The arrival of applications that show floating screens, such as some for messaging or managing phone calls, have improved the appearance offered by Android terminals. But, also, the appearance of an error called screen overlay detected, which makes several developments stop and the device starts to work with quite compromised stability.
Not a few users have reported that the error message has appeared on the screen and, therefore, have had to restart it for optimal performance again. But, yes, the screen overlay detected fault almost cyclically occurs again. And, in addition, the variety of models that it affects is very high, since there are from Samsung's own to those that the Vodafone company puts on the market.
Let's indicate what I know Must do so that the aforementioned operating system failure stops being a nuisance and, therefore, that you get to enjoy an adequate user experience when working with your Android.
Solution to screen overlay detected error
The first thing is to find what developments you have permits to show floating screens (draw over the screen) in order to take the corresponding measurements. To locate them you have to do the following:
Samsung Models:
- Access the Settings
- Find the Applications section and, once you are in it, use the Application Manager
- Now click on More in the upper right and then on Applications that can be displayed above
Other Android:
- Access the applications and use the search space using Type
- From the options that appear, select Write over other applications
- Use it until you see the corresponding list
The best solution you can take so that the screen overlay detected error does not appear is to deny the option to show floating windows, since at the moment no patch has been released to correct what is happening and, therefore, this is the most recommended possibility. In addition, if any development makes changes to the brightness of the screen automatically, it can generate the fault we are talking about. What you should do is the following:
- Once you have the list on the screen, you must select the application that you think generates the error and click on it
- A slide now appears that is the one you must use to eliminate the development that can write a floating window on the screen
- Move it to deactivate the option and, as you can see, if the problem is solved with an update, you can activate it again
At the moment this is the only way to prevent screen overlay detected error from appearing. Thus, the operating system will no longer be unstable and, although some attractiveness is lost in the use of developments, the truth is that it is gained in manipulation. Other tricks for the work of Google, you can find them in this section Android Help.
