How can turn off notifications on my SG3? I've got twitter, facebook and email, nothing else, yet I'm getting notifications about ads with restaurants, meeting singles in my area and other deals. I haven't signed up for anything so I'm a little confused why I'm getting all this. Please advise.
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Help Notification issues on SG3
- Thread starter jeffrj4au
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Stuntman
Android Expert
It sounds like an app you installed is using the notification feature to push ads to you. I had this happen with a couple of apps. Once I removed those apps, I no longer get those ads. I think the notification ads is a mechanism called Air Push. There were a number of threads on these forums that talked about it and how to identify and remove them. There is an app that identifies which apps push ads to your notification bar. You can use the forum's search feature to find that info. I do not recall them off hand.
I downloaded the app as you recommended and I had 8 apps that were air pushing ads to my phone. The problem with that is I really liked 7 of 8 apps I had. Very frustrating that you have to be this careful just downloading apps. That's one thing I never had to worry with my iPhone.
chanchan05
The Doctor
You don't really have to be THAT careful IMO, and even the Apple AppStore has malware in it (as reported just a couple of weeks ago). The only difference is being the different ad models. Your iPhone previously did not have notifications like the Android notifications (at least until they copied it in iOS5), so the no worry about ad notifications on an iPhone is based on the simple inferiority of iPhone notifications compared to Android prior to iOS5.
You can use ad-blockers or pay for the apps so you can have airpush disabled. There is also an Airpush opt-out app.
You can use ad-blockers or pay for the apps so you can have airpush disabled. There is also an Airpush opt-out app.
damewolf13
live~laugh~love
Yes, Airpush Detector will help you identify and remove/uninstall the problem apps, and sometimes they really are your favorite apps, unfortunately.
With the freedom to use your phone however you wish, come some minor inconveniences, but nothing that you can't deal with in a fairly simple manner.
I am moving this into the SGS3 forum for further discussion so others with the same phone can post in this thread.
With the freedom to use your phone however you wish, come some minor inconveniences, but nothing that you can't deal with in a fairly simple manner.
I am moving this into the SGS3 forum for further discussion so others with the same phone can post in this thread.