I have tried Googling for a solution but nothing seems to work. Every time I try to allow permissions for an application, I get the dreaded "Screen overlay detected" message. I tried resetting all permissions and such, but the problem persists. It is truly annoying and I am on the verge of breaking my stupid phone, so can anyone tell me how to fix it please?
Thank you guys.
Only way I've found around it is to go to settings, apps, app manager, then in the upper right corner select apps that can appear on top. In that screen, choose the drop-down with the apps with permission granted, then ungrant each one individually. After going back and getting permission for the new app, you can go back and reactivate screen overlay for each app if you want.
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Facebook Messenger usually causes this (chat heads), just force stop it and do what you want. The app "Screen Equalizer" causes it too if you happen to use it.
I have tried both these things but the error just kept coming back. I ended up reinstalling the ROM and now it works fine.
TarekElsakka said:
I have tried Googling for a solution but nothing seems to work. Every time I try to allow permissions for an application, I get the dreaded "Screen overlay detected" message. I tried resetting all permissions and such, but the problem persists. It is truly annoying and I am on the verge of breaking my stupid phone, so can anyone tell me how to fix it please?
Thank you guys.
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It is a security policy from Google. You can't grant permission if another app is open on top of current app. Like chat bubbles notifications in Facebook Messenger.
The reason is that the app can grant permission for you without your consent. You have to identify what is open on top of everything and close it before granting permission.
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Additionally the edge effect on the blackberry PRIV trips this error message. Maybe the edge on Samsung does similar.
For some reason it only happens on Renovate Edge ROM for me. I reinstalled Renovate last night and got the error, and I fixed it by disabling (unchecking) all the apps that can draw over others and rebooting my device. Before the reboot, it's as though nothing changed, so make sure to reboot if you get that error.
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Hi guys... stupid me... I was playing around with Titaniuum Backup and read about the recommended job to integrate update into the ROM in order to free up space. Good idea, i thought.
So, I pressed it and was toasted successfully. Tried to start chrome again and was told that an error occurred and I have to delete chrome first. Well. I wondered as it is a system app. Never mind. Titanium backup pro solves the problem I thought. Deleted Chrome, restarted and installed it.
If now I want to start Chrome, it closes itself and gives a toast that "Chrome stopped working". I can press report or ok. The most interesting part is, that this toast appears 2 times. So, I guess that the process starts 2 times and produces a conflict.
Any idea?
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Hi guys... stupid me... I was playing around with Titaniuum Backup and read about the recommended job to integrate update into the ROM in order to free up space. Good idea, i thought.
So, I pressed it and was toasted successfully. Tried to start chrome again and was told that an error occurred and I have to delete chrome first. Well. I wondered as it is a system app. Never mind. Titanium backup pro solves the problem I thought. Deleted Chrome, restarted and installed it.
If now I want to start Chrome, it closes itself and gives a toast that "Chrome stopped working". I can press report or ok. The most interesting part is, that this toast appears 2 times. So, I guess that the process starts 2 times and produces a conflict.
Any idea?
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Hmmm.... try the 'Undo sys integration' option in Titanium Backup n see whether it works. Tell us what happens next.
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body150165 said:
Hi guys... stupid me... I was playing around with Titaniuum Backup and read about the recommended job to integrate update into the ROM in order to free up space. Good idea, i thought.
So, I pressed it and was toasted successfully. Tried to start chrome again and was told that an error occurred and I have to delete chrome first. Well. I wondered as it is a system app. Never mind. Titanium backup pro solves the problem I thought. Deleted Chrome, restarted and installed it.
If now I want to start Chrome, it closes itself and gives a toast that "Chrome stopped working". I can press report or ok. The most interesting part is, that this toast appears 2 times. So, I guess that the process starts 2 times and produces a conflict.
Any idea?
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Try clearing data and defaults of Chrome in "system settings - apps" and then long pressing Chrome and turning it to a system app in TB.
Mandark52 said:
Hmmm.... try the 'Undo sys integration' option in Titanium Backup n see whether it works. Tell us what happens next.
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Hello, "undo sys integration" lets me know that there is nothing to undo. So, I can not execute this process.
