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Be aware 'Scam' App : U need 2 read this ! It may cost u money if u don't!!!!

Hiya,
I'm bagofbits and new to these forum's and was not sure how to contact anyone at XDA so after some after advice from LUFC (forum moderator) here is my situation.
I have a wildfire s and been viewing those forums, during the last couple of days since the change over from android market to google playground or whatever it's called these days, I've been getting a popup app in my status bar saying please download 'battery supercharger' . I've been just clearing my status bar but it just kept coming back.
Today by mistake i downloaded it and got loads of texts within minutes and ended up with a charge of £4.99, I text 'STOP' to the number given. My network provider(3) can't help and I've mailed google help about it and they have logged it and are getting back to me.
Also a number of post's on the web about it...
Anyway enough rambling, I've searched the wildfire s forum and can't see any mention of it, just thought that it would be useful to post something about it so nobody else falls victim to this.
Give me a thanks if u could please.
Cheers
Oh might be an idea to check recent downloads you have made that contain ad's that may harbor this scam.

bagofbits said:
Hiya,
I'm bagofbits and new to these forum's and was not sure how to contact anyone at XDA so after some after advice from LUFC (forum moderator) here is my situation.
I have a wildfire s and been viewing those forums, during the last couple of days since the change over from android market to google playground or whatever it's called these days, I've been getting a popup app in my status bar saying please download 'battery supercharger' . I've been just clearing my status bar but it just kept coming back.
Today by mistake i downloaded it and got loads of texts within minutes and ended up with a charge of £4.99, I text 'STOP' to the number given. My network provider(3) can't help and I've mailed google help about it and they have logged it and are getting back to me.
Also a number of post's on the web about it...
Anyway enough rambling, I've searched the wildfire s forum and can't see any mention of it, just thought that it would be useful to post something about it so nobody else falls victim to this.
Give me a thanks if u could please.
Cheers
Oh might be an idea to check recent downloads you have made that contain ad's that may harbor this scam.
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The ad you saw in your status bar used ad over the air function.
There are some apps which will detect apps using the add. Method. And will give you the ability to uninstall it.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using xda premium

Thanks
Thanks for the advice, I have installed firewall and virus protection now, can u advise on an app for trapping these OTA updates ?

WOW, thanks for posting this up. I'll keep an eye out for this one!

bagofbits said:
Thanks for the advice, I have installed firewall and virus protection now, can u advise on an app for trapping these OTA updates ?
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The best one and most trusted one is from lookout.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout.addetector
Press the thanks button
Sent from my HTC HD2 using xda premium

Try airpush detector from the market to find out what the offending app is.

Never txt stop to a random number that's how they get ya, school boy error
THISIS50 if its hot its here

School boy error
Just to set the record straight this 'thing' auto en-roles u 'before' u text stop and it applies the charge!
If I'm guilty of anything it's downloading by mistake !
Google it and see what others are saying bout it, I was just trying to help and your criticism ain't justified.

jamieunit said:
Never txt stop to a random number that's how they get ya, school boy error
THISIS50 if its hot its here
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Unfortunately this is true, you have not stopped the messages - just confirmed to the spammers that the number is live and real. 3 may be able to help you by blacklisting the numbers you are getting messages from - also have a look here if the messages persist.
This is a problem that is by no means limited to the Wildfire S - recently I recognised an app on my friend's Samsung Galaxy Ace as being malware - it was also generating notifications about some kind of battery optimizer. I managed to remove it before she accidentally signed up to anything.
Regarding the app, try some apps like Lookout Mobile Security and BitDefender . If you run a scan with these, they may find the offending app and help you to remove it. Good luck!

solution to battery supercharger text costs
saw the two text messages yesterday, spoke to Vodafone told them to block any charges today, up to which time charges hadn't gone through. So hopefully this will cost me nothing.
even if they had placed the charge, I would have asked Vodafone not to pay it, and kicked up a fuss until the agreed not to do so, or carry the cost themselves. Anybody with a mobile phone contract is in a very strong position at the moment I have noticed, getting lots of freebies off them.

