questions:
Since you now how the original OS on the phone ...
How does it show up on the Verizon network? Is it still being seen as a Kin Twom or the original Kin Two that required data?
Is the Wifi and built in Facebook app working correctly?
Can you forward video through MMS using the Kin Stop?
I just wish there was a way to get some direction from Conflipper. It really did look like he found a way to get deeper into the original OS, even though he said he hadn't found a way to dump the ROM.
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I have a couple of questions:
Since you now how the original OS on the phone ...
How does it show up on the Verizon network? Is it still being seen as a Kin Twom or the original Kin Two that required data?
Is the Wifi and built in Facebook app working correctly?
Can you forward video through MMS using the Kin Stop?
I just wish there was a way to get some direction from Conflipper. It really did look like he found a way to get deeper into the original OS, even though he said he hadn't found a way to dump the ROM.
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Not quite sure of the first question.
The wifi works but the loop does not because I can not finish set up, when trying to sync with my hotmail it displays a message that it cannot connect to windows live.
Yes the Kin Spot works wonderful.
I'd like to add that videos do not work.
Feed Reader will not refresh my feeds.
OTA update does not work almost everything requires a connection to the KIN server that does not exist anymore.
Rebooting Kin ONEm
Update on R+B+Power Button.
1. I performed this on a KIN ONEm, NOT a KIN two. I recommend that the forms be combined as efforts to hack both devices are very similar.
2. To answer a previous question: NO, ACTIVE SYNC DOES NOT WORK WHEN LOADING THE OLD KIN ONE SOFTWARE. HOWEVER, it does not seem to work because an error message pops up and says:
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Your plan doesn't support Exchange sync.
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SO: for people who want it, I would be interested in knowing if anyone with a KIN ONEm does the software reset and then asks Verizon for the plan. It could possibly work.
3. A DISCOVERY: pressing the R+B+Power a second time on boot kicks the software back to the "m" (as in ONEm) mode. I don't know if it's the same for the TWOm... but I bet it is. In any case, if you want to play with the original software, there seems to be a way to get back easily. FYI: It took me a couple times to do it right... and there is a pause before you get the updating modem screen and after you see the return arrow symbol. Be patient and try a couple times.
4. FACEBOOK and TWITTER and WINDOWS LIVE all do not seem to work either, giving various messages about "try again later" or "cannot connect." I wonder why. I expected the facebook address book to work re: an earlier post. I could not get it to work.
FYI: I decided to keep the "m" software as the studio does not exist anymore. For all of us too cheap to buy the data plan, I guess we don't have a big excuse to be too cheap to go to the verizon store to get our contacts synced up once in a while. To do this, I bitpimed my contacts to my old phone and then brought the old phone in. If anyone can figure out how to renable active sync or simply upload contacts - great, but until then, I may have to switch back to my old phone.
Thanks for the info posted above. It's good to know that this hotkey lets you switch and switch back to the old version (well, "m" version).
The only thing i dont like is the "update modem" (or OTA update) need, cause it probably means that you depend on verizon to get things done (like B+R+Power + get OTA).
R+B+power doesnt work on my phone?
When i try the button combination it just brings up the normal message of "Turn off? your phone will turn off now" It doesn't reboot like everyone says it should? one thing i should add is this phone a little different from the first kin twom, i'm not sure how but when i went to verizon to get a warrenty replacement the lady said "we need to send you a kin twom..two" confused i said "this is the second version?" she said "no its newer.. it's hard to explain" the only difference i can tell so far is that on model number there is no longer a hand stamped M after it. It's printed on the sticker. so maybe i'm stuck with an even more locked down phone?
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When i try the button combination it just brings up the normal message of "Turn off? your phone will turn off now" It doesn't reboot like everyone says it should? one thing i should add is this phone a little different from the first kin twom, i'm not sure how but when i went to verizon to get a warrenty replacement the lady said "we need to send you a kin twom..two" confused i said "this is the second version?" she said "no its newer.. it's hard to explain" the only difference i can tell so far is that on model number there is no longer a hand stamped M after it. It's printed on the sticker. so maybe i'm stuck with an even more locked down phone?
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You have to turn your phone off and then turn it on using the button combination to reboot.
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Update on R+B+Power Button.
