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[Q] Evo Shift keeps rebooting

Looking for some advice/help. I got my wife the Evo Shift a couple of weeks ago. Her phone has not been rooted and other than a few added apps the phone is completely stock. The phone reboots on her 4 and 5 times a day. She does not have any kind of task killer installed so that's not it. She plays Angry Birds a lot and uses Pandora quite a bit. I have also installed Sound Manager for her. Other than that I can't think of anything that would be helpful for trouble shooting. I have searched here and through Google and have not seen any info of others having this problem. I am not sure if I should root the thing or return it to best buy. I have the Evo and previously the Hero and am no stranger to rooting or custom ROMs. Just really did not see the need to root it since my wife has no idea about any of that. Any help or advice will be appreciated.
Thanks.

root and install nfinitefx's or mik's rom; you'll have less trouble than if it was stock.

danaff37 said:
root and install nfinitefx's or mik's rom; you'll have less trouble than if it was stock.
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That's what I was thinking. I am a little worried its a hardware problem though. I guess I could always flash back to stock and return it if that doesn't fix it.

hell return it ya got nothing to lose but a headache

Did you try a factory reset?
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JKILO said:
Did you try a factory reset?
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Not yet. I did get some more info from my wife though. It only happens when she is at work. And she says she get some sort of "radio error". I'm starting to think it might have something to do with the building she is in. She had my hero for a couple months before I got her the shift and had no problems. It had CM 6.1 running though.

hauntedchild said:
Not yet. I did get some more info from my wife though. It only happens when she is at work. And she says she get some sort of "radio error". I'm starting to think it might have something to do with the building she is in. She had my hero for a couple months before I got her the shift and had no problems. It had CM 6.1 running though.
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im running mine stock and rooted and dont have any problems with reboots. sounds like a app is probably screwing something up

i had a similar problem with one of the streaming media apps i used to use a month or so ago i cant remember the name but for some reason if i lost signal it would crash the phone and need to be rebooted
i took it off and installed tuneinradio and it worked better anyways

My shift was rebooting itself 3 to 4 times a day, I just rooted it and it seemed to stop rebooting itself for a day. Now its starting to reboot itself again, but not as often.

I am almost convinced its a hardware problem. Sounds too rare to be anything else. Maybe bad memory or something.
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I had a freezing issue with my phone which people suggested possible due to pandora and bluetooth. Perhaps you have the same issue?
Anyway, try to find "bluetooth for automotive" settings for pandora and turn it off.
I wouldn't recommend rooting your phone if you think its broken. You might just end up breaking it further and render your warranty void.
If you can't fix it, get sprint to replace it.
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This may be resolved by now, but I got my shift previously used. When I first activated it, I was getting some radio errors and I could not make calls or send sms messages, but the email worked fine. I contacted Sprint customer service via chat from the website and they did something from their end to fix it. I had to turn off my phone and she said now wait till I tell you to turn it back on. I waited 5 minutes and when I turned it back on, everything was fine. So I would take it in or contact Sprint and see what they say. As for not sure if you wanna root it for her, I would definitely recommened it, she doesn't have to take advantage of all the advanced tweak that some use but it will just make the phone a lot smoother and easier to use. IMHO.
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This may be resolved by now, but I got my shift previously used. When I first activated it, I was getting some radio errors and I could not make calls or send sms messages, but the email worked fine. I contacted Sprint customer service via chat from the website and they did something from their end to fix it. I had to turn off my phone and she said now wait till I tell you to turn it back on. I waited 5 minutes and when I turned it back on, everything was fine. So I would take it in or contact Sprint and see what they say. As for not sure if you wanna root it for her, I would definitely recommened it, she doesn't have to take advantage of all the advanced tweak that some use but it will just make the phone a lot smoother and easier to use. IMHO.
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Thanks for the input. I think I'm going to go ahead and root it. After keeping an eye on the situation its seems its only happening when she is at work. I can't imagine it will fix it but I think its worth a shot.

I think I fixed mine. I tried to use navigation and it kept force closing, that was strange because I've used it before with no problems. I googled around and found some info that if you had another text to speak engine in your phone then uninstalled it without setting it back to pico as default it would cause nav to FC, which is what I had done. So I set it back and checked "Always use my settings" in the Voice section of settings, nav started working and the reboot issue went away for the past 7 days.
I don't really know crap about phones and most tech stuff for that matter (heck 99% of what is said in these forums goes over my head) but I think why this fixed it is either nav or some app was trying to use pico or something and when it couldn't the phone would get an error and reboot itself. I may be wrong (probably am) but maybe she deleted something or changed a setting some app needs and that is causing her problem. Hope this helps in someway or at least gives you another direction to start checking.

