[Q] Unwanted app appearing in My Apps - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

A random app just appeared in My Apps in the Android Market app.
There is no uninstall button, nor can I find it in /system/app or /data/app. It does not appear in Titanium Backup either.
It is called karoges, by cloudnine.
I am worried if this is some kind of malware. Has anyone seen this?
Running 2.3.6 Gingerbread on Samsung Galaxy S 4G. Valhalla Final ROM.

If I were you I would wipe data/factory reset or even Odin.
Definitely malware...

This is strange but I have the same issue with 3 apps. The first is called karoges, the second one Lovely Sky Live Wallpaper and the third is in Chinese :\
This morning most of my apps disappeared from the Market under my apps and when I performed a Full wipe and installed the stock rom these 3 apps appeared on my account which I never purchased or installed.
Now they won't go away and I have to reinstall most of my apps!

The karoges app has the same icon as the stock TMobile video player 1.0. For some reason I decided to link all user and system apps to the Market. After removing this video 1.0 player the karoges app disappeared from market.
I am guessing that is the source of the issue.

arclite00 said:
The karoges app has the same icon as the stock TMobile video player 1.0. For some reason I decided to link all user and system apps to the Market. After removing this video 1.0 player the karoges app disappeared from market.
I am guessing that is the source of the issue.
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Actually it worked, thanx

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[Q] Market "My Apps" Screen Shows Up White...

After installing the updated Google+, I started having a ton of data connectivity problems. I was able to uninstall Google+ and that seems to have fixed those issues. The one remaining issue I'm having is that whenever I go to "My Apps" in the market, all it shows is a white blank screen. I can download and install apps just fine (and even update them) but I can NOT get to the my apps screen. I was on Market 3.1.5 when this started. I've tried clearing Market data, market cache, changing Google accounts, clearing cache and dalvik from CWM, uninstalling and reinstalling the market via TiBu (both with and without data) and even updating to market 3.3.11 which is posted in the Apps and Themes section - all to no avail. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm on Motorola Atrix, CM7 not beta not nightly version with faux123's 1.45GHz kernel.
DMoney9779 said:
After installing the updated Google+, I started having a ton of data connectivity problems. I was able to uninstall Google+ and that seems to have fixed those issues. The one remaining issue I'm having is that whenever I go to "My Apps" in the market, all it shows is a white blank screen. I can download and install apps just fine (and even update them) but I can NOT get to the my apps screen. I was on Market 3.1.5 when this started. I've tried clearing Market data, market cache, changing Google accounts, clearing cache and dalvik from CWM, uninstalling and reinstalling the market via TiBu (both with and without data) and even updating to market 3.3.11 which is posted in the Apps and Themes section - all to no avail. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm on Motorola Atrix, CM7 not beta not nightly version with faux123's 1.45GHz kernel.
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Been having the same problem here (on two different ROMs) on an HTC Droid Incredible. Have done multiple reflashes; nandroid restores, etc., but since "MyApps" disappeared earlier this week, absolutely zero solutions.
Was banging my head against the wall until I discovered (ironally, of course after Googling) a recent thread on DroidForums about the problem. Nobody has solved it; the new market doesn't fix it. And I can't believe that it hasn't become a bigger deal in the Android community if it's widespread.
One recommended solution I haven't tried is to scrap market and go with AppBrain until Google gets their act together. Another is to freeze Market Updater. Haven't tried that myself.
UPDATE: Okay, now I *have* tried the freeze Market Updater method and that has zero effect. I've filed an issue at Google's site for whatever that's worth.
Try this: go into market app on phone, search an app that is allready installed on your device. Uninstall it with market app and then reinstall it again from market and reboot your phone.
Don't wipe any data or cache! That's very important!
After rebooting go to market and open "My Apps"...no you should see all your installed apps.
This works for me at each time.
Nope. Was worth a try. Meanwhile, engaging with the techie at Google got me the "are you using an OS other than the one authorized by HTC."
Oh, pulease.
hgoldner said:
Nope. Was worth a try. Meanwhile, engaging with the techie at Google got me the "are you using an OS other than the one authorized by HTC."
Oh, pulease.
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Hahaha...well, it is kinda comforting to know I'm not the only one...in the interim, appbrain will work 4 me...thanks for the suggestions everyone!!! If u get a resolution that works, please let me know!!
Rock out with my Atrix out
"Try this: go into market app on phone, search an app that is allready installed on your device. Uninstall it with market app and then reinstall it again from market and reboot your phone.
Don't wipe any data or cache! That's very important!
After rebooting go to market and open "My Apps"...no you should see all your installed apps.
This works for me at each time."
sorry i tryed, but my apps remain white!
Same to me :-(
White Applist. Installing new Stock-ROM (Galaxy 2). Apps could be seen. After restore with TB, Applist is white again. This morning on my Galaxy Tab (never touched this): Applist is also white. Bull**t. Using App-Center meanwhile fore updating.
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I solved the prob by deinstalling Black Markets on device. After this wipe the data of the Android Market and your Apps will be shown.
After the problem persisted over 3 different ROMs, except an AOSP ROM I just didn't like, I simply switched to AppBrain to get Market functionality.
It'll work until Google fixes the issue.
Try to deinstall other markets, especially "black markets" and wipe the data from the Android Market. It works!
yeah!! thanks. The problem is the black market... searching alternatives markets...
stupid
hgoldner said:
Nope. Was worth a try. Meanwhile, engaging with the techie at Google got me the "are you using an OS other than the one authorized by HTC."
Oh, pulease.
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I KNOW THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO ACT AS IF YOU ALWAYS CAUSE THE PROBLEM and if .not.you something that YOU did engaging in uploading your choice rom.
tards
If someone finds a flashable stock market please post the link. (It has to be a system app; can't be a user app.)
Down the interwebs from my Incredible phone
comcinco said:
yeah!! thanks. The problem is the black market... searching alternatives markets...
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i dont have any markets except the amazon app store on mine
atrix running aura 1.2.2.2 with the damn market 3.3.11 HHHHHHEEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPP

