Hello,
I am getting airpush like ads periodically on my Chroma ROM. Clicking on the opt-out link takes me to tracker.tpc.re page isn't available when trying to opt out.
Tried uninstalling every possible applications that were installed recently and also the ones which might contain ad codes. Tried using Airpush detector and opting out of Airpush.
Let me know your suggestions.
I'm on stock rooted so can't help with Chroma. I run Adaway with the MOAB ad blocker add on. Never seen an ad on anything.
prdog1 said:
I'm on stock rooted so can't help with Chroma. I run Adaway with the MOAB ad blocker add on. Never seen an ad on anything.
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I don't think it has anything to do with the ROM. Guess some app is causing it. I wonder if there was a way to find that app.. Like long press on a notification reveals the App. But this floating AD doesn't do that.
I am also running AdAway and am rooted.
ReSkid said:
I don't think it has anything to do with the ROM. Guess some app is causing it. I wonder if there was a way to find that app.. Like long press on a notification reveals the App. But this floating AD doesn't do that.
I am also running AdAway and am rooted.
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rom toolbox pro has a menu that will tell you what ad host are in apps. its not foolproof and occasionally misses some, but maybe give it a try.
btw, its located under "dns changer" on the first menu screen.
I have had good luck with AdOns Detector. Free I the play store.
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Hi,
this morning I received 2 Push Ads for some battery related stuff.
For some this may not be that surprising, but I've been using the OB for over a year now and have never received a single push ad with the apps I was using. Now, after playing with Zeus as stock replacement for a couple of weeks this happened and I want to eliminate the root cause of this as soon as possible.
I'm currently using Zeus v3. Does any app (or the rom itself) cause Push Ads? How can I find out which app is causing this and turn it off?
Thanks,
jo
Yes,some app can send you push ads
Check a task manager app to see the running background apps (which you've installed)
Try to kill 'em and don't open till you get another push app,then check the task manager app again to conclude which app that send you those ads
Delete or use firewall to block the apps from using the internet
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That's the first time i great about push apps on Zeys ROM. And I use it from when it started.
As suggested put firewall and see which app is the culprit.
Plenty of apps that can do the job on the market.
Me too! Its my 1st time to receive such thing. Im at zeus v3. I thought it was just a txt message. Whats bad is i don't know where it came from. No OS should allow such thing.
I've found the push ad that showed again this morning. It says "Turbo Boost Your Battery?" I'm not allowed to post URLs yet, but if you search for "airpush - Is this red star icon malware? How to get rid of it", you can find a description.
So it seems to be an app that uses AirPush. I've tried the "Addons Detector" app but it did not show me any app that uses AirPush (only those using AdMob, AdSense, AdMarvel, MOcean,Millenial, MobClix, AdWhirl, or InMob).
Is AirPush the only ad network that uses push notifications?
Since I haven't installed that many apps since I installed the zeus, it can't be that hard to find out which one it is. I froze the apps "BetterBatteryStats" and "BatteryCalibration" with Titanium Backup now since they are apps that I did not have installed prior to zeus and will see whether the push ads reappear.
Next in line will be "ConverterPro", "FasterFix", "GPS Status", "Rom Manager", and "System Toolbox Free".
Jo
yeah me too every single day but it written: "Download Free Burn The Rope App... blablabla..."
I dont know is it from zeus or app from market that I've installed... oh and again... I use GPS Status too... or maybe the ad. from GPS Status app?
Install this app
Do a scan
Then uninstall the app with airpush
nikpik, thanks for the tip. AirPush Detector did in fact find an AirPush app that the other app ("Addons Detector") did not detect.
It found "System Toolbox Free" to be the culprit, which I installed after Zeus in order to fix some GPS related stuff if i remember correctly. I haven't been using it for quite a while now, but it had some updates recently that probably included this great feature.
and gone it is...
I installed almost all airpush detectors and all failed to detect it.
The add is "king fighter II"
not from the rom.... ive not encountered any at all
also not from the "battery calibration" thats included in zeus im pretty sure about that....
try freezing and unfreezing the apps that youve recently installed one by one if detector apps fail to locate.... =)
for me it was a wallpaper hd app...airpush helped me...thx
Next time do not slander Zeus rom whether you are not sure what's the source of the ads. It's misleading and mudslinging.
This rom is the best rom for our phone(in my opinion), it's a way better than lg stock rom.
you can also use adFree (need rooted phone) a free program from market that can disable all ads on your phone. i use it and i don't see any ads on any of the free programs i have installed.
hopefully somebody can help me with this problem..
since last week or so i constantly get advertisements on my phone.
almost every time i open an app i first get an advertisement screen, you can skip this and continue opening the app but it's offcourse very anoying.
how to locate the sourche of this problem and how to get rid of it?
thanks in advance..
