Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text

Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by dan-silver on Monday July 27, 2015 @07:27PM (#9958654)

Any idea why the auto retrieve mms checkbox would be checked and disabled so I can't uncheck it?

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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by tdicola on Monday July 27, 2015 @07:48PM (#9958740)

Yeah that threw me for a loop too, I think it's because Hangouts isn't configured to handle SMS for you. Check the Messaging app and its settings. It has a similar disable auto retrieve MMS setting.

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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by ams6110 on Monday July 27, 2015 @09:36PM (#9959045)

Messaging on my Moto G (Android 4.4.4) does not have this setting.

Edit: Messaging (default app) doesn't have this setting, but Messenger does. I tried Hangouts for awhile but didn't like it.

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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by gcb0 on Monday July 27, 2015 @10:10PM (#9959151)

nobody does. but Google is trying hard to make you use it by deprecating the gvoice app.

now if you want to make calls from your gvoice number, you must use hangouts.

funny how they think forcing newer apps is the solution to the g+fiasco

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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by thisisit on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @06:13AM (#9960513)

Messaging on Moto G2 (Lollipop) does have this setting under MMS. Disabled it from there.

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