Tag Archives: Android

Listening to radioPup streams on my PC

Posted by on October 27, 2013 No comments

radioPup is a personalized radio app designed for mobile devices featuring local radio stations streaming the best music and news available. Covering many genres of the best music the stations have to offer. Best of all its live radio.

But what if you didn’t want to just use your mobile device and prefer using your PC. ”Where there’s a will, there’s a way” This is where a few bits of software, a little amount of time and the need to share brings this blog post to life.

Software / Apps Used:

  1. radioPup App (Android, or iOS)
  2. Fiddler (installed on PC)
  3. VLC Media Player (installed on PC)

My Steps:

  1. I first installed radioPup on my Android phone and searched for a station I wanted to listen to.
  2. I then installed Fiddler on my PC that will be a proxy for the network request sent from my mobile device. In Fiddler you need to change the proxy settings to allow remote connections. This is done by clicking Tools > Fiddler Options > Connections and under connections check the box that reads “Allow remote computer connections”.
  3. On my mobile device I set the proxy settings to the Network Address of my listening computer and the proxy port used in Fiddler. In my case I am using port 8888
  4. Once configured I was able to see request coming from my mobile device.
  5. In the radioPup app I clicked on the station I wanted and it starts streaming music.
  6. I then go back to Fiddler to see the results.
  7. Here in Fiddler is where you can now copy just the URL of the steam and proceed to VLC
  8. Opening VLC I click in the menu and select Media > Open Network Stream
  9. Now pasting in the URL grabbed from Fiddler and clicking Play I am now able to listen to the station of my choosing on my PC.
  10. Turn the volume up and enjoy.

I just became a Facebook for Android Beta Tester

Posted by on August 27, 2013 No comments

Tonight I just signed up to be a Facebook Android Beta Tester. Signup was quick and simple and I am very interested to see what’s new and help report issues found during my time testing. And as always; I’ll share what I find with you all.

To sign up simply follow this link: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/android_beta/

Delete Google Play App History

Posted by on August 24, 2013 No comments

I have been thinking about this for a while, how I could delete those apps that I have downloaded but never intend to use “EVER” again. And if you one day decided to restore all of your apps, those come along with it. No Bueno, my friends.

I have looked up and down the Google Play Store via my PC and couldn’t find a way to do this. So I turned my focus to my phone. Yes; I found it… So say goodbye to that insanely long apps list by doing the following:

  1. Launch the Play Store App
  2. Tap the menu button and choose “My Apps”
  3. At the “My Apps” menu choose “ALL” – Here you will see a list of all the apps you ever installed; wow I have downloaded a lot of apps in my past.

For the apps that are no installed you can simply click the (X) in the upper right corner to remove the app. You can select multiple apps by holding down one of the apps (phone will vibrate) and you can continue to select multiple apps until you’re ready to delete them all in one swift click.

I hope this has helped you.

- Jermal

Android Testing Mode: *#*#4636#*#*

Posted by on August 22, 2013 No comments

As always I am tinkering with my Android Phone devices for something new and fun to play with. Tonight I came across the following code: *#*#4636#*#* on the Galaxy S4 that takes me into a testing mode. Everything from DNS, Network, Wireless Radios and I can even toggle my carrier modes …

This is just one of many not so secret codes; I am sure there are apps to find more. For now this is one I find useful. Feel free to email or hit me up on the social networks if you know of more.

Android Device Manager

Posted by on August 19, 2013 No comments

Attn: Rachel

If you lost your phones, perhaps it was stolen; or your simply want to track your teen on his / her android phone or device. Google has a solution for that with its new Android Device Manager. With the Android Device Manager you can:

  • Ring your device: this allows you to cause your phone to ring and keep ringing to help you locate it. Even if you had the sounds turned off.
  • Erase your device: this allows you to remotely wipe your device to protect your data from getting into unwanted hands, e.g self shots of you in that bikini you trying on at the mall
  • Locate the device: this allows you to pull up a real time map of your device. And this is very accurate; so much its scary. If you have a pre-teen / teen with an account that you have access to, it makes it very simple to track their location.

