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WHERE does the android market keep the list of apps you have installed?

WHERE does the android market keep the list of apps you have installed?

SteelH said:
WHERE does the android market keep the list of apps you have installed?
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Seriously? It's under the "downloads" tab...

Brutus2TheMax said:
Seriously? It's under the "downloads" tab...
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HAHAHAHA

Android Market
It's actually a pretty good question.I've run quite a few different roms in the last month or so and even though I back everything up,the Market seems to lose apps that I've purchased from time to time.Would be nice to know if there's a way to retrieve them online or if we just need to keep buying them over and over.

Brutus2TheMax said:
Seriously? It's under the "downloads" tab...
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Yes seriously. You answer was anything but. I want to where they are stored. Hitting the downloads tab shows a list of them, it doesn't show WHERE.

Download Astro File Browser and use the built-in search feature. Make sure it is scanning the whole system and not just your SD card.
This should tell you where they are downloaded and stored.

This question is highly ambiguous. You may want to refine.
I think he means, if you wipe and install a new ROM, the first time you go into the market, it will remember the apps you DID have installed.
Where is that stored?

Bielinsk said:
This question is highly ambiguous. You may want to refine.
I think he means, if you wipe and install a new ROM, the first time you go into the market, it will remember the apps you DID have installed.
Where is that stored?
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Exactly. This is what is elusive. Maybe I'm completely wrong and they are stored on SkyNet I mean Google.

I am pretty sure they are attached to your google account. So they are stored on skynet, in some dark dungeon of servers they have 1000 feet under ground

Actually, I think this is a two part deal. The apps you have purchased are associated with your google account. Free apps and trials have a local market link associated with them. This link can become corrupted and titanium backup has the capability to restore those links. Running a logcat while executing the restore market links process may point you in the right direction.
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Frank...

They are definitely associated with your google account. My market kept telling me I had a **** load if apps on my phone...no mater how many times I wiped, they still showed as installed on my phone. I created a new google account and bam..fixed the issue when I signed in with the new account. Its the weirdest thing.

How do you get the downloads tab back? Mine somehow changed to a Sprint tab
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tauzins said:
How do you get the downloads tab back? Mine somehow changed to a Sprint tab
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indeed. this seems not only a evo specific "issue". a friend has a hero and was complaining how to uninstall apps since there is a sprint tab in her market. i told her to press menu and then to downloads since she isnt a geek.
i first noticed this tonight.. weird.

tauzins said:
How do you get the downloads tab back? Mine somehow changed to a Sprint tab
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This is already being discussed in the GENERAL section.

Google Books and Videos

Hi.
I've flashed ILT41F Google official images to my Galaxy Nexus. After initial boot, without Google Account authentication, I've noticed Books and Videos apps in the app drawer. Unfortunately, after 5 seconds they were gone. Literally. Not even in the Applications Manager, under All Apps. Do some of you actually have those apps, or all of you don't ? Has somebody seen this behavior ?

lambda30 said:
Hi.
I've flashed ILT41F Google official images to my Galaxy Nexus. After initial boot, without Google Account authentication, I've noticed Books and Videos apps in the app drawer. Unfortunately, after 5 seconds they were gone. Literally. Not even in the Applications Manager, under All Apps. Do some of you actually have those apps, or all of you don't ? Has somebody seen this behavior ?
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Both mine are there. I also flashed from the google factory images.

Luxferro said:
Both mine are there. I also flashed from the google factory images.
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Thanks for the input. Then this may have something to do with Market locale. Awaiting further input for international users.

They should be downloadable from the Market if you don't have them.
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Chrono_Tata said:
They should be downloadable from the Market if you don't have them.
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Not really. They're location dependent, like I said. Don't you think that I've tried that before posting ?

lambda30 said:
Not really. They're location dependent, like I said. Don't you think that I've tried that before posting ?
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I don't have my phone handy at the moment, but do these apps come as system apps in google's ILT41F factory images? If not, get the .apk's from someone and push them into /system/app/ if your rooted. Then they can't uninstall (at least that is my guess).

