I have a problem using my apps because of the ads,they appear fullscreen on every 3 seconds,so its imposible to use my apps.i have tried a lot of apps that block advertisments, but they were useless.all of the apps are downloaded from google playstore.solution?
check your apps, fake ones act like this
There are some apps which produce ads on our mobile for that they earn money for displaying it and earn more when clicking it.
Try adblock plus which is totally free and it's not available in Playstore so you need to download it directly from your browser.
It might work :good:
izmaelzx said:
check your apps, fake ones act like this
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How can i know which apps are fake?
Are you rooted? How do you block ads?
Is this happen on every app on your smartphone, even the native ones? This sounds like a virus/exploit.... if your smartphone is rooted you should try to get an antivirus-app and try to use it.. or if nothing works you have to reinstall your OS
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Is this happen on every app on your smartphone, even the native ones? This sounds like a virus/exploit.... if your smartphone is rooted you should try to get an antivirus-app and try to use it.. or if nothing works you have to reinstall your OS
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It happens on every game and almost every other app.i bought the phone 4 days ago,its a samsung galaxy a7(2015 version),so i installed the same games and apps i had on my previous phone,nothing less-nothing more.as i open a game or an app the ads are appearing fullscreen on every 3-5 seconds,i click the x,but they jump right in again.so if u play a game,its imposible to win it all i can use is facebook and messenger...
Have you tried to download a antivirus-app (or similiar) and scan your smartphone for viruses/exploits?
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Have you tried to download a antivirus-app (or similiar) and scan your smartphone for viruses/exploits?
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I have cm security,the ads jump in even when i use this antivirus
Volkov_2006 said:
It happens on every game and almost every other app.i bought the phone 4 days ago,its a samsung galaxy a7(2015 version),so i installed the same games and apps i had on my previous phone,nothing less-nothing more.as i open a game or an app the ads are appearing fullscreen on every 3-5 seconds,i click the x,but they jump right in again.so if u play a game,its imposible to win it all i can use is facebook and messenger...
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This is abnormal (not related to a website for instance). Wipe the user data and start from scratch to identify the faulty app. Did you install apks outside the Play Store?
Volkov_2006 said:
I have cm security,the ads jump in even when i use this antivirus
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Well that's part of your problem right there. That developer is known if being terrible with putting ads everywhere. No one that knows will touch their apps.
Primokorn said:
This is abnormal (not related to a website for instance). Wipe the user data and start from scratch to identify the faulty app. Did you install apks outside the Play Store?
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All apps are from playstore.shoul i hard reset the phone?
Volkov_2006 said:
All apps are from playstore.shoul i hard reset the phone?
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That won't matter as long as you have apps from Cheeta apps. They are one of the most hated app developers around do to the ads. Also most of their apps really don't do anything other then placebo
zelendel said:
That won't matter as long as you have apps from Cheeta apps. They are one of the most hated app developers around do to the ads. Also most of their apps really don't do anything other then placebo
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I've erased cm security,but it is the same situation,the phone is new,so there is nothing much i need in it,how to reset everything in factory settings(would it be helpfull?)
Volkov_2006 said:
I've erased cm security,but it is the same situation,the phone is new,so there is nothing much i need in it,how to reset everything in factory settings(would it be helpfull?)
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Honestly that depends on the device. Most Chinese devices come with adware like this built into the OS. What device do you have?
Samsung galaxy a7
Volkov_2006 said:
All apps are from playstore.shoul i hard reset the phone?
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You have obviously installed crappy apps that use ads from adbuddiz, admob... We can find a lot of them on Google Play (one of the reason why F-Droid is a good alternative).
Either uninstall everything but trusted apps (then reboot) or root your device and update your hosts file with good sources (AdAway's ones for instance). If it doesn't work, you will probaly have to start from scratch.
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I have noticed these chinese apps some how self installing on my S2.
Any idea how to get to the source of these unauthorized installs? (Lookout & AVG & NetQin don't detect them as malicious or find any reason for how they are getting on there).
Currently using KH3 + CFRoot.
Why do people give so little information when they post?
What Chinese apps? (Please provide a screen shot if the app name is in Chinese) .
This sounds really really bad.
