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So uh are you sure that's what it is? Because the little eye on the status bar is a Samsung thing. If you accidentally activated Smart Stay then you'll see a little eye pop up for a little bit and then disappear. Here's a page with more info: http://www.knowyourmobile.com/samsung/19067/how-enable-smart-stay-your-samsung-galaxy-note-2 It's just very odd to me that an app that's meant to be hidden so it can spy on people would put an icon on your status bar, even if it's just for a second. That seems like a serious oversight and simply doesn't make sense. If they're so good at hiding the app they'd know to make the icon transparent so that it's not visible to the user. Seems much more likely to me that it's Smart Stay.
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Sorry for the double post, wanna make sure no one misses this if they already read the previous one. Smart stay looks like this:  I'm 99% sure that app developers cannot place icons next to the clock, if this had been a third party app the icon would have shown up on the left side. If this is what you saw then it's just Smart Stay and no one is spying on you. I've had my share of Samsung phones and your description of the icon and its placement sounded very familiar to me.
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Jul 26, 2014 01:46
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Method Loser posted:Every eyeball icon, regardless of how they look, are the am I rite guyz? Third party developers cannot put icons in the spot that you're claiming the icon showed up in. It's not possible. You were looking at the Smart Stay icon, or some other Samsung icon. No spyware rootkit whatever the gently caress would have a process called "I'm Watching You". That is beyond retarded, and it's a level of incompetence that even the shittiest Android developer would not be able to match. You're either making poo poo up or you're actually as dumb as you sound and you downloaded some lovely pirated apk somewhere that installed malware on your phone. It doesn't sound to me like you're either important or interesting enough for anyone to want to spy on you, so if you're either a troll or an idiot.
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Jul 26, 2014 06:35
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EbolaIvory posted:Or hes a giant liar running root with some hacked up rom with bullshit installed. I'm holding out hope that he's just trolling because I don't want to believe that this person exists.
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Jul 26, 2014 07:10
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Mr. Business posted:No, you are beyond retarded in the sense that you apparently suffer from reading comprehension issues, nevermind your inability to read between lines--a skill apparently andm voluntarily deprecated in this cesspool--for missing the obvious business case for having a feature on one's spyware app, a "hubris-button" if you will, to scare the piss out of the person you happen to be stalking. Calling the process something menacing makes tremendous sense, given that it is marketed as being for stalking one's child or spouse. Might wanna scare 'em, right? Look how dumb you are.
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Jul 26, 2014 07:23
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Mooktastical posted:You don't have to just hope he's trolling; it's obvious. The OP doesn't sound particularly bright so I figured it might have been real, and he could have been looking at the Smart Stay icon and getting paranoid about it. But I guess it's pretty obvious that he's trolling, I mean you're right, if this were real he'd have posted some proof by now.
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Jul 26, 2014 07:35
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Okay fine. Listen. Method Loser posted:Today, on my Note 2, I noticed a noise, and a half-second eyeball icon next to the time, that then vanished. It is not possible for third party apps to put icons next to the time. That area is for system icons, unless you're rooted and running Xposed for customization. Are you? It's not possible for a third party app to be installed as a system app without root, either, and it's not possible to root a Samsung phone remotely. The phone must be plugged in. In addition to that, any apps that require root access will ask for it, so you would have had to not only root your phone for this to possible, you'd also have had to give the app root access to install itself as a system app or make any changes to system files. You said that no one has access to your phone except you. So it's one of two options: you rooted your phone and installed some weird poo poo, or you're mistaking a system icon for spyware. There's no third option. You can't root a Note 2 remotely, it has to be plugged in, and you'd have had to authorize any apps that required root access to run on your phone in the first place. Unless you're lying about no one else having access to your phone, there's simply no way this could be done. So you're lying about something. Either the whole story is a lie, or you're omitting information because you don't want to look like an idiot (in which case I've got some bad news for you).
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Jul 26, 2014 08:20
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Method Loser posted:^^^^Hoping to appeal to an admin or mod with an iota of sense; this one obviously has not one. Listen, I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here even though I'm probably going to end up getting probated for getting my rear end trolled. It wouldn't take 60 seconds to install and set up something like AndroSpy. The person would have to change your phone settings to allow third party apps, download the apk, run it, log in with their account and set up what they want monitored. So if this is true, someone had to be alone with your phone for a few minutes. Maybe while you were sleeping or something. It's still extremely odd that the icon showed up next to the clock though. This is not possible for third party apps. the kawaiiest fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Jul 26, 2014 |
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Jul 26, 2014 08:50
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EbolaIvory posted:*Unless the app got root* Yeah I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming he's being honest about this whole thing but it's kinda weird and I'm probably an idiot for wasting my time.
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Jul 26, 2014 09:09
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Method Loser posted:Me trying to convince these people that no, I don't root and run unsigned apks on this phone. I don't know why I'm bothering, it's clear the technical knowledge here is missing, just a bunch of kids who want to troll, which is fine. Like I said, I'm talking to pros later anyway, but was wondering if anyone had any clever ideas. I got a resounding NO, then poo poo flung at me. LastInLine is 100% correct, what you described is not possible without root. Your phone must have been rooted at some point, if not by you then by someone else, in order for that icon to be able to appear next to the clock. That is useful information that you should be thanking him for. I've also been saying from the very beginning that what you described is not possible without root. I'm telling you that your phone has been messed with. If you didn't do it, then someone else did, because if the phone had never been rooted what you're describing would not be possible. There's no buts or ifs or maybes, it's not possible, period.
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Method Loser posted:samsung makes better poo poo than apple in the phone arena I thought you were off the drugs
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