Mobile viruses - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

Mobile viruses - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

Have you ever got one. I haven't and I don't think virus protection is all that useful
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I haven't and I don't use any virus protection software too
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I use lookout only for the phone locator service.. I have always had protection turned off and I have downloaded some apps from some shady places and still never gotten a virus.. It's almost as if the whole mobile virus thing is a myth... I've Google searched many times to see if anyone has actually gotten a virus on their phone and I couldn't find anything that was an actual case of an infected phone
Edit: if someone on here has ever had a virus on their Android phone I would love to hear about it.
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nothing here. I do have Kaspersky though. I got it in a bundle with my comp software. I simply use it for the remote locate and wipe features

The closest things, to my knowledge, are apps that perform some menial **** task but behind the scenes sell your personal information to marketers and stuff; but the reviews often reflect that and google pulls em from the market after a while
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you won't get a "virus"
but you may have info and data being monitored or sent somewhere that you don't know of. key's being logged and stuff like that

Yeah I think android is built on the linux kernel or a variation of it anyways and as I understand it linux doesnt get too many viruses. I too use lookout just for the tracking features. I think that we have to watch out for malware and spyware and of course the dreaded CIQ.

I was actually thinking about this the other day myself. Haven't encountered any. I think it's like buying virus software for a Mac -- it just doesn't make sense.

Android devices don't get viruses.

Actually our fones can get virus/malware... I think it was like 6months ago Some russian dev made an app that affected only Samsung fones n it was able to take the contact list n other stuff... I don't remember the name of the app but there was a special way to take it off bc u couldn't manually just un install it
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I would've had a virus when I was using the G2 and now I'm on this lovely phone and still nothing and never will be nothing.

I've never gotten a virus. But I have this add thing that pops up for the meet me site and for Pandora. They look very similar in layout design and the ad is about your phone running slow.
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the idea behind the virus on linux is it can't actually access any system files, it's just data that can be taken,
however, to answer some body's unsure ness...
yes android is built off a forked linux kernel

mightymike889 said:
Actually our fones can get virus/malware... I think it was like 6months ago Some russian dev made an app that affected only Samsung fones n it was able to take the contact list n other stuff... I don't remember the name of the app but there was a special way to take it off bc u couldn't manually just un install it
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Source?
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elesbb said:
I've never gotten a virus. But I have this add thing that pops up for the meet me site and for Pandora. They look very similar in layout design and the ad is about your phone running slow.
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Thats "airpush" and guess what.... Google says no more to that sh¡t!!
http://mobile.eweek.com/c/a/Securit...Developer-Rules-to-Fight-Spam-Malware-899902/
And yes androids can get viruses.. I was downloading a torrent and it wiped my entire sd card... Thank god i had the file downloading to my sd card cause if i would have had it on the internal sd it prolly would have bricked my phone. After i downloaded it and tried to open the file it told my my sd card was corrupted and i had to reformat the thing grrrrr
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Thats "airpush" and guess what.... Google says no more to that sh¡t!!
http://mobile.eweek.com/c/a/Securit...Developer-Rules-to-Fight-Spam-Malware-899902/
And yes androids can get viruses.. I was downloading a torrent and it wiped my entire sd card... Thank god i had the file downloading to my sd card cause if i would have had it on the internal sd it prolly would have bricked my phone. After i downloaded it and tried to open the file it told my my sd card was corrupted and i had to reformat the thing grrrrr
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Not bricked. It cant erase files it doesnt have perms to
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What is being referred to is pretty dated but it is still a valid example of malware.
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h++p://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/03/malware-in-android-market-highlights-googles-vulnerability/
"The malicious applications sent personal details, including the phone's unique IMEI number, to a US-based server. Worse, it exploited security flaws to root the phone, and installed a backdoor application that allows further software to be installed to the handsets. Though Google has now purged the applications from the Market, the rooting and backdoor mean that the anyone who has run one of the malicious programs should reset their phone to stock conditions to clean it up. The flaw used to root the operating system was fixed in Android 2.2.2 and 2.3, so users of those versions should be able to get away with simply removing the applications. The programs were all (re)published by an entity named Myournet; it too has now been removed from the Market."
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h++p://tinyurl.com/cbypqw6
For the record that is malware not a virus. Most Android issues are malware, more specifically adware (airpush), spyware, trojans, and rootkits. There is a lot of malware for Android, and it is a serious concern. The majority you find are genuine apps repackaged with malware, and about a third of all malware will exploit Android vulnerabilities to gain higher privileges. As far as security apps, a study from the Android Malware Genome Project estimated most available security products only catch between 20 and 80 percent of known malware.
The reason historically Mac's OSX and Linux have not had as many issues with malware is they have a smaller market share. As your market share grows, the cost/benefit ratio of creating malware changes and at a certain point any platform becomes a viable enterprise. Apple's recent issues with Flashback and Mac Defender; the cross-OS trojans " GetShell.A" and "Boonana;" java/Flash exploits that can compromise anything running either outside a dedicated sandbox; are an example of how ridiculous it is to follow a concept like "security through obscurity."