thanx for ur advice
but i think it is not harmful

[Q] Website prob

I am new on xda-dev. I find it very difficult to use this website.
First there were a lot of issues related to registering and login and now after i can login there are so many other prob.
The text jumps and flickers like a monkey for ages, and the page continues to load.
It was even difficult to search for things on the forum or even start a new thread.
Every time i had to keep pressing the browser stop button to stop loading the page.
The image does not loads for image verification and so i can not post any message.
Just for your info i use No script in my browser but even if i allow scripts on this page still i face a lot of trouble.
First you do not let people register, then you do not let them login and then you do not let them search for solutions or start a new thread.
Dont we have a simple version of this site where i could focus just on exactly what i am here for.
I do not need so much of spoon feeding in the name of interactivity and user friendliness.
Please advise.

Use Mobile app like
Tapatalk
Xda developer app
Forum runner
Regards
Dr. Sanket

I can not even use it from my computer.
In some browsers it can not be opened at all.
Too irritating.
Takes ages to post one comment.

Switching over the forum style to classic solved a lot of problem.
But the Captcha image still takes ages to load.
I have to close and reopen the browser many times.
Search still creates a lot of problem.
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The problem is not why there is Captcha but why is it not opening easily.
Anyway for your info. after a new member posts 10 replies he does not gets captcha
I just wanted suggestion regarding what should be done to be able to easy communicate on this forum. Thanx all of you.

Every time i try to start a new thread, i have to write the title. The system is supposed to search for similar threads. BUT as soon as i do so the entire page refreshes and then there is nothing there on the screen. I have to keep doing that again and again. What a foolish way of making a website. I do not need so much of spoon feeding. Dont we have a simpler interface ?

What you describe never happened to me, even when I was new.
I think you need to focus on troubleshooting your computer/browser instead of complaining about the xda website.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app

huaweiuser said:
Every time i try to start a new thread, i have to write the title. The system is supposed to search for similar threads. BUT as soon as i do so the entire page refreshes and then there is nothing there on the screen. I have to keep doing that again and again. What a foolish way of making a website. I do not need so much of spoon feeding. Dont we have a simpler interface ?
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What browsers are you using because I use it with Firefox and Opera without problem on my computer and have even browsed with my phones default browser without issue and am now using the xda app an I have less then 10 posts do you have cookies allowed or JavaScript enabled on your web browsers? That may or may not help
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda app-developers app

I experienced similar problems using the website itself. The app seems to work a little better.
Sent from my EVO using xda app-developers app

Goth Wolf said:
What browsers are you using because I use it with Firefox and Opera without problem on my computer and have even browsed with my phones default browser without issue and am now using the xda app an I have less then 10 posts do you have cookies allowed or JavaScript enabled on your web browsers? That may or may not help
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda app-developers app
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I have tried, Firefox, Midori and Konquror on two different OS, Ubuntu and Mint but every where I faced some problem or the other. As i mentioned earlier, after i changed the website interface to 'classic' the problem reduced but did not end. Now mainly have problem with Capcha not loading at times or with the auto search of the title of a new thread. I feel the site is made more pro-mobile than for computer use. If some one has not faced these problems at any time does not means that there is somthing wrong with my system. The first time when I registered on this forum the entire page was simply flickering every moment, it would have been worth making a video of that I have been using dozens of forums but never had any trouble of this kind. I feel the system could have been made simpler.

