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[Fire TV General] Aumie7:
Looking for the Answer

Thank goodness I found this thread. We have been losing our minds watching anything on one of our Fire Sticks. We have 4 so trying to figure out which one is the one in our Amazon account is going to be a nightmare if we have to reset to factory settings in the amazon account and not just directly from the fire stick. This white test page with the little green android is increasing in frequency and completely knocks you out to the home screen in many of the apps.

I’m very close to just physically destroying this particular fire stick and getting a new one. Maybe that is why Amazon is not adding any assistance in figuring this out. Great way to sell more Fire Sticks.

Will keep watching this thread for updates on how to get this disease off my fire stick!
[Fire TV General] blackice000:
OK...so I managed to use ADB (adblink installed using network to connect via IP) to both stop the com.google.time.timer and the uninstall the apk.

Seems to work, ADB shell then "ps" to check and it's gone.

Maybe this was the fix. Not sure where it came from in the first place. I'd like to know.

Rick

BlackIce
[Fire TV General] Rush94:
Sorry For my Noob Question, I am totally new to FireTV OS's, I have purchased this fire TV Stick: here

need to switch to the launcher mentioned in this thread, can someone help me with that.

Also, need one more help to install OLD youtube app without blocking and no ADS if possible all without rooting or voiding its warranty.

Also, Suggest What All Secret Content This Fire TV Stick Has OR Can Be Installed
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
Think I stopped it, app came back with a vengence! Would not stop, I took every app off Amazon even the cloud apps, turned off anything that sank with the stick (stuff for books and stuff) after I deregisted and re registerd the stick... Then sank the firestick and with in 3 min it was back.... So my last ditch effort installed a few antivirus programs. The one called antivirus pro, has a blue icon a white paint brush and a red banner that says 2017, but it finds test as a virus, so install the app then turn off 3rd party apps, then run the app and delete the test app, so far no test popup and after multiple scans still no test app. Even if it returns as long as this method stops it temporary at least it stopped for now. If it starts again I'm going to do what black ice did. I will update post if it returns.

Edit : after a few hrs test app is back! OMG I'll try black ices method, if it returns this is going on eBay, I'm tired of this crap.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
OK...so I managed to use ADB (adblink installed using network to connect via IP) to both stop the com.google.time.timer and the uninstall the apk.

Seems to work, ADB shell then "ps" to check and it's gone.

Can you explain this a bit more? Is adblink an app that you used ftp to install? Or you turned on adb in settings and connected to the firestick with ftp and deleted stuff? I just don't quite get exactly what you mean. I'm a lot more knowledgeable on PC's and I've learned a lot about Android and the fire stick but I'm still learning. I'm just asking to clarify for my self and others because I know how annoying this test pop up is. So far test still has NOT popped up with the method I posted earlier. Thanks black ice :)
[Fire TV General] Wewillwin:
I have been having this issue too. I’ve been searching for an answer. I was using Blockada. I reset my FireTV back to factory settings, unregistered it, re-registered it but didn’t put Blockada back on and so far so good. I’m using Terrarium TV, Kodi and Mobdro. I’ll see if this remains the fix.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
So..I went and got adblink, IP connected, removed com.google.time.timer from the stick .,... And guess what, test app is already popping back up will its sitting on the home screen..,.is there no way to block this from running at all?? Is there anyway to block it on the router even?? OMG this app is driving me nuts, got to be away of stopping it. I did a test of my own I installed the same apps on my firestick on nox6 Android enulater, so far test has not popped up on it, so is this monster from Amazon it's self? I have 3rd party apps disabled on the fire stick, and it still installs!!! So it's a trusted app?? Wtf is this thing!!!!!!!!!
[Fire TV General] sablehs:
Same here. I have done everything you have. Unfortunately, that makes me no help either.....ready to return it and find another outlet.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
i hear ya !!

