I have this problem with both Galaxy S and S2. Every now and then I see a notification telling me "Your last call cost xxx" - claiming I made a call that cost me something, when I have made no calls at all. It happens often when I make a data connection or disconnection, and when all I do is turn on the screen from sleep. Has anyone had this problem? I experienced the problem with AT&T in the US as well as one of the operators in Nigeria (where I spend most of my time). But it seems it has nothing to do with the operator, or does it?
Nope. If you have rooted phone, you can go to Market, bownload small app: Permissions Denied, and using it, look closely which app is able to use phone... it is likely that you have downloaded game or app with some trojan in it, especially if it was cracked.
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Nope. If you have rooted phone, you can go to Market, bownload small app: Permissions Denied, and using it, look closely which app is able to use phone... it is likely that you have downloaded game or app with some trojan in it, especially if it was cracked.
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This was my first thought as well. Find out which Apps can make calls, and single them out 'til you find the culprit. It's the only thing that comes to mind for me.
If this is something "smart" it may survive uninstall...
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If this is something "smart" it may survive uninstall...
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I doubt it. Even if it could, you could freeze it and then uninstall it with Titanium Backup, manually delete it and it's components, remove it via ADB, etc.
Anything that you installed recently, (or even updated) check the comments for "malware" from other users in the market...
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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 unrooted my Z1 for several reasons, but for the time being, mainly was so I could use an app called power schedule. When I set a time to turn off, the app works fine, but a permission pop up comes up which stops my phone turning off automatically. Is there anyway to turn off this pop up off or grant permission to allow the app to function? (I unrooted using vroot)
Thanks
I managed to swap superuser for SuperSU and the problem is solved.
Wow, I you did that on an unrooted device, please tell me how
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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?!
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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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