2 Issues: Market/Play update and lock screen pattern - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

I recently rooted my SGS2 and am now running Entropy's DD kernel.
I have two issues, neither of which are particularly bothersome, but I *would* like to learn more about how these things work.
1) After rooting the phone, I was auto-updated to Google Play. After rebooting when I installed Entropy's kernel, I found that I was reverted back to Market (old icon, etc.). I searched the forums and found some possible "fixes" (force close, clear app data, restart), but none of them work. I've closed Market, reopened, installed apps and placed it in B/G with the home button (switch to home screen, not using 'back button' - per another thread), and that did not work either.
The interesting thing here is that *every time* I open market I have to "accept" the EULA for "Google Play". I've accepted the EULA like 20 times already. This is not a pressing issue. Market works fine, but I *am* curious.
2) My lock screen is using a pattern lock. About 1 in 7 unlocks (manually hitting the power button) results in a lock screen without the pattern dots and I can just "swipe" away to reach my home screen. I searched for this issue as well, and all I come up with is either lock screen lag or issues where the pattern lock will accept any pattern. Not the case with mine. When the pattern lock is there, it needs the correct pattern. There does not appear to be any correlation between the amount of time the phone is asleep. I may happen twice in a row in 30 seconds, or after an hour of idle time.
Neither of these issues impacts usability. I'm just curious if its been seen before.
Thanks.

1) Kernel should not have caused this - did you do anything with the firmware in /system?
2) What build are you on? This was a known issue (including AT&T press releases) with the original AT&T UCKH7 release.

SiloIT said:
I recently rooted my SGS2 and am now running Entropy's DD kernel.
I have two issues, neither of which are particularly bothersome, but I *would* like to learn more about how these things work.
1) After rooting the phone, I was auto-updated to Google Play. After rebooting when I installed Entropy's kernel, I found that I was reverted back to Market (old icon, etc.). I searched the forums and found some possible "fixes" (force close, clear app data, restart), but none of them work. I've closed Market, reopened, installed apps and placed it in B/G with the home button (switch to home screen, not using 'back button' - per another thread), and that did not work either.
The interesting thing here is that *every time* I open market I have to "accept" the EULA for "Google Play". I've accepted the EULA like 20 times already. This is not a pressing issue. Market works fine, but I *am* curious.
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It was probably triggered from Google's side. Two days back, the Market icon changed to the white Google Play icon. Yesterday it reverted back to the green Android Market icon but clicking on that opens Google Play.
Probably Google thought that it was a bad idea to change the icon because I saw many people on Facebook and Twitter causing an uproar like "OMG I think I deleted Market, how do I get it back?!". So they must have changed back to the icon familiar to all and also changed the insides to Google Play.

Entropy512 said:
1) Kernel should not have caused this - did you do anything with the firmware in /system?
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After flashing (via heimdall), I installed TiBu, wiped the system and then did a missing apps + data restore.. That was with the stock kernel from your UCKH7 package. After rooting, I used Mobile Odin to flash the zImage from your DD package. I'm pretty damned sure I purchased Mobile Odin from Google Play. It was not until I went and looked at the new SU program this morning that I noticed the old Market icon (and had to do the EULA again). Like I said, it seems to work just fine.
Entropy512 said:
2) What build are you on? This was a known issue (including AT&T press releases) with the original AT&T UCKH7 release.
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Hmmm. That could be it, though I did not see that searching around here. I used the kernel + rooted UCKH7 system package you uploaded on Dev-Host. I'll look into it some more. My baseband version on the phone still says UCKK6, but I'm assuming that because I did not flash modem.bin.
Perhaps I can flash factoryfs.img from uckk6_stock_rooted? I would not need the zImage or cache, would I? Or would that just blow things up? Honestly, I've read and re-read so many threads this past week, I can't recall why I used UCKH7 stock rooted over UCKK6 anymore.
Thanks for the response.

jazzboyrules said:
It was probably triggered from Google's side. Two days back, the Market icon changed to the white Google Play icon. Yesterday it reverted back to the green Android Market icon but clicking on that opens Google Play.
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Well damn. And here I've been futzing around thinking I borked something up (still a good probability). Bad timing. If they did do this switch back and forth, the fact that it coincided with my rooting/kernel flashing just threw me for a loop.
I just checked with a friend here that has a Nexus, and he still has the old Market icon, but does not recall ever seeing the Play icon.
This still does not explain why I had to click through the EULA 20 times, though I wonder if that was perhaps a network anomaly.