With all the people who blatantly ignore the rules and requests, I don't think a ten post limit with CAPTCHA is all that unreasonable.
I like Linux a lot, but I don't think it's out of line to suggest the trouble lies in browser or OS support especially since Linux tends to be more persnickety than Windows due to market share and development, no matter where you want to place the blame for that.
If someone is having these problems outside of Linux, details would help narrow it down.
At any rate, it's not the forum's requests that are at fault, but the integration with something or lack of support.
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Pennycake said:
With all the people who blatantly ignore the rules and requests, I don't think a ten post limit with CAPTCHA is all that unreasonable.
If someone is having these problems outside of Linux, details would help narrow it down.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app
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Seems you did not even understand the question. The question is not WHY there is captcha but why it is creating trouble loading. And if it is bcoz of linux then it is strange as captcha is used in many other websites and no where i face any problem. Moreover there are others too who have faced other problems here. And i am not just facing captcha prob there are a host of other prob that makes using the website very difficult. Also how is it that there is problem some times and not there on other ocations ? If it was due to linux it would have been there always ! I would also like to remind you that Android is also built on Linux kernel. And any website that is highly OS specific is not a well planned website. Anyway it was just a feedback to help the site owners improve it "IF" they wish to. If they dont i can always find my way out
Thanx all of you for your help.
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[Q] XDA homepage is looking weird.

Hi, I have been getting this 'weird look' for the XDA-developer (dot) com homepage. I tried both (the latest stable) chrome and (latest stable) firefox. It has been like this for about a week now. All other pages (portal, forum, wiki, etc) look normal but just the homepage is seemingly broken.
The moment I signed up to answer the question, the homepage is back to normal now. It is now back to normal on firefox too.
What freakish sorcery is this? My intention with this query is more of curiosity. Why does this happen? It is also happening with the dell.com (worldwide) website. What is technically (possibly) going wrong behind the scenes here?
Thanks in advance. :good:

I have the same issue. I don't know about Firefox, but on chrome you just have to click the shield icon in the address bar and click on whatever option comes up there (I can't remember exactly what it says but it should be fairly obvious) and it should sort refresh the page in the correct layout. Annoyingly, AFAIK you're going to have to do this every time you visit the portal.
Sent from my NexusHD2 using xda app-developers app

I haven't been getting this issue, but I've seen it before.
I'm not a web developer, but maybe CSS style information not loading correctly ?
When I get this issue, refreshing the page usually works for me. I get it when our connection lags, too - and doesn't load everything (er, I think that's what's going on, anyway).

That fixed the error!
Nigeldg said:
...but on chrome you just have to click the shield icon in the address bar and click on whatever option comes up there (I can't remember exactly what it says but it should be fairly obvious) and it should sort refresh the page in the correct layout.
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Thanks! That fixed the error. Wow! So its cause Chrome detects xda-dev homepage having 'insecure content'. I hope xda site admins do something about this soon cause its super annoying!

infiniti4 said:
Thanks! That fixed the error. Wow! So its cause Chrome detects xda-dev homepage having 'insecure content'. I hope xda site admins do something about this soon cause its super annoying!
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+1, I think it may be something to do with one of the plugins I have installed, since on another laptop on chrome there seems to be no issue.

Excellent Suggestion!
Nigeldg said:
+1, I think it may be something to do with one of the plugins I have installed, since on another laptop on chrome there seems to be no issue.
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You were right. Its being caused by the 'HTTPS Everywhere' extension. When I disable, it, the page loads correctly. I had that installed on my firefox too. I hope XDA soon moves their complete website to HTTPS. The extension doesn't seem to have any settings where I can acknowledge an exception.

infiniti4 said:
You were right. Its being caused by the 'HTTPS Everywhere' extension. When I disable, it, the page loads correctly. I had that installed on my firefox too. I hope XDA soon moves their complete website to HTTPS. The extension doesn't seem to have any settings where I can acknowledge an exception.
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Of course, I have the same plugin installed I CBA to disable/uninstall it right now, but at least I know what's causing the issue.

Chrome+XDA Forum - Weird look
Since a couple of days I have the forum being displayed as following in Chrome:
In Firefox everything is as usual.

[Q] Chrome Search Hijacked...fix?

I'm running chromi-x. My chrome browser's address bar search feature is somewhat hijacked...
<search term> goes to google/yahoo/bing (as set in settings) but it searches for: http://www.search-goal.com/?q=<search term>&affID=<somenumber>&babsrc=amob_ait
Has anyone seen an android browser hijack? Any idea how to fix? AVG A/V hasn't had any luck....
EDIT/PS: This is not happening in the default android browser.