3. A DISCOVERY: pressing the R+B+Power a second time on boot kicks the software back to the "m" (as in ONEm) mode. I don't know if it's the same for the TWOm... but I bet it is. In any case, if you want to play with the original software, there seems to be a way to get back easily. FYI: It took me a couple times to do it right... and there is a pause before you get the updating modem screen and after you see the return arrow symbol. Be patient and try a couple times.
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Hey I'm wondering if you lost your contacts when you booted back into the kin "m" mode. When you went into the original software, you lost your contacts. Now when you booted back into "m" mode, did you lose your contacts as well? Also, did you lose anything else? I want to test this with my kin twom but at the same time, I don't want to lose everything I have. Thanks
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You have to turn your phone off and then turn it on using the button combination to reboot.
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oh jesus, all that did was do a factory reset. I lost everything, and it's still the twom software.. now i'm confused
BenDyer said:
oh jesus, all that did was do a factory reset. I lost everything, and it's still the twom software.. now i'm confused
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It should have given you the original kin software?
I guess that doing it just for fun is kinda stupid.
Be ready to lost everything and/or **** the phone testing random things. You were advised.
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It should have given you the original kin software?
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I've gotten the same error. It didn't give me the original Kin software. It simply did a hard reset and deleted everything off of the device. It showed the arrow however, afterwards it simply booted up into Kin. Nothing came up hat said upgrading or anything. Could there be a KinTwoM - 2 that doesn't even come with the original Kin Two software? If it'd help I'll post a video on what happens.
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I've gotten the same error. It didn't give me the original Kin software. It simply did a hard reset and deleted everything off of the device. It showed the arrow however, afterwards it simply booted up into Kin. Nothing came up hat said upgrading or anything. Could there be a KinTwoM - 2 that doesn't even come with the original Kin Two software? If it'd help I'll post a video on what happens.
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It is possible, I've heard of a second generation kin twom. So maybe you have the unfortunate problem of having one, which may exclude you from future hacks.
Well R-B-Power works.....but you lose everything
So curiosity got the best of me last night and I tried the r-b-power method to update the modem and then boot into the original kin os with the kin spot and everything. The only down side is that I lost everything on my phone. Which really, other than a few photos (and the pain of having to add all my contacts again) really isn't that bad. By the way, my Kin is the Kin TWOm with a hand-stamped "m" underneath the battery, so I guess it would be called "first gen Kin twom". It booted back to the normal kin os after I did r-b-power and my phone was still activated. So anyone with a 1st gen Kin twom can try this, just be warned that you lose EVERYTHING.
Hello, I really hope somone can help with this problem - I know the obvious answer is to get the screen repaired but I cant afford it. I've tried looking at other posts as well but am not getting anywhere.
Last year the screen went on my OP3 after being dropped and the screen is now blank with quite a few cracks. The phone still works - all the buttons work and I think I've even managed to enter the PIN. I now need to retrieve a file from the phone.
The phone hasn't been rooted or modded in any way (it's as it came from the factory). When I plug it into my PC i can see the drivers folder and the 5 files in there, but nothing else.
I was hoping I could access the phone remotely but OTG was not enabled, though I did in the past enable developer options. I believe hope is not lost, as the phone can be put into fastboot (or something like that - I'm not terribly techy but can work things out) but without being able to see the screen..... I've looked ADB devices and there's nothing after "list of devices attached".
Is there any way of being able to do something? I've looked for screenshots to see if I can operate the phone blind, but can't find anything. I am patient and will keep trying until i get it or save the money for a repair, but I really need the file asap. The phone itself isn't important to me (I've replaced it since) - only the data on it.
Very grateful for any help anyone can offer.
edit: Wifi enabled solutions are not an option sadly as I've changed my ISP since so can't amend the settings on the phone (unless I get extremely lucky)
You're screwed, just buy another screen.
It will be easier to just lend a money.
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Hello, I really hope somone can help with this problem - I know the obvious answer is to get the screen repaired but I cant afford it. I've tried looking at other posts as well but am not getting anywhere.
Last year the screen went on my OP3 after being dropped and the screen is now blank with quite a few cracks. The phone still works - all the buttons work and I think I've even managed to enter the PIN. I now need to retrieve a file from the phone.
