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[Not Solved] Car Home (car mode) acting like a virus! Need Help!

Even after uninstalling it with titanium backup,root explorer and native android in menu it keeps popping up in notification bar with these ill-effects:
It closes out any apps or programs I was using!
It automatically puts me on speaker when I make or receive calls
Screen orientation cannot be disabled
Screen lock cannot be disabled
Volume is lowered when playing music
stays at the same volume and cannot be adjusted.
Some suggestions were to disable automatic startup and bluetooth in Car Home's menus when it pops up, I did not see such option. Now the menu does not pop up anymore, only the steering wheel icon pops up in notification bar to let me know its here to make my day a living hell again. Everyday, Every Hour, Every minute. I've done full wipe,cache,dalvik, and reinstall of cm6 6.1.2 and it just wont GO AWAY! Please HELP!
Posting in general forum because I'm not getting any help in Q/A!

You know what, my phone started exactly the same thing yesterday lunchtime and it's bloody annoying.
One thing that bugs me is that the headphone volume is now jammed at "very loud" with no way to adjust it.
Likely cause: pins 4 & 5 of the USB port shorted out. I would recommend carefully cleaning the USB port on the phone to see if that helps (it didn't for me).
Unless anyone has a magic solution, mine is going back to stock today and then back to HTC for repair.

Had the exact same issue a while back so I just took it to Sprint and got a new one.

perhaps its my google account cuz i notice after fresh install and before i sync my market there car home is no where to be found. so im thinking theres probably an issue with my google account and apps. even thiugh it does not have car home as one of ny apps ive installed.

issue temporarily fixed by going to both car apps in applications and force stop/clearing data but then it came back again, defiantly sometime to do with usb port

My phone started having the same problem, it would come up for no reason at all. Just now I plugged it into my car charger and it magically stopped. I was wondering if the usb cable I got from HTC could be bad.

Its a provlem with your micro usb. I had the same problem on multiple
roms. Getting a new usb cable cleared it up for me.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

I had the same problem, and it turned out that it was a 3rd party charger that I bought on ebay that caused it. I bought a charger from Sprint, and it cleared up for me.

Don't mean to dig up an old thread, but figured would be better than starting a new one.
My Evo just started doing similar things just two days ago. Pretty sure mine was a moisture issue- put it in my pocket while swim suit was still wet, I've read similar reports on other forums.
My issue is Car Home will launch whenever it wants (seems to be purely random.) It will 'dock' then 'undock' (indicated by the chime it plays) two or three times in a row before it finally just runs in the background. If you are in an application while this happens it will either crash the program, or refresh everything, losing what ever state you were on.
Any got a software fix for this yet? I've tried uninstalling it, freezing it, reinstalling it, deleting the apk with root explorer... nothing. Not only is it god awful annoying it's killing my battery life. From what I am understanding this issue is rooted in hardware problems, but there has to be a way of stopping a program from auto loading.
I even went as far as to delete EVERY file that root explorer found the words 'car' and 'home' in with it's search function. Tried installing apps that supposedly blocked it from auto loading like NoDock, did nothing.
If all else fails I guess i could do a full wipe and reload CM7, but I've read reports that that doesn't even fix it. Is there anyway to confirm it's a USB problem, and not a short in the magnetic sensor? I attempted to take a cat log, think it was throwing a Java error, need to read up on how to post said log.
If there is a more complete thread or resolution page, please link it, I have no issues reading up on it myself if only I can find it.
Thanks for any input!

This problem is caused by the liquid damage... Everytime I have one come in with this issue.. I have signs of liquid damage to the board, especially around the charging port...

I hear ya, but there has to be a way of removing carhome completely. My phone operates fantastic for 80% of the day, so it's not like it's a catastrophic error or anything.

Same thing happening here on my Evo with Cyanogenmod 7.1RC1. Really odd behavior. I just uninstalled car home using Titanium and I'm waiting to see if that fixes it.

I downloaded nodock (trial) and pretty much solved the issue. I still have problems on start up but once I am able to enable the app. I might just end up buying the app because of no other choice.

