First phone ever that I don't have root right off the bat. Biggest thing for me is all the ads. It's driving me crazy! Anyone have a non root block ads method? I've tried adblock plus and adguard. Neither does the job.
Adguard does if your premium otherwise I believe it's only browser ad blocking
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Adguard does if your premium otherwise I believe it's only browser ad blocking
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Ah. Didn't know that. Looks like I'm going to have to breakdown and buy the premium
Good recommendation I had never heard of this app. Works great from what I have seen so far. Thanks again!
Yeah I use it on all my devices personally, works well
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Root is the reason I haven't bought the S7 yet. Waiting a few to see if it becomes available. If not, I'll stay with my S4. Pathetic I know lol. But I FINALLY was able to root the S4 on OF1 a couple months ago and there's no way I'm going to go back to a crippled phone.
What kind of ads are you talking about? Ads outside of a standard pop-up in the web browser?
Ads period in browser, free apps that have their ad banners etc
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Like MrWicked says. For example, if you play words with friends, yeah, I know, I'm lame, it has and ad banner as well as an ad after every move. Sometimes it's a video ad and there is no way to just exit or skip it.
There is a link from their site back to the dev link that opens an xda discussion on it's release back in 2014. It's 51 pages long, whew! I'm going to check it out as it sounds very good if it works with my antivirus and firewall, Bitdefender. They may bump heads.
Thanks for the info!
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Hi!
Does anybody know what this battery update is. I got it as an update and to unlock the full features, I had to pay 3€per month!
I immediately unistalled this.
Is it spam? Virus!
Best regards
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What are you referring to? No link.
It sounds suspicious though.
It came like a system update and then it installed a battery app that monitored my battery behavior and wanted me to pay 3€ per month ;-)
This is the first time I see something like this on my android phones!?
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I've never heard of anything like that. It does sound very suspicious.
As you say, probably scareware/malware.
Now I have to look for an app to remove what ever is doing this ;-)
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It is probably related to an app you have already installed. Go through any apps you aren't sure are from trusted sources/devs.
Thanks for the tip, I will check my apps. All my apps are from market place, its sad if we cannot trust the market?
Regards
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The sad thing is mate you can't trust the market. You have to be careful what your installing!
Always check what permissions needs the app you are downloading depends of the type you dl it should need the right permissions. So lets say you dl a game and it needs permission for your contacts and call services then it is up to you to dl it I would never. And as long the developers have no other way to get cash they implant ofc in their apps some advertises so be carefully all the time.
And market is like Facebook a no money platform that helps people to find things, but it moment check what it provides, it is on the user to report bad apps. So many people abuse that.
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Thanks a lot, I will try to be careful, and read before accepting anything this time.
Regards
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Are you serious?
Lol that's one of the scammiest things I've ever heard of.
If I were you I'd factory reset, and in future only install well reviewed and tested apps.
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As a rule of thumb, I don't click on any links from any app, except the browser
I use a program that lets you assign permissions to any app. Anything that I install that I don't think needs to access contacts, location etc, I just block.
It has a side benefit of blocking the stupid ads in the apps also.
Try to use "LBE privacy guard" from the market its free!
NEED ROOT!
With this app u can control every app u installed give and take permissions!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lbe.security.lite&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5sYmUuc2VjdXJpdHkubGl0ZSJd
I had one of these updates in my notification menu. Never installed it though.
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I get this when I play certain games.
its just an in game advert made to look official which links to an app in the market.
It reads something like " You have two Battery updates available"
Download addon detektor then you can see whats causing the the push ad
And remove that battery thingy its probably the one that steals your contacts for spam
MikeFRG said:
Try to use "LBE privacy guard" from the market its free!
With this app u can control every app u installed give and take permissions!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lbe.security.lite&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5sYmUuc2VjdXJpdHkubGl0ZSJd
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It requires root for full features.
equalness said:
Hi!
Does anybody know what this battery update is. I got it as an update and to unlock the full features, I had to pay 3€per month!
I immediately unistalled this.
Is it spam? Virus!
Best regards
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Unfortunately you have been hit by a 'Scareware' attack.
As Android is becoming more popular and unlike Apple which has tighter control the Android OS is much more open to attacks such as this.
You really have to be on your guard watching for these malicious attacks.
Read the comments from PCWorld and 2Viruses for a greater explanation.
Morning! Is it possible for me to default my user agent for chrome to always use desktop sites?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1811101
I followed the instructions in this post, and it works great.
Adb pushed and away we go! Thanks!
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hatchna said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1811101
I followed the instructions in this post, and it works great.
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Oh, Wow that post has made its way around quite a bit. It's definitely an awesome fix and I'm glad that we atleast have a solution, although I believe it should be available natively inside the client.
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Oh, Wow that post has made its way around quite a bit. It's definitely an awesome fix and I'm glad that we atleast have a solution, although I believe it should be available natively inside the client.
