HTC One series

[gmcordell]

HI Guys

I need to know if you requested HTC to lock down the security on these devices for your customers?

Thanks

[Nabs]

Hi gmcordell,

What do you mean by 'lock down'?

[gmcordell]

I mean as in locked down the security of the phone otherwise refferred to as s-on and s-off.  Android as standard gives root and s-off access to the whole of the system.  HTC have locked down the s-off and root on this phone i wanted to know if this was requested by Vodafone.

[Nabs]

I would assume this would have been HTC's decision.

I remember reading that they won't be allowing users to unlock the bootloaders on the 'One' handsets so I can only assume this goes along with that decision

I'm open to be corrected though.

[EddyOS]

Of course not, the unbranded phones are the same. You can unlock the bootloader to root the phone/use a custom ROM but there is some doubt as to whether HTC will honour the warranty once you've done this. They're meant to for a hardware fault but people on XDA have run into HTC saying unlocking the bootloader forgoes the WHOLE warranty

[gmcordell]

HTC informed me the main reason the systems locked down is as carriers requested the phone to be set this way.  They are unable to provide s-off access as the carrier does not want there users to have this access.

[EddyOS]

That's a load of rubbish - it'd be all over the Internet if that was the case!

Plus, it would mean the unbranded handsets could be S-OFF'd (which they can't). Review handsets went out S-OFF but not retail units (bar a few that slipped the net)

[Dave]

Hi gmcordell,

I've done some digging on this to get a definitive answer for you.

Vodafone have not requested the security on these handsets to be locked down. This decision would have been taken by HTC themselves.

Dave

[walters2001]

It HTC which have chosen to lock down their phones, although they do give you the chance to unlock the boot loader by going to http://htcdev.com/ but it does cause some warranty issues