Soundhoud WTF?

I have downloaded soundhound infinite and all I want to do is get rid of the pre-installed soundhound app. I am fully rooted with s-off and I know apps are stored within system/app/... but soundhound is not there? I went into the settings app and went to soundhound and there was data stored for it, so I deleted the installed updates, now the icon is there and when I tap it, it does nothing. please help me it is very annoying to have an icon that does nothing on my phone, that I cant get rid of. I know the soundhound app is called com.'something'.fremium but it is definitely not there.
I've never heard of SoundHound being built into a stock/custom ROM but I bet that you could either uninstall it if you find the app under: Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All
OR
You could try freezing the app through Titanium Backup or another app that can be used to freeze system apps.
the problem sorta solved itself, LeeDroid released a new update today and when I flashed that update the problem was solved.

[Q] Market crashes after Rom (Theme) install.

Hi all,
Today I've installed ICS DOMINATION v4.0.1 and I must say I am very impressed with it and it runs very smooth, finally my Galaxy s2 looks more like a ICS phone.
The Issue is,
After I installed this Rom I couldn't find the Android Market, I was told to find Play Store after the previous Market recently got updated into Play Store.
I have found Play Store and I installed it, I accepted the terms and it's all good.
But when I tried to search for a App, it crashed and every time I try to open Play Store it crashes.
It's pretty frustrating and I hope you people can help me out here?
Kind regards.
Clear market data if it doesn't work then uninstall market updates and try...
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sahibunlimited said:
Clear market data if it doesn't work then uninstall market updates and try...
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It doesn't work!
C'mon people, I really need some help out here.
After uninstalling updates clear data, delete vending.apk from system/app
And redownload Google play market from themes and apps section and install it
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Back to stock (or GB custom rom) & wait for official ICS if you really want to get rid of the problem.
When Google Market switched to Play Market or whatever the new name is, I found that where I had it on my home screen was broken and needed to pulled from the app drawer again. It even needed a reboot first.
Again, just now almost, I had a problem and resolved it the same way but this time it was more apparent because I had a broken icon on the home screen as well. Same thing; had to pull it from the app drawer.
Both times this happened while I was in the middle of updating apps.
There is this possibility, long shot as it may be...

[Q] How to delete OJSC Mobile Telesystems?

