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Android versus Google
by
celeste:crystalfaery
© Living Soul
Sun May 27 06:56:06 HST 2018
Google Android running phones have been caught-in-the-act "phoning home" to Goooooooooooooogle to report the phone's location, even with the Subscriber Identity Module removed and the phone "OFF".
Some apps for Android depend-upon "Google Play Services", regularly exchanging data with Google servers.
Thus i had done my best to remove Google, the Google Play Store, and Google Play Services.
i awoke during the night...
yep, it's definitely still dark.
i grab my mobile phone,
noting that it feels warm to the touch.
4 percent battery charge? Huh? Say what?
Of course! My cellphone is infected by cryptocoin_mining_ware!
As i power-off my Android_running ARM_architecture MotoG4Play,
i realize that i have "come to that point,
the point of no return,
that sad state of affairs which can only become happy again,
with a full reset to factory state,
with the concomitant loss of all contacts and media,
settings, preferences, apps, and private crypto-keys,
or at least perhaps those encrypted...
faery girl vaguely remembers backing-up her encryption keys?
In Settings entry "AboutPhone" -- "System Updates" we found updates from Motorola for the firmware (presumably), and from Goooogle for Android.
This, after days, is what i was able to assemble via the
F-Droid app after turning on its
"Guardian Repository".
Downloading that was the only thing which required Chrome.
The Yalp store was required to install a copy of the X-plore App.
- ALSA Mixer WebUI
- Android Permissions
- AntennaPod
- Barcode Scanner
- Beacon Locator
- Binaural Beats
- BRouter
- Clip Stack
- Copy to Clipboard
- Currency
- debDroid
- Delta Chat
- Document Viewer
- Dumbphone Assistant
- Easy Open Link
- Easy xkcd
- Echo
- F-Droid
- Fairphone Launcher 3
- Feeder
- Flashlight
- FreedomBox
- GfxTablet
- GSM Location Service
- Hacker's Keyboard
- Hash Droid
- IceCatMobile
- Intent Intercept
- K-9 Mail
- KDE Connect
- Kontalk
- Linphone
- List My Apps
- LocationPrivacy
- microMathematics Plus
- ObscuraCam
- Obsqr
- OONI Probe
- Open Camera
- Open Link With
- OpenArchive
- OpenBeautyFacts
- OpenFoodFacts
- OpenKeychain
- OpenLauncher
- Orbot
- Orfox
- Orweb
- OS Monitor
List made using List My Apps
KDE Connect on Plasma Mobile clues us as to future development.