Oops. Didn't read properly. Sorry. Forgot you said it searches the correct engine.
Edit: after a few Google searches, I can't find anything about search-goal.com, and the site has no information about itself either. My best guess is an app you installed is doing it. Uninstall anything you may have installed in the last week or so, and see if the problem goes away.

My suggestion would be to uninstall reinstall if that doesn't work, reflash the rom. I just went to search-goal.com on my pc and it looks dangerious. Im wasn't aware the homepage could be changed without user input, if you've installed any root access apps (essentially any apk files) id uninstall them.

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried uninstalling chrome. Got it uninstalled but had a heck of a time re-installing. It would NOT wipe /data/data/com.android.chrome. I finally removed that with TWRP. After reinstalling chrome it's still doing it. I've done an "install over" rom install (install, no data wipe) and it's still doing it. As much as I've tried to avoid it I think I'm going to have to wipe/reload/reinstall apps one by one. My last shot is I'm trying to find where the search engines are set up if it's a file somewhere to see if I can edit it.
Definitely malicious given the one time I tried to open it on a PC that I knew I could clean if I needed to it came up looking like a google clone.
Thankfully it's not actually loading that site so it's not doing anything but being annoying when I try to search.

same in my case -> solution
I had the same issue at my tf101 (at Team EOS rom) - and I was able to find the reason: in my case A.I. type keyboard app and the so called customized web search capabilities. When you remove this "feature" chrome search is back to normal.

Happy camper!
timbetu said:
I had the same issue at my tf101 (at Team EOS rom) - and I was able to find the reason: in my case A.I. type keyboard app and the so called customized web search capabilities. When you remove this "feature" chrome search is back to normal.
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Many thanks be to timbetu! I shut off all my extra keyboards I was trying out. (FloatNSplit, GO, Hacker's, & Perfect Keyboard Free). That left the Android, ASUS, and Google voice typing turned on. Sure enough it went away! I was actively using FloatNSplit at the time. Will do some experimenting to find out if it was that one or another.
You have saved me from having to resetup my tablet!
:highfive:
EDIT: Also, dude, that's pretty awesome that your 1st post to XDA gets a thanks! Welcome to the forums!

NeoMatrixJR said:
Many thanks be to timbetu! I shut off all my extra keyboards I was trying out. (FloatNSplit, GO, Hacker's, & Perfect Keyboard Free). That left the Android, ASUS, and Google voice typing turned on. Sure enough it went away! I was actively using FloatNSplit at the time. Will do some experimenting to find out if it was that one or another.
You have saved me from having to resetup my tablet!
:highfive:
EDIT: Also, dude, that's pretty awesome that your 1st post to XDA gets a thanks! Welcome to the forums!
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I'm using floatnspin keyboard and that seems to be my issue. There is a setting for web searches and once I turned that off my browser worked normally again. I guess thats a new "feature".

Had the same problem, uninstalling the app fixed it. Please flag this app in Google play so Google can know about this! If you ask me, changing the default search engine without notifying the user is pretty nasty and malicious.

FloatNSplit and A.I. keyboard seems to be the same app.
EDIT: Also, dude, that's pretty awesome that your 1st post to XDA gets a thanks! Welcome to the forums!
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I recognized this problem at my tablet and searched for an solution. During my search I found this topic here - but unfortunately without help. So I tried everything at my Asus and as I discovered the guilty app I just shared this finding with other affected users (because I knew of this thread).

