Edited by B1OHazarD at 2016-05-09 19:33

Particularly, Meizu phone is not secure, actually its a total ***up. Lets begin from the Vault feature that is easily accessible via several sidekick apps from Google Play available to see all the folders including hidden ones, click and you can see all the contents that is "secured with pincode and fingerprint", the only problem is to guess the file type. But folder which is stored in is usually a tip. So it takes only seconds. Not to mention that you can easily copy these files anywhere with something like ES File Explorer. Oh, com.fingerprint.service that sends:
private static final String BATCH_UPLOAD_URL = "https://uxip.meizu.com/api/upload";
private static final String GET_UMID_URL = "https://umid.orion.meizu.com/umid/generator";
private static final String ONE_UPLOAD_URL = "https://uxip.meizu.com/api/report/realtime";  
raw data ( imei,mac,sn,version,device,country,operator,umid,sre,root etc.) to China Mainland servers in several provinces, and a tracking applet hidden in Video App is just (sic!) great. If company need some additional usage data it just gives user a choice to send diagnostic data or not. Whilst Chinese companies like Xiaomi, Huawei and Meizu (consider Lenovo, Le, Oppo and etc.) collect data for chinese government from Chinese citizens its pretty much OK (national security and shit, at least its understandable), but wtf its collecting data from global firmware of Indian, European and American, global users? Did company really thinks that they're such a smartass? Best thing - its well known. Worst thing - Meizu gives not a slightest *** on this. So yes. Meizu phones are completely insecure and spying. If you know that, so why ask?

Edited by B1OHazarD at 2016-05-11 01:57

No, I'm just stupid user with Nokia 3310 accidentally felt into strangе chinese phone maker forum. Of course i've made mistake buying for almost 500$ PRO 5 with obligatory free beta-testing participation called Flyme OS. For 500$ KARL! Certainly I was eager to know what presents inside did Meizu made for me except beta-test, and voila! Just a tiny bit of shit is here in this thread. Consider some dirty socks are still under the hood, uh?

Edited by B1OHazarD at 2016-05-11 02:07
So, what's the problem?
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Fix what chinese engineers did. Thats the way to keep phone secure.

Hah. So you treat sarcasm too serious. Yes. PRO5 is hardware-better than Nokia and totally suck in software that is good itself but totally ruined with ***en bunch of different bugs and software workarounds. So PRO 5 for now is like more AMATEUR than PRO. I've bought it for a great hardware but seriously miscounted with software. Right now i've better spent more than 500$ for the same device but with fluent and bug-free OS, even less functional than Flyme. And for the steps you've described - its just a common sense, nothing more, if to consider, that you still count on software security measures like pins, codes and even fingerprint that is a deep flaw in any OS, because there's no open ways to check whether phone maker made it impossible for hackers and government to reach your biometrics or its just a talk. So the best way Onohara already described - do not keep anything disturbing or urgent on any phone. Its still more foe than friend, and it always be.

Sadly we still need to use banking and some applications just for speed and comfort. After all, thats what we're buying smartphones for. Keeping all this aside we could still use primitive dialers and SMS, progress makes it all inevitable evil.