Hey,
Anyone had a problem after searching the net? My phone slowed right down the other night and when I killed all my apps with task killer, instead of showing the usual 400-500+mb available memory it's been coming up with 100-200mb. It's been tediously slow ever since.
Wondering if I may have picked up some malware or something. Although I've tried AVG's free app and it's not finding anything.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Try clear you browser cache.
Tried it, tried clearing everything except forms and passwords but still keeps slowing up really quickly.
Reboot your phone
uninstall any unwanted apps/games
Ever since I got my wifi only 32gb model I been having wifi connectivity issues and browsers like the standard one and Google Chrome say that I lost wifi connection but is not true as I have the puffin browser it works just fine. Even when I try to do a search on the standard browser and Google Chrome it tells me the site has moved or gives me another error. Not to mention when I tried to update some apps like the New York times it gave me an error 923. Anyone else experiencing this or knows how to fix it? I paid too much for this tablet to be having this many issues. Thanks.
UPDATE: After restoring and installing all my apps one by one I found my problem. The issues was with kaspersky tablet antivirus which for some reason is looking for a proxy when I use the default browsers like Google Chrome. I will be contacting the kaspersky because they cause a huge headache.
Kimo49 said:
tablet antivirus
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If you keep "Install from Unknown Sources" unchecked and let Google scan your apps on the rare occasions that you do, these kinds of programs really aren't needed and will just slow down your tablet.
(Now, if you grab games and pirate apps from non-Google sites and such, then yeah, but that's your own doing anyway).
Hi everyone,
I'm new here, nice to meet you all. Last night I finally bought the LG G3, switched from an iPhone 5S.
Right away I flashed the phone to Lollipop that I found in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/kdz-poland-lollipop-lg-g3-20a00-t2938255
And the phone really works flawlessly except for one weird (and pretty annoying) bug.
When I'm surfing using Chrome or the generic browser that comes with the phone, after visiting a few websites (music forums, basketball websites, etc., nothing out of the ordinary that I usually visit), for some reason the browser gets redirected to an app called "Porn Factory" and wants me to download it to my phone.
Now, I'm pretty sure this isn't normal behaviour. And I've read that people have experienced a similar issue with their phones, but I still haven't found a solution to stop this from happening.
I tried a fresh install of Chrome, deleted all data/cache and it still happens from time to time. My phone isn't loaded with a lot of apps, just a few social media apps basically as it's brand new. Also tried scanning it with a few of the anti-virus apps on Google Play and nothing.
So yeah, if anybody could give a tip or two on how to solve this I would be very greatful. This is my last resort. :-\
Other than this, I'm really enjoying the G3!
p.s. I do apologize if the thread isn't in the right section, I'm new here.
Try to do factory reset (wipe data)
Next time use G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting forum as it belongs to this section.
sounds like it is trying to tell you something
but seriously it doesn't sound like anyone else has that issue (or they think it's a good thing, who knows)
could it be an SD card issue?
Can you boot into safe mode by pressing+holding the reboot button?
So the only thing I can do is a complete factory reset? How certain are you guys this could work? I mean I could do it, but I just want to try everything else before wiping everything and starting again from scratch.
Really appreciate the help guys!
Are you signed into chrome?
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Are you signed into chrome?
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Yeah, I logged in with my google account the first time I launched it. I could clear all settings and re-install the app and not sign in when I launch it for the first time. If that's a viable solution?
The thing is this is also happening on the stock browser which came with the phone and I'm not signed into anything on there.
* Try other browsers.
*Try some free antivirus solution.
* Is this happening on the same connection (WiFI / Data)? Maybe it's something in the network / dns proxy, etc.
* Check your internet settings (ip, dns, etc.)
What you have there is either mallware or some other type of bad "virus". This can't be considered a but by a long shot.
kraven001 said:
* Try other browsers.
*Try some free antivirus solution.
* Is this happening on the same connection (WiFI / Data)? Maybe it's something in the network / dns proxy, etc.
* Check your internet settings (ip, dns, etc.)
What you have there is either mallware or some other type of bad "virus". This can't be considered a but by a long shot.
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Same thing is happening on my home Wifi, my friend's house wifi and my cellular data. On Chrome and the stock browser.
Well I've done a factory reset a few moments ago, will see if anything changes.
My best guess is either some bad configuration (with a mallware dns or whatever) or some mallware that does that intercepting / redirect. Bugs are crashes, things not working etc not porn redirection , that's what mallware does.
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My best guess is either some bad configuration (with a mallware dns or whatever) or some mallware that does that intercepting / redirect. Bugs are crashes, things not working etc not porn redirection , that's what mallware does.
