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Possible malicious program?

I just got a text message from T-mobile: "Free T-Mobile Msg: Your data usage in this billing cycle has exceeded 10 GB;Data throughput for the remainder of the cycle may be reduced to 50 kbps or less"
I heavily use the internet capabilities on this phone, but I've never exceeded 1.5 GB in the months were I've looked at my usage, so I guessed that something was going on that I didn't know about.
The first thing I did was check data usage on T-Mobile's website. Stretching as far back as the usage history goes (7/28), I'm seeing fairly large chunks of data usage, even in the middle of the night when I'm certainly not using the phone. ex:
07/28/09 05:21 AM 8.6367
07/28/09 05:16 AM 29.3007
07/28/09 05:12 AM 9.7666
07/28/09 03:12 AM 8.6728
07/28/09 03:01 AM 39.0654
07/28/09 01:01 AM 8.6533
07/28/09 12:53 AM 39.0654
Something is either malicious or has a serious bug.
I'm not quite sure how to debug this. I've switched it over to my wifi network. I think I can install tcpdump on my router and at least see what the phone is sending and where.
Has anyone had a similar problem? Check your data usage on T-mobile's website. I don't know how long this has been going on before it managed to trip their 10 GB threshold.
Here is a list of the installed programs on my system. If anyone can check their usage and tell me that they have x program and definitely aren't having any problems, that would be helpful.
JF ADP 1.5 ROM as the base
/data/app:
android.game.doom.apk
com.akproduction.notepad.apk
com.alex.PodcastManager.apk
com.alfray.bearing.apk
com.amazon.mp3.apk
com.android.BetterBookmarks.apk
com.android.wallpapersetandsave.apk
com.androidemu.snes.apk
com.ap.DroidFtp.apk
com.app.webcamwidgetca.apk
com.appdroid.anycut.apk
com.appdroid.videoplayer.apk
com.aws.android.apk
com.bg.smsbk.apk
com.bigtincan.android.adfree.apk
com.billnapier.android.livebookmarks.apk
com.compareeverywhere.apk
com.cooolmagic.android.toggle5.apk
com.deafcode.android.Cinema.apk
com.deafcode.android.Orienteer.apk
com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2.apk
com.eri.widget.binaryclock.apk
com.estrongs.android.pop.apk
com.farproc.wifi.analyzer.apk
com.flashcup.apk
com.g3.android.widgets.sdcardm.apk
com.google.android.apps.maps.apk
com.google.android.maps.mytracks.apk
com.htc.pdfreader.apk
com.isaacwaller.youtubedownloader.apk
com.lindaandny.lindamanager.apk
com.mibollma.wakemeR1.apk
com.nextmobileweb.quickpedia.apk
com.paxmodept.palringo.android.main.apk
com.roundedlabs.widgets.Brightness.apk
com.roundedlabs.widgets.Ringer.apk
com.roundedlabs.widgets.Wifi.apk
com.roundedlabs.widgets.bluetooth.apk
com.schwimmer.android.mmsextract.apk
com.schwimmer.android.togglebluetooth.apk
com.schwimmer.android.togglebright.apk
com.schwimmer.android.togglegps.apk
com.schwimmer.android.togglewifi.apk
com.shazam.android.apk
com.streamfurious.android.free.apk
com.taskManager.rootTaskManager.apk
com.tmobile.selfhelp.apk
com.tni.TasKiller.apk
de.android_telefonie.appmanager.apk
droidsans.android.DroidSansTweakToolsLite.apk
fm.last.android.apk
info.marcelp.android.locmark.apk
jp.co.taosoftware.android.widget.calendar.apk
jp.co.webimpact.ty.darairc.apk
lysesoft.andexplorer.apk
net.androidcomics.acv.apk
net.ser1.timetracker.apk
nl.jsource.retroclock.android.apk
nl.rogro.GScript.apk
nl.rogro.GScriptLite.apk
org.connectbot.apk
org.microemu.android.Browser.apk
org.rabold.android.wifibuddy.apk
rip.android.GlImageView.apk
tw.mawa.jasoncheng.aNetShare.apk
/data/app-private:
com.agilesoftresource.apk
com.ap.SnapPhoto_Pro.apk
I would also guess that with this being the first month to trip 10 GB that it is something that got installed last month (and possibly updated at some point), so I'm a little more suspicious of those. Here are the programs with modify dates from July and August:
Jul 28 23:39 com.akproduction.notepad.apk
Jul 26 13:47 com.alfray.bearing.apk
Jul 22 20:48 com.app.webcamwidgetca.apk
Jul 15 00:03 com.billnapier.android.livebookmarks.apk
Jul 22 20:44 com.google.android.apps.maps.apk
Jul 18 15:12 com.google.android.maps.mytracks.apk
Jul 3 13:05 com.shazam.android.apk
Jul 10 19:26 jp.co.taosoftware.android.widget.calendar.apk
Jul 17 00:12 net.androidcomics.acv.apk
Jul 1 00:00 org.connectbot.apk
Aug 1 16:56 com.androidemu.snes.apk
Aug 14 01:21 com.ap.SnapPhoto_Pro.zip
Aug 5 17:50 com.bg.smsbk.apk
Aug 14 11:58 com.bigtincan.android.adfree.apk
Aug 14 11:58 com.estrongs.android.pop.apk
Aug 14 01:20 com.farproc.wifi.analyzer.apk
Aug 5 04:00 com.streamfurious.android.free.apk
Aug 14 01:23 com.tmobile.selfhelp.apk
Aug 5 17:49 com.tni.TasKiller.apk
Aug 12 01:15 de.android_telefonie.appmanager.apk
Aug 5 13:44 fm.last.android.apk
Aug 5 22:23 jp.co.webimpact.ty.darairc.apk
Aug 6 03:41 lysesoft.andexplorer.apk
Aug 9 20:03 org.rabold.android.wifibuddy.apk

