Something very weird happened with my screen... - Fascinate General

So I was looking at gmail, I backed out of a message back to the conversation list when I got a pop up stating that there was trouble authenticating worth gmail and a captcha (the graphic word human tester, I think that is what you call it) box popped up. I entered the text, it failed, repeat, then on the next failure notice, the screen got static-y, and continued to get more and more static-y... White had dots of color throughout _ it looked like old uhf that was barely coming in.
Anyway, the screen became unresponsive and a reboot cleared it up, but I am very curious as to what happened and if out is likely to happen again.
Anyone heard of this?
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M00NEY said:
So I was looking at gmail, I backed out of a message back to the conversation list when I got a pop up stating that there was trouble authenticating worth gmail and a captcha (the graphic word human tester, I think that is what you call it) box popped up. I entered the text, it failed, repeat, then on the next failure notice, the screen got static-y, and continued to get more and more static-y... White had dots of color throughout _ it looked like old uhf that was barely coming in.
Anyway, the screen became unresponsive and a reboot cleared it up, but I am very curious as to what happened and if out is likely to happen again.
Anyone heard of this?
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I'll probably catch a barrage of comments for this...but I am 100% sure someone has created a virus on android...long story but I fell victim to the exact same thing the other day. Next thing I know my gmail was hacked.
edit: it kept asking me to re-enter my password. I rebooted and it was fine, I could even click ignore and view my gmail account. I got tired of it constantly popping up and did what you did...next thing I know...reboot and colors.

I got a CAPTCHA today while in Google Maps, the program was freaking out and didn't stop till I entered the CAPTCHA. Anybody else get this today?

Arixsin said:
I got a CAPTCHA today while in Google Maps, the program was freaking out and didn't stop till I entered the CAPTCHA. Anybody else get this today?
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Um yeah...same issue.

Something or someone messed with my gmail a few days ago also, I had to keep changing my password to get into gmail or the market. I then noticed that whatever it was had tried to send like 20 some spam emails to everyone in my gmail contacts which google blocked! The only odd ip I could find was somewhere in the UK? Bloody hell I say!
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Have any of you recently flashed anything, or installed any new programs? If we can find some common thread, it might make it easier to figure out what's causing it.

Jrex said:
Something or someone messed with my gmail a few days ago also, I had to keep changing my password to get into gmail or the market. I then noticed that whatever it was had tried to send like 20 some spam emails to everyone in my gmail contacts which google blocked! The only odd ip I could find was somewhere in the UK? Bloody hell I say!
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Yeah, whatever it is it keeps hasseling for email confirmation. The weird thing is you can by pass it and still access all of googles apps. But the second you punch in the password and captcha...it catches ya. Only thing I've downloaded in the past week was Gun Bros.

jenisiz said:
I'll probably catch a barrage of comments for this...but I am 100% sure someone has created a virus on android...long story but I fell victim to the exact same thing the other day. Next thing I know my gmail was hacked.
edit: it kept asking me to re-enter my password. I rebooted and it was fine, I could even click ignore and view my gmail account. I got tired of it constantly popping up and did what you did...next thing I know...reboot and colors.
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Don't know why it sounds so crazy to people, if you research even just lightly, you'll see that there IS Droid malware out already. It is like anything else that gets exploited.

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Don't know why it sounds so crazy to people, if you research even just lightly, you'll see that there IS Droid malware out already. It is like anything else that gets exploited.
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Yeah...but for some bizarre reason, people think it's impossible to get viruses on linux based kernel type systems....wrong.

