Month: October 2012

Samsung UK – Fail!

These are screenshots from the GooglePlay store for my UK Samsung S3. Both these apps are "System" apps which were installed by Samsung and cannot be deleted.

AllShare Play is, as you can see, not compatible with the phone which is pretty impressively crap.

Galaxy Choice, however, is compatible with my phone but its in Korean so I can't delete it.

Its not Rocket Science Samsung… add to that the "System" install of Dropbox and you have to wonder what sort of donkeys Samsung UK employ. 

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So when did Dropbox become a core Android system component? Its flagged on my S3…

So when did Dropbox become a core Android system component? Its flagged on my S3 as a "system app" and thus cannot be removed. Samsung tell me that its part of the operating system – I smell bullshit and the smell is coming from Samsung/T-Mobile UK

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Samsung

What a total joke. My S3 has 4 apps on it which you provided.. no let me correct that… you forced them upon me – I don't want them but I am unable to de-install them.

Of those :

One is in Korean… WTF? 
and Two are not actually compatible with my S3?

Do you really have any idea at all? 

Its MY phone  – not yours. Let me remove the shit that I do not want to use..

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Well it looks like the S3 might have been repaired – there’s a package I need…

Well it looks like the S3 might have been repaired – there's a package I need to sign for at the sorting office and the only thing that I'm expecting is the phone so fingers crossed that its made it back to there in one piece… which knowing our postal service will be a minor miracle.

The next big decision is how much to load back into it. JellyBean is due out soon and will no doubt need a factory reset to get it to work ( Samsung's reply to anything to do with problems on their phone is "Do a Factory Reset") and as the Kies software Samsung provide is far from reliable using it to backup and restore things on the phone is always a complete shot in the dark. So I know that any app I download and configure, and any music or photos on the phone, will get lost so so I bother going through the pain of doing it all just to do it again when JellyBean arrives…

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Looks like there’s a new spam bot out there – not sure if its script kiddies…

Looks like there's a new spam bot out there – not sure if its script kiddies running it or a bot net but what ever it is is its really crap.

So far Fail2ban has blocked about 40 IP addresses and they're all doing exactly the same thing – any even vaguely configured email server should be rejecting the messages … .here's the reject my server sent to mail.blackriverhealthcare.org which tried to use my server to spend spam :

Relay access denied; from=<test@live.com> to=<therichsheickc@yahoo.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.2.33]>

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