On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 10:44 PM, Phil wrote: > >> Has anybody with a Nexus One (or any other Froyo phone) experienced >> what just happened to me? I'm sat working at my Mac, phone on charge >> next to me. The screen is on and unlocked, sitting on the home page. >> All of a sudden a Yogi Bear trailer starts playing and I've not even >> touched the phone! I press the home button and it goes away. How did >> that happen? >> >> Do you know that those white pills that you use for increasing > programming efficiency sometimes have side effects? ;-) > > Seriously, it's scary. But, believe it or not, googling seems to have > brought the answer: > > http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/273917-i-hate-yogi-bear.html > > Does it fit with your case? Could it be AdFree? If it is, I'd be so pleased > to have a new reason for which I don't install ad-backed apps. > You might have misunderstood that link: the person was just suggesting to install AdFree, but we still don't know what caused this. The post seems to hint that it's Angry Birds that caused the ad to display, though. Phil, are you sure you weren't playing? Or maybe the game was in the background? (still not an excuse to do that) By the way, this kind of thing is pretty easy to do on Android, try "Chrome to Phone" for a good example (and by good, I mean "useful"). Send a URL from your desktop to your phone and less than a second later, it pops up on your phone. Scary. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