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Yeah...but for some bizarre reason, people think it's impossible to get viruses on linux based kernel type systems....wrong.
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VERY wrong, and I think it is because most people do not have any experience with Linux. The average user is Windows or Mac, and only know that Linux is just another Operating System. If someone were to sit down and actually take the time and effort, they could do some very scary things to/with someone's Droid.

jenisiz said:
Yeah, whatever it is it keeps hasseling for email confirmation. The weird thing is you can by pass it and still access all of googles apps. But the second you punch in the password and captcha...it catches ya. Only thing I've downloaded in the past week was Gun Bros.
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I don't remember exactly what I had downloaded, but I do know that I kept changing my pass and within a couple of minutes I would have to change it again, so I changed my pass via laptop and master reset my phone and so far so good!
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I have not installed anything new - and I just moved to EB01 VooDoo from EB01 this weekend, starting nice and fresh with EB01 odined into place, wipe for kicks, VooDoo install via CWM, and restore of all my apps... so nothing new app wise, and nothing unusual otherwise.
I also run Lookout and although I am not certain just HOW trusted it is, Lookout says everything is OK. It certainly scans every new and restored app as they install... but again, I do not know just how trustworthy is really is.
And that was the first time and so far only time that weirdness has occurred... For you other guys who haveseen it, did it come and go, all in a burst, or just once?

No problems since...

I have seen this on my fascinate as well. It is not malware by any means. From what I have read in the past on this is it has to deal with an account sync issue. I have been getting these popups when I flash the 2.2 roms. When I had the popups if I go into the accounts and uncheck the sync and then recheck them to have to then resync I do not seem to get them anymore.

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I have seen this on my fascinate as well. It is not malware by any means. From what I have read in the past on this is it has to deal with an account sync issue. I have been getting these popups when I flash the 2.2 roms. When I had the popups if I go into the accounts and uncheck the sync and then recheck them to have to then resync I do not seem to get them anymore.
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That's what i'd hoped...but I had my gmail acct hijacked within 5 min afterward.

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Sign in issue on HTC 2.1

Every boot, on a HTC Build of 2.1, it requires your password for google and complains "Sign in error for [email protected]"
Is there a known fix for this? I looked it up and found there's supposed to be a message waiting or voicemail, but I don't have any.
Thanks in advance.
bikcmp said:
Every boot, on a HTC Build of 2.1, it requires your password for google and complains "Sign in error for [email protected]"
Is there a known fix for this? I looked it up and found there's supposed to be a message waiting or voicemail, but I don't have any.
Thanks in advance.
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I haven't ran into that issue once with my legend rom
Bik, one way I figured out around it isn't really a fix, more of a "making your own luck" way:
Wipe completely, flash the 2.1 ROM of your choice, then wipe again. Set up your device with your gmail account, then set it up in your Mail app as well. Reboot. If you get the log-in issue, shut down, wipe again, and retry. I was lucky and got it on either my first or second wipe.