SiloIT said:
Well damn. And here I've been futzing around thinking I borked something up (still a good probability). Bad timing. If they did do this switch back and forth, the fact that it coincided with my rooting/kernel flashing just threw me for a loop.
I just checked with a friend here that has a Nexus, and he still has the old Market icon, but does not recall ever seeing the Play icon.
This still does not explain why I had to click through the EULA 20 times, though I wonder if that was perhaps a network anomaly.
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I still have the google play icon. As far as the market problem you're having, it may have been triggered by your titanium backup app restore. oh, and choosing kh7 over kk6 is smart. kk6 battery life sucks. entropy has an entire thread dedicated to finding out why (something with the wifi)

nbell13 said:
I still have the google play icon. As far as the market problem you're having, it may have been triggered by your titanium backup app restore. oh, and choosing kh7 over kk6 is smart. kk6 battery life sucks. entropy has an entire thread dedicated to finding out why (something with the wifi)
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Right. After re-reading stuff this afternoon, I came back across the whole 2.3.4 vs. 2.3.6 thing again. I remember now why I did the kh7.
I'm going to leave things as is for now. Nothing here is broken enough to worry about, and I'm looking into trying UnNamed or something soon anyway.
Thanks for all the responses. All very much appreciated.

I forget the exact details, but working around the lockscreen issue involves setting some timeout to "immediate" - I think there is a separate lock timeout from the screen-off timer?
UCKK6 has some major battery life bugs.

Entropy512 said:
I forget the exact details, but working around the lockscreen issue involves setting some timeout to "immediate" - I think there is a separate lock timeout from the screen-off timer?
UCKK6 has some major battery life bugs.
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screen lock under settings>location and security>timeout

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[Q] Fix for gallery freeze?

I just recently got the vibrant and got the OTA the same day, the gallery freezes about half the time, and about half of the time that it freezes i have to pull the battery, i cant get to task manager or put the phone to sleep and wake it up.
I searched google and there are alot of links regarding it but i didnt find any that gave any ideas to fix it.
I searched this forum and nothing came up. Anyway, I have a class 6 card, the gallery on my nexus is very quick and has never frozen, so it is definitely the phone.
In my experience with the g1, MT3g, N1 and now this vibrant, any time ive received an OTA it has come with costs, it always brings fixes and features but also causes new problems, large and small. So I dont doubt what I found while searching, that the gallery issue is a result of the recent OTA for the GPS fix. Anyway, its kind of silly that this awesome, technologically advanced device freezes when you open up one of the native apps. But can we do anything about it? And if not, is it likely that Samsung will address it in another OTA? thanks
edit: ive also just recently had my phone just turn off every day or so, and it wont power back on until i pull the battery. Maybe these 2 issues mean i have a defective device? Or is this par for the course with the tmobile galaxy s?
Overclock your phone to only run at 800-1000MHz. It completely solved this for me, 400-1000MHz still hiccups.
thank you, yet another reason to root i suppose...
So no way to fix that with stock phone? =(
heygrl said:
Overclock your phone to only run at 800-1000MHz. It completely solved this for me, 400-1000MHz still hiccups.
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overclock huh,, i never tried i am there is a link here let me go look or how did u do it
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That is odd, I've never had my gallery freeze or my phone reboot... Are you sure you don't have some rogue app? Perhaps you should factory reset and start fresh? Do you have any "junk" apps on your phone (stupid apps)?
I had a freeze on opening gallery right after the JI6 was released. I think it was trying to recreate the thumbnails from scratch and download pics from my Picasa acct.
Happened one time only and I actually had to pull the battery since it went unresponsive. Never had a problem after that.
~SB
perhaps unmount and remount the INTERNAL memory card. I've done this before just because I saw it as a suggestion and it recreated my gallery.
I having the same issue. I am ready to delete it and use a different app. Is that possible?
acjames said:
I having the same issue. I am ready to delete it and use a different app. Is that possible?
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If you're rooted you can probably remove it.
I have tried factory reset so I don't think its a rogue app. I got the ota the day I got the phone so I can't compare before and after. If some people aren't having the issue period maybe a warranty replacement would resolve it. Of course, if we do end up getting froyo maybe that's something that will improve. Love the phone either way, I just get fed up with stuff like gallery freeze, random reboot, GPS issues, etc... stuff that i would think shouldn't get past product testing.
OP, this is discussed at the thread below. (use the search next time)
You are not the only one having this issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805784
Quick Summary:
- Even with the removable card blank, the Gallery still have the same issues.
- I did a complete wipe and still have the same issues.
- I cleared data through System Settings which recreated thumbnails and other data, still have the same issues.
androidmonkey said:
OP, this is discussed at the thread below. (use the search next time)
You are not the only one having this issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805784
Quick Summary:
- Even with the removable card blank, the Gallery still have the same issues.
- I did a complete wipe and still have the same issues.
- I cleared data through System Settings which recreated thumbnails and other data, still have the same issues.
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Wow i am so sick of reading some loser tell somebody to "search next time". You'll be so very relieved to know that I actually did search, and all i found out is that you dont have any friends. But honestly I did find your thread, however it didnt seem to me to be on point with what i wanted to ask specifically. Your post says that "watchdog" told you your gallery is a "resource hog" and that you have to kill it. I dont know what watchdog is, nothing told me anything i just cant get into my gallery app very often, so that didnt seem applicable. Also, i got ji6 the day i got my phone so putting the gallery issue in the context you did ("since ji6 update") didnt mean anything to me, i dont anything about this phone pre-ji6 update. All I know is that my gallery app sucks, your thread was a bit technical for me to be able to apply to my particular issue
Anyway, now my gallery freezes every single time i initially try to open it, i have had to pull the battery 6 times in a row, it works after the pull. This has been my favorite android phone (of 4) but now i just want to set it on fire and run over it with my car. I guess Samsung and Android arent interested in making their $600 products work, does anybody know how i can fix my phone so that it does what it is supposed to? Also im not rooted which i assume probably makes it impossible for me to fix? thanks for any help.
DMaverick50 said:
Wow i am so sick of reading some loser tell somebody to "search next time". You'll be so very relieved to know that I actually did search, and all i found out is that you dont have any friends.
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[Q] Strange...phone shuts off

