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Hey all!
I haven't had much to post about my Galaxy SIII (Sprint) before till recently.
Lately I have noticed that the screen locks up. Doesn't really seem to correlate with what I am doing, but it just freezes. Sometimes I get a black screen if I start an app and sometimes it is when I pull down the notifications screen. I have seen this described before but no real suggestions on how to fix my device from freezing several times a day.
Today, The phone icon in my lower tray keeps disappearing.
Also, the phone dialed itself (the last number I called) and froze so I couldn't hang up the call! I had to do a battery pull!
Not sure what is going on with my phone, but it is time to call in the experts.
Could it be that I have some sort of malware? Is there even malware for androids? Do any of the programs work to remove it??
Any suggestions would be really appreciated!
Thanks all
Mike
AVG from Google Play works very well, and it's free, and it doesn't run in the background if you set it up that way. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...e&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=google+play+avg
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mikeinstlouis said:
Hey all!
I haven't had much to post about my Galaxy SIII (Sprint) before till recently.
Lately I have noticed that the screen locks up. Doesn't really seem to correlate with what I am doing, but it just freezes. Sometimes I get a black screen if I start an app and sometimes it is when I pull down the notifications screen. I have seen this described before but no real suggestions on how to fix my device from freezing several times a day.
Today, The phone icon in my lower tray keeps disappearing.
Also, the phone dialed itself (the last number I called) and froze so I couldn't hang up the call! I had to do a battery pull!
Not sure what is going on with my phone, but it is time to call in the experts.
Could it be that I have some sort of malware? Is there even malware for androids? Do any of the programs work to remove it??
Any suggestions would be really appreciated!
Thanks all
Mike
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Are you on a custom ROM, or rooted, do you have custom recovery if so which one? Can't really help you by what you posted. Unless you are downloading 3rd party apps that aren't from the play store its probably not malware. Here is a malware app to run though https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout
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GiantJay said:
Are you on a custom ROM, or rooted, do you have custom recovery if so which one? Can't really help you by what you posted. Unless you are downloading 3rd party apps that aren't from the play store its probably not malware. Here is a malware app to run though https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout
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Yeah. +1 on this 100%. Google screens the majority of apps and they're constantly on the look out to make sure apps arent messing with your phone in a way that they shouldn't.
I've said this many times in many threads and I will say it again here.
The best anti-virus is an observant end-user. Just watch what apps you install and what permissions they ask for (for example a game app doesnt need access to your contacts) and you will be good.
So wait, I shouldn't install this file I found off of Google? It's filename is: "totally_not_a_virus.apk"
Sounds legit to me!
But yeah, to OP, it sounds like you might want to do a clean flash of your room and see if that helps.
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Recently rooted my tab and while following a list of bloatware to freeze, I have frozen this app that I'm unsure of the name that I actually make use of this feature.
It's the one when headphones are plugged in, the apps that associated with headphones will be shown in the notification page.
Anyone know which is it?
bruiselee said:
Recently rooted my tab and while following a list of bloatware to freeze, I have frozen this app that I'm unsure of the name that I actually make use of this feature.
It's the one when headphones are plugged in, the apps that associated with headphones will be shown in the notification page.
Anyone know which is it?
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Have you tried going to settings/display/notification panel and activate or turn on recommended apps?
filchi756 said:
Have you tried going to settings/display/notification panel and activate or turn on recommended apps?
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Yeah it is on.
Was working till I played with freezing those bloatware, but it seems you know what feature I'm talking about, do you know which app does this?
Im almost positive its Sapamonitor
I think it is PageBuddyNotiSvc.
Thanks it is the page buddy
bruiselee said:
Yeah it is on.
Was working till I played with freezing those bloatware, but it seems you know what feature I'm talking about, do you know which app does this?
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Ah! you already fix your problem so no need for me to answer.Glad someone help you.
I'd like to get notifications on my watch, ie. text, incoming phone calls, voice mails, Pandora, etc. but the Google Now cards really get on my nerves. I don't want steps, time to work, stocks, etc. showing up on my watch when I don't need them. It partially blocks my watch-face. I would much rather just have my watch-face only be interrupted for notifications and not Google Now. I would like to be able to see steps, time to work etc. only if I ask for it by ie. swiping down, or up.
How can I turn Google Now off??? Can I hide the Google Now cards unless I swipe??? :cyclops:
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jmed999 said:
I'd like to get notifications on my watch, ie. text, incoming phone calls, voice mails, Pandora, etc. but the Google Now cards really get on my nerves. I don't want steps, time to work, stocks, etc. showing up on my watch when I don't need them. It partially blocks my watch-face. I would much rather just have my watch-face only be interrupted for notifications and not Google Now. I would like to be able to see steps, time to work etc. only if I ask for it by ie. swiping down, or up.
