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Highster Mobile | Added To The Scam Bucket
Recently we came across a website blasting Highster Mobile as a scam. Not your typical spy phone review site though, this one provides several insights on how it came to its decision for labeling highster as a shady software.

In this article we are going to address those points with our own findings from our sister site, spyphonereview to see if calling Highster a scam is appropriate or not.

Examining the Claims of the article

Claim #1 – Highster Mobile does not work and has bad support:

Our sister site, spyphonereview had already done an in-depth investigation on highster mobile’s features and whether or not they worked. The key findings were that the following Highster features didn’t work:
- Call Recording
- Listen to surroundings
- WeChat capture
- LINE capture
- BBM capture
- Instagram capture
- Facebook capture
- Whatsapp capture
- Twitter capture
- Email capture
Looking at the list on non-working features shown above, it was no suprise to us that users of Highster would be experiencing problems with the software. One comment from a reader of spyphonereview is a great representation for the majority of Highster uses. Here’s the comment:

“I fell for the Highster scam. I thought I had found some legit reviews of it and therefore decided to give it a try.
It really doesn’t work as advertised at all. It does record SMS, sometimes. The GPS didn’t work AT ALL. When I emailed their “Tech support” they said I needed to install the latest version, which came as the same install package as the original (I reinstalled, just giving them the benefit of doubt, and wasn’t surprised to see it’s the same thing). All of the commands are SMS based, which is horrible. They do work, except for the GPS command, but the user gets to then see the messages and they can be sent from ANY device. Hell, you could probably send the messages to yourself. I’ve installed this product on a LG L90 D415 which is rooted. Another fun thing to note is that the facebook messenger was being logged, but every single conversation and every comment therein was marked as December 31, 1960. There were no markings of who made which comment in each conversation thread, and the conversation was all out of order as well. The other red flag for this product for me was that the last “news” on it was in October 2013. I wish I’d of seen that before handing over my CC #. I also found the uninstall instructions, and all of the other “knowledge base” instructions to be insulting. They literally told you how to just basically operate your phone. If you follow their uninstall procedure, you’d NEVER be able to uninstall the product. Thankfully, I have a decent amount of knowledge about the android ecosystem and was able to get it uninstalled properly.”

And this isn’t the only negative review of Highster out there. We were able to find endless reviews of Highster on sites that no business wants to be listed on.

Besides the blog comments of apparent Highster customers, we scouted for different ways to verify the claims, and we found the proof when we looked at the data of our trade-in program.

In our trade-in program, we offer aggrieved customers of various spy phone products the chance to trade in the time remaining on their copy for a copy of FlexiSPY. When we trawled through the data we found that a disproportionate amount of trade in participants were, guess who, Highster Mobile.

Highster Mobile’s Support:

While we don’t have direct experience with their support (not for lack of trying,) on many of the scam report pages a common complaint is not only Highster’s Poor support, but also their shady refund policy. Grabbed from the site, one of the claims against highster states this about their support:

“They have such a shafty refund policy – in which their is no refund policy. Even if you have not used tnot issue yo a refund whatsoever. This is the worst refund policy I have ever seen. I also noticed after requesting a refund, that they changed their terms and agreement just to try and trick me into thinking i didn’t read their fund policy correctly.”

As pointed out in the article, one the biggest clues in gauging whether or not these are false claims against Highster is the circumstance that Highster are in right now with payment processor Avangate. Payment processors like Avangate has a low tolerance for software where many refunds and chargebacks are requested, so with Highster being excommunicated from Avangate just a few days ago, it makes you wonder.

Claim #2 – Highster Mobile and Easy Spy are the same product but they have been banned by Avangate marketplace.

This goes with what we were saying in the section about Highster Mobile’s support but also reveals that Highster has many clone companies on the marketplace, all of which have now been banned by Avangate. Rebranding a product under a new name is a common practice for shady software dealers, this is just further evidence of Highster being a company that you wouldn’t want to deal with.

Claim #3 – Highster Mobile is a one-time payment spy product.

FlexiSPY was the first spy phone software to hit the market, in-fact we invented the spy phone. So we’ve seen many copy cats come and go throughout the years. One factor seems to be omnipresent in all of the failed copy cats, and that is the promise of a one-time payment. We ask this question, would a bad software company offer monthly plans? No way.. Within the first couple of days of using software that turns out to be useless, you’d either request a refund (good luck getting one from highster) or you’d simply cancel further payments. What Highster and these one time payment companies do are hook you with this promise meanwhile getting the most possible money that they can from you, it’s a calculated maneuver that seems to have caught up with Highster.

Conclusion

From the complaints circulating over the web, and as well as our own tests of Highster, the signs are there to stay away. If you were unfortunate enough to have already purchased Highster Mobile and are unable to get a refund from them then we’d like to extend the offer of our trade-in program to you. Just visit our trade in page application to get started.
julio 28, 2015
How Hollywood Got GPS Tracking All Wrong

We’ve all seen it before. Camera pans in onto a woman as she types into google “how to track a phones gps location.” She clicks on the first link in the search results. A page appears on her computer screen, telling her to type the phone number into the field and press enter.

