Anyone know how I can get the phone into a condition that t-mobile would take back for a return? While I really like the phone, tmobile's network is not working for me at work. I am barely get 1mbps at work when I was getting 15 mpbs on Verizon.
At this point all you can do is install non-rooted stock ROM and stock recovery. It will still say tampered in the bootloader assuming they check (highly unlikely). If you search you'll find both of those.
I know on the One S, once we got s off would could make the phone look like it was never unlocked. (Changing tampered and replacing 'unlocked' with locked)
It looks like s-off will be released pretty soon for the One, if what he said doesn't work just wait.
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So I'm thinking about reverting my phone to stock by flashing a fruitcake and hopefully the "unlocked" text will go away when I do. I have just one question, let's say the "unlocked" text goes away and I'm back to stock, will ATT be able to figure out that the phone was unlocked in the first place and not replace it with a different phone? I'm trying to replace this phone with a galaxy s2 and I called ATT today and they said that they will let me trade the phone with a refurbished gs2 for free. So I what I'm trying to do is get the phone back to stock and remove the unlock text and send it to ATT and hope they don't suspect anything. Will this work?
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So I'm thinking about reverting my phone to stock by flashing a fruitcake and hopefully the "unlocked" text will go away when I do. I have just one question, let's say the "unlocked" text goes away and I'm back to stock, will ATT be able to figure out that the phone was unlocked in the first place and not replace it with a different phone? I'm trying to replace this phone with a galaxy s2 and I called ATT today and they said that they will let me trade the phone with a refurbished gs2 for free. So I what I'm trying to do is get the phone back to stock and remove the unlock text and send it to ATT and hope they don't suspect anything. Will this work?
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When the phone goes back to Moto and they put it on diagnostics, which will be the first thing they will do after inspecting for water damage, physical damage, etc., they will know instantly it was unlocked. They will inspect the phone because they can use it as a refurb for someone else. To my knowledge nobody has had issues with unlocked phones and warranty replacements, exchanges, or trades. I think you will be safe enough, but even if AT&T doesn't know right away that it is unlocked, Moto definitely will.
So far I'm liking my HOX+ (AT&T), but want to unlock/root to get the full experience, backup with Titanium, delve into Tasker and BatteryXL, etc. However, I'm a relative newbie at this and need some help.
I understand you have to unlock the bootloader first, but so far the only way I've seen is through HTC Dev. Is that correct? And will that void my warranty? Or is it reversible in case I need to bring the phone back in for maintenance?
Or, will it not matter, because if I bring it in the AT&T Store staff won't bother to check? I did swap out my phone for a non-defective one on Tuesday and the dude didn't even turn it on or glance at it, just grabbed me a new one with a new SIM, so this may not matter. But before I go on I just wanted some reassurance that I can reverse this if need be.
Thanks in advance!
Technically, yes it does void your warranty. That said, I bought a One X in September, unlocked the bootloader and rooted it in October. Then when the X+ came out, I relocked the bootloader and flashed the RUU to return the device to stock, took it back to the AT&T store and got my X+.
If for some reason you ran into a super-anal AT&T employee, yes they could still check to see if it had been previously unlocked and the phone would show this evidence if they look at the bootloader. Highly, HIGHLY unlikely if you ask me though.
Thanks!
I'll look into rooting if I can figure out how! Anyone know how to do this on Mac?
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Technically, yes it does void your warranty. That said, I bought a One X in September, unlocked the bootloader and rooted it in October. Then when the X+ came out, I relocked the bootloader and flashed the RUU to return the device to stock, took it back to the AT&T store and got my X+.
If for some reason you ran into a super-anal AT&T employee, yes they could still check to see if it had been previously unlocked and the phone would show this evidence if they look at the bootloader. Highly, HIGHLY unlikely if you ask me though.
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Exactly how you get around it! To be honest a few times i returned phones with only flashing the factory rom, left the phone unlocked and all, lol! I doubt the companies really look into it to see if you messed with it. Haven't heard 1 person returned a phone and getting denied because of root, unlocked bootloader, etc. I could be wrong but never heard of it myself...
911jason said:
Technically, yes it does void your warranty. That said, I bought a One X in September, unlocked the bootloader and rooted it in October. Then when the X+ came out, I relocked the bootloader and flashed the RUU to return the device to stock, took it back to the AT&T store and got my X+.
If for some reason you ran into a super-anal AT&T employee, yes they could still check to see if it had been previously unlocked and the phone would show this evidence if they look at the bootloader. Highly, HIGHLY unlikely if you ask me though.
