I'll be sitting at the home screen and ads will pop up and open my chrome browser to the ads page. It will also tell me I have a virus. What is the deal? Please help!
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Might be a rogue app! Uninstall any recent apps, see if it stops
This is an example! I have not downloaded any new apps!
a lawless a said:
This is an example! I have not downloaded any new apps!
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Maybe a newly updated app gone rogue. Rogue app, absolutely no doubt...
100% rogue app. Any music downloader, non playstore movie streaming, or "unknown source" installed apps?
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If not too personal...screenshot your app drawer.
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I can't post them XDA won't let me
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I can't post them XDA won't let me
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You might have to upload the screen to imgur then copy and paste the link here.
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You're fine. It's a website that you're on that's doing those ads lol
expertzero1 said:
You're fine. It's a website that you're on that's doing those ads lol
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I just factory reset my phone I got tired of all of it
expertzero1 said:
You're fine. It's a website that you're on that's doing those ads lol
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Yeah looks like a webpage
a lawless a said:
I'll be sitting at the home screen and ads will pop up and open my chrome browser to the ads page. It will also tell me I have a virus. What is the deal? Please help!
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I've had the exact same thing which I seem to have fixed.
Firstly turn off sync on chrome.
On your laptop and any other devices you use chrome on delete your history, cache and cookies.
Delete the same on your phone. Turn sync back on.
You should now be issue free, apparently there is malware that can target cookies so the above should work.
If you only have the issue on WiFi and not 3/4G then you should consider deleting your network settings on your phone found in settings. You may have an infected dns.
Hope this helps.
Related
Just got this phone. I will be porting all of my evo inverted apps over. A lot of them work already just finishing up Google+ and the market.
http://www.rujelus22.com/evo
These are nice thanks for sharing
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rujelus22 said:
Just got this phone. I will be porting all of my evo inverted apps over. A lot of them work already just finishing up Google+ and the market.
http://www.rujelus22.com/evo
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Oh hell yes . I've been using your inverted apps for a while now, started on the OG Epic 4g, now with the ET4g. Congrats on your new device!
I assume you'd have to uninstall the app first and then install the inverted version?
And how do I uninstall gmail? Would I just delete the .apk in root explorer?
Really glad to hear you got this phone. Thanks again for your work
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Wow I love your work, glad you are here.
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Thanks for all the good words. Loving the new phone so far.
m4rk0358 said:
I assume you'd have to uninstall the app first and then install the inverted version?
And how do I uninstall gmail? Would I just delete the .apk in root explorer?
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Deleting the apk and putting mine in it's place with root explorer should work. I always use adb to push it there. It will have to be installed this way for now, at least until I get an updated flash-able zip for this phone.
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Deleting the apk and putting mine in it's place with root explorer should work.
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Damn. That didn't work for me and I can't get gmail to install at all.
A titanium restore of gmail didn't work either. Tried grabbing again from the market and when I try installing it, it says "application already exists".
Argh!!! How do I fix this?
EDIT: It came up with a reboot. Phew!
m4rk0358 said:
Damn. That didn't work for me and I can't get gmail to install at all.
A titanium restore of gmail didn't work either. Tried grabbing again from the market and when I try installing it, it says "application already exists".
Argh!!! How do I fix this?
EDIT: It came up with a reboot. Phew!
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Glad to hear you got it
This Gmail app is a thing of beauty. Thanks man.
Had been looking for an inverted Google Voice for such a long time. Thanks!
m4rk0358 said:
Damn. That didn't work for me and I can't get gmail to install at all.
A titanium restore of gmail didn't work either. Tried grabbing again from the market and when I try installing it, it says "application already exists".
Argh!!! How do I fix this?
EDIT: It came up with a reboot. Phew!
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Just uninstall it from the market or through manage apps menu in settings.
JLine05 said:
This Gmail app is a thing of beauty. Thanks man.
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Agreed. Excellent work OP!
Btw, is google+ ready to install?
m4rk0358 said:
Agreed. Excellent work OP!
Btw, is google+ ready to install?
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The newest version of Google+ has a different setup for the main stream, I am in the works of flipping that over then it should be good to go. I am hoping to get it done in the next day or two.
I assume the rom has to be deodexed to flash any app that downloads in the form of a zip? Such as the Google search bar? Or can it be install with root explorer?
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Facebook app looks great. When you first install it, everything is great, and the news feed is inverted. But once you exit out of the news feed, and reenter it....the background goes white again.
Thanks for all the work.
New Facebook 1.7.1 is available to download
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I assume the rom has to be deodexed to flash any app that downloads in the form of a zip? Such as the Google search bar? Or can it be install with root explorer?