Has this happened to any one else?
It should not be possible for this to happen.
Does your phone have any connection with China or have you installed any Chinese software?
If this is happening then you must have done something yourself to start the process. Nothing can install itself without your consent, unless there's malicious software that's bypassing the system and installing for you, but you would have had to install that first.
So, as above, a lot more information is needed. Personally, I'd just do a complete wipe and hard reset and never install anything from untrusted sources again, including warez, 3rd party app stores and the Chinese Market, which is known to have had dodgy software before now.
My friend got an S2 from China and it was preloaded with all those Chinese apps. Examples include QQ Security Suite and some other apps. I used Titanium Backup to uninstall but after each restart, the app re-appears!
I was surprised that Titanium couldn't uninstall. It says it uninstalled successfully but it just re-appears. The only thing I could do is to do a re-flash to a Hong Kong firmware without all those pre-loaded Chinese apps.
But before you wipe everything, please help us try and find out how it happened?
Again has this happened to any one else? Because I want to know if this could happen to my phone!
Mine also did this on stock rom i would uninstall samsung apps reboot and it would reappear on my menu. Is it possible the rom comes with an auto install script for the preloaded apps?
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otester said:
I have noticed these chinese apps some how self installing on my S2.
Any idea how to get to the source of these unauthorized installs? (Lookout & AVG & NetQin don't detect them as malicious or find any reason for how they are getting on there).
Currently using KH3 + CFRoot.
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If you have CF-Root, you have super user installed. Review your permissions. You can also install LBE privacy guard and set permissions for all apps as well, including many system apps (you'll need to 'untrust' them first).
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Sorry for the little information guys, was 5am and very tired
I deleted the second incarnation of the app as soon as I saw it (worried about personal details being taken etc.) however it if it reappears again then I will screenshot it.
Virus scanners don't detect them as malicious, when the program opened (after stealth install) I went through it, albeit in Chinese it looked like a legit program and the menu worked etc.
I have market 3.1.3 installed (got the apk off the internet) and a few apps that got removed from the market place (torrent clients and certain games I couldn't find etc.) so it could well have been put in them.
I'm thinking about a hard reset, not using titan backup to avoid it coming back and a re-flash.
Also my phone has no connection with China (purchased in the UK), this has only happened recently.
Is there any more info needed before reset etc.?
Looks like the suspect apps removed from the market may have been the cause.
Does anybody know if running as root alows all download apps to run with root permissions?
LouisJB said:
Looks like the suspect apps removed from the market may have been the cause.
Does anybody know if running as root alows all download apps to run with root permissions?
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Issue is the damage seems to have been done, looks like I have no choice but to reflash etc. Need a virus scanner that has root so it can do a deeper scan.
Superuser is a lot like UAC on Windows Vista/7, it will popup and ask you to allow/deny.
Also is there any way to wipe the device while re flashing to ensure this gets removed?
I found a folder on my Internal Storage "QinqiQuan" (Google Image search pinpoints this as one of the apps) which translates in Chinese to English as "Infringement", however the app itself appears to be a legitimate Chinese social app so I'm not sure of my original concern regarding "Infringement" being copyright related etc.
Another few suspicious folders were "the9GameCenter" & "waze".
In future I'll be sticking the Market and official sites, even if that means doing without certain apps that aren't available on my handset/region
Isnt waze a community based sat nav app?
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Isnt waze a community based sat nav app?
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The apps themselves appear legitimate, but I didn't authorize the installs which is what worries me.
I wiped internal storage, wiped data and then re-flashed + CFRooted.
Hopefully what ever it was, won't come back
And how about the security in your computer? As we know, you can install an app in your phone via your market account using your computer. Perhaps someone is playing around with your market account. If this is the case, changing your password would be a good idea.
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And how about the security in your computer? As we know, you can install an app in your phone via your market account using your computer. Perhaps someone is playing around with your market account. If this is the case, changing your password would be a good idea.
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Yeah I have changed my password and turned on all the Google security settings, albeit a bit of pain, does give peace of mind
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how do i know if the apps i download are safe? i mean anyone can write apps these days.
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how do i know if the apps i download are safe? i mean anyone can write apps these days.
