Can someone tell me how to get rid of this hacker or bug or whatever it is in my Samsung phone?

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This is the 3rd phone I have bought and it has been hacked as well. I have done all of the security measures such as 2 step verification & changing my passwords. Even have changed phone number twice & factory reset phone. They hack my Google acct. everytime, have taken over my settings on my phone & my contacts & calls. Have downloaded over 300 apps which I know some run the phone but some I have never heard of before. They are using bluetooth somehow off of my data. They change my settings & I can barely watch a movie or video. They place fake looking apps over the real ones, esp in google playstore. Full permissions are enabled in a lot of these apps that are questionable & can't be changed as they are greyed out. Like on the ones esp running the bluetooth & many more. I do searches on apps to see if they are needed or not to run the phone & the ones that are not can't be uninstalled as they are greyed out or there is no uninstall button on them. Just so many things going on to mention here but I just needed to get some other advice as to what to do. This is driving me up the wall! Thank you.
 
Welcome to Android Central! It's unlikely that someone is repeatedly "hacking" your Google account with 2-step verification turned on. Just make sure you're not using SMS as the 2nd step, because that's not as secure.

I'm not sure what you mean that they're "taking over my settings."

Many phones (especially Samsung phones) have a LOT of preinstalled apps in addition to system apps. It's not unusual for a phone that has just been set up, with no additional apps installed, to have about 300 apps listed in the Settings>Apps menu. That in itself is not an indication you were hacked.

How do you know they're using Bluetooth?

What settings of yours are they changing? How does that affect your watching a video? What happens?

Does any of this happen in Safe Mode?

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