Multiple Android phones, same issue - continually get the google word verifcation randomly???

[sdgmcdon]

I've looked around and tried to find an answer for this on a few occassions, can never find anything on the exact issue.

Basically I've had a ton of Android phones and on ALL of them I regularly and randomly get prompted for a word verification from google (the type that on these small screens is REALLY difficult to read and get right, so it takes 2-3 attempts entering it to get it to go away).

This is SUPER CRAZY ANNOYING! Anyone know why they do this all the time and how to get them to STOP DOING THIS?

Sometimes I'll be in email, sometimes on the web, sometimes in market or in another app, sometimes just on a phone call or making a call and it pops up out of no where...WTF?

Any help getting this annoying as hell prompt to stop coming up would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[jerofld]

You mean those captcha things? I never get any of those on any of my Android devices. Try installing an ad detector and seeing if that's the problem:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.denper.addonsdetector&hl=en

If not, could you please screen shot and post what you're seeing?

 

[sdgmcdon]

Sure, here you go - I know this shows it coming up with the play store, I just figured going into that would have the best chance of it popping up so I can grab a pic of it and post it here...it doesn't only come up here, comes up EVERYWHERE...In a call, email, gmail, web, voicemail, dialing a number - EVERYWHERE.

One other thing I should mention, I've checked and I DO NOT have 2 step authentication enabled on my google account.

 

[jerofld]

One other thing I should mention, I've checked and I DO NOT have 2 step authentication enabled on my google account.

Maybe you should. I have 2-step authorization on my phone and I have never seen that. But currently, I'm trying to recreate that image. Thanks for using Google Play to show it, I wanted to see it on an official Google App, I just forgot to mention that in my post

Edit:

I couldn't recreate it. But I did find the solution:

https://accounts.google.com/b/0/UnlockCaptcha

 

[sdgmcdon]

Maybe you should. I have 2-step authorization on my phone and I have never seen that. But currently, I'm trying to recreate that image. Thanks for using Google Play to show it, I wanted to see it on an official Google App, I just forgot to mention that in my post

I enabled 2 step, but I'm not real fond of what I've seen so far...it chooses a complex password for you that's nearly impossible to commit to memory unless you use it a lot and frankly, I reset all my stuff frequently (reload the latop frequently, factory reset phone and tablet frequently etc)...Hmm...

 

[jerofld]

I enabled 2 step, but I'm not real fond of what I've seen so far...it chooses a complex password for you that's nearly impossible to commit to memory unless you use it a lot and frankly, I reset all my stuff frequently (reload the latop frequently, factory reset phone and tablet frequently etc)...Hmm...

I may have edited my post before you noticed it, but did you have any luck with the unlock captcha link I posted?

https://accounts.google.com/b/0/UnlockCaptcha

As for the password remembering thing...I could recommend a good app that generates those long passwords and stores them in an encrypted file for you, if you want. Then when it comes time to enter the password, you can just copy/paste. Real easy, but takes a bit to set up.