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Amazon E6853 with "extra apps" installed?

Just received my chrome E6853 from Amazon, courtesy of the "High Voltage converter store". My concern is that the box was not wrapped/sealed. Everything looks legit though, such as the plastic on the front and back, accessories. However, when powered on, it seems that it had been powered on because it went straight to the home screen, bypassing the setup process. Also, not sure if its normal, but there are a couple of apps that have Chinese or Japanese fonts, thus IM not sure what one of them was. One was MZ+, which is in the play store. The other I couldnt figure out, other than it was a robot icon . Also the language was set in Japanese.
Anyone else get an open box, or similar apps? Maybe it was customs? Phone is working great, has no flaws. Also, taped to the box was the adapter for US power outlets, which I didnt need. View attachment 3643423 Anyone know what app this is? Thanks

I would, just for security purposes and privacy concerns, factory reset it. In case they installed any apps that have permissions that could have access to personal information, I would factory reset it. My 2 cents

houboy said:
I would, just for security purposes and privacy concerns, factory reset it. In case they installed any apps that have permissions that could have access to personal information, I would factory reset it. My 2 cents
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I agree, and once I got the language set to English, I did do so! I wanted to make sure the phone had the setup procedure(never ordered an international phone before) like Android should. Thanks!

You have the Taiwan Version of the phone.
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I have the same version and I had the setup process. Mine was a sealed box from Expansys.
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Here is the response from the seller- it does make some sense, especially with Tidbits comment.
Hi
Sony international do not seal there products. We assure you that the phone is BRAND NEW. The only reason they turn on the product is to switch the language. We are sorry that it wasnt changed. We can help you change the language can you please provide us a phone number so we can help you change it.

About to catch fire?

So I have 2 units of the Note 7. One is working perfectly. The 2nd unit not so much. Looks like something is seriously wrong with the battery of this device. Has anyone else faced this? I cant return my Note 7 because I got it from UAE and I donnt live there. Is this what happens before it catches fire? Video here

Oh man that does look serious, does it get hot?

I just ordered my replacement with samsung uae for my device in dubair i dont live therw either but they are arra ging the retyrn direct

NIKKOTUASON said:
Oh man that does look serious, does it get hot?
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It didn't but I switched it off within a few seconds.
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thering1975 said:
I just ordered my replacement with samsung uae for my device in dubair i dont live therw either but they are arra ging the retyrn direct
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My issue is sending it back and then having to repay duties once it come back.
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what the **** is happening to that wow.

masaforce said:
what the **** is happening to that wow.
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It's no wonder they have done a world wide recall.
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yep lmao sounds like a broken air conditioner
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why did u buy two?
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and why did u buy them from another country :/

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yep lmao sounds like a broken air conditioner
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why did u buy two?
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and why did u buy them from another country :/
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My wife uses 1 and 1 use to use it
It hasn't been launched in my country till date so had no choice.
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who got the faulty one u or wife? haha. And same here, im still waiting for mine. atleast it wont be faulty.

To be fair, anyone can recreate this by making a video with an atrocious sound, have 2 green lines on each side, and then keep the backlit buttons on.
That video shows nothing in regards to a faulty battery.

ISIS will now start buying the note 7 and use them as grenades so that they can smuggle them in commercial airlines

hello00 said:
ISIS will now start buying the note 7 and use them as grenades so that they can smuggle them in commercial airlines
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According to this one user, they're banned on flights:
https://www.reddit.com/r/note7/comments/520na5/flying_with_replaced_note_7/
--Edit: I really need to modify my signature. It's only a little bit old.

Should make a video of how it reacts when you unplug?
Wow wait a minute, you aren't even charging.

imatts said:
To be fair, anyone can recreate this by making a video with an atrocious sound, have 2 green lines on each side, and then keep the backlit buttons on.
That video shows nothing in regards to a faulty battery.
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can you tell me how to make 2 green lines appear on each side?
it looks like the phone motherboard/circuit board is burning to cause that.

Wow. This brings to mind another SERIOUS problem I have just remembered.
How many of us have had "problems" with any of our Phones in the past and they have locked up and wouldn't shut down even with the Power Button with the ONLY option was to remove the Battery??
I have certainly experienced this scenario a few times over the years with my Note 4 and 2 and S2.
In fact, I set up a new thread regarding this. Needs to be discussed.

my previous samsung, i think note5, cant remember which model exactly.
in the summer when i charging the phone in the car, the phone gets really hot, but it never catch fire or explode.

codybear said:
According to this one user, they're banned on flights:
https://www.reddit.com/r/note7/comments/520na5/flying_with_replaced_note_7/
--Edit: I really need to modify my signature. It's only a little bit old.
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Here's FAA statement and Samsung's response to that.
https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=86424
http://news.samsung.com/us/2016/09/...ds-consumers-note-7-product-exchange-program/

netnerd said:
can you tell me how to make 2 green lines appear on each side?
it looks like the phone motherboard/circuit board is burning to cause that.
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there are apps that make the device do this when getting notifications. looks to me like its a poorly coded app, or one meant for older edge screen device. there is even a setting in stock touchwiz for edges to light up upon notifications.
that said, the device could very well be overheated

cordell12 said:
there is even a setting in stock touchwiz for edges to light up upon notifications.
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"Set the Edge screen to light up when you receive calls or notifications while the device is turned over".
his phone is NOT turned over.

