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[Q] Android Virus? Interal Phone Storage Maxing Out

[UPDATE] My phone crashed and then got stuck in a boot loop, so I had to reset it. I would still like input from anyone concerning the below, because whatever caused the internal storage problem directly contributed to the boot loop.
I have seen several other posts about this issue for several different phones, all from April, but it hasn't been resolved in any other forum, so I thought I would start here. My issue just started today. I have a Droid X that is running a CM7 nightly with a couple of zeppelinrox scripts. I have had CM7 installed since January, so I believe it does not relate to CM7 or any other mods I am running. I was thinking that it must be a virus. What happened (and continues to happen) is this:
- My phone played the message tone, and I got a notification saying that my phone storage was almost full and that I needed to do something about it. I thought that this was very odd, since I have 6.2 gigs of internal storage, and I don't have that many apps installed, and I have all of my pictures and other media on my SD Card.
- I then got a notification that my text message inbox was full, so an incoming text message was rejected. I get this notification every couple of minutes or so.
- I deleted several of my largest apps on my phone, which should have freed up about 30mb. It showed that I had 12mb free, which quickly shrank to 5mb, then 100kb, than 0.0kb, as if something was actively filling it up.
- I deleted about 700 text messages, and still got the same error as before.
What should I do???

Well, you won't lose anything trying to use an antivirus app.

Is there a way I can install it from my computer to my phone's SD card? I have been attempting to download an AV app, but Google Play force closes itself whenever I try to do this. Very frustrating!

You could try re-installing the whole rom.

Well you can download an APK (if exists) of a FREE antivirus and install it on your phone from the SD Card.
If it's a virus i don't think that it's stored on the sdcard, it could be there but the system is infected anyway.

same thing here
i have a droid x 2 global with cm7, I have the same problem . everything has been good but as of two days ago i started getting storage full and cant receive text warnings . i have like 6gb internal storage with very few apps installed and if i delete them and nothing really happens . i have pulled my hair out with this one. I did a fresh wipe "data and factory" and reinstalled c7 with an updated version . it all was good until 12 hours later bam same messages. did another wipe/reinstall when prompted to enter google account and stuff I deselected the box "allow google to restore phone" or something like that and haven't installed any apps. so far so good. i'm going to slowly install the apps i had and try to figure out what is going on. please let me know if you find a solution. the weird thin is it just started happening . i though virus but wtf ,

quigley, have you visited any websites on your phone that you don't normally go to? What internet browser app are you using? I am using Dolphin Mini, and I was researching some stuff with Google, and visited many sites I don't normally go to, so maybe a virus came from there.
Since my reset last night, I have yet to experience any problems. Thankfully, I had made a backup of all my apps and settings with Titanium Backup a week or so ago, and all my media was stored on my SD Card, so I didn't lose much. I never use the Google backup. And check this out:
Total App Usage: 289mb. Free: 6.3gb.
And this is the same set up I had right before the "event!" It must have been a virus. I see no other reason for 6 gigs to get that completely filled up in minutes. It can't have been CM7, because I haven't updated it in months! I wish someone could shed some light on this.

Imagine666 said:
Is there a way I can install it from my computer to my phone's SD card? I have been attempting to download an AV app, but Google Play force closes itself whenever I try to do this. Very frustrating!
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You can install it via the Web Market.

Imagine666 said:
quigley, have you visited any websites on your phone that you don't normally go to? What internet browser app are you using? I am using Dolphin Mini, and I was researching some stuff with Google, and visited many sites I don't normally go to, so maybe a virus came from there.
Since my reset last night, I have yet to experience any problems. Thankfully, I had made a backup of all my apps and settings with Titanium Backup a week or so ago, and all my media was stored on my SD Card, so I didn't lose much. I never use the Google backup. And check this out:
Total App Usage: 289mb. Free: 6.3gb.
And this is the same set up I had right before the "event!" It must have been a virus. I see no other reason for 6 gigs to get that completely filled up in minutes. It can't have been CM7, because I haven't updated it in months! I wish someone could shed some light on this.
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I have been using stock CM7 browser, and i don't browse much usually just google news, "never porn or torrent sites " i have a desktop for that fun. so i really don't think it was a virus from browsing . i haven't had any trouble since my second wipe and not using google restore during setup. i'm still slowly adding my usual apps. we will see what happens , P.S also when this happened i was unable to move stuff onto sd card , it showed full also. I really don't think it was a virus but it sure seems that way.

Whatsapp issue

Hello guys I bought the new nexus 5 today and when installed whatsapp no unread messages were shown/came.
I had xperia s earlier and display got dead so i removed the sim conected the phone to tv and uninstalled whatsapp.
I was expecting tons of messages after 2 months of going back to whatsapp.
Please help me solve this I didnt saved so many chicks phone no I only had chats and this is a disaster.
I only got 5 chats saying you have been removed from the group I mean there will be atleast 1 message I must have got in last 2 months a broadcast maybe.
Please please please help.
Thankyou

try unregistering it from your old phone

I have to connect the phone to tv first and put the sim in that phone and when I reinstall it will again do the phone confirmation thing so I don't think that will help either.

[Completed] [Q] Update ruined my phone!! Please help?!

