I just recently updated to 5.0.1 through a forced OTA which I'm still not happy about. With the recent changes to the lock screen notifications I'm not encountering a irritating problem. Before when I got an SMS and would normally select it from the lock screen and it would bring me to the SMS app and display the message. Now when I select the same notification I get an extra 'swipe to unlock' with an empty box. I prefer to have a swipe lock screen so that I don't pocket dial, no security concerns. Is there a way to remove this extra step without permanently disabling the lock screen as a whole? Thank you in advance.
So I recently bought the Moto G4 Amazon Prime Edition(Lock screen Ads and Offers) and had been searching through forums on a way to remove them. Now I know there are plenty of threads on how to remove them but me being not very tech savvy was having a hard time. After the Android 7.0 Nougat update I came across a hidden feature called System UI Tuner. Inside this hidden feature was a setting called Power Notifications. I enabled this feature and tested it out. After a bit of toying with it I discovered you can set app notifications to Level 0 which meant no notifications would be received. I went to the Amazon Offers app in the Notification settings and changed it to block all notifications on the lock screen, when i went to change it to Level 0 I discovered it was stopped from doing so, I could change notifications from level 1 to level 5, but not to level 0. I shut off the screen and powered it back on and whaddya know, all lock screen ads were gone. Here are the steps in detail.
Method #1
1. Pull down the notification shade from the home screen.
2. See the Settings cogwheel at the top right hand corner? Tap and hold on it for around 10 seconds.
3. Once you let go after 10 seconds, you’ll be taken straight to the Settings app with a prompt saying that System UI Tuner has been enabled.
4. You can access the new entry by scrolling all the way down in Settings.
5. Once your in System UI Tuner select the Other option
6. In the Other section select Power notification controls
7. Enable Power notification controls by pressing the little slider on the screen.
8. Now that you have enabled this, go into Settings and then into Notifications
9. Scroll through your list of apps and select Amazon Offers
10. Press the green A to the left of the slider and drag the slider to Level 1
11. Right Below the slider is an option that says "On the lock screen"
12. Press this and select "dont show notifications at all".
You have now removed the ads from the lockscreen of your Moto G4. Hope this method helped you and feel free to leave feedback
Method #2
1. Install Clean Master from the Play Store
2. Open Clean Master and select the 4 squared button at the bottom of the screen that says Tools
3. Under the Useful Shortcuts tab, select Notification Cleaner.
4. Grant the necessary permissions and Enable this feature.
5. Those annoying lock screen ads will now be removed as long as this app is installed.
6. You can go 1 step further and use the same process above and remove notifications from Clean Master.
7. Your phone will now have no ads and no notifications from Clean Master saying you have blocked ads.
Hope this method helped, Feel free to leave feedback
Edit, I worked at the beginning, but after 10 minutes they showed again: s
josegn26 said:
Edit, I worked at the beginning, but after 10 minutes they showed again: s
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did you move both the slider and set the lock screen bar to "receive no notifications? Also is your phone updated to Nougat?
Didn't work
Neither method now works. In the first method no button appears to block notifications and lowest setting is a one. In the second "Amazon Offers" app does not appear in list of apps.
Method 1 worked for me. Then I rebooted my phone. Now the ads are back after reboot. I then disabled power notifications and then turned it back on and went through all the steps again and the ads are gone again. I'm waiting to see if this will last until I reboot. I don't reboot my phone very often so this could just have to be done after a reboot.
Edit: well that didn't take long. The ads are back after unlocking my phone a couple times. This is for method 1. I haven't tried method 2. It appears Amazon thought about this possibility.
Edit 2: After using my phone for a while with the power notification settings left active it seems that if any other notification is on the lock screen then the Amazon ads notification does not show since it is a level 1 priority. If there are no notifications, then the Amazon ad shows. So method 1 does work if there are any other notifications showing. It is pretty easy to have a notification showing at all times.
method 2 works for me.
However, I started getting persistent clean master notifications. Used method 1 to get rid of clean master notifications. XD
Edit:
Also it'd be helpful to open settings>apps>show system apps (by clicking on three dots)
Now open amazon offers. Scroll to the bottom, click on modify system settings, disable "Allow modify system settings". This should hopefully stop the app from changing notification priorities.
Neither method work with newest versions.
Method 1: slider is controlled by app
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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Method 2: Due to no notification ad, full screen ad is displayed instead.
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Working non-root Method:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4/how-to/remove-amazon-ads-automation-tools-root-t3578646
Didn't work for me
ethancwhite said:
So I recently bought the Moto G4 Amazon Prime Edition(Lock screen Ads and Offers) and had been searching through forums on a way to remove them. Now I know there are plenty of threads on how to remove them but me being not very tech savvy was having a hard time. After the Android 7.0 Nougat update I came across a hidden feature called System UI Tuner. Inside this hidden feature was a setting called Power Notifications. I enabled this feature and tested it out. After a bit of toying with it I discovered you can set app notifications to Level 0 which meant no notifications would be received. I went to the Amazon Offers app in the Notification settings and changed it to block all notifications on the lock screen, when i went to change it to Level 0 I discovered it was stopped from doing so, I could change notifications from level 1 to level 5, but not to level 0. I shut off the screen and powered it back on and whaddya know, all lock screen ads were gone. Here are the steps in detail.