Why dont you try using the spare parts app and seeing what in network is using up the most battery? that could probably tell you whats using the most data. Also try installing droid wall and setting it to use only apps that you want to access data

Ahh, I hadn't really looked at spare parts beyond turning on the maps compass.
Battery History / Network usage shows Media as a major hog with 1,451,82,439 bytes received since last boot. Last boot time was mid-day last Friday.
"Packages sharing this UID:
Camera
DRM Protected Content Storage
Download Manager
Media Storage"
Hmm, all of those sound like Google packages. Not sure what to think here.

Download manager is probably the one.
Are you sure you are using JFADP1.5 and not JFtmobile1.5? The latter will continuously try to download OTA updates and repeatedly fail, which would account for the data usage.
tiberiumx said:
Ahh, I hadn't really looked at spare parts beyond turning on the maps compass.
Battery History / Network usage shows Media as a major hog with 1,451,82,439 bytes received since last boot. Last boot time was mid-day last Friday.
"Packages sharing this UID:
Camera
DRM Protected Content Storage
Download Manager
Media Storage"
Hmm, all of those sound like Google packages. Not sure what to think here.
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Settings->About Phone shows Model number as "Android Dev Phone 1", and I install JF1.5 as soon as it was available (I think the t-mobile one came later).
How does the JF rom avoid downloading the updates?
I have the adblock program, which modifies /etc/hosts. Maybe JF was intended to block this function via the hosts file but that got overwritten?
Did T-Mobile release an update last month?

Okay, so I found a tcpdump binary for Android and ran it on my phone last night.
Looks like all of the traffic is due to the downloading of an update.
I see several HTTP GETs to android.clients.google.com:
"GET /updates/signed-kila-ota-150275.53dde318.zip HTTP/1.1\r\n
Host: android.clients.google.com\r\n
User-Agent: AndroidDownloadManager\r\n"
I checked out the JF1.5 update.zip and saw an empty hosts file, so this isn't how it avoids updating. This also wouldn't be a good idea -- and cannot be the solution to my problem -- because it also appears to sync email/etc from this server (I see fairly frequent SSL connections opened to this host).
How would it normally refrain from downloading the update with JF1.5?
Any ideas on how to fix this?
The update downloads to /cache/update.zip, correct? Perhaps I could just create a root-owned read-only update.zip in /cache and it would fail with a "cannot open file" error when it tried to write.

