So when angry birds first came out I downloaded it from the market (they used another market, but it crashed so they went with the market)
It wasn't until I switched to a different rom that I realized that I didn't have ads on my angry birds earlier.
Luckily I made a nandroid backup, so I still have access to the files.
I tired reinstalling the same apk that I downloaded on my old rom but it gave me ads on my new one.
Any ideas on what files to switch? It would be nice to have an ad free version
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I just downloaded the full version (with ads), then downloaded ad-free....no more ads, but still full version.
I should mention, however, that I will be purchasing the ad-free version when it arrives.
wat thread did you get the add free apk from
It's in the market its adfree android
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anyone know how to update the ad-free version to the new western version without losing save data?
There is an "angry birds save your save" app in the market. Run it to backup your save data, update angry birds and then use the tool to restore your saves.
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There's an ad-free version?
Check out am app in the market called "Addfree"
It will kill 99% of the ads on all apps...
Rogue9 said:
Check out am app in the market called "Addfree"
It will kill 99% of the ads on all apps...
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That's what I thought too. I guess I was confused with what OP was asking.
some one created a recoded ad free version so there is no need for third party apps and im wondering how i keep my save file on this recoded version when i go to the standard version with apps
Isn't recoded just code for pirated?
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Isn't recoded just code for pirated?
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Yep
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use a file explorer and browse to /data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds/files/ and backup the file highscores.lua
then remove your hacked version, install the market one and put the file back
be sure to set the permissions right on the file
I posted this in the Galaxy S2 forums but unfortunately not many replied, im hoping someone here can be of assistance.
Some apps i have on my phone i haven't got via the Android Market, lots ive got have been apk's ive got on XDA,etc,etc, what im wondering is, seen as i didn't get these apps from the market if i linked the selected apps to the market through the market doctor what is that supposed to do?
I have the Paddy Power app and Betfair app which were were initially on the Android market but for some bizzare reason Android market decided no betting apps were to be allowed to took them off the market so i went elsewhere and downloaded them and installed via root explorer, there are a couple of paid apps i also downloaded for free not something i usually do but whoever created these apps was taking the p*ss with the price they were charging so i refuse to pay over the odds for an app, taking all this into consideration what (if any) advantage would i have by linking these to the market and more's to the point considering i didn't get any of these particular apps from the market would the apps in question still link to the market?
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anyone.......??
For apps already removed from the market there's no use forcing a link.
For paid apps if it's not good enough to match its price to you,you still want to use it and want easy updates? :O probably why your question is unanswered..
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For apps already removed from the market there's no use forcing a link.
For paid apps if it's not good enough to match its price to you,you still want to use it and want easy updates? :O probably why your question is unanswered..
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What about apps though that ive got on XDA and apps like Paddy Power and Betfair which were taken out of the market,can these not be linked to the market?
You cannot link it to market because it does not exist in the market server anymore, it's that simple.
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Market doctor is used when apps you did get in the market don't show up. Nothing more. Link to market is really only useful is you manually unlinked an app.
can i backup all my messages with titanium backup and restore them on another ROM?
I turned on my tablet tonight to find a pop-up from the market to let me know about a new app available - Mobo Task Killer Pro.
I've never seen this except when I'm being advised there is an update to an existing app I've got installed... Not one I don't.
Anyone seen this happen before?
Whilst the app looks decent, and I've read that task killers are a waste of time especially on honeycomb?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobo.task.killer
Got one on my phone this morning. Looking into turning this off.
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You guys probably install an app that has the Air Push service. it pushed ads to your status bar.
Get Air push detector, it will tell you which app is the culprit
I saw the ad just now in dolphin. I think out may be that.still looking though.
Edit: have gtabsimiclock installed, maybe that?
Edit 2: got the airpush detector, nothing found.
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I saw the ad just now in dolphin. I think out may be that.still looking though.
Edit: have gtabsimiclock installed, maybe that?
Edit 2: got the airpush detector, nothing found.
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i don't think its dolphin. only help i have is that i had an app called "wheelz" or something with a monster truck and it had the same air push notifications. hope that helps.
edit: that new app called "magiclocker main" has air push as well. btw, any app i come across that has them i reply to dev expressing my negative opinion of air push and uninstall the app. with enough of us doing the same we may see less of it.
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You guys probably install an app that has the Air Push service. it pushed ads to your status bar.
