Chrome browser on pc - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have tried to download 2 roms xnote and s5 rom to my pc and chrome extension warn me as malicious softwares with message ''zip may harm your browsing experience so chrome has blocked'' .
There is option only for dismiss not keep.
Anyone manage to get rid of these?
Even I don't understand why it is marked as dangerous.
thanks for advices guys

Crome doesn't give me this error. Try with another browser

Have had such messages, have also managed to keep the file. There is a way to bypass it, but I am unable to recreate the situation and can't remember the method by heart.

It happened to me too. I had a screen dimmer enabled.
It sounds stupid, and don't ask me why, but that was causing it.
Sent from my N9005

I will try another browser that is not a problem.. Thanks for responds but I'm curious why it Google consider like harmful software.

Solution
For anyone facing this problem when the message is show up just go to downloads and click recover malicious software.
The remaining question is.. is that safe or not
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Ppictures and ads popping out in my screen

Hi,
After downloading few free applications in my hero, some pictures and ads started popping out every few seconds in my screen. Mostly pictures of the Android depiction doing some stuff like eating or visiting places like Paris and stuff. Also, some advertisement to download videos.
How can I stop this from happening? Is there a virus scanner or a spam blocker I can use?
Please help.
htchero2 said:
Hi,
After downloading few free applications in my hero, some pictures and ads started popping out every few seconds in my screen. Mostly pictures of the Android depiction doing some stuff like eating or visiting places like Paris and stuff. Also, some advertisement to download videos.
How can I stop this from happening? Is there a virus scanner or a spam blocker I can use?
Please help.
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Can't you just go into market and uninstall the apps you added?
Failing that, connect via adb and use adb shell to remove the apk files (presuming you're rooted).
If you aren't rooted or don't know about adb, ask or search. There are antivirus things available, but I'd just remove the apps.
Also, if you find the offending app, post its name here so others can avoid it (only if you find out which one).
HTH
Thank you for your reply.
Well, I was not sure which program installed this thing in my phone, so I un-installed all software that I downloaded. However, that did not resolve the issue. I still have the same problem.
Any advice?
Thank you..
htchero2 said:
Thank you for your reply.
Well, I was not sure which program installed this thing in my phone, so I un-installed all software that I downloaded. However, that did not resolve the issue. I still have the same problem.
Any advice?
Thank you..
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Backup your contacts and other important media and factory reset the device maybe?
Thats a bit of a worry this! Not to scare you or anything, but that sounds like some form of virus/hijacking/trojan or something!
Why not install a "task killers" application and see if you can kill a particular process that is showing those ads.
If you find the right one, it might give you some indication what application created it - but do let us know if you do find out!
Or you can just write down the list of installed apps on your Hero here and then someone can take a look at the list?
Thank you guys. I found the problem, and it was due to the installation of a scientific calculator from the free market. Once I removed it, things went back to normal.
many thanks.
Do you fancy naming and shaming the app? Then no-one else will have to go through this again. Oh, and make sure you give it 1* and a negative comment on the market.
Perhaps we need an 'apps wall of shame' for any apps that do things such as this... Then we could look up any apps before downloading if they looked suspicious.
htchero2 said:
Thank you guys. I found the problem, and it was due to the installation of a scientific calculator from the free market. Once I removed it, things went back to normal.
many thanks.
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You might give us the name of the app so that others can get a chance to stay away from it?
I find the AdFree app invaluable in the fight againt annoying ads in other apps.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-bigtincan-android-adfree-zxC.aspx
If you can't get the host file to download 1st time click Revert and then download the host file again. Should work.

