Android :: Market Be Locked Down / Blocked / Removed?
Nov 12, 2010
My company is looking at upgrading from WinMo Intrepids to possibly Android phones.We are with Sprint so only those phones are being looked at.Couple of questions from an enterprise mind.Android 2.2 updated exchange policy support so some of our concerns are being met.My biggest questions are relating to Sprint ID and the Android Market.One does anyone know if you can totally locked down Sprint ID? As in not allow other ones from being downloaded and installed. Basically to give us a way to lock the phone down with what apps we want.Next big thing is can the Android Market be locked down/Blocked/Removed?Remember these are going to be company phones mainly being used for exchange email, not personal phones to play around with eating up data.Generally just looking at ways to keep the phones secure from all the nasties out there. We are looking at the Optimus S which is why I bring up Sprint ID.For my side of it, I would generally be against this. I own an Evo and love tinkering plus I will be the one developing in house apps for us to use.
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May 25, 2009
I have done just about everything I need on my phone except tethering. Since I only had Edge available, I had never bothered to look into tethering, but now that 3g is on the horizon for me (June rollout), I am looking to tether.
Now, I recall reading that tethering apps in the market are now blocked. If that is true, where would I go to find the tethering apps, which is the best out there, and how would I go about loading it onto my phone.
I did give PDA net a shot, but the auto installer will not load it onto my phone...
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Aug 17, 2010
Anyone else having stalled Market problems? Orange Desire 2.1. Android market download blocked at "Starting Download" for any application/game.
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Nov 5, 2010
I recently bought an android phone.Samsung galaxy's.I just found out the android market is not available for the middle east ( which i am from ).Is there anyway around this?Rooting? Downloading it from some website over SD card?Or at least can i download android apps from pc and transfer to phone over SD card?
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Aug 25, 2010
I had Sickipedia but had to restore phone. Now I can't get this app on the Market. Is there any solution for this?
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Nov 24, 2009
Bought some days ago my Tattoo with Android, it works perfectly, Music, email, Facebook, weather etc... but not Android Market, which stucks at Startind Download for any application / game... How to solve this ? Another question, since i do not have a wifi connection at home, is there any noobproof guide on how to install applications via PC and USB Cable ?
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Apr 7, 2009
I received a message from google saying that my game "Robotic Space Rock" was pulled from the android market after a request made by a legal firm representing an entity known as Tetris Company. My application was removed from the android market together with Blocks, Cubik, Net Tetris, Netblocks and Tetroid (6 apps in total) under claim that it violates the DMCA and more specifically trademarks and copyrighted material owned by the Tetris Company. However, none of the trademarks or copyrighted material (music, graphics and sound effects) are present in my game. Sound effects and music were created by me specifically for the game. There is no reference to the word tetris in the game. Additionally, all the game code, graphics and sound effects were created by me and published on the code site http://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid
Additionally, I am not aware of a software patent covering the game mechanics of Tetris, so I cannot see how I could violate something that is not protected by a software patent. Also, even if the game was protected by a patent, the patent would have expired, since the original game, Tetris, was created 23 years ago. However game mechanics cannot be covered by patents.
I would also like to point out that my game is available completely free of charge to every user of the android market.
I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court.
When games were pulled from the iPhone App store, they blamed apple, but it is not hard to see that behind application removals we can find companies like the Tetris Company, that demand application removals claiming copyright infringement and trademarks. However, it is not easy to battle these companies as individual developers. I, for example, am a Greek citizen living in Greece, so it is difficult for me to file a counter-notification, because then the Tetris company will probably sue me and I will have to defend my case in court. Why should I bother? Am I making money out of the game? No! But even if I did you can see how easy it is for corporations to neutralize developers like that. I think that something should be done. Independent developers should get together to battle against such misuse of the law by corporations. And to those that want more facts, you can find more details on my blog: [url]
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Aug 7, 2010
I have a sony ericsson X10, it has a security pattern lock on the phone. However this has gone off in my pocket and now the phone is locked. I can not remember the google email address for the phone and now i can not access the phone. Orange customer service has told me to get in touch with google, in order to delete the old account [whatever that may be] but there is no number for google customer service.
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Mar 11, 2009
I have met a problem with the RIL. I am using reference ril to implement SIM PIN unlock function. When i use a pin blocked SIM card, the Android Java code through exceptions and the "rild" is repeatedly disconnected and reconnected. The at command response is correct and i suppose it is right for the reference ril to report "GENERIC FAILURE" when SIM Pin is blocked. I can not figure out the reason for the error. Can somebody help me.
