Develop Bugs

Missing Apps in Market

Anyone else had problems with missing apps in the Market with the Desire?
Specifically:
http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=72687bc93eba9a1b&hl=en
Good example seems to be the National Rail app, but I'm finding plenty of others too...some I've paid for :-(
Daern

Yes, I have. JuiceDefender is missing for me, however I got it from andappstore.com. No sign of that National Rail one there though.

And the BlueAnt Q1 app is not available....

I think everybody has problems finding all the programs. Try to search for Raging Thunder 2 for example. You will properbly only find the lite version and not the full version. I bought the full version with my Milestone, but now it cannot be found anymore.
Every Android phone has a 'fingerprint' in the build.prop file. This fingerprint has to be approved by google. Somehow google has not yet approved the fingerprint of the Desire, so protected apps cannot be fount yet.....
I have no clue why this takes so long.
Maybe someone from google is here and reads this and can explain to us why it's taking so long for the fingerprint to be approved?

Interesting. According to the similar thread about the Legend, however, it seems that HTC are pushing out an update to fix this...
Perhaps it's the fingerprint from the Hero

I've read about this issue which was recently explained by a developer of XDA (nprussell).
Apparently everyone is in the same boat so to speak. He states that many "protected" apps are missing from the market. There are generally two reasons why apps will be missing from the market:
When a new ROM or handset is released, the manufacturer (i.e. HTC), sends the build to Google for verification, which includes a 'Fingerprint' (a unique line of text which governs its market access) in one of the build files. Generally, it states the name of the phone and Android version in the fingerprint. With Root & System write access, this fingerprint can be changed, but although it's been claimed that the Desire has recently been Rooted, we still don't have confirmation from any developer of it being able to gain System write access.
Only until Google approve the build, then fingerprint will be added to their allowed database to view these protected apps on the market.
The other cause for apps missing from the market in builds is because of permissions of certain apps. For example, the barcode scanner app requires permissions to use the camera/auto focus. They are NOT protected apps. If the XML permission files are missing from system/etc/permissions, then Google Market will simply block these apps from showing.
HTC need to chase Google up on this and Google need to activate the Fingerprint.

Excellent info, thanks for that. So it's chasing HTC to get them to chase Google for an update.
I think I'll just go back to stopping the tide from coming in...much better chance of success, I reckon

Is there no where we can download the apk (for free apps of course) and just transfer it to the phone and install it ourselves?

strange think is I could find some apps. I found and installed Barcode Scanner no prob..
???

s4vva said:
Is there no where we can download the apk (for free apps of course) and just transfer it to the phone and install it ourselves?
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just google which ever apk you want (for free apps obviously) and install it to your phone, with the sync software that was on your original memory card.
i emailed HTC today to find out what they and google are doing to sort this out. if everyone emails them they might eventually chase google...

Mastoid said:
I've read about this issue which was recently explained by a developer of XDA (nprussell).
Apparently everyone is in the same boat so to speak. He states that many "protected" apps are missing from the market. There are generally two reasons why apps will be missing from the market:
When a new ROM or handset is released, the manufacturer (i.e. HTC), sends the build to Google for verification, which includes a 'Fingerprint' (a unique line of text which governs its market access) in one of the build files. Generally, it states the name of the phone and Android version in the fingerprint. With Root & System write access, this fingerprint can be changed, but although it's been claimed that the Desire has recently been Rooted, we still don't have confirmation from any developer of it being able to gain System write access.
Only until Google approve the build, then fingerprint will be added to their allowed database to view these protected apps on the market.
The other cause for apps missing from the market in builds is because of permissions of certain apps. For example, the barcode scanner app requires permissions to use the camera/auto focus. They are NOT protected apps. If the XML permission files are missing from system/etc/permissions, then Google Market will simply block these apps from showing.
HTC need to chase Google up on this and Google need to activate the Fingerprint.
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Just to confirm this explanation, I actually emailed HTC support asking about the missing apps and this was pretty much exactly what they told me. They are waiting for Google to approve the ROM for copy protected apps, and apparently it takes about a week... so hopefully we can expect full access some time next week. Fingers crossed!