A few spins of the loading wheel later and boom! Her husband’s gps location pops up with a red bracket indicator, X marks the spot, and he’s not at the bar!

This is how gps tracking technology is portrayed in just about every soap opera that exists. So it’s no wonder that we believe that it’s so simple to get a person’s gps location.

But how can you really track someone via their phone’s gps?

Misconceptions

Unless you are law enforcement, you probably don’t have this kind of access to gps tracking technology. right?

While not as easy as typing in their phone number and clicking a big button, there are ways to track someones gps location.

The first thing to know about gps tracking is that you will need to physically install spy software onto the phone that you are wanting to spy on. This doesn’t mean that you will be attaching a big antenna to their phone, it just means that you will need to have their phone in your hand.

bear in mind that iOS devices like an iPhone will need to be jailbroken first before you even think about getting your spy on as Apple keeps things secure for the most part.

If the phone you want to track is an Android phone then you are in luck and no further alterations will need to be made.

Finally, you will also need to be able to get past any lock screen that the phone has..

Which spy software fits your needs?

You will need to do a bit of research on which spy software to purchase, or you can just take our word for it and choose our top pick. Either way, a good jumping point for research would be the website spyphonereview There’s actually a team of testers there that put spy phone software through the reins and then publish their results, unlike other review sites.

After you purchased the spy software of your choosing, you then need to install and activate it onto the persons phone that you want to spy on.

If you chose FlexiSPY then you are in luck and here’s a quick setup guide for getting started.

Will they ever get it right?

Recently hollywood has been paying more attention to the techniques used in actual hacking, like the show Mr. Robot which has been praised for its showing of real spy tools, including an episode where they showed FlexiSPY being used. But this is just one show that is putting in the research time. You can bet that there are sure to be many more distasteful displays of how this type of software works to come.

If you enjoyed this article, you can participate in the discussion through the comments section below, or through our social media.

julio 16, 2015
What’s The Android Spy App That’s Used In Mr Robot?

Its not every day that our blog team get’s to write about television. Luckily for us though, a series has come out with some surprisingly realistic hackery going on, here are our thoughts on it.

In the episode “Eps1.2d3bug.mkv” of the hacking themed tv series Mr Robot, the central character was seen installing onto a phone, software that looks way too similar to FlexiSPY to NOT be FlexiSPY.

While we appreciate the show researching and using real spy software, FlexiSPY was being implemented in a cloak and dagger way. Because of this, we feel that now is a good time to say again that you should always check with your local laws before installing FlexiSPY onto any phone. We also recommend that you have a read of our legal disclaimer to ensure the use of our software for your intended purpose is legal.

Nevertheless, it is cool to see television shows putting a more realistic spin on what spy technology can do, and we hope that this trend continues!

If you are interested in this sort of thing, you can read more about our software through our website by clicking here.

julio 13, 2015
FlexiSPY | Now Supporting iOS 8.4

Just a few hours after 8.4 was released, news broke out that an official iOS 84 Jailbreak was available, made possible by the Jailbreak team TaiG.

Immediately after being released, our iOS developers were hard at work integrating FlexiSPY with the jailbreak, and now they’ve done it, FlexiSPY now supports iOS 8.4, and you are now safe to update the iOS device to this version.

Update now or risk being stuck

While jailbreaking is perfectly legal, and will not brick your device in any way, Apple likes to keep things locked down. Based on their past efforts to prevent jailbreaking, it is likely that they will soon make another update to iOS, an update which will render the jailbreak null.

Once Apple pushes a new iOS release, and if you update to that release, expect to be stuck with an un-jailbreakable device for 3-6 months, and of course, if you want to run FlexiSPY on an iPhone or iPad, it must be jailbroken first, which we’ve written a guide for.

Once you’ve taken care of the jailbreak, you can go ahead and re-install FlexiSPY or install for the first time, which you can do by purchasing a license on our site, here

julio 3, 2015
Mspy Application | Now Completely Visible

Important update: on May 28th, mSpy temporarily re-enabled the feature for their app to be either visible or hidden.

Hot on the heels of the story that Mspy had been hacked, our competitive analysis made another important discovery.

Mspy no longer allows you to hide the Mspy phone application, making it complete visible to the person that is using it.

There is nothing wrong with this at all – after all, a parent may want to let their child know that they are being monitored, and an employer should make it clear to their employees that they are spying on them.

Our team first discovered this change on May 25th, when after doing our routine competitor analysis tests, we realized that the Mspy app was visible on our test phones, and that it had lost the ability to become hidden.

Earlier versions of Mspy used to provide an option inside their control panel to allow the parent or employer to make the visibility choice. We have now confirmed that Mspy have removed this option.

So what can you do if you are looking for an alternative to Mspy but you need 100% invisibility. The answer is change to FlexiSPY. FlexiSPY has always offered the choice for the application to be visible or not – much the same as any.

