Iphone4s and iCloud/Apple Movie Trailers app stuck in loop using battery on wifi

Question

This one is a long story and took me a day or so of looking around to figure out.  I don't know if it causes all the battery drain issues, but it was at times causing some usage on my 4s.
Background:
I use my mac as an iTunes server - always running - so AppleTV can reach it etc via homesharing.  I have a TimeCapsule too and a neat feature is wake on demand proxy where if the the mac is set for wake on demand and it is a sleep, the AppleTV will wake it via the proxy.   Works great.  Even the iOS remote apps will wake it.  Anything requesting a bonjour service that is active on that sleeping mac will wake it.  All was good.
Then one day, I noticed it waking in the middle of the night - whenever the iPhone turned on with a notification.  I thought that was weird.  I quit the apps. hard reset, etc.  Still occured.  I could put the mac to sleep and just turn on my iPhone and it would wake.  Note I have an iPad and it did not exhibit this behavior.  I gave up for a few days.  Mac would go back to sleep after 10 minutes so no big deal.
Side note  I also have wifi sync OFF.  I had it on for itunes syncing but noticed that iTunes maintained a constant connection to the phone even when not wired so you can drag and drop to the phone etc.    So to be sure that was not draining battery, it turned it back off.  It also would wake on demand when it was enabled so I knew it wasn't that setting causing the issue.
Investigation:
I started with netstat and my airport logs.  I found my mac address, ip address, and then found when I turned on the phone a connection established everytime to port 49166 on the phone.   It would create a connection everytime the phone turned on.
I used 'sudo lsof -i -P' to find the process opening the host port on the mac to that phone port.  It was 'ubd'.  Looking that up on google, I found it was the Ubiquity process.    I also found that it had a log in '~\Library\Logs\Ubiquity'.  Looking at the log, I found the following occuring whenver I turned on my phone and usually very few minutes while the phone was on:
[ERROR]       99090c4718 [11/11/22 09:50:34.347] {D2650C3E} 264.connect-https://xxxxx-xxxxx-iPhone.local.:49166 parse_cert_challenge:608 signer 0: com.apple.idms.appleid.prd.4243556669426c674b3255694250464d4d41395633513d3d
[ERROR]       9911fa663c [11/11/22 09:50:34.497] {D2650C3E} 264.http_runloop client_received_error:401 client 0x7fa868433850 error The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -9801.) userinfo <CFBasicHash 0x7fa86862e5b0 [0x7fff74f3af40]>{type = immutable dict, count = 0,
[ERROR]       9911fa663c [11/11/22 09:50:34.497] {D2650C3E} 264.http_runloop client_received_error:401 entries =>
[ERROR]       9911fa663c [11/11/22 09:50:34.497] {D2650C3E} 264.http_runloop client_received_error:401 }
[ERROR]       9911fa663c [11/11/22 09:50:34.497] {D2650C3E} 264.http_runloop client_received_error:401
[ERROR]       9b655ad834 [11/11/22 09:50:44.486] {D2650C3E} 264.ubd-main-loop save_local_state:5772 NOT saving identity   0: 'com.apple.idms.appleid.prd.4243556669426c674b3255694250464d4d41395633513d3d' of type 2
[ERROR]       9d5e1dfa80 [11/11/22 09:50:52.954] {D2650C3E} 264. shutdown_file_transfers:714 cancelling any pending ftrs from peer 0x0003
I assumed those 401 errors were http errors.  The logging would kick in whenver the phone was turned on.   I figured a loop like that must be using battery at least on wifi.  I don't think it does this on 3g.  I didn't know if this was related to the wake issue but it was the only clue.
I found a macworld article on problems with iCloud/Ubquity causing a hang.  I didn't have a hang but I wondered if there was a file sync of some sort going on.  I remembered reading somewhere that on OSX, documents for sync are kept in '~/Library/Mobile Documents'.  So I looked there.  I found one file called '43LU875E5~com~apple~movietrailer' and a hidden directory called '.ubd'. which has files with names and id's that matched some early parts of the log.
I was at a loss.  Since it was a connection problem, I took Safari on OSX, turned on the phone, and connected to the https address in the log.  Sure enough, I got messages from keychain to add roots and ccerts etc. Did this and eventually got an error returned.  But it did connect which meant the phone was running a web server.  Neat.  And ubd wanted to connect to it and couldn't and was going to keep trying forever.
Since the only clue I had was the movies trailer data file, I went to my iCloud control panel and sure enough there is a movies trailer data file in iCloud (along with my ipad and iphone backups).  So I tried to delete it .  iCloud returned an error and could not delete.  OSX console log showed an http 500 error.  
So, I figure not much else to do, so I delete the app from my phone and my ipad.  It even gives a nice warning when deleting that you have a file in iCloud that you may want to delete.  Unfortunately, I still couldn't.
Final Testing
After deleting the app from the phone, I checked the ubiquity log.  I could turn on and off the phone and it would no longer create the log entries, no netstat connection, no web server running anymore.  I put the mac to sleep, and turned on the phone,  It would not wake it up.  Repeated test.  Passed.  Opened the Remote App and it woke up the Mac as expected.  Everything was back to normal and I no longer had a looping connection between my Mac and my phone.   Note - this occured even when the trailers app was shutdown on the iphone.  This appeared to be an iCloud sync issue.
Final Thoughts
- This did not occur with my iPad and it had the same app.  I deleted it there to be safe.
- I have no clue how much battery this uses.  I have pretty good life most of the time and my assumption is no matter what, it would help to turn this loop off.  It was really the waking the mac all the time that had me bothered. I just stumbled on a bigger issue.
- I doubt the problem is occuring all the time. My ipad did not have the issue, only the iPhone.  It was likely an anomoly that showed up and may or may not occur.  I thought posting the experience and if anyone else is having similar problems this may help.  I am not advocting that everyone remove the app.  Just take a look around if you are using the app and are seeing issues.

Answer 1

Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!
Hallelujah!!! Thanks for the correction (fat fingers, as you suspected).
Now to the good news. I started Safari, then pasted the URL in and pressed Enter. To my utter amazement the quicktime "Q" logo appeared briefly, then a "screen" box in the window and the movie itself began to load. After a short while it began to play, just like it should!
More good news. The exact same technique worked in Firefox as well!
Now the not-so-good news. When I enter the URL in Quicktime Player "Open URL", the player window opens showing the audio and video controls but no "viewing screen". I let it run for about 5 minutes and nothing ever appeared. I must qualify this by saying that right now my wireless connection is running very slow, so I will try QTP again when things are moving faster.
Believe it or not, this is the very first suggestion I tried that actually made a noticable difference. Of course, this is still a workaround (which I will gladly use). Hope there is a permanent resolution to this somewhere.
BTW, I plan on downloading and re-installing OS X 10.5.2 using the "Combo" package. My original install of both 10.5.1 and .2 were done via "Software Update" and this is the only other suggestion I've seen that might resolve my issue. My plan is to do the re-install only on the G5. If it corrects the problem there, I'll wait a week and then do the same with my MacBook.
In either case I will let you know the results in a follow-up post to this topic.