My nexus 5 is showing ads everywhere and i don't know why !! I have tried formatting my phone but the problem still exists and also when i try to install system update , the android icon that is shown while updating is crashing .
Help please
I'd suggest doing the following:-
- Copy all your personal data/music/videos etc. off the phone onto a PC.
- Download ADB and learn how to use it.
- Flash the most up to date factory image onto your phone.
- Copy your data back to the phone.
- Once you are clean, be careful what you install.
Good Luck.
You can find instructions on things like ADB by searching the other threads on XDA.
same as above.
You can also try Adaway once the mentioned steps are done. It blocks most of the ads from apps, so you don't end up clicking something and filled with popups.
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Have you downloaded any porn that had spyware or adware
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hey all,
first post, apologies if this might be in the wrong place.
i've just picked up the kobo vox, and it's awesome, but i can't figure out how to get the android market running. i've got the apk installed, but the device doesn't give me the option to add a google account. the kobo vox explicitly says it supports the android marketplace, so i'm hoping i'm doing something wrong.
thanks!
I'm in the same state. I've looked about and managed to use some of Cyanogen's packages to install a few core stuff like the framework and the market app itself, but trying to run the Market asks me to register a Google account, which always fails saying there was a connection issue. On a further reboot android.process.acore decided to crash every five seconds and I had to reset the device to factory settings.
This kinda sucks because the device is fairly solid, but the default "market" is a joke. I'm already annoyed by the fairly large amount of preinstalled apps (which can't be uninstalled, as usual), but not having proper Market access would probably be a deal killer.
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What about Rooting?
I have run into the same problem. I think that before you can install the full android market we will have to Root the tablet. Has anyone tried the Gingerbreak.apk? Or is there some other way to Root the tablet?
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I have run into the same problem. I think that before you can install the full android market we will have to Root the tablet. Has anyone tried the Gingerbreak.apk? Or is there some other way to Root the tablet?
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I've tried GingerBreak on my Kobo Vox and it seems to have installed, however I'm not certain the SU access is working properly. When I try repairing permissions in ROM Manager, I get the message "An Error occured trying to run priviledged commands!". It also fails when I try to backup my ROM.
This is honestly the first Android device I've ever owned so I'm not certain that I'm doing everything correctly. I did make sure to allow SuperUser permissions to ROM Manager, but I'm still getting errors. Any help from a Veteran Android user would be appreciated.
Can't get past the Android Login
After rooting and installing Busybox I was able to install the Android Market but every time I try to login the app will not connect to the Market to confirm my ID, it seems to time out. Any Ideas on what I can try?
Turns out my inability to repair permissions was simply due to me not having busybox installed. I can attest that GingerBreak does successfully root the tablet.
I'm hoping I can find a way to install Clockwordmod recovery in order to install the google apps from CM7. I tried simply copying the files into place without success.
So, did you manage to install busybox? What version and where?
Tell me if you manage to install the recovery, the vox don't seem to have one by default.
If we manage to install all the google app and the googleframeworkservice, that would make the tablet a lot better and give the possibility to install the android market.
I was able to install busybox 4.3 /system/xbin. I do not know about a recovery mode but I did manage to put the tablet into "Safe Mode" after it do stock in a loop at bootup but I am not sure how I did it. According to user help you can not update the firmware from the SDcard.
Have you tried to install Clockwordmod?
I managed to install the googleserviceframework, but I need to install some other thing that don't want to install.
I also manage to install youtube (the real one) and it work great, I just can't sign in...
In the accounts & sync settings section, I can create a google account, but It can't communicate with the google server to set up the account, it give me the error:
"Can't establish a reliable data connection to the server."
It's probably cause by some app that I didn't manage to install yet, like "onetimeinitializer", "googlepartnersetup" and some other...
I've managed to install Busybox, but have yet been unsuccessful installing the Google Framework.
I was able to install the Clockwordmod, but I have yet to find a phone or tablet on it's list that is compatible with the Kobo Vox. I'm going to do my research to see if any phones or tablets have similar specs to the Vox and see if that will work. So far I've just been picking at random and trying it.
Try the B & N Nook Color - same CPU, Memory & screen size.
That was my first thought. Unfortunately no luck. With a couple of them I can seem to get them start loading as if they're going into an update but it always errors out. I'm now just systematically going through the list and driving every version.
If you attempt to install a version of Clockwork made for another device, you'll brick it.
Don't forget that after dropping in the files to the various system directories, you also have to set permit permissions properly.
