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In the opinion of whoever replies to this, what would a literally New in box, unlocked white HTC Amaze 4g sell for? I was just wondering what the members of this forum thought.
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NIB, Unlocked would be around $500USD. Though that price point may change as more people switch to HTC One.
Make sure u sell it fast before the one series drops and kills some value for the amaze. I'd sell mine (if I were to sell it rooted and sum unlocked) for no less than $450... And mine is near mint (no dings, dust, or scratches and protected with case and screen protection) Figure price of accessories when u sell it too.
Maybe sell it rooted with an 8gb SD card loaded with all ROMs/Kernels/Themes/etc so they can pick. Might help value... Idk
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Alright, and it would technically be taken out of the box to root and unlock sim, but I actually have a 32 gig sd card, so I guess that could help. So you guys think 475ish is a good starting price for all that?
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Shredder96 said:
Alright, and it would technically be taken out of the box to root and unlock sim, but I actually have a 32 gig sd card, so I guess that could help. So you guys think 475ish is a good starting price for all that?
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500 is a good start... Could always try 550... Check eBay and amazon... See what the market demands
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Alright, thanks.
Now, if I send my phone into T-Mobile for a replacement while it's rooted with an unlocked bootloader, will they send it back? Do I need to like relock the bootloader, flash the stock ruu and what not?
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I don't know if you need to reset the bootloader to locked, but I'm pretty sure you need to load the stock ROM.
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I think there's a thread for restoring to stock, so I'll double check there. Thanks people!
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ernieg92 said:
I don't know if you need to reset the bootloader to locked, but I'm pretty sure you need to load the stock ROM.
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You MUST relock bootloader to flash a stock ruu unless you are restoring a backup of a stock rooted setup in which that is not stock ruu. If that makes sense
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Good info. Thanks.
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I am wondering how you guys are going to unlock your bootloaders. I am personally going to wait on one of our great developers to find an exploit.
Yup. Same here.
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Yup. Same here.
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Yep won't be long either.
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I am extremely excited to see what amazing ROMs this phone will get.
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I am also thinking it may be a situation like with the HTC rezound. Where we need the HTC unlock method to get the first 75% then some crazy trick like touching wires to certin places to get the rest of the full s-off
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I am also thinking it may be a situation like with the HTC rezound. Where we need the HTC unlock method to get the first 75% then some crazy trick like touching wires to certin places to get the rest of the full s-off
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lol ummmmm very doubtful
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Why?
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Why?
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Why would anyone want to touch wires lol. First time I've heard anything like that to get s-off. Still sounds crazy to me.
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Papichulo06 said:
Why would anyone want to touch wires lol. First time I've heard anything like that to get s-off. Still sounds crazy to me.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613309
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1612035
Grounding the contact just forces the phone into download mode so they can unlock it. The only other way to get there (that I know of) is to softbrick the phone by breaking the hboot signature.
Damn. People had to get really clever to get to that. That's amazing. Hopefully our way forward will be simpler and safer. I'll bet many people traded the the rezound for something simpler to S-off
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If I have Best Buy's Black Tie Protection, should I just go and use HTC's unlock? What are the draw backs on using the HTC unlock method?
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If I have Best Buy's Black Tie Protection, should I just go and use HTC's unlock? What are the draw backs on using the HTC unlock method?
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Might void your warrenty which isn't that bad since sprint is to fix rooted devices anyways depending on the problem like u know cracked screen and what not is ok. Bricks no
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Might void your warrenty which isn't that bad since sprint is to fix rooted devices anyways depending on the problem like u know cracked screen and what not is ok. Bricks no
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But what if it's a shattered screen and it has to go through that 3rd party insurance. Will they not send you a new phone if you void the warranty?
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But what if it's a shattered screen and it has to go through that 3rd party insurance. Will they not send you a new phone if you void the warranty?
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Hmm no clue guess it depends on that 3rd party but like I said I'm sure cracked screeens are ok or.something but not bricks. Warrenty is generally to get it swapped out through sprint when it totally dies or through HTC
Can you unlock the rezound bootloader without voiding your warranty with htcdev?