Method #1
1. Pull down the notification shade from the home screen.
2. See the Settings cogwheel at the top right hand corner? Tap and hold on it for around 10 seconds.
3. Once you let go after 10 seconds, you’ll be taken straight to the Settings app with a prompt saying that System UI Tuner has been enabled.
4. You can access the new entry by scrolling all the way down in Settings.
5. Once your in System UI Tuner select the Other option
6. In the Other section select Power notification controls
7. Enable Power notification controls by pressing the little slider on the screen.
8. Now that you have enabled this, go into Settings and then into Notifications
9. Scroll through your list of apps and select Amazon Offers
10. Press the green A to the left of the slider and drag the slider to Level 1
11. Right Below the slider is an option that says "On the lock screen"
12. Press this and select "dont show notifications at all".
You have now removed the ads from the lockscreen of your Moto G4. Hope this method helped you and feel free to leave feedback
Method #2
1. Install Clean Master from the Play Store
2. Open Clean Master and select the 4 squared button at the bottom of the screen that says Tools
3. Under the Useful Shortcuts tab, select Notification Cleaner.
4. Grant the necessary permissions and Enable this feature.
5. Those annoying lock screen ads will now be removed as long as this app is installed.
6. You can go 1 step further and use the same process above and remove notifications from Clean Master.
7. Your phone will now have no ads and no notifications from Clean Master saying you have blocked ads.
Hope this method helped, Feel free to leave feedback
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I have a brand new MOTO G4 Play unlocked w/v6.0.1 (Marshmallow) with (Lock screen Ads and Offers) I activated System UI Tuner and do not have the "Other" option. Where to now?
Thanks,
Does not work with Motorola X4.
ethancwhite said:
So I recently bought the Moto G4 Amazon Prime Edition(Lock screen Ads and Offers) and had been searching through forums on a way to remove them. Now I know there are plenty of threads on how to remove them but me being not very tech savvy was having a hard time. After the Android 7.0 Nougat update I came across a hidden feature called System UI Tuner. Inside this hidden feature was a setting called Power Notifications. I enabled this feature and tested it out. After a bit of toying with it I discovered you can set app notifications to Level 0 which meant no notifications would be received. I went to the Amazon Offers app in the Notification settings and changed it to block all notifications on the lock screen, when i went to change it to Level 0 I discovered it was stopped from doing so, I could change notifications from level 1 to level 5, but not to level 0. I shut off the screen and powered it back on and whaddya know, all lock screen ads were gone. Here are the steps in detail.
Method #1
1. Pull down the notification shade from the home screen.
2. See the Settings cogwheel at the top right hand corner? Tap and hold on it for around 10 seconds.
3. Once you let go after 10 seconds, you’ll be taken straight to the Settings app with a prompt saying that System UI Tuner has been enabled.
4. You can access the new entry by scrolling all the way down in Settings.
5. Once your in System UI Tuner select the Other option
6. In the Other section select Power notification controls
7. Enable Power notification controls by pressing the little slider on the screen.
8. Now that you have enabled this, go into Settings and then into Notifications
9. Scroll through your list of apps and select Amazon Offers
10. Press the green A to the left of the slider and drag the slider to Level 1
11. Right Below the slider is an option that says "On the lock screen"
12. Press this and select "dont show notifications at all".
You have now removed the ads from the lockscreen of your Moto G4. Hope this method helped you and feel free to leave feedback
Method #2
1. Install Clean Master from the Play Store
2. Open Clean Master and select the 4 squared button at the bottom of the screen that says Tools
3. Under the Useful Shortcuts tab, select Notification Cleaner.
4. Grant the necessary permissions and Enable this feature.
5. Those annoying lock screen ads will now be removed as long as this app is installed.
6. You can go 1 step further and use the same process above and remove notifications from Clean Master.
7. Your phone will now have no ads and no notifications from Clean Master saying you have blocked ads.
Hope this method helped, Feel free to leave feedback
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I tried this on my new Moto X4. I was able to set it to 0 but it did not remove the lock screen ads. Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you.
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I tried this method on my X4 with no luck. However, I was able to set the value to 0 for the Amazon App but not for the Amazon offers as this app is listed as system app. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks... Method 2 So Far So Good
Tried method 1 on G5 Plus and did not work.
Tried method 2 and it worked like a charm. ??
Method #1
1. Pull down the notification shade from the home screen.
2. See the Settings cogwheel at the top right hand corner? Tap and hold on it for around 10 seconds.
3. Once you let go after 10 seconds, you’ll be taken straight to the Settings app with a prompt saying that System UI Tuner has been enabled.