There is a trick to this...
not finding it right now but I know there's something fairly easy you can do to keep this issue from occurring. I'll dig deeper.

tiberiumx said:
Settings->About Phone shows Model number as "Android Dev Phone 1", and I install JF1.5 as soon as it was available (I think the t-mobile one came later).
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That doesn't mean anything.

tiberiumx said:
Okay, so I found a tcpdump binary for Android and ran it on my phone last night.
Looks like all of the traffic is due to the downloading of an update.
I see several HTTP GETs to android.clients.google.com:
"GET /updates/signed-kila-ota-150275.53dde318.zip HTTP/1.1\r\n
Host: android.clients.google.com\r\n
User-Agent: AndroidDownloadManager\r\n"
I checked out the JF1.5 update.zip and saw an empty hosts file, so this isn't how it avoids updating. This also wouldn't be a good idea -- and cannot be the solution to my problem -- because it also appears to sync email/etc from this server (I see fairly frequent SSL connections opened to this host).
How would it normally refrain from downloading the update with JF1.5?
Any ideas on how to fix this?
The update downloads to /cache/update.zip, correct? Perhaps I could just create a root-owned read-only update.zip in /cache and it would fail with a "cannot open file" error when it tried to write.
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As I said before, you have tmobile software installed and it is continually downloading updates.

tiberiumx,
This is a known issue with some JF 1.5 ROMs. Here are some fixes from JF's android blog at http://jf.andblogs.net/:
1. delete the otacerts.zip file manually. The file is at /system/etc/security/otacerts.zip But keep in mind if you use this method your phone will continuously re-down the OTA and try to verify it, which is bad on your bandwidth usage and your battery life
2. Replace /system/build.prop on your phone with the one from the ADP1 version of JFv1.51
3. chmod 000 the OTA file in /cache (unconfirmed solution, but is likely to work)

tiberiumx said:
Okay, so I found a tcpdump binary for Android and ran it on my phone last night.
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Hi,
I'm looking for a tcpdump for android: can you tell me where you have found it?
Thanks
Louis

HTC Stocks currency problem

The HTC Stocks app has the best widget of all other currency apps, so I was using it on my 1.5 Hero for displaying the EURO/GBP (EURGBP=X) rate.
After the 2.1 rom update I have a strange problem. When I try to add a new ticker for "eurgbp=x", I get the error message: "Unable to recognize the company name or stock symbol you typed. Please try again." However, this worked in the past like a charm. I have to note that adding "gbp=x" or "usd=x" works fine, with no problem at all.
Maybe this problem is related to an updated version of the Stocks app in the new rom. Is anyone experiencing the same problem? I haven't found a similar thread for a Sense Android phone. The same problem exists in the latest rom of HD2, but people have figured a work-around, by changing a file under "Application Data\HTC\", but this file doesn't exist on Android.
Any help would be more than welcome!

I experience the same problem (although I'm on VillainRom12). Previously adding currencies (EURUSD=X etc) was working, but right now I am unable to find it. This could be HTC problem as it was working fine on 1.5, but this could be also some Yahoo search glitch (I am unable to search for that quotes on mobile version of the Yahoo Finance page, while the desktop version works fine). The only workaround to that was to edit manually SQLite database of Stocks application (but this may require root - I can provide details if necessary). Once I added appropriate entries to the list of stocks, it seems to be working fine (it is displaying my currencies, but the search still does not work).
One other deficiency I found was the fact that graphs are not cached anymore - If I open the application and check for example a daily graph, I need to update it in order to see any chart - each time, even if I switch from 1D to 5D and back. It is also automatically updated each time I visit given tab, if I enable the automatic updates. Previously this app displayed previously cached graph. I'm not sure whether this happens also on stock 2.1 ROM.