So if you’re an Android user, I would highly suggest you set this up.

Android Device Manager: Unknown Location

Posted by on August 17, 2013 No comments

Today I wanted to have some fun with the new Android Device Manager and find my phone to test out this new feature. I ran into a snag when I logged in. The site was unable to find my device, giving me the message: “Unknown Location”.

If your like me and want to correct this, you can do the following:

  1. Open Google Settings from your device’s apps menu.
  2. Touch Android Device Manager.
  3. Uncheck Allow remote factory reset.
  4. Go to your device’s main Settings menu, then touch Apps > All > Google Play services.
  5. Touch Clear Data.
  6. Go back to Google Settings and select Allow remote factory reset.
  7. Restart your device.

 

Once done you should be able to locate your Android device.

What are Android custom roms?

Posted by on August 4, 2013 No comments

A custom rom is a modified Android OS (operating system) that you can install on your device. These roms are developed by open sources developers such as the xda developers.

Think of custom roms as tinting your car glass or even as adding ground effects to pimp out your ride (car). The customization’s seem to be limitless.

Some things these rom’s do is allow you to use features that are locked out of the phone that you purchased from your carrier (example: AT&T, SPRINT,Verizon,T-Mobile, etc…). Such features are WiFi Tethering, Bluetooth Tethering and USB Tethering. Other options and the list goes on is the ability to toggle the network down form LTE to 3G, 2G, even Edge network…

With the noon rooted / custom rom’ed devices you have the well known OTA updates that your provider sends you. In most cases it takes you way to long, if ever to get it the latest Android OS. Using custom roms you can get the latest update as soon as its released; The waiting game doesn’t exist.

As your phone get’s older, the standard updates end; you are left behind. Well this is not so with custom roms. You can get to use the latest and greatest features on the same hardware; meaning your phone is still good as long as you don’t step on it with high- heals or allow it to go for a swim.

Then there is the bloat. Most phones come out of the box with bloat. With custom roms there is none of the extra software on the phone; freeing up disk space, performance and battery life.

Rooting and installing custom roms isn’t a simple task; however there is a lot of information out there to guide you through the process.

Good luck and jack your phone out of the Matrix and be free.

Links I want to share:

http://www.android.com/

http://source.android.com/

dSploit – An Android network penetration suite

Posted by on July 30, 2013 1 comment

Not to cause paranoia; Just know that there are people out there looking to compromise your security, especially when you are using wireless networks via your laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

One of such tools are the well known tool called dSploit. dSploit, a security toolkit for Android, makes that process so simple anyone can do it.

This network analysis and penetration suite which aims to offer to IT security experts/geeks the most complete and advanced professional toolkit to perform network security assessments on a mobile device.

Once dSploit is started, you will be able to easily map your network, fingerprint alive hosts operating systems and running services, search for known vulnerabilities, crack log-on procedures of many tcp protocols, perform man in the middle attacks such as password sniffing with common protocols dissection, real time traffic manipulation, etc…

Requirements

An Android device with at least the 2.3 ( Gingerbread ) version of the OS.
The device must be rooted.
The device must have a BusyBox full install

A full list of features can be found here: http://www.dsploit.net/features

How to Unroot and Go Stock: Galaxy S4 AT&T

Posted by on July 29, 2013 No comments

In previous posts I have gone over rooting the AT&T model of the Galaxy S4. Now it’s time to go over unrooting and going back to stock.

I recently installed ClockworkMod Recovery so that I could install CyanogenMod 10. After a few days I found myself missing some of the stock features; mainly the way the camera works with the stock Samsung / AT&T Firmware.

Here are steps I’ve done to make this possible:

  1. Power off your Galaxy S4
  2. Now hold down volume down, center button (home) and the power button together. This should take you to a warning screen. Follow the instructions on the screen.
  3. At this screen press volume up to continue; now you should be in the download mode
  4. Connect your USB cable to the Galaxy S4 and your computer
  5. Run the ODIN program; you will see a highlighted yellow box indicating your COM connection to the phone.

