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Root mobile id bug draining my data

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hackingsomething

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How do i fix this or remove mobile id
 
That seems like a lot of data. Have we any idea what this "Mobile ID" is? Really for the benefit of anyone else who might have this problem. I've never seen it before, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't usually come on Samsung phones. It's put on by your carrier?
 
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From what I've seen, Mobile ID is found a lot on phones from Sprint MVNOs (specifically Virgin and Boost), and possibly even on Sprint itself. I imagine it's supposed to "make it easy for customers to find value-added applications and services" but it mostly seems to just function as a conduit for carrier-provided bloatware.

Sometimes it gets hung up and causes weird issues, like constantly downloading the same apps over and over, waking the device repeatedly and draining the battery in the process.

Out of curiosity, did you try to uninstall/disable any other preinstalled apps first? If so, it's possible that Mobile ID got hung up trying to reinstall it.
 
hackingsomething said:
From what I understand its a add on from virgin mobile I'm not sure if other carriers have it. Good thing I was already over the data cap or I would of got ripped off my whole 2.5 gb data plan
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Sprint, Boost, VM.. I always cancelled the BS downloads and disabled it until I got Root. Rip that Mobile ID & Connections (Un)Optimizer apps. Yes, safe to remove & disable
 
codesplice said:
From what I've seen, Mobile ID is found a lot on phones from Sprint MVNOs (specifically Virgin and Boost), and possibly even on Sprint itself. I imagine it's supposed to "make it easy for customers to find value-added applications and services" but it mostly seems to just function as a conduit for carrier-provided bloatware.

Sometimes it gets hung up and causes weird issues, like constantly downloading the same apps over and over, waking the device repeatedly and draining the battery in the process.

Out of curiosity, did you try to uninstall/disable any other preinstalled apps first? If so, it's possible that Mobile ID got hung up trying to reinstall it.
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All I did was factory reset and I got a pop saying mobile id has stopped. I didnt know it was eating my data in the background for the last 3 days
 
hackingsomething said:
All I did was factory reset and I got a pop saying mobile id has stopped. I didnt know it was eating my data in the background for the last 3 days
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You could also turn off data (settings-mobile network) and/or restrict background data (settings-apps-mobileID) until you freeze/delete/uninstall the app
 
Its strange cause ive never seen this bug before didnt even know it was possible for it glitch up on start up and still run in the background at least its fixed now no more data drain
 
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