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Rob2222

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Let Anti-Theft survive system-overwrite (feature request)
« on: December 10, 2012, 05:33:32 PM »
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 In most cases it is not needed, to wipe the phone, cause it's only a newer version of the base rom.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

reinhardholzner

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Re: Let Anti-Theft survive system-overwrite (feature request)
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2012, 10:39:21 AM »
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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Re: Let Anti-Theft survive system-overwrite (feature request)
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2012, 06:23:22 PM »
you can use cyanogenmod there you can modify the backup list and then anti-theft will survive the flash.
Side question: is it possible to develop this for aokp?
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reinhardholzner

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Re: Let Anti-Theft survive system-overwrite (feature request)
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2012, 01:29:51 PM »
i do not know if they offer such features like cyanogenmod.

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Re: Let Anti-Theft survive system-overwrite (feature request)
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2012, 07:53:27 PM »
i do not know if they offer such features like cyanogenmod.
Is there a way to get this info? It's not an easy staff to get contact with...
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reinhardholzner

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Re: Let Anti-Theft survive system-overwrite (feature request)
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2012, 11:22:56 AM »
only their staff can answer this.

Zocor

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Re: Let Anti-Theft survive system-overwrite (feature request)
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2012, 10:47:19 AM »
Is there a way to get this info? It's not an easy staff to get contact with...
Did you try their official forums?

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Re: Let Anti-Theft survive system-overwrite (feature request)
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2012, 11:42:37 AM »
Is there a way to get this info? It's not an easy staff to get contact with...
Did you try their official forums?
This is CM forum, not aokp.
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