Please help me get back stock Aviator face.

After the update to 2.0 I lost some stock faces,of course the main one I rock is Aviator. It's gone......anybody ......please......help.....

are you sure it was stock? I don't remember that face.

Definitely not stock

Yes it was completely stock. All white minimal face with analog hands,and a circular date. Maybe not called aviator,but started with an A. Lol

At night it had a black face with white hands,and during the day it had white face with black hands. I found d a video on you tube of all the faces,and I screen shot it.

Hanger4life said:
At night it had a black face with white hands,and during the day it had white face with black hands. I found d a video on you tube of all the faces,and I screen shot it.
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Is that how the watch face looks when the watch is awake or sleep? It looks asleep to me. Do you have a screenshot of the awake version?
I think I found the video you were referring to. It shows 56 different watch faces. The watch definitely did not come with 56 watch faces to choose from, so some of those definitely aren't stock.

TheSt33v said:
Is that how the watch face looks when the watch is awake or sleep? It looks asleep to me. Do you have a screenshot of the awake version?
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This is the awake night version. The daytime is all white,then when you cover the watch to go ambient mode it is all black and only small hash marks at each hour are lit,and the date is visible. It's a great face and uses the least battery.
Thanks for replying.

Hanger4life said:
This is the awake night version. The daytime is all white,then when you cover the watch to go ambient mode it is all black and only small hash marks at each hour are lit,and the date is visible. It's a great face and uses the least battery.
Thanks for replying.
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When I get home today, I can open up the stock AW 1.5 image and pull the watch face apks. I'll try to find the one you're referring to, but I don't remember ever seeing that one.

I think I found the video you were referring to. It shows 56 different watch faces. The watch definitely did not come with 56 watch faces to choose from, so some of those definitely aren't stock.[/QUOTE]
Yes, that's it.
I looked through my Google play store libray and can't find that face downloaded. I'm pretty positive it's stock.

TheSt33v said:
When I get home today, I can open up the stock AW 1.5 image and pull the watch face apks. I'll try to find the one you're referring to, but I don't remember ever seeing that one.
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Well I'm running 1.5 on my LG Urbane 2 LTE and there is no such watch face. Running 2.0 on my Huawei watches.

kbboykin said:
Well I'm running 1.5 on my LG Urbane 2 LTE and there is no such watch face. Running 2.0 on my Huawei watches.
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Most watch faces are manufacturer specific, so it's no surprise that a watch face that allegedly came with the Huawei watch doesn't appear on your non-Huawei watch.

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Most watch faces are manufacturer specific, so it's no surprise that a watch face that allegedly came with the Huawei watch doesn't appear on your non-Huawei watch.
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That I already knew. As I said I have two Huawei watches as well and NEVER saw that watch face prior to upgrading to 2.0

kbboykin said:
Well I'm running 1.5 on my LG Urbane 2 LTE and there is no such watch face. Running 2.0 on my Huawei watches.
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It's a Huawei watch face not an LG watch face.
Edit... Sorry I didn't see page 2 before I wrote this.
But the watch face was overlooked by me also because it's plain and boring. Someone out here who has not upgraded to 2.0 will have it...... Where are you? Lol

Hanger4life said:
It's a Huawei watch face not an LG watch face.
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But it was NOT on either of my Huawei 1's nor my wife's Huawei (1) Elegent watch. The point about the LG was to see if it was Google specific and it's not there either. So not found on HW1 regular nor HW1 Elegant, so don't think it's HW1 stock.
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Here's a gallery of the stock Huawei watch faces on 1.x: https://www.reddit.com/r/hwatch/comments/3jkgdb/gallery_of_stock_huawei_watch_watchfaces/

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But it was NOT on either of my Huawei 1's nor my wife's Huawei (1) Elegent watch. The point about the LG was to see if it was Google specific and it's not there either. So not found on HW1 regular nor HW1 Elegant, so don't think it's HW1 stock.
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Your HW1 is running 1.5?
All the watch faces I ever downloaded are in my googl3 play store library and this face is not there. I never downloaded any watch maker apps either.
Also I live in Thailand maybe my watch has different software? IDK....