Get Air push detector, it will tell you which app is the culprit
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Thanks! Installed and found the culprit - free MP3 download app. Thing is, I like the app, and so I guess will put up with the occasional pop-up ad since it's not otherwise effecting the tablet.
It makes sense that as Android matures we will see more and more of this - afterall , Google is an advertising company that geniously used it's revenue to build software products! The fact that when you consider say the windows mobile store and the android store, there's a stark difference between the number of 'free' apps - the Reason? Advertising Revenue!
I do not have any of those apps installed. I did have notifications on in the market. Maybe that, for me.
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I do not have any of those apps installed. I did have notifications on in the market. Maybe that, for me.
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That notification only let you know of update available for installed app.
If you're getting ads something is pushing it there. I would just see what you install recently and try to single it out that way
Same here, on my Android Phone HTC Desire ...
I recently updated some Apps from the Market (including Adobe Reader, Angry Birds Seasons, Boat Browser, DroidWall, Layar, QuickPic), and 2 hours ago, a received my first "Advertisement Notification" :
"New app released, Mobo task killer pro"
I downloaded AirPush Detector: no application found, so the spammer application doesn't use the AirPush API.
We need to figure out which application is causing this ...
I got the same suspicious notification ad for Mobo Task Killer on my HTC G2 (running CM7) earlier today. It's the first thing like this I've seen, so I started looking for the source and ended up here. I don't have any of the apps mentioned by anyone above except for Adobe Reader and Angry Birds Seasons, but I highly doubt those are at fault. Got the AirPush Detector and it found nothing. I'd really like to know where this originated from.
This also just happened to me today on my stock, rooted AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 phone. Both AirPush Detector and Lookout found nothing on my phone. (I've also got AdFree running on my phone as well).
Like others in this thread, I had recently downloaded the new Angry Birds Seasons game. I also had just downloaded a free game called Wordplay. I just now uninstalled both of those games on the chance that it's either of them causing this. (Don't care how fun Angry Birds is...if it's the culprit here, it's no longer welcome on my phone).
Reviewing my app install history via AppBrain, those 2 games are really the only likely culprits to my eyes...
Edit: There's also a post about this happening over at Androidforums:
http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid-x/433781-market-notification-new-app-malware.html
If it was Angry Birds causing it, I'm sure there would be a lot more people reporting this than we're seeing, don't you think?
Don't have Wordplay either, so that's not the cause for me.
I can't think of anything likely in my recent install history.. Just updated Netflix and Superuser, installed Greedy Spiders, the pay versions of Android Agenda Widget and Alarm Clock Plus, and that's all I can think of in the past few days.
Is there a way we can see which apps initiated a notification?
I agree with what you said about Angry Birds except this might be a new enough event that it hasn't hit many people yet. Plus, you know that a lot of people would just ignore the ad in the notification bar and not bother to report it or search about it.
There's another thread about this topic going on over in the Anandtech forums:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=32462500&posted=1#post32462500
Me and 2 others have posted our installed apps there via links to the Appbrain web site. So far, below are the apps (minus Google apps) that the 3 of us have in common:
appbrain
angry birds/angry birds seasons
titanium backup
adobe flash player 11
soundhound
Facebook
Kindle
EDIT: Took out Amazon MP3 as it turned out not be common amongst all impacted devices.
Thank you for collecting that info and finding more forums.
I see what you mean about Angry Birds. Shouldn't rule anything out yet I guess.
I don't use appbrain, so no link, but I'll tell you which of those I have:
all angry birds
titanium backup
flash 11
soundhound
So you can eliminate these from the list:
appbrain
facebook
kindle
If I were guessing here, I'd look at Titanium Backup. Is it the free version all of you have installed?
Me and Anubis (from Anandtech site) both have the paid version of Titanium Backup, while the other guy is using the free version (from what I can tell by comparing our Appbrain app lists).
Also, to clarify: 2 of us (from Anandtech site) had Angry Birds Seasons installed while the third person had Angry Birds installed. Looks like (according to the Android Market web site) that Angry Birds Seasons latest update was 10/21/11 while Angry Birds hasn't been updated since 8/30/11, so I guess that degrades my suspicion that it might be Angry Birds/Angry Birds Seasons.
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Thank you for collecting that info and finding more forums.