GPS is getting on my nerves

Hi all,
Had a DHD since it's release date, swapped it for another one because my first one had the horrible gap at the top which allows dust to come onto the screen, second one was cool, however since i've had it i've never had a good track record with the GPS, it's just a **** feature which over promises and under delivers, even when the phone was stock it was crap.
I've flashed numerous radios onto it and i've tried all the programs which promise the earth and don't deliver, I don't want to use a network connection either otherwise what would be the point ?
I went to the south of spain last week and it worked for a little bit and then ceased to, it's a complete ball ache because now i can't even get one satellite.
I'm presently on Core Droid 6.8 using Radio 12.54.60.25P_26.09.04.11_M2
With it's matching RIL package, just doesn't want to work, seriously pissed off with this and i want to just kick it in the bin now.
Any help would be good, i've rooted with all security features off.
I even tried the fix posted about the metal contacts by the flash with no success (i didn't break them either).
Cheers.

I got that problem too.
With my Desire HD it helps to do a fastreboot with the app "Fast Reboot" from the Android Market. Just run it. After that, I go into FasterFix, another app. There you can set a optimised server, mine is "Germany". Then click on go.
And finally after this I go into the app "GPS Status". Activate you Gps, click on the Menubutton -> tools -> A-GPS. First click on reset, then Menubutton -> tools -> A-GPS -> download. You'll need a wifi connection for this-
After those steps my gps locks in a few seconds. I also don't know if you have to do this after each flash, maybe you'll just need one app or something.
I hoped I could help you!

Hi, I appreciate the response but I'm afraid I've done all that before and it doesn't work, I've now contacted my phone provider and im getting a new phone tomorrow, just need to get back to stock now.

I hope you know how to unroot and restore your phone? Check this

I agree with the above Faster Fix app resolved the GPS issue for me.
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[Q] lost my galaxy s2 - utrack not active :((((

Hi all
I lost my galaxy s2 two days ago. I called my phone a few times until the person who has found it, shut it down.
Unfortunately I did not activate utrack. All I have my IMEI. Here in Switzerland only my provider does blacklist IMEI-Numbers, so that sucks too.
Anybody got any idea, or should I leave it??

There is not much you can do if you didn't activate tracking in phone(samsungdive) or use some aplication for that purpose.

Tracking is i think.by.default active if u logged in to samsung account
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This app could have helped you, had you not called the number and warned the person that you are looking for the phone.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb&feature=search_result
if the phone is still on you can still try to install that app via the link above.

Sign into the market on your PC using your google account.
Choose to install "Lookout Plan B" to your phone.
If it is on and with network connection, with your data remaining, it should be installed.

if who found your phone know a little bit about android i think the first thing he does is to delete your gmail account to prevent you from install apps from the web...so if you can't lock by imei there's nothing else you can do i guess
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hey guys
Many Many thanks for that great input. I am talking about Plan B. The chance that somebody knowing about android found it, isnt that big. I did install it over the market and it said, that its going to be installed, so i am praying for my luck know.
Will keep you guys up-to-date.
Thanks once again.

for all these things (Plan B and Dive) to even work the phone must be on, must be on 3G data plan service, or be on Wifi. If you had the data off when you lost it, and the finder does not enable it by some rare miracle, you will never find it.
Most probably you are screwed OP. I lost my SGS1 the same way.
You can however try sending to your number a text message that says "Get $$ reward for this phone, call XXXXX" or something similar, and hope the crook will decide to return your phone. For this to work the phone must only be on and must be on a cell network (no data required).
Last option is to print reward ads and stick them to light poles in the area where you lost the phone.

kreoXDA said:
for all these things (Plan B and Dive) to even work the phone must be on, must be on 3G data plan service, or be on Wifi. If you had the data off when you lost it, and the finder does not enable it by some rare miracle, you will never find it.
Most probably you are screwed OP. I lost my SGS1 the same way.
You can however try sending to your number a text message that says "Get $$ reward for this phone, call XXXXX" or something similar, and hope the crook will decide to return your phone. For this to work the phone must only be on and must be on a cell network (no data required).
Last option is to print reward ads and stick them to light poles in the area where you lost the phone.
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hmmm... And I thought my lost-phone-karma was positive, since I found and SGS1 a few months ago and returned it to the owner immediatly.
well, my only chance is, the phone will be connected to a wireless connection, since ive got my sim blocked through the provider. The hope is gone but who knows, miracles can happen

