Its kinda very dump that I need to register and pay to ask a question on the M$'s AppHub forum.
anyways. Xda buddies can help me instead.
I am new to WP7 Development, I understand how push notifications works on WP7. What i am wondering is that if the cloud service has the ability to poll location service from the phone.
Hi,
Firstly, you don't need to pay to post on the AppHub forums.
But back to your question .
If I understand you correctly, you want your cloud service to be able to pull in the user's information?Someone else might know a way of retrieving the phone position from your own cloud service, but as far as I know, that's not possible. What you can do is push it from the phone to the cloud. So, from your app, you can send the location information to your web service in the cloud. A couple of things to note is that the application requirements documents requires you to let the user know that you're taking their location information (amongst other things, so you should read that to make sure your app can be added to the marketplace). Another thing is that the user has to be running your app in order for it to send the details to your cloud service.
Therefore, it is not possible if the live tile of my application is able to do an update based on the location of the phone, since in order for the web service to know the phone's location, the application must be running, correct?
Yes as far I as I know, that's correct. Your app has to be running in order for your service to know what the user's location is.
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Hi I have a few questions maybe you can answer
I'm new to smart-phones BUT am a self (Family and Friends) proclaimed computer Wiz.
That aside I'm illiterate about smart-phones, so i apologize if you find these questions dumb!
1) when it comes it comes to personal contacts is it better to save them to your phone or Google ?
i made my first contact for my new phone today. and it asked me if i wanted to
"Create contact under account"
(a) XXX (at) gmail (dot) com (Google)
OR
(b) Phone-only (unsynced)
1a) IF you saved the said contact to your Google G-mail account, and Google server goes down OR you do not have Internet access would you still be able to see your contacts ?
1b) is there any advantage or disadvantage to saving contacts to phone and/or Google
questions about Google:
Background on why I'm asking my next question:
Google is a BIG personal data collections agency and keep a record of everything you ever search for on the internet! (well using their servers).
law enforcement often use your google searches (and/or web browsing history) against you in court! (well if u ever do anything illegal that is).
Google also uses this data in-house and/or sells it (or give the information to subsidiaries to sell (thus legally bypassing any privacy policies you may read on any website))
question:
2) Given the above information, is it even wise to let google know who your contacts are, as they can use this info in nefarious (like making a buck) and/or non-nefarious uses
Question:
last one
3) is there a limit to how many contacts i can have on my Phone and/or with google
thanks for taking your time in reading this and I am looking forward to any and all replies!
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a1yet said:
Hi I have a few questions maybe you can answer
I'm new to smart-phones BUT am a self (Family and Friends) proclaimed computer Wiz.
That aside I'm illiterate about smart-phones, so i apologize if you find these questions dumb!
1) when it comes it comes to personal contacts is it better to save them to your phone or Google ?
i made my first contact for my new phone today. and it asked me if i wanted to
"Create contact under account"
(a) XXX (at) gmail (dot) com (Google)
OR
(b) Phone-only (unsynced)
1a) IF you saved the said contact to your Google G-mail account, and Google server goes down OR you do not have Internet access would you still be able to see your contacts ?
1b) is there any advantage or disadvantage to saving contacts to phone and/or Google
questions about Google:
Background on why I'm asking my next question:
Google is a BIG personal data collections agency and keep a record of everything you ever search for on the internet! (well using their servers).
law enforcement often use your google searches (and/or web browsing history) against you in court! (well if u ever do anything illegal that is).
Google also uses this data in-house and/or sells it (or give the information to subsidiaries to sell (thus legally bypassing any privacy policies you may read on any website))
question:
2) Given the above information, is it even wise to let google know who your contacts are, as they can use this info in nefarious (like making a buck) and/or non-nefarious uses
Question:
last one
3) is there a limit to how many contacts i can have on my Phone and/or with google
thanks for taking your time in reading this and I am looking forward to any and all replies!
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1) Deffinately store your numbers to google! Even if you never root or have issues with your phone, you will be able to port your contacts to your next android phone by simply signing into google when you do the initial setup.
2) Google will never use your contacts for their personal use. The storage of your contacts on their servers are for your use only.
3) on the phone, yes but that would have to be some insaine number of contacts lol. On google, store away! I dont think anybody but yellow book could possibly even come close to having too many numbers on google's servers.
