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Question

Invasive 'Intelligent Lockscreen'

Aug 13, 2017 7:32PM PDT

This popped up on my Galaxy S5 for the first time, "Welcome to an Intelligent Lock Screen! Relevant, timely updates and tasks". Not only is this bad English, it's invasive, unwanted, and not 'intelligent'.
There are two buttons - "Later" and "OK, Got it", both rather cryptic, uninformative, unintelligent, and irrelevant. I can't get past this thing, and I am leary about touching either button.

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Red alert?
Aug 13, 2017 7:38PM PDT
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This lockscreen in locked
Aug 13, 2017 10:15PM PDT

Thanks. I read these earlier; can't disable Peel, can't get into Settings, can't do anything Sad

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2 choices, maybe work
Aug 13, 2017 10:56PM PDT

Install Android Studio in a windows computer and use that to find and extract the offender.

Boot to a LIVE LINUX DVD (ubuntu, mint, zorin, elementaryOS, and others) and it's operating system can directly access android files, so you can remove the offending app.

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As noted in the cnet.com link.
Aug 14, 2017 6:37AM PDT

Some of these dig in so deep that we have to re-flash the phone. This is why I have to disallow 3rd party for now. Hope Google patches this issue.