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[ROOT] DroidWall v1.5.1 - Android Firewall (Useful for most of us)

Hi everyone,
I don't have an unlimited data plan. I always went to use WhatsApp Messenger . Howsoever, there are many application runs on the background spending traffic (also draining battery too fast). today I have found out there is an application free on the market call "DroidWall - Android Firewall". This application works as iptables front-end to block undesired applications from accessing the network.
You may alos restrict any program depending on the type of the connection. For example you set Gmail application only works when you use WIFI and will get block when you using 3G for example.
I thinks they are more people have the same problem I had. that's I am sharing it here.
ATTENTION: ROOT REQUIRED!!!
Front-end application for the iptables Linux firewall.
Allows you to restrict which apps can access the network.
This is the perfect solution if you don't have an unlimited data plan, or just wants to see your battery lasting longer.
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DroidWall v1.5.1 - Android Firewall
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Project home:
http://code.google.com/p/droidwall/
or
http://droidwall.googlecode.com/
Download from the Android Market:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.googlecode.droidwall.free
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Thanks for this.
Just curious.. In PC environments we use firewalls to control outbound and prevent rogue inbound..
I know this differs depending on carrier but with ATT our network is proxied anyway (meaning inbound will always fail) and as for outbound it would seem if there was an app on android you didn't want having net presence you'd just freeze or uninstall it.
Not criticizing the app.. Just hoping someone will give me some example uses where I could take advantage of it other than not having unlimited data as that makes perfect sense.
Thanks for your work!

Hello,
You may restrict any program depending on the type of the connection. For example you set gmail application only works when you use WIFI and will get block when you using 3G for example.
Hope this help you understand the use of the programe.
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will test the app. was always looking for some app that could actually differ between wifi and data. THX mate!

almaqdad said:
Hello,
You may restrict any program depending on the type of the connection. For example you set gmail application only works when you use WIFI and will get block when you using 3G for example.
Hope this help you understand the use of the programe.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA Premium App
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It does.. Thank you very much!

I had not thought that there are people who do not know DroidWall.

I have bin using this program for a while now and i must say once u got all the apps u want selected it works great. adds in game for example

Settings for HTC WIFI Hotspot?
Hi, Great app.
Can anybody tell how to allow HTC WIFI Hotspot to connect internet?
It doesn't appear on droidwall's app list, but instead when I turn on "(root) - Applications running as root", I can access to internet from my laptop.
But I'm not sure this setting can allow ANY of root apps to access internet, which we may not want them to.
Please tell what's the best solution for that? Otherwise should I install other wifi hotspot app?

Anybody noticed any improvements in battery life after using this?

I use LBE Privacy Guard that features pop ups and privacy protection

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If you're after adulation or a medal, you've come to the wrong forum...

Tech savvy people already knew about firewall , and commoners won't bother or need it.

hy friends
im using droidwall v1.5.1 on my samsung galaxy Y s6102 bult i can't activate the firewall
when i try to save the rules it gives me an error: ,,error applyng iptables rules exit code 11 iptables v1.4.7 iptables no chain/target/match by that name.''
how can i make it ron ok ?
please help
ps: sorry for my bad english i'm from Romainia.

Hi, I use normal home wifi, and mobile wifi with DATA PLAN when I'm out, is there a way for one application with different access restriction for each one???
that is one with different setting for: DATA / WIFI xxx / WIFI yyy, or just treats certain WIFI Hotspots as Mobile Data like in some new JellyBean Data restriction

My drive is not rooted please help

THIS WIDGET USED 9.5GB!!! in 1 week

thanks to this data usage feature on ics it warned that i was close to 10gb. i had no idea. its the pure news widget. thankfully i have unlimited data. but anyone have any idea how this is happening? i only have 3 news sources.
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sorry mate can't see ya pic

switch to manual updates.

qman66 said:
thanks to this data usage feature on ics it warned that i was close to 10gb. i had no idea. its the pure news widget. thankfully i have unlimited data. but anyone have any idea how this is happening? i only have 3 news sources.
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Google should log the average amount of data an app can use and write it on the market...

That is ridiculous, how often was it updating
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cordell507 said:
That is ridiculous, how often was it updating
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for a few days every few hours even though i had it set to 30 minutes it didnt work right. now its been updating every half hour and still the same crazy data. i mean its only a few lines of text for each article. i only have 10 newest showing. it doesnt make any sense. something has to be going on in the background that i dont know of.

hory chit
the battery life was probably terrible if it used this much :/

That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...

jmbillings said:
That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...
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i havent yet. i have a a little thumbnail image next to the text. this is just strange.

qman66 said:
i havent yet. i have a a little thumbnail image next to the text. this is just strange.
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holy crrrrap....9GB
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This must be a bug, the app developers wouldn't want everyone with their app using this much data from their servers every week!
ErGo_404 said:
Google should log the average amount of data an app can use and write it on the market...
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Good idea.

jmbillings said:
That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...
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Images? Forget about images, this has to be downloading high quality videos to get to 9GB.

