i am using my droid bionic, recently verzion decided that it was a good idea to go and give ads as notification. it started off about 2-3 times a week, but now i am getting those things almost every hour. it is super super annoying because i keep thinking i got an email from work. is there any way to get rid of that???
Download air-push detector or add-on detector. You have installed an app that uses air-push ads.
ty timmy, guess a game i downloaded a while that sucked and i forgot to uninstall it. semed to have gotten rid of it now, anyway. is there anything else i should do?
No, you should be good
Most annoying type of ad there is, and sometimes its hard to tell which app has it included without getting an app that detects it.
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I really like the chromecast so far, but the android app is killing me (well my phone).
Ever since I installed the Chromecast app on my Galaxy S4 My battery life is horrible. When I look at the battery stats Chromcast is always the highest by far (even more than screen). It apparently doesn't matter if I force close it either. I tried reinstalling it and that didn't help either. Unfortunately I can't keep this on my phone! Is anyone else seeing this?
I'm seeing the same thing, but my drain is not coming from the Chromecast app, but rather from Google Services.
If you're rooted you could try Greenify from the Play store, it'll identify background apps(and their memory usage) and you can select & disable them until you actually start it.
Play store link:
http://goo.gl/LSsNw
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Thanks, I will take a look at it.:good:
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I'm seeing the same thing, but my drain is not coming from the Chromecast app, but rather from Google Services.
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Yea its been a problem on the S4, now I turn it off when I can
The app doesn't do anything aside from getting it initially setup to connect to your wifi.
Are you saying its automatically starting up the app even after you've killed it the first time?
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The app doesn't do anything aside from getting it initially setup to connect to your wifi.
Are you saying its automatically starting up the app even after you've killed it the first time?
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Yes, it is very odd. The only other thing I can think of is that the battery status app (stock) is misreporting the app info and something else is killing my battery and chromecast app is being blamed ... I will try to dig around a bit more and see whats going on.
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Ok yall, so I haven't installed anything on my phone yet (just got it today), just let the phone run all the app updates that come with the phone. I keep getting the Prevention Information Warning on every restart.
"An application has been forced to stop for an unauthorised attempt to access system in your device. It may be solved by the policy update service."
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I've searched this but have not come across someone with a non-rooted brand new phone phone with these issues. What do do next?
Getting similar message every several hours on my note 3, non-rooted stock...
Getting this message as well. I've had this phone since launch, messages just started yesterday. Only app I've installed is bit strips.
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I'm wondering if this was done by some sort of backdoor update in an app from Samsung. Seems I only get it when my phone connects to a wifi router
Was getting it for 2 days every several hours but seems stopped today. Having phone since Oct 2nd, started 3 days ago
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I was getting the same messages. I had to freeze all the five Knox apps using titanium backup, reboot the phone, install titanium restore fixer app, and use titanium fixer every time I restored an app or data using titanium backup. This solved it for me.
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Just a contrasting data point: I've had my N3 for a week, stock unrooted, dozens of apps installed, all apps up-to-date, and I have never encountered this error message. (My device is encrypted, if that matters.)
I started getting this today, too.
Stock everything on my Note 3.
What is so infuriating about this, is that it doesn't tell you which app it is blocking. What in the hell is the point of blocking something if you're not going to even tell me what the potential threat was?!
my 2 cents
I started getting this error after Friday, 10-25 9no system updates I am aware of, stock/un-rooted) I had uninstalled almost all 3rd party apps and just decided to wipe and install from a clean base (that stopped the error, I have installed my must have apps and still good) I would really like to know what was causing this error.
Cheers,
BR
I have also been receiving this error message. Has been roughly 8-10 days now. Seems it appears every time I connect to wifi. (I use juice defender. Every screen unlock the notification pops up when connectivity is re-enabled) I'm stock/unrooted with the same apps I used on my note 2. (Fresh download no titanium restores) I have avg pro installed and it does not detect any errors/viruses/suspicious content. I'm debating factory resetting as well, but for my own curiosity would like to know what the cause of this message is rather then resetting everything and awaiting it to happen again.
Has anybody have any ideas on what's going on?
Thanks,
John
Prevention Information Notification
Getting a similar message every several hours on my note 3.
How do we know which application is causing this warning.
Confimed that this annoying message appears on mine as well
It's got to be in Settings>General>Security somewhere, but I can't seem to pinpoint it either.
It's completely stock. I did NOT mess around with anything - root, sim unlock, bootloader, titanium backup (which requires root). All apps are downloaded via google store. Nothing seems unusual. I didn't install any apk that requires "unknown sources" checked.
Most settings are default. I only disable autoupdate, location services, and bluetooth to improve battery life.
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It's got to be in Settings>General>Security somewhere, but I can't seem to pinpoint it either.
It's completely stock. I did NOT mess around with anything - root, sim unlock, bootloader, titanium backup (which requires root). All apps are downloaded via google store. Nothing seems unusual. I didn't install any apk that requires "unknown sources" checked.
Most settings are default. I only disable autoupdate, location services, and bluetooth to improve battery life.
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Same here, I did not play with roots nor anything else, just plain regular stuff and settings and downloading from the Google store and Samsung store. The message keeps popping up.
I googled the problem and don't seem to find a solution yet.
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I downloaded the [APP] Notification History with the hope that it will record which application is causing this annoying warning.
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I downloaded the [APP] Notification History with the hope that it will record which application is causing this annoying warning.
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Did that reveal anything?
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Did that reveal anything?
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Not yet, I will post if I get any results.
Just started getting this today. Seems like when connected to wifi this pops up.
Also I just noticed that my phone started to not go to deepsleep very well. This started two days ago. I'm wondering if this warning notification is the causing my phone to not go to deepsleep.
