I use QKSMS as my SMS app (and use MightyText so I can text from my desktop). After that was done, the Google Play store informed me that about 47 of my apps had updates available. The selection of which apps lost settings, and which system settings got lost appears to be completely random. When it was done, most of my installed applications had lost their settings. The final time it rebooted, the "Android is Upgrading" message informed me that it was optimizing 47 apps. Later in the day, the phone rebooted several more times. The scan didn't reveal anything, but I mistakenly hit a 'Fix' button, and I have no idea what it did. I don't know much about how to find/remove Android Malware, but yesterday I downloaded Malwarebytes, figuring that it couldn't hurt to do a scan. To support this hypothesis, I think I can pin down the exact day my phone started deteriorating after the Android 6 update. I don't do anything particularly sketchy on my phone, but Malware is a distinct possibility. (When researching this, Google led me down a rabbit hole of bad/outdated information) I don't have good reproduction steps for triggering a spontaneous reboot, and I don't know if there's any good way to pull a meaningful log file off of the phone after it reboots itself. It can sit on this screen for upwards of 10 minutes. Often when the phone spontaneously reboots itself, I see the "Android is Upgrading" message, and it's usually "optimizing" exactly one app. If there is a plausible path to root on this device that doesn't involve sketchy overseas Paypal transactions, I'd be willing to try it! I do not have Root, because Verizon does not let us have nice things. This particular issue has gone away, but the stability and responsiveness issues have returned over the past few weeks after upgrading to Android 6. There was one particular issue with the Facebook app that would cause the entire UI to freeze for about 10 seconds whenever Facebook played a sound. I removed it and that stopped the notifications.Before upgrading to Android 6, I had attributed many of my issues to a theory that the HTC M8 had been shipped with a ridiculously buggy build of Android 5.0.1. I feel silly because I didn’t even realize there was a browser extension for MightyText. Update from Carol: Thanks for your help Rick. You shouldn’t be receiving any more notifications from MightyText. Just follow the steps below to remove the MightyText extension from your Chrome browser and that should put a stop to those irritating notifications:ġ – Launch Google Chrome and then click the Menu icon located in the upper-right corner of the window (it looks like three vertical dots stacked atop one another).ģ – Click the Extensions link located over in the left-hand column.Ĥ – Find the MightyText extension and click the little Trash Can icon at the far right of that line. When you installed MightyText on your computer you actually installed two separate components: the desktop app (that you have already removed) and a Chrome browser extension. My guess is you forgot to remove the Chrome extension. Luckily, there’s a simple solution for this problem. In fact, it happens fairly often when folks remove MightyText from their machines. Rick’s answer: You’re not the only person this happens to Carol. Why am I still getting those notifications even though it’s no longer on my computer? Could it be a cookie or something that’s stored in Chrome? I uninstalled it last night but it’s still sending me notifications telling me I’m not signed in to MightyText and that I might miss some messages. Question from Carol N.: I installed MightyText on my computer and used it for a few days but then decided I didn’t want to keep it.
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