Now that you mention it, I have the same problem with the graphs in the 2.1, too. It worked (showed the cashed graph) in the 1.5, but not any more. Blank graph until it updates.
Can you provide me some guidance about how to edit the Stocks' database? At least a link to something similar would be much appreciated. Can I access the phone's system folder without rooting it, through my PC (Win, Linux, whatever)?

eeVoskos said:
Can you provide me some guidance about how to edit the Stocks' database? At least a link to something similar would be much appreciated. Can I access the phone's system folder without rooting it, through my PC (Win, Linux, whatever)?
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I'm new in the business, so I'm not sure if the root is necessary. You can try it, anyway to see if you will be able to push and pull files from the directory where Stocks stores its database.
Here's what I did:
Enable USB Debugging in Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB Debugging
Download Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
In command line go to subdirectory tools of Android SDK
Close Stocks app and remove Stocks widget from the screen
Connect Phone via USB
... (Beginning of the optional part) ...
Go to Android shell
Code:
adb shell
List any processes to see if there's a com.htc.android.Stock process (like in this case)...
Code:
ps | grep Stock
7605 10007 130m S com.htc.android.Stock
7619 0 2156 S grep Stock
Kill any Stock processes (using the value in the first column):
Code:
kill 7605
Exit to command line
Code:
exit
... (End of the optional part) ...
Pull the Stock database:
Code:
adb pull /data/data/com.htc.dcs.service.stock/databases/stock.db stock.db
Sample output:
Code:
d:\Projects\Android\tools>adb pull /data/data/com.htc.dcs.service.stock/databases/stock.db stock.db
568 KB/s (5120 bytes in 0.008s)
Backup, just in case:
Code:
copy stock.db stock_backup.db
Run sqlite3
Code:
sqlite3 stock.db
Enable headers in sqlite:
Code:
.headers on
List contents of quotes table:
Code:
select * from quotes;
Sample output:
Code:
sqlite> select * from quotes;
_id|_name|_symbol|_price|_change|_percent|_open|_high|_low|_volume|_link|_type|_sequence|_updatetime
2|CHF/PLN|CHFPLN=X|3.08299994468689|0.0116999996826053|0.381900012493134|3.07209992408752|3.08550000190735|3.07010006904602|0|http://m.yahoo.com/htcwf/search?p=CHFPLN=X||0.0|1278490511305
3|USD/PLN|USDPLN=X|3.27649998664856|0.0200999993830919|0.617200016975403|3.25550007820129|3.27959990501404|3.24499988555908|0|http://m.yahoo.com/htcwf/search?p=USDPLN=X||100.0|1278490511305
4|EUR/PLN|EURPLN=X|4.1217999458313|0.0151000004261732|0.367700010538101|4.11250019073486|4.12349987030029|4.10799980163574|0|http://m.yahoo.com/htcwf/search?p=EURPLN=X||200.0|1278490511305
5|EUR/USD|EURUSD=X|1.25789999961853|-0.00469999993219972|-0.376199990510941|1.26170003414154|1.26259994506836|1.25689995288849|0|http://m.yahoo.com/htcwf/search?p=EURUSD=X||300.0|1278490511305
6|EUR/CHF|EURCHF=X|1.33689999580383|-0.000899999984540045|-0.0710000023245811|1.33879995346069|1.33910000324249|1.33609998226166|0|http://m.yahoo.com/htcwf/search?p=EURCHF=X||400.0|1278490511305
sqlite>
Note the last _id (here 6) and add new currency with _id higher by 1 (so here, 7):
Code:
insert into quotes (_id, _name, _symbol) values (7, "EUR/GBP", "EURGBP=X");
Check if it has been added:
Code:
select * from quotes;
Sample output:
Code:
sqlite> select * from quotes;
_id|_name|_symbol|_price|_change|_percent|_open|_high|_low|_volume|_link|_type|_sequence|_updatetime
2|CHF/PLN|CHFPLN=X|3.08299994468689|0.0116999996826053|0.381900012493134|3.07209992408752|3.08550000190735|3.07010006904602|0|http://m.yahoo.com/htcwf/search?p=CHFPLN=X||0.0|1278490511305
3|USD/PLN|USDPLN=X|3.27649998664856|0.0200999993830919|0.617200016975403|3.25550007820129|3.27959990501404|3.24499988555908|0|http://m.yahoo.com/htcwf/search?p=USDPLN=X||100.0|1278490511305
4|EUR/PLN|EURPLN=X|4.1217999458313|0.0151000004261732|0.367700010538101|4.11250019073486|4.12349987030029|4.10799980163574|0|http://m.yahoo.com/htcwf/search?p=EURPLN=X||200.0|1278490511305
5|EUR/USD|EURUSD=X|1.25789999961853|-0.00469999993219972|-0.376199990510941|1.26170003414154|1.26259994506836|1.25689995288849|0|http://m.yahoo.com/htcwf/search?p=EURUSD=X||300.0|1278490511305
6|EUR/CHF|EURCHF=X|1.33689999580383|-0.000899999984540045|-0.0710000023245811|1.33879995346069|1.33910000324249|1.33609998226166|0|http://m.yahoo.com/htcwf/search?p=EURCHF=X||400.0|1278490511305
7|EUR/GBP|EURGBP=X|||||||||||
sqlite>
Quit sqlite:
Code:
.quit
Push the file back to the phone:
Code:
adb push stock.db /data/data/com.htc.dcs.service.stock/databases/stock.db
Sample output:
Code:
d:\Projects\Android\tools>adb push stock.db /data/data/com.htc.dcs.service.stock/databases/stock.db
341 KB/s (5120 bytes in 0.014s)
Restart phone.
See if that worked
I hope HTC (or Yahoo) will be able to fix that, because the above is really a long process...

