One of the single most important aspects of mobile devices is that they are always connected in some form or fashion. It gives us the a...
One of the single most important aspects of mobile devices is that
they are always connected in some form or fashion. It gives us the
ability to sync our content across a wide variety of platforms and
devices without needing to have the physical devices in hand. You also
get chances to control other peripherals with the help of certain apps,
such as being able to mirror your screen onto a TV. Interestingly
enough, communications from one of these devices involves not just your
ability to do things with it that may affect other devices, but the
inverse also can be applied. In other words, you can control your device
as well from remote locations/other devices. While we know that there
are various apps that will enable some functionality, XDA Forum Member RavinduSha came up with a rather interesting tool that can indeed be a bit of a life saver on certain situations.
Remote Terminal is an app that allows you to access your shell AND
execute commands by simply typing an SMS and sending it to the target
device. This is like having the terminal emulator open in front of you,
but without actually having it. The app listens to any SMS coming into
the device and will analyze the content. If the contents are commands
for shell, the app will run them (as long as the password is present in
the SMS). All commands can be used, from pulling a logcat to creating a
directory and even deleting stuff in your device. This, of course, is an
app that will carry root level permissions and as such, you will have
full control over the device with it. Because of this, it will be on
your best interest to ensure that you use a good enough password to
prevent other people from “guessing” to try and gain control of your
device.
If you decide that this is indeed a tool you need to have, make sure
that you run it at least once as you will need to grant it Super User
permissions. Please take it for a spin and see if you would like to have
improvements done on it or if you come across any bugs. If you try it
and get nothing else out of this piece, at the very least remember these
4 simple words: “use a strong password.”
Have fun!
This app will read receiving sms and executes shell commands in them.You can find more information in the original thread.
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