Yip im about to sell mine and just buy a reg android box.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
just a question .... how many people out there have Mouse toggle installed and are getting the Evil Test popup??? I have mouse toggle installed for firefox.. but heres what makes me think, Mouse toggle is the only app on my stick you HAVE TO have ADB enabled for it to work, or 3rd party and ADB would be turned off.

wanted to add, i uninstalled TEST app and disabled ADB and 3rd party apps,, Test was back in mins so Mouse toggle isnt the problem i believe.
[Fire TV General] Wewillwin:
I had mouse toggle but I left it off this time.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
ok did some reading and just tried something, Connected with ADBlink, and Hid the com.google.time.timer package, once hidden, the package cannot be launched from the package manager and is also gone from the launcher. If this dont work ill try the Disable package next, but ill let you know what happens. Im honestly to the point i think nothing can stop this rampaging app, even if it dont pop up for 5 years ill still be expecting it to appear again ! BUT, if this works ill be glad to make a how to or even a video if need be so everyone can do it, its not hard but you have to work in the CMD Line. Cross fingers anyone? LOL

(*** Once com.google.time.timer is hidden the TEST app disappears from the apps list, just wanted to make that clear because i didnt understand that till i did it.***)

BTW ! THANK YOU BLACK ICE FOR MENTIONING ADBLINK AND HELPING ME FIND A NEW PATH TO FOLLOW NO MATTER WHAT IT MAY LEAD TO !!
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
---SOLUTION TO TEST APP POPUP !!! --- best at the moment at least (non-rooted)

ok So far Nothing !! =) (till i post this lol!) or untill something changes and this monster of an app returns !!!!!

But here go's nothing

---SOLUTION TO TEST APP POPUP !!! (i think..)----

1.Set your firestick to ADB mode, 2. download ADBLINK ( http://www.jocala.com ) you can search here on XDA and find the same link, To connect to your firestick, (mine is USB hardwired so i had to unplug it and go to the wireless, i have to do this to FTP as well it wont connect wired for some reason) i use ES file explorer and got to Network> remote manager to get my IP 3. start adblink and hit NEW, input the Name (description) (what ever you want) in the box 4.put in your ip (Address). 5. save and hit connect 6. after you connect, once connected click ADBSHELL button, in the cmd window type," pm list packages " ( with out " ) hit enter, this will list a bunch of packages, go to the end of the cmd line and type " pm hide com.google.time.timer " and push enter . it will say something along the line of Hide Com.google.time.timer hidden True . then you can close the cmd window and your good to go. On the apps list it will gray out TEST and it will have the apps shortcut Icon on it, just leave it alone dont uninstall it (at least i didnt or it wont be hidden and will come back)

7. give your firestick the finger and yell F***YOU TEST APP!!

well step 7 is really up to you but i felt it was very fitting. BUT there is the chance this didnt work and the horrid test app from hell may return i guess time will tell. If it wasnt for Black ices post i would have never looked in to adblink so many many thanks to him !! everyone give him a thank you.. and dont forget me XD really hope this works and solves a lot of headaches going on over this monster of a app. i ask if you do this do it at your own risk but i honestly didnt know what i was doing with it and i figured it out. The test app was popping up for me every 5-10 min since doing this i havent seen it in a few hrs. i will edit this at a later time and let everyone know if this worked or didnt work, so as of now i cant say this works or not for sure. but outlook is good so far . take care everyone and if anyone needs help with this drop me a Pm or a post and ill try to help out. Later all !!
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
Ok I noticed if the fire stick sits on the home screen it will popup with, "action can not be completed parental controls are active" or something like that don't know why but you'll have to close it and if it sits for a while thell be a few of them you have to close..but it hasn't came up wile watching any shows at all and no test app.. so I'm thinking use the same method and disable it, and see what happens, I'll repost tomm after I do it and see what happens. But as for now I much rather be able to watch shows and close that. I'll let y'all know, if disabling works better I'll edit the how to. Later all !

