I know an app is causing it. problem is i don't know which one. is there a way to find out what app is causing this?
I take a dim view of any app that has that kind of advertising and doesn't state it does and I am very sure this is what happened.
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name apps you have? Weird, never seen advertisement on notification bar
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i have seen a few but only from a few known annoying games like
Gun Bros
Star Blitz
E. Warriors
and a few others all of which created by glu development, comes with spam bots background service
so when i DO NOT play their game, i simply FREEZE them in TI
as it's both annoying, and waste of phone resources when it keeps running in the background
I've got some advertisements from my tunee music downloader but that's all
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I seem to have this problem too. For me, there's a silver/orange star next to the ad.
bo55 said:
I've got some advertisements from my tunee music downloader but that's all
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all news to me. I never had these with Tunee music either
The culprit is a push system called Airpush. Certain apps exploit the system to place their adds. You can download a free app from the market called Airpush detector that will tell you which apps are using it. Mp3 downloader was the offending app for me.
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sablemonster said:
The culprit is a push system called Airpush. Certain apps exploit the system to place their adds. You can download a free app from the market called Airpush detector that will tell you which apps are using it. Mp3 downloader was the offending app for me.
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Were you the one who called Tmobile tech about this? May have spoke to you ;-)
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sablemonster said:
The culprit is a push system called Airpush. Certain apps exploit the system to place their adds. You can download a free app from the market called Airpush detector that will tell you which apps are using it. Mp3 downloader was the offending app for me.
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Thanks
AirPush Detector https://market.android.com/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector
my system came out clean
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Hello,
I just wanted to know if there was any way to block non-android apps? I know you can do it from settings, then applications, but you can enable installation of apps by just checking that option. Is there any way I can block them? Thanks, and I want to do this because my brother keeps installing useless games and apps again and again.
I don't think you can any other way.. but one thing you can do is install a app that can hide your android market app or any other app you choose so he cant access the market... I can't quite remember the name of it but its a pretty cool app.. you can also hide pics, movies, and other media on your phone.. wish I could help a little more
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Checkout app locker
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chris41g said:
Checkout app locker
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Yeah thats one too
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Checkout app locker
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+1 you can also password protect messaging. I found this because I was using handsent which I think was killing my battery.
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I have a galaxy Nexus on Sprint. I have started noticing ads in the notification bar and now I am seeing ads directly added to my home screens. Has any one seen this, or have an idea if an app might be doing it?
Thanks
John
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Its probably airpush. Download the free airpush detector from the marketplace
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/245305/sneaky_mobile_ads_invade_android_phones.html
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Yeah it's an ad being pushed by an app have you downloaded any suspicious apps like free music downloading or anything similar. If so that's why, this app android monster has linked should find the culprit.
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I installed adfree. To my phone ...
Then hours later 4 new apps showed up.
There not in play store so I can uninstall them... there not in settings app to uninstall
And I even went as far as to look in root explorer... nothing there either. On the net it says there real apps but I DID NOT PUT THEM THERE! I don't know if adblock is the root cause or what to do I really don't want to do a fresh install.. but it looks like I may have to.... here a pic the apps at the top just appeared ... lookout detected nothing....
Edit: its hard to see but there all like catch a chearter... GPS a cheater... extra.
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spodie said:
I installed adfree. To my phone ...
Then hours later 4 new apps showed up.
There not in play store so I can uninstall them... there not in settings app to uninstall
And I even went as far as to look in root explorer... nothing there either. On the net it says there real apps but I DID NOT PUT THEM THERE! I don't know if adblock is the root cause or what to do I really don't want to do a fresh install.. but it looks like I may have to.... here a pic the apps at the top just appeared ... lookout detected nothing....
Edit: its hard to see but there all like catch a chearter... GPS a cheater... extra.
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Can't even uninstall them with titanium ?
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Can't even uninstall them with titanium ?
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Adfree altered my host file.... I could try titanium but would that pull out the root changes and unhost the changes in the file?
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Wipe Data, Format SD Card, Reflash Rom, do not reinstall apps from Titanium Bakcup, do fresh installs.
The only way to be sure that the malware/spyware is gone.
