General :: How Do Apps Determine If Device Is Rooted / Modified
Dec 18, 2012
I'm asking this because HBO Nordic which recently became available in Scandinavia won't allow me to use my rooted ASUS TF101 for streaming. The HBO Nordic app says "Service is not available on this device because it has been modified."
I'm thinking one of two options might work:
1. Revoke one or more permissions
2. Modify build.prop
Permissions list can be seen here: [URL] .....
I should add that HBO Nordic works on my Galaxy Nexus which is currently unrooted but has an unlocked bootloader.
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Jul 9, 2009
My app has a certain piece of functionality that will only work on a device where root is available. Rather than having this feature fail when it is used (and then show an appropriate error message to the user), I'd prefer an ability to silently check if root is available first, and if not,hide the respective options in the first place.
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Dec 4, 2013
I am trying to update my phone's software up to 4.2 but it says "not possible because the device is modified" is it normal or is it my phone? GT-S5310
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Sep 6, 2010
Is there a way to determine what apps are currently installed on an android device? I guess reading /data/app directory doesn't do the trick (access denied).
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Mar 26, 2013
When I get handed a new and previously unknown Android device (typically from a minor player), is there a way to figure out which components it is made of, such as the SoC, the flash chip, the RAM type etc. (Assuming noone else has posted the info of cause)?
In other words are there any tools (other than a screwdriver) for finding this out directly from the device, preferably without rooting (as some of this info may be needed to pick a rooting method...)?
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Mar 13, 2014
I'm getting this error when trying to update my system on my Samsung Galaxy Grand GT-I9082.
My current version is 4.1.2 and I want to update to 4.2.2, but I keep getting that error. I tried wiping the cache. My device has never been rooted. I bought my phone new and packaged and I did not root it. The status says that it's custom and I can't figure out how to solve this. I've read around that removing the SD card and updating works, but I don't have a SD card in my phone.I go to the Settings -> About Device -> Software Update -> Update.
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Jan 24, 2014
I have a rooted mytouch 4g slide phone that seems to work fine but when I try to use certain apps that require root (for example "extended power menu") it doesn't work. here is a quick video : [URL]
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Jun 19, 2010
I have a need to classify the device on first run to set some default settings for my games. This is my first time doing this and I've already hit some snags as to how to handle such a thing.
Basically I want to figure out if I can run the game with full quality everything on, which would be for the following phones: Nexus One Droid Incredible EVO X10 Maybe devour, haven't tested Any other snapdragon or cortex/pvr device
Everything else with a GPU gets low quality settings Anything without a GPU gets low quality plus a warning saying that the game will not perform adequately on their device
Ideally, I would retrieve some information like:
CPU = MSM7200, MSM7600, CortexA8, etc.. GPU = MSM7200, PVRSGX530, etc.. - OR - CPU speed = 378Mhz or 600Mhz, or 1000Mhz GPU max = GLES 2.0 or GLES 1.1, etc
but of course that's not really available as I only have a few pieces of information in android.os.Build, which mostly are:
Build.BOARD (IE trout) Build.DEVICE (IE dream) Build.MODEL (IE T-Mobile G1) and then whatever is in /proc/cpuinfo which I could fetch easily through either Java or native.
Examples on the end.
So here are the 3 approaches I was hoping to try:
1) Benchmarking - Run a simple test for 2 seconds and ballpark the raw cpu power from that. Pros - easy to implement, fairly reliable Cons - If it happens to run during a high-load moment on the phone (which can last for several seconds) it will be very far off and will misclassify devices. 2) Use a really big list of DEVICE or MODEL names and check against that list. Pros - It'll work Cons - The list is already over 60 entries and is growing at an incredible rate. It would be very hard to keep it current and keep all the variants straight 3) Pull some raw info out of linux and use that. Pros - Most detailed info available Cons - Can't find things like raw CPU Mhz, OpenGL version support, etc..
cpuinfo for a G1:
Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 2 (v6l) BogoMIPS : 245.36 Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp java CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 6TEJ CPU variant : 0x1 CPU part : 0xb36 CPU revision : 2
Hardware : trout Revision : 0080 Serial : 0000000000000000
cpuinfo for a Nexus One:
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 162.54 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon CPU implementer : 0x51 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0x00f CPU revision : 2
Hardware : mahimahi Revision : 0081 Serial : 0000000000000000
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Jul 7, 2010
Can anyone help me with calculating the speed of Android Device. how to determine the speed with which device is moving.
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Jun 16, 2009
How to distinguish Android is first run or not after booting device?
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Apr 27, 2010
What is the easiest way to find out how fast the Android device is traveling?
Also, is there a way to register an intent for speed? Example: intent if the device goes more than 20 miles an hour.
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Aug 28, 2012
About a week ago i rooted my kindle fire with the teamwin twrp and flashed the eyecandy ROM. now when i wanted to add something that was 800 MB to my kindle (a game), it says all of my memory is taken up. i have 1 GB of songs and 1 GB of backups. What is taking up all of my memory and how can i remove it?
PS I only have 5 GB available and 4.5 are taken up
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Jan 16, 2013
I have recently acquired the note 2 but when I am trying to access SkyGo its bringing up an error message sating ' skygo is not supported on rooted Android devices'.
Mod edit: I modified the title to make it clearer as this is not device-specific.
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Jan 8, 2014
My provider has an app to watch tv on our mobile but not on rooted devices , is there a way to go around this ? The app is called tv overall.
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Sep 16, 2012
How do I get a rooted rom on to a device for flashing of windows
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Feb 11, 2014
There is a TV channel which have just released an android app to watch shows.