I have some serious security concerns about what this app is doing. You should try to sniff the data and see how much its sending versus receiving. I'd be curious to know what IP addresses it is communicating with. Did you install it directly from the market?
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Just read the comments on the market for this app. One other person reported it using 833 megs in 10 hours. That was back in July.
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It over 9000! (MB)
sent from my E4Gtouch

I used to use pure messenger and calendar widgets without any surprises. That is insane though really...
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Maybe it is a bug in ICS's data use report? Try to contact your carrier to check if you have really used 9GB in the last month.
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You should contact the developer, he is very responsive and provide good support.
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Hi,
I am the dev of this app.
1. when you have such trouble, please contact me by email (hopefully somebody did).
2. check if it load images and images sizes. It doesn't load 'thumbnails' from the websites, but full images if thumbnails are not available ... so, if the website use big images of 2Mb ... it can goes quickly.
3. disable widget cache if it was enable
4. here is my widget with 3h refresh period and 8 feeds :
http://pureapps.planethoster.org/images/presentation/pne_data.png
5. if you use the internal viewer, all browsing you does in the viewer is counted ... video streaming, downloads...
@deekjx : For comments about 'security concerns', dump the UDP/TCP trafic if you want, there is nothing hidden. But, please, be careful before publishing such comments. Now, if the app doesn't come from the market, you can be right... few users reported Pure calendar hacked bersions containing viruses because they got it from a 'forum'.
Please, email me logcats just after a manual refresh to check what is wrong.

Same for me too
Switched to manual update worked fine. contacted dev through market

Strange question - limiting data use using an app on the Nexus?

Hello,
We are thinking about switching our users from BB to Android. On the BB they pretty much only use data for email as pretty much all other things like browsing on BB suck. We are worried they'll go over their data limit if they go to android. Is there a way to put something on their phone to make sure emails are priority and limit their browsing data usage?

Yes. I'm not 100% sure but there is a data mobile limit box you can tick in the data usage section. And i would venture to say there are some apps. I guess wait for somebody who has used it to detail it out for you as I have no experience using it.
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OK. It is easy. You just tick data mobile limit and use the limiter bar in the to slide the the limit. There is also a warning bar to specify when you get a warning. As an aside, you get a disclaimer saying Google and your carrier might calculate usage differently. In my experience the data usage has been within +- ~20mb. And usually it is within 10mb.
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Many carriers offer usage controls that limits data consuption/talk time/messaging. I know Verizon offers it for $4.99 per month and the controls are only accessible by the primary user on the account. 3rd party apps like the ones in the market are too easily modified by the device user and could cause issues in a business environment given mass users. Look into usage controls with your carrier. You need a concrete solution... Good call moving away from the sunk ship known as RIM.
Sent from GNexus w/CM-9 & franco.kernel

I would suggest using the data counters in your settibgs app. There you can provide your max usage and alarms for certain data milestones. This menu also provides information on wich app has been using the most. A great way for me to limit my data and save batery has been to put my phone in 2g only.
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wingnut76 said:
OK. It is easy. You just tick data mobile limit and use the limiter bar in the to slide the the limit. There is also a warning bar to specify when you get a warning. As an aside, you get a disclaimer saying Google and your carrier might calculate usage differently. In my experience the data usage has been within +- ~20mb. And usually it is within 10mb.
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Thanks - I have no idea where that data mobile limit thing is.

boe said:
Thanks - I have no idea where that data mobile limit thing is.
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It's a new feature in ICS that can be found under Settings -> Data Usage.
It looks like this (random screenshot from Google Images):
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boe said:
Hello,
We are thinking about switching our users from BB to Android. On the BB they pretty much only use data for email as pretty much all other things like browsing on BB suck. We are worried they'll go over their data limit if they go to android. Is there a way to put something on their phone to make sure emails are priority and limit their browsing data usage?
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Just be in for a shock. Android devices (or iPhones) will use much much more data than BlackBerrys. You can try and restrict it all you want but you'll never see BlackBerry-like data usage.

Why is my phone tearing through my data when I'm not looking?

