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Originally Posted by Osem
Yes we had one of those dormant ones on an old phone. It was an app preloaded onto the phone which, after some months, started downloading 2 further apps which would suddenly appear and cause adverts to start popping up. Deleting the 2 apps would work for a few days but they'd then reappear. The rogue app could not be removed so the only way I found to control this was to disable it, leave the phone on and avoid using wi-fi. After I started doing this all the problems ceased.
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Yeah, those are horrid. only option to remove is to Root and force uninstall but if you ever performed a factory reset, they'd come back as they're embedded in the OS setup. Only way to fully be rid of them is to flash a new OS build like Cyanogen or other.