Luxferro said:
I don't have my phone handy at the moment, but do these apps come as system apps in google's ILT41F factory images? If not, get the .apk's from someone and push them into /system/app/ if your rooted. Then they can't uninstall (at least that is my guess).
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I haven't checked if they come as system apps in official factory images. I don't necessarily need them, I just wanted to know what the heck happened to them when they disappeared, because it is strange.
I'm currently in the stage of verifying what's wrong or not with my installation, so that's how I came across this problem.

u r not the only one...i noticed the same thing....as such, i dug deeper in using root explorer and found that the apk is still inside system/apps/
so apparently, there's some technical mumbo jumbo in there that restricts non-US users to see...let alone access this apps....
if you try to side load the apk, it will actually prompt for overwrite, rather than install, suggesting the apps exists and is installed, just not visible...(even to titanium backup apparently)..
somebody with more technical knowledge than myself needs to investigate this...,
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clarifications:
actually. i think the apps are 'freezed'....due to locations.
if u r rooted, u can use titanium backup to 'defroze' it..that's what i did.

lordlad said:
actually. i think the apps are 'freezed'....due to locations.
if u r rooted, u can use titanium backup to 'defroze' it..that's what i did.
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What is freeze/defreeze ? Could you elaborate on that please ?

Can't touch/access Google Now Settings?

Hey,
I can't access Google Now settings. I can go into the settings menu, but whenever I tap on any of the settings it doesn't respond.

captainreynolds said:
Hey,
I can't access Google Now settings. I can go into the settings menu, but whenever I tap on any of the settings it doesn't respond.
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try swiping up on the home button, scroll to the bottom and press the 3 dots. hope this helps because I dont know from where are you teying to access the setting.

mr.dj26 said:
try swiping up on the home button, scroll to the bottom and press the 3 dots. hope this helps because I dont know from where are you teying to access the setting.
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Yeah, I am accessing the settings that way. Any ideas? I've tried wiping data in Titanium Backup to no avail.

captainreynolds said:
Yeah, I am accessing the settings that way. Any ideas? I've tried wiping data in Titanium Backup to no avail.
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go to play store, type google search, uninstall, intall again.
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try this.
go to settings (normal setting)
choose accounts and sync
google
search
this should show up the Google now setting.

mr.dj26 said:
go to play store, type google search, uninstall, intall again.
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try this.
go to settings (normal setting)
choose accounts and sync
google
search
this should show up the Google now setting.
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Unfortunately neither of those things work. going to settings then accounts and sync and Google just opens up the normal Google now settings.
Also uninstalling Google now has royally screwed up my phone so I would not recommend anyone else do this.
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mr.dj26 said:
try swiping up on the home button, scroll to the bottom and press the 3 dots. hope this helps because I dont know from where are you teying to access the setting.
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I can't quite figure it out either. Stock rom, when I swipe up from the soft home key, I go to google now. How do I change or disable this?

Xdpker06 said:
I can't quite figure it out either. Stock rom, when I swipe up from the soft home key, I go to google now. How do I change or disable this?
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both of you, install a custom rom

I need to, just lazy because I have everything set up on stock.
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Xdpker06 said:
I need to, just lazy because I have everything set up on stock.
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thats why I installed a custom rom as soon as I got the phone out of the box
backup with htc cloud, shouldn't take long to recover everything back to normal

I really don't want to install a custom rom. They are too unstable for me and the stock rom has great battery life and is well designed. Xposed modules can allow me to make any changes necessary without the bugs you get with custom roms.
Bumping this again. I have uninstalled, wiped data of the app, and done everything I can think of. Also updated to the latest one and no success. I have no apps modifying google now or any touch interfaces of any kind. Any idea for a fix?

So what are you actually wanting to change? What Google Now cards are shown? If so, you open Google Now and then click the magic wand you can then add/remove which cards are shown

EddyOS said:
So what are you actually wanting to change? What Google Now cards are shown? If so, you open Google Now and then click the magic wand you can then add/remove which cards are shown
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Imho he means the settings screen where you can access e.g. the Offline Voice Packs...