Good find... thx for info
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[Q] How can I free up some ram/memory on Windows XP

Yes I know xp sucks arse.... unforturnetly I have to deal with it...
Anyways how would I go about getting some freed up ram or memory because I need to clear out some junk and rather not take a shot in the dark and end something dangerous. So any suggestions other tan get windows 7 will be greatly appreciated I know disk cleanup and defreagment are useful but is there anything else?
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Post on a windows xp forum...
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Post on a windows xp forum...
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That's pretty messed up...
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I haven't used XP for a while (other than at work, where I am not responsible) but, I think Start -> run -> msconfig.msc might help you out. You can disable anything you want during startup. You can probably also tell what you are disabling because it will tell you the path to the executable. After turning a bunch of stuff off, reboot and see where you are at.
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ac16313 said:
That's pretty messed up...
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Thank you I was going to say it but I hopedi wasn't in the wrong I was really just seeing if people in my backyard knew how to trim some trees so to speak
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tinslwc said:
I haven't used XP for a while (other than at work, where I am not responsible) but, I think Start -> run -> msconfig.msc might help you out. You can disable anything you want during startup. You can probably also tell what you are disabling because it will tell you the path to the executable. After turning a bunch of stuff off, reboot and see where you are at.
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Do you think adding to the virtual memory heap would help I only have a gig of ram and 2 gb of vm so far wuld more be helpful? I have a lot of hard drive storage something like 160 or so, anyways ill look at the processes
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Biggoron said:
Do you think adding to the virtual memory heap would help I only have a gig of ram and 2 gb of vm so far wuld more be helpful? I have a lot of hard drive storage something like 160 or so, anyways ill look at the processes
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I am sure you already know this, but virtual memory is much, much slower than hardware RAM. That said, increasing virtual memory probably won't speed up your system, but will allow for additional multitasking (running more programs). Windows does a pretty good job at managing the virtual memory and keeping the more accessed information in real memory.
In short, I don't believe that increasing your virtual memory will make much of a difference. 2GB should be plenty. Additionally, if you are using a 32-bit version, Windows can not access more than 4GB of RAM (including video RAM, and hardware RAM) and that limitation may include virtual memory. Typically, 3GB is about all you can use with a 32-bit OS.
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Thanks I know a ton about my phone but hardly anything about my computer its odd. Anyways ill look into that msconfig and let you know what I come up with I was hoping for something similar to a task manager/memory cleaner here on android
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Biggoron said:
Thanks I know a ton about my phone but hardly anything about my computer its odd. Anyways ill look into that msconfig and let you know what I come up with I was hoping for something similar to a task manager/memory cleaner here on android
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The task manager... right click on start bar (not on a button or application) and start taskmanager. All applications have an associated process but not all processes have associated applications (at least applications with a GUI). From the process list, which will have what you want to get rid of, you will probably have to google each process name to determine what it is and how to get rid of it and if it is safe to do so. When I do a fresh XP install with anti virus and a minimal application set, I have somewhere around 40 total processes.
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tinslwc said:
The task manager... right click on start bar (not on a button or application) and start taskmanager. All applications have an associated process but not all processes have associated applications (at least applications with a GUI). From the process list, which will have what you want to get rid of, you will probably have to google each process name to determine what it is and how to get rid of it and if it is safe to do so. When I do a fresh XP install with anti virus and a minimal application set, I have somewhere around 40 total processes.
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Got about 52.... not bad I guess but is this bad?
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Biggoron said:
Got about 52.... not bad I guess but is this bad?
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That looks pretty good. One thing to remember is that "cached" physical memory is almost free memory. The operating system has files and other data that is cached in RAM for quick access but can easily be dumped to make room for new information.
So, now the question is, what is the problem/symptoms that you are trying to solve?
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tinslwc said:
I haven't used XP for a while (other than at work, where I am not responsible) but, I think Start -> run -> msconfig.msc might help you out. You can disable anything you want during startup. You can probably also tell what you are disabling because it will tell you the path to the executable. After turning a bunch of stuff off, reboot and see where you are at.
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Msconfig is really meant as more of a trouble shooting tool. It's not proper to use it as a maintenance tool. If there's anything that you want to disable at startup you really ought to handle it in that particular programs options. Or consoder uninstalling tje program entirely.
Better than the stock windows defragment is a program called defraggler.
Also, you might try a windows XP forum. I think they would be better help.
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tinslwc said:
That looks pretty good. One thing to remember is that "cached" physical memory is almost free memory. The operating system has files and other data that is cached in RAM for quick access but can easily be dumped to make room for new information.
So, now the question is, what is the problem/symptoms that you are trying to solve?
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Well according to y'all its not my memory I guess I'm running the cpu more than it can handle its a guitar program in basic terms it turns my computer into an amplifier if you need to know its POD Farm 2 and when I try to add a "dual" which is like using two different amp setups it chops the sounds and won't work correctly and was thinking it was my memory not being able to free up the needed ram but I guess my lil 1.3ghz cpu isn't cutting it
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Xp has been very solid. Upgrade your hardware and do a clean install of xp. I'm running 7 on an older hp laptop and its been awesome.
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I'm not familiar with that program, but I would lean toward it not being your ram. You say that's a 1.3ghz. How many cores?
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b16flybye said:
Xp has been very solid. Upgrade your hardware and do a clean install of xp. I'm running 7 on an older hp laptop and its been awesome.
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+1
There's 'natural' fragmentation of files that happens over time that a defrag'er can't always fix. A clean install is kind of like the ultimate defrag'er in that sense.
p.s. sorry about the double post.
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NawtyB78 said:
I'm not familiar with that program, but I would lean toward it not being your ram. You say that's a 1.3ghz. How many cores?
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Its a single I'm sure but ill let you when I find out...
I'm assuming its a single since it doesn't say dual or quad
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i've used this for a basis of streamlining the programs and processes that run on all my windows based pc's (i'm a sys admin for about 300+ pc's as well as my main gaming pc at home)
http://www.blackviper.com/category/guides/windows-xp/
The site used to have just a whole long list that you had to manually go and disable or set to manual yourself, now they've made it easier..