@yuzgen: Chrome is still a system app and so, I can not make it one ( as it is already)
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Hello, "undo sys integration" lets me know that there is nothing to undo. So, I can not execute this process.
@yuzgen: Chrome is still a system app and so, I can not make it one ( as it is already)
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But you put "Deleted Chrome, restarted and installed it." in your first post. So now it must be a user app?
Try this!
body150165 said:
Hi guys... stupid me... I was playing around with Titaniuum Backup and read about the recommended job to integrate update into the ROM in order to free up space. Good idea, i thought.
So, I pressed it and was toasted successfully. Tried to start chrome again and was told that an error occurred and I have to delete chrome first. Well. I wondered as it is a system app. Never mind. Titanium backup pro solves the problem I thought. Deleted Chrome, restarted and installed it.
If now I want to start Chrome, it closes itself and gives a toast that "Chrome stopped working". I can press report or ok. The most interesting part is, that this toast appears 2 times. So, I guess that the process starts 2 times and produces a conflict.
Any idea?
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1. Make sure chrome is closed.
2. Go to the app settings and remove all data from chrome.
3. Go into /data/data/ (with a root explorer) and remove any directory with chrome (probably: com.android.chrome),
4. Then remove chrome from your device.
5. Restart the device after that reinstall chrome from the play store.
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1. Make sure chrome is closed.
2. Go to the app settings and remove all data from chrome.
3. Go into /data/data/ (with a root explorer) and remove any directory with chrome (probably: com.android.chrome),
4. Then remove chrome from your device.
5. Restart the device after that reinstall chrome from the play store.
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Thank you Jeffrey. That solved my problem. If ever you come to Thailand, I invite you to a beer (or 2)
So I got a replacement phone today. I can't use most of my downloaded apps. It says I have to turn off screen overlay.
It keeps telling me to change my settings. Ugh. I've Googled advice and I keep reading things about disabling lux for example but I don't have that app..
I've also read if I go into my app manager and click on more it should allow me to "draw over" and this isn't an option on my phone..
Daleernhrt8 said:
So I got a replacement phone today. I can't use most of my downloaded apps. It says I have to turn off screen overlay.
It keeps telling me to change my settings. Ugh. I've Googled advice and I keep reading things about disabling lux for example but I don't have that app..
I've also read if I go into my app manager and click on more it should allow me to "draw over" and this isn't an option on my phone..
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It's a message from latest security policy from Google. It was introduced in latest update.
When you open an app and this app asks for any kind of permission like access contact, storage or location, you have to make sure that there is no app running on top of everything. This is for your security because this app can answer for you without your permission.
Example: if you have a Messenger chat head open on top of the screen, Google will not let you answer if other application asks for permission. In this case just close the chat head.
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A search may have resulted in a thread only a page back about the same problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/question-screen-overlay-detected-how-fix-t3430053
I use a Moto G4 plus and I really do not understand the app preferences but when I was about to install the Gallery app which I downloaded from this forum, it asked for detail about accessibility and when I gave allow, it shows me screen overlay detected and I tried to change app preferences and screwed all my preferences. It's been a very long day for me and I don't understand why this occurs. I don't know which app is doing this. Guys please help me !!
While opening the screen overlay permission make sure u don't have fb messenger on
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I_Myth said:
I use a Moto G4 plus and I really do not understand the app preferences but when I was about to install the Gallery app which I downloaded from this forum, it asked for detail about accessibility and when I gave allow, it shows me screen overlay detected and I tried to change app preferences and screwed all my preferences. It's been a very long day for me and I don't understand why this occurs. I don't know which app is doing this. Guys please help me !!
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In my Moto G4 plus ,twilight app(used for night mode) causes screen oveelay. Whenever I get msg like screen overlay detected I simply pause this app running. Likewise in your mobile also some app is causing this. Try to find out that app.
sureshkadiri said:
In my Moto G4 plus ,twilight app(used for night mode) causes screen oveelay. Whenever I get msg like screen overlay detected I simply pause this app running. Likewise in your mobile also some app is causing this. Try to find out that app.