Also, would be good to request a Kobo Vox forum here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1301121
If anyone in this thread is actually a developer who knows how to compile and so forth, Koush has a brief guide to porting Clockwork:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/10/porting-clockwork-recovery-to-new.html
Manual Configuration is a must have option. Thanks
wow, pretty lame that the android market seems not to be supported despite it being touted as an official feature
on a side note, has anyone figured out how to change or remove that default dock (without rooting)? it's kind of a pain in the ass.
I've installed a couple dozen different clockwork of recoveries so far and haven't bricked it yet but maybe I should quit while I'm ahead. I'd rather not brick my shiny new Kobo.
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I have to return my Kobo Vox because the speaker is not working. Under Privacy Settings I have done a Factory Data Reset but I am still showing the Super Icon. Does anyone have a copy of the original firmware or know how to unroot the device?
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wow, pretty lame that the android market seems not to be supported despite it being touted as an official feature
on a side note, has anyone figured out how to change or remove that default dock (without rooting)? it's kind of a pain in the ass.
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Official marketing material says apps but doesn't say Android Market. Some media outlets misquoted and wrote Market falsely.
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I have to return my Kobo Vox because the speaker is not working. Under Privacy Settings I have done a Factory Data Reset but I am still showing the Super Icon. Does anyone have a copy of the original firmware or know how to unroot the device?
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Factory Reset just clears the data partition but doesn't reset the system partition.
Until someone properly compiles a custom recovery or finds a stock reset file, there's no safe way back.
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Phone leagoo m5, fw latest official based on freemeos. Reflashed latest rom, installed only apps which i used long time without any ads and still grtting annoying full screen ad which can't be closed 10seconds. Phone rooted, but none app aaked/granted root permissions. My only though that it's caused by os itself. There are 2 weird apps: "settings"(can be deleted, but restores after some time. Not weird settinga app(definetely part of os}) shows translated name "nustatymai") other is "app store" can't even delete. Eg. In screenshot imgur dot com/a/btCfz ad appears from time to time even if none apps is opened
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Phone leagoo m5, fw latest official based on freemeos. Reflashed latest rom, installed only apps which i used long time without any ads and still grtting annoying full screen ad which can't be closed 10seconds. Phone rooted, but none app aaked/granted root permissions. My only though that it's caused by os itself. There are 2 weird apps: "settings"(can be deleted, but restores after some time. Not weird settinga app(definetely part of os}) shows translated name "nustatymai") other is "app store" can't even delete. Eg. In screenshot imgur dot com/a/btCfz ad appears from time to time even if none apps is opened
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You probably used Kingroot or Kingoroot to root your device and it installed malware/adware apps your system partition. Flashing stock firmware probably doesn't wipe system during flashing instead of removing those apps and factory resetting won't work because the apps are in system and factory reset doesn't touch system, it only wipes the user partition.
If none of your apps are requesting root permission then I'd say you lost root and need to root the device again.
Try MalwareBytes app to remove those apps. If that doesn't work you need to get the device properly rooted and then look in your system/app or system/priv-app folder and delete those apps.
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From twrp, wipe system and flash some rom
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From twrp, wipe system and flash some rom
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That can work...........
But.......
Assuming there are ROMs available and assuming they want to use a ROM. But what if they don't want TWRP or a custom ROM? What if they want to stay with what they have?
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Looks like adware installed by root app. "Supersu" caused problems. Kaspersky/malwarebytes and few other random AV didn't found any issues, then i searched with "dr. Web" it found 4 threats i deleted them(with twrp, dr web not offered option to delete) and no more issues. Thanks for pointing to right direction.
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Looks like adware installed by root app. "Supersu" caused problems. Kaspersky/malwarebytes and few other random AV didn't found any issues, then i searched with "dr. Web" it found 4 threats i deleted them(with twrp, dr web not offered option to delete) and no more issues. Thanks for pointing to right direction.
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Just remember, this is typical behaviour when using Chinese rooting apps and other Chinese softwares, pretty much all of them come with unwanted extras that hide themselves in your system. China is the hacker think tank of the world, they design software to invade devices and steal personal information.
