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Play store: Admob Ads

I wake up this morning with a green "+" in my notification bar. So i scroll down the bar and to my dismay its an advertisement.... Adware on my phone! As I'm sure most of you woke up to the same thing, if you updated to the Play Store. Turns out Play store by default has a setting enabled called "admob ads"
I guess it doesnt collect data on how to advertise things for you, so its not technically adware, but pretty damn annoying.
I use my phone for work almost all day long. I barley can stand it when I see google maps show an ad when I search for a clients address.

The ad mob setting has been there for awhile. I have always had it disabled so no adware for me.

jackal516 said:
I guess it doesnt collect data on how to advertise things for you, so its not technically adware, but pretty damn annoying.
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Isn't adware defined by the action of displaying ads rather than collecting data - hence the name adware...
or is my logic too... logical?
Regardless, here is Google's official statement, from the "learn more" link in the admob settings: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/mobile-about.html
It says the exact opposite of your assertion - the admob preference is explicitly to decide whether ads are based on your interests, with no option to stop the collection of data. That setting only decides if the ad server has access to the data, which will be collected either way.
Also, it only pertains to apps that display ads within, with no mention of ads in the status bar - yours had to have been caused by something external to google play; it has nothing to do with the admob preferences. Be sure to confirm this when your next popup occurs, okay? Thanks in advance
EDIT: Here is a screenshot of the Play store's settings screen:
[The new XDA app doesn't seem to upload images properly... stand by for correction via computer...]
It clearly shows that activating the option, rather than turning ads on or off, will decide whether the ads that will be displayed either way are generic or personalized
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It's not Play, it's an app you installed that's spamming you. Download Airpush and see which app it is.

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Well, it seems I can't add a pic when editing a post, but I can make a new one... so here it is
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I agree w/ stir fry. Deff no the market. Some other app spamming you.
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I have had admob on forever.

jackal516 said:
I wake up this morning with a green "+" in my notification bar. So i scroll down the bar and to my dismay its an advertisement.... Adware on my phone! As I'm sure most of you woke up to the same thing, if you updated to the Play Store. Turns out Play store by default has a setting enabled called "admob ads"
I guess it doesnt collect data on how to advertise things for you, so its not technically adware, but pretty damn annoying.
I use my phone for work almost all day long. I barley can stand it when I see google maps show an ad when I search for a clients address.
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Go to you sdcard and view by " Date ". There will be a folder that you'd never seen before as the first folder. I forgot the name but its happened to me too just delete that folder and if you recall the app you downloaded last I would get rid of that too.
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stir fry a lot said:
It's not Play, it's an app you installed that's spamming you. Download Airpush and see which app it is.
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100% it's this. There was a live wallpaper which downloaded the AirPush adware bull****. The removal app on the market worked flawlessly. I keep it still to use when I download any app. The app I got it from came from the Amazon Market...

Android system eating battery!

Hey guys, i got my Samsung S3 yesterday after having my S2x for 8 months. Really happy with the phone except for the battery life. My phone dropped 15% in 1 hour with screen on for 15 minute in Wi-Fi. This is the screen shot of my battery...
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its syncing all your google stuff dude. aka contacts apps and any settings you have set to auto backup.

I'll try turning off sync for the day, see if that helps
Thanks for the reply!
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Syncs a major killer, first think I turn off. If you root, theirs no need for most of the stuff it does

Elite49 said:
Syncs a major killer, first think I turn off. If you root, theirs no need for most of the stuff it does
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Can you explain why rooting eliminates the need for the functions "sync" provides?

Do a factory reset. Syncing has nothing to do with this issue. I sync three emails, facebook and twitter. I am easily getting 15-20 hours with over 2 hours of screen-on time.

rdwing said:
Can you explain why rooting eliminates the need for the functions "sync" provides?
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Because you can use titanium back up for everything, I still use Google sync tho, the first days is the ones the takes the biggest hits after that I think is fine unless you keep updating contact and what not
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I've got the same problem. I may try a factory reset as fillyo suggested.
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If there was a way to sync Google contacts only when a contact has been added on the device or from the web, I'd turn off autosync. The random syncs seem to be my problem, but I'd be up the creek without them.

