[MOD] Remove CarrierIQ

SmiLey497 · Apr 14, 2014

The T-Mobile One M8 has CarrierIQ.

To remove it you need to be S-off or have a writable booted system. If you haven't made your system writable you can use TWRP's file manager to delete the files.

This also removes HTC logging apps too.

Use a file Manager like Solid Explorer or Root Explorer and go to and delete the following (Make a backup of all if you want to OTA later):

/system/app
QXDM2SD.apk
QXDM2SD.odex
HtcResetNotify.apk
HtcResetNotify.odex
Htcloglevel.apk
Htcloglevel.odex
Smith.apk
Smith.odex
Udove.apk
Udove.odex

/system/priv-app
IQ-tmobile-release-signed.apk
IQ-tmobile-release-signed.odex
IQToggle.signed.apk
IQToggle.signed.odex
MyBreeze.apk
MyBreeze.odex

/system/lib
system/lib/libiq_service_tmobile_2.2.so

/data/data
com.carrieriq.tmobile
com.carrieriq.tmobile.IQToggle

You can use an app like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout.carrieriqdetector to check if CarrierIQ is gone (You can use it to check that it's there also).

BACARDILIMON · Apr 15, 2014

Viper ROM has it removed

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

SmiLey497 · Apr 15, 2014

Not everybody wants to flash a custom ROM.

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

Erazo1986 · Apr 15, 2014

Thank you for posting this, I never knew about carrier iq until now.

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

fmedrano1977 · Apr 15, 2014

What's it for?

Nexus 7

SmiLey497 · Apr 15, 2014

fmedrano1977 said:
What's it for?

Nexus 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarrierIQ

Technowhiteboi · May 23, 2014

Thank You!

SmiLey497 said:
The T-Mobile One M8 has CarrierIQ.

To remove it you need to be S-off or have a writable booted system. If you don't I think you can use TWRP's file manager to delete it.

Use a file Manager like Solid Explorer or Root Explorer and go to and delete the following:

/system/app
QXDM2SD.apk
QXDM2SD.odex
HtcResetNotify.apk
HtcResetNotify.odex
Htcloglevel.apk
Htcloglevel.odex
Smith.apk
Smith.odex

/system/priv-app
IQ-tmobile-release-signed.apk
IQ-tmobile-release-signed.odex
IQToggle.signed.apk
IQToggle.signed.odex

/system/lib
system/lib/libiq_service_tmobile_2.2.so

/data/data
com.carrieriq.tmobile
com.carrieriq.tmobile.IQToggle

You can use an app like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout.carrieriqdetector to check if it's gone (You can use it to check that it's there also).

Thank you! I was having trouble finding the iq it is much different from the lg g2 as I used system tuner to disable carrier iq and was having trouble doing the same on the m8! thanks again!

SmiLey497 · May 23, 2014

Technowhiteboi said:
Thank you! I was having trouble finding the iq it is much different from the lg g2 as I used system tuner to disable carrier iq and was having trouble doing the same on the m8! thanks again!

NP

lagvoid · Jul 15, 2014

Will this work if I don't remove the .odex files? I don't see the .odex files using solid explorer or fx file explorer root.

erapmicks · Jul 15, 2014

Love u smiley.U had a great contribution for the g2 now this.

---------- Post added at 03:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:21 PM ----------

How do u like it m8 from the g2

SmiLey497 · Jul 20, 2014

erapmicks said:
Love u smiley.U had a great contribution for the g2 now this.

---------- Post added at 03:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:21 PM ----------

How do u like it m8 from the g2

Been pretty good so far.

lagvoid · Jul 20, 2014

Thank you! I didn't have the ODEX files, but following your guide removed carrierIQ from my M8.

FreydNot · Sep 11, 2014

Worked for me

SmiLey497 said:
The T-Mobile One M8 has CarrierIQ.

To remove it you need to be S-off or have a writable booted system. If you haven't made your system writable you can use TWRP's file manager to delete the files...

Thanks for this guide. I was able to use it to remove CarrierIQ from the 4.4.3 T-Mobile version (used the RUU to get a fresh, stock setup first).

At first I tried just renaming the files (adding a "z" to the front of every name), but the phone still loaded some of the services even though the name was different. I ended up doing a chmod 0000 to all the files to stop them from loading.

I did everything from the TWRP file manager because I wanted to make sure I could reverse all my actions in case it failed to boot up.

Good stuff. Thanks OP!

FreydNot · Sep 14, 2014

I found I had to restore the CarrierIQ files in order to take an OTA update. To make it easier, I threw these together in order to enable and disable CarrierIQ easily...

