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How to remove/destroy mic on Samsung Galaxy Tab A?

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I do not use the mic for anything.

I do not want software to do this, I want it physically removed or made inoperable.
 
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Mic is located on the bottom, under the Home button. You can check YouTube for a disassembly video.
 
erocker said:
Mic is located on the bottom, under the Home button. You can check YouTube for a disassembly video.
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I did see a video regarding replacing the charging port/mic unit on a Tab 3. My Tab A looks different. There is only a charging port. The hole for the mic is on the side at the opposite end of the tablet.
 
Are you afraid of being spied on through the mic? If so by taking out the mic you may attract more interest from whomever want to spy on you since they will think you are trying to counter spy through some crude methods.
 
Also just you know speakers can also be used as mic if they REALLY want to access you.
 
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Don't do it, I can't hear anything

No really its a nice tablet, don't mess it up
 
Okay...okay for what ever reasons you have just know that once you have removed the Mic connection port wires or what ever ... you could instead just take a old headphone mic set plug and cut the wire to end and insert in the port and then the issue with that port is gone....Some high end Tech CEO's do this on the normal.

EDIT if you stagger the cuts on the headphone mic male plug then you wont have to fear shorting and you still have the port if at all ever needed. Techies will also know you know what time it is!
 
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Naw, CIA hacking is real. Have you read Vault 7 Year 0 yet from Wikileaks?
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Yup....people cry conspiracy until the propaganda machines are over run with facts leaked from data no one was ever suppose to see. Its all good for the average joe but some folks are not the average joe.
 
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Naw, CIA hacking is real. Have you read Vault 7 Year 0 yet from Wikileaks?
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Of course it is real. The issue isn't that they are doing it, the stupid paranoia is that they are doing it to people for no reason.
 
They are doing it to every one and everything and leaving it all stored as unsifted data until needed. Thats the way I read the leaks any way.
 
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They are doing it to every one and everything and leaving it all stored as unsifted data until needed. Thats the way I read the leaks any way.
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^^^^

Pretty much why US, China EU and etc. are working on neural network level deep learning as well as AI. It is a way to mine the huge amount of data to examine sociology stability and shit like that. Facebook has already had a scientific paper PUBLISHED and LISTED in congress library detailing how a group of researcher manipulate how people think through selective feeding them facebook posts.

Back to OP. Don't try to hide, that will only make you stand out from everyone else and makes you look a good candidate. Just blend in, you know.
 
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Pretty much why US, China EU and etc. are working on neural network level deep learning as well as AI. It is a way to mine the huge amount of data to examine sociology stability and shit like that. Facebook has already had a scientific paper PUBLISHED and LISTED in congress library detailing how a group of researcher manipulate how people think through selective feeding them facebook posts.

Back to OP. Don't try to hide, that will only make you stand out from everyone else and makes you look a good candidate. Just blend in, you know.
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Not trying to hide, trying to defend my right to privacy and be a responsible American. It is the duty of all Americans to remain vigilant and protect our own freedoms, nobody else will do it for us This is purely a matter of principle.
 
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Of course it is real. The issue isn't that they are doing it, the stupid paranoia is that they are doing it to people for no reason.
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Right, the government are the paranoid and crazy ones. When responsible citizens are labeled as tin foil hatters, you know the Republic is down the drain....
 
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Not trying to hide, trying to defend my right to privacy and be a responsible American. It is the duty of all Americans to remain vigilant and protect our own freedoms, nobody else will do it for us This is purely a matter of principle.
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Dude chill. US spies on the entire world as long as it is connected with some sort of internet technology. With our limited resources as single data point, any large scale resist to hacking WILL get the interest of whomever interested in you. Which is why I suggest you just chill.

Thank god the neuroscientists are still years away from directly I/O over organic brain. If you think this is bad try imagining nanobots subtly changing your mind on the wimp of a second.
 
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Okay...okay for what ever reasons you have just know that once you have removed the Mic connection port wires or what ever ... you could instead just take a old headphone mic set plug and cut the wire to end and insert in the port and then the issue with that port is gone....Some high end Tech CEO's do this on the normal.

EDIT if you stagger the cuts on the headphone mic male plug then you wont have to fear shorting and you still have the port if at all ever needed. Techies will also know you know what time it is!
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So I could just use a plug from an old mic set...but I would lose the speakers by doing so....good idea though.
 
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xkm1948 said:
Dude chill. US spies on the entire world as long as it is connected with some sort of internet technology. With our limited resources as single data point, any large scale resist to hacking WILL get the interest of whomever interested in you. Which is why I suggest you just chill.

Thank god the neuroscientists are still years away from directly I/O over organic brain. If you think this is bad try imagining nanobots subtly changing your mind on the wimp of a second.
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Dude does it sound like I am freaking out? I have a level-headed position on privacy. I guess most people do not want to think about it and just let things happen.
I have concerns about generational theft. I know, crazy, huh? But kids are being conditioned to giving up their own privacy without realizing it. They deserve the same freedoms we had up until 2001. I never wanted to make a political post, I simply want to know how to destroy the mic on a tablet......if nobody knows how, no big deal. I am doing away with the tablet before long anyway.

LOL I will leave it in a box with Nickelback playing nonstop.
 
mallimoosh said:
Dude does it sound like I am freaking out? I have a level-headed position on privacy. I guess most people do not want to think about it and just let things happen.
I have concerns about generational theft. I know, crazy, huh? But kids are being conditioned to giving up their own privacy without realizing it. They deserve the same freedoms we had up until 2001.
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Smart kids and lucky kids born into the top 1% population knows perfectly how to protect themselves in this age. I don't care that much about average Joe or Mary though.

I also like your sharp observation on the kids grown up in this age. I call it catered ideology brainwash.


Back to your original question, what DRDNA suggested is the best route. Andrioid is inherently insecure to begin with so do what you think is best, if it makes feel safer from the ever watching eyes.
 
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So I could just use a plug from an old mic set...but I would lose the speakers by doing so....good idea though.
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Don't use one just for a Mic tho cuz you want to dead the speaker head phone part too...Its been done where they use the speaker as a mike hack ...especially on headphones ...so use the kind that have three black marks on the male plug. Good to see you exercising your Human rights as a created being!
 
mallimoosh said:
Dude does it sound like I am freaking out? I have a level-headed position on privacy. I guess most people do not want to think about it and just let things happen.
I have concerns about generational theft. I know, crazy, huh? But kids are being conditioned to giving up their own privacy without realizing it. They deserve the same freedoms we had up until 2001. I never wanted to make a political post, I simply want to know how to destroy the mic on a tablet......if nobody knows how, no big deal. I am doing away with the tablet before long anyway.

LOL I will leave it in a box with Nickelback playing nonstop.
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yes it does because you don't have a frigging clue

heres the deal if somebody e.g a gov agency wants to spy on you that using the mic in your tablet is the last thing they will do

they will simply issue a NSL to your isp and own your entire network and then they will bug your house OR park a unmarked vehicle down the block with a surveillance setup or they could just knock on your door and say get in the van or get blown away because the reality is THEY make the rules and for all your fuss and crying there is very little you can do to resist if you piss off the wrong people

if you are that tin-foil headed then the last thing you should own is a computer or internet connected device
30 seconds on google gave me your user name your flickr/reddit email and steam profile and every single public post you have made on the internet dating back to 2010

if I can find that just by typing your user name in google wanna bet what somebody with warrant can find
 
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And get rid of your smart phone

Get one of these
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