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Anyone have this app?
How it works?
It is fully funtional?
It's worted?
Any info on that APP, would be nice...
It is warez and cheats developers out of hard earned money.
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It's my favorite app.
i had no idea what it was. i googled it and find it... useless. there arent many good paid apps on the market. and if you really need an app, you need to realize it is somebody's job, the way they feed their family, making that. and you are just stealing it. not cool.
/!\ BE AWARE OF YOUR APP, DavinciDevelopers try to steal them and sell them on the market !!
Hello guys,
Be careful, if you post an apk of your free app here, somebody will try to take the apk, remove the signature, and upload it as a paid version on the market !
The proofs : (edited to add new stolen softwares)
Llamadroid
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10113570#post10113570
- http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-kebab-llamadroid-zzjjD.aspx
(removed today, on 5th january)
Typo clock
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814054
- http://www.appbrain.com/app/beautiful-clock-widget-3d/com.semicuda.typoclock
Iron soldiers
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=862875
- http://www.appbrain.com/app/iron-soldiers/vuxia.ironSoldiers
(removed from market today, on 5th january, but still referenced)
Championship racing 2010
- http://www.vividgames.com/sub_game.php?id=42
- http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-vividgames-championship_racing_2010-zzxwq.aspx
(removed today, on 5th january)
Liquid wallpaper
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878252
http://www.appbrain.com/app/liquid-physics/livewallpaper.liquid
Bluetooth Scanner
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=900923
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_games/casual/bluetooth-scanner_pvqg.html
(New !! Now, we have proof that ALL his apps are stolen)
And even Gameloft best sellers (paid games) :
http://www.androlib.com/android.app...ndroid-gand-gloftspaw-heroofsparta-zjCDi.aspx
(removed from market today, on 5th january, but still referenced)
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-gameloft-android-gand-gloftavar-avatar-zjCEx.aspx
(removed from market today, on 5th january, but still referenced)
Minigore
http://minigore.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-minigore-is.html
http://www.appbrain.com/app/minigore-hd/com.ambushgames.minigore
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-ambushgames-minigore-zzjqD.aspx
Zuma's revenge
Original
http://www.zumasrevengegame.com/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/3620/
Scammers
http://www.appbrain.com/app/zumas-revenge-hd/com.popcap.zumas_revenge
http://www.appbrain.com/app/zumas-revenge/com.fox.game.zumasrevenge
How is it possible ?
Google does not check your apk signature when you upload a software.
Even if you signed yous apk with you key, somebody else can put this on his google account.
The signature can be deleted easily if needed.
He can change the title of your app, so nobody see it, but he can't change the apk name nor the icon.
Why do we post our apk here ?
To have testers, to correct bugs, to have a perfect look and feel before put it on the market.
Because on the market people are rude, we have only one chance, so we need to avoid bugs.
And when we put our app online, we want to choose if it's paid or free (with ads or not).
What is the problem ?
If DavinciDevelopers steal and upload your app, he will lock your pak name.
2 apps can't have the same name on the market.
You may have a name like com.myname.myapp.apk
Where "myname" is the same in every app you do.
If he take that, this is a major issue for you because you will be associated to him on every search (google.com, market...).
So, you will have to change your app name and maybe your company name....
Within 1 or 2 days, the market is parsed from androlib, androidzoom, appbrain... and it's done. Google.com will see those websites, and you are trapped.
You will have your buggy app on the market, some people will pay for that, the thief will have some money, and every users will have a bad opinion of your app.
Why DavinciDevelopers does this ?
To make benefit from your work.
Because he doesn't care you are working from a long time on your app.
Because he doesn't care if your work is ruined, he will find somebody else.
How can we be protected ?
Because 2 apps can't have the same name, you should put your app on the market first.
If your app is in development stage, you can upload it as "draft", so it will not be visible on the market, but the name will be locked.
Who is DavinciDevelopers ?
Somebody that have 83 apps on the market !
Almost all of them are themes.
