Some of the apps are not available in market for various reasons (e.g., swype, brut google maps, etc). However, they are widely available on sharing sites (hotfile, rapidshare, etc). The question: How can we ensure safety when installing apk from unofficial sources? What preliminary things can be done to ensure the app has not been tinkered?
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I just noticed a OTA update (1.47.651.1) but I have Unrevoked installed on my phone for use with the Wireless Tether app.. Is it safe to apply this update or will it mess up the Unrevoked/Superuser access?
View 10 Replies View RelatedAs we all know, the Hero was released with a battery drainage issue. After successfully following the instructions on how to circumvent the issue,I kind of had a feeling like I should be careful on which apps to download so as to not undo the workaround. (It did eventually happen but I have had to factory reset my Hero only once since then.) That being said, is it now safe to download apps willie nillie?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm hearing FRG22 is officially in the airwaves, I'm wondering is it okay to install FRG22 if someone already has FRG01B?
View 8 Replies View RelatedIs it safe to download and install any Android apps that are available on the Internet? Or are there recommended 'safe downloading' practices which I should follow?
View 6 Replies View RelatedAfter successfully installing the 2.1 leak, is it safe to remove the zip file from the SD card to clean up space?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi am saurav mukherjee n i am working on a g1 mobile on android. there is a dialog box appearing for upgrading the os to 1.5. i jus wanted to know if anybody has done the same and is it safe (ie if the 1.5 os version is stable)?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI use a single static class in my code that defines a static field which I'm reusing between Activity onStop/onStart invocations. Here's a scenario:
User clicks on "Authorize" button (static data is initialized) Activity is stopped and web browser is called
Browser executes callback and Activity is restored (static data is reused)
At least one of my users reports the failure at step 3 which I cannot reproduce but which looks like reset of static data.
This procedure can clear a large number of problems and should be tried before a Hard Reset.
1.) Turn phone off remove battery WAIT for at least two minutes.
2.) Power On Phone while Holding MENU key Until ALL actions finish from Powering on phone At the bottom left corner of the display in transparent text will be the words "Safe Mode"
3.) Power off phone again battery out wait two minutes
4.) do a normal power on
i just got the 2.1 update this morning and was cleaning up a few unused apps and i came across launcher. I couldn't believe I still had it on here (been using sweeterhome) and so i remembered i had to go into safe mode to remove it. Tried to get into safe mode no luck. thought, ok, i'm missing a step or something. looked up the directions to make sure i was doing each step correctly and still nothing! i've held the power button and the menu button (keyboard) down at the same time until i saw the eye, until after the haptic then major vibration. i tried holding the menu and power, then releasing the power while still holding menu until both things i just stated and still nothing! what is happening is after I hold the buttons until after the vibration one of two things happens,it will go back to the screen that spells out droid then the eye or it will load normally, no safe mode on the screen. i read somewhere doing a google search that someone else had this same experience and asked for help and no one replied.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHas anyone else used the Safe NeighborHood App? It lets you do a sexual predator search based on current location or you can search an address. I use it randomly while I travel, sometimes it's downright scary.
View 2 Replies View Relatedare there some smarties here that can confirm that PDAnet is safe / secure and doesn't have spyware / adware type capabilities? The reason I ask is because i'll be using it to tether to my laptop. When installing on the laptop...certificate warnings pop up.. the same when installing on droid. (USB debugging warning comes up saying it has to be turned off) which basically means data can be transferred wherever.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIve been wanting to download a couple apps that im not so sure about...theyre on the offical market place.. im afraid of getting a virus or malware or something like that...i really cherish my phone and i just wanna be sure that downloading an app from the offical marketplace wont bring harm...so they're certificate for apps and such.. do they filter out harmful apps? am i being too cautious? are the apps on the offical marketplace 100% safe and "virus/malware etc" free
View 26 Replies View RelatedWhat is the best photo and video safe? Is there one program that can address both photos and video? Also is there a program that allows you to create folders?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm adding a new contact using the 2.0 Contacts Contract APIs and I was just wondering if this is a safe way to get the "My Contacts" group to set the group membership for my new contact. Or is there a better more standard way to get it? I'm using the literal string "System Group: My Contacts" when I query the Groups table to get the source row for the My Contacts group. I found this constant by poking around in the debugger, but It's not documented anywhere that I could find, so I don't know if it's the right thing to use. Is there an actual constant somewhere that I should be using to find the "My Contacts" group? Code...