The phone hasn't been rooted or modded in any way (it's as it came from the factory). When I plug it into my PC i can see the drivers folder and the 5 files in there, but nothing else.
I was hoping I could access the phone remotely but OTG was not enabled, though I did in the past enable developer options. I believe hope is not lost, as the phone can be put into fastboot (or something like that - I'm not terribly techy but can work things out) but without being able to see the screen..... I've looked ADB devices and there's nothing after "list of devices attached".
Is there any way of being able to do something? I've looked for screenshots to see if I can operate the phone blind, but can't find anything. I am patient and will keep trying until i get it or save the money for a repair, but I really need the file asap. The phone itself isn't important to me (I've replaced it since) - only the data on it.
Very grateful for any help anyone can offer.
edit: Wifi enabled solutions are not an option sadly as I've changed my ISP since so can't amend the settings on the phone (unless I get extremely lucky)
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Unless you enable 'USB Debugging' in Developer Options and install the required drivers, your phone will not be 'seen' by your PC. Without your phone being 'seen' by your PC, nothing can be done.
Hey folks!
I just picked up the BS3 after being generally disappointed for most of a year with the Razer Phone 2. I got the EU version (I guess?) and have been having general issues with the wireless.
Periodically, almost the entire suite of wireless connectivity just drops. My WearOS watch (Ticwatch Pro 2020) will disconnect, and the custom watchface I use via Watchfaces disappears. Wifi usually keeps working so I may not notice the drop right away, but if I'm on my phone's cellular connection, nothing goes through even though it shows signal and LTE. In my car on my way home from work this morning I was on the phone with my captain, and the bluetooth connection to my car started cutting in and out, to the point that I had to turn bluetooth off to finish the call. There was no issue up to that point, while driving and listening to Audible.
I am suspecting/hoping it was user error in setting the device up. I backed up my RP2 to Google Drive, because I didn't want to lose my apps/data (I was mostly hoping my Swype settings and game logins would transfer over, since Swype died and I'm being a luddite, and the games require the hassle of 'transfer IDs') and have my text messages transfer over easily. I think it also possibly transferred the core device stuff like cellular and bluetooth settings as well, though am not sure.
Turning airplane mode on and off seems to 'reset' things and it'll reconnect to stuff, for a while again at least. I noticed I am somehow still getting at least some push notifications on my watch even though it shows as disconnected. I am a firefighter, on AT&T's Firstnet, so am also not sure if maybe the Firstnet bands might be being finnicky with the BS3.
Thanks ahead of time for any help and suggestions!
ETA: I also get the "Xiaomi SIM activation failed" alert every time I restart the phone, and sometimes after reboot the keyboard doesn't load. ? I get the feeling ill need to reflash again, but knowing where I went wrong first would help! Also curious if there is a stock Android ROM because this JoyUI seems a hassle, and I just don't want all the Xiaomi stuff.
If you still use oppo f1s in 2021 or 2022+ go throw it away RIGHT NOW . your phone is fully spying on you and somebody inside or outside of oppo is fully viewing your actions andde things u perform on your device here is why
First after using the phone for 4 years i found out that it has a spyware built into the system that allow a person to fully see every action you perform on the android os
My oppo phone had android 6 with no malware or ADB enabled . And what happened to me is so crazy
One day i booted into my computer with a usb stick that had manjaro linux . So i booted into live persistence mode then i connected my computer to my wifi then when i turned my oppo f1s phone
and after the phone connected to the same wifi as my computer
Somebody hacked the linux os and started writing words on my screen then targeted a company from the USA by writing its name on a wifi login interface
So the person who control the spyware tried to say that the name of the company he wrote is responsible on the hack while it is actually not
The good thing is that i took a picture ofof the words this person wrote on my screen as you can see on the attachements
so after i wiped the data of my phone . Somebody played the google ring sound on the phone when the phone had no google accounts connected on it .
On that time i realised that the phone had a built in spyware used by oppo in order to monitor user activites and it has full access to the system and camera and microphone and your process list does not display it and u can not toggle its permissions or even detect it or remove it .
Just get another phone because the oppo f1s is not safe at all as i saw somebody gained access to my computer through the phone itself
While the phone had no running services at the start except of google services and messenger and facebook . And for messenger and facebook they were installed from the playstore
And the phone had no malware detections at all .
it has something unormal built into it
So if you still own a oppo f1s you better throw it away and switch away to another phone
This is not the complet story of the phone still more
Malware on Chinese phones?