I just called and my phone doesn't even have a warranty, they said they need a proof of purchase, but I am the second owner, I'm not even sure the guy I bought it from has a receipt.
I guess I don't have anything to lose..
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Can you unlock the rezound bootloader without voiding your warranty with htcdev?
I just called and my phone doesn't even have a warranty, they said they need a proof of purchase, but I am the second owner, I'm not even sure the guy I bought it from has a receipt.
I guess I don't have anything to lose..
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Nothing to lose at all! If it's even still under warranty..
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famouscollin said:
Nothing to lose at all! If it's even still under warranty..
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no, if it was under warranty, and I had to send it in, they say they would charge me to fix it because I unlocked the bootloader..
but I did end up unlocking it with htcdev anyway
Just don't say you unlocked the bootloader... There's been a bunch of people that have had to send their phones in for replacement and not worried.
I've sent one in S-OFF running CM9 and didn't have any trouble.
Technically it does void your warranty, but it seems that they never bother checking, so no one has ever had issues with warranty.
I just went through trying to get warranty service on a 1 month old HTC one, was refused, and am now frustrated with the whole process. This is a post both for me to vent, as well as a warning for all who are noobs, as well as seasoned veterans, thinking of unlocking, rooting, installing custom roms, and just in general messing with your phone.
I bought my HTC one online through AT&T about one month ago, beautiful silver 64 GB model. I had the customary 14 days to return it for any reason, except that date begins on the ship date from AT&T, not 2 full weeks in your hand. I heard a funny buzz from the top speaker within a couple days, but it was brief and I really did not pay much notice to it. As it was, it only happened at certain frequencies when playing music or videos using the otherwise awesome front stereo speakers. The source is definitely something vibrating under the speaker grill, but only when certain sound frequencies are made by the speaker. It is not the speaker itself, as I could cover that with a finger over the central speaker grill and it would then accentuate the vibrating noise by blocking the sound output, causing it to reverberate under the speaker grill even more.
As it would happen, I did not use the external speakers all that much during the 14 day evaluation period and did not really take note of it until about a week after, now past when AT&T would take it back. I waited another week in denial and then decided to contact HTC, since I was now keenly aware of it and could hear it almost every time I played music through the speaker. Now I don't post much in XDA, but I have been flashing ROMs for years and am well versed in the process. I lasted all of about 12 hours with my new HTC before unlocking the bootloader and flashing my first custom ROM. I had come from a long line of Samsung devices most recently, and although I never needed warranty service, I never worried about it because you could get those phones completely back to stock with no signs they had ever been tampered with. Not so with the HTC. One little line of text atop the bootloader screen would reveal my unlocking/re-locking.
The phone went back to HTC and immediately I had an email stating the phone was outside warranty, and asking for $200 to repair the device. Now I argued and escalated my case as far as I could, speaking to multiple reps, and eventually they offered to repair the phone for $100, only because there was some misunderstanding between myself and the very first rep I talked to when asking for warranty service (we had talked about whether HTC cared if the device was "unlocked", but the rep thought I was talking about sim unlocked and had told me HTC wouldn't care). I agreed to pay once they assured me my warranty would again be in force, as long as I did not unlock the bootloader. As far as I am aware, there is no way to unlock this phone and then return it to untouched factory status. It will always show that it has been tampered with. I was told by HTC that the main board would have to be replaced to remove this tampered status.
Learn and live, but a warning for all that go down this path. You play at your own risk. For me, I will run stock now for a good many months, until I feel sure the device has proved itself. Then my temptations to tamper will likely overwhelm me again....
I exchanged my 64gb for warranty, bootloader unlocked with a modified stock ROM on it and had no issues. In fact, I have exchanged NUMEROUS bootloader unlocked devices for warranty and have never had a single issue. I think I sent 5 One Xs back, all unlocked.