A couple of us have been trying to figure this out forever. Custom ROM won't help. Something else is breaking it. In my case, I think it was when I installed a clear themed gnow from tbo. The only way I ever got it back was when I accidentally wiped my internal storage. I broke it again with clear gnow. Restoring a nand doesn't help. Clean flash doesn't help. This leads me to believe something is being left in internal SD that's messing with it. Another of us has not installed anything themed and still it's happening to him. Very elusive.

Here's a workaround that was just found. I'm pasting it from the tho thread I just posted it in. Op, maybe add to your op for people who stumble upon this thread with the same problem.
Pasted: Just want to keep you abreast of my discoveries. My problem, and a friends, of settings not working clearly start when I install clear gnow however I have found a couple people who have this problem and did not theme anything. Someone found a work around. This may or may not shed some more light. If you install gnow launcher you can access the settings from there. If you switch back to sense it stays until reboot but then if you need to adjust you can switch back to g launcher to do it. I'm just keeping gnow launcher installed for that purpose.
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[Q] Disable touch to install ZVD update icon in notifcation bar

Hello,
I have had the ZVD update (not installed yet) notificaton on my phone for about a week now and I have no plans on updating my phone to ZVD at this time so I would like to know how to remove / disable the "System Update Downloaded Touch to install" notification from the notification bar so I do not accidentally touch it and install it by mistake.
While I am at it, I would like to disable all future updates at the same time so it would be nice to know which app controls the downloading of these updates and freeze it so I don't have to be bothered with these notifications in the future as well.
TIA,
MTCell

mtcellph said:
Hello,
I have had the ZVD update (not installed yet) notificaton on my phone for about a week now and I have no plans on updating my phone to ZVD at this time so I would like to know how to remove / disable the "System Update Downloaded Touch to install" notification from the notification bar so I do not accidentally touch it and install it by mistake.
While I am at it, I would like to disable all future updates at the same time so it would be nice to know which app controls the downloading of these updates and freeze it so I don't have to be bothered with these notifications in the future as well.
TIA,
MTCell
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Hello, what I did was drop down the notification panel, and touch and hold the update notification, it took me to Google Services Framework, I unchecked "show notifications", and it removed the update from the notifications,[emoji4][emoji4] Try that.[emoji4][emoji106]
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TechGirl90 said:
Hello, what I did was drop down the notification panel, and touch and hold the update notification, it took me to Google Services Framework, I unchecked "show notifications", and it removed the update from the notifications,[emoji4][emoji4] Try that.[emoji4][emoji106]
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For me it takes me to Google Play Services. Is this the same thing as the Google Services Framework ?
Also, is there not an app that I can freeze that will stop the updates from downloading in the first place. I am happy with ZVC and I have no intentions of taking future updates unless they fix some large security hole in the system so if I can just disable / freeze an app to stop the updates from downloading in the first place I would prefer that.

mtcellph said:
For me it takes me to Google Play Services. Is this the same thing as the Google Services Framework ?
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Oh, I'm sorry, my mistake, not exactly the same, (correct me anyone who reads this thread) I think the Google Play Services is where you receive updates from the Google Playstore, where as the Google Services Framework, you receive updates for the Android Operating System.[emoji4] you can uncheck "show notifications" in Google Play Services.[emoji4], sorry about that.
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TechGirl90 said:
Oh, I'm sorry, my mistake, not exactly the same, (correct me anyone who reads this thread) I think the Google Play Services is where you receive updates from the Google Playstore, where as the Google Services Framework, you receive updates for the Android Operating System.[emoji4] you can uncheck "show notifications" in Google Play Services.[emoji4], sorry about that.
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Ok, now I am more confused. Why would system updates be handled by 2 different apps on the same phone. For yours, it's Google Services Framework and for mine it's Google Play Services?
Also, as you said Google Play Services seems to be apart of the app store so if I disable that, would that not also stop other notifications (that I want to receive) from being shown. Again, I am more confused now than I was when I first asked this question.
Basically, all I really want to do is delete the currently downloaded (but not yet installed) update from my phone and then freeze the app that is responsible for downloading / checking for updates in the first place so I am never bothered by this problem again. Surely this is possible right ?

