Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Android super charge crap lockscreen

its been a while, quite busy with... stuff...
but here is a quick post about something annoying.
after i have updated several apps on my android phone, suddenly i noticed a weird lock screen.
my first reaction was WTF, because after i swiped, my original lock screen appeared.
so i looked at list of updated applications, looked at all my installed apps, but nothing was really standing out.
so i looked in google, and it is appears to be a new trend for unknown reason.

here are few links:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge/512443-charging-screen-question.html
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-4/640251-new-speed-charge-battery-status-lock-screen-annoying-ads-just-appeared-gn4-2.html
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/143330/what-is-this-lock-screen-with-ads-and-how-do-i-remove-it
http://androidforums.com/threads/speed-charge-on-lock-screen.1010631/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4g8hbq/psa_amber_weather_widget_223_adds_du_quick_charge/
https://www.reddit.com/r/galaxynote5/comments/45ahkp/wtf_the_ads_showing_on_the_charging_lock_screen/

and i even spotted one of the apps that have been updated to be on this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nexus6/comments/4ilwcl/ive_had_my_nexus_6_since_release_today_it_asked/

so, i was quite confident this wasn't some malware (although i don't have anything worthy on my phone) and in the worst case im suffering some excessive battery drain (all those apps are fake shit, i hope you know that) and maybe i will get some ads, although i didnt get any :<

the easiest solution was of course just to uninstall the shit and see how it goes, but i decided to be more technical, and try to do some adb shell "magic" :


adb shell dumpsys window windows | grep -E 'mCurrentFocus|mFocusedApp'
so... it was indeed the photo editor...

here are some pictures of this magnificent app:



i must say that the settings actually worked, and it disabled that lock screen, and right after that i uninstalled it.

another note: the lock screen would appear only when the phone is charging (so you could  get the super duper mega fast charge boost)