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wiped everything with all possible tools which twrp offers(even sdcard), then installed rom and twrp with sp flash tool(all tools took from xda or xda forum links) and adware still exist. searched google and it's not only mine problem a lot of people complains about same "triada" from stock firmware. found workaround and it fixed problem, but still need normal fix.
only few people complains about it... noone from xda don't use last firmware on leagoo m5?
i still not rooted phone, but adware already recreates it after each reboot antimalware apps only detects created bad app and deletes it, but none app can remove virus itself only it's consequences
workaround: create file /storage/emulated/0/.SDAndroid and chmod to 0600; and file /storage/emulated/0/.jm with same permssions. virus won't create folder with that name so he stops recreating it's files
hi everyone !
so i'm having dificult now , my system has got infected with some malware , it keep install apps when conect to internet
u'm using malwarebyte to scan and it say that i got trojan on search.apk , setting and update software
i try to hard reset my phone but not work , ai know that root can delet system but i can't delete it becouse it in setting how can i delet setting?
ist there is a way beside flashing to fix this ?
also my phone is lolipop 5.1 and unroot
Rootkit on an android? Now that's rare. If you tried every conventional method, I doubt anything is going to work. You can try disconnecting from the internet, check your running processes and services, kill them if found, scan with Malwarebytes and attempt to locate problematic files manually using explorer. There have to be some specific apps that are being installed, can you name them?
And full factory reset did not help you?
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Rootkit on an android? Now that's rare. If you tried every conventional method, I doubt anything is going to work. You can try disconnecting from the internet, check your running processes and services, kill them if found, scan with Malwarebytes and attempt to locate problematic files manually using explorer. There have to be some specific apps that are being installed, can you name them?
And full factory reset did not help you?
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full factory reset doesn't work
idk what is rootkit , but yeah im already disconect my internet , i'm already scan and this is what i found ,
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i mean this malware infected setting so it change system (like permission to install from outside play store) also my setting icon changed too
here is list apps being installed : uc browser , ucnews , some cleaner , some launcher and lock screen
I think this is basically general(not device specific) question so I am posting my question here.
I have Galaxy Note 10 Plus which got OS upgrade recently. I havn't upgraded my phone so currently my phone is at Android Q(10).
I don't have much time to do OS upgrade. More specific, I don't have time to do full wipe, manually download and flash firmware with Odin, install huge amounts of apps, configure those apps etc. Well, you might think: why don't use just OTA upgrade? That's because I don't trust OTA thing. It broke my previous phone few years ago. After that, I always flash firmware with Odin after doing full wipe.
The main problem is, I can't use 'Backup Apps' because it is OS upgrade and I don't think simply moving app data from Q(10) to R(11) is good idea. I have to configure everything one by one by my hand. That will consume a lot of time. Like I said, I don't have much time for doing this. I have to save some time.
If then, I might be able to save some time when installing huge amounts of apps from Google Play Store. I guess it is about ~80 apps. If I can automate those app installation, I might be able to save some time and use that time to configuring apps.
So here is my question: How can I automate app installation in Google Play Store? I've searched Google but only got disappointing result. 'Download those APKs and install them via ADB!', 'Emulate touch input in Google Play Store!' etc. are not what I want to do. I think there would be much elegant way to do bulk install of Google Play Store apps.
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I want to know if there is simple way to install multiple(~80) apps in Google Play Store without doing these:
- Downloading those APKs and install them via ADB
- Emulate touch input with certain app
My guess is there is no other way than to download the apps in question and afterwards install them via ADB, what all can be done by means of a common Windows Powershell file.
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My guess is there is no other way than to download the apps in question and afterwards install them via ADB, what all can be done by means of a common Windows Powershell file.
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Wait, can I download and install apps via ADB with single powershell script? If then, I can accept it if those app which were installed by ADB can be updated with Google Play Store...
If yes, can you give me hint about that script?
Don't have such a script at my fingertips ... And I have not the time to write it ... Think it shouldn't be too difficult for you to write it ...
I have followed many suggestions, but have failed so far. ONE of many difficulties is that I can not get the phone to download iRoot APKs, so did it on my PC instead, and succeeded in copying them into the Phone's DOWNLOADS (quite visible on my PC) but the phone does NOT show them when I open Downloads - so I can not try to install them to see if they will root the phone. A solution to rooting would be welcome; as also how to make those APKs visible in the phone.
I downloaded and installed File Manager App and that revealed the files copied in. One problem solved. They would not install until I had changed Settings to allow APK's from unknown sources to be installed. Second problem solved. Rooting was solved by installing iRoot. Third problem solved. But even then I could not dispose of unwanted system Apps, till I downloaded and installed NoBloat Free; Fourth problem solved. Then Application Manager offered to uninstall updates, with the warning that the app would be replaced by the factory version, but went ahead and uninstalled the app anyway. Fifth Problem solved. HOWEVER, even though Application Manager now only shows a handful of apps, the screens are still cluttered with many icons I was hoping to be rid off. Can someone tell me how to remove the already uninstalled apps from the screens ?