Firstly, good luck carthago, I hope you find your phone!
Secondly, and just for curiosity, does anyone know if could Samsung DIVE, Tektrak, Lookout and those similar tools can operate if the person who find the phone do a factory reset or flash a new firmware? I doubt that it could be possible, however I'm not an expert.
If there is no way for those tools to work after a factory reset or a flashing a new firmware, their usefulness is limited to the case that the thief either an idiot (regarding the factory reset) or computer illiterate (regarding re-flashing the phone).
In the case of free tools, any remote possibility of help is welcome, of course (better than nothing), however there are also many paid apps which purport to be THE solution this kind of problem.

No they don't work after factory reset
angelomaldito said:
Firstly, good luck carthago, I hope you find your phone!
Secondly, and just for curiosity, does anyone know if could Samsung DIVE, Tektrak, Lookout and those similar tools can operate if the person who find the phone do a factory reset or flash a new firmware? I doubt that it could be possible, however I'm not an expert.
If there is no way for those tools to work after a factory reset or a flashing a new firmware, their usefulness is limited to the case that the thief either an idiot (regarding the factory reset) or computer illiterate (regarding re-flashing the phone).
In the case of free tools, any remote possibility of help is welcome, of course (better than nothing), however there are also many paid apps which purport to be THE solution this kind of problem.
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angelomaldito said:
Firstly, good luck carthago, I hope you find your phone!
Secondly, and just for curiosity, does anyone know if could Samsung DIVE, Tektrak, Lookout and those similar tools can operate if the person who find the phone do a factory reset or flash a new firmware? I doubt that it could be possible, however I'm not an expert.
If there is no way for those tools to work after a factory reset or a flashing a new firmware, their usefulness is limited to the case that the thief either an idiot (regarding the factory reset) or computer illiterate (regarding re-flashing the phone).
In the case of free tools, any remote possibility of help is welcome, of course (better than nothing), however there are also many paid apps which purport to be THE solution this kind of problem.
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All those tools are good IF you lost the phone, realized it right away, ran to the nearest computer and activated the tools, provided the phone is still reachable and on data network.
For the crooks who STEAL the expensive phones, the business is a fine tuned machine. 10 people run around stealing, and the immediately turn them off or remove battery. then they bulk-sell them to phone hackers who produce brand new freshly installed phones that can be sold at local flea market
Deactivating the IMEI I think will do anything only if the new owner tries to activate the phone on the same network.

First I was calling my phone again and again, cause I thought perhaps it was laying around somewhere and so I could hear it. But then that asshole had found out how to shut it down.
If you find something and theres no name and nothing on it, ok, if you keep that perhaps thats not exactly stealing. But if you shutdown a phone, because the owner is calling again and again, that is STEALING!

alcurtis93 said:
No they don't work after factory reset
There is two you can push to /system/app. One is sim checker. The other it locservice. I will check with vendor if the data can fire email notifications and passwords be made to survive
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I was just wondering: one of the features of those tracking apps is the possibility of wiping your data if you lose your phone. Therefore, if wiping your data in this way (which I don't know if it corresponds to a factory reset or is just a 'soft wipe') means that it will be no longer possible to locate your phone?
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Lost my galaxy note :(

So I was in the taxi last night and my phone dropped out of my pocket, tried calling taxi company up and was no use! Im on orange and paying £41a month, is there anything I can do?

Unless you have security apps like seek droid or lookout to track your phone, then its gone. So sorry for you.
Thats why i never turn off data and gps on my phone. Doesnt hurt my battery life Coz it can last for hrs with this battery.
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Thanks for your concern

hugorunes said:
So I was in the taxi last night and my phone dropped out of my pocket, tried calling taxi company up and was no use! Im on orange and paying £41a month, is there anything I can do?
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Here are some things you can do:
1 - Call up Orange and cut the line incase your sim is used...
2 - Should you be insured simply report it as stolen and you will get a replacement
3 - Next time track & remote your phone - Should you loose it you can track it!