I installed a lovely new rom (AGABEY) and went onto Play Store and noticed there was an app called MTC by OJSC Mobile Telesystems.
I understand it may be down to either Samsung or the Developer of the rom to query this but I searched and had no joy.
Has any one came across this and managed to remove it?
SwannyBhoy said:
I installed a lovely new rom (AGABEY) and went onto Play Store and noticed there was an app called MTC by OJSC Mobile Telesystems.
I understand it may be down to either Samsung or the Developer of the rom to query this but I searched and had no joy.
Has any one came across this and managed to remove it?
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if you're rooted, you can freeze or uninstall it via titanium backup
That would be the app for Russia only would it ???
Been listed since GB 2.3.3 .
http://www.appbrain.com/app/мтс-мобильная-почта/com.seven.Z7
jje
Me too.
This came up for me too, last night, but I'm running stock Touchwiz/gingerbread 2.3.3.
I've rooted and unlocked my phone and have Clockworkmod but that's it.
Phone is a gt-i9100m running KG2. Carrier is Virgin Canada.
I'm more concerned about why this is came up. The app of course wants every permission in the book. Has my carrier, or phone, been compromised?
I'm super paranoid about giving Superuser. The only app with an automatic Accept is Terminal Emulator. So it's not some rogue root usage causing this.
Turns out this is a bug in the market, where carrier-provided apps on your phone will confuse the market into thinking they are a different, existing Market application.
Unsure whether doing this update would replace the carrier-provided app, whichever it is, with this strange Russian one..
Google "Karoges" for more details on a similar issue, where a test app shows up in place of the stock Samsung video player.
Regardless of whether this is harmless or a potential vector for attack, it needs to be resolved on Google Play's end. I submitted a Bug feedback, please do the same if you come across this!
scott_karana said:
Turns out this is a bug in the market, where carrier-provided apps on your phone will confuse the market into thinking they are a different, existing Market application.
Unsure whether doing this update would replace the carrier-provided app, whichever it is, with this strange Russian one..
Google "Karoges" for more details on a similar issue, where a test app shows up in place of the stock Samsung video player.
Regardless of whether this is harmless or a potential vector for attack, it needs to be resolved on Google Play's end. I submitted a Bug feedback, please do the same if you come across this!
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I noticed that test app aswell. I tried a few apps with freezing. (Rom Toolbox) but that didn't display it. I will give Titanium a go but I have a feeling it won't display the two apps (Unless you have had success then thank you!).
Only time you really notice it is when your on the new Google Play with the two options in "My Apps". "Installed" and "All".
I have not seen it since 2.3.3 but then again i have no stock rom since then .
Is it actually on your phone if so it should be locatable on a rooted phone .
jje
I'm experiencing the samr issue... Can't uninstall it even with Titanium Backup, it does not appear in the apps intalled list....
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Google Play has opened an incident ID for me. No reply let but I'll let you know of any developments!
i got the same app in "MyApps" list. What I did I removed the "AP apps" by Samsung from Titanum Backup and the OJSC Mobile TeleMarkting is gone.
fer5437 said:
i got the same app in "MyApps" list. What I did I removed the "AP apps" by Samsung from Titanum Backup and the OJSC Mobile TeleMarkting is gone.
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I've having the same issue. I can't find "AP apps" in my Titanium Backup list. Is there another name I might find that listed under?
Thanks for the help
fer5437 said:
i got the same app in "MyApps" list. What I did I removed the "AP apps" by Samsung from Titanum Backup and the OJSC Mobile TeleMarkting is gone.
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I deleted the 'AP mobile' App but this is still in my apps list waiting for an update. Its strange that I couldn't see this in my installed apps list from the Google Play Store, but an update is waiting.
The only app from OJSC Mobile Telesystems in the app store is their MTS Voicemail+ app, which is russian language only. May be the default voicemail app on my phone is bugged.
Update:
It doesnt install even if you download.
This has just turned up on my GS2 (Tmobile UK) , I can't get rid of it and I'm not rooted . Would appreciate some help in getting rid of this, as I think it is a virus.
It has appeared in my updates too, seems a lot of people have it turning up in the google play store to be updated. I just flagged it also!
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same
fer5437 said:
i got the same app in "MyApps" list. What I did I removed the "AP apps" by Samsung from Titanum Backup and the OJSC Mobile TeleMarkting is gone.
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I cant remove AP apps. Only force close.
Russian app appeared after I installed sever gallery apps... Hope we can remove it...
Got this in my phone with XWLP2 also. Along with this I have Testfile by SFUKUDA in my installed app list.
This app appeared too in my google play store. Deleting the social hub app (there are two, the one with the little blue icon was the right one i think) with titanium backup removed this of my apps list. Hope this helps
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hirak99 said:
Got this in my phone with XWLP2 also. Along with this I have Testfile by SFUKUDA in my installed app list.
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Testfile is the app allshare from samsung i think. I deleted allshare and testfile disappeared.
hyperteiL said:
This app appeared too in my google play store. Deleting the social hub app (there are two, the one with the little blue icon was the right one i think) with titanium backup removed this of my apps list. Hope this helps
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Aye this worked for me too. Removed the samsung social hub app with titanium backup. It is indeed the one with an envelop icon with a little blue S on it
How can non-rooted users delete those 2 apps?
Is there a way to temp root my phone? So I can delete them with titanium?
Dodgy looking OJSC Mobile Telesystems app
Apekaas said:
Aye this worked for me too. Removed the samsung social hub app with titanium backup. It is indeed the one with an envelop icon with a little blue S on it
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Freezing the social hub (rather than removing it) seems to be good enough to persuade the unwanted app to disappear from Google Play.
I presume this is popping up because we've installed an Eastern European ROM
(Polish in my case) in our haste to get ICS?
[/edit] Or not, since various GB folk are seeing it too.....

