Let Anti-Theft survive system-overwrite (feature request)

Odpad Android
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Dear Avast team,

I am very happy that you integrated such a nice product like anti-theft.
I have installed it on my android phone as root and it is working very well.

However, I often install a new rom version to my phone. In most cases it is not needed, to wipe the phone, cause it’s only a newer version of the base rom.
So /data/data and /data/app stay untouched and all programs working well without reinstallation needed. Even Mobile Security works very well without reinstall.

Unfortunately, cause Anti-Theft and its configuration data is in the /system partition it will be overwritten and I always have to reinstall it, enter my name and phone number and have to reboot twice. Some of the options are still there.

Could you maybe implement a option for fully automatical reinstallation of anti-theft to /system from maybe a saved version from /data/data?
Cause /data/data stays there all the time it should be possible. Even Mobile Security works without reinstallation.

Would be very nice.

Best Regrards
Robert

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its not possible fully automatical (UPDATE.ZIP of course, but also direct write needs SU access).
you can use cyanogenmod there you can modify the backup list and then anti-theft will survive the flash.

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Side question: is it possible to develop this for aokp?

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i do not know if they offer such features like cyanogenmod.

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Is there a way to get this info? It’s not an easy staff to get contact with…

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only their staff can answer this.

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Did you try their official forums?

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This is CM forum, not aokp.