[AC Question]

I started receiving this today. When I click "OK" the message bounces back up almost immediately, like a spam.

If I wait for 10-15 minutes and then press "OK" button, then I have maybe 5 seconds time window until message appears again.

Same happens when I click "Try to solve".

Earlier today I had a notification something like "Youtube app might harm your phone".

I tried restarting and plugging out battery, didn't help.

I didn't really bother with that since I own Lenovo k3 note with factory settings and I had adware for a long time. So I thought that was just a missinformation.

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Does this only show up when you're using the YouTube app (or the YouTube site on your browser)?

[mcwaffles2003]

Welcome to Android Central! Does this only show up when you're using the YouTube app (or the YouTube site on your browser)?

Same thing keeps happening to me and I haven't even opened YouTube since I booted my device

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Show us a screenshot of that message: http://forums.androidcentral.com/gen...d-central.html

[pippopoppi1966]

Same here. I can' t use the phone anymore because the keep coming pop up is blocking everything. Please help

[B. Diddy]

Try going to Settings>Apps, select YouTube, and Clear Cache/Clear Data.

[pippopoppi1966]

I can't. The popup avoid me to be able to go anywhere. I have a small fraction of a second between I touch cancel and before the popup is coming again and 99% of the time my input in the touch screen is not taken. Plus when after 20 minutes of trying i reached the restore options the last touch got me at the start again. Looks like a virus intended to not let you use the phone

[B. Diddy]

I had asked previously to see a screenshot, since that might help us determine if this is something legitimate or malicious: http://forums.androidcentral.com/gen...d-central.html. I doubt it's a virus, though. If there's some bad bit of data associated with YouTube, it might be causing it to crash incessantly. Try booting into Safe Mode -- if you don't know how, search "[your device] Safe Mode," or let us know which device you have and we'll look it up for you.

[pippopoppi1966]

Thank you for trying to help. After almost 1 hour of furious touch I was finally able to go on the play store. I enabled youtube on his page and everything went back to normal. Very stupid and annoying glitch

[B. Diddy]

Glad you figured it out! That's interesting -- are you saying that YouTube had been Disabled? A Disabled app shouldn't give that "stopped working" error message, since it shouldn't even be trying to work. Unless the phone came with some additional preinstalled YouTube interface specific to the manufacturer that itself wasn't Disabled (and therefore kept trying to access the main YouTube app). Which phone is it?

[Urentwins]

Hi
Had the same problem, here's how to fix it.
It takes a little time but does work.
When the Unfortunately... notice comes up:
Keep pressing OK and during that tiny pause in between, click on Google Play Services/type in YouTube and click on the red Enable button.
As I said be patient but it will work straight away.
It is NOT a virus, the problem is, is that YouTube is now part of Google and at some point you will have received a notification saying YouTube could contain some bad element or other and you have clicked on Disable. When you next turn on your phone or tablet, you will then get this Unfortunately.....notice. I've fixed 3 tablets now, so I know this works, be patient and good luck!!!

[ambublanc]

Thanks a lot Urentwins !!! I had this problem and now all is good ! On a rc transmitter with android system. Thanks again from France !!!

[daedalus2064]

Thank you Urentwins for your solution to this annoyning problem, from Venezuela

[Gikume]

Thanks Urentwins,

I have just tried it and it worked.

[Haytham Osman]

I have the same problem, but the mobile is locked with the lock code, and I can not access the settings
What is the solution ?

[GeorgeLondon]

Well, that was an incredibly frustrating 20 minute process!

Thanks so much for this solution @Urentwins and all those who verified it - if I hadn't found this with a few people seconding the solution - I'm not sure I would have had the faith to persevere.

BTW - I found it under "Google Play" not "Google Play Services".

Thanks again!

[10qwerty]

But how are we supposed to do all of this if the message keeps popping up and doesn't give you any way to click on anything else.

[Jay3fer]

Worked for me except a) it was under Google Play, as GeorgeLondon said, and b) the button was green, not red. :-)

For 10qwerty, yes. The popup keeps popping up. And it's terrible and annoying and you'll want to toss the phone across the room.
But in the end, one keystroke at a time, and a million popups later, it actually does work.

Thanks!!!

[GeorgeLondon]

So I just tried booting up an old tablet, and got this message, so Googled and got myself here, only to discover my own comment above, so I must have had the same problem 18 months ago (Probably the last time I booted up that tablet!)

The same fix worked, though this time with the added complication of having to try and log into Google Play in-between the popups - presumably I've changed my password since I last logged in.

Am really hoping this isn't just going to happen every time the tablet reboots! Has anyone else seen the issue keep returning?

[B. Diddy]

How old is the tablet? What version of Android is it running? At some point, old Android versions stop getting supported, so as apps like YouTube continue to get updated for current versions, it might run into more conflicts with older deprecated APIs.