ugothakd said:
Post on a windows xp forum...
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If u look at some prior threads, he also helped u out!
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Since I had such good results last time I posted about a pc I was wondering something else.
My mother uses her pc for work and it requires certain system files that work like a network or a passage to her works servers. Something in system32...idk anyways... I was wondering if it were possible to image her pc and flash it onto the new pc I'm going to be getting. If not She really just needs xp on it and needs internet explorer 6 and her word 2003 it has a lot of auto corrections/ shortcuts in it. The system files can be put on it by her tech support. Basically she needs xp on her new pc with her internet explorer 6 and word. What would be the easiest way to do so?
I know I could find internet explorer 6 somewhere.
Also for the word I could transfer the auto corrections to the newest word 2010 but I hear it has to be done for each auto correction and she has upwards of 500 hundred.
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Where did my pictures go?

This sounds like a dumb question but I've never had this happen to me before. The other day I switched to Eugene's MIUI Patchrom. I was on it for about ten minutes when I realized I couldn't access my pictures. My gallery was showing a couple hundred when I have over 2000. I assumed it was the rom since it's not super stable. I restored my backup or Juggernaut and I just realized I can still not see my pictures. Surely they didn't get deleted, right? Please help because those pictures mean a lot to me. Thanks.
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Have you tried connecting your phone to your computer and looking for your files that way?

smokeey69 said:
Have you tried connecting your phone to your computer and looking for your files that way?
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Yes. The folders that they were in are now empty.

bbaaccoonn said:
This sounds like a dumb question but I've never had this happen to me before. The other day I switched to Eugene's MIUI Patchrom. I was on it for about ten minutes when I realized I couldn't access my pictures. My gallery was showing a couple hundred when I have over 2000. I assumed it was the rom since it's not super stable. I restored my backup or Juggernaut and I just realized I can still not see my pictures. Surely they didn't get deleted, right? Please help because those pictures mean a lot to me. Thanks.
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I don't know of any ROMS that will wipe the sdcard. Did you check the DCIM directory with root explorer or via USB from your PC?

