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Hm, is there a more appropriate thread in which to comment that I won't be using NetGuard or financially supporting its development while it actively precludes the use of Xposed? It's your project and it seems you have made a calculated decision about this, but I wanted to post feedback that you...

Just wanted to stop by to say that I decided to install NetGuard for the first time today. I was disappointed to see that I would have been able to try it had I downloaded it a month ago with version 2.163 only to find out today that my device is no longer supported in the current build. As I...

Furthermore, even if the Xposed port to Android N worked and XPrivacy loaded, it would be a non sequitur to assume it would function as expected given the changes in the OS. The privacy attack surface changes with each new Android API level, rendering M66B's porting task into a Sisyphean labor...

Right, that would be the archetypal "**** you" error message I was referencing. I didn't see you mention that before — only "missing features". With a user-visible error and demand that you reconfigure your device, that makes it obviously intentional & malicious. I disagree. This is standard...

What specifically ends up changing if xprivacy is enabled? I.e. does this look more like an intentional disabling, or does it look like a bug in the uber app? In general, apps that fail these kinds of "system integrity tests" are straightforward with the "**** you, reconfigure your device the...

Presumably you meant v87.

Okay, at this point I'm willing to look stupid and ask the question too. My brand new 3T was running OOS 3.5.4 and supported VoLTE (displaying an annoying, very wide VoLTE status bar icon at all times). I flashed this ROM—thanks for all the work, Sultanxda—but there's no obnoxious VoLTE icon...

What manner of evil app would do such a thing? Mind sharing the name of the app so that the company involved can be added to my permanent boycott list? If it were me, my first inclination would be to disassemble the app and look at the code. The detection is likely to be performed within the...

Here's a great example: go into the Android permissions control for Google Play Services. Disable the permission for Body Sensors and Microphone. Then try to use the GMail app to compose an email. See what the error message literally says. So, **** you very much, google. You're officially as bad...

In addition to XPrivacy, I'm already using AFWall+, AppOps Xposed, and an always-on VPN. Cool, I'll check it out for consideration to be added it into the mix. Thanks. A firewall is necessary but insufficient due to in-band privacy leaks. I require XPrivacy to intercept calls and feed apps...

Thanks. Well, I *need* XPrivacy and not only is that dependent on Xposed but I subsequently found out that development likely won't support anything later than Marshmallow. So, that's where I'll be indefinitely until someone replicates that. It does. Thanks. The largest concern is battery...

Yes, this would indeed disable the permissions. In addition to using XPrivacy, AFWall, a VPN, etc, I also use permission revocation via AppOpsXposed in Marshmallow. However, go ahead and try the permission revocations and see how many apps run as you expect. I'm not talking about revoking "Keep...

I put no faith in disabling permissions at the Android level to secure my privacy. CyanogenMod 7 tried that, and apps failed to work/FC'd all the time, because it was outright permission revocation (the CM devs refused to allow data faking). I understand that now apps would be required to expect...

I disagree, unless you were making a reference to Wirth's law. My Nexus 5 crawls today in comparison to how it ran years ago, and I'm constantly short on RAM when I wasn't in the past. Most of this is the bloat caused by apps. It will help, of course, that the OS wouldn't be upgraded. I also...

Presuming no Xposed framework will ever be available for Android N or later, what hardware would you buy today? I will not run an Android version without Xposed (due to the need for XPrivacy). Therefore, I seek opinions on the best available, future-proofed hardware to run Xposed. For example...

While the approach has merit (e.g. I use Little Snitch on Mac OS to great effect), the more insidious issue is in-band privacy violations (I do agree that this is a valuable addition for defense in depth, of course). If the same server that is providing the app's functional datastream is *also*...

Yes. I am planning to buy a OnePlus 5, but I won't buy it without XPrivacy (or functional equivalent). I like all the other command over the system that I can get via Xposed, but I simply refuse to run Android without XPrivacy. It's so fundamental that if my N5 dies before XPrivacy is available...

