After running stock ruu's, and gone through the phone setup, on the last "HTC page" there is a paragraph at the bottom, in red, that says "bla bla bla this is a test device".
What's that all about ?
There's 2 M8's in the house and both are legit UK handsets and both have red text on set up.
Cheers
Edit.... Think I found the answer. Is it due to the fact that both handsets are s-off ?
10rdan said:
After running stock ruu's, and gone through the phone setup, on the last "HTC page" there is a paragraph at the bottom, in red, that says "bla bla bla this is a test device".
What's that all about ?
There's 2 M8's in the house and both are legit UK handsets and both have red text on set up.
Cheers
Edit.... Think I found the answer. Is it due to the fact that both handsets are s-off ?
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No. It is because you have an unlocked bootloader.
But since you are S-Off, you can get rid of it with a modified hboot.
Go to this thread to find out how.
xunholyx said:
No. It is because you have an unlocked bootloader.
But since you are S-Off, you can get rid of it with a modified hboot.
Go to this thread to find out how.
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It's not the red text on the splash screen I'm meaning. It's the red text on last page, I think, when going through the set up of the phone after its booted.
I don't have red text on splash screen when running stock, I only get that after flashing a custom recovery.
It is because your s-off. Being s-off trips a flag in your OS. When going through the testing phase before these phones get shipped to the public they are s-off and Tell HTC is enabled to help with errors and crashes. If you were to go back to s-on Tell HTC would be able to toggle again and the red text on the last part of setup would disappear. It's nothing to worry about.
LarryBoyG said:
It is because your s-off. Being s-off trips a flag in your OS. When going through the testing phase before these phones get shipped to the public they are s-off and Tell HTC is enabled to help with errors and crashes. If you were to go back to s-on Tell HTC would be able to toggle again and the red text on the last part of setup would disappear. It's nothing to worry about.
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OK, thanks. After a bit of searching I thought it was to do with being s-off.
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Hi I'm sending in my phone for the lens cover issue and I have done everything except s-on to get the phone back to stock.
I am on stock recovery, firmware and everything else. However, I still spot this on the Tell HTC page. Please see attachment.
Anybody knows how to remove this or is this an effect of S-OFF?
Search the development thread or Google. There's a way to get rid of it.
ffforce said:
Hi I'm sending in my phone for the lens cover issue and I have done everything except s-on to get the phone back to stock.
I am on stock recovery, firmware and everything else. However, I still spot this on the Tell HTC page. Please see attachment.
Anybody knows how to remove this or is this an effect of S-OFF?
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As the phone is S-OFF it's technically a 'test' phone so that warning will appear. It's normal
EddyOS said:
As the phone is S-OFF it's technically a 'test' phone so that warning will appear. It's normal
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I see, thanks! I thought I did something wrong.
Right guys i have to send the phone back to get repaired for the static in top speaker. Now i am on the newest h boot 3.19 but i so far back to stock with it showing offical software status and locked bootloader but, still shows s off and supercid.
Can i revert back to my old cid which was HTC__001 and also fake the bootloader screen to show s on even though im s off.
Ive tried changing cid back the same way i got supercid and it tells me it wrote successfully but never does.
And i cant find the thread anymore that shows the fake boot screens to show s on instead of s off. I remember seeing them few months ago but cannot find it now.
Nevermind about the supercid got that changed forgot to input HTC__
so now just for the fake s on banner
snwman said:
Nevermind about the supercid got that changed forgot to input HTC__
so now just for the fake s on banner
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Have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2710503
Scroll a bit down to find the Faux Locked Hboots section.
Thanks you very much... mod you cab close the thread
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Hey all
I recently unlocked my bootloader and s-off, but when I was setting up my HTC001 M9, I noticed this Red text in the legal jargon just after the first language screen. Is this text part of the legal setup we agree to, or is it because i debranded my M9, which is a full EE UK device bought on a contract.
You do have to scroll down to see it.. youll find it.. if you go into App drawer > setup Icon... dont worry.. you can just back up and come out of setup process.
Thanks
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NightOrchid said:
Hey all
I recently unlocked my bootloader and s-off, but when I was setting up my HTC001 M9, I noticed this Red text in the legal jargon just after the first language screen. Is this text part of the legal setup we agree to, or is it because i debranded my M9, which is a full EE UK device bought on a contract.
You do have to scroll down to see it.. youll find it.. if you go into App drawer > setup Icon... dont worry.. you can just back up and come out of setup process.
Thanks
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That happens when you S-off.
jollywhitefoot said:
That happens when you S-off.
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Thats fine, thanks for the heads up, so I take S-ON would remove it
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Thats fine, thanks for the heads up, so I take S-ON would remove it
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That's correct....but why would you do that???
Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I have a question about this. Is this reporting software something to be concerned about for battery life/performance/privacy/etc. reasons? Other than switching to s-on, is there any other way to get rid of it, such as installing a non-stock ROM or deleting a file or something?
It's nothing to worry about. It's fixed by going back to a stock state.
Beamed in by telepathy.
shivadow said:
It's nothing to worry about. It's fixed by going back to a stock state.
Beamed in by telepathy.
