Database Develop

[Q] So I let a stranger use my rooted Note to make a call. Have I been hacked?

I was walking down the street (in the dark, alone, in London) when a stranger asked me if I could call a number on his behalf and ask them to call him back.I did so; during the call he put the phone to his ear to say something like "Call me, it's urgent... bye" then he returned the phone. Here's where it got fishy.
Now first of all I have a rooted phone- either Rocketrom V21 or V22... and it has crashed during a call once before. But as the stranger returned the phone it appeared to have restarted, and I've not seen that before. It was showing the "Galaxy Note N7000" screen. Being suspicious I removed the battery until I got home. Then (just now) I made a backup in CWM, and it's switched off.
My question is, could he have somehow hacked my phone by making the call? If somebody knows this is just not possible I will be quite relieved.
Kind regards in advance

Relax bub that would be just a random reboot!
SHOT from my LOADED GT-N7000!!

He was probably just pressing the power button as he was holding it and then touched one of the "power off" buttons on the pop-up as he gave it back??
Either that or he cloned it like in the show "Person of Interest" but I highly doubt it

It must have been Skynet at the other end of the line if you got hacked that quickly.

Maybe it was Steve Jobs back from the dead cuz he wanted to see what was taking down his empire...he was so pissed at the fact, he realized he could have made the iPhone 5.3"and completely ruled the entire universe... So out of anger trying to put the phone in dfu mode he accidentally shut it off!
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium

I heard people can hack you phone just by looking at it

Definitely Hacked!!!
You should send the phone to me immediately!
kraz

bamboo12 said:
I heard people can hack you phone just by looking at it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I heard people can hack you phone just by thinking about it

This thread made my night.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk

Being suspicious I removed the battery until I got home.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
that's where the secret agent in every one of us comes out!

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Cool story bro
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA

So, you were good hearted to hand your 500 GBP precious marvel to a complete stranger, but then you became suspicious that he might have hacked you? You should be forever grateful to him that he was good enough to give it back Unless you are some very important MI6 agent and hacking your Gnote is more precious to this stranger than simply walking away with it - I'd simply laugh at your funny story, like a parent laughs at his children when they are being chased by monsters in the bedroom And because I highly doubt that a MI6 agent or any other person who handles classified information will ever root their phones and install a custom ROM, I should really just start laughing ..
lol

LOL guys I'm laughting since 10mins reading your comments C'mon poor him he feared himself stop kidding him LoL the only right answer was "don't worry dude that was just a coincidence"
Sent from my Galaxy Note with DarkyROM 3.3

That poor bastard probably wanted to steal it, but after seeing it crash from a simple phone call decided it was a piece of ****. You got lucky it was rooted and unstable
Sent from my superior GT-N7000 using Tapatalk

Nice idea for an app. "is my droid hacked?" and then every time users hit "check", is should say: your droid has been hacked! Send it to (my adress) asap!

Reminds me how fool I was 7 years back.
I was abusing some people on yahoo. One of them told me they would hack my computer. And strange things (yahoo booters) started to happen. And I thought my machine was hacked.
@OP it was just a coincidence your phone restarted. Or flash the firmware again, make a clean installation by wiping data.

Wow, you let a stranger use your EXPENSIVE PHONE?? I don't know many people who would do that...it's like asking for troubles in my opinion.....You are definitely lucky that the person didn't have any bad intention.

if a stranger ask me if they can use my phone i will tell them to get their own phone... I don't even let my wife use it.
..

There are way worse things that could happen by letting a stranger use your phone (and it's highly unlikely you were hacked.) I had a friend that let someone use their phone a couple of times and they spent 5 years in federal prison because of it. The other person was under investigation for gang related activities (drugs) and the number they called was being monitored, too. Since my friend's phone called the phone number being monitored, when the cops busted everyone in the big conspiracy, they picked up my friend, too.
He fought it and sold his house to pay over $100,000 in legal fees, but still lost and went to federal prison. The record of his phone calling that number were all they needed to convict him. So there are way worse things to worry about when lending your phone to strangers than just being hacked.

Help me get my love back,maybe?

