Ydan87 said:

Hi all,
In the last couple of hours I have this little Android-head icon (see attached picture, next to the clock) and I have no idea what that is (no bigger notification to view). It may be related but since that time I get weird uncontrolled popups in my mobile Chrome browser.

I tried to restart the phone multiple times, but this icon always returns.

Does this icon mean my phone is being controlled remotely? What can I do to neutralize it?

Thanks in advance

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no it does not mean that.......why do people who do not understand what they see always assume the worst????

first off you would see the screen move and respond to whoever would have been controlling the phone. and if somebody were to hack your phone to do that, their goal is to be undected so that they can steal any data they can from your phone. there would be no notification to alert you something is happening.

second in order for us to help we need to know what phone you have. it might help with identifying the icon.

and thirdly you should be able to pull down the notification bar from the top of your phone. it should tell you what the notification is. if it does not you can go into your phone's settings and under notifications it should be listed there on what it is.

Wow!
That sounds like a great deal for the money!

Greenify will automate the force stopping of apps for you.

It is very simple, and has a number of nice features (one of which is not automatically stopping apps that are using accessibility).

https://greenify.en.uptodown.com/android

Good news... Singapore S21 devices have now received this BULC update.


The G99*0 Snapdragon models for China, CSC code CHC, are receiving a different update, BUL3, with the December Security patch.

Hopefully, Taiwan, (BRI), and Hong Kong, (TGY), will soon follow.

Good news... Singapore S21 devices have now received this BULC update.


The G99*0 Snapdragon models for China, CSC code CHC, are receiving a different update, BUL3, with the December Security patch.

Hopefully, Taiwan, (BRI), and Hong Kong, (TGY), will soon follow.

Good news... Singapore S21 devices have now received this BULC update.


The G99*0 Snapdragon models for China, CSC code CHC, are receiving a different update, BUL3, with the December Security patch.

Hopefully, Taiwan, (BRI), and Hong Kong, (TGY), will soon follow.

mikedt said:

I know cheapo and knock-off chargers bought from Wish, or Ebay, or night markets, or whatever. They may not only ruin your phone, they may also ruin you as well, with risks of electric shock and/or fire. Some of them can be absolutely lethal.

Some of them can be seen here.

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同志，为何不在淘宝购买，淘宝天猫质量都很好，只要不是便宜的，多半比ebay好，ebay的水分很高

USB debugging is performed by a program called "adb", which you install on a computer. You then enable USB debugging on the phone (usually via the hidden "developer options" menu, which you unhide by tapping repeatedly on the "build number" in the software information in the system settings - but it's a long time since I ran Android 4.4 so can't guarantee it was already done there). Then if you connect the phone to a computer via a USB cable and USB debugging is enabled on the phone you can use ADB (Android Debug Bridge) to execute a range of commands on the phone.

The way you do it is by typing adb commands on the command line of your computer. So from the directory you have adb installed in (or from anywhere if you've added that directory to Windows' equivalent of the $PATH, the list of directories that the system looks in when you type a command) you would for example type:

adb devices

which should return the serial number of your phone (probably together with some messages about starting an adb daemon). If it does then adb is working, if not you should try to work out why not.

Then you can get it to list the contents of a directory by typing

adb shell ls directory

where the "directory" should be specified using a unix-like format (i.e. "/" rather than "\" between subdirectories). You need to use unix formatting for the directory path because this command is being sent to the android device, and android is based on the linux kernel. The syntax of this command is: "adb" (the program that talks to your phone) "shell" (execute linux shell command on the phone) "ls directory" (the command you want executed). "ls" is the unix command to list the contents of the specified directory - if I remember DOS correctly the equivalent in Windows would be "dir".

So for example to see the top level of the file system (if it will let you) type

adb shell ls /

or the user-accessible part of the internal storage by typing

adb shell ls /sdcard

or equivalently

adb shell ls /storage/emulated/0

So just put in the path to the directory you want to list the contents of.