foner78 said:
Just to confirm this explanation, I actually emailed HTC support asking about the missing apps and this was pretty much exactly what they told me. They are waiting for Google to approve the ROM for copy protected apps, and apparently it takes about a week... so hopefully we can expect full access some time next week. Fingers crossed!
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Nice one Bud, thanks for that update

All back for me Now on Vodafone

Yep. One of those apps for me was Google Earth since this is what I was facing so I installed it from the link here too and all works well: http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=46acda8204439646&hl=en
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

th3 said:
Yep. One of those apps for me was Google Earth since this is what I was facing so I installed it from the link here too and all works well: http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=46acda8204439646&hl=en
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
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Yep, that's about all we can do right now to install apps (or use barcode scanner app) which are not available via the Marketplace.
Tip: For anyone who has not done this yet and would like to know, make sure you first install HTC Sync (found pre-installed via your SD card).

adblock plus

anyone using this on the nexus4, i have no clue why my data says it eating like 360MB out of 500MB!:crying:
does it really work in blocking ads?

cobyman7035 said:
anyone using this on the nexus4, i have no clue why my data says it eating like 360MB out of 500MB!:crying:
does it really work in blocking ads?
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Do you have root? If yes, I would recommend using Adaway. Great app and it works.

kwerdenker said:
Do you have root? If yes, I would recommend using Adaway. Great app and it works.
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+1, but I guess the problem of the OP is that he doesn't know what is eating his data plan.
There are a lot of program that shows the data usage per app so you can know what to blame. I personally use avast! Mobile Security cause it counts and store the data used per app and has a built in per app Firewall to cut it.

cobyman7035 said:
anyone using this on the nexus4, i have no clue why my data says it eating like 360MB out of 500MB!:crying:
does it really work in blocking ads?
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According to the FAQ Adblock will appear to use most of your data because the data is passing through it.
It is basically just a HTTP proxy, so it should block web page ads as well as the browser versions.
Adaway uses a different method - it simply blocks the ad server dns entries so they can't be looked up. No data is passing through the adaway app. It also works for SSL which Adblock doesn't.
I don't know which way is best - I use Adaway and am happy with it. Adblock supports the well maintained browser blocklists (and works in a similar way), but requires the proxy run in the background and filter all your traffic.

isangelous said:
According to the FAQ Adblock will appear to use most of your data because the data is passing through it.
It is basically just a HTTP proxy, so it should block web page ads as well as the browser versions.
Adaway uses a different method - it simply blocks the ad server dns entries so they can't be looked up. No data is passing through the adaway app. It also works for SSL which Adblock doesn't.
I don't know which way is best - I use Adaway and am happy with it. Adblock supports the well maintained browser blocklists (and works in a similar way), but requires the proxy run in the background and filter all your traffic.
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If you have root, Adaway is the better way to block ads. Since it's doing it at a system level, you don't need anything additional like the proxy running in the background (proxies are a bit of a privacy concern in my opinion, even if it's running locally on your phone). Also you can add any host source you like in Adaway, so it supports most if not any blocklist Adblock supports
The main point abaout Adblock is, that you can use it on non-rooted phones.