If you look the package name you can see for example :
com.nd.android.pandatheme.p__3d_android_theme
at :
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-nd-android-pandatheme-p__3d_android_theme-qAmiz.aspx
google search : "pandatheme", first link :
http://home.pandaapp.com:888/
So he is not a developer. He makes themes with a free online tool and sell them... nice.
And for the real apps he uploaded (about 5), they all are stolen, coming from poland, germany, and other places.
Almost every of them comes from XDA dev forums.
ps : this message should be marked as sticky in every development section.
Is it worth marking all these apps as objectionable to draw Google's attention to this issue?
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Today, 2 of those links has been removed already !
Maybe somebody sent emails to every publishers...
I hope google will understand this and ban this thief.
I have posted about it on reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ew4e8/android_market_is_still_the_wild_west/?sort=hot
Someone who works for google replied and said they're looking into it.
@jgittins
Could you please link this post to you post ? Or give to the "google man" the list of the apps we found here ?
This kind of guy should be banned from google forever (if it's possible )
One thing I don't understand :
Google should give to every developer a private key that we could use to compile the apk.
Something we should not be able to remove.
So the developer who generates the apk could be sure it would be uploadable only into his account.
It sounds simple but...
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@jgittins
Could you please link this post to you post ? Or give to the "google man" the list of the apps we found here ?
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I've linked to this thread from the reddit story.
Also, you have written that Zuma's Revenge is by Blue_sprit. But the real zuma's revenge is a famous game from popcap, I think blue_spirit is actually another scammer.
http://www.zumasrevengegame.com/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/3620/
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Google should give to every developer a private key that we could use to compile the apk.
Something we should not be able to remove.
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It's not possible to add something, that is impossible to remove. Cryptography makes possible to check that something was created by someone, but not that it wasn't.
Dang that sucks that people are ripping dev's off. I have high respect for Dev's. Not being one, I don't know all the ins and outs of developing apps but I'm sure it's a very deeply involved process that nobody should rip off. Jeez. I hope these idiots are banned from the market. Is there a formal process that someone can start to get these apps credited to their rightful owners?
Thank you for informing the community of this!
Thanks a lot! As a developer, this information I will be very useful.
This is absolute putrid behavior. This is one of the downsides to having an open-source OS and Google being so hands-off. There better be some justice in this matter......
PS - moderators/admins should require this to be a stickie in EVERY forum
I post it to tweeter.
This is disgusting.. I will make comments on all his posted apps in the market and warn people how this guy rips them off..
jhepoy said:
This is disgusting.. I will make comments on all his posted apps in the market and warn people how this guy rips them off..
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thats not going to stop many people if they want the app.....thats what sucks
TopShelf10 said:
thats not going to stop many people if they want the app.....thats what sucks
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if more of us from xda will post comments how douche this guy is, then maybe we could prevent others from patronizing his posted apps.. being a frustrated programmer also, I know how hard it is to code.. and I am very grateful to devs who gives us free apps over here at xda..
These davincidevelopers retards are also releasing retail gameloft games on the market, we need to stop these fuken retards, get them banned from the market.
What a penga ! We want to protect our community from the pirates, Thank you for the heads up,
Lets spam this Guy!! Anybody got his email??
Sent from the almighty Vibrant!!!
Guys I asked for help:
At first version of jetAudio Plus they included BBE / ViVa effects for their apps but for some reason they decided to HIDE it from user. Can someone whom legally have the apps able to modded to enable these effects ? If someone able to do that please just tell me how to do that, don't share your apk. I have the license for this app and would do the patch by myself.
@mod : If I break the rules fell free to delete this post
hadi_rena said:
Guys I asked for help:
At first version of jetAudio Plus they included BBE / ViVa effects for their apps but for some reason they decided to HIDE it from user. Can someone whom legally have the apps able to modded to enable these effects ? If someone able to do that please just tell me how to do that, don't share your apk. I have the license for this app and would do the patch by myself.
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In my opinion. If you really really bought the app legally, I think it would be alright for you to find the "modded jetaudio plus apk" off other websites. You already supported the dev so I don't see why not.
