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Stumbling upon Droid Life randomly after purchasing a Motorola DROID in late 2009, then setting out to learn everything he could about Android, Tim quickly became an integral part of the site's comment section. After quite some time of strictly commenting on Droid Life, Tim was offered an opportunity to write feature stories for the site, such as custom ROM overviews, as well as interviews with Android community members. Following success of those, Tim became a full time writer and editor for Droid Life, now spending his time on news articles, device reviews, producing videos, and much more. Tim currently resides in Portland, OR with his longtime girlfriend and two wonderful dog children (Loki & Thor). In his spare time, Tim enjoys playing guitar, drinking coffee, practicing photography, and destroying kids on Call of Duty.

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  • Tim, I wish the headline of this post said something more to downplay how non-serious this local only possibly vulnerability really is. So many people see the headline and never read the story.

    BTW, I have the Note2 and it’s awesome!! Kellen doesn’t know what he’s missing!

    • Yep. A security threat of any kind is “nothing of any true significance” alright. Moron.

  • iPhone bug emerges that lets you call contacts
    “omg the iPhone is the worst thing ever what a toy lol”

    Note 2 develops a fault that allows brief access to the home screen
    “lol no big deal who would even do this”

  • This bug is more common than you might think. Pre-7 Windows, for example, would briefly flash the desktop on screen wake when it was locked.

  • Nobody lock their phones. It’s so incontinent. Unless you use your phone to connect to corporate email. This is only vulnerable for corporate users. Typical uses can safely ignore this.

  • I wouldn’t call this much of a security flaw. The worst thing that could happen would be running up minutes or data.

  • i tried a bunch of times to open an app in my home screen like CONTACTS or MESSAGING but it was too fast and it immediately goes back to the lock screen. it does show the last home screen view that was open before being locked.

  • You forgot the most important part. You have to have your phone stolen first.

    All of these “security vulnerabilities” perpetuated by sensationalist headlines (CNET) forget to mention that fact, so people think their phone is going to be hacked by some Serbian thousands of miles away.

  • Samsung keeps pushing “SAFE” to compete with BB ….. it’s not so “SAFE” LOL. Honestly it doesn’t look like a big deal, BUT this shouldn’t have slipped through the cracks. They should fix this regardless.

    • It is enough time to launch a widget though, I got my Tesla LED flashlight widget to turn the light on.

  • Note 2 just dropped to 199 at Best Buy, considering returning MAXX HD for it, worth it?

        • The battery is as good as, if not better than my razr maxx. It is the best phone I have ever had. Let us know if you get it and how you like it of you do

    • Absolutely! I had the Maxx HD too and this device is far superior!Feature wise, performance wise the Note 2 wins. Also, battery life is pretty darn close. Maxx HD wins, of course, but the Note 2 will definitely get you through the day. Call quality, IMHO, is the same as on my Maxx HD. And the s pen is awesome lol
      All in all this is by far the best phone I have owned.

      • Definitely the Galaxy Note 2 is the BEST ultimate all purpose productivity device ever made since the inception of android period. Nothing on the market today can come close to competing. Matter of fact it’s on a total level of it’s own. No Lg Optimus G pro can touch this. Only thing that will ever touch the Galaxy Note 2 will be the upcoming Galaxy Note 3.

  • It’s just like apples peep mode on the iPhone…great, now something else that they can accuse Samsung of copying…

  • I am confused as to why someone concerned bout a local security flaw flashed someone’s phone number in a video on YouTube which is far more damaging.

  • How pedantic are some people? My OG Droid did this too and I couldn’t care less….

    • I am excited to see you’re not the among the idiots and used the proper verbatim and said “couldn’t care less” rather than “could care less”

  • I’ve tried a number of times to actually get an app to launch on my Note II with this, and it doesnt seem possible. I can even see the app highlight on press, but it doesnt actually bring it up.

  • This is a vulnerability and it will get fixed. More importantly expect Verizon to use this as a way to patch an exploit that we are currently using to Root and Rom our phones.

  • I’ve already found a fix for this.

    Either have the phone:

    A) in your pocket

    or

    B) in your hand.

    • Hahaa! Exactly. Even if someone stole the phone, doing this all day is pointless…

    • This is the european model given you hear the european tone when dialed, so is this exploit for all versions world wide, or just gsm, 3g, and/or lte models be affected since it has different software in some models for certain areas or are all Note 2’s vulnerable?

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