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I get what you're saying, but how is it possible the phone got infected out of the box? I basically used it for a couple of hours before this started happening. Didn't surf any "bad" websites and installed only a couple of social apps.
there are lots of "ways" these get pushed and lots of crappy ads that you press and install things or reconfigure things that you wouldn't know. I don't know, I would start analyzing the apps looking at what's going on ...
don't want to be the devil's advocate but maybe one of your friends played a practical joke on you ... don't know these things tend to happen ...
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there are lots of "ways" these get pushed and lots of crappy ads that you press and install things or reconfigure things that you wouldn't know. I don't know, I would start analyzing the apps looking at what's going on ...
don't want to be the devil's advocate but maybe one of your friends played a practical joke on you ... don't know these things tend to happen ...
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Nobody has touched the phone except me since I got it.... and just finished the factory reset thing and set up a totally new device, opened chrome, surfed a few pages and it happens again.
This makes no sense.
try this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitdefender.antivirus
don't know, out of ideas really
One thing you guys may not have considered also, is that the guy you got the kdz from might have tampered with it and put adware or malware into the file...
Now, I'm in no way saying he has (Everyone on here is very trustworthy), but from all the solutions that look to have failed in this thread, that could be the only option. You can always try a factory reset, as stated above and if it's just something on the ROM then it might fix it, but if it's in the KDZ itself, the only way to get rid of it would be to flash a different file.
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One thing you guys may not have considered also, is that the guy you got the kdz from might have tampered with it and put adware or malware into the file...
Now, I'm in no way saying he has (Everyone on here is very trustworthy), but from all the solutions that look to have failed in this thread, that could be the only option. You can always try a factory reset, as stated above and if it's just something on the ROM then it might fix it, but if it's in the KDZ itself, the only way to get rid of it would be to flash a different file.
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Is there another 5.0 Lollipop KDZ file except the one I used? (http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/kdz-poland-lollipop-lg-g3-20a00-t2938255)
At this point I'm willing to try everything as reseting the phone to factory settings also didn't help.
Id consider flashing the stock kdz again. But get it from here from someone known and start fresh.
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Id consider flashing the stock kdz again. But get it from here from someone known and start fresh.
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Could you please point me to the file I need to download? I'm new to all this and really don't have an idea which file I need. I have the D855 version of the phone.
Thank you!
See if this is the what you're looking for.
Or here?
Or here?
Its not a bug, just webpage redirecting. Some website does that, some on both desktop and mobile version, some just one of them. One of the web page i visit lg-phone-firmware.com is one of them. In mobile version it always redirect to ads.
Viable solution is to try desktop view. Else try browser that support adblock.
Well it appears I got rid of this problem. Downgraded to KitKat, rooted my device and installed a custom ROM that I found here.
Thanks for the help guys!
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Hi,
I got this phone recently, and noticed that my chrome browser kept opening up a pop up every time I opened it, often managing to install battery pro app or something similar.
I tried almost all anti malware apps to no avail, and after searching vigorously, I found the source.
It seems the phone came pre installed stock with a rogue YouTube app, which appears as an old version, and which you can't update from the playstore.
Check out the thread below, thats how I good to the bottom of it. You need to root your phone to remove it. I was actually being taken to the same website as the author of the blog, and for him it was YouTube as well, so seems this is common practice among foreign cheap phones.
http://blog.teamleadnet.com/2015/06/how-to-remove-adware-browser-hijack-or.html?m=1
deniso177 said:
Hi,
I got this phone recently, and noticed that my chrome browser kept opening up a pop up every time I opened it, often managing to install battery pro app or something similar.
I tried almost all anti malware apps to no avail, and after searching vigorously, I found the source.
It seems the phone came pre installed stock with a rogue YouTube app, which appears as an old version, and which you can't update from the playstore.
Check out the thread below, thats how I good to the bottom of it. You need to root your phone to remove it. I was actually being taken to the same website as the author of the blog, and for him it was YouTube as well, so seems this is common practice among foreign cheap phones.
http://blog.teamleadnet.com/2015/06/how-to-remove-adware-browser-hijack-or.html?m=1
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I had the same problem, and solved it by finding the same site you linked. However I had further problems later, apps installing themselves without asking permission. The trojan also changed the install apps from unknown sources setting. Christ only knows what else it was doing.
The apps that installed were SuperB Cleaner, Super File Manager, Browser, Facebook Updater and others installed automatically.
After running all anti virus to no avail I found this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.security.stubborntrjkiller&hl=en
Which seems to work eventually. However that app interacts strangle with SuperSU, killing it, requiring and update to the binary.
This seems to have found something as well
https://www.avira.com/en/free-antivirus-android
It's also being discussed here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lee...version-youtube-problem-t3408009#post67587785
http://forum.le.com/us/index.php?threads/letv-x800-1pro-how-to-update-eu-rom.455/page-2
http://forum.le.com/us/index.php?threads/open-support-for-model-letv-le1-x800-pro_us.1614/page-5
I'm worried now the phone is permanently compromised without flashing a new rom. And all the US versions seem to have issues.
