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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.
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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.
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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

USB Problem

My problem is the USB stays on whether its plugged in or not,debugging or not and I only have this problem on Gingerbread leaks not on EC05.
Any suggestions?

Jump off ginger then
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ilostmypistons said:
My problem is the USB stays on whether its plugged in or not,debugging or not and I only have this problem on Gingerbread leaks not on EC05.
Any suggestions?
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Had this problem for only a minute. Either do a factory data reset or try reflashing the ROM. Backup first of course.
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Searched high and low for this. And I finally found it!
This is the exact problem I am having except it doesn't seem to be confined to ROM. Also, USB still works properly. The problem is the phone keeps thinking it's connecting / disconnecting to USB all day long and for some reason this kills the battery life. It also makes it impossible to see notifications in the bar without sliding it down (the bar is constantly flashing USB connected).
I had this problem on SRF1.2 (EC05) and ODIN'd to EH17 last night... there's no way the problem could carry over if it was a software issue right? Well, the USB was connecting/disconnecting as soon as EH17 booted.
Any insight into what is causing this? I'm starting to think my only option is to ODIN back to stock and bring it in to a Sprint store...
UPDATE: It seems the problem has 'stabilized' a bit... the USB connection is now ALWAYS considered to be on and no longer flashes connect/disconnect over and over. Maybe I just need to clean out the USB contacts?

One last bump of this thread for ideas... I really don't want to take it in to a Sprint store. Problem is still ongoing and cripples my phone to just a few hours battery life. Is there some way I can clean out the contacts of the usb connection? This might be where the "false connections" are coming from.
Open to any other ideas.

My girlfriends phone did that for about 10 minutes one day last week. I just took my better than stock micro usb cable and gently jiggled the connection a bit. We haven't had an issue with it since. Her stock cord went bad at that same point in time, so she uses a better one now as well. I would imagine you probably already tried this, but I figured i'd post my experience.
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Epic on CM9 keeps entering dock mode...

I've been running CM9 for almost 2 months now and its been great. 6 days ago my phone started entering docked mode by itself. I'll be doing nothing at all and it just pops up with the dock screen. Most of the time its the desktop dock screen, but once or twice it has been the car dock screen. I found that there was a newer version of CM9 released so last weekend I flashed that following all the camera gps fix instructions as well. I also made sure to remove and re-install "custom car home" and "galaxy dock sound redirector" just in case. The phone has been fine since saturday, but all of a sudden an hour ago it started doing it again.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks.

bikewiz said:
I've been running CM9 for almost 2 months now and its been great. 6 days ago my phone started entering docked mode by itself. I'll be doing nothing at all and it just pops up with the dock screen. Most of the time its the desktop dock screen, but once or twice it has been the car dock screen. I found that there was a newer version of CM9 released so last weekend I flashed that following all the camera gps fix instructions as well. I also made sure to remove and re-install "custom car home" and "galaxy dock sound redirector" just in case. The phone has been fine since saturday, but all of a sudden an hour ago it started doing it again.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks.
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Back up to google and try a clean install? make sure .android secure is deleted. wipe data, dalvik, cache, system 3x (Don't forget to backup your angry birds progress.lol)

Okay, I just spent a couple hours dusting off my android skills and I deleted all my downloads for rooting and roms. I started fresh and got the latest odin, cwm, cm9 beta3, and gapps. I used odin to go to a fresh stock EL30 rom. The reason I did this was because I wanted to start from scratch, and also because my PC would not recognize my phone when plugged into the USB cable using a known good cable and uninstalling/reinstalling the Samsung USB drivers. After the fresh install was done, my USB connectivity was working again and I loaded all my new downloads on the SD card to reflash CM9.
I got all done loading everything and in the setup of my phone it asked if I wanted Google to restore my backed up wi-fi passwords, bookmarks, etc. So I allowed it to do so. It then started re-downloading all my apps from the Play store. Those must have been backed up too I thought. Walked away from the phone for a half hour and came back to it. Hit the power button to wake up the phone and its on the dock lock screen with the big clock time and the "set-alarm" option. I also tried plugging into my USB on my computer, nothing. Back to square one after over 2 hours of messing around with this.
Gonna try wipe date, cache, dalvik cache 3x and reflash cm9 and gapps. This time I wont let google load the backup and see what happens.

okay so I reflashed cm9 beta3 like i said i was going to and after about 5 mins of toying around with customization like turning off the widget auto add in play store and adjusting my volumes and ring tones, my phone popped up with the dock screen again.
WTF?

