Carrier IQ unstoppable!!?!?!??!

[chevanlol360]

im sure many of you have been doing your research on how to disable carrier IQ i would say probably 75% ened up at this script that was posted in the XDA forums


if you try this im not responsible for what happens to your phone.
adb shell
stop
su -c "setprop service.iq.active 0"
su -c "pm disable android/com.carrieriq.iqagent.service.IQService"
su -c "pm disable android/com.carrieriq.iqagent.service.receivers.BootComple tedReceiver"
su -c "pm disable android/com.carrieriq.iqagent.service.ui.DebugSettings"
su -c "pm disable android/com.carrieriq.iqagent.service.ui.ShowMessage"
su -c "pm disable android/com.carrieriq.iqagent.client.NativeClient"
su -c "pm disable android/com.carrieriq.iqagent.stdmetrics.survey.android.Qu estionnaireLaunchActivity"
su -c "pm disable android/com.carrieriq.iqagent.stdmetrics.survey.android.Qu estionnaireActivity"
su -c "pm disable android/com.carrieriq.iqagent.interfaces.IService"
su -c "pm disable android/com.carrieriq.iqagent.client.IQClient.IQClient"
su -c "pm disable android/com.carrieriq.iqagent.com.carrieriq.iqagent.servic e.IQService"
mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p15 /system
cd /system/bin
rm iqmsd
cd /system/lib/
rm libiq_service.so

mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p15 /system
reboot --=> or -=> reboot recovery





Hmmm it seems that the script does disable carrier iq but it somehow something started the app which im guessing your carrier remotely did it. It doesnt fully disables it, the app starts up 2 hours or maybe even more hours after i ran the script. Stock frame work has "intents" that check for the service, and restart it. Just disabling it will cause some other things not to work sometimes... or has been known to in the past. According to Carrier IQ's patent application it is possible for them to restart it by sending a text message to your phone, by sending an OTA update, by getting you to click on a URL or several other remote methods. Keep in mind that this thing is designed, according to the patent application NOT to require user intervention to start, stop, or change configuration. It is designed to be managed remotely from a web portal at the carrier. The only way we can stop this annoying little useless crap in our system is to pull the main power source completely everything has a way of fully shutting down either you pull the main power source or delete it completely from the system which will be a very hard task as carrier iq is all over the system and just by deleting some files could cause a bootloop. This is a job from hell to try and delete carrier iq completely from the system unless you know what not to touch and what to take out which there is no info anywhere on the web about it sadly. Carrier IQ is a one man army who will not take no for an answer, if we all really want it to be disable its gonna be a hell of a fight

some dev might know how to completely remove it but there hasnt been any info on how to yet. Some of you might be running a carrier IQ free ROM that a top developer might have create but a majority of us arn't

 

[androidexpat]

These privacy issues are a problem these days. Whether it be Carrier IQ or the new permissions being requested to be approved before downloading new applications from the Android Market.

 

[Concat]

Privacy pretty much doesn't exist now a days. For some reason digital information just isn't being protected like traditional forms. From 3rd party snooping, "permissions" and TOS agreements to government agencies.

Crazy that Rupert Murdoch gets charged when he hacks a phone, when in reality the government is practically endorsing widespread privacy violations, and practically every company has a stake in profiteering from personal information.