Uninstalling TheftAware

[TheUntouchable]

Here is a little instruction how you uninstall TheftAware

Non rooted installation:

First go to settings->Securiy->Device Admin and remove TheftAware (it should have the name you had choosen while installing)
After that, open TheftAware and deaktivate it.
Now youre able to uninstall it from settings->Application->manage applications

Rooted installation:

You have to install the sdk of android on your computer.

If you got a NAND protected phone, start the phone in recovery mode and THEN issue the commands. It will fail if phone is not in recovery mode.

Open the command prompt and issue the following commands:

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    adb shell
    su
    mount


Now please search for the /system mount and continue by typing the following commands, replacing the proper MTDBLOCK path (...):


    mount -o remount,rw /dev/mtdblock... /system
    rm /system/app/com.avast.android.antitheft.apk
    rm /system/etc/com.avast.android.antitheft.backup.enc
    mount -o remount,ro /dev/mtdblock... /system
    exit
    exit
    adb uninstall com.avast.android.antitheft

[reinhardholzner]

if you upgrade to avast! anti-theft a wizard will help uninstalling. for anti-theft the package name has changed to com.avast.android.antitheft.apk

[TheUntouchable]

Thanks for your hint reinhard, changed

[StealthRedneck]

HOLY CRAP! Thank-you TheUntouchable! I was trying over and over to uninstall Avast's Anti-Theft based on the offline forum post they link to straight from the program...

http://forum.avast.com/offline/forum.theftaware.com/viewtopic664f.html

First of all, on my HTC Thunderbolt with ShiftA05P IC3.1, there was no /dev/mtdblock### but rather /dev/mmcblk0p25.

The second issue was the package name which I would never has guessed until I read this post!

-com.avast.android.antitheft.apk
-com.avast.android.antitheft.backup.enc

Were the right ones!

Now I can finally update the Anti-Theft to the newer version. That is, if "Server overloaded" ever goes away... lolol

[TheUntouchable]

Happy to hear that this post helped someone

[reinhardholzner]

the new version of Mobile Security released today contains an uninstaller for Anti-Theft. No need to do command line anymore.

HOLY CRAP! Thank-you TheUntouchable! I was trying over and over to uninstall Avast's Anti-Theft based on the offline forum post they link to straight from the program...

http://forum.avast.com/offline/forum.theftaware.com/viewtopic664f.html

First of all, on my HTC Thunderbolt with ShiftA05P IC3.1, there was no /dev/mtdblock### but rather /dev/mmcblk0p25.

The second issue was the package name which I would never has guessed until I read this post!

-com.avast.android.antitheft.apk
-com.avast.android.antitheft.backup.enc

Were the right ones!

Now I can finally update the Anti-Theft to the newer version. That is, if "Server overloaded" ever goes away... lolol