Hey guys, i don't do anything like this usually,its way awkward for me. But desperate times call for desperate measures as they say... Iv'e dated only one girl all my life...we have been in a stable relationship since the past 8 and a half years. but since the last two years,because of my career and all,and because of some silly things that happened, i did the worst mistake of my life. i abused her,didnt respect her and never trusted her even when i knew she is a good person...she loves my alot but three weeks back she left town to pursue her higher studies...eventually,she let it all out and told me she no longer wants to be in a relationship with me...last week was our anniversary and she didn't even bother to wish me...instead she said she likes someone else now. im shattered. i know somewhere deep down that this may not be the case and she wont ever do anything like this..we are from india and from conservative families.our families know about us and they all love me. still i went ahead and fell so low and have even messaged that guy on facebook today and begged him to leave this on for me...he's 26 and 4 years elder to me and my girl..he must be taking care and maybe thats why she slipped. i dunno what to do but i wanna get her back cos all ive been doing since last week is cry. i cannot afford to lose her or i know il\'ll ruin my life...
dear friends at XDA, i need your help.all i want is that if i post a number her...can you guys please send just one small sms to her with your own message for her to come back to me and end the sms with "varun loves you"? if you guys think i should still have her,will you please help me out...its a request and my life is dependent on that girl.please.

varunoza said:
Hey guys, i don't do anything like this usually,its way awkward for me. But desperate times call for desperate measures as they say... Iv'e dated only one girl all my life...we have been in a stable relationship since the past 8 and a half years. but since the last two years,because of my career and all,and because of some silly things that happened, i did the worst mistake of my life. i abused her,didnt respect her and never trusted her even when i knew she is a good person...she loves my alot but three weeks back she left town to pursue her higher studies...eventually,she let it all out and told me she no longer wants to be in a relationship with me...last week was our anniversary and she didn't even bother to wish me...instead she said she likes someone else now. im shattered. i know somewhere deep down that this may not be the case and she wont ever do anything like this..we are from india and from conservative families.our families know about us and they all love me. still i went ahead and fell so low and have even messaged that guy on facebook today and begged him to leave this on for me...he's 26 and 4 years elder to me and my girl..he must be taking care and maybe thats why she slipped. i dunno what to do but i wanna get her back cos all ive been doing since last week is cry. i cannot afford to lose her or i know il\'ll ruin my life...
dear friends at XDA, i need your help.all i want is that if i post a number her...can you guys please send just one small sms to her with your own message for her to come back to me and end the sms with "varun loves you"? if you guys think i should still have her,will you please help me out...its a request and my life is dependent on that girl.please.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok,it seems like you need help from an expert.
You mistreated her.and they hate that.you cant act like that to a girl! Se is always right,even if shes wrong.and if you really love her,you will understand that.you need to apologize,and tell her you made a huge mistake,and that you cant live without her.that she is your whole life,and you will do anything to get her back.now go get her!
Google™
Galaxy Nexus,CodeNameAndroid©Franco.kernel®

1st off..the worst you can do, you have done..
2nd..if she likes someone else and has moved on, i suggest you move on too...it is but natural that the depression last for a few days but make new friends and move on..dont stop talking though..
---------- Post added at 10:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:15 AM ----------
D3HuM4NiZ3D said:
Ok,it seems like you need help from an expert.
You mistreated her.and they hate that.you cant act like that to a girl! Se is always right,even if shes wrong.and if you really love her,you will understand that.you need to apologize,and tell her you made a huge mistake,and that you cant live without her.that she is your whole life,and you will do anything to get her back.now go get her!
Google™
Galaxy Nexus,CodeNameAndroid©Franco.kernel®
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That "you are my life, cant live without you" ****e works rarely..no girl who is genuinely angry and hurt will believe in that..

i know it that i have done mistakes...im working on that...it's hard for me and i know its even harder for her...i guess i took her for granted...she has loved me more than i can all her life...i dont know why after all these years she did this..she could have asked me to change,but she left by the time i realized my mistakes. problem is...she has blocked me everywhere,i cannot contact her on whatsapp or facebook or anywhere...she doesn't pick up unknown calls and india has limited the number of sms we can send to 20. i have three simcards and thats all i can manage to send.i never wrote to her a love letter even once,,,thanks to email and all...but today i even mailed her a 6 page long letter along with her favourite chocolates...i am not asking her to continue this relationship rihgt now...i will change and become the guy she always wanted and only then if she wants she can come back. she still loves me too much to leave me...maybe she's doing this to make me realize the importance of my career and to be a nice guy.. btw,both of us are android buffs,so i turned towards xda to help me out.