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Check reviews in the market, check that the permissions make sense (a wallpaper app doesnt need sms or call permissions for example), only download app by known devs (recognised dev in the market).
Google the app name and see what people have to say.
If it looks iffy, dont download it.
Use common sense.
does the Market take the trouble to verify the apps before putting them on?
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does the Market take the trouble to verify the apps before putting them on?
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No.
You are expected to exercise common sense, not use pirated apps (huge source of crap), and generally be sensible.
The market can detect some malicious stuff, but if you steer clear of anything recently uploaded, with few users, you should be ok.
Just think of it like a pc. You don't have a nanny to hold your hand, so you use common sense
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does the Market take the trouble to verify the apps before putting them on?
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Whether they do or don't is irrelevant. Android's Market is not Apple's App Store, and probably never will be.
Veyka's advice holds true for Android/iOS and any other software, wherever you choose to place it.
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Whether they do or don't is irrelevant. Android's Market is not Apple's App Store, and probably never will be.
Veyka's advice holds true for Android/iOS and any other software, wherever you choose to place it.
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There have been cases of malware sneaking onto the IOS app store as well, so its not like its even safe in apples walled garden!
fair enough
I tried many apps to clean this but i still have the spam in my status bar. I also tried installing certain apps and unnistalling others but it's still the same.
Apps list, right now:
ADW Launcher
Minimalistic Text
AirDroid
Boost My Xperia
Chainfire3D
Clean Master
Dolphin Beta
Facebook
Falcon Pro
Greenify
Hotmail
Link2SD
Lucky Patcher
Maps
Poweramp
Quickoffice
QuickPic
Root Explorer
SD Speed Increase
Shazam
Solid Explorer
System Panel
Whatsapp
Youtube
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http://s24.postimg.org/denn9w0id/Screenshot_2013_04_08_22_51_02.png
papo_blue7 said:
I tried many apps to clean this but i still have the spam in my status bar. I also tried installing certain apps and unnistalling others but it's still the same.
Apps list, right now:
http://s24.postimg.org/denn9w0id/Screenshot_2013_04_08_22_51_02.png
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Best bet would be to remove any apps you didnt get from the market or here. Any other apps found on other site contain this ads as well as worse things like keyloggers and software to upload all info to private servers.
Install this and start turning notifications off until you stop receiving the spam... Simple?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aboutmycode.NotificationsOff
Lim Wee Huat said:
Install this and start turning notifications off until you stop receiving the spam... Simple?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aboutmycode.NotificationsOff
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That doesn't solve the issue or protect against what else the app might be doing.
Wayne Tech S-III
delete
Just delete the app itself? If the problem persists you may have to re flash stock rom (risky) if its really that much of a problem.
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I tried many apps to clean this but i still have the spam in my status bar. I also tried installing certain apps and unnistalling others but it's still the same.
Apps list, right now:
http://s24.postimg.org/denn9w0id/Screenshot_2013_04_08_22_51_02.png
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hi friend, backup first and try to format your phone, go to settings/storage...
This is a very strange bug. I was updating PUBG and cleared the recent apps before going to bed only to wake up in the morning and see it not completed. I tried multiple times but the same happened. So I can conclude that the download manager gets "EXITED/STOPPED" by clearing play store from the recent apps. This shouldn't happen as download manager is an integral part of the android system and it's functioning shouldn't have anything to do with exiting the store.
Is anyone else having this problem. Kindly comment below.
Are you under tencents pubg? Why are they asking us to side load thru apk,wierd
Aimara said:
Are you under tencents pubg? Why are they asking us to side load thru apk,wierd
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Yes. I was updating the game through play store. Sorry for not being informative in the first place.
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Yes. I was updating the game through play store. Sorry for not being informative in the first place.
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Official update is up ,I just cancel the apk download from their website, downloaded almost 600 mb, then I cancel ,wierd I can't find half file where did it go ?
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Official update is up ,I just cancel the apk download from their website, downloaded almost 600 mb, then I cancel ,wierd I can't find half file where did it go ?
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I don't think you get my query. This is what happens:-
1. I update/download an app on the Play Store
2. I clear recent apps including the play Store
3. This freezes/ stops the update/ download.
So I guess that clearing the store from the recent apps also somehow closes the download manager. This shouldn't happen.
