4/30/2023 0 Comments Screen on screen pop upsIf you think I need to create a new thread, please tell me and I'll do it.Welcome to the forums. If you think I need to create a new thread, please tell me and I'll do it. So I'm now here, hoping any of you have any suggestion for me. So my best bet would be to be able to identify the app with the app switcher, but with the app disapearing too fast I don't know what to do. I tried using malewarebyte (the scan find nothing) and addons detector to check the apps with permissions to overlap things and uninstalled each one by one, but the ads keep coming. I tried looking for apps with similar icon but it took the System UI icon so that's a deadend for now. I just got a new Nokia 7 plus, made the update to android 9 and installed all my previous apps with which I never had any issues, plus some new to replace old apps that were not maintained (utilitarian, like a kitchen timer).Īnd now I have the same issues as described here, either popup ads or fullscreen ads appearing while doing my everyday things on the phone.įollowing the advices found here I managed to have a glimpse of the offending app in the app switcher, however it disapears before I have the time to click the icon. The key: do a "long press" on an icon in the "Recent Apps Overview" to reveal the true name of the App to be able to delete it.įirst of all, thanks for the tips and help in this thread, and sorry to unearth a Solved case. There is a "Google Protect" feature in the Play Store app, but it claimed that all of the apps on my phone were fine and did not complain about this app that had been removed from the Google Store as malware. (You can google for to see these news items.) However, these malware apps are apparently still on ~500,000 phones that originally downloaded them. This is because when these malware apps were discovered and made public sometime in the past 6-12 months, Google deleted them from the Play Store. But before doing that, at the bottom, of that page, it indicates that it was downloaded from the Google Play Store, but clicking on it to go to the Google Play store just gives the error message "Item not found, retry". There you can disable the app and uninstall it. Click on the info button, which takes you to the Application Manager, for that app. Then the correct name will be revealed, and an "info" icon will appear to the right. I tried turning off notifications for most of my apps but that didn't fix it.Īs stated above, the trick is that when one is in the "Recent Apps Overview", do a "long press" on the icon of the malware app, to the left of where the name should be. I looked through my list of apps, and didn't see any with no name. It would only display for a few seconds and then disappear, so I couldn't use other tools to try to find what it was. (It had a name, but it was being hidden). But the app that was showing the ads apparently had no name. I knew to go to the "Recent Apps Overview", which on my Samsung Note 5 was a button at the lower left, to the left of the Home button. The symptoms I faced were that a malware app was randomly showing full-screen pop-up ads on my phone, including loud music an inopportune times. Here in this post I will add some key words that I was previously searching for to try to fix the problem, to hopefully help others find this fix of how to delete malware apps with no name or a hidden name or that appear to be a hidden app. I've suffered with this problem for a couple of months, and spent a lot of time searching the web and trying things (short of a factory reset) that didn't work. Thank you! This fix finally worked for me.
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