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If you have root, Adaway is the better way to block ads. Since it's doing it at a system level, you don't need anything additional like the proxy running in the background (proxies are a bit of a privacy concern in my opinion, even if it's running locally on your phone). Also you can add any host source you like in Adaway, so it supports most if not any blocklist Adblock supports
The main point abaout Adblock is, that you can use it on non-rooted phones.
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They use different blocklists - adaway is simply a list of domains but adblock rules are more powerful. They can be a domain or just part of a url, they can apply only to certain websites, they can apply to html tags, etc. I use these features quite a bit on the desktop version.
I think Adaway is a better way of blocking ads in apps and is good enough for browser ad blocking for now. I think Adblock is better for the browser and wish Chrome supported extensions because I do agree with you that running the proxy is not the best way to do this. Once it has proven stable and has a few more features it might be worth it. At the very least you need to be able to limit it to Chrome - I don't want to depend on that background service for all data.
So for now Adaway is the better all-rounder. It is a shame both are system wide so you can't use both where they are better suited.

isangelous said:
They use different blocklists - adaway is simply a list of domains but adblock rules are more powerful. They can be a domain or just part of a url, they can apply only to certain websites, they can apply to html tags, etc. I use these features quite a bit on the desktop version.
I think Adaway is a better way of blocking ads in apps and is good enough for browser ad blocking for now. I think Adblock is better for the browser and wish Chrome supported extensions because I do agree with you that running the proxy is not the best way to do this. Once it has proven stable and has a few more features it might be worth it. At the very least you need to be able to limit it to Chrome - I don't want to depend on that background service for all data.
So for now Adaway is the better all-rounder. It is a shame both are system wide so you can't use both where they are better suited.
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Ah ok, now I understand what you are getting at and I think our opinions are not that different. What I meant with my original post was "between the two in their current states, adaway is the better solution".
If chrome for android would get an addon system, I would probably install adblock for it too

block popups

Internet explorer isn't that fast and is slow on the preview of 8.1. is thee a way to make IE faster. Maybe by getting an ad blocker which I canno tfind any. For example facebook on ie is laggy?

malberti1993 said:
Internet explorer isn't that fast and is slow on the preview of 8.1. is thee a way to make IE faster. Maybe by getting an ad blocker which I canno tfind any. For example facebook on ie is laggy?
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There is an adblocker of sorts built into Internet explorer. Tracking lists. There are guides posted around on how to enable them for IE. By the way, popups and ads are not the same (bit of thread title vs content confusion there)

SixSixSevenSeven said:
There is an adblocker of sorts built into Internet explorer. Tracking lists. There are guides posted around on how to enable them for IE. By the way, popups and ads are not the same (bit of thread title vs content confusion there)
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Oops i meant ads. I have popups under control, but i feel like if we can disable ads it would make ie more faster. For example like chromes adblock. I dont really like the tracking list way.

malberti1993 said:
Oops i meant ads. I have popups under control, but i feel like if we can disable ads it would make ie more faster. For example like chromes adblock. I dont really like the tracking list way.
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in fact, if you go to Settings, Safety, Turn on Tracking Protection and then click on Get a Tracking Protection List Online at bottom of the window that opens, choose the EasyList Standard - most of the ads are gone. In fact, some of the sites I was not able to open anymore or had terrible lags are opening fine now and do not display ads.
cheers

Post above is exactly what I meant. I have seen GoodDayToDie recommending easylist, have tried it myself, works as well as the adblock extension to google chrome.

EasyList Standard (instructions above) works very well. That's really all that you need for websites, but another option is to go with a HOSTS file, such as the one at http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm. Unzip it and copy HOSTS to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc, overwriting the one there. According to that site, if you're on Windows 8--which we are--you should exclude that file in Windows Defender, or else it will think that malware has changed the file and will undo your replacement.

apps not seeing wifi or data connection when there is one

I am rooted on a pixel 2 XL with magisk v14 and manager 5.4.3. I have twrp 3.1.1 beta 2. I have changed the calling preference on the phone to wifi with an ADB command. Aside from that no other mods come to mind.
I have multiple functioning apps on my phone and am loving root. However, Facebook, Tumblr, Microsoft word, and Microsoft Excel give me messages saying they can't connect to the internet when I open them. This renders Facebook and Tumblr useless. The office programs can work locally. I tried hiding root from Facebook in magisk to no avail. What's going on with these apps? Do I need to change something on my phone or in it's system? Could any particular root apps like adaway be causing this?