Hanger4life said:
Your HW1 is running 1.5?
All the watch faces I ever downloaded are in my googl3 play store library and this face is not there. I never downloaded any watch maker apps either.
Also I live in Thailand maybe my watch has different software? IDK....
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No I just upgraded all three of them to 2.0. Sorry, couldn't find that watch face. Maybe being in Thailand is it. Anyway...Good Luck!

kbboykin said:
No I just upgraded all three of them to 2.0. Sorry, couldn't find that watch face. Maybe being in Thailand is it. Anyway...Good Luck!
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I was using this face when I updated. Now it's gone. My point is only an original HW1 running 1.5 will still have it.
Thanks for your comments though.

Tell me how and I'll help you. ?

MAT_lal said:
Tell me how and I'll help you.
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Wow. There it is. Well if it's in 1.5, I should be able to pull it from the 1.5 image that Google provides on the developer preview page. I should be home in about 3 hours and I'll throw it up here if no one else beats me to it.
As for there being a difference in the Taiwanese version of the software, I doubt that since Google only provides Chinese and all other regions firmwares on the dev preview page.
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MAT_lal said:
Tell me how and I'll help you.
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I'd have to sit down at my computer to figure out the specifics, but you need to be rooted, figure out what that apk file is called, and use ADB pull to get it off the watch. If you need more details than that, it's probably better if I just go through the image myself when I get home.

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Wow. There it is. Well if it's in 1.5, I should be able to pull it from the 1.5 image that Google provides on the developer preview page. I should be home in about 3 hours and I'll throw it up here if no one else beats me to it.
As for there being a difference in the Taiwanese version of the software, I doubt that since Google only provides Chinese and all other regions firmwares on the dev preview page.
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I'd have to sit down at my computer to figure out the specifics, but you need to be rooted, figure out what that apk file is called, and use ADB pull to get it off the watch. If you need more details than that, it's probably better if I just go through the image myself when I get home.
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So I'm sorry but I'm not rooted because I'm quite scared to breaker it :/ by rooting. Having bricked watches seems to me more challenging to fix than phone ?

above average hardware, very poor software

Hi all, it's a week that I replaced a Moto 360 2015 with a Huawei Watch and these are my thoughts about it.
I'm very happy the community is much bigger than Moto 360 one, I think mostly because of the possibility to connect the watch to the PC via USB.
I can install other brands watchfaces, TWRP, custom ROMs and so on now (it seems my dreams have come true!! *_*).
The watch is beautiful, way smarter than my old one (I had the black 42mm version), it has an AMOLED display (true black, better battery usage,..) and a speaker (never used, but you never know).
The only hardware part I miss is the brightness sensor, I have to change brightness every time I go in/out...
However, I'm quite disappointed about the software part.
Probably used to Motorola, I found Huawei's software less curated. Not so beautiful (and not customizable at all) watchfaces, useless smartphone app (Huawei Wear), not syncing step counter.
I can't find out how how to sync Huawei Health with the watch, neither Huawei Health and Google Fit or Fit and watch stepcounter and it seems absurd, being fitness tracking one of the main wear functions.
Maybe the cause of some of this issues is AW 2.0 (like the Fit-smartwatch and poor battery life parts), but I would have expected some sort of communication between the watch and same-brand-smartphone-app.
Anyway, those are only personal thoughts and wanted to share with you.
P.S. If anyone knows how to sync Google Fit smartphone app and wear one I'd really appreciate

It will get better at software with time
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And mine can sync between phone and watch

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It will get better at software with time
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And mine can sync between phone and watch
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I hope so.
How do you managed to sync step counters? Thanks
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aroblu94 said:
I hope so.
How do you managed to sync step counters? Thanks
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Just installed fit in both phone and watch and then log in
Nothing special
Is your watch Chinese version?

2792424473kk said:
Just installed fit in both phone and watch and then log in
Nothing special
Is your watch Chinese version?
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No isn't the Chinese version...
I still can't sync data.. for example now Huawei Wear says 1600+ steps, Fit in the watch 1700+ and Fit app only 650.
And about at 2pm I loose some steps recorded by Fit in the watch, it probably synced with the app wiping my progresses in the watch
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aroblu94 said:
No isn't the Chinese version...
I still can't sync data.. for example now Huawei Wear says 1600+ steps, Fit in the watch 1700+ and Fit app only 650.
And about at 2pm I loose some steps recorded by Fit in the watch, it probably synced with the app wiping my progresses in the watch
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it might be network latency
Just now having checked both phone and watch , found out there is a discrepancy between them after a while they are in sync again

2792424473kk said:
it might be network latency
Just now having checked both phone and watch , found out there is a discrepancy between them after a while they are in sync again
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Uhm ok, wiped and re-paired the watch, now it seems to be working, btw i didn't so many steps. I'll report later.
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Three PAYG UK

Has anyone actually managed to order the phone from Three for pay as you go? I've tried over 20 times but it just fails at the payment screen used my partner's card too and the same thing happens.

