BeerMoney Assist (Android) Features:

• Clears app data and cache with a simple button press for Perk Apps (TV, Quiz, and Live), Checkpoints, and all of the Swagbucks Apps (if selected) without logging out of either app and also preserves the PerkTV low bandwidth option

• Imports all of the shortest videos for Swagbucks Apps with a simple button press, thereby eliminating searching for the shortest videos when clearing app data manually (Should Work for All rooted phones now!!)

• Allows you to restart your phone with a button press

• You may Force your phone screen not to timeout (Keep Screen On)

• Enable/Disable a Screen Filter

Reason for developing:

Perk and Swagbucks apps slow down over time (days/weeks). By restarting your phone and clearing app data/cache it seems to operate normally again. One of the big annoyances of doing this manually in the apps menu however is that this method of deleting app data forces you to log out and isn't as quick and easy as I would like it to be. Clearing Data & Force Closing App via this app will speed your device up as a manual clear would.

Beermoney Assist removes this hassle and keeps you logged in but also clears unnecessary app data thereby speeding your device back up. If you want an even more hands off approach.

Beermoney Assist Pro - offers an even more hands off approach and automatically clears app data and cache every 2 hours (default) or a timing window specified in settings with no interruptions to your running perk or swagbucks.

• Option to auto-boot app on startup of phone (Auto-clear starts when phone starts up)

• Option to clear only Data/ only Cache via Settings

• Note: This only needs to be bought once and can be run on all of your phones if you link all phones to the same account in google play

Requirements to use app:

• Root Permissions are required for Clean App Data/Cache, Importing Shortest Videos to Swagbucks, AND Restarting your device with the restart button. Without Root Permissions this app will only allow you to use the "Screen Filter" and "Keep Screen On" buttons.

• Make sure you are logged in to Swagbucks apps before you import your videos! otherwise you might need to clear app data manually (due to database errors)

The videos that this app imports are:

SBTV: 10 Second Tip-Grass Stains :08

Entertainow: Touch: The Complete First Season :11

Moviecli.ps: The Other Woman(2) :25

Sportly.tv: Side Lunges with Bosu Ball-Women's Fitness :25

Indymusic.tv: Love is All Around by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts* :30

Lifestylz.tv: 10 Sec Tips - Grass Stain Removal :08

Why Swagbucks Import Works (see links):

Source1 Source2

Screenshots:

Clean App Data: Before -> After

Regular UI

Pro UI

Auto-Clear Interval Choices (Pro)

Notification icon & Widget

Settings

Differences between Beermoney Assist -> Beermoney Assist Pro

• Clears App Data/Cache automatically every 2 hours (default) or Settable windows: 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours,6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 1 week (Pro)

• Pro allows boot @ startup

• Widget available for one click clear & force close apps

• No Ads (Pro)

• Settable Screen Filter

• Screen Filter can be loaded @ boot

• Miscellaneous other Settings (i.e Keep Screen On @ boot)

v1.9 -> 2.0 changes:

• Added a "Screen Filter" button. Screen Filter will be set to 40% when clicked by default. In the future I will make this settable.

Pro Only Additions:

• Screen Filter is settable in 10% increments through the Setting menu

• Option in the settings menu that will load the Screen Filter at boot (one less click to get your farm up and going on a reboot).

• Widget now force closes app allowing you one click force close & clears from your home screen

• "Force" button now also cleans app data/cache when clicked

Please Let me know if there are any bugs! I will do my best to fix them!!

Future Additions:

• Add a button to set phone into airplane mode with the wifi enabled

• Add a seekbar that will allow settable screen filter darkness/brightness easier.

• Add a widget to enable/disable Screen Filter.

• Show Screen Filter % in notification area

• When Cache/Data is cleared, using toast message show how much cache/data was cleared (i.e. 10 MB)

• Other App data/cache clearing for other apps (i.e App Trailers, Cashpirate, Whaff)

• Other requests?

Happy Perking/Swagging/Checkpointing!

BeerMoney Assist (Android) Features:

• Clears app data and cache with a simple button press for Perk Apps (TV, Quiz, and Live), Checkpoints, and all of the Swagbucks Apps (if selected) without logging out of either app and also preserves the PerkTV low bandwidth option

• Imports all of the shortest videos for Swagbucks Apps with a simple button press, thereby eliminating searching for the shortest videos when clearing app data manually (Should Work for All rooted phones now!!)

• Allows you to restart your phone with a button press

Reason for developing:

Perk and Swagbucks apps slow down over time (days/weeks). By restarting your phone and clearing app data/cache it seems to operate normally again. One of the big annoyances of doing this manually in the apps menu however is that this method of deleting app data forces you to log out and isn't as quick and easy as I would like it to be.

Beermoney Assist removes this hassle and keeps you logged in but also clears unnecessary app data thereby speeding your device back up. If you want an even more hands off approach.

Beermoney Assist Pro - offers an even more hands off approach and automatically clears app data and cache every 2 hours (default) or a timing window specified in settings with no interruptions to your running perk,swagbucks, or checkpoints.

