yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ali812:
Well to be fair 3.17 is still 4.3, I believe it was one of the earliest releases of 4.3. I think it was a leak as opposed to official release firmware. A leaked firmware working better than the firmware HTC actually released to its consumers, typical HTC logic right there.

The Nexus 5 can't come soon enough.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tuborg68:
I'm in Sweden but the phone was shipped to a service in Denmark for repair.

Skickat från min HTC One med Tapatalk
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alangrig:
How long did repair take?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] as0k:
Why is ppl afraid of what hboot they will get on replaced phones?

Skickat från min HTC One med Tapatalk
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huey85:
yeah fair call, but actually 3.17 is still just as bad for me as 3.57.. maybe a LITTLE bit better. 3.09 seems to be working best for me with the least amount of purple/pink tint and noise. I seriously don't understand how HTC have marketed their ultrapixel camera to be so damn good in low-light, but manage to F up the end-result to the consumer. Way to go, HTC. Only thing keeping me from moving on to another phone is the dual front facing speakers. If there were another phone on the market with a better camera and dual front facing speakers and similar slick design, then I'd be saying bye-bye to my One for sure.

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Because they want to be able to S-Off?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ali812:
These "fixes" (i use quotation marks since a real fix is only done by replacing the camera module) seem to be kernel related in my experience. As long as I'm using ROM/firmware that's after 2.24 but before 3.22 I find borderline acceptable results. I'm still left unsatisfied but I guess software-wise some people might find the right firmware base that may work for them. Since the only real fix is a hardware fix, I'll just put up with my current camera setup until the Nexus 5 is released.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] migster2:
someone on another forum has reported: "HTC has fixed the Camera hardware effective batch 29 ... i.e. SH39, FA39, HT39 [start of serial number]... I have had phones in those batch now all with Pure black camera "

Sorry, I'm a new user and am unable to post external links. But it's from the forum of Hardwarezone.

Can anyone confirm if this is true?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tuborg68:
2.5 weeks (suffering with an iPhone 4 loaner :))

Skickat från min HTC One med Tapatalk
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvdmartian:
Hey guys. I haven't posted here for more than a day now. I was reading this thread yesterday while I was on my bed when a nasty magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck here. It was the scariest thing I've ever had to experience. I had to run outside and all I brought with me was my HTC One. Haha. My family is fine and our house is unaffected, but others lost their homes, and family members. Many are trapped and got killed underneath rubble. Please pray for those here who lost their homes and their family members. Until now we're experiencing lots of aftershocks.

Right after the quake, my camera was on the whole time recording aftershocks. So it got a bit warm. I had the chance to go back inside the house and there was no electricity so it was dark. My video started to flicker red purple a bit but it wasn't too bad.

And another bad news for me is that my one started to say "preparing SIM card" once in a while. Has anybody else experienced this?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slashas69:
Change SIM card to the new one ;)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvdmartian:
My micro SIM card is brand new. Requested a new one from my carrier last week. And it worked fine on my sensation :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrrick:
Glad to hear you're okay.. Sounds crazy man.. Could the sim thing be due to tower down or power being knocked out? Was cell service interrupted at all? Could have really screwed things up when that earthquake hit, meaning network wise, but don't know..
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alangrig:
Glad you and your family are fine. Today, manager called and informed me 3rd unit is defective as well. All stocks are empty. So tomorrow gonna get info about new batch 39 delivery. Will report back later.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tuborg68:
My low light shots looks a bit better after the repair. Whatever they've done :)

Skickat från min HTC One med Tapatalk
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alangrig:
Nice
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patpatforxda:
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Im from Bicol and that earthquake even reached us. Good thing you're totally fine. That "Preparing sim card" prompt is also present on my unit. Data connectivity restarts itself along with that prompt. At worst when you're in the middle of downloading something it will be interrupted. But it pops up only once in a while so it's really not bothersome for me. Im not sure if it's HW or SW but this has been present since 4.1.2
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vegetaleb:
Ok guys I gave HTC the chance to give a fix before 4.3 update,then US 4.3 then Sense 5.5 4.3 and still no fix!!

So next week I will say bye to HTC (hoping they will abandon the ultrapixel st*p*d*ty) and get either S4 or Note 3.