Since she's your first girlfriend, this also means that this is the first time you've experienced this. The feelings you're having are normal. You'll be sad and maybe cry for a while, but that's just natural. The worst thing you can do now is "stalking" her or send tons of SMS' or constantly calling her. Let her have some space and time to think, then after a while you can try to contact her and see if she wants to talk. If she says no, then move on. You can't force her to be with you.
I know you're having a hard time, but this is life.

varunoza said:
i know it that i have done mistakes...im working on that...it's hard for me and i know its even harder for her...i guess i took her for granted...she has loved me more than i can all her life...i dont know why after all these years she did this..she could have asked me to change,but she left by the time i realized my mistakes. problem is...she has blocked me everywhere,i cannot contact her on whatsapp or facebook or anywhere...she doesn't pick up unknown calls and india has limited the number of sms we can send to 20. i have three simcards and thats all i can manage to send.i never wrote to her a love letter even once,,,thanks to email and all...but today i even mailed her a 6 page long letter along with her favourite chocolates...i am not asking her to continue this relationship rihgt now...i will change and become the guy she always wanted and only then if she wants she can come back. she still loves me too much to leave me...maybe she's doing this to make me realize the importance of my career and to be a nice guy., she has a number on which she uses EDGE...its safe to post here cos she cannot recieve calls,just messages. . its a request if ppl can just message her anything that ends with "varun loves you" please no offences. btw,both of us are android buffs,so i turned towards xda to help me out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You say android buffs, make something special for her...
Honestly, move on..

its safe to post here cos she cannot recieve calls,just messages. [number removed]. its a request if ppl can just message her anything that ends with "varun loves you" please no offences. btw,both of us are android buffs,so i turned towards xda to help me out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I would advice you to remove that number from your post. This is a public forum after all.

King ACE said:
You say android buffs, make something special for her...
Honestly, move on..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i did.sent her a pendrive as well with a video...added something close to her heart in it. she's immature at times but a very nice person...i cnnot move on like this...afterall, how couldn't i be possessive for someone who makes me what i am...i love her..i have to do all this...just cannot let her go that easily!

You're smothering her. The things you're doing right now doesn't help. At all.

varunoza said:
i did.sent her a pendrive as well with a video...added something close to her heart in it. she's immature at times but a very nice person...i cnnot move on like this...afterall, how couldn't i be possessive for someone who makes me what i am...i love her..i have to do all this...just cannot let her go that easily!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No one's telling you to move on without trying..like i said, talk to her, explain your past and current situation and tell her you realise your mistake and promise you wont do it again..(not in the right mind atleast)..then give her some time to think over it(even if she gives a straight answer immediately) and if she comes back, well and good, if not, you need to move on too..

I have two bits of advice for you.
Firstly, if you do this...
varunoza said:
dear friends at XDA, i need your help.all i want is that if i post a number her...can you guys please send just one small sms to her with your own message for her to come back to me and end the sms with "varun loves you"? if you guys think i should still have her,will you please help me out...its a request and my life is dependent on that girl.please.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it will be immediately removed, probably reported by other members, and you will get in trouble for posting it. Do you really think that if you post her mobile number on here people will send her text messages telling her you love her, or do you think she'll get people ringing and texting her and "having fun" at her expense. Probably a bit of both. Do not post her number - official all proper and stuff mod warning for you!
Secondly, if she wants to move on then you have to move on as well. I know that's not what you want to hear, but you're going to have to do it eventually so you may as well start now. Accept that she has gone and get on with your life without her. When you're with the next love of your life you probably won't even think about her.
Harsh, but true.

