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BrathWait · 12-10-2018, 01:03 AM

tl;dr: I found the never-used sound recorder app in Boox Note seems to be uploading data in the background.

I upgraded my Boox Note to v2.0 firmware recently and was quite impressed by the smoothness. A couple of days ago, I was trying to play around with the new launcher and clicked the “manage” app menu of Sound Recorder. I don’t use the recorder app so I was trying to see if there is an option to fully disable it. To my surprise, even though I never used the app, it uploaded near 80 MB of data. WTF.
I purchased Boox Note half an year ago because it’s the best option out there if I want to install 3rd party apps like Instapaper or Inoreader. I did have a great time to use it because the benefits E-Ink brought, or at least, I made myself believe so. Now I am both sad and mad for what I found. If anyone has a Boox Note and is with more Android knowledge to check where the data was sent to, please help so I can feel safe to continue to use it.

12-10-2018, 01:03 AM	#1
BrathWait Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kindle Voyage, Boox Note	Boox Note seems to be eavesdropping tl;dr: I found the never-used sound recorder app in Boox Note seems to be uploading data in the background. I upgraded my Boox Note to v2.0 firmware recently and was quite impressed by the smoothness. A couple of days ago, I was trying to play around with the new launcher and clicked the “manage” app menu of Sound Recorder. I don’t use the recorder app so I was trying to see if there is an option to fully disable it. To my surprise, even though I never used the app, it uploaded near 80 MB of data. WTF. I purchased Boox Note half an year ago because it’s the best option out there if I want to install 3rd party apps like Instapaper or Inoreader. I did have a great time to use it because the benefits E-Ink brought, or at least, I made myself believe so. Now I am both sad and mad for what I found. If anyone has a Boox Note and is with more Android knowledge to check where the data was sent to, please help so I can feel safe to continue to use it.