How to: Benchmark leaks fake made easy

How to: Benchmark leaks fake made easy

Not yet published smartphones sometimes appear in the news. Benchmark records at AnTuTu, Geekbench or other apps serve as source. A heated Android news landscape then drives the pig through the village, all with the aim to work competently and very fresh.

What we want to learn from a benchmark
The fastest Smartphone processors
But how reliable are benchmark leaks? Spoiler alert: The information therein are quite unreliable.

With the right hand grips the results pages are quickly manipulated. An intervention in the benchmark results is possible although not so easily, however, it is very easy to believe a different Smartphone benchmark. And it's like this:

Build.prop edit and keep a Galaxy S8 in the hand
Important system data is stored in the build.prop file. Include, inter alia: the name, the model name, even the Android version. You can edit the file with the right app. Prerequisite is that your phone is rooted.

A text editor with root access or a Build.prop editor enough to change key values. Before that of course to secure the real build.prop so that you can restore your actual values. I made a Samsung Galaxy S8 with a few tweaks from my Moto G3. And befitting running 7.1 on Android you don't believe? Yes, but - here is the proof.

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A few changes in the Build.prop meet and you have a Galaxy S8 with Android 7.1 in the hand. / © AndroidPIT
Before you go with this guide an urgent warning: the build.prop is a system file. Changes here can have potentially dangerous effects up to, that you no longer can start the phone. Makes such actions so better not with your day-to-day Smartphone, but better with one, in which you quickly and without loss of data on the State of work can reset the software in case of doubt.

The app Build.prop Editor must change with these values you, so that your cell phone emits outward than another:

ro.product.manufacturer: Samsung
ro.product.brand: samsung
ro.product.model: Galaxy S8
ro.product.name: heroltexx
Other Android version please? Here they are:

ro.build.version.release: 7.1
BuildProp Editor
Install on Google play
With these changes you'll reach at least an approximate result - for more authenticity, you should access maybe something deeper in the build.prop box. For my test, it is sufficient for now. After the changes, you put a phone reboot. If all went well, it can go.

Geekbench: Perfect for fake benchmarks
Geekbench suitable particularly well for my experiment, because quickly passes through the test run and upload the data easily. In the menu where you select a quick: 'View Online' and you have the link to your benchmark result. So, and here is my Moto G3 faired as Galaxy S8:

Geekbench: A Moto G3 pretends to be Galaxy S8
AnTuTu and Geekbench: Here it is slightly heavier
AnTuTu also shows a pretty result page, but no simple way to post a publicly visible results. However, the screenshots show that 7.1 to progress here is a Galaxy S8 with Android. Although AnTuTu has a built-in sharing function, this was to get the test to work.

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AnTuTu reveals some technical data of the Galaxy S8... uh... Moto G3 / © AndroidPIT
GFXBench appear when you first start several warnings that results when an active connection in the online database are stored. No problem for our Galaxy S8;). However, GFXBench at least some information on plausibility checks and refused our Galaxy S8 to start a benchmark run.

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Antutu results and GFXBench system info / © screenshots: ANDROIDPIT
So you forge a benchmark leak perfectly
To be more plausibility to the obtained results, you should use best a technically similar equipped smartphone: for example a Galaxy S7 can easily be transformed into a grade 7 or a Galaxy S8 - an app like Geekbench would hardly notice the difference.

The Freestyle would then at the end still to leave, so what a record at reddit in the Android part such as: "guys! Look at this Geekbench entry of the Galaxy S8! Haha, their prototype haz some lousy performance! lol!" If you're lucky, a great tech page accesses the result and honors you with a small rumor article.

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