Have you tried cleaning off the USB port? According to my research (took all of a minute on google) car dock mode is triggered when the phone senses a resistance between pins 4 and 5 of the micro-usb of about 619 k. A resistance of about 365k will triggered Desk Dock mode.
So. if you have a bunch of crud jammed into the USB that could be enough to cause the problem you have.

UGH! You are probably correct!
I got fed up so I odin'd to stock and took it into the sprint store to get it swapped out. I gave them the usual "my phone doesn't charge intermittently" which has worked for all my service plan replacements in the past. They did clean crud out of the charge port, but i insisted that it still needed to be replaced. So, he took the phone completely apart (for what readson i dont know) puts it back together and tells me he has to order me one because they are out of stock on replacements. I go to walk out of the store and I have no radio bars. I go back and say hey, i think u forgot to reconnect the antenna. He agreed so he took it apart again. After that the phone would no longer power up so after another hour of trying to fix it, they had to give me a loaner phone (aka 2006 flip phone).
Thanks for the info. Hopefully this thread will be useful to someone else in the future.

Note 2 Rogers Canada acting very very strange

Hey Guys,
So i've done some research all evening here and I've done nothing different than i'd do any other day with the phone and all of a sudden today around 6 PM eastern the phone started acting up. I came home from work plugged it in and it started to lag and then froze, finally unfroze and got that error " Unfortunately, %1$S %2$S has stopped running. I only have the option to click (ok) So I would do that and I thought all was well, turns out this is not the case. When this error pops up it also disables the phone from charging. I unplug and plug back in, the phone starts to freeze and the error comes back. I've been doing some online re-search some people say it's a synch issue with google and to turn synch of, did so, still same error. Some people have said unplug charger, power off phone wait 10 seconds, plug charger back on and boot up, this also did not resolve my issue. I will say that if the power cable is not in the device, it works fine. After about 2 hours of trying different things, I plugged it back into the charger and the phone started acting out really strange, changing from screen to screen and indicating " The dock is connected" I don't own a dock and the phone has never been into dock. I'm using the stock charger that came with the Note 2.
I will say I have TWRP installed and I've been using the JEDI X Rom for this phone without any problems. I thought, okay well none of this is working maybe it's the rom acting up, so I decided to go into recovery wipe all cache & system and re-installed the rom, same thing. The dock is connected, phone freezing and Unfortunately, %1$S %2$S has stopped running. So, I re-did everything again, wiped all cache systems, fixed permission and put the stock rom back on the phone. Now the phone is indicating in stock mode that the "dock is connected" when really it's just the charger. The phone is going into the time out then pops back on automatically all by it's self. Not getting the Unfortunately, %1$S %2$S has stopped running anymore though. the phone is 3 weeks old, and i'm at a loss here as to what I should do next.
Any suggestions, if not, Is there away to erase the phone "call" time so I can get it down to below 30 minutes so I can return this one for a new one?
Thanks,

Well, after hours of reading, I came across this post for an Android EVO phone and it mentioned something about a connect point of the charging port in the phone and said slightly bend the charger cable when it's attached inside, I tried this at a last cause and everything fixed itself, I re-flashed Jedi X and all errors have cleared itself. I find it strange because I'm very gentle with inserting/disconnecting these cables...
Thanks,

I'm not surprised. I've had similar issues with a S2 and other Sammy phones. In fact my brothers Galaxy S as well. He had to get the whole board replaced. I hate MicroUsb. Although its nice to have a generic sync port that is the same across almost all Android devices, this port needs to change.
Just my $0.02. Glad to see you figured it out. Knock on wood my Note2 hasent had these issues yet.
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