Why would you do that when you can buy direct from razor? Though admittedly right now all you can do is sign up for a notification email.

I successfully pay for the pre-order of the phone in 3‘s website, so I think there is no problem with the website. Maybe you should use another devices to finish the payment.

TheAkashicTraveller said:
Why would you do that when you can buy direct from razor? Though admittedly right now all you can do is sign up for a notification email.
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Cause on Threes website it's 595 while Razer is 699
likhang2046 said:
I successfully pay for the pre-order of the phone in 3‘s website, so I think there is no problem with the website. Maybe you should use another devices to finish the payment.
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Tried that still won't go through

I had exactly the same problem as you, tried around 30 times with different cards, addresses, people.
Eventually got a buddy to try for me with all his details and it went through fine. Pain in the ass, three don't let you pay that much over the phone too so no point in you trying to contact their customer services.
In store they are only taking pre-orders for people doing contracts so a waste of time there too.
Get someone else to try.

Is the phone on display yet on Three to view? also will there be roms on this device? as really thinking of selling the op5 to buy this.

ItzMar said:
I had exactly the same problem as you, tried around 30 times with different cards, addresses, people.
Eventually got a buddy to try for me with all his details and it went through fine. Pain in the ass, three don't let you pay that much over the phone too so no point in you trying to contact their customer services.
In store they are only taking pre-orders for people doing contracts so a waste of time there too.
Get someone else to try.
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So far i've tried 3 cards, Mine my partners and my friends and all of them fail at the end
this is ridiculous gonna have to just end up waiting for razer to put them up and pay the extra ffs

pro4ever said:
Is the phone on display yet on Three to view? also will there be roms on this device? as really thinking of selling the op5 to buy this.
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My local store didn't have it on display but when asked they had one behind the counter and I had a go on that for around 15 mins. I personally love it.

I have just spoken to the customer service and they said that the reason for not going through is that anything pay as you go has to be under £100. Sounds ridiculous to be honest.

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I have just spoken to the customer service and they said that the reason for not going through is that anything pay as you go has to be under £100. Sounds ridiculous to be honest.
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So how do we order?

In stores, they said.

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In stores, they said.
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Which you can't pre-order instore :/
after all this crap I will never ever have a Three sim card the CS is the biggest load of balls

its on display at the three store in enfield town. its very cold to touch and quote boxy/clunky with big bezels, think of a sony xperia in cold metal rather than glass. ordinarily i would move on but for some reason I LOVE THIS ALOMST RETRO DESIGN. i must say the display isnt as bright as the s8 or my OP5 on the demo unit...
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TheAkashicTraveller said:
Why would you do that when you can buy direct from razor? Though admittedly right now all you can do is sign up for a notification email.
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razer have now decided to relay you to three to pre order...

i wonder if VOLTE and wifi calling will work on this out of the box, three actualy says it 4g super voice ready ...

mikey_sk said:
i wonder if VOLTE and wifi calling will work on this out of the box, three actualy says it 4g super voice ready ...
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According to three cs it will.

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According to three cs it will.
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when i restarted the phone at three it displayed the three symbol on boot-up, looks like the firmware on the device is three specific. this could make it like Samsung where stock firmware won't allow for volte and wifi calling etc. if it does have operator firmware on it via three, i hope it gets updated as quickly as stock firmware ...
lets see when released ...

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when i restarted the phone at three it displayed the three symbol on boot-up, looks like the firmware on the device is three specific. this could make it like Samsung where stock firmware won't allow for volte and wifi calling etc. if it does have operator firmware on it via three, i hope it gets updated as quickly as stock firmware ...
lets see when released ...
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Gotcha. They say it is unlocked. The splash screen will unfortunately there, however, the bootloader will be unlockable so I don't see why we won't be able to flash the stock fw on it.

mikey_sk said:
when i restarted the phone at three it displayed the three symbol on boot-up, looks like the firmware on the device is three specific. this could make it like Samsung where stock firmware won't allow for volte and wifi calling etc. if it does have operator firmware on it via three, i hope it gets updated as quickly as stock firmware ...
lets see when released ...
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It had a Three boot screen? Why the hell when it's not locked to them :S that triggers me a little.

Roxas598 said:
It had a Three boot screen? Why the hell when it's not locked to them :S that triggers me a little.
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it can still be an unlocked phone running operator firmware ...
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Gotcha. They say it is unlocked. The splash screen will unfortunately there, however, the bootloader will be unlockable so I don't see why we won't be able to flash the stock fw on it.
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yes we prob can, but by doing so will we loose VOLTE/wifi calling etc?

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it can still be an unlocked phone running operator firmware ...
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yes we prob can, but by doing so will we loose VOLTE/wifi calling etc?
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Yeah I know but after all the **** I've been through with Three I don't want anything on my device at all. God knows when Razer will put up factory images.