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Buddy how to revert back to stock lollipop from stock marshmallow, with s-off and unlocked bootloader??
after getting a M9 i wanted to return my M8 back to stock so ive
- locked the bootloader
- reset the tampered flag
- changed the cid to HTC__002 (which might be a error)
- flashed the ruu from here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934518148
after the reboot ive discovered the demoflo.apk on the phone and figured out that ive uses the wrong cid
so then ive changed the cid to HTC__102 (whats the correct cid for me)
flashed the ruu again and the demo stuff is gone
but when i tried to turn of htc and related stuff, the phone still syas that its a demodevice and property of htc
ive got the phone from my provider and ive wouldt be very p****d if they sold my a demo-device
the phone is working fine, but unsalealble because of this fact
ive solved this problem
i simply forgot to put the phone to s-on
with s-off and stock rom it will act like a testing device from htc
firithmorgulion said:
ive solved this problem
i simply forgot to put the phone to s-on
with s-off and stock rom it will act like a testing device from htc
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If your phone is S-OFF your phone displays at reboot an red text message "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC...". It says nowhere about a demo device. That's because what you have then is a Developer ed. device. There's nothing to be concerned about. The phone works either way the same.
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If your phone is S-OFF your phone displays at reboot an red text message "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC...". It says nowhere about a demo device. That's because what you have then is a Developer ed. device. There's nothing to be concerned about. The phone works either way the same.
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im not talking about the h-boot message
ive got the message in the attached picture but the phone was sold by a provider and not as an developer edition
firithmorgulion said:
im not talking about the h-boot message
ive got the message in the attached picture but the phone was sold by a provider and not as an developer edition
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Ok, that's one of the messages from the initial set-up. It's because of the S-OFF. I would not be alarmed and leave S-OFF for good. You could brick your phone changing it back to S-ON and flashing a rogue rom on it. Did you use Sunchine to make it S-OFF? Preferably to leave it S-OFF.
this message appeared after ive flashed a stock ruu
ive put S-On and every thing is fine, the phone is now back in full stock, so i can sell it because ive moved to the m9
So, I unlocked by bootloader and went s-off in order to turn my HTC 10 into the US Unlocked version, so that I could get Nougat. Everything went well, I unlocked it using HTC dev, installed TWRP, flashed super su, installed Sunshine, went S-OFF, changed CID and MID, relocked, used the RUU.exe to get Nougat.
But now, even when the bootloader is relocked, I still get that red warning text that appears when the phone is booting up. Is it normal? Back on my old M8, relocking the bootloader took out the red text, as far as I remember. I tried to go back to S-ON, but the command failed.
Is there any way to get rid of that red text?
something like this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/development/bad-sprouts-hidden-red-text-aboots-t3397548 you need something like this just follow it step by step
Yes, that text. But there is no firmware for the Nougat version I have on my HTC right now, and returning to Marshmallow to get rid of that text would pretty much cancel the thing I made this for from the beginning.
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So, I unlocked by bootloader and went s-off in order to turn my HTC 10 into the US Unlocked version, so that I could get Nougat. Everything went well, I unlocked it using HTC dev, installed TWRP, flashed super su, installed Sunshine, went S-OFF, changed CID and MID, relocked, used the RUU.exe to get Nougat.
But now, even when the bootloader is relocked, I still get that red warning text that appears when the phone is booting up. Is it normal? Back on my old M8, relocking the bootloader took out the red text, as far as I remember. I tried to go back to S-ON, but the command failed.
Is there any way to get rid of that red text?
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Hi, just a bit of warning when using the modified aboot, flashing this carelessly will result in an unrecoverable brick, search for the Sneakyghost thread for flashable zips, he explains very well why he dropped support for them, too many bricks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/2016-05-27-fastboot-flashing-firmware-t3387520/page112
This is an example of someone bricking their phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/htc-10-brick-t3521251
For your particular case, I think I read somewhere that changing the MID could cause the red text to appear, but I'm not 100% sure on that, in my case I only changed the CID for the US unlocked one and left the MID the same, I don't have the red text and I'm on Nougat, S-Off and unlocked, so relocking is not necessary to get rid of it.
I have seen the red text but only flashing a different kernel, running the Nougat RUU got rid of it.
Just my 2 cents, maybe it's not worth to have a brick just to get rid of some text you only see when rebooting.
ReaperHack said:
Hi, just a bit of warning when using the modified aboot, flashing this carelessly will result in an unrecoverable brick, search for the Sneakyghost thread for flashable zips, he explains very well why he dropped support for them, too many bricks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/2016-05-27-fastboot-flashing-firmware-t3387520/page112
This is an example of someone bricking their phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/htc-10-brick-t3521251
For your particular case, I think I read somewhere that changing the MID could cause the red text to appear, but I'm not 100% sure on that, in my case I only changed the CID for the US unlocked one and left the MID the same, I don't have the red text and I'm on Nougat, S-Off and unlocked, so relocking is not necessary to get rid of it.
I have seen the red text but only flashing a different kernel, running the Nougat RUU got rid of it.
Just my 2 cents, maybe it's not worth to have a brick just to get rid of some text you only see when rebooting.
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Well, I surely didn't want to risk that, so I did what you mentioned. Yeah, the problem might have been from the MID. I changed it back, and flashed the RUU with the original software I had, locked the bootloader, and the text is gone. Thanks!