Don't think sync is the culprit - I have had android phones for quite some time now and they all been sync'ing same amount of data - no such drain. This is something SGS3 specific. There's a lot of modules listed under Android System. One thing I suspect is that I switched network to EvDo/CDMA/Something/WCDMA, which might be not a particular good idea. Turned back to CDMA only, since LTE is not available here just yet (waiting for this damn Sunday!) and will see if that improves the stats.

having the same problem in my Verizon s3
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I had GPS toggled on the past 2 days and got horrible battery life and high Android System use.
Toggled it off today and it has been much better.
The weather app likes to use it. And I also noticed it firing on randomly. Just turn it off. Maybe it's the GLONASS support, but it sucks down battery particularly well.
I wish Google would separate out Location permissions from GPS permissions. Then in CM9/10 we could just uncheck GPS permissions.
Some apps I like general location, but they have no business using GPS.

Why is Google hogging up ALL of my data??!!

So I got a text from T-Mobile telling me that I went over my 2GB Data limit for the month. I was really confused because I barely even use 1GB in a whole month. I checked my settings and I saw what I have posted in the pictures. What can I do to stop this? Anyone ever had this happen to them? Any help will be appreciated!
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Same problem as u. From my understanding it's the 4.3 update that is continuing to try and download in the background. There is a few fixes floating around but none of them have work for me.
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jlg19753 said:
Same problem as u. From my understanding it's the 4.3 update that is continuing to try and download in the background. There is a few fixes floating around but none of them have work for me.
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Can you link me to those fixes? I've looked around and I haven't found anything

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[Q] Google Services - huge data usage

If you have a custom recovery, try yourzgapps.

I think you should have a look at your google+ backup options... It's probably backing up all your pictures.

SubyWill said:
So I got a text from T-Mobile telling me that I went over my 2GB Data limit for the month. I was really confused because I barely even use 1GB in a whole month. I checked my settings and I saw what I have posted in the pictures. What can I do to stop this? Anyone ever had this happen to them? Any help will be appreciated!
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google + settings, make sure your picture backup is set to wifi only.. each time you flash a new rom check that to ensure it's not hogging your data

To fix the google service data feast without losing battery life or connection to the servers do the following:
1) Download autorun manager.
2) Open it and picked advanced(recommended).
3) In setting check show system entries.
4) Go back to the main screen and on the left top corner pick system apps.
5) find google service framework and expands it.
6) find systemUpdateService$Receiver and uncheck it (should be the last one).
7) You can also uncheck systemUpdateService$SecretCode just in case( I got it disabled).

I check my Google+ settings and everything was checked off. I'm going to download autorun manager and try that. Thanks!

Install FOTAKILL http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249350

kishke said:
To fix the google service data feast without losing battery life or connection to the servers do the following:
1) Download autorun manager.
2) Open it and picked advanced(recommended).
3) In setting check show system entries.
4) Go back to the main screen and on the left top corner pick system apps.
5) find google service framework and expands it.
6) find systemUpdateService$Receiver and uncheck it (should be the last one).
7) You can also uncheck systemUpdateService$SecretCode just in case( I got it disabled).
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Will this cause a wakelock

bringonblink said:
Will this cause a wakelock
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FOTAKILL is the solution and has been for years and years. Its a simple flash of an apk, give it a try

bringonblink said:
Will this cause a wakelock
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No wakelocks at all.

kishke said:
No wakelocks at all.
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Seems to have done the trick:good:

[Q] Anyone know what's going on here?

I have a Tmobile Note 3 and I am getting, in my opinion, horrible battery life, can anyone she'd some light on what's going on?/offer a fix? For the record this is rooted, however the problem was there since I got the phone
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Rcairl3 said:
I have a Tmobile Note 3 and I am getting, in my opinion, horrible battery life, can anyone she'd some light on what's going on?/offer a fix? For the record this is rooted, however the problem was there since I got the phone
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get this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.batrsaverpro&hl=en_GB

The latest firmware update has made battery life even worse.

Looks like a classic case of over-syncing...
Exhange services = Non-Gmail Sync. That won't cause a wakelock if it's set to manual.
Do you actually use Google Play Music? No? Disable it.
Do you have location services on?