X-helper may be present...
Reflash with a clean rom.
So why do you think hacker attacks are related to mobile phones?
mlgmxyysd said:
So why do you think hacker attacks are related to mobile phones?
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Some of these phones were preloaded with malware apparently.
blackhawk said:
Some of these phones were preloaded with malware apparently.
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it's impossible
mlgmxyysd said:
it's impossible
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Stop that you...
The fact is that the only running processes on the phone were system processes , messenger , facebook , and google services .
So after i wiped the data and after all installed apps were removed i did not enter my google account on the phone so the ring audio appeared and happened when the phone had no google accounts connected and no installed applications at all . Means that somebody played the google ring sound on the oppo phone after i wiped the data
So how somebody can ring your phone when your phone has nothing on it . And has no google accounts connected to it . So the spyware take part of the system
and for changing the rom or getting Twrp on it is a very hard mission . even when i tried flashing it with a pc and following most tutorials it, failed .
So oppo actually did something unormal with this phone . Also its a phone that was released on august 2016 so imagine what may happened with phone made on 2022 and 2021
This is quite serious accusation.
How did your Manjaro Linux get hacked while your phone was connected to the same wifi? I find it very strange to see Linux operating system can be easily hacked. From your screenshot, it even showed the X Windows hacked similar to remote desktop.
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This is quite serious accusation.
How did your Manjaro Linux get hacked while your phone was connected to the same wifi? I find it very strange to see Linux operating system can be easily hacked. From your screenshot, it even showed the X Windows hacked similar to remote desktop.
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Yeah I was surprised too. I was running it on live persistence mode directly from the usb . So it was not installed on the hard drive also it had the default kernel and the default installation environment
So I did not install it and
I ran a command to install an application then the person who gained access to the linux os Canceled the installation and wrote ";6OR" then pasted "The Global broadband Speed test " on a wifi login interface .
He actually tried to target ookla speedtest company while ookla is fully out of the situation .
Even the ookla speedtest app that I had was installed from the playstore and was not running on the background and had no permissions at all
Just the person saw me running ookla on my oppo device did something smart and wrote it on my computer's screen after 4 years of spying as a way to hide or to cover what he did
Thats kinda weird
So malware also allow the attacker to gain remote access to other connected devices while having full access on the device . And the applications manager does not display it or even allow the user to modify its permission .
So the user will notice nothing at all
x3r0.13urn said:
This is quite serious accusation.
How did your Manjaro Linux get hacked while your phone was connected to the same wifi? I find it very strange to see Linux operating system can be easily hacked. From your screenshot, it even showed the X Windows hacked similar to remote desktop.
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Android is a modified Linux platform. I feel safer running Windows on the PC to backup an Android. As a further safeguard the PC can't be connected to wifi or the internet.
A Android to PC infection could get very ugly if it was able breach the backup data drives. It's one of the reasons I have many backup data hdds that are time staggered up to years apart and physically isolated from each other and the PC.
XDA gets delusional people here weekly that think they been hacked. Sadly it's their own brain that's been hacked by biology or skewed thinking.
That doesn't mean that real infections and hacking don't happen. Documenting them is tedious and the last thing I care about doing when faced with an active infection or tainted file. My only concern is damage control and repairing the damage already done.
I really don't care if someone doesn't believe me when I tell them about a malware jpeg that damaged files in my download folder. I found that jpeg, successfully deleted it and repaired the damage... that's all that matters to me. That's the worst I've seen in 2 years running on Pie. Took about an hour to clean up, whatever.
I downloaded that jpeg, my bad. Fortunately I discovered it in the download folder by opening it there and seeing the changes made in that folder immediately afterwards. That's the second tainted jpeg I've encountered in over a decade.
If it had been a preloaded infected apk (or one I inadvertently installed) with full Administrator privileges the outcome would have been much worse.
This OP may actually have software issue not a soft tissue issue... just saying
blackhawk said:
"XDA gets delusional people here weekly that think they been hacked. Sadly it's their own brain that's been hacked by biology or skewed thinking. "
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I was shocked by the title so I clicked in.....
