Friday, 16 June 2017

HOW TO SOLVE SCREEN OVERLAY ISSUE ON DEVICE RUNNING ANDROID 6.0(MARSHMALLOW AND ABOVE)

Having gotten your new device from the shop  clean and shining, you insert your sim card, memory card and battery. then you turn it on. seeing everything very clean and smooth,the next thing you might do is try launching an app like WhatsApp for example.
And you see this annoying error on your screen;(screen overlay detected; to change this permission setting . You first have to turn off the screen overlay from  settings<apps  )the next thing that might want to do  is  try clearing the app cache and data.
But no don't do that just exit the app take a dip breath in and out and  follow this procedure am going to show you tested and working 100%.
This error normally ​ occurs ​ on some device running Android 6.0 marshmallow example is the TECNO W3 or W3 lite.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU FIND THIS ERROR ON YOUR SCREEN?

PROCEDURE'S

1) Go to settings and scroll down until you find apps now click on it,and it will take you to a page  where all the applications on your phone are  listed. just look up you will find a setting icon. click on it and you will be taking to another page were you will find something like this list below.
1)app permission
2)app links
Advanced
3) default apps
4) draw over other apps
5) modify system settings
6) battery optimization

It's exactly like this in tecno W3 your device own might be different but there must be(draw over other apps)in it, if it running on Android 6.0 marshmallow.

2)click on draw over other apps and you will be taken to a page were you will see all the apps that has the draw over other apps permission on your device. What you just have to do here is to click on an application  that has the draw over other apps permission enabled  (IF THE PERMISSION SAYS YES CHANGE IT TO NO)do the same with other apps until you finally change all of the permissions to NO

Now try launching  the application  that gave you that error on your device. You will find out that the issue has been resolved and the application is now working very find. blow are some screenshots.

Congratulations you have finally solve the issue.

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@LILWIZZY Also check out six things you need to know about the Android 7.0 naught update and the new Hios 2.2 features on TECNO device.

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