Anyway, I can't make it work. Entering "ps | grep Stock" gives me a "grep: permission denied" error message. I did some searching and I believe this is what people mean by saying "you need root access", right? I'll come back when I'm rooted (i.e. when I find a decent guide for rooting 2.1).
Thanks for your time & effort man. I really appreciate it.

eeVoskos said:
Anyway, I can't make it work. Entering "ps | grep Stock" gives me a "grep: permission denied" error message.
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You can try to omit the "optional" part (steps 6-9) - the ps thing was just to make sure that Stock isn't running. But I noticed anyway that it never ran in the background when I closed it on the phone. Try to adb pull and adb push and see if you'll get any permission issues. If you do, then you indeed need a root (sorry I can't check that as I'm rooted)

A couple of days ago I updated the ROM of my HTC TD2, with the most recent one of HTC (WM6.5, Sense 2.5.20113030.0). Afterwards I noticed that I also could not get the stock app to accept the code EURUSD=X.
You mention the following
The same problem exists in the latest rom of HD2, but people have figured a work-around, by changing a file under "Application Data\HTC\", but this file doesn't exist on Android.
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Can you tell me what that work-around is or point me to it? Hopefully this can help me.
Thank you in advance.

Check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706732

eeVoskos said:
Check this thread:
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Thank you for the link (which I am not allowed to repost ).
Last Monday I wrote an e-mail to HTC about this problem and a couple of days later I got a reply. They told me they tried to search for the currency rate (eurusd) and that they got a result. So I tried again and lo and behold I got a result as well. Searching for eurusd=x gave me a result while last weekend it was not working.
So I tried several other currency rates and they all rendered a result, also eurgbp=x. Perhaps it is also fixed for the Android app.
[Extra information added below]
Tried again and nothing
I was connected with a data connection to my carrier, so I switched to my wifi connection. Tried again and... result.
So it seems to be a difference in communication between an ordinary data connection and a wifi connection. Maybe this will help someone

Wird problem. I tried it too on both UK and Greek carriers and on WiFi, but nothing. No result for either of them: "eurgbp=x", "eurgbp", "eurusd=x", "eurusd". I have been trying occasioanly more than one month now.
I think I should drop them an email too...