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I agree with MetalHead. This is the first I've ever heard of a device ever being denied warranty service. Are you sure it wasn't because it might have gotten wet? I thought I read that it doesn't matter whether the software is custom if there is a hardware problem. If it was denied because of the bootloader being unlocked then it was probably because you told them. Next time just send it in. I've done it MANY times.
P.S. There actually is a way to go back to complete stock.
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That's also because you sent it to htc and not at&t obviously.
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There's a big difference in exchanging the phone with AT&T and getting a warranty repair through HTC. An AT&T store will not care and likely will not even know how to check the boot loader. HTC sent me pictures of the screen showing that I had unlocked the device to prove I was out of warranty. If there is a way to get it totally back to stock, with boot loader locked, and HTC not to be able to tell, I have not heard of it.
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Then you haven't been around here much lately
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You mean when I unlocked my phone, that single page that said "WARN ING, UNLOCKING BOOTLOADER WILL VOID WARRANTY" is actually true?
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SlimJ87D said:
You mean when I unlocked my phone, that single page that said "WARN ING, UNLOCKING BOOTLOADER WILL VOID WARRANTY" is actually true?
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[how to]return to 100% stock from revone or moonshine s off
http://androidforums.com/internatio...stock-revone-moonshine-s-off.html#post5918438
SlimJ87D said:
You mean when I unlocked my phone, that single page that said "WARN ING, UNLOCKING BOOTLOADER WILL VOID WARRANTY" is actually true?
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Unless you can completely re-lock the bootloader revert to stock and hide all traces of any ROMs, custom kernels, etc. Yes.
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dborgo said:
There's a big difference in exchanging the phone with AT&T and getting a warranty repair through HTC. An AT&T store will not care and likely will not even know how to check the boot loader. HTC sent me pictures of the screen showing that I had unlocked the device to prove I was out of warranty. If there is a way to get it totally back to stock, with boot loader locked, and HTC not to be able to tell, I have not heard of it.
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I smell a troll here sorry if you have been on xda for any length of time. You would know better
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CheesyNutz said:
I smell a troll here sorry if you have been on xda for any length of time. You would know better
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Troll? That's funny. No, maybe someone just new to HTC, who got bad information from HTC itself, made a mistake and sent a "tampered" phone to HTC and ran into a snag trying to get legitimate warranty service. I've paid my "fine" to HTC, learned my lesson, and will be happy to have my phone back soon.
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[how to]return to 100% stock from revone or moonshine s off
http://androidforums.com/internatio...stock-revone-moonshine-s-off.html#post5918438
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This is good information. Thank you. Ironically, these posts are dated well after my phone was mailed off to HTC. At least this thread may help steer someone else to the right information.
Have already sent one back fully unlocked for warrony
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Sucks to hear... sorry bro, I'm glad mine says Locked and tampered is gone S-off is king
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There's a big difference in exchanging the phone with AT&T and getting a warranty repair through HTC. An AT&T store will not care and likely will not even know how to check the boot loader. HTC sent me pictures of the screen showing that I had unlocked the device to prove I was out of warranty. If there is a way to get it totally back to stock, with boot loader locked, and HTC not to be able to tell, I have not heard of it.
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My question is why did you send it to HTC? ATT offers a 1 year warranty on it. If you raise hell they might even replace it on the spot, since it was only a week out. Just ask for a manager. Always go to the ATT corporate stores. Doesnt matter if you purchased it online, as long as it is an ATT branded phone.
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I smell a troll here sorry if you have been on xda for any length of time. You would know better
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I'm wondering if you know the definition of troll Cheezy lol Nothing troll worthy that i can see, not even remotely. Heck maybe it's me that doesn't know the definition of a troll :highfive:
SlimJ87D said:
You mean when I unlocked my phone, that single page that said "WARN ING, UNLOCKING BOOTLOADER WILL VOID WARRANTY" is actually true?
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It says MAY void warranty.
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Can't blame anyone but yourself.
