Hey guys, I have a question. When I am trying to setup the Anti-Theft stuff, it always gives me an issue saying that it can’t continue because I have GO SMS Pro installed and to either uninstall the GO SMS Pro app, or contact the GO SMS developers.
Now this leaves me with 2 problems, 1. Why does Avast have a problem with GO SMS Pro in the first place? I have used many other Anti-theft apps in the past and not one of them ever had a problem running and working correctly with GO SMS. Each of those other apps, also used SMS messages to interact with the phone. So I do not understand the problem with the two.
If I were to contact the devs of GO SMS, what exactly am I supposed to tell them they need to change to make this work? This just makes no sense to me why this apps has problems with GO SMS and even less sense why Avast would expect other devs to change their apps (for what I don’t know) to allow Avast to work. If I can not get Avast to work with out a change to GO SMS, then I will just get rid of Avast and use a different solution that I know works just fine with GO SMS. This is actually pretty frustrating because I like Avast, but I am not going to remove apps that I really like just because Avast says it’s not compatible when not one other Anti-theft app has this problem.
Why does Avast have a problem with GO SMS Pro in the first place? I have used many other Anti-theft apps in the past and not one of them ever had a problem running and working correctly with GO SMS.
The other anti-theft apps just didn’t inform you about the potential problems. Go SMS uses the highest sms reception priority available in the android system. Apps with this priority could display incoming command SMS in cleartext and reveal the avast! PIN in turn. They offer some hidden switch to cooperate with apps like ours. This switch only works for some users - as for myself I still encountered the displayed command SMS.
Just give it a go: with GO Sms installed send yourself a command SMS and see if it is executed and (hopefully not) displayed in cleartext. if you don’t see the incoming command SMS you can just select to ignore the warning with a “never ask me again”
Oh, that is fantastic. I have tested it before and noticed that all commands work ok, and did not recall seeing the plain txt. I will say that on my phablet, there is the default SMS msg’s app and then I have GO SMS on top of that. For some odd reason, even with this “High” preference or priority that GO SMS may have, more often then not, the default app get’s the msg before GO SMS does and sometimes GO SMS doesn’t even get it. That being said, I thank you for the explanation and I will be telling it to never yell at me again about it !
