I've had my pre-release copy of Gingerbread/2.3 on an Epic 4G disabled remotely (over air) by Sprint because of CarrierIQ.
Was running a stock leaked copy of 2.3, and after about a week the phone modem would become disabled (forced to always be in airplane mode). I'd have to reflash the modem portion of the ROM to make the phone usable again.
After doing this 3 or 4 times I found a ROM where Carrier IQ was removed.
I have not had to reflash the phone modem since (same version of leaked ROM and modem btw)
This is proof in my mind Sprint uses this rootkit for disabling phones.
THANK GOD they've found this garbage software and were able to remove it. My question is, do the "google" Nexus phones have this junk on them out of the box?
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I've had my pre-release copy of Gingerbread/2.3 on an Epic 4G disabled remotely (over air) by Sprint because of CarrierIQ. Was running a stock leaked copy of 2.3, and after about a week the phone modem would become disabled (forced to always be in airplane mode). I'd have to reflash the modem portion of the ROM to make the phone usable again. After doing this 3 or 4 times I found a ROM where Carrier IQ was removed. I have not had to reflash the phone modem since (same version of leaked ROM and modem btw) This is proof in my mind Sprint uses this rootkit for disabling phones. THANK GOD they've found this garbage software and were able to remove it. My question is, do the "google" Nexus phones have this junk on them out of the box?