Hi,
Just wondering if the notification icon is really needed or can be disabled in the options. The help description for this feature left me wondering about it. If I disable the icon will it impact anything else on Avast?
Thanks.
Android stops services that are not “necessary”. The icon avoid it.
So it’s best to leave the icon visible on the notification bar.
Ok, thank you.
Yes.
How is it better to have that icon there? There’s almost no purpose for it and it tells anyone using your phone that you are using avast. What is the good in this?avast does it to use your phone as an ad. It also would tell a thief that you use avast and they have to delete your phone info before you can track them. Is there an option in the program to remove this? Now that I thought about it, this thing needs to go.
Of course there is an option to remove it, haven’t you checked the avast mobile security, Settings ‘Show notification icon’ ?
hello I would like to inform you that on my galaxy nexus with Android ICS 4.0.2 , it often happens that the icon disappears without my having disabled the “show notification icon.” could you help me?
Well I too have a galaxy nexus with Android ICS 4.0.2 and I haven’t seen this as an issue for some time in a previous avast build.
What I did to resolve it was to toggle the ‘show notification icon’ off and back on again in that old version.
I’m using AMS version 1.0.1590, what are you using ?
I am using the same version and , to reactivate the real-time protection, I have to deactivate and reactivate that option after
Strange, I never had to deactivate the protection, just toggle off and on the show notification icon.
david I meant just that, but my English is shameful!
No problem, hopefully one of the avast mobile security developers can give some input on this one.
Can you give a timeframe of this happening? Does it happen every few hours, every day, every few days etc?
Filip
seems that this happens in a totally random, but I also noticed other problems in my terminal. they are all bugs of Android ics? anyway I’ll try to uninstall and reinstall avast latest version directly, without updating the old one as it happened.
ICS is still not officially supported so yeah, it might be ICS specific (since I didn’t see any report from users with 2.x).
Filip
I just now reinstalled avast from the shop and although he was active option icon for notification, it will not appear on the bar. I had to turn it back on from settings …
what do you recommend? do I uninstall it? DavidR has my own smartphone but do not have this problem …
We will take a look at it at some time.
Can you tell me what other applications you have installed? (You can skip the stock apps.)
Filip
I installed from market the following applications: adobe flash player 11, adobe reader, clean clock widget; digital clock widget, evernote, evernote widget, facebook, facebook messenger, file expert, google goggles; Handcent sms, twitter and wikipedia mobile.
“out” from the market : wifi file explorer pro, shazam encore, Sygic, zoom Fx room; cam scanner paper camera and SoundHound . all in their latest release.
OK, I’ll take a look at them and will see if any of them could by any chance interfere with AMS.
Filip