Hey Guys,
Having an issue that I just can't seem to figure out. First, my phone specs:
Running EB01 Modem & JT's EB01 Voodoo Kernel w/SuperClean 2.2 Voodoo, ASOP Lock, Power & Battery Mod (via Domush walkthrough).
Now the problem: my phone just shuts off completely when it feels like it and the only way to get it back on is to do a battery pull. Searched the forums and throught it might be the proximity sensor, but flashed it back to stock and it was fine. It seems to happen randomly. It's not the battery because each time i turn it back on it have plenty of battery life. I've tried freezing all my apps and it still does it as well.
Is there someting i'm missing? Anyone else have an idea?
Thank you in advance
My first suggestion is backup your apps and do a wipe wipe wipe. See if that corrects problem.
Let us know
sent from my vanilla voodoo fascinate
I had that happen a couple times as well with SC 2.1. I only ran it for a couple days before SC 2.2 came out. After flashing 2.2 over 2.1, and wiping the cache a couple times, I haven't had it happen again. Then again I only upgraded yesterday, so it may yet happen again. Time will tell.
Posted from my EB01 SuperClean Fascinate with Voodoo
So far so good....I wiped x3 everything (cache, davik, everything) and it seems to have worked. Thank guys. I'll let you know if it acts up again.
Come to find out it was a rom prob, fixed in the forums, called the sleep of death.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
FWIW, I did not have the problem with 2.2, and now have upgraded to SC 2.4, and the issue still has not returned. It does seem like I have to hit the power button twice to wake it up once in a while, but it never fails to wake up.
Posted from my EB01 SuperClean Fascinate with Voodoo
It seems to have only happen when you do the steps in a certain order. It's all fixed with the patch.
Actually, it's NOT been fixed with the patch. If you read the thread, the people that thought it worked had it come back after a few hours of use. The only way I've been able to "fix" it thus far is to go back to the stock ebo1 rom. FWIW, the problem for me seems to resurface after I access any media. The first time was after I listened to music through Poweramp and the latest was after watching a video in media hub.
JJRocker said:
Actually, it's NOT been fixed with the patch. If you read the thread, the people that thought it worked had it come back after a few hours of use. The only way I've been able to "fix" it thus far is to go back to the stock ebo1 rom. FWIW, the problem for me seems to resurface after I access any media. The first time was after I listened to music through Poweramp and the latest was after watching a video in media hub.
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Hmm, I'll have to check it out....I went through my photos and it worked fine after that. I use Audiogalaxy so I don't have music on my phone. I'll go run a video and see if that triggers it. Good looking out JJRocker
This so far has been an issue that's really hard to find info for and it's driving me nuts...lol. So yeah, even though I'm far from being an expert, I'm trying my best to figure out what's causing it so that I can work around it or better yet, help the devs out since they are the real experts here. Adrynalyne put a test patch up and asked people to report on it, so it would probably help a lot if everyone having the problem would post their results in this thread. He's the guy that's probably most likely to figure this out. Also, that link has the patch if you want to give it a shot.
One thing I should probably mention is that at least in my case, once the SOD surfaces, it happens about every 4th to 5th wakeup until I reflash the rom or go to another one. So if you've experienced it already, there's a good chance you won't be able to cure it without a reflash.
Ive noticed there is a certain population of folks who have it, and a larger population of those who do not.
I've been researching for hours on end, with no clear common resolution.
For some, not using Titanium to restore apps fixes it.
For some, my test patch works.
For some, a double reboot fixes it.
I had it happen once, ever, and it was on stock eb01. It never happened again. I myself have noticed increased instability on eb01 using maps and gps, however. A couple days ago, launching maps, and turning on the gps afterwards hard locked my device.
@adrynalyne
Exactly.
It seems that mine is fixed with the patch in both of your SuperClean 2.3 & 2.4, I've tried different media and it seems fixed. Only time will tell tho.
And thank you for all that you do with this phone. It had such great potenital and with you and folks like jt, it's making this phone amazing!
It's strange....I had it happen once this morning and now I can't replicate it. I have used Titanium to restore apps but I only restore one app, AndroidPit App Center. I need it to download ADW EX and Beautiful Widgets since they take PayPal and my debit card doesn't do foreign currency.
Anyway, someone at Android Central suggested avoiding ADW because people were reporting issues with the SOD and that launcher. So, I'm gonna run LP+ for a while and see how that works out.
I have been using ADW EX and no real problems...
...but I didn't think about it, I did clear out me Titanium Backup and just reDownloaded stuff this time. Maybe the backups are the culprit?
Well, right now I'm starting over on SC 2.4 and trying all the remedies I've seen posted thus far. I wiped data and cache, flashing SC 2.4. I'm going to skip the backup assistant since it might try to restore apps that were restored by Titanium. I'll run LP+ and flash a theme (VA green is my current fave...love the BA). Gonna restore my apps manually from the market and I'll even double reboot when I'm all done...lol. Anyway, wish me luck...the real test will be tomorrow at work. I use HandBase to keep track of things so I put my phone in and out of sleep a lot during the day.
And also, many thanks to Adrynalyne and all the other great devs here. The work put into this stuff is much appreciated. I wouldn't put this much effort into getting this working if SC wasn't such an amazing ROM.
JJRocker said:
Well, right now I'm starting over on SC 2.4 and trying all the remedies I've seen posted thus far. I wiped data and cache, flashing SC 2.4. I'm going to skip the backup assistant since it might try to restore apps that were restored by Titanium. I'll run LP+ and flash a theme (VA green is my current fave...love the BA). Gonna restore my apps manually from the market and I'll even double reboot when I'm all done...lol. Anyway, wish me luck...the real test will be tomorrow at work. I use HandBase to keep track of things so I put my phone in and out of sleep a lot during the day.
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When I redid it again my aps were automatically restoring themselves. So to save you some sanity, make sure you go into privacy and turn off "Backup my settings" and "Restore my settings" as well. It may be dimmed out, but it will sutomatically restore them as well. It's doesn't really do much from what I can tell (I still have to manually add passwords to wifis, which it says it backs up)
Ya know, maybe that's the cuplrit of this whole shabang
Ok, so I had the SOD on LP+ too. Out of curiosity, is anyone with this problem using Switchpro widget or another power control widget that changes brightness? The one thing that seems to always precede the SOD for me has been installing and putting this widget on my desktop. Also, one time I did have it before I installed the widget and checked my screen timeout settings...there was nothing checked which is the same as having the screen never turn off. Apparently, backup assistant restored the setting automatically from a previous flash. Also, I think Super Clean has a power control widget on one of the homescreens by default if I remember correctly. Everything was running great, couldn't get it to SOD, so I started installing some of my apps and put the switchpro widget on my main homescreen, and got SOD on the very next wakeup.
I believe I may have found my culprit!! But before I say, let me recap:
I backed up using TiB. Flashed everything back to DI01 and got the OTA update. Restarted, then flashed to DL09. Reboot, Flashed to Deoxed EB01. I also kept the origional kernel, didn't meess with it because I believed that it was the cuplrit, I am assuming I'm wrong. Everything was good. Slowly started adding programs back seeing which one will kill my phone. I finally found it......it was YouMail.
If you are using this product, you can have it on to your system and it will work. But as soon as it receives its notification of a New Voice Mail notification from their servers. It locks up. Hopfully uninstallation and a reboot will take it away, but only time will tell. I'll report back in.