Early this morning the count was at 79mb and now all of the sudden it's at 135mb. I'm at work so I have my llama profile set to Wi-Fi ON and mobile data OFF. I've caught my phone turning on data by itself once already and now I'm starting to think that it wasn't a bug but an actual flaw in cyanogenmod (or new feature, who knows). When I go into Traffic Monitor Plus to check which app is eating away my data, it shows that 122mb have been used by "System Traffic"
Has this happened to anyone? How would I go about fixing this problem?
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Get a better data plan?
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nubreed000 said:
Early this morning the count was at 79mb and now all of the sudden it's at 135mb. I'm at work so I have my llama profile set to Wi-Fi ON and mobile data OFF. I've caught my phone turning on data by itself once already and now I'm starting to think that it wasn't a bug but an actual flaw in cyanogenmod (or new feature, who knows). When I go into Traffic Monitor Plus to check which app is eating away my data, it shows that 122mb have been used by "System Traffic"
Has this happened to anyone? How would I go about fixing this problem?
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Ive never used Traffic Monitor. Im not sure of your set up but maybe clean install of the ROM. Dont reinstall any of your apps for a day or two and see what happens?
c_86 said:
Get a better data plan?
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And how will that solve his problem

jasvncnt1 said:
Ive never used Traffic Monitor. Im not sure of your set up but maybe clean install of the ROM. Dont reinstall any of your apps for a day or two and see what happens?
And how will that solve his problem
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I was being sarcastic.
That's would bug me too.
You sure you don't have a rogue app pulling data like a weather widget? How many launchers you have? One thing that I have have found is if you have more then one launcher installed and you have widgets open in the non used launcher they can still use data and resources. Ex. If you have a stock ROM with touchwiz by default it has a couple widgets in the home screens. Well say you install nova right away and switch to it.., those of widgets on touchwiz are till running.,. Using data etc... check that..
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c_86 said:
I was being sarcastic.
That's would bug me too.
You sure you don't have a rogue app pulling data like a weather widget? How many launchers you have? One thing that I have have found is if you have more then one launcher installed and you have widgets open in the non used launcher they can still use data and resources. Ex. If you have a stock ROM with touchwiz by default it has a couple widgets in the home screens. Well say you install nova right away and switch to it.., those of widgets on touchwiz are till running.,. Using data etc... check that..
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I have been chewing through the data since I got my S3. O my Inspire, with the same usage, I would only use ~1.2Gb/mo. I came close to my 2gb cap last month.
Sure enough, I had some widgets in TW. Weather, news, etc. I didn't even think about it. We'll see if removing them has any effect.

c_86 said:
I was being sarcastic.
That's would bug me too.
You sure you don't have a rogue app pulling data like a weather widget? How many launchers you have? One thing that I have have found is if you have more then one launcher installed and you have widgets open in the non used launcher they can still use data and resources. Ex. If you have a stock ROM with touchwiz by default it has a couple widgets in the home screens. Well say you install nova right away and switch to it.., those of widgets on touchwiz are till running.,. Using data etc... check that..
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Well I do have weather and news widgets but the main thing here is that I was at work, where I'm always on Wi-Fi. My location profiles are set up so that when I'm at work my data is turned off. In fact I have no profiles set up that turn my data on.
I was listening to a podcast and I'm guessing that mobile data somehow turned on and started streaming over that instead of Wi-Fi. I'm trying to figure out why this would happen.
And what the heck would classify as "system traffic"? Kind of a vague term for something that's eating away that much data in no time.
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my phone wasted 950 mb of data in 4 hours. I went to pick it up to the Rogers store at 2 pm, and i went back to the office. when i got home at 7, i saw that i had used 980 mb of data. Who's to blame? Picasa web albums, which came with sync on by default.

nubreed000 said:
Early this morning the count was at 79mb and now all of the sudden it's at 135mb. I'm at work so I have my llama profile set to Wi-Fi ON and mobile data OFF. I've caught my phone turning on data by itself once already and now I'm starting to think that it wasn't a bug but an actual flaw in cyanogenmod (or new feature, who knows). When I go into Traffic Monitor Plus to check which app is eating away my data, it shows that 122mb have been used by "System Traffic"
Has this happened to anyone? How would I go about fixing this problem?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda premium
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I am not on Cyanogenmod, just the stock Rom so I don't know if this setting is the same.
But you can try and check this setting: Settings -> Wi-Fi -> Advanced -> Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep.
For me it used to be set to "Only when plugged in" so when the phone was woken up from sleep mode it would always start using my LTE data until i manually turned Wi-Fi back on.
Setting it to "Always" means it always uses my Wi-Fi connection when coming out of sleep, whether I do it or some app does it in the background.