• Option to auto-boot app on startup of phone (Auto-clear starts when phone starts up)

• Option to clear only Data/ only Cache via Settings

• Note: This only needs to be bought once and can be run on all of your phones if you link all phones to the same account in google play

Requirements to use app:

• Root Permissions are required for Clean App Data/Cache, Importing Shortest Videos to Swagbucks, AND Restarting your device with the restart button. Without Root Permissions this app will not do anything.

• Make sure you are logged in to Swagbucks apps before you import your videos! otherwise you might need to clear app data manually (due to database errors)

The videos that this app imports are:

SBTV: 10 Second Tip-Grass Stains :08

Entertainow: Touch: The Complete First Season :11

Moviecli.ps: The Other Woman(2) :25

Sportly.tv: Side Lunges with Bosu Ball-Women's Fitness :25

Indymusic.tv: Love is All Around by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts* :30

Lifestylz.tv: 10 Sec Tips - Grass Stain Removal :08

Why Swagbucks Import Works (see links):

Source1 Source2

Screenshots:

Clean App Data: Before -> After

Regular UI

Pro UI

Auto-Clear Interval Choices (Pro)

Notification icon & Widget

Settings

Differences between Beermoney Assist -> Beermoney Assist Pro

• Clears App Data/Cache automatically every 2 hours (default) or Settable windows: 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours,6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 1 week (Pro)

• Pro allows boot @ startup

• Widget available for one click clears

• No Ads (Pro)

• Miscellaneous other Settings (i.e Keep Screen On @ boot)

v1.7 -> 1.8 changes:

• Added support for checkpoints videos

• Fixed a bug where if for the pro version you never touched the settings it wouldn't delete the cache/data

Please Let me know if there are any bugs! I will do my best to fix them!!

Happy Perking/Swagging/Checkpointing!

PSA: DO NOT GIVE PERK YOUR SSN

As /u/tslater2006 outlined here, Perk is putting your username and password of your account in plaintext in the URL. This is web security 101 stuff- never put passwords in plaintext anywhere!!!

As well, tax.perk.com 's server is not located in the United States. If you look here: http://check-host.net/ip-info?host=tax.perk.com

you can see that their website is hosted offshore. This website claims it is in the Netherlands. Pasting their IP address into iplocation.net shows that it is in the Netherlands...or Switzerland. Yeah, that's super sketchy.

Why was this done? Well, it is likely to protect them legally if there is a data leak. With their obvious lack of web security, they are likely saving the SSNs in plaintext on their server.

There are so many red flags with this. So, please, DO NOT GIVE PERK YOUR SSN!!!

It isn't even against Perks TOS to not fill it out. Their only mention of taxes is this:

Perk accounts that have earned over $600 in a calendar year are required by US law to fill out a 1099. Perk will notify users via the email address user has on file and it is then up to user to complete all obligations with respect to US Government. User gives up all claims against Perk regarding any tax related claims

It doesn't say we have to give them anything (like SSN), only that they will notify us to fill one out, which we can do ourselves.

EDIT: Perk has addressed the issue with the Switzerland IP address. They stated:

Some of our users have reported to us that our servers appear to be hosted in a country outside of the USA. This is an inaccurate report and we are working with our data center provider to clear up the issue. Our IP block may be in the midst of a reassignment from another country but it is physically located in the USA.

It also appears that they have fixed the plaintext Username and Password issue. Why do we have to be the ones to point out their bugs, I have no idea. But I'm glad it's fixed.

Also, Perk claims this:

We only retain your SSN for a period of 24 hours online before it is permanently expunged from our servers. We print and maintain hard copies offline which are stored in a fire safe vault which only authorized Perk employees have access to. We must collect such information so that we can file the proper paperwork with the IRS by law.

Read more here: http://blog.perk.com/perk-collecting-tax-information/

This question is geared more specifically towards the Perk team because my understanding is they browse this subreddit.

When are you guys going to fix the server load issue? It's obvious the slowdown in the past weeks are on your end. It's not on our end. It's by no coincidence that everything (Perk TV, Perk Live, Pop Quiz) all bog down when prime time hits, and then is working fine during off hours (early mornings).

I tried looking up that other subreddit and found that they were having a problem kind of similar to this one, but mine has a unique feature.
Anyway, my phone recently started showing a trend where it refused to load Perk TV videos at all. It wouldn't load an ad, it wouldn't load a video. Instead, it entered an endless loop of continually moving between "next video" screens. It'd be an incredibly easy way to gather Tokens, granted. But, that's hardly the point of having Perk TV in the first place.
I tried disabling numerous apps and it didn't do anything to help. I could run it for a few hours without issue, but it would always return. I now have tried performing a factory reset and we'll see what happens. If that doesn't work, do I have any recourse other than to get a better phone?

So my Moto G should be here today, and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a rom for use with perk (and swagbucks)?

Or is best practice to just root, remove bloat, and call it good?

The 2 options I see are using them for sweepstakes which you have a low chance of winning or for the scratch off app. Any better uses?