To make changing to FlexiSPY easier for unhappy Mspy customers, we would like to point out that we have a Trade In Offer, where you can recoup some of your losses against a copy of FlexiSPY.

Other Important Reads

Mspy Visibility Tests

Mspy Hacked

FlexiSPY Trade in Program

mayo 26, 2015
Has Your mSpy Data Been Hacked and What You Can Do About It

Update – September 5th, 2018

3 years after mSpy was hacked, and their customer data leaked on the web, it is reported by KrebsonSecurity that millions of sensitive mSpy records have been leaked online — this time due to a security researcher discovering an unsecured mSpy database.

While not technically a hack, it is still disturbing nonetheless, especially as it is alleged that that mSpy ignored warnings from the security researcher, and in fact blocked further communication with the researcher after attempts were made to contact mSpy’s head of security.

We at FlexiSPY understand that no system is 100% invulnerable from attackers, however we are grateful that through our efforts like introducing a bug bounty program, 2FA, and performing extensive security audits, unlike competitors — none of our customer data has ever been leaked online.

Finally, in light of this news, we would like to again extend an offer to mSpy customers who are worried about the safety of their data.

If you are an mSpy customer, we will offer a trade in discount if you purchase FlexiSPY. Find out more here.

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Original article:

If you are an mSpy customer, you will no doubt have heard that mSpy has been hacked, and you are probably worried about the possibility that your information is available on the Darknet for download

Getting hacked is terrible, but in defense of mSpy, this happens to many companies, regardless of the security precautions they take. And before the mainstream media starts to get glib and judgmental because they don’t like the idea of monitoring, lets not forget that Visa and MasterCard have been hacked, and their customers details sold to identity thieves.

With the information currently available, it seems likely the breach was carried out by an insider. Going by the reported acrimony between the two co founders, one could speculate that it was an inside job, and not a hack or technology security breach.

While we take no pleasure in mSpy being hacked and we condemn the people involved, we understand that mSpy customers may be worried about their monitoring data.

Therefore, we are offering mSpy customers a discount on a copy of FlexiSPY. If you are a mSpy customer, we will offer a trade in discount if you purchase FlexiSPY. Find out more here.

Timeline & References:

May 15th
Brian Krebs Reports that mSpy was hacked

May 20th
mSpy tells the bbc that no data was hacked

Later that same day,
Krebs on Security publishes article about mSpy’s deceit

May 21st
mSpy admits that the hacking took place

mayo 22, 2015
How To Protect Your iPhone From The “No iOS Zone” Vulnerability

There’s been a serious iOS vulnerability uncovered recently by security research company, Skycure that you should know about.

This bug is exploited by means of just a WiFi connection and will put your iOS device into a never-ending bootloop for as long as you are in range of the malicious WiFi connection. -nice going, Apple-

“It puts the victim’s device in an unusable state for as long as the attack impacts a device. Even if victims understand that the attack comes from a Wi-Fi network, they can’t disable the Wi-Fi interface in the repeated restart state.” -Skycure

Attackers can fairly easily weaponize a WiFi network through use of a modified SSH certificate which, when your iOS device attempts to parse it, starts the bootloop.

So, the only way that iOS device owners would be able to stop the bootloop would be to get out of range of the malicios WiFi network.

How To Protect Against The No iOS Zone

Below, you’ll find the advise that the original discoveres of the vulnerability have given for avoiding the problem alltogether.

1. In general, everyone should be avoiding connecting to any suspicious “FREE” Wi-Fi network.

2. Update your iOS device to 8.1.3, as the attack is sometimes not as effective on this version.

3. If you are able to get to the WiFi settings toggle before the next crash, try to disconnect from the WiFi network or just turn your phone to airplane mode altogether.

Ultimately Apple are the ones that need to come up with a fix quickly, and as of the time of this posting, they have yet to disclose when this will be patched.

abril 23, 2015
Popular WiFi Routers Are Susceptible To Mass Hacking Says Researcher

Over 650,000 ADSL routers that are extremely vulnerable to hacking have been ousted to the public by ISP’s worldwide.

Of the numerous exposed flaws, one of the largest appears to be a directory traversal vulnerability which exists under a component under the name of webproc.cgi. This vulnerability allows hackers to gain access to admin credentials, potentially letting them steal data that’s important to the victim.

Perhaps the most astounding part of this story though, is that that researchers first discovered, and exposed this flaw back in 2011 but in only a select few models.

More recently though, a lone security researcher, Kyle Lovett, while analyzing some ADSL routers, uncovered this vulnerability in a huge amount of routers. After further investigation he ended up uncovering hundreds of thousands of susceptible devices located around the world.

Just taking a wild guess, this happened on such a large scale, and the problem was swept aside so long because of the ISP’s.

Most ISP’s provide customers (force them into using) their own ADSL modems, even if you want to use your perfectly good one. Maybe they have a deal with the NSA, some custom spy software installed maybe?