mtcellph said:
Ok, now I am more confused. Why would system updates be handled by 2 different apps on the same phone. For yours, it's Google Services Framework and for mine it's Google Play Services?
Also, as you said Google Play Services seems to be apart of the app store so if I disable that, would that not also stop other notifications (that I want to receive) from being shown. Again, I am more confused now than I was when I first asked this question.
Basically, all I really want to do is delete the currently downloaded (but not yet installed) update from my phone and then freeze the app that is responsible for downloading / checking for updates in the first place so I am never bothered by this problem again. Surely this is possible right ?
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OK, try this link to disable ota update.[emoji4]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30787965
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS VERY CAREFULLY, good luck.[emoji4][emoji106]
YOU MUST BE ROOTED
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TechGirl90 said:
OK, try this link to disable ota update.[emoji4]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30787965
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS VERY CAREFULLY, good luck.[emoji4][emoji106]
YOU MUST BE ROOTED
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I have seen threads like these on the fourms before I made this post and they were not for the Sprint LG G2 so I dismissed them as I do not want to mess anything up. Again, I would like to ask about freezing the app responsible for the updates and freeze it. I have also included a small video that shows that the system update take me to Google Play Services and not Google Services Framework like it does on your phone. Why would that happen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYGrdUKoBK0

mtcellph said:
I have seen threads like these on the fourms before I made this post and they were not for the Sprint LG G2 so I dismissed them as I do not want to mess anything up. Again, I would like to ask about freezing the app responsible for the updates and freeze it. I have also included a small video that shows that the system update take me to Google Play Services and not Google Services Framework like it does on your phone. Why would that happen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYGrdUKoBK0
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The process responsible for the ota update is the Google Play Services, I apologize for the confusion, it was the Google Play Services, not the Framework Services, but you can't dismiss them, you can however disable the Google Play Services and uncheck the "show notifications" from the update trying to proceed to install itself.[emoji4]
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TechGirl90 said:
The process responsible for the ota update is the Google Play Services, I apologize for the confusion, it was the Google Play Services, not the Framework Services, but you can't dismiss them, you can however disable the Google Play Services and uncheck the "show notifications" from the update trying to proceed to install itself.[emoji4]
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Thanks again for the replies, but as I said if I disable the Google Play Services Notifications I would also lose the ability to get ANY notifications from the Play Store even for apps that I want to be notified about. So you are saying this is the only way to stop the notification and what about freezing future updates from downloading, this not possible either ?
Again, I appreciate the reply, but it seems like I am either stuck with the notification forever if I want to have any notifications from the play store at all or disable it and lose all notifications from the play store for all apps and there is no way to disable to the downloading of future apps on this phone.

mtcellph said:
Thanks again for the replies, but as I said if I disable the Google Play Services Notifications I would also lose the ability to get ANY notifications from the Play Store even for apps that I want to be notified about. So you are saying this is the only way to stop the notification and what about freezing future updates from downloading, this not possible either ?
Again, I appreciate the reply, but it seems like I am either stuck with the notification forever if I want to have any notifications from the play store at all or disable it and lose all notifications from the play store for all apps and there is no way to disable to the downloading of future apps on this phone.
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Yeah, that's the tradeoff in not receiving updates about products from the Play store when you disable notifications in the Google Play Services, this isn't the only way, there are other ways, but it requires root access of your device, I've read a thread somewhere concerning disabling OTA Updates, I'll find that thread for you as soon as I can.[emoji4]
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mtcellph said:
Thanks again for the replies, but as I said if I disable the Google Play Services Notifications I would also lose the ability to get ANY notifications from the Play Store even for apps that I want to be notified about. So you are saying this is the only way to stop the notification and what about freezing future updates from downloading, this not possible either ?
Again, I appreciate the reply, but it seems like I am either stuck with the notification forever if I want to have any notifications from the play store at all or disable it and lose all notifications from the play store for all apps and there is no way to disable to the downloading of future apps on this phone.
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Open the dialer on your G2, put in this code 3845#*980#, a hidden menu should pop up, scroll WLAN Test, select the OTA Option, next you change the value to off, and you're done[emoji4]
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TechGirl90 said:
Yeah, that's the tradeoff in not receiving updates about products from the Play store when you disable notifications in the Google Play Services, this isn't the only way, there are other ways, but it requires root access of your device, I've read a thread somewhere concerning disabling OTA Updates, I'll find that thread for you as soon as I can.[emoji4]
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Open the dialer on your G2, put in this code 3845#*980#, a hidden menu should pop up, scroll WLAN Test, select the OTA Option, next you change the value to off, and you're done[emoji4]
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I have root access, I apologize for not mentioning it in the OP and dialing that code on my phone just places a call to #3845 so that's a no go either. I used the code 5689#*980# which did show the hidden menu, but there was no WLAN Test option. I think we have 2 different phones or atleast 2 different carriers. Maybe it's the fact that you have a custom rom on your phone, but alot of the things you refer to are different on the stock rooted version of the Sprint LG G2 running ZVC.