[Q] What's wrong with my phone?

I've recently been experiencing a series of pop-ups in an Android dialogue box occasionally when I click links that I know are clean.
A lot of them are dialogue boxes that say "Congratulations, your US number has been chosen for a gift - press the OK button to continue"
and the only way out is to either press the Okay button or force stop the browser.
The browser it most recently happened with has been with Dolphin Mini browser - can't remember if it occurred through my Android's native Internet browser or not, either way it takes me to a site called Mobgifts(dot)org
I did some research and some said it was a virus, but I have Lookout installed on my device and scan it weekly and just did a scan yesterday - all was clean..
TL;DR: Internet links in browser lately have been unescapable diallogue boxes that say "Congrats you won this" and you have no other options than to either force quit or press Okay then exit
What are your takes on my issue?
Btw - phone is stock, non rooted, hasn't ever been rooted.
Ok it seems your pop up blocker is disabled
i dont know wich browser u´re using so try to find something like that in the preferences of the browser
if it doensnt work go to settings applications head to your browser open the dialog box and delete all app data (dont uninstal it!!)
If this doesnt work try another browser
What pages are you visiting when the popups are there
jiffer1991 said:
Ok it seems your pop up blocker is disabled
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My Phone is completely stock - no rooting so no popup blocker
jiffer1991 said:
i dont know wich browser u´re using so try to find something like that in the preferences of the browser
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I'm using Dolphin Mini browser
jiffer1991 said:
if it doensnt work go to settings applications head to your browser open the dialog box and delete all app data (dont uninstal it!!)
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I've done that, cleaned it all out, I have Lookout installed, but as I stated, nothing is being picked up by it
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What pages are you visiting when the popups are there
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It's happened on various pages, some links to Imgur (image hosting site), and then this time it happened on Vimeo.
I'm getting the same on my Cappy whenever I try to come to XDA. I just loaded Serenity Rom on the phone, haven't added any apps that I didn't have when I was on Cognition (other than BLN and Avast, in an attempt to see if the phone is virused. It's not. Supposedly).
I am royally pissed about this. I've had this phone for two years, most of it on some form of Cognition, and never had a problem. I literally can't imagine how these popups have wormed their way onto my phone--and for me, at least, what browser I use doesn't matter. Sooner or later, that damned popup shows up, and there's no way out of it except to FC the browser.
Looks like I'll be stripping the OS back to stock and starting over again, unless someone can suggest a solution beyond "turn on your popup blocker", since it's never off.
NOT happy.
I seemed to have found a solution - and from what I was told on AndroidForums on a thread post - its more of an AirPush issue - meaning its an advert through an app that has been installed,
I just scanned with Lookout and Norton and nothing was out of place or infected.
I also posted to Reddit's Android Community to see what they thought. I'm awaiting their opinions.
Getting the same popup from mobgifts.org for only the last couple days. Googling it get almost nothing. It doesn't seem to have a pattern of coming from any particular website.
I did as others have said and FC'd. I even accidentally clicked on OK once and it seemed to do nothing but except close the popup box, it didn't take me to a new website, etc.
Experiencing a similar problem, but so far, it doesn't seem like anyone has come up with a solution. It could very well be an app that is using the most obnoxious ads ever, but I've used both Airpush Detector and Lookout's Ad Network Detector and both come up empty.
I know that the ad network is BlueAds.com and they keep changing the URL of the gift site. It has been mobilewinner.org, mobilevisitor.org, rewardstoday.org, mobprizes.com and now mobgifts.org.
Has been happenning on my tab as well.. Mainly on xda. My phone hasnt had any problems yet. Quite annoying i must say. Hope someone can shed some light as have gona through all the apps with no luck.
In light of the situation came an email from Lookout!
Hey everyone, I just wanted to post this here - a conversation I had with the Lookout security team about the whole situation, perhaps this might bring some ease to some of you.
Enjoy
alex.ap.pacman said:
Hey everyone, I just wanted to post this here - a conversation I had with the Lookout security team about the whole situation, perhaps this might bring some ease to some of you.