  6. Select the stock firmware; File should end with “tar.md5”
  7. In ODIN, select PDA to browse to the stock firmware file “*tar.md5”
  8. Click Start; you will now be in the process of installing the stock firmware for the Galaxy S4
  9. When completed you will see “PASS!” on the screen; your Galaxy S4 will restart.

  10. If you hit a message such as “Firmware Error”, just start the process over again.
  11. Once all has worked you should see the factory splash logo on screen.
  12. Power off the phone and do a factory reset.

How to do a factory reset of the Galaxy S4:

  1. Power off the Galaxy S4
  2. Hold the volume up, center button (home) and power buttons together; the phone will boot
  3. Once you see a logo on screen; keep holding down the volume up and center button (home) and let go of the power button
  4. In the recovery mode, choose “wipe data/factory reset” – this will take a few seconds
  5. Once this has completed; choose the option to reboot system; you are now back to stock.

Resources you may need:

  1. U.S. Galaxy S4 Stock Firmwares:
    I337UCUAMDB_I337ATTAMDB_ATT.zip
    key: Jj5hlQkz-Ip1gt3w7ET5MCYxyepRIZViC229JNDr77Y
    I337UCUAMDL_I337ATTAMDL_ATT.zip
    key: Q3uDcxXbgMmlyIu1CyW2dEQ-Bnxp7RJBqfz9YjlN5jw
  2. ODIN
    key:     B033ByaFT8xaRIzqJ2uNYD9Ky28pjMCdbVNBokJP_aU
  3. SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones
    Key: YZXUVGUg8YsxUfycfatSmTelodIa_6n8WAthQHj0OOs

Other Links:

  1. motochopper
    key:     XuUjDE5seaKP7iP5pp-0DDW2VYFXbHIllpLsrLwfHjQ

Links above provided by MEGA cloud storage service.

For other firmwares: http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-stock-firmware/

 

How To: Install CWM Recovery on AT&T Galaxy S4 – SGH-i337

Posted by on July 28, 2013 No comments

Sometime ago I had rooted my Galaxy S4 (SGH-i337) to enabled WiFi Tethering because I wasn’t done testing the stock image from Samsung / AT&T. Now its time for me to prepare to install CyanogenMod; Before I can do so I need to install ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM) which is a replacement recovery option for Android devices, made by Koushik “Koush” Dutta. More info here.

While the boot-loader on AT&T’s Galaxy S4 is locked  there is a way to install the custom recover using the LOKI method created by one of the XDA Developers which bypasses the boot-loader check to enable the custom recover options and allow you to install ROM’s.

So a few things we need to start and I’ll provide steps that worked for me.

Phone must have been rooted before starting this process (as you will need to move files around in system directories that you can only access as root

You need to download the loki_flash form: http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyS4/loki/loki_flash  or from Github: https://github.com/djrbliss/loki

You will need to download the recover.lok for Galaxy S4 from: http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyS4/SGH-i337/recovery/CWM/recovery.lok

Once downloaded use any file explorer that is able to be run as superuser – Example: Root Explorer (File Manager) and locate the two files you have just downloaded.

Select and copy the files loki_flash and recovery.lok to the following directory: /data/local/tmp

If not already installed download the Android Terminal Emulator and once at the command line type “su” without the quotes to elevate to superuser.

Once elevated in the terminal change directory by typing: cd /data/local/tmp | verify you are in the right location by typing “ls” without the quotes and you should see the files recovery.lok and loki_flash

In this directory (/data/local/tmp) type chomod 775 *

Now you will need to run the loki script by typing he following: ./loki_flash recovery recovery.lok | once this is run you will receive a successful message, you can then (when ready) type: reboot recovery in the Android Terminal.

Yeah, I made mistakes along the way. In the end it worked out.

Congratulations you now have ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM) and better yes the power to backup/restore ROMs and install custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod

To get back into recovery you have two methods:

  1. Access the Android Terminal Emulator and “su” into superuser and type: reboot recovery
  2. Power off your phone and power on again holding the volume up, center button and power button. Once you see a logo on the screen release the power button and continue to hold volume up, and the center button. Welcome back to the CWM Recovery Menu