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Some stupid Chinese one (I got scammed: The ad promised a reasonably high-end one for which I was willing to pay $180, I got one very similar to the $100 one I bought years ago.). The "high end" is for example a > 1280x1024 screen. The screen feels to me like the 1024x768 on the old cheap...

Old thread, I know. My android tablet is warning me: "Fontmanager is a harmful app, it has been disabled". Just like the TS here, it starts up again and the message reappears. I'm afraid it might be able to do malicious things to my tablet between starting and getting disabled... It needs to...

Rana in my case it was the location services. I had previously thought of disabling all permissions...

Hi, Just browsing to see if any apps have permissions they shouldn't have. I found something like "6 apps" that had SMS permissions and looked which ones that would be. Now for "messaging" I understand the requirement. And Whatsapp needs to verify my phone's identity with an SMS in the...

As the tablet is from "idea", those are the vendor specific "stuffs" that come with the device. My "mi red 5" also has a bunch of mi-rebranded apps. But you're right. If I claim that this auto-installing-app might have come with the tablet itself it might come from those apps. I'll disable...

That, my friend, is an offer I can't refuse. :-) Downloaded: addons detector barcode scanner calendar chrome google google PDF viewer google play services google play store google text-to-speech engine hackers keyboard juicessh life reminders maps octodroid opensudoku puzzles My menu shows...

Right. My first hunch was that I had picked it up during the first few weeks/months of use, but I later tried a factory reset and that didn't help. This enhances the theory that it's installed with the device. Not sure if my tablet does safe mode, but as "chrome" and "opensudoku" are close to...

"its baaack!!!!" So this time it decided to stay dormant for three weeks before reappearing. So I removed the permission-rich "sheets" app, but still the bad app reappears. One of the things that I notice seems to trigger it is that I charge my tablet. I have the impression that someone is...

The thing is: it takes a few days for it to reappear. So debugging this takes a lot of time. About half a year ago suddenly it stopped auto-installing. But after something like two months it came back. It's keeping quiet right now. Or I've fixed it. I don't know. I have installed that...

Your link tells me to uninstall the infected apps. I have done a full factory reset and the malicious tap-black-tile app keeps coming back. I have done the google search. So I see listings of the <number game name removed because this forum marks it s name as spam> virus. In the past it used to...

In general Lithium Ion batteries are quoted as having a lifetime of about 500 (full) cycles. If your phone lasts only a little more than a day (in the beginning) then you are well over 500 cycles by now (after two years). That said... This "lifetime" is the lifetime to about 80% of the original...

My tablet from "idea-usa" auto-installs an app that shows up in the "downloaded apps" list as "Tap black tile". Once that is installed and runs (auto-runs too) it sometimes pops up full-screen ads, it creates new tabs in my browser with an annoying "home page" etc etc. It seems as if the...

Thanks guys! Following the proposed procedure I've disabled it. Apparenly it was polling what I was doing in a tight loop, using a significant amount of juice. I will have to live without the "helpful" popups from now on....

Having recently switched to a smarter-phone, I'm a bit annoyed at the bad battery life. So I do check on the battery regularly. With the standard android settings->battery app I can see that the screen is a big battery-drainer. That is unavoidable. I understand that. Then there are a lot of...

Old thread, I know.... The globe has been replaced with smileys..... The language configuration stuff has moved to the "microphone" symbol on the left side of the space.....