What are the risks of installing apps from unknown sources on Android?

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Let’s jump right into it. I’ve been sideloading, jailbreaking, and fully loading streaming devices since 2013 when the first Firestick came out. And when Kodi was XBMC you could put it onto a Jailbroken iPad. You can say, I’ve had skin in the game from the start.

I saw the first ever Build for Kodi which was the Beast. It was super heavy but it stopped you from just adding on all the codes. An all-in-one for Kodi is how I sold it online. Someone charged $125 back in 2013 for Kodi with just a bunch of add-ons. We sold Kodi on Fireticks with the Beast Build for $80.

As the times have changed and we could start to add Kodi to the Apple TVs things got even better. My team and I grew up with computers in hand, hell we were around for the first YouTube Video before Google bought them out.

I remember downloading from Limewire and when that went down I came across Acer where you could download so much from a guy named AXXO. Oh, how time flies when you are having fun online.

What we do is not for everyone. Also, back in the day, it wasn’t as hard as it is now. You couldn’t really police the internet and the copyright laws didn’t happen yet for online. Today, you now have better problems to worry about. I’ll let you know what they are below.

Hello again everyone my name is T. and I am the Creator of D3vicx.

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Does installing APKs on my Android device void my warranty?

This is the website Virustotal

There can be a few risks but if you know how to manage the risk you should be good to go. Use Virustotal when scranning APK, meaning Android Package Kit before loading them onto your Android device.

There are so meaning APKs out there in 2023 moving into 2024. People try to scare you can saying it will void the Warranty on the Android Device. That my friend is a LIE. By sideloading an APK you are not voiding anything. You are not even in the Android Device Settings.

You are just loading on an App that is not in the Google Play Store.

Does Google Care? Not really if you ask me. They have taken steps to make partnerships work by slowing down sideloading without pissing a lot of people off all at the same time. Let me explain.

#NVIDIASHIELD gave everyone the update to Android 11. A terrible piece of s**h of an upgrade. This was done on purpose. The first thing this update did was mess up Kodi and Plex for people. This is them making their partners happy. If you can’t use Kodi or Plex, you are more likely to just pay for a monthly subscription.

Files needed to downgrade.

We are still talking about #NVIDIASHIELD here.

At the same time, NVIDIA put on their website a way techie people like us, could get the files and downgrade back the Nvidia Shield Pros back to Android 9. Giving us back the control to keep customizing our own Nvidia Shield Pro devices. (Sorry, I know I just blew your mind.)

See, you are not voiding the Warranty on the device at all. Even with the downgrade, you are not voiding the Warranty. You can easily go into Settings and upgrade to Android 11 and your Nvidia Shield Pro will still be in Warranty.

The only risk you really need to worry about is a virus or malware that is attached to the APK you are loading onto your device. Oh, we are going to chat about that below right now.

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What are the Security Risks of sideloading Android apps?

Note: This APK is Down, don’t download

The first ever APK I saw malware attached to was Mobdro. It was NOT malicious malware let’s state that fact. The malware told a third-party company when you would be on your streaming device and what you would do while on.

They were collecting your data like Facebook or Google. For Mobdro to stay free they needed to get paid so this was something that they did, until Virustotal exposed them. Also, NXTLVL Tech from YouTube exposed them on video back in 2017 if that is still up.

From what I remember this started to make everyone scan an APK just in case to see if something was attached or not. The only other APK I’ve seen with stuff like this attached to it is UK Turks. The problem with UK Turks is there is a whole FAKE website out there claiming to be UK Turks but they are not. Even the site has malware all over it.

Here is another problem, this site and this version of the UK Turks APK is sitting in a very popular third-party APK store. I wanted to compare what we do here at D3vicx to other APK stores. We are the winner by a long shot for sure. Half the APKs in these APK third-party stores are mostly for your Android Phone not for the Android TV Streaming Device. This is a big difference between our shops.

Our store focuses on APKs for your Android TV streaming device only. We can easily create another store for APKs for your phones, no need to mix the two, you are going to just confuse people even more.

Back to the point. I’m not sure if this APK third-party store is even aware of this or if they even care. Because this could easily be their own website and so on. These are problems you have to worry about when loading yourself. I know a lot of people are giving away this information for Free. The problem is the quality of the information is not good at all.

We are going to talk about the quality of the information below.

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In Conclusion

Only on the Jailbroken Nvidia Shield Pro

My team and I have run through them all and if you were to put this on a scale from 1 to 5, they would mostly get a 2 and that is saying a lot.

I did wonder why they gave out such vague information. I found the answer, it’s for website ad clicks. They get paid every time you click on their website whether the information still works or not. This is bogus and scamming if you ask me.

We don't engage in that game here. While our site isn't entirely ad-free, our ads are solely focused on what we offer and use.

We understand that your time is your most precious ASSET, and we're here to help you SAVE it. After all, you can always earn more money, but you can never reclaim lost TIME.

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