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I had the same problem, and solved it by finding the same site you linked. However I had further problems later, apps installing themselves without asking permission. The trojan also changed the install apps from unknown sources setting. Christ only knows what else it was doing.
The apps that installed were SuperB Cleaner, Super File Manager, Browser, Facebook Updater and others installed automatically.
After running all anti virus to no avail I found this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.security.stubborntrjkiller&hl=en
Which seems to work eventually. However that app interacts strangle with SuperSU, killing it, requiring and update to the binary.
This seems to have found something as well
https://www.avira.com/en/free-antivirus-android
It's also being discussed here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lee...version-youtube-problem-t3408009#post67587785
http://forum.le.com/us/index.php?threads/letv-x800-1pro-how-to-update-eu-rom.455/page-2
http://forum.le.com/us/index.php?threads/open-support-for-model-letv-le1-x800-pro_us.1614/page-5
I'm worried now the phone is permanently compromised without flashing a new rom. And all the US versions seem to have issues.
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I had the same problem with foreign apps being installed, but removing the rogue YouTube solved it.
Had no issues for 2 months now
cormacfitz said:
I had the same problem, and solved it by finding the same site you linked. However I had further problems later, apps installing themselves without asking permission. The trojan also changed the install apps from unknown sources setting. Christ only knows what else it was doing.
The apps that installed were SuperB Cleaner, Super File Manager, Browser, Facebook Updater and others installed automatically.
After running all anti virus to no avail I found this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.security.stubborntrjkiller&hl=en
Which seems to work eventually. However that app interacts strangle with SuperSU, killing it, requiring and update to the binary.
This seems to have found something as well
https://www.avira.com/en/free-antivirus-android
It's also being discussed here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lee...version-youtube-problem-t3408009#post67587785
http://forum.le.com/us/index.php?threads/letv-x800-1pro-how-to-update-eu-rom.455/page-2
http://forum.le.com/us/index.php?threads/open-support-for-model-letv-le1-x800-pro_us.1614/page-5
I'm worried now the phone is permanently compromised without flashing a new rom. And all the US versions seem to have issues.
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I had the same problem with foreign apps being installed, but removing the rogue YouTube solved it.
Had no issues for 2 months now
I'm looking for a good, stable ROM without features for my son. He is constantly getting himself in trouble with getting on the internet, creating accounts on eBay, buying/selling trading with people he doesn't know, etc. I've tried getting him a "feature phone" (the re-released Nokia 3110), but that still has a browser, and even 8 calls to T-Mobile hasn't resulted in getting the data shut off (seriously, how hard can that be?).
So now I'm thinking of just giving him back his OP3, wiped, with nothing on it except exactly what he needs. We use MMGuardian as a parent app, which should let me know if he tries to sideload an APK or something, but I was looking for a good, clean ROM as a starting point.
I've also heard there was a free/open source Android monitoring tool out there... but I can't remember the name. If anyone knows that also, it would be really helpful.
Thanks!
Flapjack said:
I'm looking for a good, stable ROM without features for my son. He is constantly getting himself in trouble with getting on the internet, creating accounts on eBay, buying/selling trading with people he doesn't know, etc. I've tried getting him a "feature phone" (the re-released Nokia 3110), but that still has a browser, and even 8 calls to T-Mobile hasn't resulted in getting the data shut off (seriously, how hard can that be?).
So now I'm thinking of just giving him back his OP3, wiped, with nothing on it except exactly what he needs. We use MMGuardian as a parent app, which should let me know if he tries to sideload an APK or something, but I was looking for a good, clean ROM as a starting point.
I've also heard there was a free/open source Android monitoring tool out there... but I can't remember the name. If anyone knows that also, it would be really helpful.
Thanks!
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Dirty Unicorns is the most basic you will find I guess.
You have to add phone, mail, browser, messenger etc... yourself because even basic AOSP apps are not included.
Perfect for a lean start.
Other option is to take for example LOS and remove the stuff you do not want (see also this post).
It might be hard as in today's world, you really can't keep him off the internet unless you configure a guest account for him to login that you can disable at any time. Additionally, you can also try LineageOS or NLOS or any other rom WITHOUT flashing gapps. That way, he will have no play store and no access to google apps to do anything with. If he has to use a sim in it, i think he'll find a way around to access mobile data so really all you can do is to monitor if he ever installs a web browser. The beauty of custom ROM is that you can make it as barebone as you could but if your primary concern is keeping him off unwanted apps, you really have to rely on an app that monitors his phone or check his phone daily.