I agree that asking for ETAs is crass, but the status of Xposed support is the sole deciding factor for me when I consider whether to upgrade my OS. If there is no Xposed support, I will not run the OS. I ended up skipping Lollipop entirely and jumped straight from Ice Cream Sandwich to...

I stumbled across your thread while searching for a solution to a nearly identical issue on Marshmallow: notifications for open wifi APs would pop up, the pull-down status bar WiFi icon would list available nearby networks, but clicking on one would advance to the network setup screen that...

You are running XPosed and your ROM isn't deodexed. Wiping dalvik-cache cannot help for system apps. I mention this because I came across your post when I was trying to get the carrier settings to work on stock 6.0.1 factory w/ Xposed loaded: the error you posted is pathognomonic for the...

Thanks for the useful advice, Eregoth. I had a slightly different issue crop up that required flashing a 4.18 bootloader in order to be able to reapply the 4.23 bootloader. I attempted to apply the factory image for 4.4.4 (obtained straight from Google) using the flash-all script. It ended up...

That's unfortunate. I spent a long time searching as well. Eventually, I snagged some micro usb 2.0 cables with 22 AWG power wires from arctic.ac about 6 months ago in order to charge my N7 faster. They are great, but the product seems to have been discontinued. You might give this product on...

Haha, thanks anyway. It's amazing how this concept circulated in the online echo chamber and became "well established knowledge"... yet turned out to be nothing but a myth. Between my searches and all the responses so far, I'm left to conclude there is no way to recalibrate the battery. Not...

I did that twice this weekend. Just now, my N7 jumped from 20% to 0% and shut itself down again. As a bonus, because it's now dying directly from ~20% I don't even get a low charge warning at all. I think I will explore the warranty replacement route for my device. Too bad, because it's just a...

Your rant is extraneous, which you would have understood had you read the thread. If you happened to have read the thread and decided to rant regardless, then I'm perplexed why you believed that your rant would contribute to the discussion.

Right, this goes back to the low signal to noise ratio. Every FAQ about battery calibration that I have found discusses removing batterystats.bin (either manually or with an app). As I said before, that has nothing to do with battery calibration. Therefore, I decided to ask here to see if...

Thanks for your reply. That app is the Android equivalent of a placebo. If you check the store, the description clearly states, "This program does it by removing the batterystats.bin system file." Unfortunately, that file has nothing to do with battery calibration. That also means that the CWM...

I have been heavily using my N7, unplugged, for the past 3 hours and the battery status is still at 100%. I have rebooted 3x to see if the battery status system would reset, but to no avail. Earlier today my N7 gave me the 14% low charge warning and then jumped to 0% and triggered automatic...

Thanks. I tweaked the OP to indicate this more clearly.

Absolutely. As I mentioned in the OP, this isn't the fastest solution. Hell, you can probably tell I don't even recommend it for common scenarios. That said, the approach *does* work. Before I started this I searched and was unable find any other way to accomplish the specific goal of...

Based on some of the experiments conducted by others in this thread, it seems likely. The equation from my previous post can be manipulated to estimate max current: maxCurrentInMilliamps = 175,000/(60 + lengthInFeet * awgMilliohmResistancePerFoot) I don't want to oversell the theoretical...

We should be able to roughly calculate the maximum acceptable USB cable length as a function of current draw. According to the USB spec, the plug-to-plug resistance of a cable should not be in excess of 0.6 ohms. This roughly correlates to the USB voltage spec of 4.75 - 5.25V, as the voltage...

Thanks for your reply. As for the original APK working fine, I suspected as much given the distinct lack of complaints from others. After several cycles of applying the PDroid patch, testing with the official apk, uninstalling, then installing/testing my modified version, unapplying the patch...

