I've always lacked this feature in every Clockwork install - to prevent an offender from wiping my device at this deep level. My antitheft software is Cerberus us and withstands a standard in-OS wipe.
It'd really be great to be able to hide Safestrap so the offender would end up booting and use my decoy OS. If he's not savvy, I'd rather not give him a big screen saying "fresh start".
I locked my sim card and flashed Cerberus, password protected (I might remove this for sake of tracking). But Safestrap gives a big button every startup screaming "wipe".
Can we have an install which hides a transparent button in the corner and password protect it?
Sorry, I rushed and posted the thread in "General".
Please let me know if anyone has ideas or if I should up my post-count to post in the official Safestrap thread.
For now, I'll install Cerberus on both slots and hope someone doesn't wipe them.
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So I'm relatively new to the flashing, rooting, hacking android scene, but I've done some reading.
I accidentally installed Google Voice and now I simply can't uninstall it. I am offered the option of uninstalling the updates, but if I do that I can no longer 'Open' or 'Uninstall'. If I uninstall the updates I can no longer open the app and the icon disappears from the app menu.
Whilst I don't want to root my phone, yet, I would like to restore it to a completely stock image.
The "Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset" doesn't do what I want. After doing this, Google Voice is still shown as installed in the marketplace - even though it isn't.
So, can I completely reset my entire phone?
Would I be correct in thinking that if I booted into the skateboarding android screen (via volume down and power) and I applied the 'update-nexusone-ERE27-signed.zip' update from 'android.modaco.com' - this would completely wipe my phone and put it back to a stock, unrooted factory setting?
Do I need to 'wipe' my phone before I apply the zip mentioned above? If so, how do I wipe?
If anyone could tell me how to get rid of Google Voice in another way, I would also appreciate that - without being rooted.
Thanks in advance for the help.
You can pick up a complete stock ERD79 from MoDaCo, the ERE27 update wont do as it's an update not a complete ROM.
Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to reply, and so quickly!
If I go and get the stock ERE27 ROM from MoDaCo, will I be able to apply this without rooting?
To apply the ROM, do I boot into the skateboarding androids screen? Which options would I choose to perform a wipe and then apply the update?
My understanding is that I will need to rename the ROM to update.zip?
Apologies for the noob questions.
Hang on a minute, I've mis-understood what's going on here
So you've not unlocked your boot loader, which makes everything I previously said invalid
Can you find Google Voice in the list of installed apps in the Application Manager (under settings) and filter it to all?
When I got the phone I made the mistake of installing Google Voice from the marketplace - no point as I'm in the UK.
Somehow, it no longer appears in the app menu but does still show as installed in marketplace. The only options marketplace offers 'open' and 'uninstall' are both greyed out.
If I browse the file structure of the phone with Astro to '/system/app' I can see a googlevoice.apk entry, with the google voice icon. There isn't a googlevoice.odex file however.
The phone still works, and works normally - it just annoys me that it is on my system and shows in marketplace and I can't get rid of it.
I was therefore looking for a way to completely restore the phone to a factory state (like you could do with the iPhone with a restore).
I am not rooted and would like to stay that way.
I hope that clarifies, and thanks for your continued replies.
Oh, and it doesn't show under manage applications in settings.
Out of interest, are you on a vodafone contract, SIM only or PAYG? I'm looking to switch from O2 but I want to ensure that I can still get full HSDPA speeds on a SIM only deal - I tried out T-Mobile SIM Only but I needed to have the £5 extra for W&W plus as their standard internet doesn't give full HSDPA speeds.
Hmm that's a bit odd then, must admit all I can think of is boot into recovery and perform the 2 wipes that are available, or... just ignore it
As for Voda, it's a SIM only 12 month contract that I got from retentions... 300mins, unlimited texts & web for £15p/m, however 11 of those months are discounted by 50%.