That's the problem I faced too none of aps including play store run in the background.If recent tabs is cleared the apps stops working
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Someone please tweet about this issue to jai mani POCO India head
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I don't think you get my query. This is what happens:-
1. I update/download an app on the Play Store
2. I clear recent apps including the play Store
3. This freezes/ stops the update/ download.
So I guess that clearing the store from the recent apps also somehow closes the download manager. This shouldn't happen.
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maybe you need to enable playstore in background to stay open ? anyway why would need to download overnight , took me less then 10 mins to d\l it
Ashish M Shet said:
That's the problem I faced too none of aps including play store run in the background.If recent tabs is cleared the apps stops working
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Did you find any solution ?
I have a solution:
STOP CLOSING APPS.
You are destroying your performance and battery life by doing this. ONLY close apps if they're malfunctioning. It does NOT make your phone faster to clear apps.
I thought this crap was put to rest years ago, wow.
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Did you find any solution ?
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Ya lock the apps in memory and remove the battery saver option for the apps!
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Ya lock the apps in memory and remove the battery saver option for the apps!
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I can't find downloads/ download manager in the app saver list.
Yea I realised it last night.. I put pubg on update and went to sleep only to realise that the update failed somehow.. This has to be the problem I faced.
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I have a solution:
STOP CLOSING APPS.
You are destroying your performance and battery life by doing this. ONLY close apps if they're malfunctioning. It does NOT make your phone faster to clear apps.
I thought this crap was put to rest years ago, wow.
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Clearing recent apps doesn't necessarily mean closing the app especially for a system app like download manager.
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Clearing recent apps doesn't necessarily mean closing the app especially for a system app like download manager.
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That's exactly what it does, actually. It doesn't just "hide" then - it calls onDestroy (sometimes, it's not guaranteed) and disposes the activity, so next time you run it it has to be recreated from scratch again.
But yes, you are at least correct in that it shouldn't terminate any associated services. Maybe that's an MIUI "feature" of closing the apps.
But my point still stands - you shouldn't close recent apps unless necessary. Any Google result will tell you this, it's mainstream knowledge these days.
If you can't help yourself, see a doctor for OCD treatment. It's a 6GB device for God's sake, you will open 100 apps and still not run out of RAM. No it will not make PUBG FPS better. No it will not make your device switch apps faster. It does ONLY harm.
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That's exactly what it does, actually. It doesn't just "hide" then - it calls onDestroy (sometimes, it's not guaranteed) and disposes the activity, so next time you run it it has to be recreated from scratch again.
But yes, you are at least correct in that it shouldn't terminate any associated services. Maybe that's an MIUI "feature" of closing the apps.
But my point still stands - you shouldn't close recent apps unless necessary. Any Google result will tell you this, it's mainstream knowledge these days.
If you can't help yourself, see a doctor for OCD treatment. It's a 6GB device for God's sake, you will open 100 apps and still not run out of RAM. No it will not make PUBG FPS better. No it will not make your device switch apps faster. It does ONLY harm.
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Damn!! People clearing their recent apps have OCD. Really ? I've been using android phones for years. My previous phones had 365 apps installed in it and I had to use almost 50 to 70 or more of them daily. The thing is most if not all android apps have background services and these services do NOT get stopped even if you clear recent apps while other apps just get cached to the RAM and they too don't stop by recent apps clearing. And then there are wakelocks and GCM which are the reasons for apps giving you notifications and things like that. I can go on but I think you get the point by now.
I clear apps because I just like to see a clean UI. I know that these apps don't just get stopped by this. If I really wanted to stop an app I'd do it for saving battery and NOT for saving RAM and I'd use advanced apps like greenify and wakelock detectors for this because clearing apps won't stop these apps. Some apps just prevent the device from going to deep sleep and this is the reason for overnight discharge on most phones.
Peace.
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Yea I realised it last night.. I put pubg on update and went to sleep only to realise that the update failed somehow.. This has to be the problem I faced.