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I exchanged my 64gb for warranty, bootloader unlocked with a modified stock ROM on it and had no issues. In fact, I have exchanged NUMEROUS bootloader unlocked devices for warranty and have never had a single issue. I think I sent 5 One Xs back, all unlocked.
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SkizzMcNizz said:
I agree with MetalHead. This is the first I've ever heard of a device ever being denied warranty service. Are you sure it wasn't because it might have gotten wet? I thought I read that it doesn't matter whether the software is custom if there is a hardware problem. If it was denied because of the bootloader being unlocked then it was probably because you told them. Next time just send it in. I've done it MANY times.
P.S. There actually is a way to go back to complete stock.
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It says MAY void warranty.
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Just want to confirm that I've had the same experience with a One X in the past.
Was denied warranty because the phone had an unlocked bootloader, even though it was clearly a hardware issue and HTC themselves admitted this.
If you read the disclaimer carefully on HTCDev, it does not say the warranty is systematically voided, but that if the phone is rendered unusable by the user, it may not be covered under warranty.
Ironically their warranty statement also says that only the hardware is warrantied, and not the software.
IMHO if someone had the time and energy to challenge them legally, I doubt HTC would win.
Att replaced my bootloader unlocked phone just last month. Don't deal with HTC deal with at&t
Wow, I really did things wrong. I've been lucky over the years and never had a phone that needed to be returned or serviced. I obviously didn't understand the process. I contacted the manufacturer instead of AT&T and got screwed. Never understood AT&T's warranty, never needed to use it. Doesn't help that my nearest AT&T corporate store is 2 hours away. So really there's no use of the manufactures warranty when you buy the phone through AT&T. I guess only those who purchase a phone directly from HTC (dev edition etc) need the manufacturer's warranty. Good to know I can confidently go back to what I know best, flashing roms and enjoying all that XDA has to offer.
Thank you all for your humbling advice. After all these years, my noob status is staunchly in place
Corp store would have just called warranty services for you. Next time just call customer care.
Hello,
I have the purple camera issue on my HTC one and was going to have it repaired at an AT&T Store. Basically my device is S-OFF, unlocked, and running the Google Play Edition RUU. Any one have their phone repaired thats similar to mine. I don't think they'd actually check that stuff, but maybe. Hopefully someone has done this before.
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GalaxyUser50
I have AT&T as well but since I purchased my ONE over the phone since it was a phone only deal, I had to get it repaired also over the phone and I had to send back 3 phones(all kept having problems) until I finally got a perfect phone. All the phones I had S-off, and unlocked and rooted and they never said anything about it.
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FauxAffliction said:
I have AT&T as well but since I purchased my ONE over the phone since it was a phone only deal, I had to get it repaired also over the phone and I had to send back 3 phones(all kept having problems) until I finally got a perfect phone. All the phones I had S-off, and unlocked and rooted and they never said anything about it.
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Thanks for the reply, so basically they repaired them? or sent you new ones?
GalaxyUser50 said:
Thanks for the reply, so basically they repaired them? or sent you new ones?
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Sent me factory "refurbished" ones. One had purple problem again but worse, the others had yellow dim looking screens..not bright or vivid at all so returned them too. Number 4 is going strong fingers crossed lol
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GalaxyUser50 said:
Hello,
I have the purple camera issue on my HTC one and was going to have it repaired at an AT&T Store. Basically my device is S-OFF, unlocked, and running the Google Play Edition RUU. Any one have their phone repaired thats similar to mine. I don't think they'd actually check that stuff, but maybe. Hopefully someone has done this before.
Thanks,
GalaxyUser50
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No one checks for S-Off. At least no one I talked to. Most of them don't even know what that is, and it's pretty hidden on the Hboot page unless you are looking for it. However, you should probably relock your devices so you don't have the awesome "this is for development purposes" splash screen when the phone boots up.
I recommend using Guru Bootloader reset, since it will not come up with a "relocked" tag but will just say "locked".
http://www.htc1guru.com/guides/lock-bootloader/
Just flash in recover! I've used it a few times already.