Omega 7.1 Sound issues SMS

I have tried installing omega 7.1 about 8 times now following the following instructions to install it.
- backup settings (call log, sms etc.) via samsung
- butch backup user apps via TitaniumBackup ( backup all user apps with their settings)
- backup TouchWiz home via TitaniumBackup
- create TitaniumBackup update.zip
- full wipe (as recommended in the OP)
- flash Omega using Default installation
- start android
- setup samsung account and restore settings (call log, sms etc.)
- skip google setup
- reboot to recovery and flash TitaniumBackup update.zip
- butch restore user apps via TitaniumBackup
- restore TouchWiz home (only data) via TitaniumBackup
- setup google accounts
- setup mail accounts
The ROM install goes well, fully functional and my settings back as they were, my problem is that I prefer to have the stock toggles on the drop down menu. When I revert them to stock with the Omega file kitchen files I do indeed get my stock toggles back and fully functional. But after doing that my SMS sounds are sometimes none existent, by this i mean that when receiving an sms with the screen locked the screen lights up and the sms envelope appears at the top on the status bar but there is no sound or vibration, I have toggled the notification icon in the toggles and it is green, i have even tried re toggling it to no avail. I have noticed though that it seems like all system sounds have gone too when this happens, so then I check all of the sounds settings and they are all fine, then all of a sudden sounds kick in again, weird? this is not happening on the stock ROM because I have tested it a few times between trying to suss this problem out. So when the sounds come back again I try again and it does the same thing. Its impossible to have transferred any settings as I started system settings from new each time. I know you will say "well don't revert the toggles to stock" but I am pretty sure that one of my tries that it happened before doing that,
Can anyone help, or is anyone else having the same issues when reverting to stock toggles?
I've had the same problem for a very long time...with all roms....the only way I fixed the issue was not using titanium back up and starting from scratch? For some reason titanium back up corrupts the files .....I instead imported everything from gmail
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saveferris said:
I've had the same problem for a very long time...with all roms....the only way I fixed the issue was not using titanium back up and starting from scratch? For some reason titanium back up corrupts the files .....I instead imported everything from gmail
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Were you able to have backups of you apps from any method? I have lots of infor stored in my apps that I cant really lose. and did titanium corrupt even if you didnt save any system settings, just apps and app data?
Like I said, I started from scratch....which meant I lost app data....I also tried just adding just my contacts....still the same issues....one thing I didn't try was just adding the apps....give it a go.
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saveferris said:
Like I said, I started from scratch....which meant I lost app data....I also tried just adding just my contacts....still the same issues....one thing I didn't try was just adding the apps....give it a go.
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Ill give it a go when I get back home, Ill just take screen shots of everything then i can re input the data on my apps, ill start from fresh. thinking on I did install the same rom onto a friends s3 and he is having no problems at all but i did re download the apps from google play rather than restoring them from titanium.
Badjase said:
I have tried installing omega 7.1 about 8 times now following the following instructions to install it.
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- create TitaniumBackup update.zip
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- reboot to recovery and flash TitaniumBackup update.zip
- butch restore user apps via TitaniumBackup
Might be better to carry out a normal TB backup to external sd card not update zip .
.
jje
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Tried that too, but no difference.
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Badjase said:
