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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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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.

 

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.

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.

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!

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;

If you have purchased a competitors product,  counting on their call recording features to work, and are now dissatisfied because they no longer support these features, then we’d like to invite you into our trade-in program.

Our trade-in program let’s you “trade-in” the value of your current competitors software towards a FlexiSPY license.

We’ve completed countless amounts of trade-in offers so far and we’d love to have you on board with FlexiSPY!

Learn more about our trade-in program!

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.

Installing custom ROMS, downgrading, upgrading, rooting, tweaks, installing kernels – the modifications and tweaks you can do for an Android phone far outnumber that from any other platform or rival. However sometimes these procedures can be technical and, sometimes also, things may not turn out for the best – so how can you get your Android phone up and running again?

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 using your PC 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 your PC using EFS Professional

For the sake of this article we are going to assume that you have already rooted the Android phone, backed it up to your PC and stored that backup file in a safe place so now it is time to restore it.

For restoring the phone, as we discussed in our article on how to backup the phone to your PC, we are going to use the same software – EFS Professional.

We are also going to assume that you have already downloaded EFS Professional and you have already made a backup that we can restore from (we discussed this already and how to do it – see the link at the beginning of the article).

How to restore from backup using EFS Professional

First of all, as stated, make sure you have already made a backup of your Android phone using EFS Professional – we will assume you have.

Firstly, connect your Android phone to your PC.

Once connected run EFS Professional.

Click the Restore tab.

Click the drop-down menu to show a list of backups already saved. For those who are wondering the backup files are stored inside a folder called EFSProBackup inside the main folder you are running EFS Professional from.

From the drop-down menu choose the backup that you wish to restore.

NOTE: ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU ARE RESTORING A BACKUP THAT MATCHES THE PHONE MODEL YOU ARE RESTORING TO. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU BACKUP A SAMSUNG GALAXY SIII AND TRY TO RESTORE A BACKUP FROM A SAMUNG GALAXY S4 IT MAY CAUSE ISSUES – ALWAYS CHECK THE MODEL NUMBERS MATCH ON THE BACKUP AND PHONE BEING RESTORED.

Once you have picked the correct backup simply click the Restore button to start the restore process – please be patient, this may take some time.

Once the process has completed simply disconnect the phone from the PC and it should be restored to its previous state.

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 itself and a PC

Why backup the phone?

Accidents can happen. You may install something that corrupts or crashes the phone or you may want to root the phone or install a custom ROM on it. Either way a lot of activities you can do on Android have the possibility of wiping the device completely first before the action is carried out so it makes sense to always prepare a backup.

What is the easiest way to backup the phone using your PC?

We have already outlined the backup process in several articles on the FlexiSPY blog. Basically you should always make a phone backup before you install anything that may harm the filesystem of the phone and cause it to stop functioning or before you perform a task that will perform a factory reset on the Android phone itself.

Our software of choice to backup the phone to a PC is EFS Professional but there are some requirements first that must be done before EFS Professional works.

1. Download EFS Professional
2. Root the Android phone you wish to backup
3. Install BusyBox on to the rooted Android phone
4. Turn on USB debugging on the rooted Android phone with BusyBox installed
5. Connect the Android phone to the PC
6. Run EFS Professional and perform the backup

To get started you can download the latest version of EFS Professional from here.

Now that you have downloaded EFS Professional, if you have not already rooted the Android phone you want to backup many popular Android handsets have rooting guides here.

So, with the Android phone rooted and EFS Professional on your PC it is time to get ready to perform the backup. The final step is to, on the Android phone, download and install BusyBox.

Now you connect the Android phone to the PC and run EFS Professional. The first thing it does is check that the phone is rooted and BusyBox has been installed and establishes a USB connection so make sure to confirm on the Android phone screen when a USB debugging dialog box appears asking for access.

We then click the Backup tab to get started.

Under the Device Filter option click the drop-down menu and choose *** All Partitions ***

Then simply click the Backup option to start the backup process.

Please be patient as this process may take some time.

Once the process has completed, on your PC, open up the connected Android phone.

There will be a new folder called EFSProBackup with the backup inside. Simply copy the entire folder to your PC for safekeeping.

Backing up your Android phone really is a simple process.

We also show how you can backup an Android phone on the device itself instead using a custom recovery and that can be found here. No matter which method of backup you choose for your Android phone the FlexiSPY blog has you covered.

As anyone who is interested in the shutdown of Stealthgenie website will know, Invocode CEO, Hamad Akbar, was indicted personally for violation of four US laws, three of which are defined in Title 18, Section 2512, and one in Section 317.