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Facebook app looks great. When you first install it, everything is great, and the news feed is inverted. But once you exit out of the news feed, and reenter it....the background goes white again.
Thanks for all the work.
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I have never tried to install them on an odexed ROM so I am not sure if it will work or not.
Yeah the feed is pulled straight from m.facebook.com so unless facebook wants to invert there mobile page that is the way it has to be.
Is the inverted market app good to go?
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Is the inverted market app good to go?
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Just got a test version up on the downloads page. The one called "Android Market 3.1.5 ET Testing"
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Just got a test version up on the downloads page. The one called "Android Market 3.1.5 ET Testing"
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Very nice, I'll test it out. Thanks.
Looks like Google+ and Docs are going to take a min. Don't know if it is a root/ROM/ or phone issue but neither docs nor Google+ will sync anything once they are installed. Just sits on connecting...
I have tried decompiling and then recompiling without changing anything and I still get this issue. If anyone knows a fix to this I would love to know what it is.
Hi,
is it only me or has the XDA Forum app been removed from the android market?
Thanks for feedback,
It's gone for me, as well. I couldn't find it on my Rezound, my Kindle Fire, my Eris, or my PC. Thankfully, I had it backed up in Titanium Backup. The odd thing is that if I restore it with TiBu, the app will show as having an available update and the update will download and install normally. Even after the app is installed and updated, it still fails to show in the market if I do a search.
me too, tried to get it on my new Note, but couldn't find it so have to use browser.
It's been removed for the moment...
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We had to remove all XDA apps from Google Market until we fix a problem with Google Checkout. Will be back soon hopefully!
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orangekid said:
me too, tried to get it on my new Note, but couldn't find it so have to use browser.
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I couldn't even find it through my PC's browser. I went to play.google.com and searched but all that comes up is something called "XDA-Developers TV".
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Thank you, Archer. At least we know now. I must have missed that announcement somewhere along the line.
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It's been removed for the moment...
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Please also make it available on an alternate market.
I bought XDA Premium before Sep. 2011 but since then Google has changed their checkout method so I can no longer buy any applications from the Market.
I don't think prohibiting users from countries based on Google's bizarre policy is consistent with the XDA spirit.
yeah I went to manually find the APK, and all I could get was the premium version. I'm not trying to warez it, lol, so I just said forget it
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Please also make it available on an alternate market.
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I actually see no reason why the free apk couldn't just be hosted directly from this site, in addition to the market.
So sad :-( I liked the app
tapatalk works ok though doesn't it?
Why don't you guys learn to properly use search?
From:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841646
the_scotsman said:
We had to remove all XDA apps from Google Market until we fix a problem with Google Checkout. Will be back soon hopefully!
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Reported for repost!
zylor said:
Why don't you guys learn to properly use search?
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And you need to learn how to take a deep breath, count to ten, and consider that maybe, just maybe, I spent half an hour trying to find the answer to my question before finding this thread. Someone else was kind enough to post an answer to the question, so your post was unecessary. Go yell at noobs for posting Qs in the dev forums or something.
http://www.bestappsmarket.com/p/app?appId=12815&title=xda-premium
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http://www.bestappsmarket.com/p/app?appId=12815&title=xda-premium
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That links to the play store...
Mods, please -CLOSE-.
My tmous s3 keeps trying to download Facebook (build 140579). Play store doesn't even show an update available for Facebook and it's just draining my battery. What is this and how do I stop it?
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Same here
I've got the same problem. I force close it and it just starts right back up? WTH?
bjones72751 said:
My tmous s3 keeps trying to download Facebook (build 140579). Play store doesn't even show an update available for Facebook and it's just draining my battery. What is this and how do I stop it?
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Firstly, this belongs in the Q&A section. Secondly, try to uninstall the app then reinstall through the play store.
Sorry, if a mod could move it that would be great. I did reinstall it, still tries to download. I can force stop it by force stopping downloads, but as soon as anything else starts downloading it just restarts the attempted download of Facebook too.
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bjones72751 said:
Sorry, if a mod could move it that would be great. I did reinstall it, still tries to download. I can force stop it by force stopping downloads, but as soon as anything else starts downloading it just restarts the attempted download of Facebook too.
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That's odd. Try breaking the market link via rom toolbox.
Go into app manager and long press on Facebook to get the option.
Towle said:
That's odd. Try breaking the market link via rom toolbox.
Go into app manager and long press on Facebook to get the option.
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Tried that, doesn't work, also uninstalled fb app and any files that were with it and still it says downloading but never finishes?
Same Issue on my Samsung SGH-i757 ROOTED : Facebook build 140579 download not working
Tried breaking the link, unistalled app reinstalled app, deleted data cache and still started up everytime the same showing it is downloading and sucking my battery
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Solved ! Open download manager and then go to other downloads you should see it here juad send to trash FIXED!