I really don't see why this would be considered as piracy given that you have made a purchase.
Yeah I can find one but they seems have slower update rate rather than official one. If I can modded by myself it would be awesome, just IMO
Thanks anyway
Yeah, I suppose so. Perhaps you could contact those "modders"
No answer either
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I just purchased the Plus version as well and I can't find the BBE/ViVA option either.
I know... I following jetAudio from very beginning which offer that sound effect for 10 second only (basic version, there is no plus version atm)
Somehow after their release plus version I purchase and realize the sound effect is removed/hidden. I'm really disappointed with their decision, but in some 'site' I saw a modded version which enabling those sound effect. It's give a hope but ... its a fake... I realized that were fake mod.
@mod: please close this thread...
Thread closed at request of OP.
Interested in what any of you folks use for ad blocking. I have gotten adaway up and running, but it does not seem to be full-proof by any means. I am running the xposed youtube adblock and it seems to work well -- but one gripe I have is that Twitch hits me with ads constantly, and I was wondering if any of you use Twitch mobile and have figured out how to avoid the ads. It's 100% possible because adblock on the PC blocks all Twitch ads, and maybe I'm missing something. Adblock for the android does not seem to work whatsoever, and a cursory google search has confirmed my suspicions.
Anyway, discuss here what ad blockers you use and how effective they are. If anyone knows how to block Twitch ads there might be a donation in their future...:angel:
Interested by the thread but maybe you could move in general app discussion
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Interested by the thread but maybe you could move in general app discussion
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Hmm ok not sure how this works...but it's specific to the G3. The twitch app I'm talking about is just one gripe I have about ad blocking. I would like to know what other G3 users use...don't really care about any other phone so I wouldn't want to open it to any other forums but again I'm not an xda veteran by any means.
cap1tal1sm said:
Hmm ok not sure how this works...but it's specific to the G3. The twitch app I'm talking about is just one gripe I have about ad blocking. I would like to know what other G3 users use...don't really care about any other phone so I wouldn't want to open it to any other forums but again I'm not an xda veteran by any means.
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Adblocking on Android generic, there's no reason for a specific G3 thread.
If Adaway isn't working for you, try minminguard. It's still being actively developed, even though the XDA thread was closed by the developer.
adfree for now cause im too bored to fix adblock plus!
codified said:
Adblocking on Android generic, there's no reason for a specific G3 thread.
If Adaway isn't working for you, try minminguard. It's still being actively developed, even though the XDA thread was closed by the developer.
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...The reason is that I don't care about any other android other than G3? Why have separate phone threads if it's all "Android". Also I don't see why having a G3-specific thread about ad-blocking is detracting from anyone's life.... unless we're using up the xda forum storage space by having a one-page thread repeated for a specific phone
Using this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1916098
very satisfied with it, it blocks the most of the ads only thing about it is that you need to install it through recovery.
I prefer adaway and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.myandroidtools
AdAway does its job good and has a whitelist function. Also My Android Tools can deal with individual apps (I use it to block ad services of some apps which used to drive me mad by showing full screen ads)
AdAway + MinMinGuard was the finest solution until Lollipop showed up.
Although there is no (yet) statistics showing the real number to how bad the piracy on Android is, there are reports saying more than 90% of installs on Android were not paid for (Google). There have been lots and lotsa blows exchange between developers and hackers (and for gods sake this is never gonna end). Anti-piracy solutions are being discussed here and there, all the discussions are (eventually) pointing towards server authentication as the only way to counter piracy effectively.
As a developer, I am not excused from all this hack-and-anti-hack things. And (obviously) I have no better solution than anyone else. Here, I am gonna share a small library that I have coded to help scan for pirate apps on the device. This library is really simple, what it does is to grab a list (I called it pirate-app-list) from the internet and scan it through the device to determine whether an offended app is installed on the device.
This project is actually a product from the 1st suggestion in this XDA thread. In the thread, it recommends to search for the pirate apps and force the user to uninstall it. I implemented the former part of the suggestion, while leaving the latter to the developers to decide. The only difference that I have made is to put this static list on the internet instead of hard-coding it to save us the trouble of updating the app for the purpose of updating the list.
