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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!

This guide will show you how to unroot an Android phone so that you can send it for repair for example and it will also show you how to re-enable software updates which are normally disabled after having rooted the device.

Disclaimer: This process will DELETE ALL DATA on the device so make sure you back the phone up before proceeding. The steps here are all correct at the time of writing but FlexiSPY is not responsible for any damages that may occur through trying to attempt to unroot your Android device. Ultimately unrooting an Android device is done at your own risk and is your own responsibility.

What is needed to unroot an Android phone?

In order to unroot an Android phone you will need the Android phone you wish to unroot physically in your hand and access to a PC.

Please understand that NOT ALL SAMSUNG ANDROID PHONES CAN BE UNROOTED.

This guide was done using a Samsung Galaxy S4 – GT-I9505.

Why do you need to unroot an Android phone?

On many Android phones whenever you root the device it stops you from receiving official software updates. It also triggers a counter buried deep in the Android software that powers the phone. Whenever you send your Android device in for repair the technicians can simply locate this counter and read off the value to see if the phone has been tampered with in any way.

To view your current device status you can do this in two ways:

On the device itself go to Settings > About Device > Status and look at the Device Status option.

If it says Custom then it means that the device has been changed in some way such as having been rooted or you have installed a custom ROM.

The other way to view the status is to boot in to Download mode.

To do that perform the following steps:

Note: If your Android phone does not have a home button then just hold down Volume up and Power until the phone boots up.

When the Android phone is in download mode you will see information similar to what is shown below.

You need to pay particular attention to three elements to determine if you currently have lost your warranty or are running a tampered Android phone.

CURRENT BINARY: If it says Custom then you have installed a custom ROM.

SYSTEM STATUS: If it says Custom again you have rooted the phone.

KNOX WARRANTY VOID: Sometimes when you try to root a Samsung Android phone it will trip the Knox flag. SuperSU can sometimes bypass this, but, if not then it will say 0x1 meaning that Knox has been tripped and your warranty is officially void.

Knox only applies to Samsung Android phones – AS OF RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO WAY TO RESET THE KNOX COUNTER!!

Ideally, you need the details on your own Android phone to look exactly as above.

To unroot an Android phone you need to do the following:

If you do not want to trip the Knox flag and void your warranty on your Samsung Android device then you need to make sure you root your Android device at the kernel level using rooting tools such as Towelroot otherwise using rooting tools such as CF-Auto-Root will automatically trip the Knox flag.

However Towelroot won’t root all Android phones and neither will CF-auto-root which is why we stated at the beginning of the article that NOT ALL SAMSUNG ANDROID PHONES CAN BE UNROOTED.

For reference, several scenarios are given below as examples as eligibility for unrooting:

So, you may be wondering, if Knox is only applicable to Samsung based Android phones how can the Samsung Galaxy S3 be unrooted permanently but the Samsung Galaxy S5 cannot?

Samsung only introduced Knox in their 4.3.x OS updates so any Samsung Android phones that cannot run that OS version for whatever reason can never have Knox installed and therefore this increases the chance of successfully unrooting them.

Unfortunately you cannot downgrade, say, a Samsung Galaxy S5 to OS 4.2.x as the Android device can only run the OS versions that Samsung designate to that device and obviously the newer the Android device then the most recent the OS version it can run.

You may also be wondering how two identical phones (the Samsung Galaxy S5 in the examples) running the same OS version ends up with one being able to be unrooted and one not. This is due to the rooting tool that was used to root the device as was explained at the beginning of the article.

Towelroot does not change the heart of the Android OS whilst performing root but CF-Auto-Root does and it is the changing of the heart of the Android OS software (the kernel) that triggers Knox.

So, if the Android phone you wish to unroot meets any ONE of the criteria below then it is time to unroot it.

Before you proceed with the unrooting process we urge you to backup the phone completely to your PC which you can learn how to do by reading the article here.

We will describe the unrooting process separately for both Samsung and non-Samsung Android devices.

How to unroot a non-Samsung Android device

Now that you have backed up the phone it is time to flash the phone with a stock ROM. This will DELETE ALL DATA ON THE PHONE which is why we asked you to backup first. We have already covered how to flash a stock ROM to an Android phone so you can follow the steps in the article here.

The article above for stock ROMs is for Samsung based Android phones. For other manufacturers it may be harder to return to stock ROM so please use Google to research how to perform this task.

Once you have flashed the non-Samsung Android phone with the stock firmware you must then root the phone again.

At this point of the article you should hopefully have done the following:

Once the phone is rooted again, installing SuperSU, simply use the Full Unroot option which is found inside SuperSU.

Now that you have flashed a stock ROM on to the non-Android phone and performed a full unroot of SuperSU the phone is now unrooted.

How to unroot a Samsung based Android phone

Unrooting a Samsung Android phone has one additional step to perform compared to unrooting non-Samsung Android phones. Providing you have backed up the Samsung Android phone and flashed the phone with a stock ROM you must now root the phone again. To learn more about the rooting process in detail and what it entails please review this article in full also.

At this point of the article you should have done the following:

Now that you have done all that it is time to reset the flash counter.

To do this you must install Triangle Away on your Android device which you can get from here.

Once you have installed Triangle Away on to your Android phone run it.

It will ask for root access – grant it.

It will then try to identify your phone – Triangle Away does not work with all Android phones.

to see a list of phones compatible with Triangle Away, click here

If your phone is compatible, simply open Triangle Away on your phone and it will ask for root access (this is why we needed to re-root the Samsung Android phone again)

Providing the Samsung Android phone is supported Triangle Away should be able to identify the correct model. Once you have confirmed this the main screen should look similar to this.

All you need to do is tap the Reset flash counter option and then follow the instructions for Triangle Away to finish the job.

Once you have done that simply perform a full unroot using SuperSU.

Now that you have performed a full unroot successfully you should find that when you go to Settings > About Phone > Software Update you should be able to update the phone to the latest firmware available.

Please remember, after you have upgraded to the latest OS version you must root the phone again if you wish to have root access once more.

 

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!