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I haven't ran into that issue once with my legend rom
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Weird... I always have it
entropism said:
Bik, one way I figured out around it isn't really a fix, more of a "making your own luck" way:
Wipe completely, flash the 2.1 ROM of your choice, then wipe again. Set up your device with your gmail account, then set it up in your Mail app as well. Reboot. If you get the log-in issue, shut down, wipe again, and retry. I was lucky and got it on either my first or second wipe.
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I tried it several times, no luck.
Usually signing into HTC's mail app with your Gmail it should fix the issue.
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I haven't ran into that issue once with my legend rom
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I haven't run into it on your Legend ROM either.
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Usually signing into HTC's mail app with your Gmail it should fix the issue.
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I have this all the time as well, but seems like it goes away for a few hours. I haven't looked into it though. I did however create a mail account just to see, and i still have to log on almost every reboot.
Guys,
I did this and it worked for a little while. Others have had more permanent success. Different ROM, I know, but what the heck right? Not that much info on this out there....
None of the other fixes have worked for me so far including adding gmail to the htc mail app. I'd REALLY like to get to the bottom of this.
Does anyone know how to start/stop "D/SyncManager" and how to get more log info than what logcat offers?
Trying to figure this out too i get forced to sign in to gmail every reboot. going thru ddms and i noticed this, blanked out numbers - current is IMSI, stored is a phone number in my area code thats not my number? Could this be why gmail auth breaks?
03-14 04:17:42.556: WARN/AccountManagerService(132): wiping all passwords and authtokens because IMSI changed (stored=xxxxxxxxxx, current=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
I haven't had to sign back in to DamageControl 1.0 since a day after I got everything set up. I had to sign back in every reboot the first day, and the morning of the second day, had an email waiting, and had to sign in. After that, I haven't had to sign in, even with emails and messages waiting for me...weird
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Trying to figure this out too i get forced to sign in to gmail every reboot. going thru ddms and i noticed this, blanked out numbers - current is IMSI, stored is a phone number in my area code thats not my number? Could this be why gmail auth breaks?
03-14 04:17:42.556: WARN/AccountManagerService(132): wiping all passwords and authtokens because IMSI changed (stored=xxxxxxxxxx, current=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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IMSI must be a holdover from the base GSM build as CDMA doesn't use it - that is. CDMA uses something else called MSID which is used for the same purpose but has slightly different value ranges. So its possible the label "IMSI" remains but the data is actually the MSID. MSID's generally look like telephone numbers, IMSI's generally do not as they might start 1010, etc.
But in either case you don't want to fool with the IMSI/MSID as it may stop your handset from reaching the right place and authenticating correctly on the network, which then might lead to loss of all services.

