Chinese Ads on Mobile

Axel

I am trying to get rid of an annoying Chinese Ad page that pops up regularly on my phone. My phone is an OneplusX bought online from China and is a great phone apart from this annoying Ad. It does not appear when I am browsing on the internet, but is regularly on my phone when I open it up making it difficult to answer calls. I do not think a browser Ad Blocker would work and I tried an App Ad finder which did not work. From researching I understand that it must be an app that is bringing up this page, but I cannot find it and I do not want to try and root my phone.

An advice would be appreciated.

Axel

sillygoose

Sometimes phones from China were setup for one of their networks and selelrs get them cheap and then sell them online, and Chinese networks do love to load them with tons of apps that run adverts and spam. Part the reason I gave up on them.

If the advert comes up as a notification, try pressing and holding the notification and you should get a popup telling you the application that created it.

(or there may be something you can press to the right on the actual notification for same info)

Go to setting - apps, set to see all including built in ones and find the app, select it and at the very least you can disable its ability to send notifications by unticking the 'allow notifications' box. Odds are its a pointless app anyway and you can usually disable it all together in the settings without affecting the phone.

If it was added on later by the distributor you may even be able to uninstall it completely but if it was put in at the ROM compilation stage the uninstall button will be greyed out but you can still disable.

Unfortunately in some Chinese phones needed apps are replaced from stock android ones with network modified ones that keep bothering you, in that case your a bit stuffed unless you root the phone and replace the apps or get a new clean ROM version and reflash the whole ROM.

tafelmoneysaver

Have you installed any apps from an app store other anywhere else other than the Google Play Store?

If you have, I'd recommend removing that one first.

If you can't remember, go through your apps and start removing.

You have the "go nuclear" option of erasing the phone and choosing carefully which apps you install back on the phone.

paddyrg

If it's been this way from new, it is likely baked in by the vendor. I've seen Chinese phones that put adverts on every single loading screen even for stock programmes like gallery apps.

Axel

It appeared again when I opened my phone and it is a full page ad for Taobao which looks like a Chinese Amazon! This is the same one that appears every time.

Axel

GunJack

Axel wrote: »

It appeared again when I opened my phone and it is a full page ad for Taobao which looks like a Chinese Amazon! This is the same one that appears every time.

Axel

TaoBao and AliBaba/AliExpress are massive shopping sites worldwide, get the odd vaping bits via AliExpress..... yers the ads are annoying but may save you a few quid on occasion