mtcellph said:
I have root access, I apologize for not mentioning it in the OP and dialing that code on my phone just places a call to #3845 so that's a no go either.
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It's ok, [emoji4] try putting in this code in the dialer app 5689#*980#
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mtcellph said:
I have root access, I apologize for not mentioning it in the OP and dialing that code on my phone just places a call to #3845 so that's a no go either. I used the code 5689#*980# which did show the hidden menu, but there was no WLAN Test option. I think we have 2 different phones or atleast 2 different carriers. Maybe it's the fact that you have a custom rom on your phone, but alot of the things you refer to are different on the stock rooted version of the Sprint LG G2 running ZVC.
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Yes, it's true that I do have a custom ROM on top of the Sprint LG G2 ROM(you saw my signature LOL), I'm still on ZVC because I ignored the ZVD Update notification and installed CyanogenMod 11 M9 Snapshot on my device and it didn't bother me again, now when I go to updates, it doesn't show up anymore.[emoji4][emoji106]
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mtcellph said:
I have root access, I apologize for not mentioning it in the OP and dialing that code on my phone just places a call to #3845 so that's a no go either. I used the code 5689#*980# which did show the hidden menu, but there was no WLAN Test option. I think we have 2 different phones or atleast 2 different carriers. Maybe it's the fact that you have a custom rom on your phone, but alot of the things you refer to are different on the stock rooted version of the Sprint LG G2 running ZVC.
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I'm sorry that this problem still exist for you, I wish there was a way this problem can be fixed for you, and I'm also sorry for confusing you earlier.[emoji20]
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TechGirl90 said:
It's ok, [emoji4] try putting in this code in the dialer app 5689#*980#
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Yes, it's true that I do have a custom ROM on top of the Sprint LG G2 ROM(you saw my signature LOL), I'm still on ZVC because I ignored the ZVD Update notification and installed CyanogenMod 11 M9 Snapshot on my device and it didn't bother me again, now when I go to updates, it doesn't show up anymore.[emoji4][emoji106]
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I'm sorry that this problem still exist for you, I wish there was a way this problem can be fixed for you, and I'm also sorry for confusing you earlier.[emoji20]
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No need to apologize I appreciate your assistance. I will keep looking on my own for a solution and if anyone else knows how to remove the notification and disable future updates on the stock rooted LG G2 from sprint, please let me know.

mtcellph said:
No need to apologize I appreciate your assistance. I will keep looking on my own for a solution and if anyone else knows how to remove the notification and disable future updates on the stock rooted LG G2 from sprint, please let me know.
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Ok.[emoji4]
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Pop up ads on my home screen

Hello, so recently I've been dealing with pop up ads on my phone. I factory reset the phone and they were gone, but now it's having ads again when I don't even have an app open. I've tried virus scanners and nothing detected. Is there a way to figure out what file is causing this?
Thank you!

I had that same issue last week. Are they popping up though chrome or firefox? It was a rogue app on my part but for you it looks like its something else. Since you already factory reset the phone, you might as well download the latest build and "flash-all". After that you should not have any problems as it completely wipes the device.

