I keep getting a mouse cursor appear on my screen.

NaginiTacos · Feb 6, 2017

idk how to fix the problem, ive already tried reseting my phone and it didnt work. it used to appear randomly when i used my phone and it would click something on my screen like open an app or click pause on a youtube video. After i did the reset, it only appeared when i opened google maps and it would star clicking on my screen repeatedly to the point i couldnt do anything and would have to turn the phone of by force.

today · Feb 8, 2017

I've seen that cursor before. A setting is in developer options.

dontpanicbobby · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome to the Android Forums NaginiTacos.! This is about to get weird...

If when you tap on the settings icon you don't see developer options try this:

Open Settings>Scroll down to About and tap on that>Now tap on More where it says Baseband, Kernel etc. >Now tap on Build number 7 times rapidly and you will have enabled Developer options>Go back and tap on the Settings icon>scroll down and tap on Developer options>Scroll down and uncheck Show taps and Pointer location.

If that doesn't work maybe it's a new "feature"?

brianparry · Feb 8, 2017

Try reinstalling Google Maps

NaginiTacos · Feb 8, 2017

dontpanicbobby said:
Welcome to the Android Forums NaginiTacos.! This is about to get weird...

If when you tap on the settings icon you don't see developer options try this:

Open Settings>Scroll down to About and tap on that>Now tap on More where it says Baseband, Kernel etc. >Now tap on Build number 7 times rapidly and you will have enabled Developer options>Go back and tap on the Settings icon>scroll down and tap on Developer options>Scroll down and uncheck Show taps and Pointer location.

If that doesn't work maybe it's a new "feature"?

the show taps and the pointer location were already unchecked, i tried reinstalling google maps and it didnt work either. but thank you either way. btw what did you mean by new "feature"?

dontpanicbobby · Feb 9, 2017

Sometimes when a glitch happens in software it jokingly referred to as a new "feature". That goes all the way back to the PDA days. Probably earlier but definitely used a lot when Palm Pilots and Pocket PC programs went glitchy. Sorry I couldn't help.

NaginiTacos · Feb 9, 2017

dontpanicbobby said:
Sometimes when a glitch happens in software it jokingly referred to as a new "feature". That goes all the way back to the PDA days. Probably earlier but definitely used a lot when Palm Pilots and Pocket PC programs went glitchy. Sorry I couldn't help.

well thank you anyways.

Oly the PooR · Apr 19, 2017

NaginiTacos said:
idk how to fix the problem, ive already tried reseting my phone and it didnt work. it used to appear randomly when i used my phone and it would click something on my screen like open an app or click pause on a youtube video. After i did the reset, it only appeared when i opened google maps and it would star clicking on my screen repeatedly to the point i couldnt do anything and would have to turn the phone of by force.

Ha, I had the same issue. Solved by disable, switching off GPS, try it!

norweger · Oct 3, 2019

Oly the PooR said:
Ha, I had the same issue. Solved by disable, switching off GPS, try it!

I the same problem. A black mouse cursor which frantically moved around on the center of the screen, with a tiny blue circle around it.

My phone is rooted, so WTF I thought, I couldn't be hacked?

But disabling the GPS fixed it. I think the problem arose when I updated snapchat on my old M8.

norweger · Oct 3, 2019

norweger said:
I the same problem. A black mouse cursor which frantically moved around on the center of the screen, with a tiny blue circle around it.

My phone is rooted, so WTF I thought, I couldn't be hacked?

But disabling the GPS fixed it. I think the problem arose when I updated snapchat on my old M8.

Alas!
The frantic mouse cursor is back! Disabling GPS didn't work after all. What to do then?

I keep getting a mouse cursor appear on my screen.

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