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'd like to let the user take a picture using the camera, then use it in my app. Ideally I could use the built-in camera app via an intent for this.is the only reliable option to use the 192x256 memory-only image supplied by the camera intent? The following seems to not work:
1) Asking the camera intent to write a 'full size' image to disk.
2) Writing your own camera app (issues on different devices etc).
The Facebook app seems to use the memory-only 192x256 option, probably because that's the only safe option. Anyone else have different opinions / experiences?
Is the SQLiteDatabase thread-safe?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've just installed Swiftkey and am now worrying about letting it know all my passwords! A lot of people seem to use it, is it safe?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAs I read at many places this phrase "the Android UI toolkit is not thread-safe"
Why is that,just I want to understand .....
I write Android apps, distributed via the Market. A user has written asking whether they can have the raw .apk of one app (they're in a country where the Market isn't available).
Is it safe to do this, or do I risk getting ripped off in some way - having my app copied and redistributed, for example?
Whats safe to kill with Taskiller? Did not realize there was so much running. If I kill things can I just manually start them up when needed? Would I still receive email/messages? I see the things highlighted in white does use any power, just yellow needs looking into.
View 10 Replies View RelatedThis is my device: Irulu 7 inch tablet. CPU Processor: Allwinner A13 1.2 GHZ +GPU Mali 400 MP Operating System: Google Android 4.0.3 ICE Cream Sandwich
The tablet comes with a 5 v. 2000 mA ac charger designed to plug into a separate charging port on the unit. I have a second charger (5 v. 1200 mA) that is designed for usb charging. Can I safely use this second charger to charge through the tablet's micro usb host port?
I have an email wanting to localise an APK. But I have to email him/ her a signed APK. Is that safe, I mean can they access my merchant account or something horrible like that if they get my key store?
View 5 Replies View RelatedPersonal info, Personal photos, viruses, stolen phone, etc. What applications if any do I need to keep me safe? The simpler the better.
View 8 Replies View RelatedFor those of you who don't know...this is how you can boot your incredible into safe mode (newer version). 1 start your phone wait for the white screen 2 hold down your volume down button with one thumb and use your other thumb to press the circular button and the menu button at the same time. 3 hold this until your phone buzzes (then its ok to release the buttons) 4 you phone will start in safe mode...you will see "safe mode" in the lower corner.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs the BitmapFactory.decodeStream method thread safe?
View 2 Replies View RelatedFor the next version of our application, I want to change the sharedUserId since we now use an internal control dashboard app which must write to the other app's settings files.But since the app is already installed on many phones, will this be a problem? I ran a little test on the emulator, and I'm seeing exceptions in the device logs that *.bak versions of the preference files cannot be written. Not sure how critical that is. Curiously, safing settings still seems to work, even though the shared_prefs folder had been created using another Linux user ID.Did anyone try this before?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using a timer which needs context..
Now i have the following code ...
Is this safe to use , or may i be leaking the context here?
btw. this is in a broadcastreceiver.
Let me give you the scenario.
Say that my first Activity that loads up, also creates a thread, which will run indefinitely in the background.
Now, if I move to another Activity, I assume that the thread that I initially created in the main activity will continue to run.
So, now to my main question - in order to manage this background thread from other Activities, is it safe to store a reference to that thread in a singleton object?
Suppose my activity ui-thread spawns a separate thread at some point. Is it safe for that new thread to fire off an Intent for launching a new activity?
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