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Strange icon appeared - is this an app?

igolds

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Can anyone help. Here is what happened in the order it happened.
[phone is a BLU Energy X - running Android lollipop]

1. Yesterday, I launched PDF Maps app which was downloaded from the motorcycle group e-mail I'm in.
2. Used the app fine all day. Offline GPS system.
3. When I got home that night, I noticed this icon at the top of the phone...

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4. Then I discovered that all of my text messages both incoming and outgoing, photos, and phone log history have disappeared.
5. I tried, taking out the battery, sim card, sd card and rebooting. Didn't work.
6. I took a screen shot and tried to open it. I got a message on the screen that said "cannot open media while in Guest Mode".

What is guest mode and how to do I get rid of it? I've not installed any app that's called guest mode and I've not activated anything like it that i know of.

Is this related to the offline gps app that I used?

Any help gratefully received.
thanks!
EB
 

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ah! found it finally - there's a setting in 'Security' which you can uncheck 'Guest Mode'. Don't remember activating it but its all good now - phew!
 
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