I have been running adfree for months now and this has not happened to me. There is no way you got this from adfree. You either got it from web browsing on your phone or there is another application you installed that put them there.
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That is caused by a already installed app. Uninstall the app before you started to get these ads and they will not show again
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I too have ad free. It's not that app bro.
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Def not adfree.. Search for addons detector in market and that will give you an idea of what app did that
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Def not adfree.. Search for addons detector in market and that will give you an idea of what app did that
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Yup its YouTube downloaded by air soft...
It said 101 apps. 161 ad on's but only showed that YouTube app as cause..
Thanks bro... u saved me
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For a solid YouTube downloader, try Tubemate. You can't get it from the Play Store but you can get it in the Amazon Market or the app's website I believe. No adds or spam, the only problem is it can only download videos for which there are mobile versions. About one in 10 videos doesn't have a mobile version, in my experience.
Pretty shocked, all of a sudden a million ads on most websites I go to.
I have been using adaway, and before that used to use adfree, but found adaway did a better job. Anyways, it was working bulletproof perfect until this weekend. Going to Chicago Tribune news site, and some tech forums, and ads were back. Top of screen banner, bottom of screen, floating ads. Ugh
I try to update adaway today, it said something strange, never seen before, something about my APN settings in mobile network. "APN Proxy Set", won't enable adaway fully. WTF is that ?
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Try the airpush detector app from the play store. More than likely an app you download is causing it. Hope this helps
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Thanks, tried that, said no bad ads installed.
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Adblock plus with Root. Kills the garbage.
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Now that ad blockers have been removed from Play, are there any good alternatives?
UPDATE: I have found an alternative for AdFree Android. I am now using AdAway thanks to F-Droid and I have found I like it much better. Thank you to all who assisted in giving answers.
Uh.. You can still use adblockers legally you just have to download them from the devs website instead of the play store.
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What adblockers were removed? The Air Push ads?
All of them I think...
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Uh.. You can still use adblockers legally you just have to download them from the devs website instead of the play store.
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I know. Looking for adfree android as it is currently my favorite. Bigtincan website does not offer it that I could find.
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http://dl.papktop.com/2013/01/AdFree_Android_0_8_47.apk
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/38127313/org.adaway-1.apk
Get it while it's still there.
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Anyone know what pushed that move?
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http://dl.papktop.com/2013/01/AdFree_Android_0_8_47.apk
Get it while it's still there.
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Thanks. Got it.
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Anyone know what pushed that move?
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Ad blockers are a violation of Google Play's TOS is all I have found out.
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Anyone know what pushed that move?
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This may answer your question.
http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/google-removes-all-ad-blocking-apps-from-play-store
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Interesting.
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This may answer your question.
http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/google-removes-all-ad-blocking-apps-from-play-store
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Yep...a quick search now lands the same info over and over. It also lands a lot of speculation in which direction google is heading.
Just to clarify, I will state that I am not necessarily against ads as it helps independent developers. If I like the app enough i will support the developer if they will allow for a purchase that is ad free. I have purchased around 20 or so apps (some I no longer use) so I have no qualms doing this. However, I have experienced some apps in which the ads are overly instrusive and actually hinder some of the functions of the app temporarily due to being in the way. These "few" are the reason I have resorted to ad blockers.
For now I have installed F-Droid and I am using AdAway and I like it a lot. I am now content.
I've been using AdAway too but the last app update (March 7th I believe) actually allows ads. Are you having this problem as well?
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I've been using AdAway too but the last app update (March 7th I believe) actually allows ads. Are you having this problem as well?
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I have had no such issue. Still blocking ads. In fact AdAway is working even better than AdFree Android did. There were a couple of apps that I still got ads in before and now they are even ad free.
Are ads coming through all of your apps that support ads, or just some of them? If all ad supported software is showing ads then you need to update your hosts file via AdAway.
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I have had no such issue. Still blocking ads. In fact AdAway is working even better than AdFree Android did. There were a couple of apps that I still got ads in before and now they are even ad free.
Are ads coming through all of your apps that support ads, or just some of them? If all ad supported software is showing ads then you need to update your hosts file via AdAway.
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I updated the hosts file beginning of March and then started getting ads. Before that I was getting none. Today they updated the hosts files again and ads are once again gone. yay!