Browser Error

Ever since the latest 2.2 update I've been experiencing a LOT of odd browser behavior - One of the most annoying one is:
"Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error"
But really nothing ever loads. Now if I restart the phone completely there's a good chance that the page will display with no problems.
Is anyone experiencing the same thing? Is there a fix for it? Any help would be greatly appreciated as this has become quite a pita and renders the phone useless for anything else than phone calls.
Thanks!
?? Never heard of that problem before.... which ROM are you on? Try force stopping browser from application settings instead of rebooting the phone.
TeckniX said:
Ever since the latest 2.2 update I've been experiencing a LOT of odd browser behavior - One of the most annoying one is:
"Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error"
But really nothing ever loads. Now if I restart the phone completely there's a good chance that the page will display with no problems.
Is anyone experiencing the same thing? Is there a fix for it? Any help would be greatly appreciated as this has become quite a pita and renders the phone useless for anything else than phone calls.
Thanks!
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Running:
Android 2.2
Kernel 2.6.32.9-27227
Build number: FRF91
Pretty much the default OTA update provided by Google
I've never seen this problem. Go to application settings and then choose "Clear Data" (it will clear all your bookmarks and cache), then Force Stop to restart the browser.
I went ahead and cleared everything - Even did a fresh flash from the latest ROM obtained from google.
Same issue - One of the main site that keeps throwing these errors is yfrog.com - Anyone on their nexus one feel like checking this link:
http://yfrog.com/0mihazj
Error is:
line 36 at column 10: Opening and ending tag mismatch: link line 0 and script
I think the line is wrong, and it's probably looking at the xhtml validation failing since the 2 css link tags weren't closed properly. Pretty GAYYY if you ask me. When did I ask my Android phone to care about mis-match tags??
TeckniX said:
Ever since the latest 2.2 update I've been experiencing a LOT of odd browser behavior - One of the most annoying one is:
"Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error"
But really nothing ever loads. Now if I restart the phone completely there's a good chance that the page will display with no problems.
Is anyone experiencing the same thing? Is there a fix for it? Any help would be greatly appreciated as this has become quite a pita and renders the phone useless for anything else than phone calls.
Thanks!
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just so you know...you are not alone in this issue, i have had some strange issues too....using the stock browser, i will be on cnn's website, click a link , and all i get is a blank page, it never loads to the link i clicked...i have no work-around other than using dolphin which i have no issues with at all.
Sweet - Finally someone else is having that problem
I've installed dolphinHD and kinda liking it.
Just wished the default browser would work too.
For ****s and giggles I opened up a 'bug' on google:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10035
Who knows maybe someone will look at it.
that yfrog.com page opens perfectly fine for me with no errors.
Using:
Cyanogen 6.0 RC1

samsung Galaxy Grand Prime tabs error message

Hi, can anyone help me on this.
When i use the internet, and it needs to go to another page or tab, an error message appears that says I have consumed all 16 tabs and should close some if not all. I check and only have a few open. I close all except for the internet, and , its still the same error message and does not make the phone go to the next part of the website I am looking at.
Use to happen once in awhile, but, now always.
Anyone pls assist
Thanks,
Bert
zoeway said:
Hi, can anyone help me on this.
When i use the internet, and it needs to go to another page or tab, an error message appears that says I have consumed all 16 tabs and should close some if not all. I check and only have a few open. I close all except for the internet, and , its still the same error message and does not make the phone go to the next part of the website I am looking at.
Use to happen once in awhile, but, now always.
Anyone pls assist
Thanks,
Bert
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Which mobile browser are you using? Assuming it's either the Samsung stock browser, try in chrome and try downloading Firefox from the play store to see if the error reproduces in other browsers
Edit; when you say you close some "except the internet" are you referencing apps? Because that would be a memory issue and not a browser tabs issue so be sure to check the tabs in your browser, not in your recent apps screen.
Got it
Thank you. I was using the Samsung internet app. When I used chrome, didn't have the problem anymore.
zoeway said:
Thank you. I was using the Samsung internet app. When I used chrome, didn't have the problem anymore.
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Great, if I was able to help, pressing the the thanks button below my post would be appreciated
P.s I don't think there is an issue with the Samsung Browser itself, it's layout can be quite awkward but there should be a button near the top right that lists all of your open tabs with an option to close them!.

Screen overlay problem!

Normally I'd have this issue fixed per the typical ways to fix but as of yesterday I cannot change any permissions nor can I access my camera or video files. Before you go into the rant of going into settings and disabling any apps that use screen overlay I have done that to every single app and system app as well as disabled the accessibility options....I still get the message. Any clues that might be helpful? I have Build MRA58k version BLU_R0011UU_v21_GENERIC 05-05-2017 short of doing a twerp recovery to an old image I don't know what to do.
Talzoid said:
Normally I'd have this issue fixed per the typical ways to fix but as of yesterday I cannot change any permissions nor can I access my camera or video files. Before you go into the rant of going into settings and disabling any apps that use screen overlay I have done that to every single app and system app as well as disabled the accessibility options....I still get the message. Any clues that might be helpful? I have Build MRA58k version BLU_R0011UU_v21_GENERIC 05-05-2017 short of doing a twerp recovery to an old image I don't know what to do.
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Please more deatil on your problem.
what are you tring to do?
what app cannot access photo files?
and also try search the forrum for "overlay" I think there was one other disscussion about it, dont remember if anything got resovled or not.
Here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/r1-hd/how-to/unlock-tool-t3561333/page23
start at post 222-- its not much help but I knew this had been disscussed before.
mrmazak said:
Please more deatil on your problem.
what are you tring to do?
what app cannot access photo files?
and also try search the forrum for "overlay" I think there was one other disscussion about it, dont remember if anything got resovled or not.
Here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/r1-hd/how-to/unlock-tool-t3561333/page23
start at post 222-- its not much help but I knew this had been discussed before.
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I am trying to change my permissions so that I can use my phone for recording videos but it refuses to let me view any of my files in my gallery. It doesn't matter if I go through the app or if try to view it through a file viewer such as file manager, nothing will let me access them. In fact I can not change permissions for any app, can't change what can and cannot access my storage, can not change what accesses my phone, nothing can be changed. It's not just those apps, every app I try to change permissions for has the same message. As I stated before I have disabled ALL draw over other apps, System as well as normal but the message still pops up even after a reboot........It all started 3 days ago, I didn't install anything new and as far as my security programs show, I have not been infected with a virus or malwear....
Just an update... 9 days and still not fixed... I have had to install different programs for some of my functionality back however I still cannot change any permissions... Some apps will allow me to tap outside of the notification and still use them however some things I still cannot do such as view recently recorded vids or recently taken pictures. Still hoping someone can find a fix for this issue.

