Recent content by MikeG2

My Galaxy S8+ had small, medium and full-screen ads popping up everywhere at random times. I deleted all apps I felt were suspicious, but the ads continued. I installed and scanned using two top-rated anti-malware programs (Malwarebytes and Comodo). Both failed to find the problem. Comodo...

Yes, a UI update would be nice and I don't feel like rooting either. I'm pretty happy now though with Smart Launcher Pro or Nova Prime plus hiding status bar and cleaning up notification panel as much as possible by unchecking allow notifications on noisy apps, removing Q-slide, etc. Posted via...

I think djspyral was joking about ART being a fix for all our problems. I heard enabling ART can bring it's own set of issues, but I liked the post 'cause I needed those instructions. Posted via Android Central App

I stopped having issues after powering the phone off and restarting it. SmartShareProvider dropped off the list of power hungry apps. I think it got hung on something/stuck in a loop. None of the answers I've seen online so far are authoritative. Many have disabled it without any problem, but I...

I have the same question. I checked power hogs using Battery Doctor this morning and found SmartShareProvider using 58%. The next highest app was Android System using only 16%. I'll report back when I get a chance to research it further...