Enjoy
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can you cut and paste the actual text from the mail - opening up the image its too blurry to read
thanks
alex.ap.pacman said:
Hey everyone, I just wanted to post this here - a conversation I had with the Lookout security team about the whole situation, perhaps this might bring some ease to some of you.
Enjoy
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Don't know about anybody else but I can't read the text in that image, could you provide a larger version or copy & paste the conversation?
I just started getting this on my phone. Coincidentally it had never happened prior to me putting the Pure ICS ROM on my SGS2. Here's my timeline if it helps:
• Stock ICS ROM (O2 UK)
• Sunday - Backuped up and Flashed FOXHOUND ICS ROM
• Tuesday Morning - Factory rest, wiped cache/dalvik cache and flashed Pure ICS ROM
• Tuesday Afternoon - Restored app backups via Titanium
• Tuesday Night - Started noticing mobgifts(dot)org hijacking my browser(s)
I say mobgifts(dot)org is hijacking because it happens on the stock browser, ICS Browser+ (my current fav) and dolphin. It is also not appearing as a popup but rather loading in the current browser tab.
It's hard to diagnose because I can't make it happen, but it seems to be overriding some hyperlink clicks. As others have said, it seems to happen most often when I'm on xda-developers.com but then that could be because I'm on these forums a lot right now.
I've run Addons Detector, AirPush Detector, TrustGo Antivirus & Mobile Security, Comodo Antivirus Free, Lookout etc. All have come up with nothing. So, assuming all these Android anti-virus/malware scanners aren't just a load of rubbish it only really leaves either something in the Pure ICS ROM or malware in one or more of the sites I visit?
Would really love it if that image was big enough for us to read. This scam ad thing is killing me.
AndySX said:
Don't know about anybody else but I can't read the text in that image, could you provide a larger version or copy & paste the conversation?
I just started getting this on my phone. Coincidentally it had never happened prior to me putting the Pure ICS ROM on my SGS2. Here's my timeline if it helps:
• Stock ICS ROM (O2 UK)
• Sunday - Backuped up and Flashed FOXHOUND ICS ROM
• Tuesday Morning - Factory rest, wiped cache/dalvik cache and flashed Pure ICS ROM
• Tuesday Afternoon - Restored app backups via Titanium
• Tuesday Night - Started noticing mobgifts(dot)org hijacking my browser(s)
I say mobgifts(dot)org is hijacking because it happens on the stock browser, ICS Browser+ (my current fav) and dolphin. It is also not appearing as a popup but rather loading in the current browser tab.
It's hard to diagnose because I can't make it happen, but it seems to be overriding some hyperlink clicks. As others have said, it seems to happen most often when I'm on xda-developers.com but then that could be because I'm on these forums a lot right now.
I've run Addons Detector, AirPush Detector, TrustGo Antivirus & Mobile Security, Comodo Antivirus Free, Lookout etc. All have come up with nothing. So, assuming all these Android anti-virus/malware scanners aren't just a load of rubbish it only really leaves either something in the Pure ICS ROM or malware in one or more of the sites I visit?
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Its not just ics roms as it happens to me on my stock unrooted tab 10.1 running honeycomb 32. As you said its not a tab and it disables the back button requiring closing and opening a new tab
Not Malware or anything to worry about - marked as solved please
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Its not just ics roms as it happens to me on my stock unrooted tab 10.1 running honeycomb 32. As you said its not a tab and it disables the back button requiring closing and opening a new tab
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Like I said guys, it's strictly adware - use Lookout's Ad Network app off the Play store, I would link it but unfortunately I don't have enough posts to do that yet.
- It isn't malware or any form of trojan - its advertising, Someone brought up that it wasn't AirPush but a different company instead.
Hi Alex
I'm not sure it is adware. It seems to be just a Javascript alert dialog box. Because users don't always realise that, they assume that clicking OK is going to start a download or something. As far as I know, it should be just fine to accept the OK then hit the back button etc. It certainly gave me a fright the first time I saw it!
It looks like we're ending the golden age of mobile browsing. I remember a period on the desktop about 15 years ago when you couldn't block popups, and one malign website could completely ruin your afternoon. Hopefully we're not going to go through a similar phase with mobile computing....

