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TexasBushwhacker

(21,020 posts) Sat Oct 22, 2022, 12:48 PM Oct 2022

Phone help - Android

So I was taking a nap and knocked off my phone to my carpeted floor. When I rolled over to get it, it was laying screen down and making little "beep-boop" noises. Ever since then, my search bar on chrome comes up in RUSSIAN or some other Cyrillic font. My default language in Settings is English. I can find nothing set in Russian, but it still pops up here and there. Today it popped up on a pop up calendar where I was supposed to enter my birthrate. Very annoying!

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Phone help - Android (Original Post) TexasBushwhacker Oct 2022 OP

Virus? SheltieLover Oct 2022 #1

Yeah, I've run a couple of anti-virus apps TexasBushwhacker Oct 2022 #5

Did you try turning off & back on? SheltieLover Oct 2022 #6

Yup, did that too TexasBushwhacker Oct 2022 #7

Take to store where you bought it? SheltieLover Oct 2022 #8

I ended up resetting it TexasBushwhacker Oct 2022 #9

the husband somehow set his to Chinese Kali Oct 2022 #2

Which version of Android? Earl_from_PA Oct 2022 #3

Already did that TexasBushwhacker Oct 2022 #4

SheltieLover

(74,052 posts)

1. Virus?

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Original post)

Sat Oct 22, 2022, 01:23 PM

Oct 2022

Get free anti virus (Avast) & scan phone.

Lots of weird viruses come from russia.

Let us know?

TexasBushwhacker

(21,020 posts)

5. Yeah, I've run a couple of anti-virus apps

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 22, 2022, 05:04 PM

Oct 2022

I'm trying to avoid resetting it, because then I would have to reload my apps, but I will do whatever is necessary. What a PITA!

SheltieLover

(74,052 posts)

6. Did you try turning off & back on?

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 22, 2022, 05:17 PM

Oct 2022

TexasBushwhacker

(21,020 posts)

7. Yup, did that too

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #6)

Sat Oct 22, 2022, 05:17 PM

Oct 2022

SheltieLover

(74,052 posts)

8. Take to store where you bought it?

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Reply #7)

Sat Oct 22, 2022, 05:20 PM

Oct 2022

Sorry, no other ideas for you.

TexasBushwhacker

(21,020 posts)

9. I ended up resetting it

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #8)

Sat Oct 22, 2022, 09:39 PM

Oct 2022

The Ruskies aren't going to get me!

Kali

(56,479 posts)

2. the husband somehow set his to Chinese

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Original post)

Sat Oct 22, 2022, 02:02 PM

Oct 2022

he eventually got it to go back to English. I don't know how (and he doesn't either) so no help there, sorry, but just to let you know it happens so just keep playing around.

Earl_from_PA

(294 posts)

3. Which version of Android?

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Original post)

Sat Oct 22, 2022, 02:06 PM

Oct 2022

Settings>General Management>Keyboard settings>Languages

TexasBushwhacker

(21,020 posts)

4. Already did that

Reply to Earl_from_PA (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 22, 2022, 04:44 PM

Oct 2022

And it wasn't set on Russian.

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