topic Re: Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone. in Galaxy S25

[Galaxy S25 Ultra] Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

MrPace — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:00:13 GMT

I have a Samsung Galaxy s25 Ultra and about 3 days ago, it started acting weird. Every time I plug my charger into my phone, an ad pops up. I have tried a LOT of different ways to stop it. I was told it could be a third party app. I tried to boot it in safe mode to find the culprit. Can't find it. I don't know what to do. Is anyone else having this problem? I have a scree recording of what's going on but can't upload it. I'm tired of the ads/pop ups. Can someone PLEASE help me? And I uninstalled Chrome because that was the main pop up/ad I was getting. I STILL got pop ups after doing that.

Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

GaryB82 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:40:05 GMT

This was happening to my Dad yesterday and some how a Routine was setup when he plugged in his phone youtube and other apps would open check this.

Phone settings

Modes and Routines

3 Dots in the top right History

Tap Routines and see if any routines run when you plug in your phone

Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

Mujibar — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:11:31 GMT

Download Good Lock from the Galaxy Store and install the Nice Catch module. Turn on "toast history" and "detect commercials." Uninstall the app that is identified as the culprit.

Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

MrPace — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:44:05 GMT

Power Save pops up when I plug it in. I checked it and it shows that it's off. What do I do now?

Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

MrPace — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:45:03 GMT

I did that and Chrome shows. Thats why I disabled and installed it. It still did the same thing after Chrome was gone.

Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

Tidbitty — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:45:05 GMT

Hold the notification down until it highlights. You should see a gear. Tap the gear. It should give you the app that gives you the advertising

You can also go into the app section in settings and look for apps and uninstalling ones you dont recognize and uninstall the ones allowed to(some are system apps and can't be uninstalled).

Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

GaryB82 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:45:53 GMT

Can you scroll down or is that the bottom

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MrPace — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:49:31 GMT

I got it!!! So, some how a routine was set. I deleted it and it works like normal. Thank you so much.

Re: Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

GaryB82 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:05:19 GMT

Happy to be able to help if you could click on the post above and mark the post as solved

Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

MrPace — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:07:53 GMT

It was a Routine that was set up. I don't even know how it was created. I deleted it and it back to normal. Thank you all for your help.

Re: Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

VerbumVeritum — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:23:14 GMT

Happy to hear everything is now working normally! Do you remember what the routine was programmed to do? I'm just curious. 🙂

Re: Re: Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

MrPace — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:41:48 GMT

It was something like If the phone is charging, open some random site. I can't remember all of it. Here is a screenshot of some it what I remembered seeing.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

VerbumVeritum — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:45:39 GMT

Interesting. Do you remember creating such a routine?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

GaryB82 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:49:18 GMT

@MrPace Sounds just like what was happening on my dad's phone. Every time he plugged it in or used wireless charging, YouTube and websites would start popping up. It was strange that it started happening while we were driving down the road.

Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

jedklang — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:08:58 GMT

Check your.
Routines, there may be a hidden routine there.I think it has to do with a battery setting called adaptive battery.I think they jumped the gun and I think it's interfering

Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

GaryB82 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:12:30 GMT

This has already been solved in the first comment.

Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

LelaM — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:32:36 GMT

🙏🙏🙏 Thank you so much. This was literally driving me crazy

Re: Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

GaryB82 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:34:26 GMT

Happy this was able to help. I'm not sure how these mystery routines are being added.

Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

MrCelly — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:34:35 GMT

This was a phone saver
Thank you

Re: Re: Re: Ads/Pop Ups when I charge my phone.

GaryB82 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:58:03 GMT

glad I could help