Be careful of the app Widgetsoid

This app just used over 5 gigs of data for what ever reason without my knowledge. If you use it, just move over to CM, it's far better.
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It used the data on WiFi. Probably counts any data you used over WiFi after toggling the WiFi on with widgetsoid. Check your mobile stats for a more accurate reflection.

063_XOBX said:
It used the data on WiFi. Probably counts any data you used over WiFi after toggling the WiFi on with widgetsoid. Check your mobile stats for a more accurate reflection.
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I don't have any service at the moment, so it can't use any mobile data. If that's the case, then it still woulnd't make sense because I haven't used it since I was on stock (I've been on CM 10.1 for 3 weeks now).

neosic said:
I don't have any service at the moment, so it can't use any mobile data. If that's the case, then it still woulnd't make sense because I haven't used it since I was on stock (I've been on CM 10.1 for 3 weeks now).
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But its been installed the entire time? Why leave it installed/running if you're not using it? Not that I'm excusing it, I just find it hard to believe that such a popular app for unrooted users could have such a glaring bug.

Widgetsoid is solid.
I've worked on the beta program with the dev, and I've given him a heads up. I doubt the problem is Widgetsoid, but if it is, I'm pretty sure the dev will fix it ASAP.

Hi,
I'm the dev of Widgetsoid. I use internet connexion only for showing FAQ under main menu and make backup/restore with DropBox.
I don't understand what's append with your devices... Can you tell me your device name and your android version please ?
Like this if anyone have same device it can test if they have same problem. No one report me this kind of bug for now.

jimmy06 said:
Hi,
I'm the dev of Widgetsoid. I use internet connexion only for showing FAQ under main menu and make backup/restore with DropBox.
I don't understand what's append with your devices... Can you tell me your device name and your android version please ?
Like this if anyone have same device it can test if they have same problem. No one report me this kind of bug for now.
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Device is a Galaxy Nexus obviously.

jimmy06 said:
Hi,
I'm the dev of Widgetsoid. I use internet connexion only for showing FAQ under main menu and make backup/restore with DropBox.
I don't understand what's append with your devices... Can you tell me your device name and your android version please ?
Like this if anyone have same device it can test if they have same problem. No one report me this kind of bug for now.
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Running A GSM Galaxy Nexus with 4.2.1 CM 10.1 Rooted.

063_XOBX said:
But its been installed the entire time? Why leave it installed/running if you're not using it? Not that I'm excusing it, I just find it hard to believe that such a popular app for unrooted users could have such a glaring bug.
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It was part of my TitaniumBackup. I just batch restored a lot of apps I think I would need, but since CM 10 has built in notification widgets, I forgot about widgetsoid.

when you dirty flash a rom over stock, data statistics are messed up and applications name are all wrong, happened to me a lot of times..
widgetoid is not to blame for sure.
cheers

mangusZen said:
when you dirty flash a rom over another, data statistics are messed up and applications name are all wrong, happened to me a lot of times..
widgetoid is not to blame for sure.
cheers
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I'm almost certain it wasn't a dirty wipe.
I did wipe cache, format/reset. Is that still considered a dirty flash?
Also, how do I go about resetting my data usage? What app do I clear cache for?

neosic said:
I'm almost certain it wasn't a dirty wipe.
I did wipe cache, format/reset. Is that still considered a dirty flash?
Also, how do I go about resetting my data usage? What app do I clear cache for?
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I don't know where this statistics are stored, I wondered this myself when this thing happened to me..I don't remember if this bug is present also with a full wipe, this would mean that are stored in sdcard partition (I don't think so..) or worse, they are synced to a google server , or also craptanium backup is to blame.
Anyone has some informations?

Ok thanks for this informations i make all my tests with a galaxy nexus with stock ROM (root) and widgetsoid never appear in my data usage and i use it every day...
I will look into my code to if something can be download or upload data but 5Go is huge ! None of widgetsoid option can do this.

jimmy06 said:
Ok thanks for this informations i make all my tests with a galaxy nexus with stock ROM (root) and widgetsoid never appear in my data usage and i use it every day...
I will look into my code to if something can be download or upload data but 5Go is huge ! None of widgetsoid option can do this.
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As others have stated, maybe google data usage sync is to blame.

I have seen this happen before on my device. For some reason Zagat had over 10GB of usage showing and i never used the app... I have a tendency to download apps mentioned in blogs and never use them Lol....
I think there are some bugs in the data usage widget, its happened on more then one occasion.
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