ShadowLea said:
Looks like a classic case of over-syncing...
Exhange services = Non-Gmail Sync. That won't cause a wakelock if it's set to manual.
Do you actually use Google Play Music? No? Disable it.
Do you have location services on?
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What would be your main tips for saving battery life
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craigels said:
What would be your main tips for saving battery life
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If you're willing to sacrifice a bit of functionality for good old fashioned manual control, the best things to do are:
- Turn off all Sync options (so you have to manually retrieve email, update facebook and such)
- Turn off WiFi when you're not using it
- Turn off Mobile Data when you're not actively using it (when you turn off auto sync, leaving mobile data on is a bit pointless. ) This makes about 2 days of difference.
- Kill off as much bloatware as you can, the amount possible differs between root and non-root. (I'm not rooted.) Particularly the Google Play related and Samsung Hub apps tend to remain active even if you never use them. We never even had Google Play Music and Books here as they were US only, and yet the apps kept running anyway.
- Set the screen brightness as low as you find comfortable. I know the screen is gorgeous, but it's also one of the main drains
- Turn off GPS and all location settings (in both Settings and in Maps.)
- Disable all auto-update features in Google Play, Android itself and such
- Don't run too many widgets
- Black eats less battery than white in terms of screen drain (as black on AmoLED is a disabled led.) So a black background/wallpaper/theme on something will drain less than a White one. (Which makes all the white websites twice as irritating.)
If you get a decent battery life with all these settings, you can then decide one by one what is and isn't worth turning back on.

With 4.3, I believe Google services has started eating more battery. Have the same issue on note 2 4.3
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ShadowLea said:
Looks like a classic case of over-syncing...
Exhange services = Non-Gmail Sync. That won't cause a wakelock if it's set to manual.
Do you actually use Google Play Music? No? Disable it.
Do you have location services on?
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So meanwhile you troll my thread and not this question weird e?
OP... are you in the return period?

Android OS causes a lot of mobile data traffic (730 mb per month!!)

Hey guys,
I really have a problem here. For the last few weeks, my S5 is downloading stuff. With the data usage app I could track it down to Android. Last month, it downloaded 730 mb. I only have a 1 gig data plan, so it is really annoying.
Do you have an idea how to solve this?
Cheers,
Sven

Settings > Connections > Data Usage
Scroll down to 'App usage'
Find offending app/service
Tap to open App data usage for that app
Check box that says "Restrict background data"
Repeat for all bad apps using your data

I would have done that, but the app is called Android OS and for this app, the restricted background data option isn't available
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Settings > Connections > Data Usage
Scroll down to 'App usage'
Find offending app/service
Tap to open App data usage for that app
Check box that says "Restrict background data"
Repeat for all bad apps using your data
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Are you sure that the 750 MB are really traffic and are transfered from your provider. I've had a smiliar problem with my N7100 but there the showed traffic wasn't "real" traffic. And my data plan wasn't affected. I had no clue what it finally was.

Lukas Nussbaum said:
Are you sure that the 750 MB are really traffic and are transfered from your provider. I've had a smiliar problem with my N7100 but there the showed traffic wasn't "real" traffic. And my data plan wasn't affected. I had no clue what it finally was.
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Unfortunately, yes. Orange or rather Salt sent me an over limit message, almost in the middle of the month. Quite annoying.

svenvaeth said:
I would have done that, but the app is called Android OS and for this app, the restricted background data option isn't available
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Android Operating System on my phone is around 5 - 6 MB's per month, this amount of data sounds more like an OTA update, in Settings > System > About Device under Software Updates you do have the WiFi Only option ticked so it wont use your data in relation to any updates just WiFi

ag4751 said:
Android Operating System on my phone is around 5 - 6 MB's per month, this amount of data sounds more like an OTA update, in Settings > System > About Device under Software Updates you do have the WiFi Only option ticked so it wont use your data in relation to any updates just WiFi
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Sorry, didn't mention that I use the Phoenix 6.3 ROM.
I already froze the Phoenix OTA, but in About Device, there is no way to chose Wifi only anymore, since Phoenix took over. It just says "your system is up to date".
Could it be a solution to freeze also the OTA of Samsung? If so, where can I find it? What's the apk or process that I need to freeze?

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These are the 3 apps that I froze (with Titanium Backup) to prevent Samsung OTA's........
I wasn't sure which one controlled the firmware update so I froze all 3. So far, I haven't seen any loss of functionality as a result (other than not being reminded to upgrade the OS).......

Damn it...I actually thought I found the solution. I defrosted all the apps and it seemed to stop downloading, but it's not. Android OS downloaded so far 679 MB of data this month. Backups are off, no Software updates, no other sync except android-sync for contacts and calendar. But that's USB sync.
Does anybody have an idea what Android OS downloads or how to stop it? There is no restricted background option available.