No one knows at this stage what the verdict will be, but let’s try to understand what these laws really say, and what the implication is for the computer monitoring business.

Let’s take a look at the case against StealthGenie and understand what they are actually being accused of.

Of four counts StealthGenie were indicted for, it’s the ones under section 2512 that we need to look at if we are to understand the Fed complaint.

In A Nutshell

• Two counts revolve around, “knowing or having reason to know that the design of such a device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception.”
• The third count is about promoting the use of such a device for, “the purpose of the surreptitious interception,”

Given the above, we have to ask what aspect of the design of a computer monitoring application renders it “primarily useful for the purpose of surreptitious interception,” how would one deliberately design such a device, and how would it differ from a device that does “non-surreptitious interception”.

The problem is that it’s difficult to argue that the design of StealthGenie’s product renders it primarily useful for the purpose of surreptitious interception, when they don’t have a separate product for parental or employee monitoring. The product is absolutely identical, regardless of it being used to monitor your child or verify your employee’s behavior. It’s still hidden, it still intercepts, and there is no difference in the software design.

Now, this is a very important fact, as it destroys the heart of the case against StealthGenie, which is predicated around the notion of the “design” of the device. If an identically designed device is used with equal effectiveness in two different situations, and one situation is illegal, then logically it’s the installers intention that’s in question, not the device or its design.

A similar argument was made in the Betamax Case, where and injunction was sought against the sales of VCRs on the basis that its recording capabilities could run afoul of copyright law. The Court rejected this claim on the basis the device is capable of substantial non infringing uses.

Let’s look at another example

Smith & Wesson products are designed to kill, and no one can say that handguns would be designed any differently if used for self-defense or murder. The design does not change for either situation, because the requirements for each situation are the same. Yet no one is accusing Smith & Wesson of murder.

This is why the 2512 laws emphasis on “design” is well intentioned, but meaningless when applied to generic products such monitoring software.

The third count of the indictment is equally problematic as it does not define what surreptitious interception is exactly. Is a remote backup designed as a Window service, or Unix demon, or DOS device driver “surreptitious interception?” Is it illegal to say that they do not have a UI, or that they do not interrupt the user with notifications? What exactly is the law saying in this case.

Now you may be thinking that this is all getting a little silly, but a good lawyer would surely be able to make such a case, which is why it’s clear that the law, in its current form, is not useful.

Therefore, one has to wonder what the motivation of the Feds was to go for StealthGenie when there are so many local producers of monitoring software, such as Web Watchers, and SpectorSoft. In fact, Web Watchers successfully defended themselves from a similar action, where the case against them was dismissed.

Given this precedent, the answer to why the Feds brought these charges would seem to lie in the advertising, not the design of the product.

This assertion can be supported by the fact that two hundred police stations, in thirty five states have been handing out similar spyware call ComputerCOP. Its unlikely that they will be charged with the same offense, even though ComputerCOP could be arguably described as designed for surreptitious interception.

It’s clear that StealthGenie are being punished for their advertising, and not their product -ironically their advertising was false and their call interception never actually worked –

This raises a lot of questions as websites are open to a global audience. It also raises questions about the jurisdiction of the USA, and certainly makes a business rethink which suppliers it does business with.

Regardless of the outcome of this case, the USA has succeeded in creating a shockwave and will make monitoring businesses consider their advertising and suppliers very carefully as this is where the problem lies. Unless Akbar has a lot of money to buy legal services, it’s clear he will have a hard time defending himself from the might of the US legal system.

Who are Mspy

Like StealthGenie, Mspy provide smartphone and tablet monitoring software. As with FlexiSPY and the entire mobile monitoring industry the StealthGenie case has made many businesses stop and re-evaluate their entire business model and practices due to the recent charges and indictment of Invocode, the creators of StealthGenie, and its CEO, Hamad Akbar.

It is interesting to see how Mspy is dealing with this and what steps they are taking to make sure that they stay on the right side of US law, specifically when it comes to Title 18 USC 2512.

Website Redesign

Mspy seem to have made a number of small changes to their website. These include the absence of the word “spy” in the copy. They have also updated their legal terms, which are all wise actions for a company who requires to be under USA jurisdiction.

They have also changed their claim from being 100% invisible to simply being discreet or stealth. Ironically, Mspy has never been invisible or particularly stealthy, but whether this change in language is enough to avoid the charge of being “surreptitious”, as used in USC 2512 remains to be seen.

They still advertise themselves as being discreet and even though their marketing angle is to monitor children and employees.

However they’ve removed all references to monitoring spouses.

