Help Samsung S4- IOTHIDDENMENU- Need to Kill

[delaneybob]

Hi,
Does anyone know if/how to kill this process- it's eating my battery lately. I could manually start uninstalling apps but i believe it's a developer option. I tried All-in-one-toolbox but the process just comes back. Looked for a process in Titanium backup to freeze but could not find it

Anyways it's chewing up battery over night (3% drain to 10-33% drain)

Verizon Stock Rooted Samsung S4
Android 4.2.2
Build JDQ39.I545VRUAMDK

 

[electricpete]

If you Google iothuddenmenu, you'll see a lot of results...people with similar symptoms. Seems to be associated with low level tests and actions that can be accessed from dialer using dialer codes, usually for factory testing.


http://rootzwiki.com/topic/30391-iothiddenmenu-activity/

This one above mentioned something about "remote" access. I don't know what they meant, but that makes me wonder if it may be an avenue for someone spying.

Google search for iothiddenmenu also linked to a spy software page ...
http://m.topspyapp.com
....although I didn't see iothiddenmenu on the page....must have been in the meta data for Google to send me there. Weird.

I could be wrong about the spying part. There are definitely legitimate uses of the hidden menu, although I'd think these would normally involve you launching it with a dialer code. I only spent five or ten minutes looking at the Google results.