This project is by no means a solution to anti-hacking. Rather, its a hope that developers can work together to make sure users stay away from those apps (by forcing/reminding them to uninstall it). I believe those apps will not survive if it does not gain enough active users? Or maybe it does..
This project is open-sourced on GitHub together with the pirate-app-list. Feel free to check it out.
Currently, only "Lucky Patcher" and "Freedom" are listed on the pirate-app-list (with filters). Anybody interested in the project are free to join so we can work on the list and more importantly, the definition of what a pirate app is.
Your feedback is very much appreciated.
Thank you.
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Lucky patcher is also used for functions that do not concern piracy, such as running two versions of the same app... I think that you can't force or continuosly remind a user to uninstall an app that he needs.
Edit: Also, I think that most of the piracy is based on pirated apk, not apps like LP or Freedom, which only act for IAP. The solution to prevent IAP piracy is server validation, but for pirated APK it's not.
Coraz said:
Lucky patcher is also used for functions that do not concern piracy, such as running two versions of the same app... I think that you can't force or continuosly remind a user to uninstall an app that he needs.
Edit: Also, I think that most of the piracy is based on pirated apk, not apps like LP or Freedom, which only act for IAP. The solution to prevent IAP piracy is server validation, but for pirated APK it's not.
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Thank you for your reply.
Actually, as I have pointed out in the thread, this project implements only the scanner part, it doesn't act for the developers. Developers have to decide what they want to do with the detected piracy. Its really nice to be able to run 2 versions of the same app on 1 device, I believe ChelpuS should make another app with this feature, or without other features in Lucky Patcher.
I'm sorry, but if an app tells me to uninstall something - I'm uninstalling that app first
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Although there is no (yet) statistics showing the real number to how bad the piracy on Android is, there are reports saying more than 90% of installs on Android were not paid for (Google). There have been lots and lotsa blows exchange between developers and hackers (and for gods sake this is never gonna end). Anti-piracy solutions are being discussed here and there, all the discussions are (eventually) pointing towards server authentication as the only way to counter piracy effectively.
As a developer, I am not excused from all this hack-and-anti-hack things. And (obviously) I have no better solution than anyone else. Here, I am gonna share a small library that I have coded to help scan for pirate apps on the device. This library is really simple, what it does is to grab a list (I called it pirate-app-list) from the internet and scan it through the device to determine whether an offended app is installed on the device.
This project is actually a product from the 1st suggestion in this XDA thread. In the thread, it recommends to search for the pirate apps and force the user to uninstall it. I implemented the former part of the suggestion, while leaving the latter to the developers to decide. The only difference that I have made is to put this static list on the internet instead of hard-coding it to save us the trouble of updating the app for the purpose of updating the list.
This project is by no means a solution to anti-hacking. Rather, its a hope that developers can work together to make sure users stay away from those apps (by forcing/reminding them to uninstall it). I believe those apps will not survive if it does not gain enough active users? Or maybe it does..
This project is open-sourced on GitHub together with the pirate-app-list. Feel free to check it out.
Currently, only "Lucky Patcher" and "Freedom" are listed on the pirate-app-list (with filters). Anybody interested in the project are free to join so we can work on the list and more importantly, the definition of what a pirate app is.
Your feedback is very much appreciated.
Thank you.
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Sorry to tell you. But XDA rule number 6 States that you are not allowed to talk about apps like Lucky Patcher and Freedom. I hope the moderators will ignore you for a noob.
Regards,
PoseidonKing
PoseidonKing said:
Sorry to tell you. But XDA rule number 6 States that you are not allowed to talk about apps like Lucky Patcher and Freedom. I hope the moderators will ignore you for a noob.
Regards,
PoseidonKing
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You are misinformed. We allow threads such as these because they are educational and are about preventative purposes against those applications. I would suggest you actually read what the purpose of this thread is about before telling other users about what the XDA rules say, which incidentally is not your 'job' to do.