[Q] Keyboard freezing up in some apps

New to this forum and seeking some help(obviously)
Had this phone for about 3 weeks now and I love it. I just have one problem with it.
In the stock messaging app, Kik, and a couple of other apps, my keyboard will occasionally freeze. Android keyboard, LG keyboard, Swype... They all do it.
But I can still type on it, it just won't show me a "live-shot" of what I'm typing. When I press the back button(hides keyboard), all the text that I typed would show up. For example, if I type/swype "I like cake", it won't show anything in the text field until I hide/exit out of the keyboard. Then it all the text shows up at once.
I've tried everything I know of. I've done a factory reset on the phone, I've disabled keyboards, I've uninstalled apps. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! This isn't a huge pain because a restart temporarily fixes it, and this phone only takes like 45 seconds to reboot. It's just annoying since it happens several times a day.
emath33 said:
New to this forum and seeking some help(obviously)
Had this phone for about 3 weeks now and I love it. I just have one problem with it.
In the stock messaging app, Kik, and a couple of other apps, my keyboard will occasionally freeze. Android keyboard, LG keyboard, Swype... They all do it.
But I can still type on it, it just won't show me a "live-shot" of what I'm typing. When I press the back button(hides keyboard), all the text that I typed would show up. For example, if I type/swype "I like cake", it won't show anything in the text field until I hide/exit out of the keyboard. Then it all the text shows up at once.
I've tried everything I know of. I've done a factory reset on the phone, I've disabled keyboards, I've uninstalled apps. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! This isn't a huge pain because a restart temporarily fixes it, and this phone only takes like 45 seconds to reboot. It's just annoying since it happens several times a day.
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Never happened to me....Are you stock, rooted, unlocked....if so what ROM/kernel are you running. It helps when you post as much information as possible so we might be able to determine if its something we can help with. That happened to me on my old Infuse ALOT, but i was flashing multiple ROM a day just playing around....
emath33 said:
New to this forum and seeking some help(obviously)
Had this phone for about 3 weeks now and I love it. I just have one problem with it.
In the stock messaging app, Kik, and a couple of other apps, my keyboard will occasionally freeze. Android keyboard, LG keyboard, Swype... They all do it.
But I can still type on it, it just won't show me a "live-shot" of what I'm typing. When I press the back button(hides keyboard), all the text that I typed would show up. For example, if I type/swype "I like cake", it won't show anything in the text field until I hide/exit out of the keyboard. Then it all the text shows up at once.
I've tried everything I know of. I've done a factory reset on the phone, I've disabled keyboards, I've uninstalled apps. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! This isn't a huge pain because a restart temporarily fixes it, and this phone only takes like 45 seconds to reboot. It's just annoying since it happens several times a day.
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this is strange I have had no issues regarding this whether I was stock or otherwise. If you got it from best buy take it back and get another, I have gone through 3 LGOG until I found one that didnt have strange issues. But I also got mine early. Maybe some of the senior members have had this issue. Good Luck
Thanks for the replies. I'm not rooted and I've installed all the updates they've sent out so far. I've looked online and I haven't been able to find anyone else with this problem...
I got it from AT&T(They matched Best Buy's price for me!) and I have to go there in about a week to get a credit on my bill, so I'll just ask them to try to figure out what's going on.
emath33 said:
Thanks for the replies. I'm not rooted and I've installed all the updates they've sent out so far. I've looked online and I haven't been able to find anyone else with this problem...
I got it from AT&T(They matched Best Buy's price for me!) and I have to go there in about a week to get a credit on my bill, so I'll just ask them to try to figure out what's going on.
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Swap that out when you go. Good luck !
I fixed it. Apparently one of the few apps that I did not uninstall was causing the problem. Tesla LED(Flashlight app) was causing the keyboard to freeze. I have no idea why... That app has nothing to do with the keyboard. But I uninstalled it, installed another flashlight app and haven't had a problem since Tuesday night.
emath33 said:
I fixed it. Apparently one of the few apps that I did not uninstall was causing the problem. Tesla LED(Flashlight app) was causing the keyboard to freeze. I have no idea why... That app has nothing to do with the keyboard. But I uninstalled it, installed another flashlight app and haven't had a problem since Tuesday night.
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Glad you were able to figure it out....love this phone but its so temperamental sometimes
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Glad you were able to figure it out....love this phone but its so temperamental sometimes
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Dude, THANK YOU. Just THANK YOU. Uninstalled and rebooted. Gonna miss my TeslaLED
gutharius said:
Dude, THANK YOU. Just THANK YOU. Uninstalled and rebooted. Gonna miss my TeslaLED
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Hahaha, no problem, man! I installed Tiny Flashlight + LED and added the widget to my home screen. So now all I need to do is tap the widget and the flashlight turns on.
Ya, so I havent downloaded any flashlight app, yet fairly frequently, in messaging, web browsing, and the like, my keyboard stops displaying input (sometimes even gestures in web browsing, such as swiping to move around the screen freeze too). The words and other things i change, such as where in a web page it is focused does take effect after hitting the menu key on the phone. Typing also seems to work regularly in landscape, but im not used to turning it every time i type and id rather not get used to it. It happens with the Android keyboard as well as the LG one, and might be related to the similiar freezing the google voice and swype brought, but im fairly positive i completely uninstalled those, so idk...
NutterButter79 said:
Ya, so I havent downloaded any flashlight app, yet fairly frequently, in messaging, web browsing, and the like, my keyboard stops displaying input (sometimes even gestures in web browsing, such as swiping to move around the screen freeze too). The words and other things i change, such as where in a web page it is focused does take effect after hitting the menu key on the phone. Typing also seems to work regularly in landscape, but im not used to turning it every time i type and id rather not get used to it. It happens with the Android keyboard as well as the LG one, and might be related to the similiar freezing the google voice and swype brought, but im fairly positive i completely uninstalled those, so idk...
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Hey guys I just notice this as well fresh from the att store, although I've only seen it only once. So I'm 100% sure it's not due to rooting/bootloader unlocked. My suspicion is some sort of memory leak in the LG keyboard service (it's loaded as well even though you're using android OS). I clear both keyboard data and reboot, never happened anymore since then.
ssuluh said:
I clear both keyboard data and reboot, never happened anymore since then.
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What exactly do you mean?