Ummm,
Isn't all the firmware packages are downloadable? Where is the malware file located in the firmware exactly? Where is the related payload file?
Isn't it necessary to provide the malware file from the firmware to point out the malware was made by the vendor? How can you be so sure you're not hacked by somewhere else?
This story looks really like this: I think he or she is having an affair with one's wife or husband. Where's the proof? Sorry, I don't have proof, I simply think it happened.
Well, looks like no problem at all...
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I was shocked by the title so I clicked in.....
Ummm,
Isn't all the firmware packages are downloadable? Where is the malware file located in the firmware exactly? Where is the related payload file?
Isn't it necessary to provide the malware file from the firmware to point out the malware was made by the vendor? How can you be so sure you're not hacked by somewhere else?
This story looks really like this: I think he or she is having an affair with one's wife or husband. Where's the proof? Sorry, I don't have proof, I simply think it happened.
Well, looks like no problem at all...
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if I can find a way to get TWRP flashed on the phone I ll be able to take a backup ZIP file and send it here
so anyone here will be able to even try the infected OS on a test phone
by flashing the backup zip file on the "restore" feature of TWRP
And this is not the complet story ,
because when I got that phone for the first time on 2017 and when I was a kid , I was recording the sea on a boat then a girl came up and told me to take a look on her phone , then she showed me that the same video I was recording is present on a adult website and because of my age that time I did not understand what she wanted to say and that the video was getting streamed from my oppo f1s phone's camera and until this day I did not find myself even on the that website , and from 2017 until 2021 I keept using the phone which was the biggest mistake ever of my life until I realized that it was it was not only infecting my devices , it was also streaming me without my permission to an adult website while nothing on the phone is having camera permission
And the process used or I can confirm as the tool used by oppo is the "Android OS" itself because it has already full permissions and access on the phone that the user can not even toggle
Also I did never use the phone on a wifi having somebody connected with a Pc with such tools so I can confirm that it nobody has the ability to try hacking it ,
and for that story upside still more.... more..... like one time I went into a livestream video on youtube then the person that I started watching said
"Omg he is watching this video" and "Dude your ISP is spying on you and your whole country wont tell you and yeah they are streaming on P###hub and everyone think that they are making fun of you while they are actually not they are actually spying on you"
then the guy next to this streamer told him "Dude its not ISP basically nobody know why"
And there is another youtuber who showed the same reaction on one of his livestream videos
but the problem is that when I keept searching for the stream , they were deleted , I spent like months searching dor myself on the internet and I found nothing
A process called "Android OS" the one that the process bar display as system app ,
CESTRayCRYSTAL said:
if I can find a way to get TWRP flashed on the phone I ll be able to take a backup ZIP file and send it here
so anyone here will be able to even try the infected OS on a test phone
by flashing the backup zip file on the "restore" feature of TWRP
And this is not the complet story ,
because when I got that phone for the first time on 2017 and when I was a kid , I was recording the sea on a boat then a girl came up and told me to take a look on her phone , then she showed me that the same video I was recording is present on a adult website and because of my age that time I did not understand what she wanted to say and that the video was getting streamed from my oppo f1s phone's camera and until this day I did not find myself even on the that website , and from 2017 until 2021 I keept using the phone which was the biggest mistake ever of my life until I realized that it was it was not only infecting my devices , it was also streaming me without my permission to an adult website while nothing on the phone is having camera permission
And the process used or I can confirm as the tool used by oppo is the "Android OS" itself because it has already full permissions and access on the phone that the user can not even toggle
Also I did never use the phone on a wifi having somebody connected with a Pc with such tools so I can confirm that it nobody has the ability to try hacking it ,
and for that story upside still more.... more..... like one time I went into a livestream video on youtube then the person that I started watching said
"Omg he is watching this video" and "Dude your ISP is spying on you and your whole country wont tell you and yeah they are streaming on P###hub and everyone think that they are making fun of you while they are actually not they are actually spying on you"
then the guy next to this streamer told him "Dude its not ISP basically nobody know why"
And there is another youtuber who showed the same reaction on one of his livestream videos
but the problem is that when I keept searching for the stream , they were deleted , I spent like months searching dor myself on the internet and I found nothing
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This is nonsense. You don't need TWRP to get the infected file. If it is made by vendor just like you said, simply download the official firmware from oppo and point out which file it is. Then analysis the file with rever engineering, this is how you can proof it is made by oppo
Anything grabbed from your phone can't proof anything. Anyone can insert malware into your phone. Even a local reseller can do that. The bootloader is not locked, even an APK that uses exploit to get root access can replace the system file of your phone. Your system might have been modified by some malicious APKs.
