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Question

What's this this text that pops up on my phone?

May 3, 2015 9:05AM PDT

Every now and then while I'm using my s3 a small black box with white text pops up at the bottom of my screen. It appears and dissappears so quickly I only get a glimps of what it says. All I've been able to read is the word Access/ but there are a few lines to the whole thing . It looks maybe like a file name but really I have no idea.
Couldn't find a thing when I tried search what I saw on google.
Hoping someone can help me work this out.
TIA Happy

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In android programming we call that a toast.
May 3, 2015 9:17AM PDT
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In the past Bob...
May 3, 2015 9:35AM PDT

I've captured fleeting messages on screens with my video camera. I then advance it frame by frame to see the whole message. Have to agree with uninstalling/disabling apps.
Dafydd.

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Here's the real root of my problem......
May 3, 2015 10:55AM PDT

I am 100% sure my partner hacks and spys on my phone which is why I think it's started popping up, ever since I messed around with the security settings a little the little text boxes started appearing.
Removing the cause wont help, there's no real way to stop it happening, he's very tech savvy and smart about these things. After months of researching and finding ways to see what my phone's doing, I now think he mostly does it in a legitimate kind of way, remote controlling or linking our phones? Minimal spy software (or if software is used it's very clever and well hidden)
I can't stop him from doing it really, I can't stop him from accessing my phone, but when he does its very suspicious, I just can't question him directly.
Point is- I want to find a way to find proof or a direct connection between his phone and mine. Catch him in the act of maliciously accessing my phone. I dont care about factory reset cos it's pointless he'll just do it straight away. I've become obsessed with tracking it back to him. But as close as I get to working something out, I can't cos I just don't get this tech kinda stuff!!!
Is there a way to spy on him spying?
Sorry about the dump, I'm bent on finding a solution!

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So easy to wipe out remote control apps.
May 3, 2015 11:01AM PDT

Just do the factory reset. Also, change phones. For me that's cheap as I know about cheap good android phones like the BLU line.

If you are obsessed I worry you will stay that way. Here it's just a wipe and it's clean.
Bob

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another text box and unexplained app open
May 3, 2015 5:58PM PDT

Another text popped up. The first words were "Making Permissions" and another word "Corna" or something close didn't read in time, then more text after.
A few minutes after I went to turn off apps from the home button shortcut and google+ was open, I hadn't opened it, and it was on the same site that I had on my internet browser at that same time.
Possible that I opened it and caused this accidently some how. Ive never used google+ so not sure how it works. But does this look like possible hacking?

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For me it would not be.
May 3, 2015 11:50PM PDT

I run a very tight ship on my androids. I uninstall and disable apps but I imagine there are folk that don't want to dive into all this. Or folk that live on their android phone and can't do a factory reset to toss the bum out.
Bob

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Thanks
May 4, 2015 12:53AM PDT

Will reset the phone. I've tried to get information on understanding all my apps to have better control of my phone and its activity but I find it hard to understand or find the info I'm looking for, so I'll just have to reset it everytime I know its been used by some else and connected to their devices.
Thanks for the advice.