Android Market App Destroying Phone Data

[talkbackdroid]

According to the application reviews from the Android Market, the app "MemoryUp Personal" is destroying personal data when installed onto an Android handset. There are [... Read more

[feysalj]

whoa i was this close to downloading it thanks

[Krak]

hmm..not cool? (i havent noticed any problems from it..yet)
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[Krak]

i did however have one issue, as to where there was dummy files or something on my sd card, when i noticed i had no space on my 2gig, when i should had 800 mb's, i looked on my card, and in my voice data folders i had a bunch of encrypted looking folders and files that took up 32.5 gigs, lol.... had to reformat the sd, it wouldnt let me delete

edit: and yea... google is gonna hafta start reviewing apps, and set things up like apple, open source is good, freedom is good, but some people ruin it for the greater good, cant really have that going on when theres person info at stake...
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[Luis]

oh god. thats not good at all.

[goodfellabk718]

Personal this app was suspect from the beginnig. Many of us voiced our personal feeling s about this app way back in the beginning of January. They way the app works and you android works, negated even having this program. In the App Market, the users have consistently voiced their disapproval of this app and yet Google has done nothing. If substanial negative ratings are associated with an app, it should dissapear from the Market, and an email should be sent to the developer stating why this has happened, and to improve the app and try again. That to me sounds like a fair solution to everyone. This lil event was known way back in the beiginning of this month, and yet the app was/is still in the market. at times, it was even bumped up so it would show in the top of the market app list. Any time an app is so bad where the majority of the users dissapprove of it and another developer takes the time to create a similar app to save ppl from downloading the, otherwise, malicious app, thats telling you that that app is a problem and should no longer be made available to end-users. Sorry but thats my rant.

make apps like blog comments, with enough negative comments, the app dissappears. My 2 Cents

[oxonom]

I have downloaded that app again to check what permissions it requires. As it doesn't require any, it cannot destroy contacts data or read email addresses unless Android has serious security flaws.

Although, any Android app can manipulate the sd card.

[yowmoon]

I have downloaded a minimal amount of APPs and have taken a "wait-and-see" approach to the G1\Marketplace\'updates' promises.

So far, it seems to me, Google\Android and TMo have launched the G1 and then abandoned it. A disappointment.

The Market has become a place (the 'comments') where I don't even want to go anymore.

<------- my two cents

[ghettoyungin718]

So far, it seems to me, Google/Android and TMO have launched the G1 and then abandoned it. A disappointment.

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only reason i wouldn't want to see an app disappear due to bad ratings is because lets say an developer creates the 29th tetris clone game right?

but its crappier then the other 28 tetris clone games, google will just delete it?

i'm pretty sure devs are charged a fee to upload apps

i'd say have like a warning button or tab on each app, but then again, can we trust the teeny boppers in the market place to use it

(tetris clone game was used as an example because im tired of seeing so many of them)

[Michael Martin]

I will add 3 cents to YOWMOON's reply to get it up to a Nickel.

I share his thoughts on installing the minimum of apps and see how the Market develops - I basically keep it to Scoreboard, StreamFurious, and now Last.FM

I don't believe Android is abandoned, but Google generally takes the "throw an idea/application out there and see if it sinks or swims".

Comments do need to be moderated, maybe Android Community can be contracted for that

,Michael Martin
Google And Blog