Yeah I did. Like I said, the folders are still there with the names I gave them, they're just empty.
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O well, have fun finding the pictures/ taking them again.

Besides the attributes getting changed by accident to hidden, I'd cough it up as a loss unless you can manage to do a file recovery program to scrape them off somehow
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Probably got corrupted, do as advised and run a recovery search
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Yeah I did. Like I said, the folders are still there with the names I gave them, they're just empty.
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O&O Software makes a really good file/folder/partition recovery program. I'd imagine it would work on sd, but im not 100% sure.. It never hurts to check

That's always my biggest worry when switching to a new ROM, because all my videos and pics are of my kids for the most part.
I personally don't know the best way to get them back, and the position you are in really sucks. What I tend to do is backup all my photos and pictures to my external SD card (32gb, so I have the space). Also make a backup on my computer and make another backup through a cloud storage program of your choice, I am currently using Drive.
I know that is a bit of overkill, but again, they are pics and vids of my kids growing up so I want to be 100% certain they don't get lost.
Hopefully you are able to find those pics, if not, perhaps my suggestion will help you in the future. Peace.

Thanks for the help, those who actually suggested something. I used some app from the gay store and it was able to recover some of my pictures, but not all. I suppose I'll just have to be more careful and make backups in the future.
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"Insufficient storage available" but its a lieeee

Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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lilajrestnom said:
Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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First, what program is giving the error, and what segment of the memory is it trying to write to. If you are trying to write to the SD card and there is no room there, then you might have a problem with that. On the other hand, it may be another section.
Additionally, you may have downloaded a program that wants to allocate a very large chunk of space for itself. More than you have. Some games download their data when you first load them. They often check for sufficient space first. They can use well over half a gigabyte, so if your SD Card doesn't have that space free, it will error out.

I know wht you're talking about but I don't recall titanium backup needing an extra couple hundred Mbs to work lol.
Its happening with every freaking app I'm trying to download off the market or install off my sd card. And even the apps I'm trying to simply update off the market.
And I have like 4gbs free on my sd card and 500 mb free on the phones storage.
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There's been several ways of going about remedying this, there's the odin to stock method, the factory reset, and the clear market data method. I've personally only tried the latter 2, and they work temporarily in my experience.
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This has happened quite a few times to me.

lilajrestnom said:
Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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DONT REFLASH... lol titanium backup odex file is corrupt, remove it from system/app and uninstall TB, then download again

What hsppens is there are fragments of the old programs still In data that screw up the reinstall. Search with root explorer and nuke those bits. For instance if youtube app fails, search for youtube and a list of all files with that in the name will pop up. Nuke those files (don't forget to make r/w). Other option is odin and clean imstall.
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yeah I got that error too
Is there a app that can automatically clean old left behind files like 1click cleanup.
Hi all, I too had that problem before when I was on stock EC05 BML and had little space on internal memory. I could not upgrade Titanuim so I got so mad that I started getting into custom roms with MTD to have more space. Also helps if you get a class 10 32gb card.
I saw that the July 15, Titanium try to download from market it failed because not enough space and I was tripping but I used the lucky and it cleaned the messed up left behind odex, then install was coolio.
I also get sometimes could not parse error on .apk and never could figure it out. I guess they are not compatible with my phone since they were not downloaded from market...
Lanboy =)

lanboy said:
Is there a app that can automatically clean old left behind files like 1click cleanup.
Hi all, I too had that problem before when I was on stock EC05 BML and had little space on internal memory. I could not upgrade Titanuim so I got so mad that I started getting into custom roms with MTD to have more space. Also helps if you get a class 10 32gb card.
I saw that the July 15, Titanium try to download from market it failed because not enough space and I was tripping but I used the lucky and it cleaned the messed up left behind odex, then install was coolio.
I also get sometimes could not parse error on .apk and never could figure it out. I guess they are not compatible with my phone since they were not downloaded from market...
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A app called SDmaid has helped me in the pass.