Why don't you do a soft (temporary) root and make the database entries as described in here? I did it and now I got all the stuff I need, and no trace of root on the device.

[Q] Nexus 10 hangs every night - something in libEGL/OpenGL?

Hi!
I have a Nexus 10 and it's been working flawlessly since I bought it, running CyanogenMod 10.1 most of the time. After I upgraded to 4.4 it started to hang, become unresponsive when being left on with screen turned off for a couple hours. Wouldn't last a night without hanging, regardless if it was being charged or not. Every time after that I had to hard reboot (press power button for longer than 8-10 seconds). This would happen on stock 4.4, stock 4.3, CM 10.2, stock kernel, francoKernel. Even on fresh install with no apps installed.
When I left it connected to USB with ADB logging, I could see that the last thing in the log before it hangs was usually something related to libEGL, GL, GL Operation, glDrawArrays.
For example:
Code:
11-23 13:08:34.250 W/System.err( 1012): java.lang.RuntimeException: GL Operation 'glDrawArrays' caused error 505!
(I found somewhere that this is GL Out of Memory error)
Code:
11-23 13:08:38.955 W/ ( 1012): GLES-MALI OOM error: execution failed (gles_fbp_read_pixels at vendor/arm/mali6xx/gles/src/fb/mali_gles_fb_read_pixels.c:693)
Code:
12-15 21:06:40.813 D/libEGL (16985): glGetIntegerv(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_BINDING_OES, (GLint *) 0x426e3be0);
12-15 21:06:40.813 D/libEGL (16985): glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, 2);
12-15 21:06:40.813 D/libEGL (16985): glGetError();
This is the latest log on CM 10.2 with OpenGL tracing in logcat (just the last part):
http://pastebin.com/6rpmfYca
The full log:
http://www61.zippyshare.com/v/5060489/file.html
This is some previous log:
http://pastebin.com/J9dNBBZS
What is causing this? What app/service is it dying in (there is MovieMaker in the log before the issue happens, but WTH?)? How can I debug this further?

_anarion_ said:
Hi!
I have a Nexus 10 and it's been working flawlessly since I bought it, running CyanogenMod 10.1 most of the time. After I upgraded to 4.4 it started to hang, become unresponsive when being left on with screen turned off for a couple hours. Wouldn't last a night without hanging, regardless if it was being charged or not. Every time after that I had to hard reboot (press power button for longer than 8-10 seconds). This would happen on stock 4.4, stock 4.3, CM 10.2, stock kernel, francoKernel. Even on fresh install with no apps installed.
When I left it connected to USB with ADB logging, I could see that the last thing in the log before it hangs was usually something related to libEGL, GL, GL Operation, glDrawArrays.
For example:
Code:
11-23 13:08:34.250 W/System.err( 1012): java.lang.RuntimeException: GL Operation 'glDrawArrays' caused error 505!
(I found somewhere that this is GL Out of Memory error)
Code:
11-23 13:08:38.955 W/ ( 1012): GLES-MALI OOM error: execution failed (gles_fbp_read_pixels at vendor/arm/mali6xx/gles/src/fb/mali_gles_fb_read_pixels.c:693)
Code:
12-15 21:06:40.813 D/libEGL (16985): glGetIntegerv(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_BINDING_OES, (GLint *) 0x426e3be0);
12-15 21:06:40.813 D/libEGL (16985): glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, 2);
12-15 21:06:40.813 D/libEGL (16985): glGetError();
This is the latest log on CM 10.2 with OpenGL tracing in logcat (just the last part):
http://pastebin.com/6rpmfYca
The full log:
http://www61.zippyshare.com/v/5060489/file.html
This is some previous log:
http://pastebin.com/J9dNBBZS
What is causing this? What app/service is it dying in (there is MovieMaker in the log before the issue happens, but WTH?)? How can I debug this further?
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I can't offer a solution, but I have the same problem. Mine started when I moved to KitKat. I thought the problem was occurring when on a charger and the charge level reached FULL. But I also have the OLD MovieMaker app loaded. I am going to uninstall it and see if that has any effect.
Have you had any luck tracking down the problem?