How can I turn Google Now off??? Can I hide the Google Now cards unless I swipe??? :cyclops:
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Swipe down and mute it
GTiceman said:
Swipe down and mute it
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That will stop all notifications which isn't what I'm trying to do.
jmed999 said:
That will stop all notifications which isn't what I'm trying to do.
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Gotcha, so you are asking for the same thing we all are, or at least 90% of us. I haven't found a way to have the cards stay hidden and not block the face without muting or swiping away.
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Gotcha, so you are asking for the same thing we all are, or at least 90% of us. I haven't found a way to have the cards stay hidden and not block the face without muting or swiping away.
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Oh, ok. Thanks for the reply!
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Oh, ok. Thanks for the reply!
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According to this article from Google (https://support.google.com/androidwear/answer/6056843?hl=en) you can already do exactly what you're looking for. All you need to do is turn off Google Now on your phone
Assuming that you like Google Now, then I don't think it's possible yet.
I did this exact thing. I turned off Google Now on my HTC One M8 and it stayed off my watch. Everything is still fully functional, i just dont get unwanted cards like steps, minutes to home, weather etc.
Im sure it saves a ton of battery too.
I don't really use Google now note I will also be turning it off. Hope it does save battery. So if we turn it off, since it doesn't count steps, that should turn the pedometer off?
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Did you notice a battery improvement after disabling google now?
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yeah google now is annoying, i only go to it when i want to on my phone. How do you dismiss google now on the moto 360 without cycling through all the cards?
I guess I'm the opposite how do u get Google now cards on the watch?
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Eric1985 said:
I guess I'm the opposite how do u get Google now cards on the watch?
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lol make sure you have google now on your phone enabled. It should show cards by default
If you go into:
Google Now 'settings' > Customize > Everything Else > ...
You will see multiple cards that you can disable, for instance I don't need to see weather updates each time I wake the screen -- I live in southern California. Just choose "No" for anything weather related, etc.. This applies to many things without completely disabling Google Now.
So my Location Service keeps turning off after the phone sits idle for a while. I turned off connection optimizer and I still have this problem. Is there some setting somewhere doing this? Anyone else having this issue. My wife's note 4 doesn't do it.
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slickdaddy96 said:
So my Location Service keeps turning off after the phone sits idle for a while. I turned off connection optimizer and I still have this problem. Is there some setting somewhere doing this? Anyone else having this issue. My wife's note 4 doesn't do it.
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It should turn off if nothing is needing it. Then turn on when an app request your location. It is now supposed to be an on demand function to save on the battery.
Problem is sometimes it doesn't turn back on and I get an annoying nagging pop-up when accessing something that needs it.
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slickdaddy96 said:
Problem is sometimes it doesn't turn back on and I get an annoying nagging pop-up when accessing something that needs it.
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+1 Very, very annoying, and it interferes with Weather apps and Weather watchfaces for Android Wear.
hankbear said:
+1 Very, very annoying, and it interferes with Weather apps and Weather watchfaces for Android Wear.
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My wife's Note 4 has this issue. I doubt there's anything simple that can fix it since anything that forces the GPS to stay on (against the wishes of the phone) will surely drain the phone to death.
HOWEVER, has anyone noticed if the update to Lollipop helped fix this issue? Did they make the location setting idle and restart properly?
I had this problem (fully stock) post-lollipop as well. I spent a couple of weeks messing with it and never found the root cause or a fix.
A full wipe/factory restore fixed it for me.
Good luck.
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Two Verizon Note 8s in this house. Neither one is handling notifications well. We're coming from two Note 4s that never had any issues with notifications.
Issues:
1. I have twitter, facebook, gmail installed and am using the Verizon messenger app. My phone generally makes sounds when I get a notification, but the notification light only blinks every once in a while. I don't use AOD, so I rely on the notification light to tell me when I have notifications. There have been times when my phone has been idle for an hour or two where I don't get notifications until I turn on the screen.
2. Wife's phone. She gets a lot more notifications than I do. She is having problems with notifications not coming in after the phone sits idle for a few hours. Once the phone screen is turned back on, all of the notifications come rushing in and she gets a ton of alert sounds in a row.
I have not been able to figure out what's going on with this. I checked to make sure that do not disturb is turned off. Neither one of us use it.
Is this a software issue, or something that we're not doing correctly? On Note 4, notifications just worked. There wasn't anything special needed.
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Two Verizon Note 8s in this house. Neither one is handling notifications well. We're coming from two Note 4s that never had any issues with notifications.
Issues:
1. I have twitter, facebook, gmail installed and am using the Verizon messenger app. My phone generally makes sounds when I get a notification, but the notification light only blinks every once in a while. I don't use AOD, so I rely on the notification light to tell me when I have notifications. There have been times when my phone has been idle for an hour or two where I don't get notifications until I turn on the screen.