So it’s no wonder that by pushing these modems, there would be a mass risk for vulnerabilities to be exploited.

There’s actually more than just the webproc.cgi flaw though, there’s several other massive flaws.

Around 60 percent of the modems have a hidden account, supposedly for “support purposes” with a laughably easy to guess, hard coded password. These 60% of devices all share the same password.

For a quarter of the routers, hackers are able to take a snapshot of the modems active memory. Of course this is a big issue, because this memory can contain credentials for past visited website, in plain text.

Worst yet, Lovett was able to track down the IP addresses of hackers exploiting these vulnerabilities, and most of the addresses were coming from China.

An expected fix for these vulnerabilities has yet to be rolled out, but for the time being you can check to see if your modem is effected by looking at the list.

marzo 25, 2015
FlexiSPY Is Now Compatible With Android 5.0.1

Great news, you can now install and run FlexiSPY PREMIUM and EXTREME on Android devices running up to OS 5.0.1!

Our Android development team has been been hard at work since the minute 5.0 (also known as lollipop) was released, working non stop to try and crack the additional security coating that Android 5.0 placed on devices, and we’re here!

So, head on over to our Android page to check out all that FlexiSPY can do you for you.

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marzo 5, 2015
How To Use Ambient Recording For iPhone And Android
Ambient recording is the ability to remotely switch on a mobile’s microphone, and start recording the sound picked up. The sound is sent to your web account where you can download and listen to it.

You can start these recordings two ways:
1. Immediately using the RECORD icon.
2. Automatically according to a predefined schedule using the SCHEDULE icon.
NOTE: All scheduled ambient recordings are limited to a maximum of 30 minutes

This article will show you how to use both of these features so that you can either set up ambient recording to record immediately or set it up according to a schedule and then listen to the recordings inside your web account on your PC.

How to set up a scheduled ambient recording

Click the Schedule option as shown in the Ambient section of your online account.

You will then need to click the Create A New Schedule Ambient Recording button.

You can then configure the scheduled ambient recording as follows:
- Schedule Name – Type a name for your scheduled ambient recording
- Start date – Set the start date and time for the scheduled ambient recording.
- Recurrence – Make sure this option is checked.
- Recurrence Pattern – Set the frequency of recurrence for the scheduled ambient recording.
- Range of Recurrence – Set when you wish for the scheduled ambient recording to end.
Click Save to confirm the scheduled ambient recording and FlexiSPY will do the rest.

After that, you can view all scheduled ambient recordings you have currently set and edit them as you require or you can click Create A New Schedule Ambient Recording to create another one and repeat the process.

Once a scheduled ambient recording has been set the recording will be automatically uploaded to your web account once it is complete.

You can then click the Download button to download the ambient recording to your computer. Once it has been downloaded you can listen to it on your computer using software such as VLC Media Player.

How to set up ambient recording to record immediately

If you don’t want to schedule an ambient recording you can simply set up an ambient recording to record immediately according to the time duration that you set.

To set this up go to the Ambient tab of your web account and click the Record button.

You will then be asked to set the recording duration. This can be from 5 minutes up to 60 minutes. Once you have set the ambient recording duration click Start Ambient Recording Now.

The ambient recording will take place on the TARGET device according to the duration you specified and it will then be uploaded to your web account.

You can click Download to save it to your computer to listen to using software such as VLC Media Player.

Ambient recording and scheduled ambient recording gives you the flexibility to record the ambient audio from the TARGET device according to your own schedule.

This is incredibly powerful and allows you to set the ambient recording (be it to record immediately or scheduled) and forget about it and come back to your web account later on to download and listen to the recordings on your computer.
febrero 18, 2015
Our 2015 Valentine’s Day Gift To You

Every Valentine’s Day we get a huge increase in the number of people buying FlexiSPY.

This year, we wanted to give back and help you purchase your Valentine’s Day gift.

From today until the 17th, we’ve taken 5% OFF the initial payment for all recurring FlexiSPY products.

We rarely give out discounts, and when we do, we’re only doing so if it’s of actual use to our customers.

So if you have been holding out, looking for a cheaper option, then now is the time to buy.

HEAD BACK TO FLEXISPY

febrero 11, 2015
Trade In Questionnaire

Trade in your competitor license today to get a discount off FlexiSPY.

Trade in today

enero 12, 2015
FlexiSPY Is Now Compatible With iOS 8.1.2

You can now install and run FlexiSPY PREMIUM and EXTREME on any jailbroken iOS device running iOS 8.1.2

This exciting announcement comes just days after the iOS 8.1.2 jailbreak was released!

How can I get FlexiSPY on my iOS 8.1.2 device?

