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Help wifi causing apps to run

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glorifiedsins

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When I open a wifi connection or allow use of apn certain apps will enable without me telling them to such as mediahub, socialhub, email, etc. How can I keep these programs from switching themselves to active when I turn wifi or apn on? Stock non rooted phone. Its just tedious to have to open settings and close them via the running programs page.
 
glorifiedsins said:
When I open a wifi connection or allow use of apn certain apps will enable without me telling them to such as mediahub, socialhub, email, etc. How can I keep these programs from switching themselves to active when I turn wifi or apn on? Stock non rooted phone. Its just tedious to have to open settings and close them via the running programs page.
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this is due to data mining and spying.

you will find when you open a gaming app, or almost any app, it will spawn like an alien and data mine your other apps to see what is on your phone, including your phone number/sim number/phone serial number (imsi and imei), browser history, bookmarks, etc., etc., etc.

sadly i have found with my past at&t samsung captivate, and my new galaxy s2, if you open one app, even your gallery, almost every single other app opens up. all those free apps are usually worse - just ask yourself - why would anyone do something for free? no one works for free.

this is regardless of wifi or not.

no need to believe me - just look at the permissions on your apps and you will see how invasive apps are now to spy / data mine.

this is done to do market research and see what users have on their phones, and then sell that information for marketing research.
 
I currently only have stock apps..and this doesn't occur because I open an app it occurs because the active connection whether via apn or wifi is initiated.

I even tested this with a factory reset..I reset, open no app and initiated wifi and bam mediahub socialhub and multiple others became a running application. I factory reset and this time allowed apn and the same result.
 
Your best/only option is to root (very simple and straightforward), and use titanium backup to freeze or uninstall the stock apps. I prefer to freeze unless you want to become familiar with formatting stock ROMs back on (if you need to return phone).
 
seanpr123 said:
Your best/only option is to root (very simple and straightforward), and use titanium backup to freeze or uninstall the stock apps. I prefer to freeze unless you want to become familiar with formatting stock ROMs back on (if you need to return phone).
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I'd rather have a fix that didn't void my warranty but thank you for the input.
 
i cant download anything over wifi connection.....i can just open the internet sites....i cant open even android market...............plz help
 
jeet13291 said:
i cant download anything over wifi connection.....i can just open the internet sites....i cant open even android market...............plz help
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an old pc rule: when in doubt, turn off.

turn off your sgs2 without the charger in it, then wait 30 seconds, then turn on, and it will do a soft reboot. i have found this fixes 100% of any weird issues. although i personally have not had your issue, sometimes i think the server gets overloaded, but give this a try.

we all forget these modern phones are actually computers which happen to make calls.

good luck..
 
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