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Aug 10, 2010
One of my users let the cat out of the bag and told me they were using one of my free apps, which is monetized by ads, but they were blocking the ads with an ad blocker. They told me this mockingly, as if I can't do anything about it.
Can I do something about it? Is there a way to detect that ads are being blocked?
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Mar 28, 2010
I have made an activity to take picture using Camera class and the SurfaceView, everything works good except one little thing.
The main view is blocked in landscape to show the camera correctly. I have set the camera's pref, like setPictureSize, setPreviewSize etc... using those supported from the device. And it's ok.
So, when i take the picture and just a while after the camera sound, it's showed for a while a resutl of the picture taken, but it appear stretched. Why?
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Nov 12, 2010
what is the app that shows the info of an incoming caller who has blocked their id?
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Jun 23, 2009
I want to take my daughter for a week to Con Dao Vietnam. Its a beautiful island also known as Poulo Condor. For some reason its just a blur... No details at all. Why ?
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May 1, 2009
I'm using the MediaPlayer to play audio (mp3) files. I don't think I'm doing anything out of the ordinary, but, during playback, I get many (several per second) log messages like these:
05-01 09:46:20.685: WARN/AudioFlinger(554): write blocked for 47 msecs 05-01 09:46:20.785: WARN/AudioFlinger(554): write blocked for 47 msecs 05-01 09:46:20.895: WARN/AudioFlinger(554): write blocked for 49 msecs 05-01 09:46:20.985: WARN/AudioFlinger(554): write blocked for 47 msecs
I've searched all over the place for this - other people seem to experience the same thing but I can find any sort of explanation as to what it means.
Am I doing something wrong?
Also, how do I define a LogCat filter (in eclipse) to *remove*, say, all AudioFlinger messages? I can't seem to find the "not" syntax.
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Aug 6, 2010
Here is a thread example in Android SDK sample (BluetoothChat).code...
In order to destroy this thread, first to close the socket. But this thread is still running at the blocked call mmInStream.read() even mSocket.close is successfully run.
Question: How to properly destroy a thread stuck in blocked call?
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Aug 9, 2012
I have recently been experiencing problems connecting to a wifi server that I had never had problems connecting to before. Other individuals have no problems connecting to the server and I am able to connect to most other servers. I think my IP might have been blocked for some reason or another. Is there any way to change my IP or get around a blocked Ip?
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Mar 11, 2014
I am trying to fix a faulty device, which bootloop very frequently, due to a faulty kernel / audio driver. I've found the problem checking logcats, as well as logcats during the boot sequence.
How to fix the audio driver, here's the thread: [URL] ......
I would like to access ADB from this device, but I cannot get the device detected at all.
USB debugging is definitely enabled, and the device driver is also installed (Not even sure if I had to install a driver for this 2011 device in first place. Device is detected by computer without a problem).
If I type:
Code:
adb devices
The output is just: "List of devices attached" with a blank line.
If I try:
Code:
adb shell
This show up:
Code:
error: device not found
I can tell that ADB is working for another device - I had a LG-P500, and ADB is succesfully working for this phone.
The faulty device is a Creative ZEN Touch 2, but the name won't be of any support. Let's just pretend it's a generic Android device (Even thought no such Android exists) and forget about the name. The ROM installed on it (Froyo, 2.2.1) was customized by Creative, the manufacturer, since it's not a phone, just a multimedia device.
I was wondering if Creative "blocked" any access to ADB, if that's possible. I do know that Creative "does not encourage self-repair", according to the forums.
I also tried ADB wireless, I pressed the grey button that turned green, and then typed adb connect xxx.xxx.x.108 (IP). On the shell, I got the error:
Code:
unable to connect to xxx.xxx.x.108:5555
Altought I wasn't able to connect wirelessly to ADB using my LG phone, neither.
On the ZEN Touch 2, I found the file default.prop, which contain this:
Code:
#
# ADDITIONAL_DEFAULT_PROPERTIES
#
ro.secure=1
ro.allow.mock.location=0
ro.debuggable=0
persist.service.adb.enable=0
What the default.prop file is about, but I was wondering if the line "persist.service.adb.enable" being equal to 0 / false, could block the access to ADB shell, in some way (if that's possible). I've read that this file is hard to modify, other than flash a new boot image.
