- Jan 24, 2011
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In an attempt to make Android devices safer, Google might add new security warnings to its Nexus lineup, which will warn users in case their devices have been compromised.
Google has just updated its support page with with a list of new operating system safety warning, which will act as a boot verification system that checks the integrity of a phone or tablet's software during each startup.
Depending on how bad your operating system has been compromised, you might see a yellow, orange or red safety warning being displayed on your screen during the boot up.
Here is what it means. If the message is yellow, then “your devices has loaded a different operating system.” This might appear in case of rooted devices as well, so if you know why this is showing up then you shouldn't be worried at all.
The orange message displaying on the screen of your Nexus smartphone or tablet could means that “your device software can't be checked for corruption.” According to Google, the best course of action is to lock the bootloader.
Last but not least, if a red operating system safety warning is showing up on your screen during boot then things are really, really bad. Google says that “your device is corrupt” and that “it can be trusted and may not work properly.”
Read more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/goog...-warnings-onto-its-nexus-devices-487925.shtml