The first thing you need to do is jailbreak the device, we have a guide for that, which explains all the steps, that you can read, here All it takes is a few minutes and the TARGET device in your hand to jailbreak the device with help from access to a PC and you will be up and jailbroken in no time. After being jailbroken, the installation of FlexiSPY will be as simple as ever, so why not start enjoying FlexiSPY on your jailbroken iOS 8.1.2 device today!
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diciembre 8, 2014
FlexiSPY Is Now Compatible With iOS 8.1

You can now install and run FlexiSPY PREMIUM as well as FlexiSPY iPad on any jailbroken iOS device running iOS 8.1! This means that you can now get the same unrivaled IM capturing capabilities on iOS 8.1 as well as great signature FlexiSPY features such as spy call and call interception.

How can I get FlexiSPY on my iOS 8.1 device?

The first thing you need to do is jailbreak the device, we have a guide for that, which explains all the steps, that you can read, here All it takes is a few minutes and the TARGET device in your hand to jailbreak the device with help from access to a PC and you will be up and jailbroken in no time. After being jailbroken, the installation of FlexiSPY will be as simple as ever, so why not start enjoying FlexiSPY on your jailbroken iOS 8.1 device today!

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noviembre 18, 2014
Sending Commands To Your Android Device With FlexiSPY
Sometimes you might want to change a capturing setting in the FlexiSPY control panel. Maybe you’d like to activate our Ambient Recording feature, or change what app’s you’re monitoring. Whatever the case, you’re given the option to choose the method that FlexiSPY will use to send the changes to the phone.

There are three ways to for sending commands to your Android device using FlexiSPY.
1. Network (FREE, works on all mobiles)
2. Push Notification (FREE, but not available on all mobiles)
3. SMS commands (requires purchase of SMS credits, works on all mobiles)
SMS credits are an optional way to send commands to FlexiSPY. They are used within Control Center in your online account to make sure time sensitive commands are processed immediately (e.g. Send Immediate – to send all data not yet uploaded immediately to your online account.)

The default is push notifications, or network. But these are sometimes slow, and can take an hour to arrive – which is perfectly fine for most users.

SMS commands arrive instantly, and are appropriate for professional use, where timing is important. You can always send SMS commands from your own mobile device, so you don’t ever need to buy SMS credits.

But for those users who value convenience, and the best possible performance, we give them the option to buy credits directly from inside the account portal inside your account tab.

Let’s take a look at how push notifications work;

Everything takes place inside the Control Center in your online account.

Just browse to the category for the command you wish to set and set the options you want to change.

Click Sync Now when done and wait for the push notification to be sent to the Android TARGET device.

With the push notification sent to the device the changes will then be applied.
noviembre 10, 2014
FlexiSPY, mSpy, or Mobile Spy | Which One Is The Best Value For You?
FlexiSPY has long had a reputation for being the best, but ridiculously expensive. That’s only half true however, because we have never been expensive.

Our PREMIUM product is available at $149 for a year, which compares well against mSpy $199 for the same time period.

Of course our competitors and the fake review sites out there went even further and ignored PREMIUM, choosing to only mention the price of EXTREME – a product with features that they did not even have.

We decided it was time to do something about this.

From today, FlexiSPY PREMIUM can be purchased, starting from $68. We have also reduced the entry point for the EXTREME product to $199. This makes us the cheapest, 100% invisible, mobile monitoring product available.

Don’t just take our word for it though, below we’ve compared FlexiSPY to our competitors in three key areas: price, features, and software visibility.

Note: Mobile-Spy is not included in our comparison charts as their app can no longer be considered a true “spy application” as their app can no longer be hidden.

Pricing – new monthly payment options

We have a brand new pricing structure, offering our Premium and EXTREME packages in cheaper monthly options.

Subscription Periods FlexiSPY Premium mSpy Premium FlexiSPY EXTREME

1 month $69.99 Not offered

3 month $119.99 $199

6 months Not offered $149.99 Not offered

12 months $199.99 $349

As the chart shows, we are now cheaper than mSpy in both 3 month and 12 month subscriptions.

Features – who gives you more?

This is also a big thing to consider: We are now the only smartphone monitoring software that offers both call recording and ambient recording. These two features are not offered by either mSpy or Mobile Spy.

Feature FlexiSPY Extreme Mspy Premium

Ambient Recording ✓ ❌

Call Recording ✓ ❌

Number of IM services captured 13 for both EXTREME and Premium versions 6

We also have support for capturing 13 instant messengers. This is over twice the amount of mSpy.
We have performed extensive tests to prove that FlexiSPY gives you the best instant messaging capturing experience when compared against its competitors and you can read about this in full by clicking here.

Software Visibility – hidden or not hidden?

Lastly, in the wake of what happened to StealthGenie, We’d like to say that FlexiSPY has always offered its customers the ability to hide the visible software icon after installation based upon whether or not it is legal for them to do so.

Feature FlexiSPY Extreme FlexiSPY Premium Mspy Premium

Visible icon after installation ✓ ✓ ❌

Ability to hide software icon based upon legal situation ✓ ✓ ❌

FlexiSPY has always been about respecting the law. That is why FlexiSPY is still the only smartphone monitoring software that can allow you to hide its icon should your countries laws permit this. You can read more about how other smartphone monitoring software are surreptitious compared to FlexiSPY by clicking here.

Article In Brief –
Overall FlexiSPY beats its competitors in four key areas:
- Price per month
- IM capturing
- Call and ambient recording
- Software Visibility
We think that the facts speak for themselves, and we hope this has provided some valuable information! If you’d like to voice your opinion on the matter, please share it via the comments section below!
noviembre 6, 2014
Record Phone Calls Or The Surroundings Of A Device With FlexiSPY

Since the StealthGenie incident, smartphone monitoring software based in the USA have been busy making changes to make sure that they stay legal in the eyes of the law. This is why mSpy, who were the only other smartphone monitoring software to offer the ability to record phone calls, and ambient recording, have now removed both of these two features from their products.

That’s right.

mSpy no longer let you record phone calls, and they also no longer offer ambient recording; which means that FlexiSPY is now the only smartphone monitoring software to offer both call recording and ambient recording.

Recording phone calls gives you a complete 1:1 recording of all calls that are placed to and from the TARGET device. Because we understand that you cannot always be around to listen in to a call live, our call recording option allows you to simply set up the options and forget them and come back at the end of the day to listen to all the captured recordings.

Ambient recording is the same. With this feature you can record spycalls that take place on the TARGET device as well as listen to the surroundings in general. Again, with a quick and easy to use interface you can set up ambient recording in minutes and be up and recording in no time.

Let’s take a quick look to see how these features work.

Recording Phone Calls With Call Recording

Call recording is now exclusive to FlexiSPY.
To begin, make sure you have enabled the call recording option inside your online account, through the Control Center, and also have set the watchlist to record the different kinds of calls you want to record (e.g. numbers in address book, not in address book, numbers you specify yourself etc.).

After that every time a call is placed to or from the TARGET device it will be recorded and uploaded to your online account.

You then simply download the recording from your online account to your PC and listen to it offline using popular PC programs such as VLC Media Player, Windows Media Player, etc..

If you are interested in recording phone calls on iPhone then FlexiSPY EXTREME offers that for those who also purchase our companion FlexiRECORD product.

Call recording is currently available as part of FlexiSPY EXTREME and is compatible with rooted and non-rooted Android devices only.

Ambient Recording

This is another feature that only we offer.

Ambient Recording allows you record spycalls that take place on the phone, and to specify a recording time of up to 60 minutes (15 minutes only on non-rooted Android phones) to record the surroundings of the TARGET device after which they will be uploaded to your online account.

As with call recordings you simply download the recording file from your online account to your PC so that you can listen to it offline using software such as VLC Media Player.

Ambient recording is currently available in FlexiSPY Extreme for rooted and non-rooted Android devices, iPhone (jailbroken) & Symbian.

We’ve tried to make recording phone calls and ambient recording both quick and easy. and we hope this guide has provided valuable information.

So we’d also like to extend this offer;

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noviembre 3, 2014
What Is ADB And How Do I Use It?
Disclaimer: While installing ADB is a safe process, please follow all the steps carefully. FlexiSPY is not responsible for any damage or data loss through following this article and all steps are correct at the time of writing. Create a Windows system restore point at any time if you are unsure. Performing these steps is your own responsibility.

If you are a casual Android user who just uses their phone for Facebook, Clash of Clans, calls and emails then you most likely won’t be interested in ADB or what it is. But for those who like to tinker with the plethora of Android customization options available to the platform ADB is an integral part of the experience.

But what is ADB and why should Android owners become familiar with it?

When you plug in your Android phone or table to your PC Windows will happily display the contents of the phone for you to work with. This can be internal storage or external storage from an Sdcard you have inserted. But surely you must have wondered, what else is on my phone and how can I get access to it?

ADB is the answer

ADB stands for ‘Android Device Bridge’ and is a set of tools for your PC that allows you to interface with your Android phone at the very lowest level in terms of system and processes. You essentially can access all areas of your Android phone and its filesystem instead of the areas deemed safe by the manufacturers that only Windows can see.

ADB allows you to perform advanced operations on your Android phone that you would otherwise normally not be able to.

But what are these ‘advanced operations’ you mention?

Usually ADB is commonly used for rooting. An Android phone software is powered by the Android OS which is based on Linux. On Linux there are certain levels of user responsibility, the highest being superuser which allows you to change anything.

Your Android phone is the same. By default the filesystem of the phone is locked down by the phone manufacturer but you can gain full and complete access to the device by gaining root (hence the term ‘rooting’). This lets you do anything you want on the phone and ADB helps make this happen.

So if you want to root an Android phone or perhaps install a custom ROM or basically just perform advanced tasks on your Android phone then you’ll need ADB so let’s install it.

What is needed to install ADB?

To install ADB you will need a PC. You will need to download and install the Android SDK which you can get from here.

Once you have downloaded the Android SDK save it to an easy to remember folder, for this article we are going to use C:\Android on the PC we are using to write this article.

Here we have downloaded the Android SDK to the desktop.

