HTC_CM_Guardian... not needed unless you're, er, stupid?

**schettj** · #1 (**permalink**) 05-04-2007, 12:21 PM

I've removed HTC_CM_Guardian from my startup folder.

This little monster runs on boot, and in addition to at boot restoring the sprint CM settings (the connection settings for sprintpcs) it's even MORE EVIL - it stays running, and I guess it slaps those settings back in on a regular basis.

This

1) eats ram, and some battery, for no good reason and
2) does way more writes to your internal (flash) store then you need

Bottom line, if you think you can trust yourself not to muck with the sprint settings, REMOVE the lnk from \windows\startup and soft reset... say goodby to this useless process. (*burn your custom rom without it and save a few bytes for something else to boot!*)

Based on post here: http://www.pdaphonehome.com/forums/p...-thread-6.html

and the fact that some Apaches run fine (telesys?) without HTC_CM_Guardian

and the fact that mine's running fine w/o it too

Give it a try, what's the worst thing that can happen?*

* if you are worried about it, just move the lnk from \windows\startup to \windows\start menu\programs, where you can manually launch it should you have issues connecting to sprint - that will restore the connection settings for you.

**jamesus** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-04-2007, 12:51 PM

I have always wondered what that stupid little devil did...and not I think I will be removing it! Nice find!

**luv2chill** · #3 (**permalink**) 05-04-2007, 01:05 PM

Nice writeup. I have never recommended anyone install CM_Guardian. I discovered its evilness during the "change your DNS servers to OpenDNS" mania last year. Some people said that their CM settings wouldn't stick, which led me to think something in the extrom must have been responsible. From there is was simply a process of elimination.

**Big D5** · #4 (**permalink**) 05-04-2007, 01:38 PM

Thanks mine is gone, more battery and RAM is good no matter how much your saving.

pixelwix · #5 (**permalink**) 05-04-2007, 03:12 PM

same here i've never had it in any of my roms

ran-o-matic · #6 (**permalink**) 05-04-2007, 06:46 PM

The first thing I did once I understood what was happening was get that program out of startup.

**Torx** · #7 (**permalink**) 06-18-2007, 05:37 AM

okay, this may be an old bump...

so i removed it from my startup along with poutlook.lnk(is this okay?)
what did you guys do after that, point to opendns servers??
if so, how'd you do that? Any performance results or negatives coming back from sprint??

**schettj** · #8 (**permalink**) 06-18-2007, 09:19 AM

the poutlook one is more useful, unless you're not using email. I have used the opendns servers, sometimes they're faster sometimes not.

Fosters · #9 (**permalink**) 09-11-2007, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luv2chill

Nice writeup. I have never recommended anyone install CM_Guardian. I discovered its evilness during the "change your DNS servers to OpenDNS" mania last year. Some people said that their CM settings wouldn't stick, which led me to think something in the extrom must have been responsible. From there is was simply a process of elimination.

yep, mine wouldn't stick... good riddance