Features Removed

Of more concern to customers is the fact that Mspy have removed the call recording and ambient recording features entirely from their product feature list. We can only speculate why this is, but in any case, the new Mspy product will not offer the ability to record calls.

MSpy Server Location

Mspy website and customer portal that stores the captured customer data continues to be hosted by Amazon in the USA. This information can freely be found out by simply looking up the URL’s IP address.

What does this mean for Mspy

Like all companies with a USA footprint, they are under USA jurisdiction, as is Mspy customer data, and like all companies, they strive to remain lawful. However, until the Stealthgenie case is resolved – and it’s by no means a slam-dunk guilty decision – none of us can know what this means for USA companies involved in computer and smartphone monitoring.

The heart of the indictment against StealthGenie revolves around being “surreptitious”. What the legal definition of this term is, and how it applies to software is not yet clear, but this article will describe a FlexiSPY feature that allows you to avoid being accused of this.

FlexiSPY gives users the choice of whether or not they wish to display the application icon according to their needs by allowing them to choose to run the software in the foreground or not to be visible.

For example a parent may wish to hide the icon on their child’s phone to stop the child from getting around family rules by using a new phone or formatting the phone and removing the software.

An employer may wish to hide the icon to preserve screen real estate.

And our law enforcement customers would choose to hide the icon to help catch a suspect.

Whatever the reason for hiding the icon, this option for visibility is a feature that FlexiSPY has always had.

We recommend using this feature and always run the software in the foreground if you are in the US however the software can be hidden with laws permitting.

FlexiSPY respects the USA, its laws, and its enforcement agencies and is doing everything it can to make sure that its software remains compliant and legal.

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Who are Mobile Spy?

Like Stealthgenie, Mobile Spy provide smartphone and tablet monitoring software. And like the rest of the mobile monitoring industry, including FlexiSPY, they have been reevaluating their business model and it’s operation in light of the indictment of Invocode CEO, Hamad Akbar.

It’s instructive to see what steps they have taken to comply with Title 18 USC 2512, and to consider if these may be enough for them to get a clean bill of health from US law.

Website Redesign

In the immediate aftermath, Mobile Spy took their sales site offline for a few days in order to make changes to both their product and advertising to help make sure their product adheres to the law.

The first thing to notice is that they have removed all references to cheating spouses, and now talk only about child and employee monitoring.

They now state that you must notify the child or employee being monitored first. They also say that the software is tamper-proof which means that it cannot be removed without knowing the PIN code first. This means that they are adverting that Mobile Spy can be used in a legal manner.

Mobile Spy have also updated their legal terms to read that the software is primarily used for monitoring children and employers only and that they do not condone its use for other purposes.

To Mobile Spy’s credit, they also sent out emails to all of their affiliates outlining the planned changes. Here is an excerpt that clearly shows they take this seriously.

“We do cooperate with law enforcement in criminal investigations, and we do not condone the use of our products for illegal or unethical purposes.’ and they followed this up by saying “there will be a PIN protected icon listed along with the rest of the applications on the device’”

They also state that ‘the user of the device will be aware of monitoring activities’

This could not have been an easy pill to swallow.

While they excluded any uses by spouses, they also clarified in great detail, what other relationships can and cannot use their product. The list is as follows.

Product Redesign

Mobile took the painful decision to also stop selling their product and redesign it. The new product is not currently available, but they have been very clear.

They will remove any invisibility, and their product will show as an icon on the device homescreen. They say that the app can be opened using a PIN.

We are not sure how this will affect their market share and revenue, but this is also a brave decision.

Without wanting to capitalize on Mobile Spy’s troubles, we would like to let readers know that FlexiSPY has always had the option to operate with visible icon, if that was required. It will be interesting to see if Mobile Spy also choose visibility as an option or if visibility will be mandatory.

Mobile Spy Server Location

Mobile Spy is still based in the US and they host their servers in the US as anyone can verify by looking up the IP address of their online logs portal. Retina X Studios who created Mobile Spy are based in Jacksonville, Florida and their address is freely listed on the Mobile Spy website.

Is Mobile Spy now safe from the law?

This is an impossible question to answer, as the USA law is very unclear, and can easily be interpreted to cover many mundane devices and uses. We will know more in the near future, as everything hinges around the legal definition of the term “surreptitious interception”

However, as Mobile Spy are an American company, they are currently making widespread changes to how their software operates and it will take time to see these changes complete.

It may be some time before Mobile Spy is back online fully with their new software ready, and this was confirmed when we spoke to their support staff. We wish them all the best in their endeavors to make their software comply with what the USA law demands of it, and we hope to see them back online soon.