**wanted to add, my parental control is NOT activated, but this screen pops up, has to be that evil app trying to do something but it cant, my only guess. **
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
today i did the disable command and it says theres a java exception or something and cant be disabled, might have to be rooted to use this cmd, so just hiding the test app is all i can do. my wife was watching something today and the permission screen popped up wile she was watching a show, but the show played with no problems and she just hit ok and was back to the show, the permissions screen pops up a lot less and is way less of a problem than the Test app. So i guess this is the best ya can get, if your rooted and can disable the app please let me know! later all.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
Hey if you do this, please post if it worked or didnt work as well ! ide love to hear if others got this to stop or not using this !!! thank you !!
[Fire TV General] rvf263:
My buddy's fire tv box is doing the same thing....have no idea how to get rid of it. Its not on his other devices though. Please post if you find an answer.

[EDIT] just realized there were more pages to this post but didn't see them on my phone. I'll try the fix posted and see......I'm going to get my buddies FTV box and just mess with it, maybe I can help figure it out......what a pain this little app is! Thanks for everyone who posted about this!
[Fire TV General] Katkin85kat:
I thought I was alone!! Thank you so much for posting this, I've been searching online forums for months trying to find anyone who had had this "Test" screen flash up to no avail. I have yet to try the fix, but fingers crossed!
[Fire TV General] sproggle:
Did you use "SU" command for root access when you "push" ADBSHELL?

I have this "apk" in a chinese android tv box
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
I don't know what SU is to be honest, I just hid the app and it stopped. My stick isn't rooted. I get a prental block pop up that I have no clue WTH it is but it's way less annoying than the test app..what is the SU command do?? By push adbshell I mean just click the adbshell button to bring up the cmd line window.
[Fire TV General] innovaciones:
I can confirm that this "Test" app is actually a virus, I reverse engineering it too and when the Test apk auto starts it opens an script from a "run.html" file that have the same code that azureru posted, so this is definitely an ADB.Miner, how we got the virus? well I guess from sideloading sketchy apps, the main problem with this virus is that the Fire TV gets very slow because most of the performance is used for mining.

How we can get rid of this virus?

Well first, is there other Fire TVs or Android devices in your place? if the answer is yes then these devices could be infected too, this virus spreads using the ADB protocol so all the devices that have "ADB debugging" option enabled that are connected in your wifi network will get the virus, so is very important that you turn off "ADB debugging" in all your Android devices.

RESET TO FACTORY SETTINGS

There a several ways to get rid of this virus, the most effective way will be reseting to factory settings all your devices, and be careful next time what apk you install, and don't forget to turn off ADB debugging when not in use.

DELETE VIRUS FILES

Using ADB input these commands:

shell rm data/local/tmp/ufo.apk

shell rm data/local/tmp/lock.txt

shell rm data/local/tmp/smi

shell rm data/local/tmp/endat

shell rm data/local/tmp/nohup

uninstall com.google.time.timer

reboot

This are some of the virus files I found but I really don't know if deleting these files will be enough to disable the virus.

INSTALL MODDED VIRUS

If you don't want to reset to factory settings and all you want is to "turn off" the miner then you can install the attached APK that is a modded version from the original virus except the run.html is a blank page (without the minning script) and the Activities name from the AndroidManifest.xml were changed so it can't start now, so pretty much the virus will think it's working but it's not.

