My new Access Wireless phone has ads on the lock screen, how the hell can I remove them?

[420inPortland]

These damn ads are causing lagg, as well as killing my battery fast, and they are so big i cant hardly find i place to long press the screen to unlock the phone without accidentally hitting the ad and being directed to their sites. Pls HELP !!!

 

*The phone has custom Android OS, so the usual tactics of trying to look at the last used app, etc dont work, and it was like this out of the box, so its a preinstalled app.

* It appears that the ads are some kind of popup OVER the lock screen, as when i rebooted the phone i unlocked it and the ad wasnt there, then as whatever the app is causing it caught up, it threw the ad over the home screen instead.

[Gokul_P]

8 minutes ago, 420inPortland said:

These damn ads are causing lagg, as well as killing my battery fast, and they are so big i cant hardly find i place to long press the screen to unlock the phone without accidentally hitting the ad and being directed to their sites. Pls HELP !!!

 

*The phone has custom Android OS, so the usual tactics of trying to look at the last used app, etc dont work, and it was like this out of the box, so its a preinstalled app.

what is your Phone. (brand,Modelnumber)

[420inPortland]

Just now, Gokul_P said:

what is your Phone. (brand,Modelnumber)

The only branding on the phone claims the model is a HEROSP001,  with a custom android build version HEROSP001_V005_14112022. SUPER cheap ass Chinese phone, but its what the carrier provides.

[Gokul_P]

7 minutes ago, 420inPortland said:

The only branding on the phone claims the model is a HEROSP001,  with a custom android build version HEROSP001_V005_14112022. SUPER cheap ass Chinese phone, but its what the carrier provides.

You have a few options 

1) use some form of DNS filtering to filter the Ads 

2) root the phone https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/how-to-unlock-root-magisk-hero-sp-001-access-wireless.4434813/ (it will void the warrenty and stuff but give you the control of your device)

 

I couldnt find any other data about this phone so im assuming its like fire tablets and you have to root to disable ads and there is not really a setting that you can change.

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

25 minutes ago, 420inPortland said:

The only branding on the phone claims the model is a HEROSP001,  with a custom android build version HEROSP001_V005_14112022. SUPER cheap ass Chinese phone, but its what the carrier provides.

It was probably subsidized in cost by those ads. Either:

• Use a custom DNS to nuke the ads from loading
• Load a custom ROM
• Get a different phone

If you're lucky, maybe there's a setting to turn them off, but typically phones that do that, won't let you since that's how the cost of the phone is offset.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Download no root firewall, thatll let you block any network access of unwanted apps

 

 

I use a cheap vivo so lots of garbage bloatware trying to phone home to china and steal my data. Maybe i shouldnt block system updates but honestly id rather not have more bloatware getting installed and this firewall will keep me mostly safe anyways if i ever accidentally sideload malware onto this phone (hasnt happened yet)

 

 

Basically block all system apps aside from really obvious ones like phone, google apps, sms app, etc. Any junk playstore or random apps with really long names yes block those

[420inPortland]

54 minutes ago, SlayerOfHellWyrm said:

It was probably subsidized in cost by those ads. Either:

• Use a custom DNS to nuke the ads from loading
• Load a custom ROM
• Get a different phone

If you're lucky, maybe there's a setting to turn them off, but typically phones that do that, won't let you since that's how the cost of the phone is offset.

Yeah, what's fucked up is this is my Obama/lifeline phone becuase I'm too poor to afford a landline even, so the cost is ALREADY offset by the federal government, which means there's really no excuse for this bullshit.

[E-waste]

Solution: RethinkDNS.

 

I also want to mention pi-hole.  As others have stated, blocking the website names with dns blocking like pi-hole hosted locally on your computer, even with Windows, can fix this unwanted network activity.

 

I want to heavily promote this app because it has funding from the Mozilla MVP program and the devs truly know what they are doing.  The team members are previously involved in huge tech companies so they know what's really going on.

 

This app has both dns setting (even if overridden by strange software choices) and a firewall which will block any app you choose--including many system apps.

 

No root required and you'll actually see what's happening on your device, and have full control of the network portion now.

 

Enjoy digital devices that aren't able to force networked spam to you, or some unknown server.