Pollie81 said:
hopefully somebody can help me with this problem..
since last week or so i constantly get advertisements on my phone.
almost every time i open an app i first get an advertisement screen, you can skip this and continue opening the app but it's offcourse very anoying.
how to locate the sourche of this problem and how to get rid of it?
thanks in advance..
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Are you running adfree or another ad-blocker?
I'd look at the Play Store for the apps you've installed. Look at the one-star reviews and see who *****ing about ads in the app.
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Are you running adfree or another ad-blocker?
I'd look at the Play Store for the apps you've installed. Look at the one-star reviews and see who *****ing about ads in the app.
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no i'm not running any app blockers, i will look in playstore for a good one.
Pollie81 said:
no i'm not running any app blockers, i will look in playstore for a good one.
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You won't find one in the Play Store; Google did a "house cleaning" and pulled all of the ad blockers.
I'd recommend adfree at:
http://adfree.bigtincan.com/index.php
You'll have to manually install it, copying it to /system/apps, and ensure the permissions are set to 644 (rw, r, r).
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You won't find one in the Play Store; Google did a "house cleaning" and pulled all of the ad blockers.
I'd recommend adfree at:
http://adfree.bigtincan.com/index.php
You'll have to manually install it, copying it to /system/apps, and ensure the permissions are set to 644 (rw, r, r).
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i just tried two ad detectors(appbrain ad detector and trustgo ad detector) but they couldn't find any..
i'll look into your adfree app, thanks!
This annoying ads come from apps downloaded from untrusted sites or cracked apps, most of them are adware who pretend to offers you free apps when it really are virus.
I've recently been using an app called ice box. I removed greenify and wakelocks. Been using this app solo with great success. Letting my Nexus 6 homies know about it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.catchingnow.icebox
Give it a try, let me know what you think. Hit thanks
personally its far too simple, there are more advanced tools out there if you have root.
Simple is not a bad thing if it does everything a more complex app does.
I use this functionality in Titanium Backup. It can deal with system apps in several ways
martinez5241 said:
I've recently been using an app called ice box. I removed greenify and wakelocks. Been using this app solo with great success. Letting my Nexus 6 homies know about it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.catchingnow.icebox
Give it a try, let me know what you think. Hit thanks
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I agree 100%
I've tried Servicely, Amplify, Greenify, and Boot Manager (the last three with Xposed integration) and have removed all of them.
Ice Box beats them all hands down in ease of setup, ease of use and, most importantly, it actually keeps unruly apps from restarting themselves.
Somehow they would always spring back up when using Greenify and the others and I would always see them in the "Battery" screen as have used some % of my battery even though they weren't used.
:good::good::good: for Ice Box!
Give it a try, the free version can deal with 15 apps and is definitely worth a look.
I used icebox for a while too and thought it was the solution to all my life's problems but had to find a different solution after I realized that app keeps a constant connection to some mysterious address in China and sends data each time anything happens on your phone
ElwOOd_CbGp said:
I used icebox for a while too and thought it was the solution to all my life's problems but had to find a different solution after I realized that app keeps a constant connection to some mysterious address in China and sends data each time anything happens on your phone
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Is that really happens? What's your source? I can't find anything on Google regarding this...
AFWall logs, NetworkConnections app, traceroute, google play store developer info. Trust me. I wouldn't say anything if it wasn't true. I really...really liked the app. It may be nothing but app analytics but I could never get the dev to reply and the address provided on google play appeared to be bogus when I looked for it in Maps...which I did report to google along with my firewall logs. Maybe its fixed. I get that developers make better results when they get feedback but I don't like unnecessary connections especially ones without an off switch. The amount of data sent appeared to be miniscule but very constant even when the app wasn't in use. I end up making my own using Everywhere Launcher + Secure Settings + Macrodroid. Secure Settings does the same thing but appears to be abandoned and the licencing used for it doesn't seem to be affected by being blocked from the internet.
How do I see which apps are always running? Im afraid that I'll freeze a app and it'll break my phone lol..
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I wanted to know if you guys know any apks for malware or antivirus. I have been getting a lot of pop ups. I installed kapersky and malware bytes but they both do anything.
pop ups when browsing and or apps? Most likely you'll need ad blocking software and or browser extension.
raul6 said:
pop ups when browsing and or apps? Most likely you'll need ad blocking software and or browser extension.
