Intex Aqua Fish recurring activation sms
 

So this now is an annoying issue for many Aqua Fish owners. And some claim, they don't have it. Anyway, I hope this thread can give some insights or even possibly solve the issue on Aqua Fish. May be the next update will solve it, but patience has limits and curiousity does not.

This is what I know. At every boot, systemd starts a service to send an sms to a predefined number after three hours of uptime and stops the service.

I suppose commenting "ExecStart=..intex" should prevent the code to send sms from executing.

The coonfiguration file has the number to which sms is sent.
So I checked the path which mention the activation completed file. And there is no ".sms-activation-intex-done" file created, which may be triggering the sms sending procedure after a reboot again.

Can I simply delete the .service and .timer files, of course after making a backup at some other location? Or how can I prevent that being run at every boot?

And could AquaFish owners who are not facing the recurring sms issue please check location /mnt/vendor/data for the file ".sms-intex-activation-done" and share its content if that doesn't seem to be something confidential like a unique activation code.

Update:
Masking the timer seems to be a working solution for now.
Refer this post. Thanks to mautz!

Re: Intex Aqua Fish recurring activation sms
 

I would just rip this stuff off.
There's no place on Sailfish for this cheap-noname-china-android-phone-malware stuff.

Re: Intex Aqua Fish recurring activation sms
 

China..? Isn't that India?^^

Re: Intex Aqua Fish recurring activation sms
 

It is. But cheap china android phones are notorious for having malware in stock fw.

Re: Intex Aqua Fish recurring activation sms
 

That's great :)
Don't know why I didn't try to find.

what if we create the file ".sms-intex-activation-done" manually?
I'm having same issue and no file in /mnt/vendor_data

Re: Intex Aqua Fish recurring activation sms
 

Why don't you just disable the service?

Re: Intex Aqua Fish recurring activation sms
 

:p LOL
That's what I was thinking about but I was trying with systemctl :D
there is pkcon for that.

https://together.jolla.com/question/...rom-aqua-fish/

Re: Intex Aqua Fish recurring activation sms
 

The TJC post has nothing to do with the sms service described here.

just stop the service with:

systemctl --user stop sms-activation-intex.service

and see if the problem is gone. To disable the service permanently use:

systemctl --user disable sms-activation-intex.service

Re: Intex Aqua Fish recurring activation sms
 

Thanks! I just disabled it. Will reboot the phone now and see if it sends further sms after three hours.

Re: Intex Aqua Fish recurring activation sms
 

So --user was missing :(
It doesn't need root privileges also
thanks :)