Strange virus like behavior

pathogen · #1 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 02:44 PM

Tuesday I noticed my phone battery had died in an hour and was ridiculously hot. It had been running extremely slow. I noticed the internal memory kept changing after a reset. It would start out with 80mb free and within a few minutes had dropped all the way down to 6mb. I soft reset and thought it was a fluke but after recharging the phone the same thing happened again. I hard reset the phone and loaded only select applications. So far the same problem has not occurred again.

The most interesting thing is that I noticed my data usage DOUBLED in two days. I had 400megabytes of usage and today I noticed it was at 800 megabytes. Almost as if my phone was being used to distribute something. I did buy the phone used on ebay last month and hard reset before I used the phone.

I have a backup image saved if anyone is interested. I did not download anything out of the ordinary however.

**Whosdaman** · #2 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 03:24 PM

Hard reset, but make sure you backup your Contacts

pathogen · #3 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 03:28 PM

yes, this solved the battery and overheating issue. I'm more interested to learn how I consumed 400 mb in 2 days without tethering.

**Whosdaman** · #4 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 04:29 PM

Well there you go, no thanks is needed

techguru · #5 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 05:49 PM

It was Weatherpanel. The data source shut down access, so the app was failing to authenticate and sending constant data. A fix was posted today http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=7357

I thought my batteries were cooked and actually ordered a Diamond to replace my XV6900 before I learned this. (wanted one anyway, so this was a good push)

Alan

pathogen · #6 (**permalink**) 07-10-2009, 11:13 AM

Thank you for the update now I can reinstall my old setup!