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[Q] Gmail-recent activity notification on phone

Hey guys, before I begin I want to say yes I did a search on XDA and searched around Google for about an hour and couldnt find an answer.
Im wondering if it is possible through your phone to check recent activity or if its possible to get a notice if someone is trying or has accessed your Gmail account from another computer. yes I know if you log into gmail through a browser you can scroll down and click recent activity and see all the ip address that have accessed your account. I spend about 90% of my time on my phone and rarely use a computer so having a notification on my phone would be very useful.
Thanks guys
-Archer

Nope. Your only choice is a browser. However, if you use 2-step authentication and a good password, you should be safe.

archervanadin said:
Hey guys, before I begin I want to say yes I did a search on XDA and searched around Google for about an hour and couldnt find an answer.
Im wondering if it is possible through your phone to check recent activity or if its possible to get a notice if someone is trying or has accessed your Gmail account from another computer. yes I know if you log into gmail through a browser you can scroll down and click recent activity and see all the ip address that have accessed your account. I spend about 90% of my time on my phone and rarely use a computer so having a notification on my phone would be very useful.
Thanks guys
-Archer
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Could you logon via the phone's browser to check recent activity like you can from a desktop's browser? I haven't heard of a capability of that nature with the exception of accounts via a corporate server. That is not to say that is does not exist. I'm just unaware of it.

drmacinyasha said:
Nope. Your only choice is a browser. However, if you use 2-step authentication and a good password, you should be safe.
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How do you enable a 2 step authentication for Gmail?

archervanadin said:
How do you enable a 2 step authentication for Gmail?
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https://www.google.com/accounts/SmsAuthConfig
Go there and go through the setup. Note the following:
1) When they say "lose your phone/these codes and you won't be able to access your account", THEY MEAN IT. If you lose Google Authenticator/the phone number you SMS to, your backup phone number, AND the codes they give you, you are BONED.
2) Any program or device that logs in directly to your account (Chrome Sync, Cloud Print, your phone, Trillian, PBXes, etc.) will need an application-specific password. There's instructions on how to do this, but you will not be able to retrieve said password once you have generated it and clicked the "hide password" button.
3) You will have to enter the generated code on your phone at each new browser you try to log in to your account from, both the first time, and every 30 days.

Try this one: SignMeOut
as featured on Lifehacker "Sign Me Out Helps You Track Unauthorized Access to Your Gmail and Facebook Accounts" and Comments.
But please consider you are giving your gmail credentials out to another 3rd party app / organisation. You possibly don't improve your Gmail security but lose some of it.
Please decide yourself.
edit: Meh... first post, so I'm not allowed to give you direct links...

[Q] How can I logout User Accounts on Android 4.3?

Hi Guys,
I've just bought a brand new Nexus 7 (2013) Wi-Fi and configured a primary and secondary user for my girlfriend. Now the question is how can I "logout" eaach account so the background processes related with it terminate and the user is considered offline on all social and IM applications? Because apparently both accounts stay online all the time unless I turn off the device and log in into just one of them.
Regards,
João Guerreiro

AC3_2K8 said:
Hi Guys,
I've just bought a brand new Nexus 7 (2013) Wi-Fi and configured a primary and secondary user for my girlfriend. Now the question is how can I "logout" eaach account so the background processes related with it terminate and the user is considered offline on all social and IM applications? Because apparently both accounts stay online all the time unless I turn off the device and log in into just one of them.
Regards,
João Guerreiro
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Can anyone response plz??

imranmalik005 said:
Can anyone response plz??
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In goog,
you have a primary account, that you set up your N7 with right? Then you added a second account, right?
So go to the playstore, and there should be a list of registered users on the slide out window.. Just click on the one you want and it will be like being signed into that account. If I'm understanding your question properly.
Looking further go into users and accounts, in system settings they vary what they are called in different versions.
Heres a link that explains it better than I can
https://www.greenbot.com/article/29...ange-or-delete-users-in-android-lollipop.html

Troops42 said:
In goog,
you have a primary account, that you set up your N7 with right? Then you added a second account, right?
So go to the playstore, and there should be a list of registered users on the slide out window.. Just click on the one you want and it will be like being signed into that account. If I'm understanding your question properly.
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I hv 2 device user accounts which u can switch easily ..... but switching does not kill the background processes of inactive accounts and if inactive accounts has lot of windows opened ... it causes the device to respond very slow....i even had to force restart. For that matter i wanted to know if i can LITERALLY signout/logout instead is switching.
And thanks for the response. This forum has always helped me.

The WhatsApp Theory

So, here I present my theory
WhatsApp uses Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). When a user registers with WhatsApp, he gets his number as a username or JABBER ID. WhatsApp uses the Jabber Protocol to connect its users. Now, if we are directly able to connect with the Jabber Protocol, then we may be able to connect with the WhatsApp users. With a lot of research, I was able to search out for a Jabber client for our Waves. This client is BombusQD. You can download it upon Googling it. I will carry out further tests after registering with Jabber and try to connect with WhatsApp. If anyone can carry out these tests, may proceed. Please reply underneath
Best Regards

Theory is plausible. I'll have to try this out.