If you goto your battery settings does it show an app that may be causing ads?
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Did you try lookout or eset virus scanner?
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equlizer said:
I had that same issue last week. Are they popping up though chrome or firefox? It was a rogue app on my part but for you it looks like its something else. Since you already factory reset the phone, you might as well download the latest build and "flash-all". After that you should not have any problems as it completely wipes the device.
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So it pops up randomly not just using chrome. A few minutes ago I was in the middle of a Clash Royale Game and an add popped up. I recently downloaded a QR reader from the play store and I think that's when it started again.
I deleted the app, but it's been still going on. That's why I went to use the anti virus/malware apps, but they found nothing.
Is there anyway to fix or find what is doing it without factory resetting?

gjkrisa said:
If you goto your battery settings does it show an app that may be causing ads?
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Did you try lookout or eset virus scanner?
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No, nothing shows up on my battery setting.

check the root directory for any strange folders that should not belong there and delete those. I had some that were like 5489399fgjjll and crap. Those are a sure sign there is malware on your phone

equlizer said:
check the root directory for any strange folders that should not belong there and delete those. I had some that were like 5489399fgjjll and crap. Those are a sure sign there is malware on your phone
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Aww dang, alright. Thanks.
Is the root directory the android->data folder?

adriel161 said:
Aww dang, alright. Thanks.
Is the root directory the android->data folder?
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No it would be back one more step but I would look there also
But you are going to need root to view that part
https://photos.app.goo.gl/tX5wQ6tlUqev76j03
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Did you ever get an answer? My husband is having this same issue and we cannot figure out what is causing it? Thanks!
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adriel161 said:
Aww dang, alright. Thanks.
Is the root directory the android->data folder?
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gjkrisa said:
No it would be back one more step but I would look there also
But you are going to need root to view that part
Can anyone tell me where I can look for these? I haven’t found where to see these folders. Thanks!
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download kaspersky and do a scan , it should clean whatever is doing that.

adriel161 said:
Hello, so recently I've been dealing with pop up ads on my phone. I factory reset the phone and they were gone, but now it's having ads again when I don't even have an app open. I've tried virus scanners and nothing detected. Is there a way to figure out what file is causing this?
Thank you!
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Did you solve this?

having the same issue with my nexus 6p
anyone solved this problem?
UPDATE:
i may have found the culprit, it's the qrcode scanner app, i may need a few hour to verify this

Just did Kaspersky and nothing found. Another $3 wasted ...

@hketola: Kapersky isn't trustworthy IMO. Try Malwarebytes instead.

If you have Adaway installed, go into the settings and check for Adaware, it'll tell you what apps and what kind of ads they push

I just had the same problem and it seemed to be caused by the app store. So I read all your efforts and then took a look in my settings and here's what I did that resolved the issues: settings < apps & notifications < advanced < Special app access < display over other apps < google play services < switch to "not allowed"
Hope this works for you.

Dxrx said:
I just had the same problem and it seemed to be caused by the app store. So I read all your efforts and then took a look in my settings and here's what I did that resolved the issues: settings < apps & notifications < advanced < Special app access < display over other apps < google play services < switch to "not allowed"
Hope this works for you.
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I'll let you know as I've been having this issue for the last few days. Thank you!

I fixed a similar issue on a friends phone. When Ad appears, swipe up (assuming pill gesture on Android 9) and you get the recents screens. The current app (app showing ad) icon will be at top of the screen preview. Press and hold on the icon until a context menu appears and select App Info. Now you know which app is popping ads up.

Google Account Ad Personalization (Ad Settings)
The Patriot Act started all this bull****. No Privacy
It's that ****ing google ads that you can opt out of, but they force the others ads on you.
This is an invasion of privacy you pay all this money for your personal phone and they force content on you whether you like it or not.
I'm thinking about downgrading my phone and operating systems?

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Useless, politically-tinged rant.
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Trying to get past the 10 post filter aye? That's what it looks like based upon the fact you replied to a post that's been dead for six months plus.
Now I won't engage with your political rant because this isn't political. You own the hardware, but Google owns the software, especially the Google apps. The ads are Google's means of recouping development costs of Android.
Now, if you don't want ads but want to use Google apps, you install and run Blokada. It works on virtually everything, except YouTube. Or you use a version of Android that doesn't include Google apps.
If neither option appeals to you, try and find a dumbphone, because Apple is worse.