Hi there!! Strange behavior in my Note 3 SM-9005 with Havoc-OS 3.7 using voice match

First, I asked this question in the Havoc download forum and seems to be in this one so here I go again, I´m from Spain and my english is quite short so please be gentle if I do something wrong, there´s nothing that I could teach or contribute, only my experience like a noob user.
I´m a normal user and it´s quite amazing for me that I did what Havoc-OS intructions said for installation and run at the first time, so good for you that made that a guy like me did not brick my Note 3 :angel:
I´ll try to explain what I did since my phone has Havoc 3.7 last weekend :
My note 3 is running, all the things that I use to work with is running fine, I checked almost everything and from wifi, phone calls, sms in and out, gps, google maps, music, mp3 (I play guitar and sometimes I use the phone to practice), I also changed the ring tone with one created by myself (and ACDC cover...), like I said almost everything is running like new, what it´s bothering me and I try to fix (because I´m stubborn) is the google assistant, it has happened to you that only a tiny thing is not running and even you don´t need it you have the need to how to fix it? That´s what is happening to me.
I can use the google assistant and the kindly girl answer me what I ask when I play the button but it´s impossible to me to get voice match configuration to use Ok Google, and I received near 60 messages each day with error trying to connect.
I try everything (in Havoc forum a kindly member advise me to clear data and cache) and did not fix it, I uninstalled google and google assistant and installed again and always when I try to go to Ok google/voice configuration my phone try to connecto to internet and shows "Connection problem, check your connection and try again"
This is not a big problem for me because I´ve been 4 days using my phone with all the features that I need but this small problem has got a personal matter between my phone and me...and being serious, whith all the forum pages that I read in english my head is nearly to explode.
Thank you if you read this stupid story and thanks in advance if you could lead me to the solution because I feel that my phone is laughing at me!!
First fo all I want to say thanks to the member Atrankas to give me some advices to fix my problem, seems to be that there´s no people with this issue.
To update the information if it could be useful, I followed Atrankas advice and I made a clean installation but this time I use the pico Gapps, for some reason the nano Gapps gave problems to me with Google play and google asisstant and the microphone did not work properly.
Now I can use the assistant but I cannot get the voice configuration, the button appears in grey and when I try to make the Voice match the system shows me a screen configuration looking for wifi and shows an error.
Maybe is my phone problem or rather my problem because I don´t know how to do it...but I´ll try to find a solution, if I find something interesting I´ll come here to give information.
Bacilus dantracis said:
First fo all I want to say thanks to the member Atrankas to give me some advices to fix my problem, seems to be that there´s no people with this issue.
To update the information if it could be useful, I followed Atrankas advice and I made a clean installation but this time I use the pico Gapps, for some reason the nano Gapps gave problems to me with Google play and google asisstant and the microphone did not work properly.
Now I can use the assistant but I cannot get the voice configuration, the button appears in grey and when I try to make the Voice match the system shows me a screen configuration looking for wifi and shows an error.
Maybe is my phone problem or rather my problem because I don´t know how to do it...but I´ll try to find a solution, if I find something interesting I´ll come here to give information.
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This problem reported from many people too in android 10 voice match not working on some device after update. if i remembered correctly they suggest to use google beta app
santoimam said:
This problem reported from many people too in android 10 voice match not working on some device after update. if i remembered correctly they suggest to use google beta app
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Thank you very much, now I know is not a Rom problem (cannot find users with the same problem that fixed it), I like a lot this rom and runs like a charm, the configurations options are endless and now I have my old note 3 like new for my needs
I took the opportunity flashing a few differents roms, some of them with android 9.x and the problem remains so I´ll check what you told me and see what happens, but I don´t want to flashing more roms because I´m not experience enough and don´t want to brick my note 3...again!!
Cannot find a solution
Bacilus dantracis said:
Thank you very much, now I know is not a Rom problem (cannot find users with the same problem that fixed it), I like a lot this rom and runs like a charm, the configurations options are endless and now I have my old note 3 like new for my needs
I took the opportunity flashing a few differents roms, some of them with android 9.x and the problem remains so I´ll check what you told me and see what happens, but I don´t want to flashing more roms because I´m not experience enough and don´t want to brick my note 3...again!!
