High GPS / Battery drain by Anti-theft apk (Android)

Odpad Issues
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Hi,

I’m on AOSP stock Android 4.2.1 (except it’s rooted and I have latest Faux123 kernel (3.0.57-tuna-faux123-jb-025+)). I have installed Anti-theft rooted.

I left my phone tonight without charging, and when I woke up, I saw this:


http://2imgs.com/2i/t/25210d27f4.jpg

(“Update Agent” is my Anti-theft’s name).

Acording to this screenshot, the Anti-theft agent used more than 70% of my battery in the interval (more than 7hr)… :frowning:

We can see that the app was using GPS all the time, as shown by the following two screenshots:


http://2imgs.com/2i/t/34301c36e5.jpg


http://2imgs.com/2i/t/07032f05d6.jpg

My Phone have GPS disabled always, unless I manually enable it for using with Maps,…

Of course, I have enabled Anti-theft to use GPS (and activate it) if needed.

Btw, in the interval I haven’t requested to locate my phone via GPS (neither via my.avast.com, neither SMS,…), and it’s not set to report location at any frequency.

If I can be of any help, I can run command (adb shell) on my phone, or any thing that could help debugging the issue. (well I believe it’s an issue).

Thanks in advance,
Alex

2

After rebooting the phone, I haven’t noticed the behaviour again, so it may be an isolated problem.

3

do you have latest version of AT installed?

4

I am using AT 2.0.2627. It says there’s no update.

Yet, as I said earlier, I have not experienced that behaviour anymore. It was a one time problem. :). Now I don’t see any battery consumption by Avast.

5

ok if it occurs again, contact us

6

Sure, thanks a lot :slight_smile:

7

you’re welcome!

8

Hello, i have the same problem , last night the phone started draining battery like hell out of a sudden. but unfortunately the reboot didnt fix my issue. i have uninstalled but the service is still running : com.avast.android.antitheft . i am unable to stop it , only with a wipe /factory reset . any hints on what to do ?

I only have the phone rooted, no custom rom, the stock one that the phone came with

9

Hello, the same issue here. Continous GPS tracking is disabled.
I’m using rooted custom ROM.
I will see if a reboot helps.

10

It seems you not uninstalled Anti-Theft. Please uninstall Anti-Theft and check for the problem.

Hi,
You’re right. Anti-Theft drain more battery than other AVs. I am waiting for a solution from the team.

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I rebooted the phone yesterday and it seems it solved the problem. Now the power consumption is 0% (yesterday it was around 80% due to the GPS usage).
It seems there is a bug, but I don’t know how to reproduce it. If it happens again, I will write and try to help to debug it if necessary.