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Rooting and unlocking alone only voids your warranty if you have a custom rom on your phone that caused the issue you had that broke it. I got that straight from a store managers mouth.
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I'm reading through the threads and forums and maybe I'm just missing it... Is there a way to get S-Off/Unocked on the Tmobile One besides htcdev.com? My One is a warranty replacement, and also I just now received it back from having the camera repaired, so I really don't want to officially unlock it via htcdev for warranty purposes. On Verizon we had Rumrunner just before I switch to T-Mobile. Is there something similar? I see rumrunner for the int'l variant, but can't find if it'll work on T-Mobile. Again I apologize if it's right in front of my face or if I'm looking in the wrong places, but I've been looking for about an hour with no luck.
TIA!
Forgot to mention I'm also on stock 4.3, 3.24.531.3
Ok correct me if I'm wrong - I've read (haven't tried yet) the int'l rumrunner will get S-Off, but you have to be rooted first - i.e. have to unlock via htcdev anyway.
You are correct the current T-Mobile build IS supported by rumrunner, and yes, you must be HTC dev unlocked first. Contrary to popular belief, however, this does not completely void your warranty with HTC.
Hardware issues (like your camera for example) will usually still be covered by HTC, but you can go directly through T-Mobile. Going through warranty with T-Mobile is very easy. When you go through them and the only downside is the replacement will be a refurbished phone, but sometimes they'll even send you the refurb before you send back the defective one. T-Mobile is really great with warranty replacement.
They honor a one-year device warranty, all you would need to do is set your bootloader back to "locked" (which you can do once you've gained soff) and place a warranty request with T-mobile directly.
Thank you - that's exactly what I needed to know. And I forgot you can set it back to locked with S-Off - good to know!
Hi,
I just got an HTC ONE T-Mobile and I unlocked it. But now I would like to delete all the T-Mobile settings and Apps. So I thought about flash the HTC ONE with a Stock Rom from HTC or Google. But I'm a little bit lost. I'm new on Android. I was 5 years with Apple products and now i'm tired and I fell in love with that phone. So I trade my IPhone 5 64go for the HTC ONE 32go Also the guy didn't pay his bill for T-Mobile so that's why I unlocked it to put my new carrier. I don't know how to fix that problem if a day I want to go back to T-Mobile (but supossedly he still paying for it).
Thanks for your time.
Eventually that phone is going to be black listed from all U.S. carriers. He's not going to continue paying for a phone he doesn't have anymore, and there is nothing you can do to the phone that will hide the fact that it's associated with that non-payment. You made a mistake. Never buy a used phone, especially knowing it it's not paid off.
As said above ^ . Once black listed by one company it will begun to get black listed by the others.
Cellphone cairries have really crack down on stolen/ non paid phones.
But as far as the Rom goes, your need to root it and then flash a HTC Google Rom.
I checked the IMEI and it's not blacklisted. I'll see with the time. Can I flash my HTC with a stock rom without all the T-Mobile stuff and the boot logo T-Mobile like a Htc stock rom with OTA or a Google version OTA?
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I checked the IMEI and it's not blacklisted. I'll see with the time. Can I flash my HTC with a stock rom without all the T-Mobile stuff and the boot logo T-Mobile like a Htc stock rom with OTA or a Google version OTA?
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Yes. You might need to change CID/MID to get OTAs though.
I am thinking about giving up the Samsung world for the M8. But I want to know if I root and unlock the bootloader will ATT know if I decide to return? In the Samsung world if you trip Knox att won't take it back.
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I am thinking about giving up the Samsung world for the M8. But I want to know if I root and unlock the bootloader will ATT know if I decide to return? In the Samsung world if you trip Knox att won't take it back.
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You can just do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2710503
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You can just do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2710503
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So I am a little HTC stupid. Does this just remove the text?
I sure wish the HTC had wireless charging that is the one BIG thing I will miss.
I came from the S3 so I feel your growing pains. Yes it removes the red text that appears on your unlocked bootscreen but if you scroll down to FAUX LOCKED HBOOT you can make it look like its S-ON and locked. This will make your phone look like it's unmodified. I had to return mine because my screen was unresponsive. They didn't even have me turn it on, they just exchanged it without question.
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I am thinking about giving up the Samsung world for the M8. But I want to know if I root and unlock the bootloader will ATT know if I decide to return? In the Samsung world if you trip Knox att won't take it back.
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Faux hboot would work with at&t but not if your sending it to HTC. You can put everything back to stock except s-on. There is a command, but I don't think anyone has the balls to try it including me but you can lock the boot loader without it saying relocked as long as you are soff. just remember DONT use faux hboot and relock boot loader.