Help Vzw SMS filter service

[neckchop]

Does anyone know what this is? Is it something vital? If not, is it safe to remove? Thanks in advance to anyone who can provide a little more insight.

 

[ofHATEandENVY]

I'm confused on what you are talking about. You can do call and message blocking from certain numbers, up to five. You can also block just MMS or SMS or Premium SMS if you desire.

 

[neckchop]

This is what I was talking about...

 

[neckchop]

Perhaps it is for the blocking features you talked about.

 

[MrB206]

If that's the case and if you're not blocking numbers through your VZ account, then it can probably be frozen.

 

[neckchop]

I just froze it, so I'll wait and see if any issues crop up. I just didn't like the name of it, and balk a little at thought of vzw filtering or overseeing my messages

 

[ofHATEandENVY]

When your phone boots it registers on the network and checks provisioning. That's what that service does , it makes that provisioning happen...so to say .

 

[neckchop]

So a bad idea to freeze then?

 

[ofHATEandENVY]

as long as messaging is working, I don't see why it's a bad idea.

 

[MrB206]

It shouldn't affect messaging, if what Envy says is the purpose of the app. If it's just the user-defined filtering that you can set up in your account page with vz, then it's just to sync to vz for those phone numbers and then block them, no more, no less. Freezing the app shouldn't do anything other than allow sms from those blocked numbers to come through; if you're not blocking numbers, there's no effect on the phone.

 

[ofHATEandENVY]

I don't know for sure, but I would assume so.

 

[death2all110]

I don't know for sure, but I would assume so.

The blocking happpens off the phone and on vzw servers.it is something with provisioning i assume. upload the apk and ill try to check it out?

 

[neckchop]

The blocking happpens off the phone and on vzw servers.it is something with provisioning i assume. upload the apk and ill try to check it out?

I don't have anywhere to uploadthe APK to, but if you pm me an address I can email it to you

 

[death2all110]

I don't have anywhere to uploadthe APK to, but if you pm me an address I can email it to you

you can actually attach it to your post using the go advanced button under the quick reply text box

 

[MrB206]

Here ya go. http://db.tt/ayQ4KyHu

 

[death2all110]

kk. its decompiled. ill take a look in a bit

 

[death2all110]

Been spending the last 2 hours looking at the stuff..

I'm not quite sure what its doing, its not sending it off anyplace. So its not really logging the sms ....

It definitely reads the SMS messages though. Not exactly sure why/what all it does...

SMSWakeUpService.Class:
[Java] SMSWakeUpService.class - Pastebin.com

Which is called by:
OnSMSReceiver.class
[Java] OnSMSReceiver.class - Pastebin.com

I'll upload the classes.jar file. I used dex2jar to get the classes.dex into a jar file. Then used JD-GUI to take a look at the *.class files. Used APKTool for the AndroidManifest.xml

AndroidManifest.xml:
[XML] AndroidManifest.xml - Pastebin.com

classes-dex2jar.jar

Just google APKTool, JD-GUI, and dex2jar if you want to decompile and take a look yourself....

You just need JD-GUI (Windows, Linux, OSX) to look at the provided jar file.

Can someone with the app still running uninterrupted please dump the '/data/data/com.vzw.sms' directory and PM me a link to it. PM it just in case theres personal info. If you can, post a file listing here in a reply and let me know if you're uploading the dump please...... Example command to use... 'ls -la /data/data/com.vzw.sms'

 

[neckchop]

Thanks for looking at it, that's cool of you to do so. Call me slightly paranoid, but i don't know that unlike vzw reading my SMS for some unknown reason. I think I'll freeze it, wait to see what happens, then go from there.

 

[MrB206]

Can someone with the app still running uninterrupted please dump the '/data/data/com.vzw.sms' directory and PM me a link to it. PM it just in case theres personal info. If you can, post a file listing here in a reply and let me know if you're uploading the dump please...... Example command to use... 'ls -la /data/data/com.vzw.sms'

I gotcha covered. PM coming in a sec.

 

[death2all110]

Thanks! you sent that just as i was waking up. xD

I need someone who is STOCK, ROOTED, AND using the stock messaging app with the VZW SMS Filter app UNINTERRUPTED. Get me the dump I requested above. Please.

 

[MrB206]

So let's discuss what you found here. I have a feeling it's not being used in BrokenOut, since that folder is empty. I'm using GoSMS and it's possible the app was designed to work in conjunction with 'messaging.apk'... which would be odd and limited, but possible.

 

[death2all110]

So let's discuss what you found here. I have a feeling it's not being used in BrokenOut, since that folder is empty. I'm using GoSMS and it's possible the app was designed to work in conjunction with 'messaging.apk'... which would be odd and limited, but possible.

Well I talked to someone who i trust to be fairly knowledgeable and it appears as though the app reads the texts, checks possibly if its valid, and deletes it if not. Its interesting as it doesnt relay the info to any IP/server. And doesn't log said info. All it seems to do if it catches an exception, like an invalid sms, is send it to the logcat

 

[MrB206]

That seems pretty benign. Can you look into the lgmlt app and see what it's doing?

 

[death2all110]

Sure. Got an APK?

 

[finndo77]

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