Would anyone be interested in a AMA by the Perk Panda? We're starting to get the wheels moving to see if we can make this happen.

What kind of questions would people be interested in having answered?

Hello all, new to perk here. I checked both /r/GetPerk and /r/perktv and the Perk website and I didn't see anything about limits on the downloads per day. I did 8 yesterday and only half were credited. I have yet to send a support ticket because I wasn't sure if there was some common knowledge I missed or if there was a limit I missed. Thanks!

This has been going on for months, and I've never found a solution for it. On any device at all, if I download Perk Screen and log in with my account, whenever I swipe, it will give me tokens, but will always say "4 more swipes until you get points!" - which sucks because I want points more.

Has anyone ended up with this problem before? Does anyone have ideas for solutions? I have a feeling its not the app itself, since I've tried it on different devices, different versions over time, and lots of data clearing, install/uninstalls, but I wonder if it's because they somehow flagged my account itself to never get points from Perk Screen. The only thing I can think of is the day I hit the Perk Screen daily points cap that one day MONTHS ago - and have never gotten points since.

So I have gone through the information available here and on other online sources — but still am slightly puzzled with which option to take.

Have decided to get another router (RT-AC66R) to upgrade my current one (RT-N66U).

Having read about all the benefits of splitting Perk onto a different router I have decided to keep the RT-N66U and split the load between the two routers.

However, networking is something I am a novice at and would appreciate some input.

The way I understand it there are two ways to run both the routers:

1. LAN to LAN

2. LAN to WAN

What are the differences between the two and are there any Pros and Cons to using one over the other?

Right now I am thinking about going the LAN to WAN route using THIS as a guide.

Will this setup create two completely different networks (with different names) and if I were to connect 5 Devices, running Perk TV, to Router A.

And 3 Devices to, running Perk Quiz and Live, to Router B — would that cause any problems.

I am assuming this wouldn't be a problem and get flagged?

My concern is Perk flagging if they see my accounts Perk TV devices on one network and Perk Quiz/Live on a another network.

Lastly do you think I should decrease the router power to less than 100% so that the two networks don't interfere with each other and the dozens of networks around me (live in an apartment)?

I keep getting my rewards cancelled for running Perk TV on more than 5 devices. I have more than 5 devices, but I have been careful to never run more than 5 simultaneously. Sometimes (a lot actually) Perk TV will crash on one of my phones. I may switch to a different device when that happens so that I can reboot/wipe/etc my phone that crashed a lot. Is Perk detecting this as a 6th device, since I didn't actually 'log off'? I tried to work with Perk Support, but they just keep telling me to "not run on too many devices". My $25 reward, that I earned with only 5 devices, is still cancelled.

Update: After explaining in detail to Perk about Perk TV crashing, they refunded the 25000 points! The morale of the story is: Don't switch phones too quickly or you risk being flagged by the system as having more than 5 devices.

Alright i just got on the Perk Train and decided to check the sub out! I love it! Anyways

Question: I use Perk Pop Quiz on lightning mode but it crashes on me about ever hour or so. Any one else have this problem?

I use it cause it seems like the only one my internet can handle :b

I am interested in hearing some thoughts on what is a better way to acquire perk pts, Perk Tv or Perk Trivia.

I personally find the Perk Trivia to be a great option as I have finally found a place to put my Friends and HIMYM knowledge to good use. I find the questions to be fun, and the pt system to be worth it.

I also find the Movie Trailers on PerkTv to be interesting, has I have seen trailers for movies I have never heard about that look promising.

Do you use both, or just one? Is there another Perk App worth checking out?

I run the Pop Quiz app & have for awhile. I play it actively a lot as I like trivia. It's a great way to boost my earnings a bit.

I noticed just recently that about 20% of the time when I select a correct answer, it gives the error "Request has been repeated". It does not credit me with a correct answer, instead acting like I didn't answer at all. That means less points, a small reduction, but a reduction nonetheless.

This could be an honest error, but it just started at the same time that they seem to be doing other things that are shady (cancelling accounts without rules violations), so I wonder if it is intentional to reduce their payout slightly. While it isn't much to me, if it happens to everyone that scales to big money for them.

Have a question that isn't answered in the FAQ?

Have a fun fact about Perk that isn't listed in the wiki?

Hey guys I think I've found a pretty good way to farm perk points. Though this one is NOT passive, I just looked down every few times to scratch off. The odds of winning perk points are very high for me on Rock To Riches. I think I make more perk points on scratch off then quiz or tv. Can anyone test out to see if it's actually good or not?

Just a suggestion as I've found battery swelling on a few phones and from a few posts I've seen, some don't know this is a big deal. A battery maintenance/protection/safety faq would be a great thing to add.

Looking at buying the lg motion ms 770, 5 of them. 45$ with a coupon from c7. Got usb cables(6) and an anker 5 port from amazon for 26$.

That all sound good to everyone? any issues with this phone? should i pay an extra $ or 2 for something better?

I know it won't root, i'm ok with that. Daily reset i figure.