Archer said:
I have two bits of advice for you.
Firstly, if you do this...
it will be immediately removed, probably reported by other members, and you will get in trouble for posting it. Do you really think that if you post her mobile number on here people will send her text messages telling her you love her, or do you think she'll get people ringing and texting her and "having fun" at her expense. Probably a bit of both. Do not post her number - official all proper and stuff mod warning for you!
Secondly, if she wants to move on then you have to move on as well. I know that's not what you want to hear, but you're going to have to do it eventually so you may as well start now. Accept that she has gone and get on with your life without her. When you're with the next love of your life you probably won't even think about her.
Harsh, but true.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wholly agreed upon..
this crap happened with me too, but i moved on..and as stated :
When you're with the next love of your life you probably won't even think about her.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

maybe i can't give you the best advise, after all i'm just 15 but i'd recommend this: have some time to think, just 1 or 2 or maybe if you need 3 days... just think about what she can reply to any of your words. at these days don't bother her - they are for looking inside yourself. make your speech perfect. then ask her (someway) to just sit down and talk normally - this way she will know you have changed, not by begging... then you take out your previously thought up speech and hope for the best... and one more thing - be positive - that way everything will turn up alright and in the best way possible
sent from my UFO via laser beams.

Yup...removed it. Had posted cos its number for her dongle.she cannot receive calls...I know I should be patient...if I am though...I'll lose her to someone else ..I'm just scared
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app

varunoza said:
Yup...removed it. Had posted cos its number for her dongle.she cannot receive calls...I know I should be patient...if I am though...I'll lose her to someone else ..I'm just scared
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
She already does like someone else, doesnt she?

Of course you're scared. But she's in control now, and you can't change that. Sending her loads of text messages won't help you. Give her time, and if she misses you, she'll contact you herself. I've been in this mess myself, and acting like a maniac with low self-esteem doesn't help.
Call your buds and do things with them. Play some Xbox or something and get your thoughts on something else.

King ACE said:
She already does like someone else, doesnt she?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Im in mumbai and she went to Manipal recently...she says she likes a guy she just met in her batch...and he treats her much better than what i did..it scrares the **** outta me cos never in the last 8 years she said something like this.

Buy her a android phone,and tell her to join xda we wil talk to her! Lolz!
Sent from my WT19i using xda premium

King ACE said:
She already does like someone else, doesnt she?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Looks like it, and that means that she's had an eye on the other guy for a while, which isn't good news.
---------- Post added at 10:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:07 AM ----------
stanlin salu said:
Buy her a android phone,and tell her to join xda we wil talk to her! Lolz!
Sent from my WT19i using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey hey hey, we got Dr.Phil for a reason

LordManhattan said:
Looks like it, and that means that she's had an eye on the other guy for a while, which isn't good news.
---------- Post added at 10:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:07 AM ----------
Hey hey hey, we got Dr.Phil for a reason
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yup, not good news...

Tracking My Actions

So I'm new with android, and the Moto X. I come from a long line of Nokia dumb phones so please forgive my ignorance.
I got the moto x yesterday, and it has changed my understanding of what a phone can be. But I never thought it would go this far....
First it told me where my house was, and how long it would take me to arrive. That was odd enough. Then last night a friend called me and texted me setting up a dinner date. I said sure I would go, then I proceeded to search up the menu of said restaurant.
The next thing I know I have a tile on my home screen telling me how long it would take me to arrive at the resturant.
No interaction, no Facebook invite, no nothing.
So how in the hell does this phone know so much about me??
Cool and all, just confused.
Sent from my XT1058 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

jason.912 said:
So I'm new with android, and the Moto X. I come from a long line of Nokia dumb phones so please forgive my ignorance.
I got the moto x yesterday, and it has changed my understanding of what a phone can be. But I never thought it would go this far....
First it told me where my house was, and how long it would take me to arrive. That was odd enough. Then last night a friend called me and texted me setting up a dinner date. I said sure I would go, then I proceeded to search up the menu of said restaurant.
The next thing I know I have a tile on my home screen telling me how long it would take me to arrive at the resturant.
No interaction, no Facebook invite, no nothing.
So how in the hell does this phone know so much about me??
Cool and all, just confused.
Sent from my XT1058 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That my friend, is the awesome power of Google Now.

Yep. Google does track your locations, but you agreed to it. It keeps a tab on your most common locations, so after time, it'll figure out where your work and where you live.
Sent from my XT1058 using xda app-developers app

Also, if you do searches using Google on your computer Google now will catch it and ve you the same directions you just searched for on your phone. Its really quite nice. If you get an email to your gmail account with shipping info google now will keep track of your package for you too.