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breaking the link, unistalled app reinstalled app, deleted data cache and still started up everytime the same showing it is downloading and sucking my battery
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Solved ! Open download manager and then go to other downloads you should see it here juad send to trash FIXED!
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Yep, did the same thing and its fixed, but does anyone know what it was for?
Ok, so I guess I'm more noob than originally known. How do I get to download manager?
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Ok, so I guess I'm more noob than originally known. How do I get to download manager?
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It's an application in your phone.
I have deleted the update but few hours later, the annoying download is back!
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It's an application in your phone.
I have deleted the update but few hours later, the annoying download is back!
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I'm seeing this on my droid RAZR m as well. Its Verizon, I'm wondering if this is carrier specific. Still trying to to figure out how to make it go away. I don't have FB at all.
Is just an internal fb update.... Facebook 2.3
I saw it earlier and got a lil worry so i looked it up and found this forum!!! so i did what i read... Open download manager and then go to other downloads you should see it here just send it to trash and it fixed it! but then i my sister showed me the same thing and we just waited, finally it downloaded all of it (around 15 MB) and gave her a facebook update screen! saying it was a new version (facebook 2.3) that enables you to mark as spam posts and other stuff!!! NOW i feel like a [email protected] for reading about it and erasing it... hope it comes back on the market as a regular update and that some of you read this and just be patient! :fingers-crossed: GOOD LUCK AND IF SOMEBODY HAS A APK VERSION OF IT ALREADY PLS REPOST! THANX
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casper916 said:
Yep, did the same thing and its fixed, but does anyone know what it was for?
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I did the same! to sadly find out it was an update... now i dont see a way of getting it back
This happened to me too and just deleted the download in progress. I then updated the FB app in the play store. I don't know why FB is trying to update the app without going through the play store. I almost did a hard reset too.
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Thanks for the fix!
I'm still not finding a download manager app.
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I had the same problem . I yesterday externally installed Swype kepboard and this problem seems to have arised since then. Not sure however if i can directly blame this on the Swype. Anyways, one sure thing is that this download is unlikely to be a genuine facebook update & its more likely to be a spyware of some kind.
This is what i did & it seems to have stopped popping up since then. Hold the Download till u get an "App Info" option. Then click disable instead of Force stop. It has'nt restarted for me since then .
Browser
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I'm still not finding a download manager app.
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From your Browser, open the menu and select Download.
BTW, I also couldn't find a link to Download on my Spectrum but I do have it on my Transformer Prime, so maybe something that LG left out.
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Anyways, one sure thing is that this download is unlikely to be a genuine facebook update & its more likely to be a spyware of some kind.
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The scary thing here is it really is a genuine facebook update; see the links I have included below. They are going around the Play store for this and future updates. Which is scary enough on its own because a smart hacker could mimic this in the near future to inject malware. Also, in my case the update failed and now I can't use the version from the play store or this one.
I have complained to Google play about this because they are violation the developer terms; I also provided "feedback" to Facebook! I would recommend others complain to both also to let them know how their customers feel.
For more info:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/15/4...date-build-141046-not-using-google-play-store
http://consumerist.com/2013/03/15/f...ants-to-bypass-google-play-store-for-updates/
http://liliputing.com/2013/03/faceb...-silent-updates-bypassing-the-play-store.html
Does anyone have the new apk of the update??
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Does anyone have the new apk of the update??
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Please let me know if this link doesn't work; I haven't used Google Drive to share openly before.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1t9juigFnwJSUQzcElqd182SzQ/edit?usp=sharing
Today the pad ask me to upgrade software and I did it. Now is 4.4.2 but from now on YouTube is black and white. Do you know anything about this.?
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I'd reboot and see what happens.
Since updating recently, Youtube is a mess.
Sometimes I don't get a video and it crashes the entire system when chromecasting
Thats weird! Is it only the youtube app with issues? If so id try wiping the youtube app data..
leonclement said:
Thats weird! Is it only the youtube app with issues? If so id try wiping the youtube app data..
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Check whether the app is updated or not.
Guys, still black and white on youtube app. On browser is ok.
Is stock 4.4.2, kernel stock 4.4.0, software version v5002d
Any solution?
Go into setting/ apps and clear data and cache of youtube
If that doesn't work, uninstall updates and see if the stock youtube works
Kenif1983 said:
Go into setting/ apps and clear data and cache of youtube
If that doesn't work, uninstall updates and see if the stock youtube works
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I did clear data and data but nothing changed.
What updates to uninstall, this happened after update of stock android to 4.4.2. The pad is not rooted yet. How I can rollback the android firmware?
