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Reflash with firmware.
I suggest you take a look here for how to do this using rktool

http://www.modaco.com/forums/topic/3...0131016200812/
 

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Originally Posted by mscion View Post
@switch-hitter which version of android is your device running?
It's 4.2

Originally Posted by biketool View Post
I do not know how easy this is to do with stock Android but on Cyanogen it is easy to not install any Google stuff, instead choosing F-Droid for a software repository and if you really need an APK or two from the amazon and google stores use http://android-apk-downloader.com
I searched for a Cyanogenmod rom for the Hudl but without success.
 

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More Android maleware then apps in the WP application store.

http://forensics.spreitzenbarth.de/android-malware/
 

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Originally Posted by jellyroll View Post
More Android maleware then apps in the WP application store.

http://forensics.spreitzenbarth.de/android-malware/
? Android malware in WP application store ?
 

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Originally Posted by nieldk View Post
? Android malware in WP application store ?
My understanding was the there are more Android apps with malware than the total of apps in the WP application store.
 

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Originally Posted by biketool View Post
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I quit using Ubuntu Touch mostly because it tried to force a Launchpad Ubuntu-Store model onto users vs the desktop open repos we are used to.
I am curious do you dislike Sailfish as to get updates you need a Jolla signin which is also needed for their store?

Are people not able to add repos to Ubuntu touch?
 
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
My understanding was the there are more Android apps with malware than the total of apps in the WP application store.
The android ecosystem, at tleast the one on google-play is pretty weak. It seems like mostly web link or website API plugins providing no service greater than a browser bookmark on the desktop. To make matters worse there are so damn many duplicate apps on google-play which only differ in what ads it is downloading over my data plan. There are paid apps but even these are not a sure thing, they could also have malware. There are FOSS apps on the various app stores, but only F-Droid is all FOSS with available source code right there to review. Android is a badly implemented ecosystem, better to suited to taking payments or getting infected by requiring a hack for root, than serving the user like real Linux.
 

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yup.
totally agree...
I have avoided droid for a looonnnggg time now...
back in the day it wasn't so bad...
but now...
yeah...
when fixing that pixi3..
looking over the store...
it's disgusting...
so...
if the only respite is...
then thank goodness for f-droid...
otherwise
android would be an absolute write-off in my view...
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Wow, that is pretty effedup, the droids are so secure that you can't even fix them when malware hits you. Where's the outrage? Windows machines had never such problem, unless it just screwed your whole drive (or maybe anti-malware/AV solutions for mobile OSes are in their infancy, or is it fragmentation, as they were 'detected'?). Malware will probably soon come with better protection from rooting than original soft, keeping you safer than GOOG/manufacturer did once you catch it (as from the above it seems on rooted devices you could at least overwrite everything). What a time to be alive
 

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Originally Posted by salyavin View Post
Well on Sailfish and such we don't grant permissions to installed applications so I suspect it would be even easier to make naughty software than Android but not one bothers as the userbase (potential targets) are too few.
Except it is all in chroot, so uninstall aliendalvik and it will be gone, the described situation of reflashing/resetting device to be still malwared should not be possible (sure there might be other exploits, but then it will be using some generic linux bugs/0days on top of android exploits that have to work in the emulated form, there definitely are holes, but you have two layers to get through)
 

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