I just wish Google would implement the Gmail stuff for the built-in (at minimum) email client. Not everyone uses Gmail and thus they lose out on, IMO, most useful options of Google Now.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 4

As others have said, Google builds an 'ecosystem' - if you use Chrome on your desktop and you sign in, and you sign in to Chrome on your phone and tablet, when you search on one, it will propogate not only your bookmarks but also your recent searches.
It's a little creepy at first, and I think also a reminder that someone is always watching, but it's also very convenient. It's great for me to search for a place on my PC browser, hop into my car, and have my phone tell me how far away I am and with one tap get turn-by-turn navigation.
Welcome to the world of Android and the moto X and enjoy!

It even knows when you're peeing.

SysAdmNj said:
It even knows when you're peeing.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I was wondering why it started laughing

Get alerts for Nexus 5 and 4.4 via Google

I posted this on G+ and thought I'd share it here.
So, there's an onslaught of people with all manner of "When will 4.4 or Nexus 5 be released?"
Let me help you out by teaching you a bit about Google Alerts.
Google Alerts is a sadly underused service. You can go to http://www.google.com/alerts first and type in Nexus 5 confirmed in the search box.
If you use RSS readers like feedly, you can change delivery to feed. To import it into feedly, after you finish creating the alert, right click the RSS icon next to the alert and copy link address. You then go into feedly and click on Add New Content and just paste the address into the box.
If you don't use RSS, leave it set to your email address.
Make sure that as-it-happens is selected.
Click on Create Alert.
Now, anytime Google gets a new search result that matches your search term, you'll either get an email or a new result in your RSS feeds. This will save you from hours upon hours of scouring the web for results on when it will be released. Feel free to make the search term whatever you like but I'm fairly confident once we have the exact release date, there'll be plenty of Nexus 5 confirmed results but you can also create multiple alerts for multiple search strings to cover your bases, just don't get mad at me if you get inundated with email.

I've used Google Alerts before and it's a fantastic service. Thanks for reminding me to use it here. I didn't put two and two together but great idea.

Finally a thread of use in the nexus 5 forums!
Sent from my Atrix HD using Tapatalk

Nice idea. Personally, I use G+ quite a bit so I'll know that it was released when it explodes with nerd joy followed quickly by nerd rage after Google Play screws something up. :silly:
I'll say this for them, though: I keep coming back for more because every order/pre-order is an adventure.

The problem is that by the time you get an alert, all the stock has been sold out.

ryude said:
The problem is that by the time you get an alert, all the stock has been sold out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The Nexus 4 was released in the store something like thirty minutes to an hour before the official announced time; I remember that my obsessive checking got me in before the rush (and then of course my order fell into limbo and I got my phone in the second wave of deliveries).
I say if you care enough to want to get it now, keep checking the obvious places when you get a chance.

ryude said:
The problem is that by the time you get an alert, all the stock has been sold out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The as-it-happens alerts I have set reach me no later than a couple of minutes.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

Watcher07 said:
The as-it-happens alerts I have set reach me no later than a couple of minutes.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It alerts you when there is news coverage, not when the phone is available for purchase. All the fanatics will be F5'ing it up and there's a high chance that by the time a news site picks up on it, all the stock will be dried up.

HIDDEN.

being undisclosed stage.

Woh that's a huge security bug. I, like test it late at my N5 MRA58K. If this is tru then every one should disable the smartlook Funktion. Thx for the info.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

R4V3N-2010 said:
Woh that's a huge security bug. I, like test it late at my N5 MRA58K. If this is tru then every one should disable the smartlook Funktion. Thx for the info.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, I'd probably say that OP should just open a ticket on Google's support page and everyone can star it.
Just make sure you star the issue only, DO NOT COMMENT!
If you comment an issue, everyone who starred it will get a notification. So if people start spam replying with "Me too, I'm also having this issue, Google please fix" etc. then your email gets blown up and that usually makes most people unstar it which means Google doesn't really look into it soon because it doesn't seem to be widespread enough. No need to say "I am also having this issue" as that is literally what the star means.
STAR ONLY!!!

Have you tried this by leaving your trusted place? Just going into the basement won't cut it if it's the same house, besides that, if you get a proper location lock on your location and disconnect from all networks, say you're using an app like Google maps, your icon will still move, and turn and stuff according to you, I use this with an old phone that has no service when I'm on my bicycle, I'll have to test this out my self