Ill give it a go when I get back home, Ill just take screen shots of everything then i can re input the data on my apps, ill start from fresh. thinking on I did install the same rom onto a friends s3 and he is having no problems at all but i did re download the apps from google play rather than restoring them from titanium.
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Give me a list of all the apps you have installed on the phone.....so i can see what we have in common.
saveferris said:
Give me a list of all the apps you have installed on the phone.....so i can see what we have in common.
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Ok here goes
Rooted Apps
Titanium Backup Pro
Button Saviour
Adaway
SuperSU
CWM
Normal Apps (that are not Pre installed)
Andy
WinAmp
Google Earth
Netflix
Instagram
WhatsApp
Wordfued
Firefox
ACalendar
aDownloader
AliExpress
Aldi
Airdroid
Dolphin Browser Hd
Vlc Direct Pro
Ivona with Amy
Yelp
Natwest
AA
Last FM
Shazam
Sky Sports
Sky Sports Football
Sky News
Imdb
Yell
GReader
Amazon
PayPal
Argos
Voucher Cloud
Groupon
Fast Reboot
Heatdroid
Hotukdeals droid
Tesco
Living Social
Shift Calendar
Voxer
Get glue
Flickr
My Xbox live
Zedge
Gumtree
Picassa Web
Speed test
Cineworld
eBay
Skype
Play music
Im pro
Splashtop remote
Tapatalk
Total recall
Tweetcaster pro
Lotus exchange
Cam scanner
Badass battery monitor
Pandora
Picsel smart office
Angry birds space
Photo editor
Kiescast
SMS backup and restore
Quick mark
Swift key 3
Instant heart rate
Navfree
Xda
Pre installed apps
Calculator
Camera
Clock
Contacts
Downloads
Dropbox
Email
Flash player settings
Flipboard
Fm radio
Gallery
Gmail
Google+
Internet
Latitude
Local
Maps
Messaging
Messenger
More services
Music player
My files
Navigation
Phone
Play books
Play movies
Play store
S planner
S voice
Search
Settings
Talk
Video player
Voice recorder
YouTube
Smartcare
Three
BBC iplayer
That's it.
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Might want to try the new checkroom v3.5 with stock kernel. I decided to jump ship from omega simply of the butter smooth experience on the new checkrom. Cheers
saveferris said:
Give me a list of all the apps you have installed on the phone.....so i can see what we have in common.
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OK, I just tried a totally fresh install of omega 7.1 I downloaded all of the apps direct from google play, I deleted all of the titanium backups just so they couldnt get in the way. i didnt touch the rom from its default and I am still getting the problems with sms sound, I did a system wipe factory reset, wiped cache and dalvik and formatted system partition, I didnt even change anything back to stock in omega, just left it as it comes, so then i reinstalled my stock rooted backup and it works perfectly again. weird
Badjase said:
OK, I just tried a totally fresh install of omega 7.1 I downloaded all of the apps direct from google play, I deleted all of the titanium backups just so they couldnt get in the way. i didnt touch the rom from its default and I am still getting the problems with sms sound, I did a system wipe factory reset, wiped cache and dalvik and formatted system partition, I didnt even change anything back to stock in omega, just left it as it comes, so then i reinstalled my stock rooted backup and it works perfectly again. weird
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Syiah kernel had some problem with omega rom and sound, if i recall well...
If you're using Syahkernel, update to the latest beta.
I use it in miui with no problem.
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Give me a list of all the apps you have installed on the phone.....so i can see what we have in common.
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Fade_Sticks said:
Syiah kernel had some problem with omega rom and sound, if i recall well...
If you're using Syahkernel, update to the latest beta.
I use it in miui with no problem.
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So can i put this kernel into omega 7.1?? Im a noob at this
I have cured this issue now, Omega 8.1 has been released, so just to make sure that I didnt transfer any bad settings over I did it all from scratch, I also un-checked google backup initially incase there were any bad settings / back up in there too, and I did not use nor install titanium backup. after installing everything step by step I tested the sms sounds in numerous ways and not it works perfectly, the rom is nice and smooth too, so if anyone has problems with SMS sounds then grab the omega v8.1 rom, thank to everyone for your suggestions.

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