HIDE THE VIRUS

As recommended here you could try the hide command:

pm hide com.google.time.timer

Here is more information about these kind of virus, the test virus a variation from this:

http://blog.netlab.360.com/adb-miner-more-information-en/

I hope this information could help someone.
[Fire TV General] sproggle:
Like Linux is for root access. when you disable or hide the virus, you have to do

without -1

. Somethin like this: pm hide com.google.time.timer or pm disable com.google.time.timer

Great, thanks. :good::good:

com.google.time.timer is without the "-1" to disable and or hide pm command.

pm hide com.google.time.timer

or

pm disable com.google.time.timer
[Fire TV General] Lostandconfusedlol:
Hi everyone! I’ve been dealing with this crazy test bot screen for months and I thought I wasn’t alone after searching all over the web. I found it occurred when I downloaded FreeFlixHQ app and streamed. The bot would come back and interrupt everything and even crash my internet for minutes at a time. So far I’ve turned off the “ADB” thingy on both my devices—(I put the app on one stick and it harmed both sticks) but I’m not very techy and I can’t follow you guys other instructions to hide the virus. Can some PLEASE PLEASE say how to do this in dummy terms? I’m just trying to binge watch Hulu shows and this is driving me crazy.

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Can you give step by step instructions on how to hide the test app?
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
If you read my how to it is step by step how to hide test app, com.googletime

Timer is the test app. But a few things ide like to point out.. I have factory reset my stick and at the time the fire stick was the only Android device in my house, I do have a Android net book and an old phone but both are totally not powered at all and dead batterys.. but I reset the fire stick and kept adb debugging off and third party apps off. And test app came back. Only thing that worked so far was hideing it.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
So your saying su gives you root? Even if the stick isn't rooted?? I used hide command because when I tried to disable it, it said Java error, just used su command and pm disable and still got the same Java error.
[Fire TV General] Lostandconfusedlol:
Can you clarify step 6 in your instructions?
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
just tried an experiment, i installed the Modded Com.google.time.timer file above, and then hid that. just want to see if it stops the Prental control pop up or not.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
in step 6, just click on ADBshell button, in the command window type pm list packages then type pm hide com.google.time.timer and push the enter key , it will say the state of com.google.time.time hidden true, and then you can disconnect and the test app wont pop up anymore.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
step 6

in step 6, just click on ADBshell button, in the command window type pm list packages then type pm hide com.google.time.timer and push the enter key , it will say the state of com.google.time.time hidden true, and then you can disconnect and the test app wont pop up anymore.
[Fire TV General] Lostandconfusedlol:
Are you doing these actions directly on the stick or on a pc? Again I’m a novice so I have no clue and I’m hoping for the best. I tried to search you tube for a video and nothing is posted yet about the problem.
[Fire TV General] innovaciones:
I guess you still have the sketchy app in your Fire TV that installed the virus, so you need to get rid of that first, check what sideloaded apps you have and uninstall all suspects.

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If you don't want to deal with all this just install the modded apk I attached from my previous post to disable the virus
[Fire TV General] Lostandconfusedlol:
Thank you for the reply. Im going bat **** crazy trying to fix this mess. I don’t see your instructions on the modded apk- can you repost. Again I’m not techy just a random chic trying to watch Hulu without the bs lol.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
You have to connect to your fire stick with a computer and download adblink.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
That's what I don't get, everyone is saying there's a scettchy app that installed this, after I factory reset my stick the only apps I installed we're from Amazon and I still got the test app pop up. So the app has to be a trusted app that's what really gets me.
[Fire TV General] the great potato:
Since I installed the dummy virus file and hid it so far I finally have a normal fire stick it seems no popups from anything and no test app. So the dummy file does seem to work. So the easiest thing for you to do is to sideloading the dummy app but you said your not tech savvy but I'll be honest it seems much harder and confusing than it really is. Have you sideloaded anything to your stick before? Sideloading is a Fancy word just meaning you connected to your fire stick and put a file in a folder.then you use something like es file explorer to install the file. Its pretty simple, the hardest part at times is just connecting to the stick, you just need your IP for the stick. You can also use es file explorer to get that easy and to connect easly. Feel free to pm me I'll try to help anyway I can I know personally how annoying the test app is.
[Fire TV General] StitchedPigeon:
I've just tried innovaciones' easy button (installing the modded virus, aka "vaccine" lol). Will post back if that one thing gets rid of the annoying TEST screen.
[Fire TV General] :
can you make a screenshot ware this app is located and the com.google.test.timer folder is located as well thanks so we can all check our sticks tvs ect

dose it only affect amazon sticks&tv?

list apps you have installed on device here & maybe we be to norrow down the affected app

avask anti virus

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=5078220335056375043&hl=en

malwarebytes antimalware

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.malwarebytes.antimalware

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[Fire TV General] StitchedPigeon:
As promised, I'm updating with the results of going with only the modified virus.