I had the same problem. Just update yoir Youtube app through the Play Store and it will be fixed.
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I had the same problem. Just update yoir Youtube app through the Play Store and it will be fixed.
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How to update? On play store says that there in not any updates. The pad is not rooted.
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Which version of Youtube do you have?
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Mine is 5.7.41.
Michiel0912 said:
Which version of Youtube do you have?
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Mine is 5.7.41.
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Mine is 5.5.27 but there is not update. I tried to download from play store through browser but it gives error. My tablet is not rooted. Is there any other way to update?
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netswim said:
Mine is 5.5.27 but there is not update. I tried to download from play store through browser but it gives error. My tablet is not rooted. Is there any other way to update?
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Here you go!
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Here you go!
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Thank you very much. I will try it in the evening:good:
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Here you go!
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Color!!!!!thank you!
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Color!!!!!thank you!
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No problem! Don't forget to hit the thanks meter!
It would be nice if we got a debloat list asap. I used the auto debloat on the app but it force close my 's pen app and can't figure it out lol and it also debloat the wrong things into. Thanks ahead of time
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It would be nice if we could get a debloat list asap. I used the auto debloat on the app, but it force closes my S Pen app, and I can't figure it out lol. It also debloats the wrong things. Thanks ahead of time
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What app did you use?
Would love to see a similar list (using package disabler pro and got rid of the obvious nonsense).
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Would love to see a similar list (using package disabler pro and got rid of the obvious nonsense).
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Did you find any apps/.apks that are CheetahMobile/CleanMaster crapware?
I didn't see anything obvious (on my T-Mobile variant),but,I suspect some of the apps with the "Smart" in the app/.apk name may be their garbage.
I'm hoping this crapware,if it's installed,isn't hidden as it is on the AT&T/VZW models of the Note 5.
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Did you find any apps/.apks that are CheetahMobile/CleanMaster crapware?
I didn't see anything obvious (on my T-Mobile variant),but,I suspect some of the apps with the "Smart" in the app/.apk name may be their garbage.
I'm hoping this crapware,if it's installed,isn't hidden as it is on the AT&T/VZW models of the Note 5.
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I pretty much just clicked anything that had the word Verizon in it or didn't look horrible. Lord knows what I managed to screw up doing it but everything is running fine until I get a verified disable "OK" list. I didn't really hunt for any apks or apps in particular -- I figure I'd let the pros do it ;P
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I pretty much just clicked anything that had the word Verizon in it or didn't look horrible. Lord knows what I managed to screw up doing it but everything is running fine until I get a verified disable "OK" list. I didn't really hunt for any apks or apps in particular -- I figure I'd let the pros do it ;P
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Yeah me to and also disabled things I won't use like edge screen ,Samsung browser ,Samsung calender ,update, and others. ...what I know for sure is ok to disable.
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californiarailroader said:
What app did you use?
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I use package disabler pro.
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Came from a nexus 6p and usually use chrome but with ads its unbearable. Been using the Samsung browser with adblock and the samsung browser extension on my desktop chrome to sync bookmarks and its actually great.
I got rid of some verizon apps and amazon stuff mainly.
brentsalinas714 said:
I use package disabler pro.
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Right on, thanks!
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I disabled Verizon Navigator, Slacker by Verizon, NFL Mobile, everything Verizon except for voice mail and my Verizon.
Definitely disable that damn DT Ignite! Loads random apps onto the phone.
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Came from a nexus 6p and usually use chrome but with ads its unbearable. Been using the Samsung browser with adblock and the samsung browser extension on my desktop chrome to sync bookmarks and its actually great.
I got rid of some verizon apps and amazon stuff mainly.
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Adguard.
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Adguard.
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Adguard uses VPN correct? Runs all the time? I wasn't impressed when I used it on my note 4
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Definitely disable that damn DT Ignite! Loads random apps onto the phone.
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Thanks didn't know that and wondered what it was lol.
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SCDroid said:
Adguard uses VPN correct? Runs all the time? I wasn't impressed when I used it on my note 4
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Yeah it's not the greatest but it still works well in chrome. Also you get to use everything that you normally do. I personally set up a button widget to turn the VPN on or off.
FWIW, I have the paid version of adguard and find it works extremely well. With paid version you have https ad blocking, in-app ad blocking, and some other useful features. I forget if these additional features are available on free version. But for non rooted phones, I think this is a great option.
Also, Crystal for Samsung Browser will block ads in their app. I don't really have a need for it but it's there anyway lol.
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It's super important that you reenable all apps that you've disabled with Package Disabler before you do any update. I learned that the hard way once and my phone was all screwy until I did a factory reset.