Facebook for Android Download Video directly

Dear Developers and members...
Facebook (App) for Android has removed all options to download videos..
Please tell me any working method to directly download video from facebook official application to
smartphone. (note that the method should be without using of any third party application)
Regards...
From Asif..

creativemind7 said:
Dear Developers and members...
Facebook (App) for Android has removed all options to download videos..
Please tell me any working method to directly download video from facebook official application to
smartphone. (note that the method should be without using of any third party application)
Regards...
From Asif..
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Hey there! Dude, if you wanted to download videos from facebook without using third party app, try using the site "fbdown". Try search it in google. I haven't tried it personally though, but it was recommended to me by my friend.
It was purposely for the desktop though but I think you could still do the process with a smartphone by using the "desktop site" of facebook in chrome. Just type it in the chrome browser (or any browser of your choice) in your smartphone and log in. Then find the video. There's a part in the site "fbdown" that gives you the procedures on how to download using the said site.
Ps. I don't know if this will work on smartphones because I haven't tested it for myself yet.
Ps. I am still a newbie at XDA so I can't show you the link here. Sorry for the inconvenience dude.
I hope it works for you.
Wish you luck dude.
Hope I helped ^_^
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Matrix_ver_6.9 said:
Hey there! Dude, if you wanted to download videos from facebook without using third party app, try using the site "fbdown". Try search it in google. I haven't tried it personally though, but it was recommended to me by my friend.
It was purposely for the desktop though but I think you could still do the process with a smartphone by using the "desktop site" of facebook in chrome. Just type it in the chrome browser (or any browser of your choice) in your smartphone and log in. Then find the video. There's a part in the site "fbdown" that gives you the procedures on how to download using the said site.
Ps. I don't know if this will work on smartphones because I haven't tested it for myself yet.
Ps. I am still a newbie at XDA so I can't show you the link here. Sorry for the inconvenience dude.
I hope it works for you.
Wish you luck dude.
Hope I helped ^_^
Sent from my H30-U10 using Tapatalk
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Thanks dude for reply.
I have already mentioned that the method should be of kind in which you don't have to use any other third party app or browser.
The method you have described is contrary to my query. I can tell you more convenient ways to download from FB other than you have described like UC Browser etc. which is having own built-in down-loader and whenever you play any video from UC browser from facebook or other websites even youtube, it display Download Icon. So thanks for your help, but it does not solve my problem.
I want to download from Official Facebook App of Android.

creativemind7 said:
Thanks dude for reply.
I have already mentioned that the method should be of kind in which you don't have to use any other third party app or browser.
The method you have described is contrary to my query. I can tell you more convenient ways to download from FB other than you have described like UC Browser etc. which is having own built-in down-loader and whenever you play any video from UC browser from facebook or other websites even youtube, it display Download Icon. So thanks for your help, but it does not solve my problem.
I want to download from Official Facebook App of Android.
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Oh, I'm sorry dude...
But, I think facebook removed the "download" function from the app... From which I occasionally see in my device... I think they removed it when they updated the app... I'm still not sure if they removed the function from the desktop site... But still, its worth a try.... If they did, I think you should stick to the third party apps or just don't download it..
Btw, sorry if you didn't get the kind of help that you wanted from me. ^_^
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Matrix_ver_6.9 said:
Oh, I'm sorry dude...
But, I think facebook removed the "download" function from the app... From which I occasionally see in my device... I think they removed it when they updated the app... I'm still not sure if they removed the function from the desktop site... But still, its worth a try.... If they did, I think you should stick to the third party apps or just don't download it..
Btw, sorry if you didn't get the kind of help that you wanted from me. ^_^
Sent from my H30-U10 using Tapatalk
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Yes , dude, Facebook has removed download option from their official app. but I am hopeful that my xdaDeveopers must have found a way to download video from official facebook app like previous methods. Nothing is impossible in this world. I am still waiting for the response of any member if he know the method,, please share here.

creativemind7 said:
Yes , dude, Facebook has removed download option from their official app. but I am hopeful that my xdaDeveopers must have found a way to download video from official facebook app like previous methods. Nothing is impossible in this world. I am still waiting for the response of any member if he know the method,, please share here.
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Ohhhhhhh.
So you want the devs to add something to the official facebook app... A mod or something like that?
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Something like OGYouTube for Facebook will be great! OGFacebook for example