[URL]
The sad thing is an error pops up when I try to stream videos saying it won't work on a rooted device(which my Note 2 is). I tried following the guide for HBO nordic [URL] but I couldn't find the function that would be similar to checkRoot() . how to find it?
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Sep 6, 2013
I downloaded Eternity Warriors 2, started playing, then when I decided to play online, I can't play PVP because my device is rooted. I've tried a bunch of apps that hide root, or temporarily unroot, and this game somehow can still see it. All I can find online is Glu Mobile is doing this cuz they think a rooted device is capable of hacking their game.....even though it's server sided. Any way to bypass this, or hide my root from this game?
LG Nexus 4 cyanogenmod 10.1
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Aug 26, 2013
How to move an app to system/app if the gadget is not rooted ? My phone has android version 4.0.4 ICS but its not rooted because the gadget is in warranty. So i want to move some apps to system/app. So can i do it ?? if i can then how to do it ?
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Mar 13, 2014
Puzzles and dragons on a custom rom. So far, the game crashes on my phone. I'm running Android revolution 52.0 on my HTC One.
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Jul 25, 2013
I have a Nexus 7 running 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, with an unlocked boot loader and rooted. Since the 4.3 versions are now officially out, I was wondering how I would update. Is there any special process? Can I just use the normal OTA update service built-in? Will doing that lose my root and unlock? If possible, I'd prefer the most risk-free method, as I don't want to mess up my Nexus.
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May 7, 2013
I recently moved and had the opportunity to view my TV-channels on my phone. However it is required to have a device who is not rooted, and I don't really want to unroot just to view tv on my phone.
Any small program, script etc. which can tell the app that the phone is unrooted, even though it is rooted? My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, running stock unlocked and unrooted JB yakju 4.2.2.
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Jan 10, 2014
I have a T-Mobile prism phone that has been successfully rooted with Lingo app android software. The version of the android app is as follows.
Android version 4.1.1
Mobile model Prism II
jbed 1.2 for Android
Libjbedvm.so installed in /system/lib. Rw Rw Rw
I installed Jbed successfully and rebooted prior to starting it. I keep getting the following error.
Unfortunately, java has stopped.
How do I resolve this issue? What java app can I download and from where to test it? I assume that the app must me a jar file to test it?
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Dec 5, 2013
I have several android tablets, all but one (at this moment) are rooted. I am not interested in putting a custom rom on them at the moment (mainly because not all functions -like camera- are working on all devices) but I would like the ability to do a Nandroid backup that seems to be only available with custom roms. On one device I can't unlock the bootloader (Azpen A701), don't know about the unrooted one at this time (brand new Hisense Sero 7 pro).
Is there a way to add CWM to a rooted stock android (only root applied and associated superuser/busybox apps installed)? What are the requirements (unlocked bootloader?)? Where to get said CWM and how to install it?
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Mar 27, 2014
Let me just start with that im new to rooting.So i have lost my root permission on my LG G2 but device is still rooted. I think it might be because i uninstalled superuser app. How to get root permission back?
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Dec 30, 2013
I have xperia s (st25a) phone with android 4.0.4.
I already have rooted it (SU installed) and bootloader unlocked. Fastboot reports the correct version "5".
However, when I try to install TWRP, it gives the following error:
>fastboot.exe flash boot stock-6.1.A.0.452-twrp-2.4.0.0.elf
sending 'boot' (8124 KB)...
FAILED (remote: The Device must be rooted first)
Why does TWRP think it's not rooted? I have setup SU to grant every root request too!
Another issue - when I try to enter recovery with stock image, my phone gets stuck on boot with Sony logo and I have to remove battery to shut it down. Why wouldn't stock recovery work?
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Aug 16, 2013
i recently discover that i couldn't install google play services on my phone.when i try to install them it loads up to the end and when it says "Installing..." the following message appears:
"Incompatible with other application(s) using the same shared user ID"
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Oct 4, 2013
After sending my tablet to a maintenance service I need to verify if the current ROM is not modified and injected malware.How to do it?Anyway to check the checksum of something like that?
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Sep 30, 2013
I modified the resources for a Google app - Keep. Resigning the APK doesn't work, because it breaks access to Google Drive API, but just replacing resources.arsc in the device (I have root access - CM10.1) with rebuilt one worked. The result works fine, however after day or so Keep is uninstalled from device automatically. I guess that's because the signature of resources.arsc is obviously broken. But is there a way to avoid this automatic uninstall?
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Aug 5, 2012
Downloaded worldpay.apk available from their site. I have a rooted sanei n10 and updated ICS os. Anytime I try and open app it says ' the operating system of this device has been modified. Due to credit card security measures this app has been disabled' or a message very similar to this. I know some people had similar issue with barclaycard pingit but the fix for that doesn't work in this case. Ie install superSU, uninstall superuser, install hide my root. Hide my root always fails to hide su binary and says there is no su app to hide.
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Jul 14, 2013
When making an image I accidentally had Clockworkmod image be saved to the device itself instead of being saved to the external SD card.
I am able to browse to it using Root Explorer and select to Copy it, but how do I PASTE it onto the external SD card when Root Explorer only accesses the device directory and not the external SD card?
Quick 2nd question: I know on some previous devices such as the Galaxy S 4G you were *not* supposed to run Clockworkmod after booting in and from the Apps Drawer, instead you were only supposed to run directly from the startup screen before booting in. Is it OK to actually start the Clockwork Backup/Restore process from the Apps Drawer of the Galaxy S4 and let it reboot and do its thing or is it only supposed to be run BEFORE booting in?
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