I fixed this issue by getting a new phone. Its a hardware issue, something something usb port dying glitching, thinks its docking with car dock

I would totally do the same thing if I wasn't living in fear of the new ota

crakerjaks said:
I fixed this issue by getting a new phone. Its a hardware issue, something something usb port dying glitching, thinks its docking with car dock
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This.
It's a hardware issue, not software. The tech at my local Sprint store said they see this a lot with people that use car chargers, especially during the winter. The end of the cable falls on the floor and gets dirt, salt, and other crap in it then gets picked up and plugged into the phone and screws up the USB port. Sometimes it just needs to be cleaned, but sometimes it actually gets damaged.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G with Tapatalk

I cleaned my charging port with rubbing alcohol and it seems to be fixed.
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has anyone found a solution to this issue, im currently experiencing it on my inspire.... from what i have read its a hardware issue, but isn't there anyway to make a patch of something that can block car home from launching?? it randomly starts up on my phone and causes my speaker phone to always be on when receiving calls or making one, until i manually turn it off but still its pretty annoying... help!! lol

water damage or generic charger
I had this problem I was using a cheap stand charger when I switched back to the stock charger it solved the problem after a few days.... but that evo broke and my next evo had it again plus HDMI wasn't working. Took it in and it had all kinds of corrosion from water damage causing the problem. So take it in or take it apart and clean it hope that helps

[Q] Car Home starting without dock

Recently, I started experiencing a strange problem with my HTC Desire HD. I do not have a car dock, nor have I ever (to my knowledge) docked the phone anywhere. However, the Car Home app starts on boot and restarts if I kill the process. This is really annoying, as the phone seems to think it's docked and all calls start on the speaker and it will not let me change the media volume with headphones plugged in.
It's a rooted phone with CM7 installed on it. The problem started on CM 7.0.0-RC4 (or similar version), but then I flashed CM 7.0.3 using Rom Manager and told it to wipe everything, but the problem still persists.
I also installed Dock Nothingness to try and stop Car Home from starting and I made it the default app for the dock event. Unfortunately, that only resulted in the Car Home app showing on the status bar and starting and stopping but never actually launching. I couldn't find the No Dock trial anywhere I could download it, so I did not try that yet.
Anyone knows why this is happening and how to stop it from doing so?
Any help appreciated

nethopp3r said:
Recently, I started experiencing a strange problem with my HTC Desire HD. I do not have a car dock, nor have I ever (to my knowledge) docked the phone anywhere. However, the Car Home app starts on boot and restarts if I kill the process. This is really annoying, as the phone seems to think it's docked and all calls start on the speaker and it will not let me change the media volume with headphones plugged in.
It's a rooted phone with CM7 installed on it. The problem started on CM 7.0.0-RC4 (or similar version), but then I flashed CM 7.0.3 using Rom Manager and told it to wipe everything, but the problem still persists.
I also installed Dock Nothingness to try and stop Car Home from starting and I made it the default app for the dock event. Unfortunately, that only resulted in the Car Home app showing on the status bar and starting and stopping but never actually launching. I couldn't find the No Dock trial anywhere I could download it, so I did not try that yet.
Anyone knows why this is happening and how to stop it from doing so?
Any help appreciated
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197735

Thanks! Too bad I didn't find that before posting
Also, I plug the phone in to USB at night and tonight it fixed itself without me doing anything. For now. Huh

Screen orientation locked when in 'dock' mode

So I've searched through the forums a bit and can't seem to find an answer to my question... hopefully some of you have the answer though. When I'm driving I plug both my car charger and auxiliary audio jack into my phone so that it will charge while playing pandora. Problem is when I do this, the phone seems to think I've plugged it into a dock, and locks the phone into landscape mode.
I 'believe' I'm running DoomKernel for CDMA V1 and the 2.3.3 system... but it's been about a month since I've touched anything on it so I could be mistaken/forgot what I did to it last.
Anyone have a suggestion on how to unlock this orientation? It even stays this way after I unplug it sometimes.