rlrbjr said:
I can't offer a solution, but I have the same problem. Mine started when I moved to KitKat. I thought the problem was occurring when on a charger and the charge level reached FULL. But I also have the OLD MovieMaker app loaded. I am going to uninstall it and see if that has any effect.
Have you had any luck tracking down the problem?
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Hi!
I was able to find some old threads about this aptly named Sleep of Death issue, here for example.
Unfortunately no conclusion, most people seem to return their devices :/
Now I think this is indeed some massive memory leak, becasue I was able to see ADB logs with all processes stopping, and the screen blinking with lock screen once when this happened.
As for MovieMaker, this might be misleading - I froze it in TitaniumBackup but the issue still exists.
My plan now is to write a script that would run
Code:
adb shell dumpsys meminfo
every couple seconds/minutes and plot the memory usage until the issue strikes.
I will report here if I find anything.
Best regards,
anarion

I uninstalled Movie Editor (rather than freezing it) and my system is much better (so far). I have not had a single lockup. It still too early to know if this is a god long term solution but I will keep you informed.
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk 4

Fix for constant rebooting after upgrade to 2.1.0

**TLDR** - If your shield keeps rebooting after the 2.1.0 update, unplug your ethernet cable and/or disable your wifi as a temporary fix.
I recently got a 16GB model. After the latest firmware update (to 2.1.0) I started to get constant rebooting. My first thought was to use fastboot to get back to 2.0.0 - I believe you can do this without wiping your user data, as the official images are signed with the nvidia key and I believe their bootloader would allow you to downgrade - can anyone confirm this? See https: // developer .nvidia. com/ gameworksdownload (sorry, can't link with <10 posts...) for nvidia 2.0.0 image.
However I wanted to see what was happening first. Running
Code:
$ adb logcat
...lots of output
...the system just rebooted, so let's watch the logs!
D/AndroidRuntime( 4318): Shutting down VM
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): *** FATAL EXCEPTION IN SYSTEM PROCESS: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Invalid index 0, size is 0
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at java.util.ArrayList.throwIndexOutOfBoundsException(ArrayList.java:255)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:308)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService$PMLocationListener.getCountryFromLocation(PackageManagerService.java:14375)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService$PMLocationListener.onLocationChanged(PackageManagerService.java:14282)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at android.location.LocationManager$ListenerTransport._handleMessage(LocationManager.java:281)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at android.location.LocationManager$ListenerTransport.access$000(LocationManager.java:210)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at android.location.LocationManager$ListenerTransport$1.handleMessage(LocationManager.java:226)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:104)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at com.android.server.SystemServer.run(SystemServer.java:276)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at com.android.server.SystemServer.main(SystemServer.java:177)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:903)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4318): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:698)
I/Process ( 4318): Sending signal. PID: 4318 SIG: 9
E/installd( 226): eof
E/installd( 226): failed to read size
I/installd( 226): closing connection
For those of you that don't speak stacktrace or android internals, what happened here is that something (presumably, my network state tracker noticed either an IP change or something else from my ethernet) sent a message to the internal LocationManager saying "something happened, update your location estimate". In the process of doing this LocationManager crashes, and then the entire android framework crashes in response to this critical component (system_server) crash. Then the init binary helpfully restarts everything, and in a few minutes it crashes again.
Unplugging the ethernet cable has resulted in a stable system. I haven't experienced the crash while on WiFi, but I wouldn't rule it out yet.
While I have not looked in extreme detail, my suspicion is that something about the firmware update broke google mobile services - I see an error trying to mount the data for GMS in the logs, and noticed the stacktrace above seems to be failing when the LocationManager uses the PackageManager which uses installd which then fails with some kind of file read.
Code:
E/Vold ( 206): Failed to find mounted volume for /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/com.google.android.gms/files/
W/Vold ( 206): Returning OperationFailed - no handler for errno 0
W/ContextImpl( 6163): Failed to ensure directory: /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/com.google.android.gms/files