What could I do to access ADB on this device ? Yes, the device is rooted.
I have access to a Linux operating system, if that can make the detection easier. Although I do not have ADB installed on this OS, yet.
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Jul 5, 2010
I've had a couple friends tell me their phone would not allow them to text me but they can text other people, I checked through the options to see if mayb I hit a block option on accident or something but I could not find anything.. mayb I over looked something? Please help b4 my girlfriend kills me because she does not believe in wasting minutes on me.
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Jun 2, 2010
I know the EVO is coming with sprint navigation. Have they blocked Google navigation service at all? Im doing research on this phone for a friend needing an upgrade.
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Apr 21, 2010
how can i transfer my contacts from my old sim (talkmobile). This sim seems blocked on t-moble HTC desire phone as i tried to insert into HTC desire and there is no network and menu to access the phone (say contact customer service), phone gets locked. 2nd way was via bluetooth transfer to PC. My current phone is nokia 6288, i transfered contacts to PC but I cant locate them (can access only via bluetooth menu in case i want to restore them to the same phone only)
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Nov 20, 2010
I got the Backup&Restore app downloaded, but when I try to open it I get the error message: "install blocked for security, your phone is set to block installation of applications not sourced in android market." I can figure out where to change these security settings. Doesn't seem to be in phone settings or browser settings.
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Aug 17, 2012
viber in Dubai is blocked iver 3G,i have tried vpn "hotspot sheild"but still i cannot make a call.
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Jul 16, 2013
Basically new too the hold rooting phone and all that anyway I used Odin3 v1.85 too root the phone it all worked perfectly, and I was putting a theme onto my phone, and it had too reboot. and now will not get past the samsung logo ive tried litterally everything and really need an expert here who can talk me through what to do! What Ive done so far is re-rooted it with Odin pressing keys auto reboot and f. reset time, it said passed my phone still wont go passed the samsung screen, ive pressed home key, off key, and voume up and cleared and wiped everything and nothing has happend, and ive done the same pressing the down volume key and done more odin work on there. Nothing seems to be working.
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Jul 29, 2013
is there a way to know the latest few ads/IPs blocked with crossbreeder?
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Sep 3, 2012
I use GO Dialer and GO Contacts EX.Call receiving screen looks like stock.I had a call from friend, he wasn't saved in contacts yet. When he was calling and i went to pick the call i think i pressed something because question popup saying something like "Do you want to block something? Yes/No".I think i pressed "No" but now my friend can't call me. Phone does not respond, like no call is being done, only for that one number. Also i don't have him in my calls history.
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Jul 13, 2010
I read that hulu is blocked on our phones, and someone said to try netflix instead. Well, I have a netflix account and it sounded like a great way to stream something for the kids when we're stuck waiting.Am I missing something? Has anyone gotten either of these to stream on their droid?I'm rooted and running BB v0.4 if that makes any difference.
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Apr 12, 2013
I'm rooted in a galaxy note 2 and am fed up of certain sites being blocked because they're behind an adfly site and similar. I don't have any ad blockers and have read is because of the host file. I can't seem to edit or delete it. How to edit system/ect/hosts file?
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Feb 9, 2014
My brother bring me a Motorola Razr D1 (XT914) and in someway the "SIM CARD SLOT" is "BLOCKED", i has been using many android devices and is the first time that i see that!...
My brother say this happend when he imput the SIM CODE wrong many times and eventualy the SIM card auto block for security reasons..The strange thing is the phone seems to be "BLOCKED" too because i put another SIM from the same carrier and the problem persist.
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Feb 12, 2014
My Galaxy S3 suddenly blocked my access to reddit. I originally thought this was down to AdFree (for some reason) blocking it, so I have uninstalled that but it made no difference. I also noticed today that when I tried to follow someones link to a buzzfeed page that it was also blocked. Now these are some oddly specific blocks so I have a feeling that my phone may be hacked or downloaded something it shouldn't.
the culprit that is blocking my access? Will I have to format my device and start fresh?I used to browse reddit daily but its been a few weeks now....
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Feb 1, 2013
i port/cook roms and i have a restricted access to my pc due to which i sometimes have to use my phone to upload files to dropbox but due to multiple downloads my account gets blocked for public access. I wanted to ask that if I put all my roms in a folder and share a link to that folder to my rom users,then will my account still get blocked for heavy traffic?
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