xanderharris86 said:
So I've searched through the forums a bit and can't seem to find an answer to my question... hopefully some of you have the answer though. When I'm driving I plug both my car charger and auxiliary audio jack into my phone so that it will charge while playing pandora. Problem is when I do this, the phone seems to think I've plugged it into a dock, and locks the phone into landscape mode.
I 'believe' I'm running DoomKernel for CDMA V1 and the 2.3.3 system... but it's been about a month since I've touched anything on it so I could be mistaken/forgot what I did to it last.
Anyone have a suggestion on how to unlock this orientation? It even stays this way after I unplug it sometimes.
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I just reboot when it did that to me. It's a glitch I think.
Never happened after I stopped using my off brand charger tho
I started using the USB / Charger thing from the factory and it quit happening

hmmm.... this answered a question i posted earlier. I was having the same problem today when i rebooted my phone while plugged into my PC via USB. It never did it before until today, right after i tried a mod, that failed, and i lost my notification bar. it freaked me the hell out, i thought i broke it! I even did nandroid restore, wiped cache, everything! just to unplug it from pc reboot it, and it was fine! I was like wth!?!?! I never did figure out why all of a sudden it does it, but it does everytime i reboot while USB is pluggen in. If anyone knows an answer please share.

xanderharris86 said:
So I've searched through the forums a bit and can't seem to find an answer to my question... hopefully some of you have the answer though. When I'm driving I plug both my car charger and auxiliary audio jack into my phone so that it will charge while playing pandora. Problem is when I do this, the phone seems to think I've plugged it into a dock, and locks the phone into landscape mode.
I 'believe' I'm running DoomKernel for CDMA V1 and the 2.3.3 system... but it's been about a month since I've touched anything on it so I could be mistaken/forgot what I did to it last.
Anyone have a suggestion on how to unlock this orientation? It even stays this way after I unplug it sometimes.
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The easiest way to fix this is to:
1) Unplug power
2) Wait a few seconds
3) Unplug headphones jack
4) Wait a few seconds
5) plug in headphones jack
(if it still sticks, 6) Unplug headphones jack))
That should turn off dock mode.
When you plug every in, plug in the audio first, wait for it to register (i.e. shows either the headphones notification, or music starts playing through whatever you have your phone hooked up to) then plug in the power cable

M8S Problems

Hi guys
I got an HTC M8s less than 2 months now and it has so many issues it's driving me insane at this stage....
It's on stock ROM unrooted with all the latest updates.
First issue that came up was not recognising the headphones after i plugged them in, that eventually went away after lots of searching and fiddling with settings etc.
Then it started going into Car mode while it was resting on the table, no input on my end no triggers set for it, hell i don't even own a car to use this function....
I disabled HTC car and that stopped.
The included micro usb cable somehow went bad, tried it on other devices, it will not charge....
Now i'm having some weird charging behaviour, it drops out of charging and resumes or sometimes it just stops charging (that doesn't happen when the phone is charging while being switched off, so i'm guessing it's not a hardware issue)
Another massive problem is that all incoming/outgoing calls go to the speaker which almost burst my ear drum first time that happened.
I have looked in every single forum out there and have tried all possible solutions, ranging from disabling google Chrome to trying every available speaker management/toggle related program on the play store but nothing seems to be working.
Some times if i plug in the headphones, make a call and then unplug them, then it works as it should for a little while. But later on it reverts to the previous mentioned behaviour.
One thing i have noticed, before it routes calls to the speaker, the screen will light up, no notifications come up and then all calls go to the speaker.
I used Wakelock to try and find out which program triggers the screen wake in order to remove it and maybe solve this issue but nothing came up.
Any input would be greatly appreciated as i am at the end of my rope with this device....
I still have my HTC DHD A9191 and i never had any issues with that phone, i'm very dissappointed with HTC :/
Thanks in advance
Yanni

Less then 2 months......return it ! Not even sure what you want to achieve here besides messing up warranty ?

I am using Spign slim armor case on m8s and after using it my power button isn't working.
and I have a Motion Launch problem when phone is on my pocket it opens camera, calls someone because of the sensor.Any fix about that?