[Q] Experiencing very specific force closes.... possible causes/solutions? Any ideas?

I have been experiencing a series of force closes. I am posting this to see if anyone else has experienced this, and whether anyone can suggest a fix. I'm pretty sure it was something I did, but I'm not sure what. I'm hoping that this can maybe narrow it down.
Device: SM-N900P
Firmware: OC5, stock, rooted, with several tweaks and modifications(detailed below).
The problem: I am getting several force closes. They only occur when I am trying to open certain settings. So, they aren't just popping up at random. They are slightly troubling, but not really problematic. Which is to say, aside from the actual force closes themselves, I don't really seem to be experiencing any major problems. Here are the FC's I am experiencing:
-Menu> Settings> General> Battery: This one results in a "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped" dialog box, and an immediate return to my home screen. So, I can't check out my battery usage. I'm not seeing any crazy battery drain. By opening Root Explorer and navigating to data> system> batterystats.bin, and deleting batterystats.bin, the problem is kind of fixed- I can open battery from the settings menu after that. But there is only battery level and state displayed, no usage information(just a message saying it is not available).
-Menu> Settings> General> Developer options> Process Stats: Results in the same dialog box, and the background turns black if I don't press "OK". I'm not even sure what this does, but after my Battery started force closing, I started checking the rest of the settings out.
-Menu> Settings> Connections> Data usage: Dialog box, immediate return to home screen.
The probable cause: hard to say, I've done a few things to it. Like I said, I was hoping that someone would be able to figure out what I've done from the following information about what I have done so far. So, here goes.
I was on NK4, running Priest Punch ROM. I reverted to stock and took the OTA about a week or so ago. I immediately rooted and installed TWRP using the method in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/general/how-to-root-note-3-lollipop-t3089382 .
After rooting, I didn't see a whole lot of OC5 development, so I started poking around to see what kinds of mods I could use. First thing I wanted to do was remove bloat. I started off using Root Explorer, then I happened upon this thread featuring a bloatware removal tool for the T-Mobile variant: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-tmobile/development/tool-utility-sgn3-sm-n900x-bloat-t2813036 . It worked. I removed a bunch of apps, but nothing I wasn't sure I could safely remove(I had to check Google a few times). I did not notice any problems at this time.
Then I installed this mod to pump sound out of both speakers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/development/mod-sm-n900p-surround-sound-t2966042 . I did not notice any problems at this time.
Next, I decided I wanted more fonts, so uninstalled the preloaded fonts and pushed the apk from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2752379 . Again, no problems.
I decided that a working hotspot would be nice, so I used the method in this thread to get one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/general/lollipop-hotspot-root-flashing-t3048163 . I tested it and it worked. No problems.
I really wanted to silence my shutter sound, and I happened upon this Galaxy S4 thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261789 . It worked, and there were no issues. This was my first exposure to csc codes. I found a similar thread for the s6( http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/general/quick-guide-enabling-hidden-features-t3087506 ), and followed the instructions. I was able to enable the camera during calls and enable call recording. No problems here. I tried a keyboard mod from the same thread, which had no effect at all(good or bad), so I reverted the code for that one back.
This is when I think I started to go off the rails a bit. I saw a thread for the Polish variant of the Note 3, N9005. http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...camera-mod-note-3-n9005-lollipop-5-0-t3067827 -it had a neat sounding mod designed to improve camera quality, remove recording time and snapshot restrictions, and make 60fps HD the default camcorder mode. It took a little trial and error to get it installed, but I was making backups of files I was messing with, and was able to quickly and easily reverse any missteps. Again, the mod works fine, and I have noticed no issues. So, I started looking at the dev's other work. Which led me to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/themes-apps/secsettings-mod-17-swipe-charging-t3046032 . I wanted some different unlock effects, and I wasn't really finding them, so I tried his mod out. It was a 3 step process: replace a SecSettings app, copy paste some .ogg files, and finally, copy paste a SustemUI .apk. The first two steps went fine, but the third resulted in a persisitent, repetitive dialog box. I forget what this dialog box said, but it popped up almost as soon as I could press "OK", and I had to restore the backup of SystemUI to make it usable again. Oddly enough, about half of the new unlock animations still worked fine, and I wasn't seeing any problems after that, so I left everything else there. I liked the unlock animations, and they didn't seem to be causing any problems after I restored the original systemUi .apk.