Ok, so I was at least smart enough to be able to determine that adaway is not allowing every single one of the apps I mentioned to connect to the internet.
What's the solution here? Is adaway obsolete in 2017? Is the answer to just go download and buy adguard from the playstore?

Schroeder09 said:
Ok, so I was at least smart enough to be able to determine that adaway is not allowing every single one of the apps I mentioned to connect to the internet.
What's the solution here? Is adaway obsolete in 2017? Is the answer to just go download and buy adguard from the playstore?
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Adaway is definitely not obsolete. It was removed from the Play Store and will never come back there. There is a thread here on XDA with updates, lots of good help, (and the same questions asked over and over). :good:
Adaway blocks urls / websites but not apps, so you have something else going on. Here is the tutorial to find blocked sites that need to be whitelisted, You can try it.
https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway/wiki/LogDNS

This was tremendously helpful. It did exactly what I wanted. Thank u. Hopefully others see this and it helps them too.

Schroeder09 said:
This was tremendously helpful. It did exactly what I wanted. Thank u. Hopefully others see this and it helps them too.
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Hi, my setup is similar to yours (rooted, etc) and I've got Google Docs and Sheets thinking they're not connected to WiFi or data. How were you able to resolve your data issue?

MinimalistChris said:
Hi, my setup is similar to yours (rooted, etc) and I've got Google Docs and Sheets thinking they're not connected to WiFi or data. How were you able to resolve your data issue?
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I haven't focused on getting those working yet, but it seems that the word is working. Excel still gives me the connection error. Adaway was the culprit for facebook. I suspect it is for the microsoft office apps too. I just have to addressed them because I will not be using them heavily. If you have an adblocking app please follow the instructions in the link that Pkt_lnt posted. They're very straightforward and helpful. You need to basically turn ad-blocking off, put it in a "scanning mode", use the app you want to for a few minutes so the adblocking app sees it, then the adblocking app will pick up on host file sites that the app uses. You can add these to a "white list." The adblocking will no longer block the app. It's important to note that if other apps use the same host file that you have just whitelisted ads will appear in that app too. White listing a host file is universal and is not done on an in-app basis.

Thank you!

How to De-Google LineageOS?

So i've just seen this video with the title: How to De-Google LineageOS by Mental Outlaw
Content:
Changing the DNS server
Changing the Captive Portal
Changing the Android System WebView implementation
Changing the SUPL Host server
Changing the NTP server
Removing bloatware Google packages
What i already did on my phone running lineageos: set DNS to Quad9 and disable google SUPL, actually i'm not sure which term to use, is SUPL the same as google con check?
Steps taken:
• disable connectivitycheck.gstatic.com (google con check)
• rooted with magisk app
• install termux app
• run termux and type following commands one by one:
su
whoami (verify you are root)
settings put global captive_portal_mode 0
settings list global | grep portal
So instead of changing the "SUPL" server as the person in the video did, i've set it to 0, asuming this is good enough.
But what about the rest, are these steps important? For example is webview implementation permanently active and could it phone home to google or is it only active when viewing a webpage inisde of an app?

LineageOS is de-Googled by default.
Do a clean install of LineageOS, but don't flash your OpenGapps/MicroG zip, only your LineageOS zip.

catto_ said:
LineageOS is de-Googled by default.
Do a clean install of LineageOS, but don't flash your OpenGapps/MicroG zip, only your LineageOS zip.
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Did you even read my post??? LineageOS isn't fully de-googled, zzz.

