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How to tell if your calls are being hacked?

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Balial

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Let me first tell you how this started, about three months ago I noticed that every phone call I made or received my imsi catcher would show an alert.
I have had this on my phone for years never had a problem. I even contacted the developers of the app and they told me that I have someone or something that is redirecting my calls.
Last week I downloaded a new app called wire tap detector. Didn't have a problem till this afternoon, when I was receiving a call both apps went off. The new app showed this com.samsung.android.incallui. now I have read your threads on this subject and I believe that it is responsible for more because it is showing up as a hidden call, and it is not using my known cell towers in my area. No new towers are being built. I want to know what that incallui is about. Please help me.
 
If your phone calls are being intercepted, it's most likely law enforcement and there's little you can do to avoid it unless you just stop using your phone. For someone off the street to just go out in public, set up their own cellular tower that matches the frequencies of your carrier, and start recording and manipulating your phone activity is the kind of stuff you only see in a TV show.
And basically, a really good black hat hacker isn't going to reveal what's being done to you anyway. A well-crafted hack is very hard to detect unless you're actually looking for it specifically.
 
svim said:
If your phone calls are being intercepted, it's most likely law enforcement and there's little you can do to avoid it unless you just stop using your phone. For someone off the street to just go out in public, set up their own cellular tower that matches the frequencies of your carrier, and start recording and manipulating your phone activity is the kind of stuff you only see in a TV show.
And basically, a really good black hat hacker isn't going to reveal what's being done to you anyway. A well-crafted hack is very hard to detect unless you're actually looking for it specifically.
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I agree with you, it's like I said In my thread. I have had this app " cell spy catcher" on my phone for years and have never had a problem it has performed exactly how it's supposed to, I have had it on three different phones and I have never had a problem. So if I am being monitored which I am sure is being done without a warrant, I want to know how they are averting my calls. I believe they are doing so through the "incallui".. would rooting my phone work to rid me of this or is it in the operating system itself? There has to be a solution.
 
To spell it out, literally, com.samsung.android.incallui means "Samsung android in-call user interface". In other words it's the thing that shows you who is calling, lets you answer and hang up, switch to speaker, etc.

As Danny says, any phone call involves this app by definition. If your anti-spy apps are saying this is a problem I don't think it means anything other than "you are in a phone call".
 
Balial said:
I agree with you, it's like I said In my thread. I have had this app " cell spy catcher" on my phone for years and have never had a problem it has performed exactly how it's supposed to, I have had it on three different phones and I have never had a problem. So if I am being monitored which I am sure is being done without a warrant, I want to know how they are averting my calls. I believe they are doing so through the "incallui".. would rooting my phone work to rid me of this or is it in the operating system itself? There has to be a solution.
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One practical solution is to be wary of what apps like 'Cell Spy Catcher' are telling you. Another much less practical solution, since you're convinced that 'com.samsung.android.incallui' is the problem, is to just switch to a different smartphone that is not a Samsung model.
Also note that rooting your phone does give you the ability to change system-level services but it does not give you the knowledge to do so. Once rooted you can delete some app/service you don't want but you can also brick your phone or at least disable vital features rendering it much less useful. Rooting is not a magic fix for all ills.
 
svim said:
...or at least disable vital features rendering it much less useful...
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Along these lines, in the use it is against the law to render a cell phone unable to dial 911, so if you muck around with the calling capability of the phone you may find yourself in legal hot water.
 
Dannydet said:
com.samsung.android.incallui is the normal call application, nothing to worry about.
I would worry about imsi catcher and wiretap detector.
9 times out of 10, those types of apps are snake oil
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Then why would it show it is sendi
Hadron said:
To spell it out, literally, com.samsung.android.incallui means "Samsung android in-call user interface". In other words it's the thing that shows you who is calling, lets you answer and hang up, switch to speaker, etc.

As Danny says, any phone call involves this app by definition. If your anti-spy apps are saying this is a problem I don't think it means anything other than "you are in a phone call".
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So if I removed that from my phone , the incallui. My phone would function correct. It is vital to the operation of the phone. Just asking...
 
I thought I had been clear. As Danny says, no your phone will not work without it. And I do not trust that your anti-spy apps have identified the culprit correctly (if there is a culprit) - they may just have tagged the app that is running in the foreground during a call.

What was it you didn't finish asking though: "Then why would it show it is sendi"
 
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