Just a few weeks ago I read (I think on DarkReading) that there are many cheap phones which come with malware built in. I google'd for this when I found this link:
http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2014/12/coolreaper-revealed-backdoor-coolpad-android-devices/ Bottom line - avoid these devices, and if already got them then see whether you can wipe them out completely and replace with an open ROM like CyanogenMod (http://www.cyanogenmod.org/) or others (http://www.needrom.com/category/coolpad/) On 27 December 2014 at 00:54, David Harel <harel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings' > > I have an Android/Linux related question here. I hope I am not out of line > in this request for help. > > My son purchased an Android phone in China (against my recommendation). > It's a phone by Coolpad the module is 7620l > Apparently the Android installation for Chinese is different than what we > are used to get in "Western countries". No Google account, no Google play > store and it seems that all network activities went through China (for > inspection?, really slow on network activity). > It took me a while to find English Rom for it and then some time to root > it (temporarily - will explain later). > Now I got Google account and other "Western" stuff but still: > 1. Root is removed after reboot > 2. Google play services crashes and so does the address book sync > operation. > > Looking at the article: http://elinux.org/Android_Booting > my questions: > 1. Any idea where I can find strace for Android (based on Arm CPU) > 2. Can I go into "Console mode" ? In case I fiddle with init*.rc scripts > and break the OS (for manual recovery of those scripts). > 3. The su command (and copies of it that had SUID bit set on it) were > deleted during boot. Any idea what could have done that? > 4. Any idea what cold make the google play services get killed every time? > > Thanks > David Harel > Amuka > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer>
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