Gmail wont sync after root?

So I successfully rooted my phone, removed abunch of bloatware, like verizonbackup, friendstream, tweeter, flickr, and a few others. but now my gmail wont sync automatically, i have to manually refresh my inbox, it doesnt seem to be "pushing" new messages to me and its getting very annoying. Is anyone else having this problem?
I think we will start seeing more and more of these issues as people root the phone and/or remove apps that they think are "bloatware".
Did you try removing and re-adding your gmail account?
I just completed rooting my phone this morning, but only removed City ID. My gmail is working normally, including giving me new mail notifications as soon as emails come in. Maybe you deleted something you shouldn't have deleted.
As an aside, why did people hate City ID so much? I deleted it because everyone else was, and because I wasn't using it, but not really sure what it does.
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So I successfully rooted my phone, removed abunch of bloatware, like verizonbackup, friendstream, tweeter, flickr, and a few others. but now my gmail wont sync automatically, i have to manually refresh my inbox, it doesnt seem to be "pushing" new messages to me and its getting very annoying. Is anyone else having this problem?
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If you removed the verizon backup assistant you have to do a factory reset, meaning wipe all your data, this could be your issue. I seen somewhere else saying you have to do a factory reset once you remove that.
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As an aside, why did people hate City ID so much? I deleted it because everyone else was, and because I wasn't using it, but not really sure what it does.
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It nags every 15 days and wants $2.99 a month fee. It is useless since all it does it tell you what the city and state is associated with the caller's area code and exchange. Most everyone knows the local area code and exchanges. if it was a one time $2.99 maybe, but $2.99 a month they are crazy.
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It nags every 15 days and wants $2.99 a month fee. It is useless since all it does it tell you what the city and state is associated with the caller's area code and exchange. Most everyone knows the local area code and exchanges. if it was a one time $2.99 maybe, but $2.99 a month they are crazy.
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I agree. That would be irritating as hell. I have only had my phone for 3 or 4 days, so I hadn't seen any nag screens yet. Now hopefully I won't!
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I agree. That would be irritating as hell. I have only had my phone for 3 or 4 days, so I hadn't seen any nag screens yet. Now hopefully I won't!
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Oh, you will I think the cost is outrageous too, especially since all the program is doing is checking the XXX-YYY-0000 against a data base, where X is state and Y is town.
As for the OP, just go into Applications menu and clear your Gmail and Gmail Storage cache. We used to have a similar problem way back in the dark ages of 2008 G1, when rooted owners would immediately uninstall the Fave 5 application Tmo so kindly put on there, which would immediately erase all Cloud contacts AND break sync
I performed a factory reset after removing everything I didnt want, but I think I read in another post that it might have something to do with friendstream.apk, does anyone happen to have this and can host it somewhere? I'll try removing and readding the email account.
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I performed a factory reset after removing everything I didnt want, but I think I read in another post that it might have something to do with friendstream.apk, does anyone happen to have this and can host it somewhere? I'll try removing and readding the email account.
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Same here.....looking for the friendstream.apk. On a side note, don't install the friendstream.apk for the evo, as it put me in a nasty reboot loop.
I too am having this issue, but it is only happening to one of my two gmail accounts, one pushes fine but the secondary account I have to manually refresh to get my email. I haven't removed any bloatware from my phone.
Count me in... Neither HTC Mail nor gmail are auto syncing on their own. If I turn OFF then back ON the auto sync (via the power widget) they sync, but any futher emails are not working.
This is on the leaked 2.2 for me