Omg open browser on pc. Go to google market and remote install lookout plan b
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Also, you can remotely install "androidlost" that is an excellent application for finding your device, provided it's still online and trusted to your google account. Gives you geo coordinates, photo from front and back camera, can make it speak or whistle or show a message, can run a Web server to gain access to your own data, and can wipe or lock the phone remotely.
Ernesto de Bernardis
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This is a situation for http://samsungdive.com
Try your samsung account on that site. It should tell you where the phone is.

sounds like you are UK based, so you should report the phone as lost to the police, obtain a reference number which you'll need for insurance claim, then as already mentioned, contact Orange. While reporting to the police, ask about getting the IMEI blocked and ask Orange the same.
Sorry to hear of your loss though, you'd not think a phone this big would be lost easily, makes a good point about tracking software to all of us, albeit at your loss. mine doesn't seem to have the Samsung remote option in the menu which is odd, KKA cf-rooted. Thought it was there in the original firmware but not there now.
Dave

I second the Samsung dive option , it can track your phone over 12 hours and show you where it's been. One you find it you can make it ring at full volume to prove its yours.
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Samsung dive
Samsung Dive is very handy

What can you do? ...........not get so pissed next time!! ;-)
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Really sorry about your loss.
There is an app on the market I have read about, called "Plan B" - it's meant for installing/using AFTER you have lost your phone.
I myself have not tried it, but should work if the phone hasn't been factory-reset and is still tied to your google account.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb
Hope you get your phone back!

Hey really sorry for your loss i can only imagine the pain of losing such an amazing phone, but i think the best way to retrive it is to go personally to the taxi company and kick up a fuss or something and see if you could get your phone back.
I really hope you do and if you do, use the samsung dive feature as its really awesome and is a life saver, i dont think you need gps turned on but you do need data usage on to track it
Once again i wish you lots of luck in finding it

To use SamsungDive, you will have to have a Samsung Account and is registered with SamsungDive. Your mobile tracker must also be on and whoever got your phone have not disabled it.
If you have a SamsungDive account and your mobile is locked and cannot be tampered with and the tracker is on then tracking your lost phone will be easy.

Thank you all for your suggestions I greatly appreciate it. Trying them all now and hoping one will work thank you again

Since you are in the UK, you can try the following.
Ask your mobile provider formally for a subject access request for all your data with your provider including call logs, SMS logs, internet logs, location data from mobile phone masts from the time your phone was lost. They cannot refuse a subject access data under the law. If they refuse then contact information commissioners office by complaint.
Use the call logs, location data etc to track person who took phone. even if they took the phone and sold it after trying it a bit the then location data and calls logs and internet email access, Facebook access etc should be useful to catch person. Police won't be interested at all from my friends experience. But if you get the data then they can't ignore you hopefully.
Best of luck. But try other methods suggested too.

Sorry to hear you lost your phone, it's made me think about what I would do in the same situation. I don't have a samsung account so can't use samsung dive, what other options are available to track a lost/stolen phone?
Again, sorry to hear of your loss OP, I would raise hell with the Taxi company, they will know which driver you were with and will contact him to ask if he found anything which of course he may deny.

AdzUK said:
Again, sorry to hear of your loss OP, I would raise hell with the Taxi company, they will know which driver you were with and will contact him to ask if he found anything which of course he may deny.
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As you say, he may deny finding anything even if he did, but given that most cab drivers don't search their cabs after each fare, it's just as likely that a subsequent fare found and took the phone.
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Dave
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I know how you feel. Just very recently lost my HTC HD2. Broke my heart. I loved that phone

Right so I tried everything apart from and still no luck apart from bubblesmoney idea which I will give a try but for that method to work would it need my sim card ? Cause I blocked that one so they can't use it

[Q] My wifes G2 was remotely Hacked

Has this happened to anyone elses G2? I am on verizon with 4.4.2 update and not rooted. He had complete control of her phone. Was writing me messages and kept opening pics of my 4 yr daughter. I diconnected the wifi and mobile data. He still had control of the phone. Then I factory reset it and he still was on it. Verizon is sending me a new phone and getting a new sims card. Is there a way from stoping this from happening?

I truly dont believe though that when you switched off network that someone can still connect. Anyways:
firstly, recap if the phone was ever left unattended, letting someone install something on it.
Dont do that, even if if it has a password on it, anyone not looking away when entering it on the street can see what the pincode/password is.
Apps not from play store, dont install. Ever.
Change all passwords on a safe medium (multiple antiviris vendors scanned) of wifi router, to anything, including recovery questions, make them different and non logical or affiliated to you.
Run virus scans on computer and or any medium that ever connected phone.
Then check apps/websites of mail and such for activity, likely activity at times you didnt use any of the services. Anyway facebook and such lets you close open sessions anywhere.
That should do the trick. And big tip dont get paranoid Just ponder how somehow got acces.

I find it hard to believe that someone could still control the device after a factory reset. Highly unlikely I would say.