For example, if you use KingRoot, they insert su.kud file into your /system partition. Any malware that has the ability to root the phone can do that. Since the firmware is outdated without getting any security patch, any malware with ability to root the phone can insert dirty things into your phone. I think this may be the case on your phone.
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Somebody hacked the linux os and started writing words on my screen then targeted a company from the USA by writing its name on a wifi login interface
So the person who control the spyware tried to say that the name of the company he wrote is responsible on the hack while it is actually not
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Why would a hacker do that? It's silly. A hacker would use your wifi connection without advertising its presence like that.
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The good thing is that i took a picture ofof the words this person wrote on my screen as you can see on the attachements
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Yes I saw that attachment but you know it doesn't prove anything.
Look :
"Oh no! XDA is infected! I was trying to enter my password when the spy started to write this words before me. Please, delete all your accounts!"
(Disclaimer: it's a joke, don't take it seriously).
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I was recording the sea on a boat then a girl came up and told me to take a look on her phone , then she showed me that the same video I was recording is present on a adult website and because
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Mm, yeah ok. It totally happened.
Seems legit.
Guys, let's help him to clean up his infected Oppo!
I suggest we put on our red dresses and dance in circle singing the "Consummatum est. Diabolo fuge. Diabolo fuge!" incantation.
I know its kinda weird but... the last time I used it on I picked it up after booting it and I tried to talk next to it as if there is something that start running on the phone directly after turning it ON and that start streaming..
After I booted it I started explaining the situation and saying "bla bla bla the phone is hacked and the person who may be streaming the audio etc is a criminal bla bla this phone has nothing installed on it etc nothing is running on the background except of google services and some system apps bla bla if you can get him arrested etc.."
And after I finished speaking I went into the factory reset and I wiped all the data of the phone
and when it booted up again I wiped the data again ...
And after this when the phone booted up I did not enter my google account into the phone , so the phone had completly no google accounts connected to it
and here is the craziest thing that blew my mind
right after booting it , somebody played the "Google ring sound" on the phone while having no google accounts connected to it
That google ring sound is the one that anyone can play after getting into a google account and clicking on the "RING THE PHONE" option on
like there is no way for somebody to do such thing while no google accounts are connected to phone
so I was extremely shocked like how this can happend , I did not enter any google account to the phone...
I tried even to check my google account using another device and it was not connected to any device ,
So somehow that malware allow its owner to play such audio on the victim device...
like this is something that I found no explanation for
And As I remember this is the last thing that happened before I gave up using that oppo phone ,
I know im not writing this to get a wizard up to fix the phone or something , just trying to say that oppo phones in general are not that much private or safe at all after I experienced all this
also im not a professional or somebody familiar with malware reverse engineering , im just seeing the malware impact by its behaviour as any normal user ,
also I dont have that magical test environment to crop each part of the firmware and look into it , im still even scared from getting it connected to any wifi , like if it is going to explode
But the fact that 5 years from my life were getting streamed to an adult website by that malware .. hurt so much... , not only this but watching a livestream using the infected phone and hearing the streamers screaming loudly and showing that reaction
then finding out that many faces from people in real life start changing and hearing unexpected reactions as if they know something and they wont tell you about is something that is hard to understand
like yeah as u said , why would someone spend his life or do that or even use a malware in order to ruin somebody's life by streaming him into an adult website and doing all the possible to dont let him know about it ,
And ending up getting bullied in real life by unknown persons in a daily way for something u dont know and just hearing a few words from them that explain a small part of the whole story
anyway thanks just tried to share my experience
CESTRayCRYSTAL said:
And after I finished speaking I went into the factory reset and I wiped all the data of the phone
and when it booted up again I wiped the data again ...