2. Wife's phone. She gets a lot more notifications than I do. She is having problems with notifications not coming in after the phone sits idle for a few hours. Once the phone screen is turned back on, all of the notifications come rushing in and she gets a ton of alert sounds in a row.
I have not been able to figure out what's going on with this. I checked to make sure that do not disturb is turned off. Neither one of us use it.
Is this a software issue, or something that we're not doing correctly? On Note 4, notifications just worked. There wasn't anything special needed.
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It may be a software issue. this affects the S8/S8+ also. More and more reports on notifications not coming through especially text.
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So, if it is on the S8/S8+, then it's unlikely that they'll ever do anything useful to fix it?
Notifications are the one thing that I hate about this phone. They're completely unreliable and I have to turn on my phone to check and make sure that I didn't have anything come in. It's the one thing that makes me miss my Note 4.
I have this problem since Nougat on all my devices. For me it was the power saving features, forgot exactly which one, but it basically shut down the apps totally until I woke the phone up.
Just an edit to my post. When I pickup or awake the device all my notifications come through at once , is that what you are talking about ?
If you find a solution let me know.
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I have this problem since Nougat on all my devices. For me it was the power saving features, forgot exactly which one, but it basically shut down the apps totally until I woke the phone up.
Just an edit to my post. When I pickup or awake the device all my notifications come through at once , is that what you are talking about ?
If you find a solution let me know.
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Yes. In my case, it is not always picking up notifications for GMail. I tried to add GMail to the list of unmonitored apps, and it was not available. I'm not sure what else I can do.
usmaak said:
Yes. In my case, it is not always picking up notifications for GMail. I tried to add GMail to the list of unmonitored apps, and it was not available. I'm not sure what else I can do.
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Hello mate, it happens to my Galaxy tab s2 on Android 7 often. As soon as I open it out of standby all telegram messages pop over. Weird thing is , it doesn't always behave that way as I can hear my Telegram and what's app notifications on that sometimes when using same account etc on the Note 8.
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Limeybastard said:
Hello mate, it happens to my Galaxy tab s2 on Android 7 often. As soon as I open it out of standby all telegram messages pop over. Weird thing is , it doesn't always behave that way as I can hear my Telegram and what's app notifications on that sometimes when using same account etc on the Note 8.
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Well, it's annoying as hell. My Note 4 never did this. I could always rely on getting my notifications.
Makes me wonder if I should use the regular email app for Gmail, and then dump the GMail app.
usmaak said:
Well, it's annoying as hell. My Note 4 never did this. I could always rely on getting my notifications.
Makes me wonder if I should use the regular email app for Gmail, and then dump the GMail app.
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Luckily for me the Gmail account isn't my primary email address. Have you whitelisted some apps from power saving to see if it changes the notification behavior?
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Limeybastard said:
Luckily for me the Gmail account isn't my primary email address. Have you whitelisted some apps from power saving to see if it changes the notification behavior?
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I tried to add GMail to the list of unmonitored apps, but it did not show up in the list of options for whatever reason.
If you use Gmail s
There is a setting to notify all mail you may need to turn on.
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usmaak said:
I tried to add GMail to the list of unmonitored apps, but it did not show up in the list of options for whatever reason.
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Probably except as it's a built in Google app.
I guess that leaves you with the option of what you mentioned earlier. Add the Gmail account to the existing email app. Bummer.
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Tidbits said:
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There is a setting to notify all mail you may need to turn on.
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It's on. It notifies sometimes, but if the phone has been in standby for a while, it stops. It definitely seems like a doze issue.
Same problems here
Notifications hit or miss. I have disabled all the power saving options, disabled all the restrictions on the individual apps, disabled all the data restrictions on the apps. Everything I could think of. Once the phone has been sitting for about 10 minutes on the desk, it seems to just go to sleep. Nothing comes through until I pick it up and start doing something with it. Then the notifications all seem to come in at once. This seems to hold true for any messaging app, email, etc. This is a horrible problem.
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She is having problems with notifications not coming in after the phone sits idle for a few hours. Once the phone screen is turned back on, all of the notifications come rushing in and she gets a ton of alert sounds in a row.
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My wife is having the same issue, but on a Sprint Note 8. When she opens her phone in the morning she get's a bunch of notifications pouring in from several different apps. So since y'all are VZW and we're Sprint it has to be specific to the phone and not the network. this has me worried because it's text messages and everything if she hasn't touched the phone in an hour or more.
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Same problem here.
Note 8 Germany DBT - no branding.
Since last week notifications wont come through when the device is idling. I have paired it with a Garmin Fenix 5x and set it to pass the important notifications via Smart Notifications to the watch.
This no longer works and I missed some important notifications. I have to change my behaviour to regularly check my phone and this is very annoying!
Stock firmware with latest patches.