[Q] Issue with the Gmail App

For some reason my Gmail App has stopped working properly about 1hr ago. Every time I open the app the conversations start loading then get to the bottom of the screen the force close message below pops up:
"The process com.google.process.gapps has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. dumpstate_app_201008062027_com_google_process_gapps.log has been saved. Use *#9900# to copy out log."
No success after rebooting the phone several times. Can anyone please shed some light? I really have no clue to what happened ... now I have to use the email client .
Thanks in advance for your help, really appreciate it.
I just checked to see if it was a problem with the app itself and mine is loading all conversations fine. Did you delete or replace anything prior to?
No I didn't do anything to the phone, not even install or uninstall any apps. This is so strange.
Maybe try removing the account and doing it again... It shouldn't mess anything else up. I'll try it out on my phone now to confirm.
[Update] Wouldn't let me do it because it's the primary. A factory reset is the only way to completely remove it. You can try clicking on sync gmail to stop it and then click on it again to force a refresh. Idk if that'll fix your particular problem though
Try going to settings, applications, manage applications, menu button, filter, all. Select gmail, clear data and clear cache. Then do the same with gmail storage, then try to resync.
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I did a factory setting, unfortunately it did not fix the issue.
It doesn't work...
Ok, after 4hrs of insanity trying to figure out what suddently went wrong with my vibrant. I came to a conclusion that it's not my phone because when I added my wife's GMAIL account, the force close did not come up and all the conversations were loaded without any issues.
Apparently, the server where my GMAIL account is located seems to have some problems since I keep getting sync errors with contacts and calendar as well.
Have you tried logging into your account from an actual computer? Perhaps there is a problem with your account. I know I had weird sync errors when my account got compromised by a spammer last month, and google locked my account until I changed the password.
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The weirdest thing is when I used my PC I didn't encounter any issues... That's why I thought the problem came from the phone @ the beginning.
Since this morning everything seems got back to normal. All the conversations loaded no problem.
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I'm getting this now, too. My first two screens of gmail are shown but if I scroll down to where it says "Loading conversations" the after a few seconds the error pops up. I wonder if there is a "bad"email in our inbox that the gmail app doesn't know how to handle - something along three lines of unexpected characters in the email header/subject/etc or some partis badly formatted or too long like the header or something in it. Tomorrow (Sunday) I will try archiving my old messages on gmail and see if that makes the error go away. If it does then it a pretty good bet that one of the emails is causing three problem (the app still shouldn't crash but it would at least help explain what is happening).
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I'm getting this now, too. My first two screens of gmail are shown but if I scroll down to where it says "Loading conversations" the after a few seconds the error pops up. I wonder if there is a "bad"email in our inbox that the gmail app doesn't know how to handle - something along three lines of unexpected characters in the email header/subject/etc or some partis badly formatted or too long like the header or something in it. Tomorrow (Sunday) I will try archiving my old messages on gmail and see if that makes the error go away. If it does then it a pretty good bet that one of the emails is causing three problem (the app still shouldn't crash but it would at least help explain what is happening).
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Well I was able to avoid the error by archiving or deleting old emails in the inbox. I noticed when you have a large volume in one single label it causes the crash while loading conversations. I do not think it comes from a "bad" email, it's just a glitch in the app itself that folks @ Google need to work on.
Another thing that I noticed is when I logged-in my email using Nexus One, the force close did not occur but there was a failed connection-try again message.
Same problem here, noticed it today... good to know im not alone heh, but like the OP said im pretty sure it is a glitch in the app, so we'll maybe have to wait for a fix.
Confirmed, only by trying to scroll down really fast (and I'm on wifi). This was not an issue on my g1, of course I was using custom rom's. It'll certainly be addressed.
I have not encountered this problem with the Gmail app yet but I have had the exact same issue come up with the Messaging app twice so far.
But the problem has not stopped me from using the Messaging app and I was able to go right back into it each time it happened. It happened once about 30 minutes ago, and another time over a week ago.
I think it may have to do with the 200 text limit that I have turned off. Since Inbox is at 173 right now with Outbox 89, last deleted a few days ago and also with 33 conversations.
It does get a little laggy too but I have noticed it lag with only a few conversations with maybe an overall total of 30 text messages. I never had it lag this much on the G1 and I would have over 1000+ text messages and with cyanogenmod.
I am having the same issue.
I am getting the same thing too.
Mine started late last week after I updated the Facebook app. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling (highly doubt it was related, but due to coincidence I had to try it) and it was doing the same thing.
I did a factory wipe - same thing. I ran fix permissions and rebooted - same thing.
I am not sure it is related to having too many items in one label as I have just shy of 300 items in my inbox, and I have had about the same (give or take 2-3) for months (I use many, many labels to manage things), but I am going to try to organize, move, delete, archive, etc. some of my messages and see what happens.
Google knows of the issue.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=7fbf3c640ffa9b37&hl=en
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Google knows of the issue.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=7fbf3c640ffa9b37&hl=en
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Thanks for the link. I haven't had time to search today while I've been at work.
FYI, it looks like this may have been fixed. Mine has stopped doing it this morning. Checking the issue link that laris posted, nothing confirmed from Google that it is fixed yet though. Couple of people reporting that theirs is fixed too.

