Amazon ad

I am getting a full sized Amazon ad from somewhere. I trial installed a couple of weather apps and I think one of them installed it. I've deleted the apps, and I still see it.

I also added a MLB scoreboard, but I have that on a tablet, and no ad.

I don't know if Boat Browser Mini has added ads.

Everything else has been installed for a long time and popup type ads.

I tried Airpush and its ilk, but they found nothing. How do I find this bugger>

 

The funny thing is it's intermittent. I'll see it after I close Boat Mini. Boat says they put ads only on certain pages, and I hadn't seen any after I closed browser until I tried these weather apps.

I haven't bought any apps from Amazon, either. Phones, yes; apps, no. I do have an Amazon account, but have never given them real phone number.

I tend to buy apps. I will try the free version first, but will buy if I like it. Some, like Handcent don't offer that. They seem to be donationware, have no policy otherwise about ads. But the ads are not that intrusive.

MLB scoreboard hasn't been updated for a while. I use it on the tablet, and no ads but the small ones in the app itself.

I'll just have to wait and see if this pops up again. It's a big full screen popup, too.

 

I did use ES File explorer. It found nothing. I think it was triggered by one of the weather apps.

I did find the problem with Weatherbug Elite. If you use your zip code, it selects a reporting station. The reporting station that was assigned to my zip just wasn't reporting. Apparently you can't pick and choose for your address. I'd prefer to use my street address as I live on a hill, and the weather can be very different in a valley. I guess Weatherbug doesn't see it that way. Will try to tell them the station doesn't report, and all I'll get is a form letter back.

Here's an article about the whole stupid situation. Something "new" isn't always an improvement.

Mobile apps with a death wish | Mobile Technology - InfoWorld

 

I've deleted all those trialled weather apps. The stupid ad is back. I've removed MLB scoreboard. I'm changing to the paid version of Boat Browser.

I've notice the ads appear after I've used Play on the phone. I usually send apps from the computer. Do you suppose Google is doing it? The last one wasn't Amazon, it was for some cell thing and said Ad by Google. I don't like full page ads appearing after I close the browser or Play.
Boat mini is set to delete everything on exit, and I don't keep history.

I don't really want to do a factory reset just yet. I'm having trouble backing up the phone on 7Pro. I want to back up a few things first - like Ringtone Keeper and another one for contacts that keeps the addresses and all the info. The SIM just keeps names and numbers and I don't sync with Google. Once I can back up what I want, I might just put CM10 on the phone which will do the same as a reset in getting rid of junk.

 

I wouldn't mind another custom ROM, but I want written step by step instructions that I can PRINT. CM has a decent WIKI which is why I used CM on other phones. Everyone else uses Youtube. I'm not a big fan of videos. Nor am I a big fan of some of the posters on XDA. They have no clue what an antecedent is even though their tech knowledge is good.

If you have a link to any such information on installing another ROM, and a recommendation for one, I'd appreciate it.

I did check in Android/Data. Nothing there but files from Google and apps I have bought and used for 6 months or longer. Found 2 empty folders elsewhere with push ad labels and deleted them.

I uninstalled Boat Mini. I installed Boat which I have the Pro key for. I bought it a year ago. I did read through all the changes in the app.

I won't use the default browser. Doesn't have the settings I want. Think I froze it with TB anyway.

Thanks

 

No personal info on phone besides number. Phone is listed under a pseudonym. I don't post or do anything personal on phone, use data only for looking up stuff like sizes or specs of mdse, and sports scores. I do personal at home on a Linux box.

I use FX ESR at home. I don't like all the forced updates to let people find social crap without tryng and having to edit About:Config. I use Adblock and NoScript, and haven't seen anything like NoScript for the phone. I also use Tab Permissions and turn off images on the fly. I don't keep history and dump all data on exit. If FX would do an ESR version for the phone, I'd use it.
ESR only gets the security updates for its life as it is made for business use. Opera does all this also, but its too hard to edit.

Not especially paranoia - just annoyed that everyone wants the info, so I'm not playing. I don't do what everyone else does - never have.

 

I want the plainest, less add on ROM that I can find. While I don't have to use it, I don't like that Pie nonsense and some other built in extras.

Where do you find WIKIs for those ROMS? I've searched and only get videos.

 

I can find stuff at XDA - most of the posters just spew out ideas and directions with no notion of an antecedent. If you are referring to say hold the volume control 3 times for various tasks, and later in the post say "as I said before" please link to it or say where you put it for each damn task.
They have very good technical knowledge but no notion of English usage.

 

Different backups or whatever you call it. Some use ROM manager, some use TWRP, some reference Titanium Backup. That's where the confusion is. I have ROM manager and TB since I started with them. The ROM I'm looking at uses TWRP in the instructions.

No one has said whether having 2 different programs will cause a conflict anywhere.
Some programs warn you to delete something that will conflict, usually an update.

I need to get this phone backed up. 7 is being a pain with the "calculating" message. I have an XP laptop, and virtual XP on the 7 laptop. XP had no problem. I need to find out if I can use virtual XP for this.

 

I meant CWM. It's in a file somewhere since I used it on the Nexus S. Probably on the XP laptop or the phone. I wasn't awake this AM. I've still got the S. I will keep the backups and whatever I used for it and start over for the 4.

That was part of the problem - some wanting CWM and the others TWRP - I know both can do the job, but how do the instructions for one compare to the instructions for the other? There's opinions here on both apps, too. Some say to use one, some say the other.

Can you use virtual XP to do this? Or should I just give in and use the XP laptop?

I found this:

Guanxin: noParking!: Installing Nexus 4 ADB drivers on Windows 7 x64.

Then someone in the root forum said they had the same problem with WUG.

Where does Superuser belong? I got with TB, I think. It had one update in Play Store and that update messed up the phone totally. I got rid of the update.

I read just about everything. That's why I have some problems, but I suppose it's better than grabbing the first post about rooting and bricking the phone.