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Help Samsun galaxy mini: Accuweather widget loaded up itself

solquiff

Newbie
Hi

Two issues here, today I picked up my phone and after typing in my password the default browser was loaded up with the accuweather site. In actual fact, it was actually open at one of those horoscpe pages (which is an ad on the accuweather page. I never use the default browser (i use chrome) and when I closed it the acc weather widget had been loaded up..with a pic of a cloud, time date and temperature. I have never moved the widget onto the desktop..in fact today was the first time I had even gone into the widget section as I didnt know where this had come from.

How could this have happened? It happened during a time in which I was not using the phone. Was it just random? My phone was sitting beside me the whole time, is password protected so noone touched it.

Some other times random apps have been opened but I just assumed I must have done it by accident when closing the protective cover... However for me to to have done what happened today, I would have had to go into the widget section, drag it to the desktop....then go to the internet browser and type in the accuweather site address. Something I obviously didnt do.

Has this happened to anyone else? Could it just be a bug? I did an avast virus check and nothing came up.
Please assist thanks
 
AFAIK the accuweather app is on the desktop as standard. I guess it arrived after activation so it knew the region to display. I have an S4 and my wife has an S4 mini and have experienced this. You can remove it if you wish.
 
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