Even though I have notifications off, why does my phone wake me with half a commercial or dog barking or dialing sound effect?

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notifications off, phone wakes me with half a comercial or dog barking or dialing sound effect,

Is there a virus out there like this? Ran scans, found nothing. No app shows as loaded when I get to the phone. Need to leave it on over-night. No issues during the day. This is on a Note 2. Usually happens every other night between 2 and 4. Usually once a night but last night, 3 times. The dialing sound effect is most common, similar to a dial phone imitating the Tardis. Turned each app notifications off, didn't help. I can't tell what is the offending app or if there is really a form of malware. I use Lookout.

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: notifications off, phone wakes me with half a comercial or dog barking or dialing sound effect,

Welcome to Android Central! Are you only hearing the sound play? Does the screen come on when this happens? Does anything appear in the notification bar?

 

[roydeshon]

Re: notifications off, phone wakes me with half a comercial or dog barking or dialing sound effect,

Only the sound. Nothing in Notifications.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Re: notifications off, phone wakes me with half a comercial or dog barking or dialing sound effect,

Only the sound. Nothing in Notifications.

You don't have a repeating alarm set with one of these tones, do you?

 

[roydeshon]

Re: notifications off, phone wakes me with half a comercial or dog barking or dialing sound effect,

To the best of my knowledge, these tones do not exist on the phone. And there is the matter of the commercials. One for Houston and one for Walmart so far. Both stopped before they completed.

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: notifications off, phone wakes me with half a comercial or dog barking or dialing sound effect,

If it only happens overnight, then try booting into Safe Mode before you go to sleep, and see if it happens again: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-11474

 

[roydeshon]

Re: notifications off, phone wakes me with half a comercial or dog barking or dialing sound effect,

I'll try that for a few nights. Thank you.

 

[roydeshon]

Re: notifications off, phone wakes me with half a comercial or dog barking or dialing sound effect,

It's been several nights. No repeats.

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: notifications off, phone wakes me with half a comercial or dog barking or dialing sound effect,

So now is the tricky part. The main way to figure out what's causing the problem is to boot back into normal mode and start uninstalling apps one by one until the problem goes away. I can't think of an easy way to try narrowing down which apps to focus on, though.