Am I the only one experiencing issues with the PDroid apk on Jelly Bean? I obtained the relevant PDroid apk from the official PDroid thread, but when launched it displayed a dialog informing me that it only supported Gingerbread (and then terminated). After searching for quite some time I...

Ipso facto, yes it does: it gives you the choice to skip the WiFi configuration during the initial setup. Whether this is a useful option for you is a decision you make for yourself, but now you have a choice about it whereas you had none before. That's not salient to this thread, but I...

True. I was dissatisfied with the original approach because of the risk of causing boot failure, so I refactored the implementation to avoid the problem altogether. The updated procedure should be cleaner & more efficient.

It appears that 644 will work as well. Allowing group/other "write" permissions seems to be the cause of the boot failure. Regardless, suffice it to say that the outcome of a standard "adb push" of the file results in incorrect permissions, at least on my configuration (ie. 666, which is Wrong)...

I just got my Nexus 7 this evening and was incensed to find out that I could not skip the WiFi network selection phase of setup. This really irked me because I chose this device specifically because it was open/hackable/etc. Instead, I found that immediately after I picked up the device I was...

I like your train of thought. Unfortunately, even if that were to work you would be unable to configure the feature, because the UI is in the CM Settings apk (ie. the apk that makes "CyanogenMod Settings" menu option appear in your Android settings). If you were to also grab the CM 7.1 settings...

You know, I realized after posting that I probably look like a jerk for not offering. I apologize. There are issues that seem to preclude this, however. The target of the relatively minor code changes necessarily included one of the fundamental framework jars. When I was developing the...

Yeah, running a nightly (or a ROM that pulls from nightly) is currently the only practicable choice to get the feature. I backported the feature's code to the CM 7.0.3 codebase and built a custom ROM for my own device. I wanted the feature but didn't want to run the unstable nightly on my...

Any ROM that is derived from HTC Sense should have this feature, as well as any ROM that pulls from CM 7.1 as an upstream (ie. a ROM derived from CM 7.1). I doubt other non-Sense/non-CM-derived ROMs would have the feature because it was coded for CM and committed to their source repo only.

This feature is new in CM 7.1. However, other users have reported success using Delayed Lock + WidgetLocker apps from the market to effect the same functionality, though I am uncertain how well they play with the Exchange server's demands. Alternately, if you really don't want this security...

Solved. Ironically, DramatikBeats is correct. Was wrong at the time but is correct now, provided a CM 7.1 build from 27 July 2011 or later is used. You can trust me about this because I know where I put the controls for the new feature (haha). Details from another thread.

Hm, I don't have WidgetLocker. The essential concept of my patch was to fire two events on different delays (show slide & show security). If you are seeing the security lockscreen show up as min(slide_delay, security_delay) then it is probable that WidgetLocker has either reconfigured the...

Yeah, this was a definite pain point for me: the choice between potentially pocket-launching apps (and rearranging widgets, WTF?!) or inputting my security unlock every few minutes. Why choose? It's a false dichotomy. I love CM7 and didn't want to have to make excuses for a lacking feature. I...

A code patch was required for this feature This is an HTC Sense feature and it is not part of AOSP. Early this month, I submitted patchsets to provide this feature in CM7. They have been reviewed, approved and merged. This feature is included in CM7 nightlies as of 27 July 2011. There is...

A code patch was required for this feature I noticed the same thing and discovered that this is an HTC Sense feature and it is not part of AOSP. So, early this month, I submitted patchsets to provide this feature in CM7. They have been reviewed, approved and merged. This feature is included...

Yep, pretty cool. I was just coming back here to edit my post with an update about it. I am rather jazzed because this was my first foray into Android development (why not start with the OS instead of just writing an app?). Hope it accomplishes what you intended. There is an "Immediately"...

A code patch is required for this feature The separate slide lock/security lock is a feature in Froyo Sense but will require a code patch for CM7. I have submitted a patch to CM Gerrit and if it is upvoted/approved it will be merged into a future CM7 release. Because I am a new user here, I am...