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It seems to be ad pop ups. I would be using an app such as whatsapp or watching a video through my gallery and the add just pops up out nowhere. it has never done that before.
If you get apps from places that are not "trusted sources" many of them have these pop up ads.
Go through and we which apps have Device Admin, Accessibility, and Draw Over Other Apps permissions
Are you using stock Gallery or another app?
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Personally, I do not use any antivirus on my phone. I tried some of them before but finally gave up due to the large consumption to the phone memory which results into a slowdown of system and a faster drain of power. Plus, the major drawbacks of these free AV, like Avira, Kapersky, Bitdefender and more in Top 5 Free Antivirus in 2018, are the ads and popups bundled with them. They keep sending annoying ads and pop-ups during running, and even worse, sometimes they downloaded and installed things automatically.
Thus, if you download apps from playstore, surf the safe websites and connect to a clean outside device, do not bother to install a AV on your phone.
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It seems to be ad pop ups. I would be using an app such as whatsapp or watching a video through my gallery and the add just pops up out nowhere. it has never done that before.
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It's one of your apps... You'll have to go through the ones you installed recently and uninstall the culprit.
juanfernandez77 said:
It seems to be ad pop ups. I would be using an app such as whatsapp or watching a video through my gallery and the add just pops up out nowhere. it has never done that before.
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so l read this thread awhile back and thought nothing of it ............ until now!
I have "developed" the same Issue! and yes Its definitely an app that has access to "appear on top" and its under Apps> special Access> apps that can appear on top! Now for me to identify the culprit......? only issue though is if you have this issue your most likely the kind of user who experiments and installs several apps at once.... so here goes my trial by elimination process?
Hi had this problem.
I deleted the free APK that I had installed but I was still getting pop ups.
You need to go to settings / apps and right at the end of the list there was a app with no name or app logo.
Deleted it, problem solved.
I tried virus scan apps and nothing found it.
Hope this helps
clax6 said:
Hi had this problem.
I deleted the free APK that I had installed but I was still getting pop ups.
You need to go to settings / apps and right at the end of the list there was a app with no name or app logo.
Deleted it, problem solved.
I tried virus scan apps and nothing found it.
Hope this helps
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Thanks for the advice! I deleted all the apps I installed in the past week and still no success until your post! Issue was starting to really bug me cos I kinda hate the idea that I dont have control over a device I paid for....lol
For anyone in the same position, see attached images if it helps and yes I installed a dodgy APK editor which i deleted but didn't notice this culprit App in the app list!
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Thanks for the advice! I deleted all the apps I installed in the past week and still no success until your post! Issue was starting to really bug me cos I kinda hate the idea that I dont have control over a device I paid for....lol
For anyone in the same position, see attached images if it helps and yes I installed a dodgy APK editor which i deleted but didn't notice this culprit App in the app list!
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Yeah that's exactly what I saw on my list.
No AV will block an ad. They block known, to them, malware apks. Use something like Addons Detector from G Play store and/or Nice catch from S Galaxy store to list all the apks that have ads modules and then remove those you installed last or don't recognise or need.
Run Malwarebytes.
My cousin bought new Galaxy 10 and i don't know how she did that but she has some adds popping up from time to time. I have tried to find if there is an weird app installed but couldn't find one. What do you suggest to do?
She's definitely installed some dodgy app that has caused it. IN the second screenshot, I can see a RAM cleaner. That's garbage, and they are often bundled with ads. Get rid of that. Also the "Hot apps" one. Get rid of that too. ANything that's not a legit apps such as Facebook, Whatsapp etc, uninstall it, and you'll find the ads will be gone,
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She's definitely installed some dodgy app that has caused it. IN the second screenshot, I can see a RAM cleaner. That's garbage, and they are often bundled with ads. Get rid of that. Also the "Hot apps" one. Get rid of that too. ANything that's not a legit apps such as Facebook, Whatsapp etc, uninstall it, and you'll find the ads will be gone,
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Thats the thing, i thought that too but i didn't find any on the phone apps library. When you hit on Hot apps it just take you to the play store to download the app.
Install "Nice catch" from Samsung's Good Luck. Should give you all the info you need to find out what is doing that.
Outbreak444 said:
Install "Nice catch" from Samsung's Good Luck. Should give you all the info you need to find out what is doing that.
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OK i have finally found this app. Its called Cool LED Caller Screen and when i entered to accounts in settings i saw it there.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.color.call.flash.colorphone.theme.coolled&hl=en_US
Appwatch on play store should help you find the culprit.
I just fixed that problem on the wife's phone with the free Malwarebytes app from Play Store.
Definitely some malware app installed.