And after this when the phone booted up I did not enter my google account into the phone , so the phone had completly no google accounts connected to it
and here is the craziest thing that blew my mind
right after booting it , somebody played the "Google ring sound" on the phone while having no google accounts connected to it
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Factory reset is not enough to remove malware inserted into your firmware via root. Factory reset doesn't reset to factory state in your case because factory reset doesn't really rewrite /system partition, it just deletes /data partition. So any modification in /system partition still remains. If you run SafetyNet check on your device you will find out it fails to pass SafetyNet. How to find out? You can use YASNAC to check it. If your phone fails to pass Safetynet, that means your device doesn't have the same software as the stock one. And that means you need to use another method to reset your device.
You need to reinstall stock firmware with recovery or use DownloadTool to reset your device.
Seeing how you fix your phone, I think you really lack basic knowledge of Android or even cyber security. I suggest you remove this ridiculous thread because your accusation is actually based on nothing, but only with personal experience which was actually caused by misconception due to the lack of basic Android knowledge.
evilhawk00 said:
Factory reset is not enough to remove malware inserted into your firmware via root. Factory reset doesn't reset to factory state in your case because factory reset doesn't really rewrite /system partition, it just deletes /data partition. So any modification in /system partition still remains. If you run SafetyNet check on your device you will find out it fails to pass SafetyNet. How to find out? You can use YASNAC to check it. If your phone fails to pass Safetynet, that means your device doesn't have the same software as the stock one. And that means you need to use another method to reset your device.
You need to reinstall stock firmware with recovery or use DownloadTool to reset your device.
Seeing how you fix your phone, I think you really lack basic knowledge of Android or even cyber security. I suggest you remove this ridiculous thread because your accusation is actually based on nothing, but only with personal experience which was actually caused by misconception due to the lack of basic Android knowledge.
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I know that a factory reset or even doing it billion of times can not solve the problem
I was just explaining that the whole thing going on here is not caused by user interaction , it means that I did not M I s t a k e l y end up here by doing a mistake like getting something to run on the os and giving it wide access on the device
And this is not the way I fix any phone , im not like the smart guy who says "hey go format your device and everything will be fine"
I know it will change nothing on this case
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SafetyNet check on your device you will find out it fails to pass SafetyNet. How to find out? You can use YASNAC to check it. If your phone fails to pass Safetynet, that means your device doesn't have the same software as the stock one. And that means you need to use another method to reset your device
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it passes safetynet, and all these problems keep going on , the problen is not caused by an app that had root access on the device
its caused by the stock firmware itself
Hi there!
So, my brother got this model back in 2019 iirc, it has worked great so far until he changed to the note 10 and my father got the first one as his "new" main phone, it has been working fine so far until today, it rebooted into this mode (i assumed it was the recovery, where it shows "Reboot","Wipe data" and "Connect with MiAssistant"), apparently my father did not touched the phone to do that.
So, that being said, i am 99% sure the hardware buttons are overused so those are just malfunctioning, and since the warranty is already voided due to the 3 years that have passed since the device was purchased, im no longer able to repair it via official repair department or something. Is there some sort of tool like ifixit ones i could use to fix this or is it better to just get a new phone? i would like to get some data back like whatsapp history so he wont lose that much information, is there a workaround for that?
edit: i cant get away from that mode, everytime i reboot the phone it gets stucked there, even inside it i see that the options are selected on their own without me selecting none of them, im just trying to avoid the wipe data one so i can still get something saved
akirapearl said:
Hi there!
So, my brother got this model back in 2019 iirc, it has worked great so far until he changed to the note 10 and my father got the first one as his "new" main phone, it has been working fine so far until today, it rebooted into this mode (i assumed it was the recovery, where it shows "Reboot","Wipe data" and "Connect with MiAssistant"), apparently my father did not touched the phone to do that.
So, that being said, i am 99% sure the hardware buttons are overused so those are just malfunctioning, and since the warranty is already voided due to the 3 years that have passed since the device was purchased, im no longer able to repair it via official repair department or something. Is there some sort of tool like ifixit ones i could use to fix this or is it better to just get a new phone? i would like to get some data back like whatsapp history so he wont lose that much information, is there a workaround for that?
edit: i cant get away from that mode, everytime i reboot the phone it gets stucked there, even inside it i see that the options are selected on their own without me selecting none of them, im just trying to avoid the wipe data one so i can still get something saved
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Volume up is stuck, repaire service can change it