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Guys I don't use fb messenger or the twilight app, but the problem seems to be from the latest version of ES file explorer, it seems to have cleaning option with the latest update and thus it had been blocking all the priority, my draw over app permissions are still grayed out, but when I personally enter into the app's info (i button at top right corner) I was able to select the permissions and now it's working fine, but I do need an app for setting alarm and ringtone, besides ES file explorer. Any suggestions besides ES file explorer, I need to set alarm and ringtone.
I_Myth said:
Guys I don't use fb messenger or the twilight app, but the problem seems to be from the latest version of ES file explorer, it seems to have cleaning option with the latest update and thus it had been blocking all the priority, my draw over app permissions are still grayed out, but when I personally enter into the app's info (i button at top right corner) I was able to select the permissions and now it's working fine, but I do need an app for setting alarm and ringtone, besides ES file explorer. Any suggestions besides ES file explorer, I need to set alarm and ringtone.
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Are u using any Internet speed meter type app which shows Internet speed in status bar, or do u have any app like blue light filter, these type of apps simply causes this issue. My suggestion is go to the section "draw over other apps" and manually disable the permission of all downloaded apps, then try to give permission 1 by 1, thay way u will get to know the what app is causing problem for you and helps you in future also.
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ca_guri01 said:
Are u using any Internet speed meter type app which shows Internet speed in status bar, or do u have any app like blue light filter, these type of apps simply causes this issue. My suggestion is go to the section "draw over other apps" and manually disable the permission of all downloaded apps, then try to give permission 1 by 1, thay way u will get to know the what app is causing problem for you and helps you in future also.
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No, I did not install any of the above mentioned apps. And I did that "draw over other apps" manually disabling permissions. Nothing worked out. But as I uninstalled ES file explorer, the permissions were done manually by going into the app's info page. It works fine now but, now I need a suitable file explorer for setting alarm tone and ringtone
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No, I did not install any of the above mentioned apps. And I did that "draw over other apps" manually disabling permissions. Nothing worked out. But as I uninstalled ES file explorer, the permissions were done manually by going into the app's info page. It works fine now but, now I need a suitable file explorer for setting alarm tone and ringtone
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I am also using es but haven't faced this issue..
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ca_guri01 said:
I am also using es but haven't faced this issue..
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I formatted my phone yesterday due to the sound problem from the latest update, not the Nougat update. I backed up everything on my Google account so my priorities weren't changed. But after upgrading every app yesterday, I downloaded the gallery app from this forum and wasn't able to access it, denying the permissions due to the screen overlay problem. And I manually disabled my priorities for each app upon which I gave the reset priorities which entirely denied every apps priorities except some and I had uninstall every app which had their priorities leaving only the system apps. Then I finally cancelled priorities for ES file explorer and still the apps permissions were kinda grayed out. But upon selecting the app's info option on the top right corner, I was able to select manually each of the app's permissions like storage, camera, contacts etc. So I uninstalled the app and it works fine now. I too don't understand how ES explorer was the problem. Plus the software update decreased the sound drastically to which I formatted the phone upon the customer care opinion, but still the problem persists.
Es file explorer 's ,'new file remainder' feature has this screen overlay problem..
By disabling in es settings my problem solved!
sikoo1996 said:
Es file explorer 's ,'new file remainder' feature has this screen overlay problem..
By disabling in es settings my problem solved!
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Thank you very much, helped me a lot with this issue:laugh:
Hi guys
Since yesterday, my Facebook app asks me for superuser rights. Of course I refused, but since then a toast often appears to tell me that Magisk refused the app to access the SU rights. It means that the app keeps trying to access it. Even when the app runs in background.
I tried to clear the data and cache of the app, but it still asks for root permissions
Does it happen to anyone else ? Any idea why it happens ?
BigBen60 said:
Hi guys
Since yesterday, my Facebook app asks me for superuser rights. Of course I refused, but since then a toast often appears to tell me that Magisk refused the app to access the SU rights. It means that the app keeps trying to access it. Even when the app runs in background.
I tried to clear the data and cache of the app, but it still asks for root permissions
Does it happen to anyone else ? Any idea why it happens ?