I have been waiting for several days for registration approval from jabber.ru, the jabber client in BombusQD
Please try and register at www.jabber.ru and if you get any registration approvals please reply back

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The last post was pretty useless
I REACHED A CONCLUSION!
I don't think that we would need to register for Jabber, a fact I realised after reading a blog last night at
http://blog.maarten.abbink.me/2012/02/why-whatsapp-messenger-wont-work-on.html?m=1
I request you all to go through the same. We will be needing an android mobile for this. Through the android mobile we will install WhatsApp and obtain the code, that is the password according to Maarten's blog
Now, in the end after obtaining that code via text message we will try to login into WhatsApp via Jabber. WikiPedia says, that WhatsApp registers the usernames as [email protected]
To conclude,
if the phone number is "xyz"
then I need someone to try and login using any jabber client (BombusQD, Abium, full list at https://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/clients/) with
username: [email protected]
password: code received via text message
Thank you for your patient reading

Even if we use Jaber, one must know the server and port

when you will login you only need the username and password, which I have mentioned. Jabber will automatically connect to the WhatsApp servers. In fact, WhatsApp uses Jabber servers
WhatsApp messenger uses these ports: 5223, 5228, 4244, 5242 and 5222
Did anyone try it?
I don't have an android smartphone

krittin98 said:
when you will login you only need the username and password, which I have mentioned. Jabber will automatically connect to the WhatsApp servers. In fact, WhatsApp uses Jabber servers
WhatsApp messenger uses these ports: 5223, 5228, 4244, 5242 and 5222
Did anyone try it?
I don't have an android smartphone
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There is a good program to simulate an android, there can and register a login and password for whatsapp, BlueStacks App Player
bluestacks.com

krittin98 said:
when you will login you only need the username and password, which I have mentioned. Jabber will automatically connect to the WhatsApp servers. In fact, WhatsApp uses Jabber servers
WhatsApp messenger uses these ports: 5223, 5228, 4244, 5242 and 5222
Did anyone try it?
I don't have an android smartphone
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Turned out at you accomplish your goal?

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mailrok said:
Turned out at you accomplish your goal?
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well, WhatsApp seems to be quite clever
I borrowed my friend's Android phone, re-installed WhatsApp, but during the verification, it did not send any code
I googled on how to find this activation code and found out from the WhatsApp site that activation code is "dictated" only when it is unable to send a message
read this
https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/bb10/28089216
Its a really long process. As I don't have an android smartphone, we would now need to disable the SMS communication, which can be done using some codes
If anyone has an android phone, only then this project can be successful
Best Regards

krittin98 said:
well, WhatsApp seems to be quite clever
I borrowed my friend's Android phone, re-installed WhatsApp, but during the verification, it did not send any code
I googled on how to find this activation code and found out from the WhatsApp site that activation code is "dictated" only when it is unable to send a message
read this
https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/bb10/28089216
Its a really long process. As I don't have an android smartphone, we would now need to disable the SMS communication, which can be done using some codes
If anyone has an android phone, only then this project can be successful
Best Regards
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Have you tried the program that I gave? I REGISTER through it, and spoke quietly.
Sincerely

java devs required
mailrok said:
Have you tried the program that I gave? I REGISTER through it, and spoke quietly.
Sincerely
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The WhatsApp activation code is NOT the password used by it as the Jabber password. According to Wikipedia:
WhatsApp software automatically compares all the phone numbers from the device's address book with its central database of WhatsApp users to automatically add contacts to the user's WhatsApp contact list. Previously the Android and S40 versions used an MD5-hashed, reversed-version of the phone's IMEI as password, while the iOS version used the phone's Wi-Fi MAC addressinstead of IMEI. A 2012 update now generates a random password on the server side.
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With the help of Akshat, a Bada developer who is interested in thus project, I started working on the development of a .jar file that will connect us to WhatsApp. We will be using a source code (http://www.mediafire.com/download/8oz4c3b27nx4366/WhatsApp_Messenger.src.zip) to make a .jar file from scratch. Is anyone good at or knows Java?
Best Regards

How to solve these Java errors?
I am still on this project. WhatsApp has tightened it's security after some updates, as you would have noticed.
I am now trying to solve the errors that we get during the S40 version of the WhatsApp. Ca anyone tell me how can I solve these errors?
This is the error I got:
"This application caused an error and may not function correctly.
java.lang.NoClassDefFound Error: javax/crypto/spec/SecretKeySpec"
I am attaching the WhatsApp.jar file that works on S40

Has anyone able to enable Location History

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.

hchao1 said:
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

Remove / Disable Google and MI bloat apps

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