Turning off location services seems to stop this too
I'm 100% that no ethernet stops the rebooting (got a few hours of testing and no crashes). Tried turning off location services after I saw the logs of the error, and I've had about 30 min with no crashes, so that's obviously a much more preferred way to address this issue until nvidia fixes the bug

well interesting to know about this issue.

slammertime said:
I'm 100% that no ethernet stops the rebooting (got a few hours of testing and no crashes). Tried turning off location services after I saw the logs of the error, and I've had about 30 min with no crashes, so that's obviously a much more preferred way to address this issue until nvidia fixes the bug
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Has having locations services turned off solved the random restarts for you inevitably?

Yes, it seems so

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I'm still having this issue.
Tried disabling location, changing languages, every other suggestion here and elsewhere online.. still getting reboots ~3-5 mins after the system starts, and random lockups. Only started happening post 2.1. The device is basically unusable at this point.
I'm just about to factory wipe/reinstall. Is there any other solution?

Same
grivad said:
Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I'm still having this issue.
Tried disabling location, changing languages, every other suggestion here and elsewhere online.. still getting reboots ~3-5 mins after the system starts, and random lockups. Only started happening post 2.1. The device is basically unusable at this point.
I'm just about to factory wipe/reinstall. Is there any other solution?
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I am having the same issue. Talked to support, and they told me to unpair, and reset my devices that were attached to it, and unplug the hdmi and power, and still no dice.

peppy6582 said:
I am having the same issue. Talked to support, and they told me to unpair, and reset my devices that were attached to it, and unplug the hdmi and power, and still no dice.
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I got sick of it, wiped the device, and did a fresh install of 2.1 (IIRC, whatever factory image was available a few weeks back) and applied the OTA once prompted. Zero issues since. It took some time installing and configuring everything again, but having a completely stable device made it worth it. It was unusable before, as it'd reboot every few minutes no matter what it was doing.
It looks like they have the 3.0 image up now, if you're thinking of reinstalling as well.
https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source

grivad said:
I got sick of it, wiped the device, and did a fresh install of 2.1 (IIRC, whatever factory image was available a few weeks back) and applied the OTA once prompted. Zero issues since. It took some time installing and configuring everything again, but having a completely stable device made it worth it. It was unusable before, as it'd reboot every few minutes no matter what it was doing.
It looks like they have the 3.0 image up now, if you're thinking of reinstalling as well.
https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source
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Yeah, I actually did that, with a fastboot -w after the system.img part, just to make sure.

hey guys, do you still have the problem with the random reboot?
I have the same problem with the 500gb version but I didn't root this device or whatever, it isn't even my intention to root it.
Any idea what it is?? Nvidia want to send me a new one (or refurbished item) but I have like the idea that it will not be solved if I get a new one.
I read to much people with the same problems, even on 2 links I read from someone who got a new one and the problem was still there :s
I'm a little scared to send it back , because I fear it will not be solved.
Any idea guys???

OlympicsReminder service has started!

Hello,
I've just installed Jan 2020 update (~100mb) over stock ROM and upon restarting I noticed the following text flashing briefly on screen:
Code:
OlympicsReminder service has started!
I don't recall having seen this before.
Does anyone has any information about this "OlympicsReminder service"?

I found this site here.
Maybe some new kind of broadcast system used by xiaomi
https://blog.csdn.net/zeng622peng/article/details/6129102
EDIT:
I found this repo
https://github.com/yuanyukun/IIE/bl.../java/com/horem/parachute/main/BootClass.java
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According to the AndroidManifest File here
https://github.com/yuanyukun/IIE/blob/master/app1/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
Some services by baido are used.
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https://github.com/yuanyukun/IIE/tree/master/app1/src/main/java/com/horem/parachute/task
Here PayResult and TaskPayActivity the code look like its somehow about alipay or so
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Im not pretty good at reading source of android apps. So dont think about my research to be 100% correct