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Help Strange notification go sms?

SavageRobot

SavageRobot

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Just had a strange notification and wondering if anyone else has had this and if there are any ideas what app may have sent it and maybe even a translation?
It comes up at the top left of the notification bar looking like an alarm or reminder. Then when you drag it down to see the notification it looks like a good sms app (not got that installed and haven't had it since my s2, but typing in the first bit of the sentence in Googles top result is SwiftKey with it think a vietnamese domain. Also don't have SwiftKey installed and haven't with the current rom.
 

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It's says something about "Experience the best movies..", it is Vietnamese. I'd say it's possibly an ad being pushed by GO. There's been many reports about GO products being rather bad for adware these days, and don't really recommend GO on AF.
 
Thanks @mikedt. Yea as I say I just use the stock messaging app and have done for years now. I guess I'll just get an addblock app or something then, although my messaging has been messing up lately too come to think of it, stock sms app just sending random texts to people but no sign of it my side, very strange. Web yields a lot of the same problems but no real cure for it. Maybe I'll just have to re flash another ROM and start again :/
Thanks anyway.
 
If there are no messages in your outbox but people are receiving them then it doesn't sound like it's the stock message app that's sending them (if I interpreted that right).

I'd be tempted to use a permission scanning app like Addons Detector to find out exactly which apps on your phone have the permission to send SMS, because logically one of them should be the culprit.

Have you got any Go apps installed?
 
I will download that now and give it a go, thanks. That's what I thought, but the phone is being very strange recently with texts. It has stopped telling me when I have new texts too. I know the hangouts app can cause some conflict problems so I force stopped that and it was OK for a while, then hangouts restarted itself and I think that's when it sent the weird texts. I have uninstalled it now and see if that helps. Just strange as sms wasn't enabled in it.
No I have no go apps on the phone, I wasn't really a fan of it when I had it on old phone so just stuck with stock since. Looking at this Addons detector and I have no idea how to work it at first glance lol. Will have a look tonight and see if I can find the culprit.
 
Hmm, looks like the apps allowed to send sms are OK, I have Google, Lookout, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat and Whatsapp.
Must have been something to do with the Hangouts maybe. Will wait and see if it happens again.
 
Nope, no launchers installed except stock. Very strange. Got another one earlier today that had a different symbol, one that I didn't recognise. I just keep swiping it away for now until I can be bothered going through all the apps. Thanks anyway.
 
Different symbol? Hmm, I wonder whether some piece of adware is being sneaky here and disguising a notification with some other app's symbol.

Next time you get one, try a long press on the symbol and follow the "app info" link that should appear. That should take you to the app management page for the app that's posted the notification.
 
Why don't you just press the notification for a long time so it shows "app info" then it redirects you to the app thats giving you notification. Or does that not work?

Edit: didn't know someone else posted it. oops.
 
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