It needs to run as root in a shell on the phone. The mount command makes the system partition writable. You should reboot after this for the changes to take effect (and for the system partition to go back to read only).

I take no responsibility. If you don't know what you are doing, don't use these.

Code:

# Disable CarrierIQ
mount -o rw,remount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p45 /system
chmod 000 /system/app/HtcLogLevel.apk
chmod 000 /system/app/HtcLogLevel.odex
chmod 000 /system/app/HtcResetNotify.apk
chmod 000 /system/app/HtcResetNotify.odex
chmod 000 /system/app/QXDM2SD.apk
chmod 000 /system/app/QXDM2SD.odex
chmod 000 /system/app/Smith.apk
chmod 000 /system/app/Smith.odex
chmod 000 /system/app/UDove.apk
chmod 000 /system/app/UDove.odex
chmod 000 /system/priv-app/IQ-tmobile-release-unsigned.signed.apk
chmod 000 /system/priv-app/IQ-tmobile-release-unsigned.signed.odex
chmod 000 /system/priv-app/IQToggle_v1.1.3.signed.apk
chmod 000 /system/priv-app/IQToggle_v1.1.3.signed.odex
chmod 000 /system/priv-app/MyBreeze.apk
chmod 000 /system/priv-app/MyBreeze.odex
chmod 000 /system/lib/libiq_service_tmobile_2.2.so
chmod 000 /data/data/com.carrieriq.tmobile
chmod 000 /data/data/com.carrieriq.tmobile.IQToggle

Code:

# Enable CarrierIQ
mount -o rw,remount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p45 /system
chmod 644 /system/app/HtcLogLevel.apk
chmod 644 /system/app/HtcLogLevel.odex
chmod 644 /system/app/HtcResetNotify.apk
chmod 644 /system/app/HtcResetNotify.odex
chmod 644 /system/app/QXDM2SD.apk
chmod 644 /system/app/QXDM2SD.odex
chmod 644 /system/app/Smith.apk
chmod 644 /system/app/Smith.odex
chmod 644 /system/app/UDove.apk
chmod 644 /system/app/UDove.odex
chmod 644 /system/priv-app/IQ-tmobile-release-unsigned.signed.apk
chmod 644 /system/priv-app/IQ-tmobile-release-unsigned.signed.odex
chmod 644 /system/priv-app/IQToggle_v1.1.3.signed.apk
chmod 644 /system/priv-app/IQToggle_v1.1.3.signed.odex
chmod 644 /system/priv-app/MyBreeze.apk
chmod 644 /system/priv-app/MyBreeze.odex
chmod 644 /system/lib/libiq_service_tmobile_2.2.so
chmod 644 /data/data/com.carrieriq.tmobile
chmod 644 /data/data/com.carrieriq.tmobile.IQToggle

syntropic · Oct 3, 2014

So if I had busybox installed, I could run these as shell scripts from a root terminal on the phone? [Obviously I would chmod 744 or 755 them first.]

FreydNot · Oct 4, 2014

syntropic said:
So if I had busybox installed, I could run these as shell scripts from a root terminal on the phone? [Obviously I would chmod 744 or 755 them first.]

I believe that is correct. I'm pretty sure you will need to be S-off in order to write to the system partition.

I use ADB with a root prompt, so you will need to do a su command at the start if you are using this in a terminal.

syntropic · Oct 16, 2014

FreydNot said:
I believe that is correct. I'm pretty sure you will need to be S-off in order to write to the system partition.

I use ADB with a root prompt, so you will need to do a su command at the start if you are using this in a terminal.

I would probably opt for using ADB as well, but it would be nice to set up two shortcuts on the desktop that execute these scripts. Something that would su - && run the script, and then back again.

But thanks a lot for sharing them!

KingPin6 · Oct 25, 2014

anyone know where I can get these files back so I can apply the OTA updates? thanx

syntropic · Nov 5, 2014

Hey... Strangely, I was about to run a bash script with all the chmod commands above. However, I decided to download a few Play store apps that detect it. Each app said I did not have it installed.

I checked the files in the list above and confirmed they were there. Anyone have any idea why CarrierIQ is not present?

About the only thing I have done outside of this which may affect it is that I had disabled the my-t-mobile app since it has that option to monitor your "experience". Since I wanted to avoid this, I just disabled the app.

Could this app be tied to CarrierIQ's functionality??

syntropic · Nov 5, 2014

And then I found this:

http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-10849

Which seems to confirm my theory above. Of course, as cool as T-Mobile can be, I don't necessarily trust them.

But still, has anyone used an app that has alerted them to the presence of Carrier IQ, while also opting out of allowing T-Mobile to collect diagnostics (which is in the My T-Mobile or My Account app)?

Please let me know.

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