Thanks for bearing with me. Unfortunately I can't ignore it... what can I say, I'm just one of those people
I'm guessing that it simply isn't possible for me to do a complete restore to stock without first being rooted?
So, the last few stupid questions:
If I do the two wipes that are available, will that leave me with a completely blank phone that I will then need to flash a ROM to?
What are the two types of wipe, how do I get to them and what is each supposed to achieve?
No it wont leave you with a blank phone, it will be as if you'd just switched it on when you got it.
You need to get into fastboot (trackball and power on as you know) then into the bootloader, then recovery. At the picture of the Android and the exclamation point, you hold down the power button, the hit vol up.
Here you can use the trackball to select what you want.
What does each one do? **** knows, I can't even remember what they're called at the moment lmao
Much appreciated.
I'll give it a go this evening and let you know how I get on.
Please refer to this link for restoring to original shipping, thread closed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=614850
I love having my phone rooted. I am grateful to all the work by the devs on this board making my S5 run the way it should.
However, I try to keep my phone as secure as possible. I have my S5 set to use Fingerprint identification at login. I also have Google Location set up so I can locate my phone or wipe it remotely if it is lost or stolen.
However, with Safestrap, it is very easy for someone to get past the security. They can boot my phone, see the message for SafeStrap Recovery mode, push recovery and wipe my phone. Then they can then use any gmail account and reconfigure my phone for their own use. Of course, this disables me using Google Locate to find or wipe my sdcard.
Also, since SafeStrap does not support encryption, they can pop out my sdcard and read all of my data in any computer.
Is there a way to secure a rooted phone? Perhaps, SafeStrap could have an optional stealth mode that does not show on boot without a keypress combination? Maybe a third party encryption app that secures the sdcard?
Is there any way around these security issues (besides not rooting the phone)?
I'm very confused by the behavior of my Nexus6p right now. I would like my phone to be fully encrypted, IE, you pick up the phone and can access absolutely none of my data without typing in a password. So I've clean flashed it several times, usually whenever a new update comes out. And each time I do this, the phone behaves how I want, when it boots, I get a password screen that says "enter a password to continue boot". It goes on this way for a day or so usually, and then suddenly this password screen stops showing up and I get the "you must enter a password after restarting" screen that clearly has already decrypted my data because I can see notifications and even play music through bluetooth without entering the password.
After each clean flash, I have been installing various mods. This time around, I have the things I've flashed down to TWRP 3.1.0, Magisk 12, and ElementalX 4.08. In the security settings, the phone still reads as encrypted, so I'm very confused. Is this normal behavior for this device, or is it one of the above things I have flashed? Either way, how do I fix this so that my data actually stays encrypted when the phone boots?
I have had similar issues to fix I formated everything and then installed the rom installed newest vendor image and then kept on eye on what I allowed special access to my phone
Keeper was wanting special access so I stopped using them and switched to last pass I have not lost decryption on phone boot
Also decided to pay for esexplorer pro to get ride of any possible infected ads
Your phone data is still encrypted, but your security settings are not optimized for what you want to accomplish. Make sure your Lockscreen has a password/PIN/Gesture set. There is the password on BOOT when encrypted, a password on Lockscreen when the screen is off, and In Settings>>Notifications>>Gear Icon>>"On the lock screen"- there are three settings. Default is set to "Show ALL notification content". Set it to NOT show notifications for now until you set which ones you want to show or hide. TWRP and EX are not causing your issue. Magisk might be but I don't use it. Uninstall just to be sure and/or check in the dedicated Magisk thread. This is on the stock 7.1.2 ROM. If you are running a custom ROM, YMMV.
So if I understand the issue correctly, you clean flash and you have the prompt to enter your credentials before booting finishes. Eventually you get set up and upon a reboot you notice that the prompt is gone?
Check your apps. You're using an app that requires an accessibility service (see Settings / Accessibility / Services). Granting an app accessibility service will do away with the boot entry of your pin/pattern/password. Set up your apps again and either don't use the app in question or just don't grant it the accessibility service for whatever feature requires it.