We will now extract the contents of the folder.

The above screenshots show what is inside the extracted SDK. We will now make a new directory on our C drive called Android and we will copy the three folders shown above.

If you are wondering, you simply navigate to SDK > platform-tools and ADB will be shown along with Fastboot which is also needed if you are rooting

Note: You will not see a platform-tools folder after you extract the SDK. You must install it first which we discuss now.

How do you configure ADB?

To configure ADB and make sure you have the right packages installed launch SDK Manager.

Because you are running it for the first time it will ask you which packages you wish to install, we must install Platform-tools because this is what contains ADB.

Just make sure Android SDK Platform-tools is checked, click Accept and then click Install.

Installing all the packages may take some time – please be patient.

When all packages are install the SDK Manager should look like this.

As you can see, Android SDK Tools and Android SDK Platform Tools are both installed.

Set the Windows ADB path variable

Based on which version of Windows you have (we are using Windows 8.1) the steps here may be a little different. Basically we need to tell Windows that the SDK actually lists and has its own unique path. That way, when ADB is invoked by a program (e.g. a rooting tool) it knows where to find the required file inside your SDK installation folder.

Because you are modifying system variables and paths you may want to create a Windows system restore point first.

You need to access Advanced System Settings.

To do this (on Windows 8.1), press the Windows key + S to bring up the search box and type Advanced System Settings and click the entry that appears.

On the menu that appears click Environment Variables.

The environmental variables window will appear and this is what we need to edit.

Under System Variables, scroll down to Path and click Edit.

Note: Do not delete the variable value field in any way.

Instead, append it. At the end, add the following line (include the ; at the start):

;c:\android\android-sdk-windows\tools;c:\android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools

Note: Remember that we installed our Android SDK to C:\Android? Your SDK folder location may be different so please make sure you update the variable value field with the correct path.

Click OK when done.

Now that you have done that you need to install the Android USB drivers.

Installing USB drivers using the SDK Manager

For many Android phones, once you have connected them to your PC, they require their own special set of drivers for Windows to be able to recognize them and allow you to interface with it using ADB.

To do this, inside SDK Manager, scroll down to Extras.

Make sure Google USB Driver is selected and then install it.

The Google USB driver should work for most Android devices once they are plugged in to your PC but not all phone manufacturers require the use of ADB however you should always make sure that you have installed the latest USB drivers for the Android device you wish to root on to your PC.

These are available to download below.
1. Samsung (install Samsung Kies)
2. HTC
3. Motorola
4. LG
5. Sony
6. Huawei
7. ASUS
8. Lenovo
Now that you have done that there is one more final thing to do.

Test that ADB works correctly

Now that we have set up ADB and installed the Android USB drivers it is time to test it all work.
- Plug in any Android phone to your PC using its USB cable.
- On the Android phone enable USB debugging. To do this go to Settings > About Phone (or About Device) and tap build number until the Developer Options menu is enabled.
- Once inside the Developer Options menu make sure USB Debugging is checked.
- On your PC open up a Windows command prompt by opening Run (Windows key + R) and then entering cmd and then press Enter.
In the command prompt window type adb devices and press Enter.

If everything is working properly the command window will display the device data as shown below.

Congratulations! You have now successfully setup and configured ADB for your Android phone and you can perform many additional tasks such as rooting, OS upgrading, OS downgrading and other custom options.
octubre 22, 2014
How To Backup Your Android Phone Using Just The Device Itself
Here on the FlexiSPY blog we love to customise our devices and root them and jailbreak them but we understand that this does not come without risk. Therefore, in this article we will explain how you can quickly and safely backup the entire contents of your Android phone.

The benefits of doing this are numerous such as if you decided to downgrade the OS or install a custom ROM for example – backing up the Android phone can often be a lifesaver.

Disclaimer: FlexiSPY is not responsible for any loss of data or damages incurred from following the directions given. The directions were accurate at the time of writing. Please make sure you follow the rooting guide correctly if you need to root your phone first and make sure your phone has enough storage space to perform a backup before proceeding.

What is needed to backup the Android phone?

To backup the Android phone you will need the Android phone in your hand and, depending on the method of backup (discussed later) a PC may also be required.

What is the easiest way to backup an Android phone?

The easiest way is on the device itself and even though you think that means you do not need a PC it actually does. This is because you need to have rooted the Android phone first to install a custom recovery on it and it is through booting in to this custom recovery that you can then perform a full backup of the phone.

Usually this is to the SD card that you have inserted but what if you do not have an SD card? You can save the backup to the internal memory of the Android phone but if the phone is restored or reset you risk losing the backup so you still need a PC to transfer the backup file (which can often be large such as several gigabytes) to a PC for safekeeping.

To backup the Android phone itself, as mentioned, you will still need a PC to transfer the backup file from the Android phone to the PC for safekeeping once the backup is complete. However you also need to make sure that the Android phone you want to backup, on the device itself has been rooted as well.

Why is this?