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Has this happened to anyone elses G2? I am on verizon with 4.4.2 update and not rooted. He had complete control of her phone. Was writing me messages and kept opening pics of my 4 yr daughter. I diconnected the wifi and mobile data. He still had control of the phone. Then I factory reset it and he still was on it. Verizon is sending me a new phone and getting a new sims card. Is there a way from stoping this from happening?
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1. I really doubt this happened.
2. After disconnecting wifi and mobile data, it would be impossible
3. Factory reset would definitely make it impossible
4. It's more likely that the touch screen is having phantom touches

I had issues with phantom touches on my Optimus G. Drove me batty. Some days it was impossible to use the phone, as the touches were all registering in the bottom half of the screen where the keyboard appears. So random letters would be inserted into words.
Turned out to be a driver issue with the custom kernels in some of the ROMs is using.
Factory reset and being more selective in the kernels I ran fixed the issue.
If it's still happening after a factory reset, then you have a defective touchscreen. Replace the phone under warranty.
Typos courtesy of my LG G2 (D803) running Mahdi-ROM.

I really have no reason to lie to you guys. The messages stopped after I disconnted the internet but the screen was still jumping around. That is why i figured he still had access.

I just received the new phone today. Should I go ahead and get a new sims card or I be ok with the old one?

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I find it hard to believe that someone could still control the device after a factory reset. Highly unlikely I would say.
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its possible, if he were root and had something installed as system app.
also you can set stuff like tasker to autimaticaly turn network back on.
what did the messages say, cause if they were gybrisch then it seems like phantom touches.
larryvw2011 said:
I just received the new phone today. Should I go ahead and get a new sims card or I be ok with the old one?
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get a new one, completely clean

larryvw2011 said:
I just received the new phone today. Should I go ahead and get a new sims card or I be ok with the old one?
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I would, you could have the old encryption method on the sim card which would make it easier to root the card. But I am guessing what happened to your wife was something more like an AndroRAT exploit.

It could be possible seeing as all you need is a phone number to find your location by txt msg, and that can be done silently without you ever knowing.
Seems it's a built in part of the RADIO AT that providers can use, if you're on the inside and know how it works it'd be a doddle, but if the txt msgs were gibberish I'd go with the majority with faulty touchscreen/drivers and nothing to worry about
Bashing away at my HTC Desire C

Tell to the hacker to try to hack my phone instead, I don't care. I will shoot exclusively for him a pic of my arse as award if he manages to hack it and he can print it, or try to sell to the newspapers.
BTW, I'm not so anxious about apps not installed directly from Play Store. You can easily check or restrict the permissions of any app as root user. I never yet faced the problems.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo

larryvw2011 said:
Has this happened to anyone elses G2? I am on verizon with 4.4.2 update and not rooted. He had complete control of her phone. Was writing me messages and kept opening pics of my 4 yr daughter. I diconnected the wifi and mobile data. He still had control of the phone. Then I factory reset it and he still was on it. Verizon is sending me a new phone and getting a new sims card. Is there a way from stoping this from happening?
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are you sure its not an email or Google account hack?

Damasterjj said:
are you sure its not an email or Google account hack?
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This is very likely version. Anything could be installed via remote then easily.
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tetakpatak said:
This is very likely version. Anything could be installed via remote then easily.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
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yeah, all you have to do is google reset password

This could be an issue with faulty digitizer.
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Thank you everyone for your responses. He was asking me what I would like him to do for me. I had her open a new gmail account.

larryvw2011 said:
Has this happened to anyone elses G2? I am on verizon with 4.4.2 update and not rooted. He had complete control of her phone. Was writing me messages and kept opening pics of my 4 yr daughter. I diconnected the wifi and mobile data. He still had control of the phone. Then I factory reset it and he still was on it. Verizon is sending me a new phone and getting a new sims card. Is there a way from stoping this from happening?
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Verizon may have some security offerings for this.

bachera said:
its possible, if he were root and had something installed as system app.
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The phone was not rooted as per OP hence I find it unlikely.
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Pat123 said:
The phone was not rooted as per OP hence I find it unlikely.
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ahhh the mistery what can it be, what can it be. Not sure if the typing was incoherent or not. That rules out possible digitizer issues or not.

larryvw2011 said:
I really have no reason to lie to you guys. The messages stopped after I disconnted the internet but the screen was still jumping around. That is why i figured he still had access.
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The TOP bid would be == prank application.
Everything else would mean you're the targeted one (but how would the attacker have your new data?)
Maybe your gmail acc has some connections to another app -> look for permissions in your dashboard.
Please wake up from a dream <3