Kyaner said:
Hi guys
I got an HTC M8s less than 2 months now and it has so many issues it's driving me insane at this stage....
It's on stock ROM unrooted with all the latest updates.
First issue that came up was not recognising the headphones after i plugged them in, that eventually went away after lots of searching and fiddling with settings etc.
Then it started going into Car mode while it was resting on the table, no input on my end no triggers set for it, hell i don't even own a car to use this function....
I disabled HTC car and that stopped.
The included micro usb cable somehow went bad, tried it on other devices, it will not charge....
Now i'm having some weird charging behaviour, it drops out of charging and resumes or sometimes it just stops charging (that doesn't happen when the phone is charging while being switched off, so i'm guessing it's not a hardware issue)
Another massive problem is that all incoming/outgoing calls go to the speaker which almost burst my ear drum first time that happened.
I have looked in every single forum out there and have tried all possible solutions, ranging from disabling google Chrome to trying every available speaker management/toggle related program on the play store but nothing seems to be working.
Some times if i plug in the headphones, make a call and then unplug them, then it works as it should for a little while. But later on it reverts to the previous mentioned behaviour.
One thing i have noticed, before it routes calls to the speaker, the screen will light up, no notifications come up and then all calls go to the speaker.
I used Wakelock to try and find out which program triggers the screen wake in order to remove it and maybe solve this issue but nothing came up.
Any input would be greatly appreciated as i am at the end of my rope with this device....
I still have my HTC DHD A9191 and i never had any issues with that phone, i'm very dissappointed with HTC :/
Thanks in advance
Yanni
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ok man
look i have htc one m8 + one m7+one max
the one m7 had the same problem of u
i will give to you one solution for try
i try it on the one m7 and its work
but on one max not work
on m8 not test yet
try this:
1. Turn phone OFF
2. Let charge for AT LEAST 10mins even if it doesn't look like it's charging.
3. Press and hold POWER + VOL UP + VOL DOWN for AT LEAST 2mins. Anything less will not reset the charge mode.
4. After 2mins release the buttons and the phone should boot as normal
if it not charge at the first time then try it again andd u will be OK

Hi Hazem
Thanks for the input, i'll give this a go when i get back home and let you know if it works out.
Should i try this when the phone is at 4-5% ? And then let it charge all the way ?

I'm experiencing these same issues as well after rooting my M8. Hopefully someone here knows what the issue is.

Well for me all issues remain unresolved.
My guess so far for the culprit seems to be the magnetic sensor, either badly programmed or a factory defect.

Kyaner said:
Well for me all issues remain unresolved.
My guess so far for the culprit seems to be the magnetic sensor, either badly programmed or a factory defect.
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u must charge ur phone
turn off the phone
let him charge to full about 3 hours
and try the method
it will work
i test it on 2 one m7 phones
let me know if that work
thx

Sorry Hazeem I understand that English isn't your first language, and you are trying to help but you are not making much sence....
You are basically telling me to charge my phone, then switch it off and charge it again even though it's already charged for another 3 hours....
Ok an update !
HTC Released a service pack along with an update for the car application, after installing these and a couple of reboots the charging problems stopped and the phone doesn't seem to be waking up without any reason, as it did before.
The calls getting routed to the speaker still remain but thanks to an app called Auto Speaker, I've managed to work around this issue. Before the updates this application had no effect, but now it works as it should by turning off the speaker when the proximity sensor is blocked.
I hope I am not celebrating too soon on this and I'll keep this post updated if anything else, related to these issues, happens.
Update 2
So far so good and with another unexpected benefit, I removed my phone from the charger Saturday morning around 11 and as of now Monday 7:30 it's at 27% !

Weird Bugs – charges only when off and volume buttons wake device

My phone is a himaul running the latest crDroid
The problems are:
-Phone only charges when off, but I once it starts charging it will continue after booting
-Both volume buttons turn on the screen
Both problems appeared simultaneously out of nowhere.
The same thing happened once already. I fixed the second issue by wiping and reinstalling the ROM. For the charging issue I found a weird solution: turning the device on with the volume down button pressed and with a strong light shining over the front camera/brightness sensor. I wasn’t expecting anything, but it worked for about one week, until both problems surfaced again.
Sometimes in my previous install something called Car Mode would turn on by itself, and I believe it’s somehow related to both these issues.
Any ideas? I tried different chargers, cables and cleaning the usb port.

Car mode usually activates when you connect to a car via Bluetooth or if you set a smart unlock.
Volume buttons waking up the device could mean you have an issue with the power button as they are all on the same plastic strip. You could also have a software problem caused by a rogue app.
Not charging.. This one is a pain in the arse. I had a new battery fitted to one of my m9's and it suffered awful charging issues. The first charge took a whole weekend while switched off. Then it got gradually better over time but in the end only a reflash fixed it. Otherwise it would discharge too quick and get mega hot when sat on the homescreen doing nothing after just a factory reset.
Flashing the firmware via the external sd card would be the way to go. You'd be amazed what it fixes on dodgy htc's..