So my dad lost his gmail password...

Whe he bought his evo he went to the sprint store. Long story short a rep set it up for him, he told the rep what he wanted and what his security question was. Why he didnt do it himself, is beyond me. Anyway, now I rooted his evo for him and went to restore gmail/contacts etc and he cannot remember his password. So we played the google games and emailed them etc etc they are saying they cannot give us our password because we didnt give them enough info to prove its us. So now he's short on his contacts right?
Sounds like it. Unless he has them backed up already somewhere (you can export to a csv or xls file when you're logged in) he's probably screwed. You should be able to get google to reset it by giving them the right information, but sometimes you have to have that set up ahead of time (like a recovery email account or something of that sort).
See if he can dig through his brain and remember it.
yeah ohwell haha. i mean I thought he would have known it, but I bet the rep ****ed it up. Hmm.. Ifilled out the form again but I doubt its going to work. kinda crazy that there is no other way for them to give it to you. I mean I see they have an SMS recovery option but no where to put in your phone or anything.
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I mean I see they have an SMS recovery option but no where to put in your phone or anything.
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Yeah that would have to be set up ahead of time...otherwise, anyone could steal your password by providing their phone number. How is google going to authenticate you without a lot of information besides a password? They're just trying to cover their asses.
I totally understand your frustrations though, I had the same problem with steam, and when they said they sent an email to the recovery account, it was to my old hotmail address that I hadn't used in years...huge headache.
true true, but there has to be some way around it. Or something haha.
There is a way around it. Google ask's you to setup and alternate email address for recovery and I get the screen all the time that ask me to add a phone number just incase. So its not that there isnt away around it. Its that your dad hasnt taken the proper steps to avoid the situation.
Also click the contacts button, go to menu, and click export/import, back up your contacts be exporting them to the sd card or restore your contacts by importing them from the sd card. However, your dad doesnt sound like the kind of guy that exported them to an sd card. I am basicly only telling you this so you can make him aware of the option so he doesnt loose them in the futur.
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There is a way around it. Google ask's you to setup and alternate email address for recovery and I get the screen all the time that ask me to add a phone number just incase. So its not that there isnt away around it. Its that your dad hasnt taken the proper steps to avoid the situation.
Also click the contacts button, go to menu, and click export/import, back up your contacts be exporting them to the sd card or restore your contacts by importing them from the sd card. However, your dad doesnt sound like the kind of guy that exported them to an sd card. I am basicly only telling you this so you can make him aware of the option so he doesnt loose them in the futur.
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Not when you set up an account on the phone tho. He never uses it let along on a PC. So that option wouldnt be available to him. Unless they changed it since I signed up on my Hero a year or so ago.
I had the same thing happen to me but my daughter set up phone to have the pattern password and she is 5 so she didn't know what she did. I tried to figure it out but couldn't. After a number of tries I got locked out and had to enter gmail but I forgot that too. Called Sprint and they got it for me it was saved to my aol account he gave it to me and end of story good luck
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if you backed up before you flashed you can restore that, make a backup in titanium backup the green files, and accounts and sync (red), go back to the new rom and install titanium by downloading from their website then restoring your backups
Well I unrevo. His phone, and didn't think about it. I was unaware that he didn't know his password.lol
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if he remembers the email address and the answer to the security question you can reset the password on the gmail website
or take his contacts off an older phone as a last resort!
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or take his contacts off an older phone as a last resort!
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Yeah thats the route he'll most likely have to take. He didn't add many new numbers but he did add some key ones... Oh well, mofo shouldn't have lost his password lol.
, but I bet the rep ****ed it up.
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The rep did nothing wrong, its not his/her fault. Sorry, but your dad should have remembered his password, or wrote it down somewhere.
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The rep did nothing wrong, its not his/her fault. Sorry, but your dad should have remembered his password, or wrote it down somewhere.
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lolwut. you made sure he or she typed it in right for him? kk
But I know for a fact she spelled the secuirty question wrong. he uses it all the time and he hasnt changed it and well he was born there. So he knows that, but that too wont work.
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lolwut. you made sure he or she typed it in right for him? kk
But I know for a fact she spelled the secuirty question wrong. he uses it all the time and he hasnt changed it and well he was born there. So he knows that, but that too wont work.
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you tried all spelling variations that the rep might have typed in?
yeah man.. its ok though. Im not here for people to argue back and forth tho ya know? Not saying you at all, just in general. Ive seen gmail/google sign-ins act funny before too. Like when I googled it earlier alot of people had to disable CAPTCHA for instance on the PC to make it work. And even when I sign in on my PC I get a CAPTCHA even with the right passworl. Guess its a security measure.. too secure IMO>
I wish we could help you other than suggestions which you might have already tried, good luck I hope for the best
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I wish we could help you other than suggestions which you might have already tried, good luck I hope for the best
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Its all good bro thanks!
Well haha maybe you can help me on something else lol. Can you read aLogcats? My phone drained DEAD in 12 hours of it sitting here idle over night.. I have a thread in both Q and A and General.
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my hotmail account has been spamming people

