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Handcent and Where's my Droid--any issues?

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andadroid

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Hi,

I want to install a non-native sms app (handcent) as well as Where's My Droid, however both programs have access to communication and contacts, which always worries me, esp on a free program.
Does anyone know if there are any known datamining problems with these apps? Any other malicious code, etc? Just want to check before I download.

Thanks!
 
andadroid said:
Hi,

I want to install a non-native sms app (handcent) as well as Where's My Droid, however both programs have access to communication and contacts, which always worries me, esp on a free program.
Does anyone know if there are any known datamining problems with these apps? Any other malicious code, etc? Just want to check before I download.

Thanks!
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In fairness, I think you're pretty screwed if you want an SMS program that doesn't have access to communication and contacts, they are pretty vital to a messaging program. Handcent is a pretty popular program, so I'm fairly sure it would have come up if they were data-mining
 
Can't Speak for Where's My Droid, but Handcent is such a hugely popular app that if there were issues with it someone would have called them out by now.
 
I just installed Handcent and like it very much.

I cannot get the stock messenger to stop receiving and keeping messages, though.

How is that done? Should I just go into the manage applications area and "force stop?"
 
Frisco said:
I just installed Handcent and like it very much.

I cannot get the stock messenger to stop receiving and keeping messages, though.

How is that done? Should I just go into the manage applications area and "force stop?"
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Go into the stock messaging app, go into menu, and disable notifications
 
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