Because rooting a phone is what installs a custom recovery. It is the custom recovery that has the feature that allows for the Android phone to be backed up directly to the device to start with.

You can find out more on what rooting is and why it can be a good thing by reading this article.

Essentially backing up the phone directly to the device consists of three steps.
1. Root the phone (this installs the custom recovery mode)
2. Backup the phone using the device itself and custom recovery
3. Transfer the backup file to a PC for safekeeping
For the sake of this article we are going to assume that you have already rooted your Android device. If you haven’t and you want to know how to root some of the more popular Android handsets then be sure to check out rooting help here.

So how do you backup the phone to the device itself?

First of all you must boot the phone in to recovery mode.

To do this you do the following:
1. Turn the phone off completely.
2. Hold down the Volume Up, Home and Power buttons together.
3. Wait until the phone boots up.
Providing you have done this correctly the phone will boot up and it will look like below. If your phone does not boot in to custom recovery mode then it most likely has not been rooted so please remember to root it first otherwise this article cannot be followed.

Use the volume up and volume down keys to select and the power button to confirm.

From the main menu choose backup and restore.

On the menu that appears choose the backup option.

The backup process will start – please be patient, this may take some time.

Once it is complete you need to transfer the backup file to a PC for safekeeping.

This is done by doing the following:

1. Reboot the phone after using the recovery mode to backup the phone. – The Android phone will be recognised by Windows.

Double click Phone. The contents of the phone internal memory will be displayed.

Double-click the clockworkmod folder.

Inside the clockwork mod folder you’ll find that there are no backup files of any kind.

So where are they?

This is why you need root access.

The clockworkmod backups are actually located on the Android phone in /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup.

We will show you how to find the backup files using ES File Explorer which is freely available on the Play Store.

Simply search for ES File Explorer on the Play Store and install it.

Once it’s installed, run the program

You now need to get root permissions from the application to find the hidden location where the backups are stored. This option is found in the Tools menu.

In the Tools menu set Root Explorer to ON and grant root permission when asked.

Once root permission has been granted browse to the original file location – /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup

This time the folder will not be empty and the backups will be listed.

If you open up any backup folder you can verify the contents.

But now that we have found the backups how do we get that folder on to our PC for safekeeping?

By copying the backup folder to a folder on the Android phone that the PC can access such as the Downloads folder.

To copy the folder press and tap the folder icon and then tap Copy that appears at the bottom of the screen.

You then need to browse to the main downloads folder.

When you have reached the Download folder tap the Paste button to start copying.

Wait for the copying process to be completed – this may take some time.

Now that you have copied the backup file to a folder that your PC can access on the Android phone we can now copy it to our PC for safekeeping.

To do this make sure that you have plugged your Android phone in to your computer. Once it is plugged in simply browse the phone until you reach the Download folder.

Inside there will be the backup file we copied previously

As you can see, backup folders are there. Simply copy these folders to a convenient place on your PC for safekeeping and everything is complete.

You have now successfully backed up your phone entirely. We will discuss how to restore these backups in a separate article.
octubre 20, 2014
How to restore a backup of your Android phone using just the device itself
Android phones give you the most functionality and customisation options when compared to all other rivals on the market. But what happens when it goes wrong? What if you install the wrong custom ROM or you have just downgraded the OS and want to restore from backup – what do you do?

Firstly you must always make sure you have backed up your Android phone first before you attempt to change anything significantly on your Android phone, we show you how to do that here.

Disclaimer: FlexiSPY is not responsible for any loss of data or damages incurred from following the directions given. Please make sure you have correctly performed all the device requirements for backing up the phone and have correctly backed up the phone before proceeding as well as correctly restoring the appropriate backup for the correct Android phone being used – restoring the phone is done entirely at your own risk.

What is needed to restore the Android phone?

Restoring the Android phone requires that you have done the following:
- Rooted the Android phone
- Backed up the Android phone to the device itself
For the sake of writing this argument we are going to already assume you have rooted the Android phone and made a backup of the phone to the device itself.

How to restore an Android backup using custom recovery

Restoring from backup is really simple.

All you need to do is put the phone in to recovery mode.

To do this you do the following:
- Turn the phone off completely.
- Hold down the Volume Up, Home and Power buttons together.
- Wait until the phone boots up.
When it boots in to recovery mode it will look like this.

Using the Volume up and Volume down buttons to choose and the Power button to select choose the backup and restore option.

On the screen that appears choose the restore option.

Providing you have backed up the phone to the device already your backups should be listed.

Select the backup file that you want to restore.

On the screen that appears scroll down to Yes – Restore and select it to start the restoration process.

The restoration process CANNOT be undone so please make sure that you are restoring both the correct backup file and that you really do need to restore the phone from backup.

Once the backup is complete exit all menus until you appear again on the main recovery menu and reboot the phone.

Once the phone has rebooted everything should be from the backup you made meaning that your phone should now be fully functioning again if you had to restore from backup because of an issue.
octubre 16, 2014