Long story short i have my hotmail, along with other accounts setup in my evos email client, awhile back I noticed I sent myself an email about diet crap that I personaly did not send and so I dismissed it.
Well tonight I had over a hundred mailer daemon unable to reach address blah blah in my email inbox I check my sent box and sure enough my account has been mailing random people crap about diet stuff.
Anyways i heard Android has some exploits that could be leading to our phones being related in a exploit.
I changed my email password and it stopped doing this temporarily but it started right back up again after a while.
Can this be Related to my phone at all?
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It's probably not your phone.
It's far more likely that you (or someone else in your household) clicked something you shouldn't have on a website, and have a keylogger on your computer now.
Or if you're... Uneducated enough to be running an open WiFi network (or, even more facepalm-worthy, connected to one that doesn't belong to you, and mooching off it), then someone could be picking up your plaintext passwords.
But really, biggest chance is you've got some malware on your computer. Congrats!
Your biggest issue is that you are still using hotmail...
- Changed your hotmail password from a virus-free computer or your EVO's browser.
- Run AntiMalware and an antivirus on your computer.
- Switch to Gmail
Problem solved.
well, i know about wlan encryption and i use wpa2 personal, i also know how to crack wep
i also know about keystroke loggers, i do use them and know how to detect software versions of them
somehow my girlfriend somehow gets a copy forwarded to her of email i reply to, even though there is no trace of a setting for this anywhere that i can find, which i always found suspicious and it doesn't happen all the time. she could be spying or maybe its from when we tried to link our outlook calendars and something broke
i use hot-mail because until recently i have had zero problems and i created this hotmail account back in 2001 on my dream cast before i even knew how to turn on a pc, and now i run a computer repair shop, so it kinda has sentimental value, so i want to fix this, not throw it away. also i have many other email address for work and school purposes so email isn't nothing new to me.
last night i had my gf change my password on my hotmail account because i was on my evo and hotmail.com kept sending me to their mobile site and i couldn't see any settings for change password and she had her laptop in her lap. maybe her laptop is the culpti but i doubt it, i will check into it though.
today i changed my password to my hotmail on my work computer. i will allow my evo access to the new password for the sake of tying to figure out where the culprit is and only changing one thing at a time.
thanks for the replies i really was hoping to hear that someone has less then public information about hotmail email servers them selves being hacked. because i have friends with hotmail accounts that started spamming me not too long before my account starting spamming others.
i guess i'll use this thread to keep notes on this situation, but thanks for the replies
zeuzinn said:
- Changed your hotmail password from a virus-free computer or your EVO's browser.
- Run AntiMalware and an antivirus on your computer.
- Switch to Gmail
Problem solved.
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yep all I had to do was change my email on another SAFE PC and then I was good to go. But dont discount adware programes and all.
DL and run/update
Malware bytes, Super antispyware and update and load spyware blaster. You'll be good to go.
spybot/teatimer ftw
drmacinyasha said:
It's probably not your phone.
It's far more likely that you (or someone else in your household) clicked something you shouldn't have on a website, and have a keylogger on your computer now.
Or if you're... Uneducated enough to be running an open WiFi network (or, even more facepalm-worthy, connected to one that doesn't belong to you, and mooching off it), then someone could be picking up your plaintext passwords.
But really, biggest chance is you've got some malware on your computer. Congrats!
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Please don't be politically correct. :|
Stupid not uneducated. He says he knows all this, so uneducated wouldn't apply.
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Sorry, I'm very blunt. :|
Well my hotmail accounts were still spamming people, also my yahoo account started to join in on the fun.
I changed passwords on both accounts to something very lone Qiu no dictionary words and used numbers and symbols. And about a day later low and behold I am spamming people again.
Focusing in on my hotmail account, I can see the sent folder, in my web based GUI, I can see all these emails that my account has been sending.
I have probably have questionable apps on my phone so I thought I'd wipe my phone. Well, its been 4 days since I have had any problems.
While I can't confirm my suspecion, I can suggest as a possibility that my phone had something that was pulling my passwords and sending them out to someone or something that would inturn log into my accounts and spam away.
I don't have time to really look into this any more thoroughly but I thought I'd document my observations.
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potna said:
well my hotmail accounts were still spamming people, also my yahoo account started to join in on the fun.