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TY for the reply
i think i'll use Google even though i think they will USE the numbers somehow to their benefit
i like to tinker with things IE: root
so i better use google for it's benefits as u pointed out in answer number 1
thank you VERY much
OK,I bought my device in mid November for Xmas gift. Since the beginning of the year, I decided to use one of the perks. Low and behold I am charged. I try to contact the company involved and they say that they only provide a limited trial. But Samsung states the trial period is much longer. I contacted Samsung abouot my issue, and wonder what I was not sent during my registration. I own many Samsung devices and have had my account since late 2008. So I know my account registered the device and should have had some details in regards to perks. The only thing I got was a one time webpage with a Google play code for my credits, everything else was just unlinked information for all new subscribers to the perks.
Has anyone dealt with perks and have any ideas to resolve such issues? I don't want to be charged for something I am trying out.
Possible fix
Well, I finally an answer back from the second point of contact... they stated that they normally don't support tablet but offer support through phone service. Any way now I must call Samsung support to run through the issue one more time, so they can figure out what to do.
Some head way
OK, got done with my call to Samsung.
I learned not to register the device through your Samsung account devices page. I have many Samsung items through the years, as I had learned it is easy to go and register that way.
The proper link is http://www.samsung.com/us/register-for-your-galaxy-perks/#note-8 for the Note 8.0
Also for some odd reason they want a google email account, which I never had until after registering. Take note that if you have an existing Samsung account, the email address needed for registration completion is your gmail email address.
I wish web developers had a brain, this is not the first time I have seen such a broken way cross linking account information, just annoys the krappa out of me.
Now to fix the issue with Samung Link unable to fetch account authentication information with my Samsung account. Yes, I deleted and recreated the Samsung account many many times. Just another annoying issue. (
While waiting...
OK, while I had some time, I fixed my Samsung link issue... had to make it a system app. Samsung loaded PS Touch, and Samsung Link need to be kept as system apps. Though most of all the system apps can be removed and side loaded for Google Play to manage install/removal processes. I prefer it that way for reloads and memory management outside of using Titanium Backup. The less utilities to perform tasks the better. Somebody should do a right up on using built in function to perform most all needs, instead of finding more apps to do what you can do on your own and without rooting.
I doubt I'll ever fix the Video Hub issue... seems that it is getting info from Samsung servers about the device. If the device does not match the white list at the authentication server, your a no go at getting content. At one time the Note 8.0 was in the white list, now it looks like it is region select and will check firmware along with device.
I have an app to fake the ID and location, but Video Hub is not a concern just an odd app that has some interesting features that go beyond google play hardware requirements.
Woopie! )
Samsung got me my perks rewards resent to my email address. The Google account that I had to make since I did not use goodle before owning the Note 8.0.
Now I am going to redo my account on which I paid a months subscription, so I can apply my perks.
I am wanting to know if it is possible to have my NFC ring log me into a stranger's phone as a guest with limited access. This way I could have my complete contact list and Gmail etc. On any device.
I imagine a bloatware app would have to be installed all participating devices and running in the background to make this a reality. Or possibly a guest login button on the lock screen and then it would allow the NFC transfer.
So could this happen? Is there enough space to store the necessary data and instructions on a ring. If so would someone please help me make this. I want it to work so badly and I can't find any other information out there about this.
Got my Nokia X7 (parallel import from China) couple of days ago and it is observed that "Location History" is OFF and not able to turn it on. It is annoying without able to share my location with friends and record Google Timeline. Appreciated if anyone can come up with a solution on this. Thanks.
default888 said:
Got my Nokia X7 (parallel import from China) couple of days ago and it is observed that "Location History" is OFF and not able to turn it on. It is annoying without able to share my location with friends and record Google Timeline. Appreciated if anyone can come up with a solution on this. Thanks.
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Google Location history is not available in the CN ROM for obvious reasons.
Obvious reason - Google services are banned in China. So, Nokia's CN ROM is compatible with Tencent's location services. That means you cannot use location history.
On a side note, you should consider stopping Google from keeping an eye on wherever you go at all times. Just an advise, the decision is yours.
And.. If you really need it, then you will have to find a way to flash it to the Android One global ROM.
Im not sure about this solution cuz i dont have time to try yet, but some of my guys confirmed it did.
you need to delete "tencent location services" via adb (search for delete bloatware without root), once you done it, gg history location will be used again instead of tencent.
btw, they said that tencent sent data to their server so i dont like it too, will delete it soon.
pls do consider carefully.
njckjen said:
btw, they said that tencent sent data to their server so i dont like it too, will delete it soon.