Privacydroid said:
So instead of changing the "SUPL" server as the person in the video did, i've set it to 0, asuming this is good enough.
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you've probably broken something GPS related then since it cant ping for some data.
not sure what tho, and if you dont care about gps or dont use that specific gps feature it doesnt matter anyways, just anytime it tries to ping that site it'll time out since 0 isnt a dns/ip address
Privacydroid said:
But what about the rest, are these steps important? For example is webview implementation permanently active and could it phone home to google or is it only active when viewing a webpage inisde of an app?
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nope, its not permanentally active
its just chromium
mental outlaw (and alot of other linux youtubers) antagonize chromium (for good reason, im a firefox user myself) but they blow it out of proportion, after all chromium isnt riddled with spyware (unlike chrome).
getting rid of the systemwebview is more of a "F** YOU" to google to disturb their market share
yes chromium has some google components (not sure if the webview has any tho) but afaik they dont phone home normally unless you connect to a google account
and yes, its only active while browsing the web using an app that utilizes webview. if you do all your web browsing on a different browser (eg. firefox, brave, bromite) then theres no webview to worry about.
pro-tip btw: use the web versions of all social medias, you avoid using the integrated web view and dont need extra bloat on your device. even the heavier javascript-riddled ones work okay on my 2014 galaxy s5 (72C cpu tho..)

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you've probably broken something GPS related then since it cant ping for some data.
not sure what tho, and if you dont care about gps or dont use that specific gps feature it doesnt matter anyways, just anytime it tries to ping that site it'll time out since 0 isnt a dns/ip address
nope, its not permanentally active
its just chromium
mental outlaw (and alot of other linux youtubers) antagonize chromium (for good reason, im a firefox user myself) but they blow it out of proportion, after all chromium isnt riddled with spyware (unlike chrome).
getting rid of the systemwebview is more of a "F** YOU" to google to disturb their market share
yes chromium has some google components (not sure if the webview has any tho) but afaik they dont phone home normally unless you connect to a google account
and yes, its only active while browsing the web using an app that utilizes webview. if you do all your web browsing on a different browser (eg. firefox, brave, bromite) then theres no webview to worry about.
pro-tip btw: use the web versions of all social medias, you avoid using the integrated web view and dont need extra bloat on your device. even the heavier javascript-riddled ones work okay on my 2014 galaxy s5 (72C cpu tho..)
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Well, "F** YOU GOOGLE" sounds great to me. Might just not be worth the time if webview doesn't phone anyways, but i rather be sure on that instead of guessing.
I wouldn't be so sure that google components don't phone home without a google account.
So an app utilizes webview means it'll phone home to google, then when is webview utilizesed, permanently while that specific app is in use or only while that app who has the capability of utilizeising webview does actually make use of the "feature".
Bromite is great, just falls behind on updates lately.. there aren't really other great options..
Yeah using services via webbrowser instead of installing an app is always preffered.
PS; most of social media is a cancer, i don't use any )

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Well, "F** YOU GOOGLE" sounds great to me. Might just not be worth the time if webview doesn't phone anyways, but i rather be sure on that instead of guessing.
I wouldn't be so sure that google components don't phone home without a google account.
So an app utilizes webview means it'll phone home to google, then when is webview utilizesed, permanently while that specific app is in use or only while that app who has the capability of utilizeising webview does actually make use of the "feature".
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afaik it doesnt tho, thats why many use chromium. if it does its likely "anonymized" to some extent (still can be de-anonymized) but its minimal enough that most linux distributions (including those with stricter rules) allow plain chromium into their repos.
most apps i use are web-based anyways so i just use them in firefox..
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Bromite is great, just falls behind on updates lately.. there aren't really other great options..
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i wish firefox supported webview (possible since geckoview exists) but there doesnt seem to be any work on that done. im not going to use bromite as the minor "im not phoning home the 0.3% of the time i actually need to use an app that uses webview" is too little for the "i have to flash new bromite versions as root any time i wanna update it"
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Yeah using services via webbrowser instead of installing an app is always preffered.
PS; most of social media is a cancer, i don't use any )
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yeah
in general i only use youtube because of the educational and tutorial content on there (which they clearly dont realize is one of the most important parts of their platform, hence the removal of the dislike) but their algorithm is very in favor of clickbait and its ruining these channels..
i wish more would use something like newpipe