Let's see, what else might be relevant? I was using the built-in task killer quite a bit. I'm also using SetCPU. I have 2 profiles: Screen on, 1728 MHz max, 300 MHz min, governor ondemand. And Screen off, 1036 MHz max, 300 MHz min, governor interactive. And I have installed the Material Power Menu from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-materialpowermenu-reveal-animations-t3059169 .
I started to notice the battery FC last bight. So, I wiped the battery stats as outlined above. Noticed it again today, wiped stats again, and kept checking it. After about an hour, it was force closing again. That's when I started poking around and found the others.
I dunno if anything can be done about this, or if anyone might know what's wrong. And, like I said, Aside from these FC's I'm not experiencing any real problems. I'm a little worried that they may get worse, or turn into something more serious, but I can always restore a backup if that happens. But if there is some kind of fix for these issues, I would use it. Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to read this wall of text, and tale of irresponsible phonery.
These are all settings that monitor usage.... should that tell me anything? I have tried wiping cache and dalvik, but that only seems to fix battery usage and data usage very temporarily(like, for a minute or less). And it doesn't seem to have effect on Process Stats.
My thoughts:
Seeing as you have flashed a lot of mods, it could be anything. If it were me, I'd start the rom from scratch. Then for the first step, instead of removing apps, I'd freeze them with titanium backup and give that a day or two to check the stability.
If that works, I'd continue with the mods one by one, giving a day or so for stability checks.
If you'd rather not do all that, you could use a logcat to find the origin of the problems.
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My thoughts:
Seeing as you have flashed a lot of mods, it could be anything. If it were me, I'd start the rom from scratch. Then for the first step, instead of removing apps, I'd freeze them with titanium backup and give that a day or two to check the stability.
If that works, I'd continue with the mods one by one, giving a day or so for stability checks.
If you'd rather not do all that, you could use a logcat to find the origin of the problems.
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I'd probably try the logcat first. One, because I hate doing stuff over, and two, Ive neber done it before and it should be a learning experience. Is it complicated? I'm assuming there is a thread here on xda about it...
GAPO said:
I'd probably try the logcat first. One, because I hate doing stuff over, and two, Ive neber done it before and it should be a learning experience. Is it complicated? I'm assuming there is a thread here on xda about it...
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It's fairly straight forward. I did one to see why an app wasn't loading, didn't need instructions. But that was a fairly simple check, yours sounds more complicated. I'd do a bit of reading on it.
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jlechner said:
It's fairly straight forward. I did one to see why an app wasn't loading, didn't need instructions. But that was a fairly simple check, yours sounds more complicated. I'd do a bit of reading on it.
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Will do. Thanks for your help!
Okay well I decided to re flash OC5 and start from scratch.
I took it back to stock and re rooted. Am now debloating....no isssues yet.
I have flashed everything except the Polish camera mod and the wallpapers. Having zero issues of any kind. I know it can take difficulties some time to manifest themselves, but I'm betting it is either the lock screen animations or the camera mod. Leaning towards the lock screen animations because it involves messing with system.ui...
Okay, made a new backup and flashed the camera mod. No issues. After every mod, I have been going back and checking for issues. This is all stil pretty new, but if everything is still fine after a couple of days, well, I will be convinced that it was the lock rings. Not surprising obviously that flashing stuff meant for foreign variants can wreck your sh*t, lol.

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