Thankfully so far, I am not getting this, but I am rooted, it seams everyone listed here said they are unrooted, maybe root the device, see if it changes anything.
I am rooted and am getting the message. Also am now getting horrible battery life ever since getting the notifications.
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Since I installed [APP] Notification History few hours ago and I haven't seen the Prevention Information Warning yet, but it seems as if this app is preventing that warning because I hear a notification sound every couple of hours almost but nothing is showing in the status bar or in the list of the Notification History. Strange issue!
Just got my Dev edition. Upgraded to 4.4.2 and after a while to 4.4.3
All seemed fine until i noticed that Google play books used 40% of the battery... Weird since i opened it, scrolled the list and closed... It wasn't even in the recent app list...
I killed it and added to the disable list (i use fbreader anyway)... Now today (second day with phone) the same happened with YouTube...
It used 30% of the battery. I watched a10s clip... App info said 10s foreground... 30 min background... And again, it wasn't even on the recent app list to be closed. Just went to apps and force closed.
Now I'm worried that this is a thing with everything Google (which honestly i can disable all but gmail and maps) or the OS...
Anyone getting the same? I'm not sure what to search for to find similar threads...
I'm guessing this is either common or i have a ducked device since i got it twice for the 2 days i have it...
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Also can't find an edit button...
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Ugh that's really weird. If you're rooted it will be a lot easier to fix but for now reboot the phone and use it like that for another day. Sometimes the OS and apps need time to settle. For example I did a fresh flash two days ago and my Google services had a 1 hour and 13 minute wakelock yesterday where as today it's behaving very well. But YouTube doing that is weird. Never auto update your apps as 85% of updates are crap across the board. Try going to apps under settings and click uninstall updates for YouTube. This should revert YouTube to the version that came with 4.4.3, unless that's already the latest. But yeah for now try and "tickle" YouTube by logging out, wiping cache and data for it under settings/apps and log back in, see if it starts behaving. I'll monitor this thread to try and help.
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Thanks. I did all that yesterday and rebooted. So far everything seems fine. So i think you're spot on. Tho it is a bad sign to have those bugs
The phone did lock up twice on me after that.
Once playing webm on chrome. But i just disabled it a while later. Firefox beta ftw! ( ff is the Only reason i have up my nexus one)
Another time when i inserted the Sim with the phone on and right away unlocked the slider... It froze mid slider animation. Think i hit some race condition there. Hopefully i won't be inserting sim cards all the time...
Overall i think i will be able to live with that phone. Now only if i could use nfc unlock with my assine employer email policy...
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It may have happened again. It's reporting a widget (simple calendar) as using 15min of cpu with 4min of foreground time. I had opened its setting screen 15 min ago. After i liked it from the recent task list it stopped counting new cpu time. But it's still showing as the top battery user for now.
Since that setting screen has ads, i will just write this off as a sleazy ad library for now.
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I've always monitored which apps/processes were using my battery, but only recently I've noticed a new process called "videoserv" that has been using a fair percentage of my battery. What is this, exactly, and how did it get here? Again, I've never had this process show up on my device until this past week and I have never had this process show up on any of my other phones. I clicked on it to see more details, and the included packages say "Shell" and "Gear VR Shell"; I don't own or use a Samsung Gear VR...
Any thoughts? I'm currently running Infamous Rom v.2.8 with great battery life-- just wondering what this [unnecessary?] process is, and if it's any sort of malware/virus I should be worried about. Thanks!
Find it and delete it.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 + BAD ASS GEAR S
Ok, thanks! Apparently it's under com.samsung.android.hmt.vrsvc & com.samsung.android.hmt.vrshell, so I froze both packages. I'll see how my battery report is tomorrow.
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Ok, thanks! Apparently it's under com.samsung.android.hmt.vrsvc & com.samsung.android.hmt.vrshell, so I froze both packages. I'll see how my battery report is tomorrow.
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You need to see what app downloaded it. Maybe Samsung app. I deleted it cause it did what it wanted when it wanted
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I froze pretty much every unnecessary Samsung app/process (I can't delete some of the apps, so I just resort to freezing them). However, videoserv still shows up on my battery list....I have no idea what is causing it if it isn't the Gear VR Service/Shell.
I have gear vr, all aculus apps installed and videoserv doesnt show in my battery stats
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You need an app to tell you what process it uses. Or find it in app manager and look at permission
BAD ASS NOTE 4 + BAD ASS GEAR S
I think you can trust almost any app with an eyeball icon.
I figured out which app was causing this-- it's actually the mobile app for Usertesting...Normally, it requires this service if I am taking a test/study for them, because it records the screen on my phone. I'm not sure why it would continue to run in the background, though. Thus, I've frozen Usertesting & now it doesn't show up on my battery stats. Getting better battery life now-- down to only 50% at the end of my day
Has anyone else noticed a reduced ability of the voice to text capability, that it can no longer translate long phrases? I've also noticed that it often connects on the first try during a search, but quickly cancels itself, needing a second try to get it right.
That happened before the update to me it SUCKED.. TRY resetting voice cleaning cache and rebooting once or twice
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That happened before the update to me it SUCKED.. TRY resetting voice cleaning cache and rebooting once or twice
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Ok, crud, not finding the specific app. What the heck am I supposed to look for?!?
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Update, I was gonna do a factory reset after an update/backup, and the Turbo went through the app updating thing like when switching to ART. When I took LP, it did it, but I guess not 100%. As right now, all searches go through on the first try. I WAS thinking of re-ARTing the Turbo in the first place, but had no knowledge how to force it. If someone knows how, PLZ post!
Ok, looks like the was some kind of conflict with Better Keyboard 8's voice-to-text. A quick round trip to safe mode seems to have ironed things out for now.
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