Short answer: IT WORKED!

Long answer:

The test screen hasn't popped up at all since installing the modified virus, and my FireStick is so much faster. I also installed the modified virus on my phone because it had been acting really sluggish for a while now — seriously, I was about to chunk it and get a new phone — but then I saw innovaciones’s reply in here about the virus being able to spread to other Android devices if they use the same network:

So, I installed the modded virus on my phone as well, and it's now like a whole new phone. So peppy!

I don't have any screenshots. I used the instructions for installing Kodi, but instead of using the URL for Kodi in Step #2, I put in the link to innovaciones’s modded virus found on his reply here (but also here's the direct link: https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4502909&d=1526509928

So, I downloaded the file on my firestick, then opened it to install it. I think it might have asked me something along the lines of updating the Test app, or replacing it, or something like that. Just tell it yes (or whatever the affirmative response is).

I had to do it a little differently on my phone. On my phone, I navigated directly to innovaciones’s post, then clicked the link to download the modded virus. I think it saved it in my downloads, so I went there and tapped on the file to open it. I can't remember what it said to install it, but it was very easy (probably asked me something similar to what the Firestick did).

And that was it. It took me about five minutes total. Easy peasy. And, best of all, it totally worked. I'm so relieved!

No! It also affects Android mobile devices. The symptoms on my device, though, did not involve the invasive TEST screen; my phone was just annoyingly slow.

On my FireStick, I'm 98% sure that it came from Kodi. lol
[Fire TV General] :
so dose the test app show under apps list of stick and phone before you put mod app on coz will check all my house hold devices now

thanks
[Fire TV General] StitchedPigeon:
No, I didn't (and still don't) see the app for it listed anywhere. I just opened/ran the modded virus, and the firestick and phone just took care of it from there.
[Fire TV General] :
thanks was just looking on my devices & don’t see the app listed on any them other people say they see it in apps list home screen so how do you no if have it a not if you don’t see it listed as a app any folder location just asking so every one who sees this thread like me can check thanks
[Fire TV General] Scubatart:
Help im a dummy

Please, please help...I am suffering with same problem on my firestick gen2, which i use on my smart TV.

I am a total dummy when it comes to tech stuff, ive read through the replys and see that there is hopefully a fix for it.......i just dont understand the lingo, can someone simplify it for me?!

Can this be done through/on my tv with the firestick plugged in? the firestick has been working great for the past several months, then yesterday it just started with the test page popping up every 10 mins and leaving me with a black screen, i did notice though that a test speed app has suddenly appeared on the main amazon page?
[Fire TV General] :
install total commander from links below look up installed apps inside total commander if you see test app unforchanty you have test app on your device

read aftv news link belowe on how get rid of it hope this helps

http://www.aftvnews.com/android-mal...ting-amazon-fire-tv-and-fire-tv-stick-devices

Total Commander links

links for all devices as this test app dose not just affect amazon tv and stick it affects all android devices

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H4IHJ8M/?tag=aftvn-20

https://www.amazon.co.uk/C-Ghisler-Total-Commander/dp/B00H4IHJ8M

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghisler.android.TotalCommander
[Fire TV General] fredmc2020:
Is there a way to modify this to mine for your own wallet? I don't mind it running in the background if it's going to actually help me. I don't know much about the miner app/script.
[Fire TV General] overground:
Updated OP

I've edited the OP with links to detection and solution posts.