I see what you mean about Angry Birds. Shouldn't rule anything out yet I guess.
I don't use appbrain, so no link, but I'll tell you which of those I have:
all angry birds
titanium backup
flash 11
soundhound
So you can eliminate these from the list:
appbrain
facebook
kindle
If I were guessing here, I'd look at Titanium Backup. Is it the free version all of you have installed?
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Thanks for sharing what apps you have in common. That really knocks the list down to a small number and I'm not seeing any comments in the Android Market right now that make any of those 4 apps sound like they're responsible for this ad that popped up in our notification bar.
The mystery continues...
Hmm.. I'm going to email the dev of Mobo Task Killer Pro and see if they can (and are willing to) shed some light on this.
Also, just noticed this in their market comments:
"Amazing
[5 Stars] by Blanca– October 23, 2011
Amazing! I woke up to an alert to download this and it's awesome. I've been on the internet for about 4 hours and it barely got to 80%. Great app!"
EDIT: and this:
Not the greatest app ever...
[2 Stars] by Nick– October 22, 2011Spam
but I'm more concerned with it being advertised in my notifications when my phone started, who told them the phone I paid for is their billboard?
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Hmm.. I'm going to email the dev of Mobo Task Killer Pro and see if they can (and are willing to) shed some light on this.
Also, just noticed this in their market comments:
"Amazing
[5 Stars] by Blanca– October 23, 2011
Amazing! I woke up to an alert to download this and it's awesome. I've been on the internet for about 4 hours and it barely got to 80%. Great app!"
EDIT: and this:
Not the greatest app ever...
[2 Stars] by Nick– October 22, 2011Spam
but I'm more concerned with it being advertised in my notifications when my phone started, who told them the phone I paid for is their billboard?
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Thanks, that's a good idea...although looking at the page on the Market for that app of theirs, I don't see any contact info for them whatsoever; no email, no web site, no blog...that seems awfully suspicious to me. Did you find contact info for them somewhere?
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Thank you for collecting that info and finding more forums.
I see what you mean about Angry Birds. Shouldn't rule anything out yet I guess.
I don't use appbrain, so no link, but I'll tell you which of those I have:
all angry birds
titanium backup
flash 11
soundhound
So you can eliminate these from the list:
appbrain
facebook
kindle
If I were guessing here, I'd look at Titanium Backup. Is it the free version all of you have installed?
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Hi,
I started a similar thread on another forum site before I found this. I don't have any version of Angry Birds (once did, but SBF'd it away 6 months ago).
The apps I have in common with the list here are:
Titanium Backup (Pro)
Adobe Flash 11
Soundhound (<<< my best guess)
Thanks to those of you looking into this! The permissions for that task killer seem way out of line to me,
p.s. This happened for me on a Droid X
Been using Soundhound on my TF and phone, never had an ad notifications
Yeah, I've had Soundhound (the paid version) for a long time and never had any such issues with it. I really hope this stupid ad isn't being done via some new OS exploit in Android. I know it's much more likely that it's happening through some app using that damn AirPush or SlingLabs service, but it's worrisome not being able to verify how it happened.
Not sure if this is the right spot to post this in but ever since the app has been updated to 1.0.7, the app requests superuser a few seconds after i select load game.
Yes the apk was downloaded directly from google play
I am using a rooted Transformer TF101 stock rom with SuperSU
Should i redownload the game, get rid of it or just deny ( as i have been doing so far)
Does anyone know why it even requests root?
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Not sure if this is the right spot to post this in but ever since the app has been updated to 1.0.7, the app requests superuser a few seconds after i select load game.
Yes the apk was downloaded directly from google play
I am using a rooted Transformer TF101 stock rom with SuperSU
Should i redownload the game, get rid of it or just deny ( as i have been doing so far)
Does anyone know why it even requests root?
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i once downloaded one of gamevil's other games called Legend of Master 3 and it asked for root permissions. i granted it, and a dialog told me that it wont run on rooted devices. idk if yours is working, but it sounds like they are trying to implement that into their other games as well. im not sure why, since most their games are free... and there isnt any competitive play so no one can cheat...
Thanks for the response, was beginning to think it was just me. Guess ill just leave it as deny always, maybe you should try that out too if your still interested in that game
Always pisses me off when game makers try to deny rooted users tho i guess they are worried about making money since its one of those buy coins to get upgrades type of game