Soft reboot when locating phone

I installed Theft Aware on a HTC Hero phone running a custom ROM (based on CyanogedMod 6.2/Android 2.2). When I try to locate the phone via SMS, my phone soft-reboots (straight to the boot animation). I looked over the old forum, and found a post with a similar issue:

https://forum.avast.com/offline/forum.theftaware.com/viewtopice36e.html

I was wondering if any progress has been made to resolve this since March? I also installed a similar app - Cerberus - and it is able to perform a location query without causing a soft reboot on the same phone, so I know that my phone is capable of doing this. I prefer Theft Aware to Cerberus and would like to purchase it, but not until I know it works :slight_smile:

I had some issues with webremote not sending/applying commands when i was running a custom mod on my X10 Mini Pro but sms commands did work…

Might be abit like the issues I had unfortunately. Didnt really bother to find a solution but someone here might figure one out.

hello we can not reproduce any such issues. as our software is not causing any soft reboots except for the REBOOT SMS command, i still think that this might be an issue with the ROM. maybe our next update will solve this issue, will come out very soon.

Since logging this issue, I have managed to execute a successful GPS locate on the phone with Theft Aware. I am wondering whether a reboot of the phone after installing the software fixed the issue? Right now I am not sure whether this problem is likely to occur at random, or whether the first reboot was an isolated one-off. My trial is about to expire as well, so I am not sure I will ever know unless I go ahead and buy the software on faith ???

hi busbutt - lets talk about it tomorrow :wink: