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[INFO] Carrier IQ fights back!

http://m.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/rootkit-brouhaha/
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Great find mate. I'd LOVE to see them try to argue that in court:
"well, your honor, the defendant found our secret software and then found our training manuals and posted mean stuff online."
"what exactly is the full scope of capabilities of your software? Do you have the ability to read private messages?"
"Umm, well, yes. Yes we can do that. But we have consent from the carriers!"
"but not from the people's whose information you are siphoning. Also, where did the defendant find these alleged manuals?"
"Umm well on our website."
"public website?"
"yes. Well... Yes. But we have since removed them so he is infringing on our copyright by still having them!"
"so he defendant discovered that your software spies on users without their consent, knowledge, or ability to stop it and then found on your website manuals that explained how your spyware works. Now you want the judicial system to punish him for exposing your company's illicit monitoring of the public? Not going to happen."
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Freeze the "System Manager Application" on your phone!!!!!!!!!!

513263337 said:
Freeze the "System Manager Application" on your phone!!!!!!!!!!
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I have it removed with the newest bullet kernel.
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Companies like Carrier-IQ are a plague to our privacy.
It's one thing to create and provide (at a price) software to carriers that steals private information, but to try and threaten/ruin a person for talking about it shows a real "Big Brother" mentality IMO.
I hope this is the beginning of a major change in how the rights of the consumer are protected when it comes to the collection of information. We have the right to be informed as to what is being collected from our most private devices and to opt out should we choose (which most of us will..)
Carrier-IQ is the equivalent to digital theft, no question about it. It's happening without disclosure, without permission, and it's purposely hidden from the average consumer who would have no way to discover this for themselves.
Look at how upset Carrier-IQ is over what was PUBLIC information being "collected" from their website? Imagine if we were stealing the private data from their site/personal devices and being paid for doing it!

I was hoping for a DEV to port the App over for us so we can TURN OFF that annoying Carrier IQ from our phones

AllGamer said:
I was hoping for a DEV to port the App over for us so we can TURN OFF that annoying Carrier IQ from our phones
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Just freeze it or uninstall it with Titanium Backup.
It's the app "System Manager" ironically. Check the process in your running services (Settings > Applications > Running Services)
You'll see "System Manager" and when you click on it, it will show you something like "com.tmobile.carrierIQ" (I forget exactly since I froze the app about a week ago.)
It does not affect the phone in any negative way, it actually runs slightly better now IMO

Wow, it never ceases to amaze me the stealthy things like this that software companies come up with, and then are outraged when everyone finds out and wants it gone.

We already have NOCIQ check in the developement section .
AllGamer said:
I was hoping for a DEV to port the App over for us so we can TURN OFF that annoying Carrier IQ from our phones
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ingenious247 said:
Just freeze it or uninstall it with Titanium Backup.
It's the app "System Manager" ironically. Check the process in your running services (Settings > Applications > Running Services)
You'll see "System Manager" and when you click on it, it will show you something like "com.tmobile.carrierIQ" (I forget exactly since I froze the app about a week ago.)
It does not affect the phone in any negative way, it actually runs slightly better now IMO
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thank you! good info
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hmm... odd, can't find it in TI, seems like it was already removed in Juggernaut
well good, that saves me the trouble

ingenious247 said:
Just freeze it or uninstall it with Titanium Backup.
It's the app "System Manager" ironically. Check the process in your running services (Settings > Applications > Running Services)
You'll see "System Manager" and when you click on it, it will show you something like "com.tmobile.carrierIQ" (I forget exactly since I froze the app about a week ago.)
It does not affect the phone in any negative way, it actually runs slightly better now IMO
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Just checked this path and in my running services I don't have this listed anywhere.

It would appear on my Telus variant (SGH-T989D) that there is no CIQ installed. Checked my running processes but also used the app TrevE made.

Freezing it doesn't work, the CarrierIQ process is still running in the background

Ran the app on Juggernaut 3.1 and Bullet kernel 2.7b and it found nothing.

Revolution said:
We already have NOCIQ check in the developement section .
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Where?
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heygrl said:
Freezing it doesn't work, the CarrierIQ process is still running in the background
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Impossible for the System Manger to be running when frozen.. I froze it and it hasn't popped up in a week.

ingenious247 said:
Impossible for the System Manger to be running when frozen.. I froze it and it hasn't popped up in a week.
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I saw it running with System tuner, it disappeared when I deleted it altogether.

I ran the logging test app on the stock Telus ROM and it doesn't appear to have carrierIQ at all ... which is pretty good.

Was this on the stock rom ? I can't find it on running processes or on titanium by name or the process string (ie com.xxxxxxxxz)
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tackleberry said:
Was this on the stock rom ? I can't find it on running processes or on titanium by name or the process string (ie com.xxxxxxxxz)
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It's called System Manager (even more shady), it should be there because it's definitely on the stock rom unless you have a slightly modified stock rom with the bloat removed.

[Q] What's wrong with this picture ?

I want to disable all those Included Packages from google services that are draining my battery. But I don't find them anywhere. I have a rooted phone.

zupadroid said:
I want to disable all those Included Packages from google services that are draining my battery. But I don't find them anywhere. I have a rooted phone.
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oh God......if u want to disable these basic android services....... Y U NO USE IPHONE FOR A BETTER BATTERY

n70shan said:
oh God......if u want to disable these basic android services....... Y U NO USE IPHONE FOR A BETTER BATTERY
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What? English please.

Try this app to narrow down what's actually causing the drain
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector
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Out of those apps in your screenshot you can safely freeze google bookmark sync and network location
Use a free app from the market called "app quarantine"
Ps. Like the other guy said, if these bother you, better get an iPhone or windows phone.

Mr Patchy Patch said:
Out of those apps in your screenshot you can safely freeze google bookmark sync and network location
Use a free app from the market called "app quarantine"
Ps. Like the other guy said, if these bother you, better get an iPhone or windows phone.
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Ah,so that's what he said. Ok, but I'm gonna hold on to SONY.

[Q] Pop Up

Does anyone know how I can delete this annoying pop up? I have tried adAway and Addons detector but no luck.

Clearly you installed some free app recently, so go and and remove it or them.

Thanks
abbott10k said:
Clearly you installed some free app recently, so go and and remove it or them.
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Thank you for the reply but I have installed quite a few of them. Is there a way I can pinpoint as to which one? I tried long pressing the home buttong to go to active application but even if I end all, it still pops up.

jett77 said:
Thank you for the reply but I have installed quite a few of them. Is there a way I can pinpoint as to which one? I tried long pressing the home buttong to go to active application but even if I end all, it still pops up.
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connect your phone to adb and wait til it happens again. then look in your log which app did what when. i actually had this pop up too but cant remember what app it was :/

Please delete your porn apps
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If you find it with ADB, after I suggest not installing a lot of free apps, especially large amounts of them within a short space, but generally paid apps are worth it. Or you could click yes and see what free apps are offered, maybe they might be developed by the same person/company, and the one you installed might be among those other free apps.

Justinhopaolo said:
Please delete your porn apps
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I don't have any.....not on THIS phone atleast

Finding with ADB
abbott10k said:
If you find it with ADB, after I suggest not installing a lot of free apps, especially large amounts of them within a short space, but generally paid apps are worth it. Or you could click yes and see what free apps are offered, maybe they might be developed by the same person/company, and the one you installed might be among those other free apps.
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I will try finding it with ADB....now to learn how to do that....(searching threads for ADB)

Manage to run ADB logcat
How do I identify which app ran or how do I identify the pop up??

logcat
These are the logs that shows up whenever the pop up comes up. Any idea on which app it is?

jett77 said:
These are the logs that shows up whenever the pop up comes up. Any idea on which app it is?
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what were you doing to replicate this?`starting and stopping music (awesome player)?
you could try abbott10k's suggestion nevertheless.

Nope
lolmensch said:
what were you doing to replicate this?`starting and stopping music (awesome player)?
you could try abbott10k's suggestion nevertheless.
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That's the thing. I was not. I was also looking for music apps that I might have installed recently. I was simple unlocking my phone from sleep. That's when the pop up comes up usually.

jett77 said:
That's the thing. I was not. I was also looking for music apps that I might have installed recently. I was simple unlocking my phone from sleep. That's when the pop up comes up usually.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trustgo.addetector
try this. seems like a quick and easy solution

Thanks but
lolmensch said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trustgo.addetector
try this. seems like a quick and easy solution
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I just uninstalled everything that I've installed in the pass couple of days. And sure enough it's gone. I was trying alot of apps and what-not in the pass week. Thanks very much though for trying to help! :good:
EDIT: Nope...sorry..still there..running out of apps to uninstall...

Apps that can be safely Frozen or Removed

Thought this may be useful for everyone to have as the device does sadly have a tendency to be a bit laggy.
Have followed a few guides and got some great info from XDA so trying to give a little back if I can
From what I have done I have found no ill effects that I have noticed so far, all fairly obvious choices so early on, but will get braver as I get more used to the handset and I'm sure others have been more adventurous than me and can help bulk the list up a bit and we can do away with a whole bunch of bloat to get a smoother ride from out G3. Some of these I froze as I prefer other 3rd party apps.
Frozen/Removed
Cell Broadcast
E-Mail
Documents
File Manager
Internet/Stock Browser
LG Health
LG Search Widget Provider
LG Setup Wizard
McAfee Security
Messaging (stock)
Music
Video
Video Trim
Weather
Weather Theme
Weather Platform
If you have any other suggestions please post and and I'll add updates to Post 1 for easy reference :highfive:
Hope this helps some fellow G3 users

557953 said:
Thought this may be useful for everyone to have as the device does sadly have a tendency to be a bit laggy.
Have followed a few guides and got some great info from XDA so trying to give a little back if I can
From what I have done I have found no ill effects that I have noticed so far, all fairly obvious choices so early on, but will get braver as I get more used to the handset and I'm sure others have been more adventurous than me and can help bulk the list up a bit and we can do away with a whole bunch of bloat to get a smoother ride from out G3. Some of these I froze as I prefer other 3rd party apps.
If you have any other suggestions please post and and I'll add updates to Post 1 for easy reference :highfive:
Hope this helps some fellow G3 users
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I think you should do a different list for the Google apps, the main attention people will give this thread is to find out what LG apps they can freeze and remove, most people will not be interesting in removing the Google apps from their devices.

Lennyuk said:
I think you should do a different list for the Google apps, the main attention people will give this thread is to find out what LG apps they can freeze and remove, most people will not be interesting in removing the Google apps from their devices.
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Understood, you are most likely correct. Google Apps removed from list

If possible, can you post the real app name (the apk name in /system/app or /system/app-priv) ?
Thanks

Get my G3 later today. Thanks for the list! I'm completely new to Android, so how do I remove bloat ware?

you need to keep file manager if you wish to write to the extsd card
I've not been able to disable the mcafee software

walkerx said:
you need to keep file manager if you wish to write to the extsd card
I've not been able to disable the mcafee software
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I didn't find the apk by myself, but root uninstaller found somehow

Is freezing them through TB essentially a better version of hibernating them through Greenify?

alphamini said:
Is freezing them through TB essentially a better version of hibernating them through Greenify?
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They do different things. Freezing them is like uninstalling them - they are gone and won't work at all but can be retrieved by unfreezing. Greenifying them just hibernates them but they work as normal.

bartito said:
If possible, can you post the real app name (the apk name in /system/app or /system/app-priv) ?
Thanks
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Also in system/vendor/app. Found some stuff in there that tibu couldn't get rid of. Here's most of what I froze. If it's not in my list of frozen apps I deleted it lol
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Could we have a non-root list, and also a description of what gets disabled/broken for each one. E.g. what does Cell Broadcast do? (I've googled, I 'm now aware, not relevant currently in the UK).
ActionManager service? Board Content Provider?
I've found this list but most of the bloat on Verizon wasn't on mine, since I'm not in the US: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/list-bloatware-safe-to-disable-t2819370

I wonder if anyone has the time, patience, and good will to compile all of these threads into one master index?
ohmegosh said:
Could we have a non-root list, and also a description of what gets disabled/broken for each one. E.g. what does Cell Broadcast do? (I've googled, I 'm now aware, not relevant currently in the UK).
ActionManager service? Board Content Provider?
I've found this list but most of the bloat on Verizon wasn't on mine, since I'm not in the US: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/list-bloatware-safe-to-disable-t2819370
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I've noticed that the system doesn't allow you to disable everything if you're not rooted so maybe anything you are allowed to disable is safe to disable.
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drock212 said:
Also in system/vendor/app. Found some stuff in there that tibu couldn't get rid of. Here's most of what I froze. If it's not in my list of frozen apps I deleted it lol
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And how is everything working out after having disabled all those 3 weeks ago? Any anomalies or bad experiences? So far your screenshots give the best list of the removable apps (I'm completely new to LG so I don't know about their stock stuff), and I'd love to remove them but I'm afraid to experiment without a fully working recovery to restore nandroid.

Horcza said:
And how is everything working out after having disabled all those 3 weeks ago? Any anomalies or bad experiences? So far your screenshots give the best list of the removable apps (I'm completely new to LG so I don't know about their stock stuff), and I'd love to remove them but I'm afraid to experiment without a fully working recovery to restore nandroid.
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Everything is working great. Battery life is spectacular. There are 0 negative results to report.

drock212 said:
Everything is working great. Battery life is spectacular. There are 0 negative results to report.
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Awesome, thanks for the quick feedback! I just got a notification about a new downloadable software update (will not do it ofc), I suppose freezing the software update app will mean no more notifications and to setbacks either?

Horcza said:
Awesome, thanks for the quick feedback! I just got a notification about a new downloadable software update (will not do it ofc), I suppose freezing the software update app will mean no more notifications and to setbacks either?
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Correct. I have mine frozen to avoid receiving update notifications. Also this is good until you find out if the new update is rootable. If its not then its good to stick with the current software.

drock212 said:
Also in system/vendor/app. Found some stuff in there that tibu couldn't get rid of. Here's most of what I froze. If it's not in my list of frozen apps I deleted it lol
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My list is almost this one of yours. Had to unfreeze some of those because it made the home screen very lagged.

Everything Google uninstalled or frozen for over 2 weeks. No problems or complaints.

thanks the development has really taken off for this great device

So I froze most of these. Will it free up memory or do I have to delete them? Kinda scared to delete them. I have nandroid backup, just hate to possibly have to restore when the phone is running good.

Need to remove a certain feature in an app I use

I am using a Samsung Galaxy S3 T-999 SGH from T-Mobile. I am using an app called "Go Sms Pro" and I want to remove a section of the app that I consider bloatware. I want to completely remove the compass Icon and all of its options from the app. I have tried using different tools and apps to do this but I keep running into issues. If someone can help I'd appreciate it. I have an attachment that shows what I'm talking about but I don't know how to add attachments to my post.

Maybe ask the developer for assistance?

audit13 said:
Maybe ask the developer for assistance?
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I could try I suppose, but I believe they cram the page in question into the app to push their other services so I probably will not get any help from them.