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Once Google Location History service is enabled on an android device, Google is doing exactly the same thing: one's every move is sent back to a Google server. Google needs those data to provide other related services such as Google Now. Google does allow one to delete Location History data on its server though. Tencent is just doing the same thing Google does with a similar service, but I don't know if it allows one to delete those data at will. If you're worried about privacy, you shouldn't use anything like that at all--be it Google Location History service or a Tencent counterpart.
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Once Google Location History service is enabled on an android device, Google is doing exactly the same thing: one's every move is sent back to a Google server. Google needs those data to provide other related services such as Google Now. Google does allow one to delete Location History data on its server though. Tencent is just doing the same thing Google does with a similar service, but I don't know if it allows one to delete those data at will. If you're worried about privacy, you shouldn't use anything like that at all--be it Google Location History service or a Tencent counterpart.
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I know bro. But I'd rather let gg do it, not tencent. Everyday we use ggapps they'r all collecting our informations, with one more it is ok. btw i didnt enable location history since i've used gg account on any smartphone.
1 addition reason I want to delete tencent that I hate it personally vnese hate china spyware things.
njckjen said:
Im not sure about this solution cuz i dont have time to try yet, but some of my guys confirmed it did.
you need to delete "tencent location services" via adb (search for delete bloatware without root), once you done it, gg history location will be used again instead of tencent.
btw, they said that tencent sent data to their server so i dont like it too, will delete it soon.
pls do consider carefully.
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I have removed "Tencent Location Service" through ADB shell and was hoping Google Location Service will be used instead, but the result is negative. It still saying "This device is not sending location updates" under Google location sharing. Also, "Find My Device" is not able to locate my current device. I think all these happens is just because Google is not able to see my X7. Appreciated if anyone can help on this
Hello everyone,
I'm used to the LineageOS on my previous phone and now I've upgraded recently to this phone but I feel my personal info too much available to Google and MI system apps and I don't want that, thats why I went to LineageOS on my previous phone but, like others custom firmwares, it have several bugs which limits the potential of the phone.
Even not using an google account I can feel my life is being spied because a few things happen:
- if someone calls me, a friend or whatever, and its not in my contacts list it asks me if its spam. For what? To send the info somewhere using the internet connection and warns others if its spam? If it reads my contacts for this it can read those for anything, like copy my whole contacts list which I'm not comfortable with and I'm not able to control. I'm afraid that later if i use the regular browser to access Gmail for instance, I'm afraid the OS is prepared to warn google that all the info that' I've shared so far belongs to that particular Google account and that phone IMEI is also used but that account. I'm crazy? Maybe, but all this is possible and I want to make it impossible.
- If i do not allow Google services from accessing my text messages APP (built-in app) i keep getting a warning from the system that something it will not go OK if I do not turn on that access from Google services. Why the hell should google services needs to access my texts? My first phone, 20 years ago, could send SMS without google, why the hell google needs to see my texts now?
The list continues but I'm not willing to loose the nice things this OS have too, but for me personal info is too valuable and I dont want to give away any information from my contacts list, SMS texts, the places I visit, my tastes and so on, all this is my personal life and no one needs to know about it, not even just for statistics. Some people on my contacts list doesn't use Android and dont want the personal phone number stored somewhere and connected to me somehow, not that Im a criminal or something like but all this combined together its like a personal "Facebook" for Google and MI to use, they know who are the persons who I connect with, who are near me at a certain period of the day, where I usually do shopping, well, all my life is being stored somewhere, and I want to end this.
Is there a way to keep the current OS and block every outgoing info coming from the phone? I've made some research and i come to this so far
- AFwall can be a solution, but how good it is?
- Removing google services is not an option using ADB, the OS will not work
- Disable google services is not working. The system keeps turning it on automatically
Please give me your feedbacks with your experiences about this security issue, I think several people feels the same way, and how did you managed a work around to this keeping the original OS.
PS: For now I didnt unlock the bootloader, but I will if the solution goes that way.
Thank you everyone
Tomalamix
Living in the age of Google, one cannot use phone & Internet without your info being collected for ad purposes or whatsoever.
Ad purposes i can live with that,. what I cant live with is my personal data being stored by a 3rd party company besides my cell operator
Ive been watching the Anti-Gapps group but it seems discontinued i guess, i think this is a task fitted for them