Help Apps Keeps Installing/Reinstalling After I Uninstall Them

[Arzok]

I Downloaded an app on my phone some time ago and ever since then i been having apps randomly install them self's onto my phone and i keep uninstalling but they just keep coming back and sometimes they say that they were installed by the system provider

 

[Sank33rth]

Your phone must have affected by adware virus

 

[Arzok]

I've used antivirus apps to find out what app it is but all it says is that it is multiple apps that i can't uninstall due to them supposedly was installed by the manufacturer even though they weren't, i already looked up ways to get rid of the app on the web and all i found is to root but my phone can't be rooted yet.

 

[MLSS]

You could always factory reset your device.

 

[Arzok]

i have done factory reset to it before but the apps still just install their selves back onto the phone

 

[Sank33rth]

There is only one way.. You must root your phone

 

[MLSS]

i have done factory reset to it before but the apps still just install their selves back onto the phone

What apps are they?

 

[Arzok]

it varies from twitter to a random games that my antivirus app says have malware on

 

[Brian706]

A factory reset will do no good if they are installing themselves as system apps.

As mentioned above, root could be a solution, but an even better solution would be to flash factory images for your device if they are available.

Can you tell us what device you have? Make/model/carrier/Android version/etc.

 

[Arzok]

A factory reset will do no good if they are installing themselves as system apps.

As mentioned above, root could be a solution, but an even better solution would be to flash factory images for your device if they are available.

Can you tell us what device you have? Make/model/carrier/Android version/etc.

i have a Android N820 4.4.2 and the carrier is GiffGaff, the kernal version is 3.4.67 and the build number is X5_72KK_3GW_b15_EMMC_32_4_QHD_THX_6X_N820 20151028.103917

 

[Brian706]

Well, with being a more obscure device, I didn't think I'd have any luck finding factory images but I may have found something. Is your device Amoi N820?

If so, you may have some luck with this: http://firmwarefile.com/amoi-n820

 

[mikedt]

Amoi is a more obscure Chinese manufacturer, don't see much of their products, although they did make the 3 Skypephone sold in the UK. Used to do BREW based devices.

FYI
http://www.amoi.com/en/index.html
http://www.amoi.com.cn/

 

[Jfalls63]

Have a look at this thread with similar issue and see what worked for them.

http://androidforums.com/threads/random-apps-keep-installing-by-themselves.831632/

 

[Arzok]

my phone isn't a amoi
http://www.amazon.com/Android-Smartphone-Screen-Unlocked-1-2GHz/dp/B015XNNNHA

 

[mikedt]

Worse than Amoi then. No idea who makes that one, which makes the chances of finding manufacturer's firmware for it zero. Looks like an HTC, but it's not though. Knock-off. And given what it is, it could have come with the self installing apps problem from the factory, and there's nothing you can do about it! RMA it for a refund if it's still within time, or take it up with Amazon for defective products.

Who's "Mobile Mates", is that a Hong Kong or mainland PRC vendor?