So... I get ads from dailybeast if I look on mobile. When I do it full'o'cookies, it wants me to buy Underworld:Blood Wars from Best Buy (no idea why). Then the other popup wants me to watch Babylon 5. As I have never professed any interest in either of these pieces of entertainment, nor done any searching related to them, I have to assume it's not using much in the way of cookies. When I do it in incognito mode, it tries to sell me a Corolla. I don't know how old your phone is. I don't know what version of Android it's running. I know that I've never seen blinky popup iphone shit on anything I've ever run, but I see it on my inlaws' phones, which are Galaxy S4s probably running Android 4.3. My suggestion? You've done a factory reset twice already. Root that shit. Install busybox; install AdAway. It was almost worth the trade-off to have iOS emoji and zero fucking ads back when I was on a OnePlus but as soon as I went Google I figured being in the network and shit would make Google Fi work better (HA!). Now that I'm back on T-Mobile I might just root the fucker again. Adblock is so nice. ________________________________________________________________________________________ As to the car, it's possible you ran over something metal and it flung it up into the wheel well. You might have heard the object ringing, rather than the car. If you've been able to drive it around worrying about it, you're probably fine - damage from impact generally reveals itself within a day. I was on the Benelli once. Minding my own business, riding along. Heard a whang and felt something, but things were fine. Went to my gig, did 12 hours mixing Gordon Ramsay, got back to the bike, rear tire was flat. Rolled the bike, found a 4" lag bolt sticking dead nuts out of the center of the rear tire, began a 4-day odyssey to get superbike tires changed on a Saturday in Pasadena. It sucked. But two things became clear: (1) front tires are real good at arranging road detritus in rear-tire-penetrating configurations, particularly when they're only 5-6 feet apart (2) ridiculous damage makes itself known within a day.
It appears to be broke. I say throw cyanogenmod on it; at least that'll get you up to Android 6. I damn near went this way. I had a Oneplus One and aside from weirdnesses (you could not do a screencap on it for some dumb reason) it's a great little phone. Especially now that their whole Oxygen/Cyanogen dustup is in the past. Instead I discovered that T-Mobile would credit me $350 for having a Pixel so that was a no-brainer.
So you don't think I have a virus on my phone or router? If so, I'll look into getting a new phone ASAP and doing something with this in the meantime. As for the car, thanks for the advice. Since it hasn't been acting weird, I haven't been too worried. I'll still have the shop give it a look over, but it's nice to know I'm not overlooking something big.