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I think the problem is with big apps. Whenever I install a small size app maybe upto 100 MB, it gets installed without any problems but whenever I tried to install/update a large app like PUBG, it never gets completed giving errors like error 495. Today it stopped at almost 1.05 GB. I'll check and see if I can find a fix.
CosmicDan said:
I have a solution:
STOP CLOSING APPS.
You are destroying your performance and battery life by doing this. ONLY close apps if they're malfunctioning. It does NOT make your phone faster to clear apps.
I thought this crap was put to rest years ago, wow.
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But this shouldn't happen on stock Android though.. Even on iOS swiping out apps from recents doesn't mean the user wants to force stop it. Xiaomi designing it's skin to do this is really counterintuitive. Because of this we are having all sorts of problem like this and messaging apps not receiving notifications in the background.
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But this shouldn't happen on stock Android though.. Even on iOS swiping out apps from recents doesn't mean the user wants to force stop it. Xiaomi designing it's skin to do this is really counterintuitive. Because of this we are having all sorts of problem like this and messaging apps not receiving notifications in the background.
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After a few days of use, I don't think that is the case. I tried multiple downloads/ updates from the store and cleared recent apps but they continued without any freezes or stops. The problem appears when I install/ update a large sized app like PUBG. It'll go on for sometime and then just freeze and return an error. Last night it stopped at almost 1gb+ with an error code 495.
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But this shouldn't happen on stock Android though.. Even on iOS swiping out apps from recents doesn't mean the user wants to force stop it. Xiaomi designing it's skin to do this is really counterintuitive. Because of this we are having all sorts of problem like this and messaging apps not receiving notifications in the background.
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Mmm, it may be Whetstone at work again. That horrible thing. Is there a "Memory Optimization" setting in Developer Options? If so, turn it off.
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Mmm, it may be Whetstone at work again. That horrible thing. Is there a "Memory Optimization" setting in Developer Options? If so, turn it off.
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There is MIUI Optimization in Developer settings but i don't think it helps disabling it in this case.(it helps a little bit on scrolling performance BUT after 3-4 days it becomes slow again for me..I think MIUI's Touch response & Scroll performance is very bad compared to Stock/Neuxs 5... Correct me if it's only for me)
MIUI has very weird ram management which literally kills the apps & all the services when you clear it from recent and there's no way to stop this on MIUI from my past 2 weeks of experience and research
Can someone help me fix this, i got this error, and my apps always force close.
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Can someone help me fix this, i got this error, and my apps always force close.
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That's a really weird error message, did you installed something on your smartphone lately ?
When an app request a permission, it asks for it right away, it has been like that since Android 6 (the creation of the feature). So I think it might be a malware. When you click on restore, what does it do ?
vangvull99 said:
Can someone help me fix this, i got this error, and my apps always force close.
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You need to grant Instagram the permissions it requires or Instagram won't work. You can't deny its permissions and then expect the app to still work without those permissions being granted.
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Raiz said:
That's a really weird error message, did you installed something on your smartphone lately ?
When an app request a permission, it asks for it right away, it has been like that since Android 6 (the creation of the feature). So I think it might be a malware. When you click on restore, what does it do ?
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When i click report it does nothing, i literally cannot install app anymore, my internal storage is full, and i just use the phone for whatsapp, ig, youtube, the error come out of nowhere. But thank you
vangvull99 said:
When i click report it does nothing, i literally cannot install app anymore, my internal storage is full, and i just use the phone for whatsapp, ig, youtube, the error come out of nowhere. But thank you
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Ok that's definitely a trap, don't ever allow anything, review your app list very carefully and come back here with screenshots of apps that seems suspicious. Sometimes viruses have a transparent app icon, if you see a blank space in your app list (usually it's at the end of the list but check the whole thing) click on it and uninstall the app right away.
The malware can also come from an apk you installed (from a normal app like a WhatsApp mod or just a normal apk), so check the battery consumption of every app you installed through an APK file, and if there is a heavy usage one, it might be the one. Come back here with the screenshots of the app list and the suspected apps before disabling/uninstalling anything (to avoid erasing something important to you)
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i literally cannot install app anymore, my internal storage is full
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You can't install an app - here IG - two times or even more often on an Android device. You always have to completely uninstall ( means including its data ) it first and foremost and then to re-install the app in question.