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[Q] unknown Russian home screens - hacked?

My wife's phone was displaying these home screen images when she woke it up today.
Immediately prior to seeing these, she did the following: Opened Dolphin, signed into a Yahoo Groups account to download a work PDF, browsed Drudgereport or theDailyMail, set her phone down.
A few minutes later, she turned the screen on, slid the unlock bar and then boom, these images. Just like a home screen, she could swipe left and right and see the additional screens. They were not interactive in any way, though. I took pics of the screens and then hit the "home" button and everything seemed normal--then she pulled her battery and is leaving it off until we figure this out.
She has no suspect apps, nothing recently installed, no blackmarket app downloaders...
WTF is going on?
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I think that's a launcher
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using xda premium

I suspected a launcher, but she has nothing new/changed on settings. I'll power her phone up and go through all her apps.
Any idea what launcher it could be? I'm not familiar with any that feature this kind of default text or lack of actual style...and I've been flashing Roms and rooting since the G1.

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Sent from my HTC One using xda premium

Screen goes black
OS-JELLY BEAN 4.2.1
This problem didn't persists in the beginning but it occured again and again since 2 days
When I unlock mobile after pressing that side button single time nothing happens
But when I hold it for about 2 seconds lights are on those 3 buttons at the bottom but it shows black screen and at the same time i can feel vibration on those three buttons(when i touch them) ,can receive calls,can hear tak-tak sounds like when you start applications
But screen remains black and i've to remove the battery and restart the phone again and again as the problem occurs.
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Why does this happen ?
Deleting cache and erasing phone memory didn't work.
PROBLEM SOLVED AFTER RE-FLASHING STOCK ROM

[Q] Huge sound and data problems with my HTC One S

Hey guys,
like I said in the headline i got a huge sound problem with my HTC. Since 6 month the phone don´t want to play any kind of sound. It doesn´t matter if you want to play music, watch a video, to do a phonecall...nothing will work. The mic is broke too. So in my mind it is a software problem because a few month ago the sound worked sometimes. After I did a factory reset, everything was working but just for a few hours.
It is not just the sound...the phone can´t get any HSDPA connection. EDGE is the maximum...don´t know if there is any context.
Until now I tried a lot of things like factory reset, flashing a new rom, a new radio but nothing worked for me. (I attached my actual setup)
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Anyone an idea what causes this issue? I am helpful for every answer.
best regards
-screece

Found the issue inside the log..but I don´t know how to fix it. Like I said, i tried several Rom´s and Radio´s.
Logcat attached.

[Completed] Htc One M8 Volume turns itself up automatically and randomly.

This problem started with the Resurrection Remix rom when my volume would turn itself up randomly and not let me turn it back down. So I figured it was a problem with the rom so I installed Viper Rom but the problem is still there. So now I'm on Paranoid Android and the problem is still there It just happened again as I was typing this I've searched Google and no one seems to have this problem I'm beginning to think its a hardware problem because it seems like no matter what Rom I install the problem is still there I've also tried each of the top virus scanners on google play to see if it was a virus but they found nothing. please help I've tried everything and its still there and is interrupting how I use my phone because the volume bar won't go away thanks. I will post screenshots of the apps I have and more details if it will help solve the problem.
Sent from my One M8 using Tapatalk

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Sent from my One M8 using Tapatalk

FIXED Had to clear the cache partition in recovery.
Sent from my One M8 using Tapatalk

Microphone On My LG G8 Seems To Always Be In Use

I have a LG G8 with T-Mobile (formally was with Sprint) although the phone itself I am pretty sure is a universal unlocked model, and I have trouble using Google Assistant. It never seems to activate when I say "Ok Google", and when that happens, almost always if I try pressing the physical button to bring up the assistant it gives me an error message that the mic is in use. Even when I closed all open apps, I still get that.
Thing is, I almost never see the green dot indicator the mic is in use when this happens. Other times the dot appears randomly for a second or two (usually when watching YouTube videos) and then goes away.
Is there any way to tell what is going on? If my phone is somehow infected or just acting up? Is there any way for me to see what apps have been using the mic? I can't believe it doesn't at least tell you what app it thinks is using the mic, that's about as useful as if every error message in Windows just said "something went wrong".

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