Then if I wanted to write the output to a file, rather than just list it on the screen, I would type

adb shell ls directory > myfile.txt

where the ">" is unix shell for "output to the file named here". That's the bit I don't know the Windows equivalent for, but I assume that it exists.

Rgarner said:

That won't wipe out everything, will it? I've got a lot of stuff I don't want to lose on there. If it works, how do I prevent it from going into fastboot again? There should be some kind of idiotproof (ahem) lock on these things.

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its cache which is where temp files go.....no important data will ever be stored there. the only way to lose data is if you wipe data or factory reset the device.

here is some info on cache:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/clear-cache-android/

puppykickr said:

Have you tried using lower resolution videos?

Using videos for such a thing will eat a battery charge up quick.

The higher the resolution, the more useage.

Also, do the videos need to be in .gif format so that they repeat?

I think there would also be a limit as for how long a video may be for this.

You can try this app to reduce the resolution and/or edit the length of the video.

https://video-zip.en.uptodown.com/android

Here is an app to change formats.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/protect.videoeditor/

Or else you can try this website.

https://www.online-convert.com/

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Thanks very much for your help. Battery is not an issue for me when using this app. The issue is solely it's poor performance. As for format, it accepts multiple formats but I'll do some conversions and shrinkages to see if the issue persists.

Looks like a browser notification on a Samsung.

The title of this thread gave me hope, but nobody has actually recommended a suitable tutorial. Is there one anywhere?

Tony

Thats the Samsung browser icon....

this looks really nice good job. ill have to try this one out

Destiny Degas said:

Thanks y'all it's just weird and started around June 2021. I have to laugh too.

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Seriously, its not like we don't know what your popup is and are making lite, we don't even know what we're looking at. That is not a screenshot. Its like posting a photo of your floor and asking what's wrong with your car.

James L said:

The Oculus quest 2 is pretty decent I have one, PlayStation VR is cool too.

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i just bought one for myseelf as a xmas present from me.....LOL

its way better than the Go. right now i'm just getting my feet wet with it. but i plan on doing some sideloading so that i can play some steam vr games and such.....kind of doing research on it right now.

i'm also thinking of getting a desktop(not a gaming one) where i can keep it running so that o can play pcc vr games thru the Quest 2.

I thought I would tie up this thread, and also thank the respondents. In my opening question, I did not understand that a device being "paired" or "bonded" are the same thing (analogy: the device being in my phone's phone book), and this is different from, "connected" (analogy: my phone and the device talking to each other).

Apparently the Galaxy S7, and other devices running Android 10 or lower, are still able to use some functions of the Gear 360. According to the Gear 360 app on Google Play, however, support has ended as of August 2020: so as time passes, it will become increasingly unstable and unusable for all devices.

Do you guys ever feel like we are ratting out someone's SO ?

Just inserting a SIM would most likely only change the notification to an 'invalid SIM' notification, because the device is still seeing towers but the SIM card is not activated.

This is why on my devices the notifications cease when airplane mode is active.

That is why it seems strange that your device is still giving a SIM notification when in airplane mode.

Grubian said:

This is unlikely to work.

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Why do you say that?
That is how I set up my devices now- I put the apps (apks) I place on all devices onto an SD card, and the first thing I do is install NoRoot Firewall and block everything until I have installed everything else.

This prevents the device from downloading tons of crap like they do when you first get them and turn them on- they can't wait for you to connect to the internet so that all that worthless junk gets downloaded onto the device.

EXTRA INFO

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mikedt said:

I guess they're in some unknown proprietary format, maybe encrypted with DRM as well. Which someone would need to hack.

There's a lengthy XDA Devs thread about it here...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-turn-tunein-radio-recordings-into-mp3s.1767380/
Good luck!

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Thanks, I'll look that over.

Development thread moved to the dev area for better exposure.

Guessin' the only real worry is having the phone in your back pocket and farting on it ....