Car Mode suddenly appeared - why? And how do I get rid of it? About 2 1/2 hrs ago, I plugged in my HTC Evo 4G to its home charger to charge up a bit before leaving the house. It's rooted running CyanogenMod-7.1.0-Supersonic (for at least a month if not more, I can't remember when my husband did this).

Within about 3 minutes, my phone had this really weird user interface I have never seen. It's Car Mode. I couldn't exit out of it, couldn't make my phone respond to me at all. I immediately pulled out the battery &amp; rebooted, thinking maybe it was malware. It booted back into Car Mode, only this time I could click an Exit button.

Researching, I see that this is an UI for car docking. Only I have no car dock, and it was plugged into my home wall charger. I left the house for errands, and no matter what I did - on the phone on a voice call, typing email (at a doctor's office, not driving ;) ), and it kept booting me into Car Mode. On the voice call it automatically put me on speaker.

I did not ask for this program, did not download anything, did not approve anything...

I ran Lookout and no Malware or Spyware is showing. I am very confused.

Anyone have ideas on what this program is, how it all of a sudden appeared on my phone, and how to get it off? I looked up apps in Google Play and the icon in the notifications bar (when I exit Car Mode) is not something that is there. It looks like an app, but it's not in my Apps manager, either, or a running process that I can tell, yet it is showing up intermittently in my notifications, even not plugged in or moving. It's also turning on intermittently. I can't get anything done.

Thanks for any help!
It is included with Cyanogenmod and is based on similar modes in other ROMs. It is meant to provide you with what you need, but not so much as to distract you while driving. 

I do not know what is launching it, or how it is doing so automatically, but there may be ways to stop it:

Stop it in it's tracks

If you would like to remove it completely and not use it at all, install Titanium Backup, choose the Backup and Restore tab, find and select Car Home (I have version 2.2.1.2) and select either Freeze or Uninstall. 

Note: Freeze will stop the app from running at all, but keep it on your phone. Uninstall will completely remove it.

Double note: if you choose Uninstall, you may want to make a Backup there with the app first, just in case removing it causes unwanted side-effects.



Other, less intense options


In car mode, click the Right Arrow and choose Settings. From here, make sure that it's not automatically launching when connected to some bluetooth device, and try Reset to defaults, just to make sure nothing else is helping it along.
From the home screen, go to Settings -&gt; Applications -&gt; Manage Applications, choose the All tab, and find Car Home. Here, click the Clear data button.