Known issue, btw. I forget why it happens, Google may turn up the results you're looking for.
Edit: Despite it not asking for that prompt on boot, your phone is still encrypted, by the way. This also has absolutely nothing to do with TWRP, EX, Magisk or how you choose to have your notifications hidden on lock screen.
2nd: Sadly, just revoking the service won't usually restore the prompt while booting. You'll need to clean flash again and not grant it in the first place.
That makes sense, I was looking in the wrong place. That's a really irritating design decision, there's no sense in having the encryption at all if you're just going to store the material necessary to decrypt the data in the clear.
For now, changing my password seems to have returned the encryption prompt while leaving the accessibility services working to the best of my observation.
It will probably go away again shortly, most likely after the app uses the accessibility service. If it does, revoke the service and change your password again or clean flash. I don't believe there is a way to keep both 100% of the time.
Has anyone gotten latest version of PoGo working on latest Oreo with ElementalX? I've never played but my friends keep asking me to join so I figured what the heck..
Slight problem... Device Not Compatible??
I had magisk and xposed, but I tried disabling, and even fully uninstalling xposed (and all additional xposed modules), and adding PoGo to the MagiskHide options, with no luck.
It still says that my device is not compatible...I would assume that's due to the rooting?
Or is it because I'm using ElementalX kernel?
I read somewhere that there's a (not pokemon go-specific) bypass sort of thing involving SatefyNet, but you have to install Magisk *before* going through initial phone setup, but any guide I've ever read about flashing/rooting ph-1 says to go through setup and then install magisk. I tried to find the post that talks about it but I can't find it right now. Anyway, I would imagine there's some kind of checksum against system and if magisk has been added after the fact, the checksum wont match? I really have no idea, just a guess.
I haven't seen any other posts specifically mentioning Essential being incompatible, so maybe it's just me.
I was originally thinking it was because of root or magisk remnants(?), but maybe it's the non-stock kernel.
If anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it.
I feel silly asking such a noob question, I've just never play PoGo...or any Pokemon...ever.
extra info:
I have successfully created an account using their google auth option.
I get through the first Professor Willow part, then character selection.
Usually part way through character selection, I get the error in the attached image.
Its not on any one specific section, however, it can/has occur at any point during the loading.
I've cleared cache and data a hundred times because it seems to get further each time if I do a fresh data wipe and start over -- I know the next step already so I can get through faster maybe lol
--update--
I finally got through character selection and made it to the first chance to catch pokemon. I hit a squirtle and it was trying to break free, and then that error popped up.
Haven't been able to get back in far enough again to see if it actually added to my PokeDex or not.
Sorry for the late reply, but you have to hide root detection under magisk.
For Pokemon go to work, go to Magisk > MagiskHide > then search for Pokemon go and select it then reboot.
So guys before you all go shouting to wipe the phone I'm well aware that will likely fix this? however its now more to the point I can't figure out what the hell is causing it to happen and just want to find it....
So I boot the phone and resurrection remix boots and this issue does not happen... After the os boots it then loads the widgets and modules, after it does this is when the malware begins...
Each time I unlock the phone chrome opens even if it was closed and goes to some porn ad
I have tried backtracking a good amount removed every module in xposed and magisk including Uninstalling xposed and the Xposed apk... Wiped the data for chrome... Ran device maintance and removed all unnecessary files as well as Uninstalled a few other random apps that I put on here hoping they would do something yet didnt?... Has anyone else had any similar malware before from apps that request root access or possibly even just anything in general, but I'm assuming from some sort of root app?
Again guys I know a wipe will likely fix this but I want to know what can cause a phone to do this after each unlock and further my knowledge of Android! ?
*UPDATE*
Just attempted to boot into core only mode and the issue still occurs
Resolved! If anyone ever runs into a similar problem its a blank app installed that hides at the bottom of your full apps list
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Same Issue. Any solution ?