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Well that's really strange, I've never ever had that happen to me, have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling Facebook? Not sure why it would even ask for root rights, doesn't seem right to me
BigBen60 said:
Hi guys
Since yesterday, my Facebook app asks me for superuser rights. Of course I refused, but since then a toast often appears to tell me that Magisk refused the app to access the SU rights. It means that the app keeps trying to access it. Even when the app runs in background.
I tried to clear the data and cache of the app, but it still asks for root permissions
Does it happen to anyone else ? Any idea why it happens ?
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Are you using the official version of Facebook from google play or modded version ?
This also happened on a family members phone after upgrading to the most current FB version
(as of 16.may.2018) of course using GooglePlay to do the update.
I do find such behaviour quite devious coming from a social app...
I have started getting this today on my OnePlus One on lineage OS with magisk installed. Maybe fb have added it in with a recent update. Very suspicious though! I get a toast message every 10 seconds saying its been denied superuser rights. Only stops when I close the app. Ive tried clearing data and reinstalling the app (from play store). No luck so far!
BigBen60 said:
Hi guys
Since yesterday, my Facebook app asks me for superuser rights. Of course I refused, but since then a toast often appears to tell me that Magisk refused the app to access the SU rights. It means that the app keeps trying to access it. Even when the app runs in background.
I tried to clear the data and cache of the app, but it still asks for root permissions
Does it happen to anyone else ? Any idea why it happens ?
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This started happening to me just now. It was specifically when I visited a news article (and not before) which displayed within facebook's own browser (rather than launching another app to render it). The toast went away when I restarted the app, but when I found that news article again the toasts started again too. The toasts continue even when facebook is just in the background. It's hard to tell if it's the website somehow causing facebook to request superuser access, or if it's actually built in to facebook (and if so *why* they're asking for it? Is it to provide additional services to websites?). I don't know if it's every site within facebook's browser or just the one I was on that caused it to start. I'd be very interested to the circumstances that caused it to happen for other people...
It is the official facebook app, on a Oneplus 5 running OxygenOS 5.1.1. The version of facebook is 172.0.0.66.93 (updated on 15 May 2018) and I just installed the update 14 hours ago.
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...eruser-privileges-and-users-are-freaking-out/
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I've noticed that after Oreo update some apps cannot draw over other apps anymore. Like Google Translate "Tap to Translate" or Nougat/Oreo Quick Settings. Lastpass works fine tho. But if I try to make work this apps, it will tell me I need to go to settings to enable "Draw over other apps" permission for that app. The funny thing is that the permission is already given and switching it on and off, killing the app, restarting the phone, etc doesn't do anything. For the apps is like I never granted the permission and so they don't work as they should.
I'm trying to avoid doing a factory reset, btw.
Anyone else has this problem? Anyone using "tap to translate" of Google Translate ?
Thanks!
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I'm guessing no one has the problem? xD I guess I'll factory reset then...
Darius_bd said:
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I've noticed that after Oreo update some apps cannot draw over other apps anymore. Like Google Translate "Tap to Translate" or Nougat/Oreo Quick Settings. Lastpass works fine tho. But if I try to make work this apps, it will tell me I need to go to settings to enable "Draw over other apps" permission for that app. The funny thing is that the permission is already given and switching it on and off, killing the app, restarting the phone, etc doesn't do anything. For the apps is like I never granted the permission and so they don't work as they should.
I'm trying to avoid doing a factory reset, btw.
Anyone else has this problem? Anyone using "tap to translate" of Google Translate ?
Thanks!
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I'm having the same issue with twilight and Pokemon calci iv. I just did a factory reboot and when I did I constantly get a pop up that says can't install contents 1-400, so I have to keep it in battery saver mode all the time. It still gets hot like crazy, and do not get the port wet because it detected moisture for days and will intermittently charge and not charge or charge slowly and quick charge. I am hoping another factory reset would do the trick,but idk. These intrinsic obsolescence strategies are how they get you to upgrade to the lg g7
So I did the factory reset. The update error went away the moisture sensor issue went away, the drawing over apps issue went away for 2 days then came back. I cannot use chatheads, pokigenie, twilight, etc. The hell with you LG