I cant figure out out to turn off notifications that pop up on my sgt. I am fine with my words with friends, android market and email notifications, but this s a star icon that when you click on it, it opens a webpage. These are spam notifications. Do not know where it came from or how to get rid of them. Anyone else have this issue?
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Help Notifications Annoyance (star icon)
- Thread starter stefnee
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Yes it's definitely an app that you downloaded as the Tab doesn't use a star (*) for notifications of any kind.
I have the same annoying Star in notification. It started coming after I installed games 'The Lost City' and 'Broken Sword'. Do you have any of these games or games from these providers? I'm almost certain I didn't install or purchase anything else before this star showed up.
ComputerGranny
Member
Sadly, there are many apps that use these ads. As stated above Airpush Detector will identify which apps have it. Then you can decide which ones you can live without.
Sooo... I got a Samsung Galaxy S3 and I noticed I will occasionally receive these random 'star' notifications for completely irrelevant things (auto car sales? vacation packages? are you kidding...)
I downloadede AitPush Detector and the only app the came back was the official Groupon app.
Does this mean the Groupon app is sending me these unlabeled, unwanted messages to my phone? I like the actual APP but it seems like I will have to uninstall just to avoid the annoyance?
I downloadede AitPush Detector and the only app the came back was the official Groupon app.
Does this mean the Groupon app is sending me these unlabeled, unwanted messages to my phone? I like the actual APP but it seems like I will have to uninstall just to avoid the annoyance?
Harry2
Extreme Android User
You might use some other AirPush detectors.
Or maybe you have an AirPush addon which is yet unknown for the detectors.
Both you could resolve with this info ...
Push Advertising
Harry
Or maybe you have an AirPush addon which is yet unknown for the detectors.
Both you could resolve with this info ...
Push Advertising
Harry
You might use some other AirPush detectors.
Or maybe you have an AirPush addon which is yet unknown for the detectors.
Both you could resolve with this info ...
Push Advertising
Harry
I was having the same problem, receiving strange star or plus icons in the notification bar that opened in the Web browser.
Following this post, I downloaded AirPush Detector and it quickly identified a live wallpaper which was causing this.
Uninstalled and everything back to normal.
Thanks for the tip!!
DanClarke77
Lurker
AirPush Detector says nothing was detected but if you press and hold the notification for a few seconds you can get to the App information.
In my case it was a game my son had installed.
holding down on the notification gave me an App info button. When I clicked on this icon I was able to disable "Show notifications".
In my case it was a game my son had installed.
holding down on the notification gave me an App info button. When I clicked on this icon I was able to disable "Show notifications".
Harry2
Extreme Android User
Well ... Jelly Bean introduced the feature to indentify the app which has pushed a notification and to disable the app's ability for notifications
Harry