Every time I reboot my phone a mysterious icon on my home screen appears. Usually it's an icon to a game of some sort that I've never installed. I've tried every security software in the market to see if it finds any type of spyware or adware with no luck. I've uninstalled the last app may have caused this type of adware on my phone but it is still there. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Hello, I am experiencing hidden audio ads on my phone. I opened up Instagram and a voice would say "Your new free app of the day is ready to download! Shake your phone now!" and if I shake my phone, it would take me to the app store. This also happened when I opened up Go SMS Pro. Has anyone else experienced this before? Ad scanning apps revealed nothing out of the ordinary so I have no idea what is causing this. There's nothing in the notification bar either.
Has anybody ever seen anything like this? I'm experiencing a black box popping up maybe 20 seconds or so after booting that is unclosable with lorem ipsum text in it, here are some screenshots:
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The box cannot be closed, and anything above it doesn't respond to touch input, but everything below it can still be used (like the shortcuts to chrome, contacts, etc. in the last screenshot). This box persists everywhere, including the lock screen.
Additionally, when I go to the lock screen the screen starts turning on and off rapidly, forcing me to reboot by holding the power and volume down key into maintenance mode.
I am able to start the phone in safe mode with no problems (safe mode disables all apps that aren't samsung or google), making me believe it's a third party app that is causing the issue and not something in android. But before I begin the awful task of uninstalling apps one by one to see which is the one that's causing the issue I figured I'd turn to reddit for help.
Additional info: I'm on verizon, the phone is rooted and I'm on 5.0.2
Flash with stock 5.1.1 ROM via odin.
Update: If you're reading this from the future it was cerberus, the security app. Really ****ing pissed because I uninstalled just about everything else because I didn't want to uninstall my security app until I had my phone back at my house (just tempting fate too much). Oh well, at least I've figured it out.
Last few days I had Kingo SuperBattery app installed on my android tablet and last time I turned it on the touchscreen was VERY messed up. I had a Messenger chat-head and some other notifications but the device was very very slow and I couldn't click/touch anything properly and it looked like I had one of those viruses you get on the PC that make it slow as sh** no matter the hardware you have. It looked like somebody else was using my device and all the widgets and icons in my home-screen were trying to move themselves and other weird stuff like that. The first thing I did was to turn-off the wi-fi and it was quite difficult and it didn't even work. I tried using the Clean Master Antivirus app and start a scan and it did not find anything but I also did a phone boost with it. I didn't see any problems with the the device while in the CM Antivirus app, it was kinda like a way of taking a deep breath and then again the same stuff in the home-screen. I couldn't click/touch on the chat-head from messenger and something was always trying to open my notifications slide. The reason I used my tablet was actually because I was trying to fix my phone using my PC (bootloop issue) and the only way to get the .ftf (ROM file) in the sd-card was to use another device (I couldn't find an sd-adaptor) so I tried using my tablet :/ but then here is the "new" problem I'm telling you about ^^^^^^^^^^. I prayed to God at some point and things started getting easier :angel:. I managed to go to developer options and enable "Show Touches" and that's when I saw there was always a dot right above the notifications area (for those who don't know, the Show Touches setting shows a dot on every spot where there is touch). I opened the CM app again and found that the persistent touch-dot (if that is its name) disappeared. I kind of found some tricks to use the touchscreen properly after I realised how the problem works. And then I uninstalled the Kingo Battery Saving app and the problem was gone! :laugh:
Moral lesson: be careful with third-party, rooting, and suspicious looking apps.
Panosu said:
Last few days I had Kingo SuperBattery app installed on my android tablet and last time I turned it on the touchscreen was VERY messed up. I had a Messenger chat-head and some other notifications but the device was very very slow and I couldn't click/touch anything properly and it looked like I had one of those viruses you get on the PC that make it slow as sh** no matter the hardware you have. It looked like somebody else was using my device and all the widgets and icons in my home-screen were trying to move themselves and other weird stuff like that. The first thing I did was to turn-off the wi-fi and it was quite difficult and it didn't even work. I tried using the Clean Master Antivirus app and start a scan and it did not find anything but I also did a phone boost with it. I didn't see any problems with the the device while in the CM Antivirus app, it was kinda like a way of taking a deep breath and then again the same stuff in the home-screen. I couldn't click/touch on the chat-head from messenger and something was always trying to open my notifications slide. The reason I used my tablet was actually because I was trying to fix my phone using my PC (bootloop issue) and the only way to get the .ftf (ROM file) in the sd-card was to use another device (I couldn't find an sd-adaptor) so I tried using my tablet :/ but then here is the "new" problem I'm telling you about ^^^^^^^^^^. I prayed to God at some point and things started getting easier :angel:. I managed to go to developer options and enable "Show Touches" and that's when I saw there was always a dot right above the notifications area (for those who don't know, the Show Touches setting shows a dot on every spot where there is touch). I opened the CM app again and found that the persistent touch-dot (if that is its name) disappeared. I kind of found some tricks to use the touchscreen properly after I realised how the problem works. And then I uninstalled the Kingo Battery Saving app and the problem was gone! :laugh:
Moral lesson: be careful with third-party, rooting, and suspicious looking apps.
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Greetings and welcome to assist. I'm glad you resolved your issue so I'll close this up
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Sawdoctor
For the last 10-15 days, I am getting a random screen that shows my application shortcuts like common apps, recently accessed apps, favorite apps along with Ads. The screen appears randomly and is very annoying.
I suspect this is result of some App that has got upgraded. I am not sure how to go about identifying the offending app. I don't want to do a factory reset or resort to disabling Apps one by one.
Any pointers to resolving this would be helpful. Is there any way I can upload the screen shot of the app.
I've come across an annoying problem with my new pixel 4a.
When within an app and I tap on something near the top of the screen, the screen switches to the view where all open apps are shown to choose from. (Like when tapping the little square at the bottom right)'
Is this a touchscreen bug, a gesture I need to turn off, or something I'm doing wrong?
It sounds like either there is a problem with the touch-screen (try rebooting the phone), or maybe you installed some app that has "added" that "feature" (so try uninstalling any "utility" app that might be adding that ability.
Thank you for the quick reply. It's a new phone and I'm still exploring it and android 11 before rooting it.
I rebooted and so far seems ok. Time will tell.
Spoke too soon. It just happened again one time after reboiting and I could not reproduce it again.
I was in Firefox and tapped the top right corner and the 'overview' screen appeared. I then tried to reproduce it repeatedly but it would not.
It's a brand new phone and I've not installed more than a couple of apps on it. I'm new to android 11 and didn't know if it was a new 'feature' I was unaware of. Will watch some more.
I would return the phone and get a new one.
I think I will.
Thanks.