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Help Location turned itself on randomly while watching youtube and the notification deleted itself

Hadron
Those are settings within Settings > Location, but they aren't separate apps on my phone (Pixel 2, Android 11). I expect that both of those are "on" by default, though I turn "Location Accuracy" off myself.

But there will be system apps that have location permission by definition. For example, you can't deny location permission to Google Play Services, you can only turn location off completely (Google's location service is part of Play Services, so if you have any app that uses Google's location service then Play Services has to have location access).

"Google Location Accuracy" is misnamed anyway: it's the setting that turns on wireless network location, not something that improves accuracy (at least not if you have a GPS fix - if you haven't then even the crude location you get from networks is more accurate than nothing, but if you have a GPS fix their contribution to accuracy is negligible). But it is a setting that is very easy to turn on without knowing it: any app using a particular Google API is likely to feed you a pop-up when you use it that tells you "For a better experience, turn on device location, which uses Google's location service". That's designed to sound like you have location off, but it really means "enable this setting" (if you have location on but that setting off it means you only use GPS for location). I particularly hate the dishonesty of this pop-up because if you go to Settings to turn this on there is a disclaimer that tells you that enabling it allows Google to track your location, but if you touch "OK" on the pop-up, which is already deceptively named, it just turns it on without showing the disclaimer.
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OAndBackupX ReFork

MrJavi
Unforgiven said:
Maybe the original that this is forked from does. @tdoxent sort of hints at this.
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Yes, I noticed that but still it's to bad it doesn't work on lower versions. Probably better that it didn't as I'm a bit sceptical. For one, the download comes in a .rar file and that seems kind of unusual to me.
The OAndBackupX (fork) on XDA differs from @tdoxent 's.

xda

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.xda-developers.com/oandbackupx-android-backup-app/amp/


https://github.com/machiav3lli/oandbackupx

@tdoxent 's "refork"ed apk is named "machsi-backup.apk" .


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how to use camera of the smartphone on a tablet

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Hadron said:
There's no way that I know of doing that. The usual workaround is to join the meeting from both devices (Zoom has no problem with you signing in to the same account on more than one device and joining either the same meeting or two different meetings simultaneously).

But what is the camera being used for? It doesn't need to be any good if its only purpose is to show the teacher that he's really there (and if you need to show an object or some writing most devices have a rear camera that's good enough for that purpose).
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the camera is for the teacher, that wants to watch and monitor the guys...
or even during a classtest or an interview

ok guys, thank you very much anyway
it's a pity, I hoped it was possible
:(
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Think I'm being hacked

Hadron
Nothing you've said suggests any problem with your phone. It sounds like someone has hacked your account, which if you use a weak password, or the same password on many sites (one of which has poor password security and gets hacked itself), and don't use 2-factor authentication, can happen even if your phone is completely secure (except, of course, if someone has your GMail passwork your phone is no longer completely secure).

Change your password (use a secure one that you don't use anywhere else), enable two-factor authentication, check your Google account's security settings to see what devices have accessed it and de-authorise any that you don't recognise.
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Help Purchased Note 9 Pro Max By Steven lash San Diego

ocnbrze
Steven lash San Diego said:
Hi,

I have purchased Note 9 Pro Max last week. I have been facing some problem while using phone, sometime its touch not working properly and its just 3 days older how come i overcome this problem. Any suggestions and help really be appreciated.

Thanks,
Steven lash San Diego
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factory reset it. if the issue still exists after, then we can mostly rule out software issue.....which means that you most likely have a hardware issue. i would then get it replaced via your warranty.
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Adding ROLE_ASSISTANT capability to your app

D
I just read that we can now add the assistant feature to our own app. I've added this intent in my manifest:

<action android:name="android.intent.action.ASSIST" />

And then trying to capture the audio input (using the MediaRecorder APIs) when I speak into my Bluetooth voice remote, but just getting silence. It seems like I need to add this role, RoleManager.ROLE_ASSISTANT to my app. Any ideas how this can be done? Thanks in advance
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GrapheneOS best security question

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9cc3985ae3094d8b said:
I'm not sure I understood every question correctly, but I tried my best:

Apps isolated by Insular shouldn't be able to grab your personal information. But AFAIK they will still be able to grab device-specific information (like your IMEI).


This is up to you. But given how privacy conscious you are, you should probably go with the Graphene as main phone.


It most certainly is safer not to use aurora apps - in general. Simply because of their proprietary nature.


Other than the facts, that
1. no WiFi-AP can log your Android-phone's MAC
and
2. all apps on the A-phone that like to log the MAC of the connected WiFi will log a randomized/useless MAC (if Graphene is setup this way),
I see no real privacy benefit in this.
This is still not an effective tool against WiFi triangulation, because your phone will still gather the MACs of all other surrounding WiFis.
And if your necessary apps phone home, all data they gathered still runs off to the companies.
Of course, when combined with Insular, the data they are able to gather is limited.
In this regard, I don't think there is much of a difference between connecting the A-phone through Graphene or connecting it directly.


In theory, by connecting the phones, malware could spread from one to the other.
But again, it depends on you and how likely you find such a scenario.
You should probably do a lot of reading on the threats you find the most important/areas where you see yourself at risk.
That way you gain an understanding of what to do/avoid and a general sense of how likely certain things are/how much effort adversaries would have to invest.
You really need to figure out your own, personal threat model. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.
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Thank you very much again for youre great advice!!

The things you mentioned make sense to me, and i will search about more information about the important areas where i want to keep my privacy.

I have still one question haha. In GrapheneOs it says it randomizes MAC adresses. GrapheneOs also metions that it does not WIFI triangulation. So in fact this means every time when i connect via wifi it looks like it is a new phone right? Or does it not work like that way? Because i think the Big Tech company's still can find my imei number (maybe more work) but still possible right?

And the second question is. What if i don't make connection via Wifi and only via 4g/LTE? Does it still creates randomized Mac adressess. And what are the pro's and con's with working with Wifi/Wifi "small hub" and directly from a prepaid card 4g/LTE?

Thank you very much.
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