I have a Nexus 4. After the most recent update, everything has stopped working: I get texts over 5 days late, Google play won't load or let me log in, many of my apps became useless because they stopped working (ex. Tumblr app); my pictures won't back up to my Google account, and many more problems. I wanted to try a factory reset but the computers won't register my phone (I've tried 2 different computers, 3 different cords). I don't want to lose all of my pictures/videos/contacts. I tried downloading Airdroid but my phone refuses to download it (Google play doesn't work, and it simply says "Installing" when I download from Chrome or with ES File Downloader, but it never actually installs). I'm getting desperate now, can someone please help?? :crying::crying:

PaigeNoelle said:
I have a Nexus 4. After the most recent update, everything has stopped working: I get texts over 5 days late, Google play won't load or let me log in, many of my apps became useless because they stopped working (ex. Tumblr app); my pictures won't back up to my Google account, and many more problems. I wanted to try a factory reset but the computers won't register my phone (I've tried 2 different computers, 3 different cords). I don't want to lose all of my pictures/videos/contacts. I tried downloading Airdroid but my phone refuses to download it (Google play doesn't work, and it simply says "Installing" when I download from Chrome or with ES File Downloader, but it never actually installs). I'm getting desperate now, can someone please help?? :crying::crying:
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Download KitKat Stock Firmware and Flash It.
Make sure you have a backup of everything

Unlock/Flash Stock S7 with FRP Lock/OEM lock

Hi guys,
I received the smartphone from my father and he unfortunately locked out himself (forgot pass)
I tried to do a factory reset and it failed as it requires login from the old google account which he set up years ago and does not remember anymore.
I tried to connect to ODIN but quickly realized that USB debug and this special anti Unlock Setup (OEM unlock) in settings was not activated.
Is there any chance at all to reset this phone?
When I stick the phone to any PC device it says could not detect usb device properly. Its because the phone is "locked" I guess.
However going to download mode did not solve the problem either. ODIN just cant get any signal.
I tried on multiple win10 devices, installed KIES, did it only with samsung drivers but the phone does not get properly recognized as it should.
Help :/

S7 is 1.5 years old, he obviously knew the Google account login when he got the phone, which at max would be 1.5 years ago, recovery emails are used to create Google accounts, reset the Google account password from the web and sort it that way

*Detection* said:
S7 is 1.5 years old, he obviously knew the Google account login when he got the phone, which at max would be 1.5 years ago, recovery emails are used to create Google accounts, reset the Google account password from the web and sort it that way
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That was a simple google account which he made and my father is having memory issues since he is over 60.
Its odd that you seem to know more about my issue right now with the phone. Induction is dangerous.
I even do not know at which MONTH or year I created my google account. I can just roughly guess more than 4 years old for sure but thats a stupid question Google is asking either.
So even with doing an induction here, we would fail ourselves.
PS: You wanna see the receipt? I smell great doubt in you!

similar problem
*Detection* said:
S7 is 1.5 years old, he obviously knew the Google account login when he got the phone, which at max would be 1.5 years ago, recovery emails are used to create Google accounts, reset the Google account password from the web and sort it that way
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im having a similar problem.. it says custom bianary blocked by FRP lock. i have access to my google Account that was on my phone and but i cant get my phone to load up at all cause its locked by frp. how would i go about this by sorting it out through google? do i need to flash my phone? everything was done through odin.

kingnick1129 said:
im having a similar problem.. it says custom bianary blocked by FRP lock. i have access to my google Account that was on my phone and but i cant get my phone to load up at all cause its locked by frp. how would i go about this by sorting it out through google? do i need to flash my phone? everything was done through odin.
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Flash stock firmware with ODIN 3.12.7, log into your Google account to remove FRP lock

Several phones shut down and reset to factory setting themselves around the same time

Hey,
I was having a phone call with my dad (he is using Huawei P8 Lite) yesterday evening and suddenly we both heard the beeping sound you heard when somebody is attempting to call you while you are having a phone call. We both checked our phones but there was nothing showing on our screens so we just continued. Suddenly, the call dropped and when my dad called me 10 minutes later he said that his phone just shut down and said that it's updating his software. When the phone turned on, everything was set to factory settings with all his contacts, photos, messages etc. gone. Even his SD card is wiped.
This morning, I got a message from my sister saying that bunch of her classmates had their phones (both Android phones and iPhones) wiped completely yesterday evening (around the same time as it happened to our dad) and apparently all of them were displaying message that software is updating. We found out that all phones were signed into common gmail account my sister is using with her classmates. I told her to immediately change the password to that email and sign out of it from all our devices.
Anybody has any idea what could cause this? Any advice on how to recover the lost data? My dad had his gallery synced with Google photos, it's mainly contacts that he is missing since he had over 1,5k of them and he said he did a back up of them not so long ago but the backup was on his SD card that's now empty as well.
Side note (I'm not sure if this has something to do with the issue above): I tried to log into that email account yesterday from my Macbook since I needed to download one powerpoint file from it but when trying to log in I was kicked out with a message saying that my access is denied due to multiple attempts of logging into the account (that was the first and only time I tried logging into that account). I shut down my laptop before I went to sleep yesterday. This morning, my laptop got into boot loop and was later showing message that Mac OS could not be installed on my computer because installation file is corrupted or missing. I managed to turn on my laptop but my sister said that her classmates saw that somebody from Copenhagen (where I live currently) accessed their mail and they also registered some logins from other cities all over our home country where my sister is.
TL;DR: Several phones shut down and reset itself to factory settings while saying they are updating software. All of them were signed into common email.

kri100k said:
Hey, I was having a phone call with my dad (he is using Huawei P8 Lite) yesterday evening and suddenly we both heard the beeping sound you heard when somebody is attempting to call you while you are having a phone call. We both checked our phones but there was nothing showing on our screens so we just continued. Suddenly, the call dropped and when my dad called me 10 minutes later he said that his phone just shut down and said that it's updating his software. When the phone turned on, everything was set to factory settings with all his contacts, photos, messages etc. gone. Even his SD card is wiped...
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I don't have this device but, there's a dedicated area on the Forum for your specific device.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p8lite
With that stated...
The following thread may be helpful in what you are looking for.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3692698
Good Luck!
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