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To update my research and if it´s usefull, I tryed everything I read online, in this forum (if there´s a solution I could not find it or not runs in my phone) and outside...in google assistant forum thread there´s a lot of people with the same problem so I quit searching
I tryed so many things and flashed so many different roms that finally I bricked my note 3 trying to find a solution installing whatever I found when I had everything running and configured perfectly...
So I did a clean install from android 5.0 and I flashed the Havoc-OS 3.7 rom again, maybe a next google assistant update fix the issue.
Now I need a couple of beers...if someone find the solution, please join me!! :highfive:
Well...continuing with my lonely conversation, I don´t know why but I just tried to start Ok Google and surprisingly my Note 3 took me to voice recognition and now is running!! Why? How? don´t have an explanation, I have the updates disconnected and I only installed Microsoft teams app lately for my job purposes this morning and maybe I´m haunted by ghosts because I did nothing, only check the google assistant sometimes to check the Voice match...
Only with Wifi cannot use Ok google because send me to wifi error because cannot get ssid but that´s fine, I love Havoc Os and finally it´s running.
But in my job I use to say, I never trust anything that fix by it self...so We will see
Bacilus dantracis said:
To update my research and if it´s usefull, I tryed everything I read online, in this forum (if there´s a solution I could not find it or not runs in my phone) and outside...in google assistant forum thread there´s a lot of people with the same problem so I quit searching
I tryed so many things and flashed so many different roms that finally I bricked my note 3 trying to find a solution installing whatever I found when I had everything running and configured perfectly...
So I did a clean install from android 5.0 and I flashed the Havoc-OS 3.7 rom again, maybe a next google assistant update fix the issue.
Now I need a couple of beers...if someone find the solution, please join me!! :highfive:
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Hey @Bacilus dantracis . After researching the log provide by the google app I actually found the problem. I guess with Android 10 google limit the user app to access the privacy data, so even Google Assistant made by them it cant access the the trained voice data which is used to trigger the app.
In our case, Google app is installed via play store(not included in nano/pico gapps) so it is recognized as user app instead of as system app like the in the stock factory OS.
The solution is very simple. Just make the Google app as system app. It must be in /system/priv-app/ folder. I tried to move it to /system/app but it is still not working, after more investigation I realized that the apps on priv-app have more permission access. After I move the app "Ok Google" command work flawlessly( On Wifi, I didn't put simcard on my note3)
You can move it manually or use Apps Systemizer module on magisk to do that. Hope it'll for you too
santoimam said:
Hey @Bacilus dantracis . After researching the log provide by the google app I actually found the problem. I guess with Android 10 google limit the user app to access the privacy data, so even Google Assistant made by them it cant access the the trained voice data which is used to trigger the app.
In our case, Google app is installed via play store(not included in nano/pico gapps) so it is recognized as user app instead of as system app like the in the stock factory OS.
The solution is very simple. Just make the Google app as system app. It must be in /system/priv-app/ folder. I tried to move it to /system/app but it is still not working, after more investigation I realized that the apps on priv-app have more permission access. After I move the app "Ok Google" command work flawlessly( On Wifi, I didn't put simcard on my note3)
You can move it manually or use Apps Systemizer module on magisk to do that. Hope it'll for you too
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This is one of the things that I´d like to understand, I´m totally noob but I like to know the "why" of things, with my limits
I´ve been looking into my phone settings some things but consciously I did not change anything without testing and then going back to avoid screw something because I use a lot my phone in my job (and now It´s amazing how it works!), so thinking about it, could be that I changed anything that made the assistant works...this use to happen touching things without knowledge...some times fix it, sometimes don´t (and brick is one of the things I´m scared!)
Now it´s time to bed for me my friend, but tomorrow I´ll check word by word your post to try to learn more about this issue and understand what has happened, not because I need this feature (only when driving is more useful to me), just to learn how this works. (and for fun!!)
Thanks for your support, now I know that what is not in this forum is not outside.
cheers!!
P.S.remember I´m from Spain and my english is a little bit slippery!!

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