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Qtx · 30-09-2014, 16:21

With many of the cheap Chinese phones, tablets, music players etc, the people who sell them usually get the rom images or firmware from a few well known chinese websites, that make/modify firmwares to work properly on the cheap copies. Think of them as a chinese xda-developers type forums, where someone will add extra features to existing firmware, which means those selling can add extra features to their marketing/selling pages.

The problem is that some of the popular chinese roms/firmware have been backdoored from the start by those offering them on the forums. As they are at such a low level they are not easily identified or got rid off.

The only real way to know for sure is to flash a trusted rom like Cyanogen and also the baseband.

30-09-2014, 16:21	#52
Qtx Inactive Join Date: May 2012 Location: Probably outside the M25 Services: Sky Fibre Unlimited 40/10 Posts: 3,473	Re: Annoying Android adverts With many of the cheap Chinese phones, tablets, music players etc, the people who sell them usually get the rom images or firmware from a few well known chinese websites, that make/modify firmwares to work properly on the cheap copies. Think of them as a chinese xda-developers type forums, where someone will add extra features to existing firmware, which means those selling can add extra features to their marketing/selling pages. The problem is that some of the popular chinese roms/firmware have been backdoored from the start by those offering them on the forums. As they are at such a low level they are not easily identified or got rid off. The only real way to know for sure is to flash a trusted rom like Cyanogen and also the baseband.