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Agreed. Can't stand mobile sites on my tablet
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I use Chrome UA Switcher from Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appo2.ua
Once I did this it occurred to me that I'll see ads now. Any blocking suggestions?
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zoomy942 said:
Once I did this it occurred to me that I'll see ads now. Any blocking suggestions?
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? It doesn't change the host file, so if you have ad block installed then it won't be affected by this modification.
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Sorry. I explained that poorly. I meant that now that I'll see full websites I'll get their ad glory too.
Was curious about which ad blockers people enjoy.
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zoomy942 said:
Sorry. I explained that poorly. I meant that now that I'll see full websites I'll get their ad glory too.
Was curious about which ad blockers people enjoy.
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AdAway off the market is my favorite. It's very well done.
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+1 AdAway.
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Awesome. Does it block ads in apps like scrabble too or just chrome?
These may be basic questions and I apologize. I recently dropped my iPhone for a galaxy nexus.
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Awesome. Does it block ads in apps like scrabble too or just chrome?
These may be basic questions and I apologize. I recently dropped my iPhone for a galaxy nexus.
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Globally. However, some still show the black box where the ad would be. Others don't show anything if the ad can't load.
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Rats. Scrabble still shows ads. Oh well.
Any way to side load that onto our S7's? I really like that browser... seems to be way faster than anything else android has to offer.
Did you check the play store? It was in there for the s6
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MrWicked1 said:
Did you check the play store? It was in there for the s6
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Not compatible.
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Not compatible.
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Damn that sucks, haven't got my s7 yet. Was hoping for the Samsung browser oh well I guess chrome it is.
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Lightning+ with amoled mode and inverted grayscale rendering is what I'm using from now on. Minimal battery and ram usage, while being smoother than chrome.
We'll unfortunately have to wait until we get root to be able to sideload the Samsung browser on to our devices. Verizon sucks...
that sucks.. as soon as they come out with ad blocking they verizon drops it. is there any other real good ad blocking browsers
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that sucks.. as soon as they come out with ad blocking they verizon drops it. is there any other real good ad blocking browsers
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Lightning+ ad blocking is in general settings
I've posted a discussion regarding this Samsung browser dilemma in the Verizon community forum. Maybe if enough of us complain / ask about this, Verizon will give us back our Samsung browser lol.
https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/906133
Is this possible in the future? I know AdAway needs root, and Samsung Pay won't work with root. This would be a great phone if I could have both!
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Unlikely, there is an alternative though https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html but you'll still see ads in apps, just not in the browser.
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Unlikely, there is an alternative though https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html but you'll still see ads in apps, just not in the browser.
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For the Samsung browser you can simply use adblock fast. Works great and is available in the playstore.
The browser doesn't really bug me. It's in app ads that irritate me.
Anyone concerned that personal traffic gets routed through Adguard servers?
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Is there an app for adblocking in the galaxy store? I thought I read about one a while back. I searched in the store but nothing came up.
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There are a couple options, like Block This!
Adblock plus for Samsung it's in the play store
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There are a couple options, like Block This!
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Tried this one it kind of locked my phone up. Couldn't swipe to other screens.
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Tried this one it kind of locked my phone up. Couldn't swipe to other screens.
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Well that's odd. I used it for a while and it ran just fine.
I've been using Adgaurd for the past week and it works just fine for me. Haven't noticed a hit on the battery either.
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I've been using Adgaurd for the past week and it works just fine for me. Haven't noticed a hit on the battery either.
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This. Adguard is so awesome I purchased the Lifetime licence. (40% off until the 5th). It blocks browser ads as well as app ads. And while it can (and will certainly) show up in the stats with a pretty high usage, that's not the truth, as it used a local VPN to remove the ads, so when Adguard shows up in the stats with X mb consumed and Y time on, those are just really other apps that went through the VPN.
Here's a really detailed report about Adguard and battery usage.
AdAway is my favorite, but I don't think it's in the play store anymore.
Edit: oops, forgot that AdAway requires root.
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This. Adguard is so awesome I purchased the Lifetime licence. (40% off until the 5th).
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Block This would kill my internet, and NetGuard would kill itself off constantly. AdGuard works well, and yeah, I snagged the lifetime license with the sale going on.
So far adblock plus seems to be working well for me. Thanks guys. What is that vpn stuff some of them have going?
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For those of you using a vpn based ad blocker like adguard, do you leave it on 24/7 or only turn it on whenever you need it?
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For those of you using a vpn based ad blocker like adguard, do you leave it on 24/7 or only turn it on whenever you need it?
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I leave it on 24/7. very satisfied so far. ?
Using crystal for samsung browser, works great very battery friendly, browser takes a bit of getting used 2 after chrome but it's optimised for the S7e.