I changed passwords on both accounts to something very lone qiu no dictionary words and used numbers and symbols. And about a day later low and behold i am spamming people again.
Focusing in on my hotmail account, i can see the sent folder, in my web based gui, i can see all these emails that my account has been sending.
I have probably have questionable apps on my phone so i thought i'd wipe my phone. Well, its been 4 days since i have had any problems.
While i can't confirm my suspecion, i can suggest as a possibility that my phone had something that was pulling my passwords and sending them out to someone or something that would inturn log into my accounts and spam away.
I don't have time to really look into this any more thoroughly but i thought i'd document my observations.
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STOP using pirated apps. That's my guess.
It was most likely an app that requests permissions to your contacts and email. There are a lot of shady apps out there and google needs to step up with this crap.
I always avoid them but it's ridiculous how many apps (themes and stupid stuff) request information.
Well surprise surprise, it was most likely an app I got from the market that was stealing my info. Not that I can confirm it, but most of the replies implied I was an idiot and that it couldn't possible be my phone. I eventualy got an email from Google saying I had installed something from the mArket that was infected.
So it was not that I'm stoopid ignorant, it wasnt that i was using hotmail, it wasnt that my pc was infected.
It was my phone all along.
Maybe there is a thread about this already, but I bet my topic.was created first and I thought I'd bring this thread to a conclusion.
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I hate to say it but if you downloaded an app that infected your device with malware you still are pretty stupid. Not trying to be an a**hole here but if you actually researched the app before downloading it you could have advoided it altogether. Common sense is still the best antivirus.
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This isn't malware on your phone. It's been a huge issue with hotmail for the past couple of weeks. People who use the same pass across multiple sites usually are the most vuln. Also happens when you get phished.
I have a friend thats has the same thing going on with his hotmail...hasn't been using it at all and all of a sudden I'm getting emails from him sending me links to increase my penis length...and god knows I don't need that..
I wouldnt dismiss it being non-phone related. I recently have been having it happen on my hotmail account as well and I have not logged into my hotmail account on a computer in years only have it on my phone to setup craigslist ads, Redbox rentals and small stuff like that and use gmail for important stuff. I dont have any Pirated apps or anything just normal stuff 12 or so games and 15 or so other market apps.
Same thing happened to my hotmail a while back. I changed my password and it solved the problem.
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alright guys stop calling the op stupid and learn ya something yourselves. Even legitimate apps were affected read the news every once in awhile and you would know. This is just one of the many articles on the topic.
http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml;jses...fVH2Mtw**?nid=20039881&cid=null&bcid=&bid=-83
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Last-Chance said:
This isn't malware on your phone. It's been a huge issue with hotmail for the past couple of weeks. People who use the same pass across multiple sites usually are the most vuln. Also happens when you get phished.
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Exactly, it happened with my hotmail account a few months ago, and I havent used my hotmail in months.
alright guys stop calling the op stupid and learn ya something yourselves. Even legitimate apps were affected read the news every once in awhile and you would know. This is just one of the many articles on the topic.
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Unless you login to hotmail from your phone's browser, there is no way one of these apps could get your hotmail info.
i swear, i dont know why i take peoples opinions so damn seriously around here...but for the sake of my sanity and the general level of competence of reading and having accurate postings with good conclusions here i go again.
there were a handful or legitimate applications on the market than were infected.
i already changed my email passwords and it ddint help
when i formatted/re flashed rom...it stopped
i later received some notification of some market tool that Google automatically installed and ran and "fixed the issue"
i received an email from Google telling me about a phone tied to my gmail account may have been infected, but i already solved my issue my self, so their fix didn't apply.
how the hell can you people some how twist this into "op is dumb, or stupid"?
now for a bit of my SPECULATION, and its only that, its not my opinion thrown at you as fact, as so many here love to do.
what are the odds that all of us android users just happen to have our email accounts hacked? whats the one thing all of us email user have in common on these boards....android. just saying
btw, more than just my hotmail account was hacked.
here are some urls that the idiots wont read, talking about what i have been trying to say
http://www.google.com/search?q=Droi...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

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