Thank you guys. I'm going to try now and see what happens.
Edit: okay so I searched "titanium backup" in root explorer and got nothing.
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lilajrestnom said:
Thank you guys. I'm going to try now and see what happens.
Edit: okay so I searched "titanium backup" in root explorer and got nothing.
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It isn't called "Titanium Backup". It is com.something.something in /data/app/
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
It isn't called "Titanium Backup". It is com.something.something in /data/app/
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its in data/app and its called com.kermidas.titaniumbackup-1.odex and .apk
If you delete something else you will not be able to run the program yyou delete...btw

Andy_nu said:
its in data/app and its called com.kermidas.titaniumbackup-1.odex and .apk
If you delete something else you will not be able to run the program yyou delete...btw
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I just missed the .odex file but I got it now. Thank you very very much its working now.
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lilajrestnom said:
I just missed the .odex file but I got it now. Thank you very very much its working now.
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No problem, just helping out. have fun

Titanium Backup is one of the most useful programs to come along for people who root and flash. It is well worht a few bucks ($6) to guarantee working updates, support the developer, freeze apps, batch work, and to save all your data. It pains me to see a program discussed here whose sole purpose is to cheat the developer out of a few bucks.
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kennyglass123 said:
Titanium Backup is one of the most useful programs to come along for people who root and flash. It is well worht a few bucks ($6) to guarantee working updates, support the developer, freeze apps, batch work, and to save all your data. It pains me to see a program discussed here whose sole purpose is to cheat the developer out of a few bucks.
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I just had to scroll back and re- read the whole thread. The second time around I saw the app you refered to by name. After Google searching it I realized what you are talking about. I agree with your statement and am a proud owner of Titanium Backup.
He says it will get rid of all 'corrupt data'?? I don't understand...?
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I think that this is sometimes caused by unnecessarily re-flashing the gapps when doing a dirty upgrade upgrade on cm or aokp. It also happened to me after advance-restoring data on aokp. Duplicity seems to be the main connection here. Clean installs are good for the epic's soul.
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[Q] Reasons for App removal from GPlay????

Anyone know why an APP would be removed from the app store? I have Disk Defragmenter, and it works great, but now its not in the Play Store. I think it just recently came out too but I don't see why (if) it was removed.. didnt violate any copyrights..

FYI flash memory of any kind (home pc, phone, whatever) doesn't need to be defragmented.
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More so in fact it will cause flash to wear out much faster. There is no spinning disc to seek data from so no need to defragment. As well ext* doesn't fragment files like ms file systems so no need.
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Yep.
Found this thread while looking up whatever had happened to the Disk Defragmenter at the Play store. I think it may have been bumped because it's Push adverts were a little too Pushy. I thought I'd been infected with illegal adware, the way ads started presenting themselves as app alerts in my notification bar. Then I realized one of the products being Pushed was Disk Defragmenter itself.
Perhaps it's buried in their fine print, agreeing to all that pushyness. But I'd be glad to know Google frowns upon apps that aren't very clear about their particularly invasive ad strategies.

Weird, I never had airpush ads using that program..
DMolina

Perhaps it's because I'm on a Sprint Evo OG, and either T-Mobile or Samsung has got their act together in a better way...
I don't know, but I've uninstalled DD, and all the "alerts" are gone.
Shame, too... DD was featured in Android Authority's "best new apps" for August 2012. I only found this forum because I wanted to know why such a featured app would just vanish. I mean, I had to go into the OS app manager to uninstall, because the play store wouldn't even acknowledge it's existence on my phone!

Yea me too. And our internal sd does get fragmented. I had a lot before i used it the first time. It works good.. Now i gotta do it on laptop again. I liked how the app was developed for on the go.. Oh well..
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noodles2224 said:
Weird, I never had airpush ads using that program..
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They are very prominent with go SMS pro -.-
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noodles2224 said:
Yea me too. And our internal sd does get fragmented. I had a lot before i used it the first time. It works good.. Now i gotta do it on laptop again. I liked how the app was developed for on the go.. Oh well..
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How? Internal sd card is EMMC..that's flash memory... from what I always thought
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When you plug it to computer it reads the "11.26gb" that we have and external sd. Those are what gets defragged. I think the EMMC is the 1.95gb that it also has, which is the linux part that cant be defragged..
Plus, youre probably using a custom rom that has the internal sd as emmc. Like on CM and AOKP I think..
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Repeat after me: You do NOT have to defrag your phone's storage because it is flash.
Android uses flash memory, and flash memory does not benefit from defragmentation because fragmentation does not slow it down in the first place. In fact just the opposite - defragmentation only makes things worse by decreasing flash memory's lifetime. Don't take my word for it - Google it.
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blackangst said:
Repeat after me: You do NOT have to defrag your phone's storage because it is flash.
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Lol, some people dont understand... Soon your computer wont need it either thanks to HDD made of Ram, cant wait for that day. But anyway, no spinning magnetic media = no need for defrag

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