Is Mobage Spying on Android users? Tiny Tower

I saw the game called tiny tower on my friends ipod and he sayed it did not need internet at all (Duh). So i went on the android market, and downloaded, it.

I started up the app, and it sayed it needed aditional data from online. Well that was typical on a game. So i turned on my only source of internet (wifi, i dont have data untill i get a job) and downloaded it. Later on that day, my wifi was off to not drain batter life on my LG Thrive, and the game would not start, i was confused? I turned on my wifi and it worked, wow.

Ok, i played the game for like 2 months and then i strated thinking (lol, first think then do right), why the game needed internet. I read the permissions and here is what it sayed:

Permissions

This application has access to the following:

• Your location
  fine (GPS) location
  Access fine location sources such as the Global Positioning System on the tablet, where available. Malicious apps may use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power. Access fine location sources such as the Global Positioning System on the phone, where available. Malicious apps may use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power.
  coarse (network-based) location
  Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate tablet location, where available. Malicious apps may use this to determine approximately where you are. Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate phone location, where available. Malicious apps may use this to determine approximately where you are.
• Network communication
  full Internet access
  Allows the app to create network sockets.
• Your personal information
  read contact data
  Allows the app to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your tablet. Malicious apps may use this to send your data to other people. Allows the app to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your phone. Malicious apps may use this to send your data to other people.
• Phone calls
  read phone state and identity
  Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. An app with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like.
• Storage
  modify/delete USB storage contents modify/delete SD card contents
  Allows the app to write to the USB storage. Allows the app to write to the SD card.
• System tools
  prevent tablet from sleeping prevent phone from sleeping
  Allows the app to prevent the tablet from going to sleep. Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
  retrieve running apps
  Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. Malicious apps may discover private information about other apps.
  change network connectivity
  Allows the app to change the state of network connectivity.
  change Wi-Fi state
  Allows the app to connect to and disconnect from Wi-Fi access points, and to make changes to configured Wi-Fi networks.

Hide

• Your accounts
  discover known accounts
  Allows the app to get the list of accounts known by the tablet. Allows the app to get the list of accounts known by the phone.
• Hardware controls
  control vibrator
  Allows the app to control the vibrator.
• Your location
  access extra location provider commands
  Allows the app to access extra location provider commands. Malicious apps may use this to interfere with the operation of the GPS or other location sources.
• Network communication
  receive data from Internet
  Allows apps to accept cloud to device messages sent by the app's service. Using this service will incur data usage. Malicious apps could cause excess data usage.
  view Wi-Fi state
  Allows the app to view the information about the state of Wi-Fi.
  view network state
  Allows the app to view the state of all networks.
• Default
  Market billing service
  Allows the user to purchase items through Market from within this application
   
   
  Here is what i think needs to go:
  1. Location! it is always their on most apps, but mobage does not need to know where the fuck im at. (sorry for the language again and again).
  2. Personal info/ contacts, why does mobage want to know who i keep in touch with?
  3.Phone calls, why do they need to know who im calling.
  4.Storage, why does it need to know what music i have on my sd card omfg.
  5.System tools, well some things here can stay but things like : Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. Malicious apps may discover private information about other apps. I think here mobage is talkin about itself, it is malicous undercover.
  
  
  All i have to say to this is : WHAT...THE...FUCK!
  They dont need to know where im at.
  This is just a warning, apps can do ANYTHING, (not too long ago, mobage got rid of the permission to read text messages).
  
  

Alpha test release date

Ok, im currently looking for a place to upload my 145 megabyte file.
i will have it this or next week and you can go ahead and test it.
WARNING!
1. this is my first time so i am not responsible for anything that happens to your phone!
     -sorry just for security purposes.

What is LazyList on my android SD card?? I have the answer.

OK.
This folder on my sd card called lazy list takes up 70 MB on my 2 GB sd card.
That's a lot of space its taking up. And for a ROM developer 2 GB is not enough.

Well after doing some research and playing around with the files, i figured it out.

Most apps are lazy to go and load everything from the very beginning, especially launchers, they don't feel like going in and figuring out whats on screen 2 or screen 100...1000, so they save it as cache and that cache is stored in the sd card, if their is one. most apps do this to improve performance and decrease load time because they are "Lazy" and that is why its called a "Lazy" List.

Hope this helps to all those people online who are trying to figure out his problem.

To find out which apps do save in this folder, you can just go to your apps in your settings, and click on a random app and it should say cache.........150kb or something like that, that means it has saved cache on the lazy list folder.

Not all apps save cache there. They can save it in a seperate folder called somthing different and having unknown files.

PS:
Man i could use that 70 mega bites though.

Android 5.0 Jelly Bean, Features, Info

Apperntly Android released Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and it is still being patched up and fixed and updated, and currently 4.0.7. And Android is just rushing, kind of like the version number will sell more phones.

Google is getting ready to release android 5.0 Jelly Bean already, while most phones are still running 2.2 Froyo and 2.3 Gingerbread.

The first phone to recieve this phone will be the Samsung Galaxy Nexus S and this phone only costs a WHOPPING $400. (GSM Unlocked though).

Google has released the Android versions in alphabetical order – C (Cupcake), D (Donut), E (Eclair), F (Froyo), G (Gingerbread), H (Honeycomb) and I (Ice Cream Sandwich). The next version of the Android mobile and tablet OS will be named Android 5.0 Jelly Bean. Wow! How educational, soon kids will be say these in school to learn the alphabet. HAHA.

Stock Features:
Google Chrome!
File Manager.
Faster updates - (HTC sense and samsung touch wiz will be easier to incorporate into the OS so updates will come quicker.
Better / Advanced Keyboard
UI
Lite version of the OS for lower class phones like my LG thrive and O-one
Faster OS
Batter Life
Performance

When will it be realesed? Some say that it will be second quarter this year, or fourth quarter.

So if you have $400 to waste, go but the Samsung galaxy nexus (data plan, minutes, texting chatges WILL apply).

MIUI, The future of android? The best ROM?

I used MIUI (UI-One ROM), and ofcourse it has many problems on my LG Thrive, but as far as im concerned, MIUI amazed me. I was shocked when I used it on other phones such as the Nexus one. Even though it has such an iPhone-ish style to it, it was bloody smooth, I loved every aspect of it, and the thing is, I still thought I was using an Android. It has enough Android features to make it be Android.

MIUI
LARGE icons, with backgrounds, to make them all square.
Widgets - its like the iPhone with widgets, can you believe that!
Smoth scrolling, and themeable ROM, The rom itself is theme-able.

In other words, go to en.miui.com (this is the English version of the site), and see if your phone can run MIUI, if it can, GET IT NOW!

MIUI's smooth feel, easy to use UI is definatly the future of Android, not Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean" as many have started to call it.