4. You can access the new entry by scrolling all the way down in Settings.
5. Once your in System UI Tuner select the Other option
6. In the Other section select Power notification controls
7. Enable Power notification controls by pressing the little slider on the screen.
8. Now that you have enabled this, go into Settings and then into Notifications
9. Scroll through your list of apps and select Amazon Offers
10. Press the green A to the left of the slider and drag the slider to Level 1
11. Right Below the slider is an option that says "On the lock screen"
12. Press this and select "dont show notifications at all".
You have now removed the ads from the lockscreen of your Moto G4. Hope this method helped you and feel free to leave feedback
Method #2
1. Install Clean Master from the Play Store
2. Open Clean Master and select the 4 squared button at the bottom of the screen that says Tools
3. Under the Useful Shortcuts tab, select Notification Cleaner.
4. Grant the necessary permissions and Enable this feature.
5. Those annoying lock screen ads will now be removed as long as this app is installed.
6. You can go 1 step further and use the same process above and remove notifications from Clean Master.
7. Your phone will now have no ads and no notifications from Clean Master saying you have blocked ads.
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Please where is this function? And battery optimization permission.... Are same things ? Thank
From what I've been able to determine, there is no 'protected apps' menu option on Emui 8.
The place to adjust them is in - Settings - Battery - Launch. Personally I find Huawei's management way too agressive, so I turned off managing all automatically. Then in batch manually set everything to allowed and let Android sort it out. It doesn't seem to have made any difference to my battery life, but at least most notifications seem to work now. You could manually set only the ones you want to allow to run in the background though and it might help.
From settings - battery I also went into the settings icon top right and turned off the 'power intensive prompt' option because it was annoying - Google maps is SUPPOSED to be using frequent positioning, and my podcast app isn't much use if it isn't running in the background!
The whole power management seems to be designed for a phone with a tiny battery, where micro management is needed - but on a phone with the largest battery out of any flagship it seems needlessly aggressive....
Edit: It is also possible in the running apps/recent apps screen to click the lock icon on a program which is supposed to prevent Android from closing that app - but not sure how effective that is on EMUI.
Hello to all. I have installed in huawei mate 10 pro and I would like to use an application to notify gmail emails and whatsapp messages on always on display. use led blinker application that works properly when the phone is charging, while when it is without cable the notifications arrive only when I turn on the screen. I can think that it is a protection of consumption but I have activated all possibilities. could someone tell me what I could activate to solve this problem? thank you
This does exist. It's in the recent apps page (bottom left/right button, depending on your settings).
If you press the lock icon on an app it should "lock" the app from automatically closing.
It also prevents that app closing when you tap the recycle bin icon in the recent apps page.
This is exactly what I need, but I am running EMUI 9 on mate 10 pro and I cannot find this "lock"!! Yet I am sure I have seen it at some point in time... X-(
I just got the Android Pie/EMUI 9 upgrade last week and I found the lock by accident. When viewing your apps in the recents view, find the app you want to lock and drag it down towards the trash icon. You should now see the lock icon for that app at the top, and it should be protected from clearing recents. Clicking the lock or dragging it down again should toggle the lock.
On recent apps list, slide down the app window to lock - lock pad on top. Slide again to unlock
I decided to install Whatsapp to see what's all that hype about, and after using it for a while I was kinda terrified - it is impossible to close this application and it seems to bypass some system restrictions, so basically it is a legal trojan type malware.
- there is no function to "logout" or close Whatsapp from inside the application.
- the usual "swipe away from Recent Apps list" does not close Whatsapp.
- when I long press a Back key, a message "App killed" appears, but nothing happens - Whatsapp still works. WTF?
- Whatsapp is not listed in Settings -> Developer Options -> Running Services list. WTF x2?
- When I press "Force Stop" in Settings -> Apps -> Whatsapp, nothing happens. "Force stop? if you force stop an app, it may misbehave" - I press OK, but "Force Stop" button is still active and Whatsapp still works. WTF x3?
- later I disallowed a "Start at boot" and "Run in background" permissions in Privacy Guard and rebooted the phone. the recent apps list was empty, but as soon as I enabled internet connection I received a few messages in Whatsapp - so in fact it started at the boot time and was running in background. WTF x4?
Privacy Guard shows counters "denied 45023 times" and "denied 6 times" under "Run in background" and "Start on boot" permissions respectively, but it does not seem to work - Whatsapp starts automatically after reboot.
I have never met such an application before - which is impossible to "Force Stop" and which could evade the long Back key press. Also Privacy Guard seems to work for all other apps, except Whatsapp.
so, did anyone noticed the same behavior, and is there a guaranteed way to close Whatsapp and forbid it from running automatically at the boot time or when I connect to the internet?
*UPDATE: i found Whatsapp in Settings -> Developer Options -> Running Services list -> Show Cached Processes, but pressing "Stop" button there did not help too.
Just uninstall it
Is there anyway of hiding this nag prompt about using full screen display?
Some of the business apps I use don't support this option and on occasion I have caught the setting, the app then force close's.
I only get app's working again after changing in settings.
Anything I can do to hide or disable this prompt or function?
M20 pro on .187