My Avast! Mobile is automatically switching my WiFi on whenever I try and switch it off. Here are the relevant messages from my “adb logcat” from the point at which I disable WiFi via the drag-down status bar GUI:
the enforced wifi connection is most likely due to your device beeing marked “lost”. If you open Anti-Theft once, the device will be as marked “found” again.
No - the device is not marked as “lost”. I have opened Anti-Theft on the phone as you suggested, but the app still automatically re-enables WiFi.
I also checked my device status via the web portal - it shows that the device is not marked as “lost”. I sent a “FOUND” command to see if this would change anything, but Anti-Theft is still auto-enabling my WiFi.
I just double checked my logcat and process list and it is similar to my original post (i.e. it seems that com.avast.android.antitheft is forcibly enabling my WiFi).
When I was testing the web portal, I had enabled “continuous tracking” on my device. As soon as I disabled this (via the web portal) I can now switch my WiFi off. It was not obvious (to me) that continous tracking would imply continuous WiFi.
In any case, it seems that disabling the continuous tracking (via web portal) has solved my problem.
I have this same problem with my phone. I can never turn the WiFi off and it says it’s always awake. Even though I lock my phone whenever I’m not using it, the battery history says that it has been awake. My phone being awake and wifi connected causes it to die overnight. Please help us with these issues.