The G2 is nice but very slow shutter is a bummer
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InfinitiGuy:
Which provider are you using?

BTW, we could be neighbours :)

I recognized the Confederation Parkway sign and I'm just a bit west of you off Rutherford Rd.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ardmanz:
Interesting. Have you tried 3.17 with ARHD 30.0?

Mine has got progressively worse with each update (currently on 3.57 + ARHD 30.0).
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buoo:
S4 is a flop and Note 3 is too big for a pocket

Nexus 5 and Xiaomi Mi3 will be available soon!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvdmartian:
Thanks guys. Still feeling aftershocks. I dont think its a network thing since the signal only got weaker, but not totally gone. And now that the network seems to be back to normal, it still happens. My camera isnt as bad as the others here but i have that annoying sim problem too. I read through the other threads and they suggested put tape on the sim to make it thicker but it didnt help. This is definitely not what i expected when i forked out lots of cash for a flagship smartphone :/

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Whn i go s-off, ill try this too. At least the camera goes back to the way it was when you downgrade. I heard some cameras wouldn't go back even after they downgraded
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_eclectic1:
Xiaomi Mi3 sold out 100,000 phones in 90 seconds 2 days ago.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huey85:
I love the bullcrap responses we get from HTC Support:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UgXvibe:
At least they are giving technical bull crap explanations though. :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huey85:
LOL "technical bullcrap". Love it.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ali812:
You mean cell service provider? I'm on Fido.

Haha glad to see a fellow Vaughan resident in these boards, small world eh? All these pictures were taken during my walk from Rutherford GO Station to the Confederation area where I live, if you're in the Keele/Rutherford area then we're definitely neighbours, what are the odds?

I did try that as I wanted the best of both worlds with a half decent camera and Sense 5.5. However the "fix" is found in the kernel I believe and isn't particularly firmware related. Tint was back as soon as I upgraded to ARHD 30.0 on 3.17 base. When I initially upgraded to ARHD 21.0 for the first time I was still S-ON and running 1.29 firmware, results were similar to what I have now, which is running 3.17 with ARHD 21.0.

I also tried installing Elemental X kernel and the tint came back so I'm using stock kernel for the best camera performance I can get without sending my phone in for repair.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] je.aruachan:
I live in Colombia and had to send my device to the US! Hope it worth the effort!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] as0k:
Who make the decision if i will get a new phone from the store or if i will get it sent to HTC?

I just mailed the store i bought it and explained the problem and asked if i could get it replaced by a new one or if i have to wait for weeks for it to get sent to and sent back from HTC.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamaniff:
Something is wrong with my phone camera? Blurrrrr photo with default setting
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koax88:
tap to focus?or tried already?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sulaimanalmani:
Guys please try with Android revolution hd 21.0 with 3.17 frimware and post your results !!! .... Coz these results are just phenomenal......http://imgur.com/a/1oa1R
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ciebiada:
I'm just wondering, if this is so much of an issue for you, to the point that you are willing to switch to another phone. Why won't you send it in for the repair?

I know they ****ed up, but it looks like they repair it with no bigger problems. Samsang is not any better if it comes to customer either. I've moved from S3 to HTC One because I couldn't stand crapwiz and CM wasn't working too good. Now from time to time I still look back at those old threads when people were waiting for software updates, and you know what? S3 has still 4.1.2 - crazy. So happy I ditched samsang and never looked back.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vegetaleb:
So if HTC is saying that it means there are no miracle fix coming!

So my choice to swap my phone is legit.

Nexus 5 is nice but to return to an 8mp is not an option for me,I am tired of ''special'' lens for low light adventure,we ended like purple guinea pigs testing ultrapixel

Xiamu phones don't have any sellers here nor repair so nop
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sulaimanalmani:
Anyone gonna try or somethin'?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvdmartian:
I'd like to see this too
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fridaycider:
I'm going to have a ht34 delivered as a replacement so I'll see if it works . Supposed to be all tested before shipment ..lol . Has anyone got a working one with this serial number ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afhum:
Wow! If that's really the case, then I have hope for software fix in the future whether by developers or HTC themselves. But for now, I can't test that out.. as I'm waiting for the official UK update. I really hope that the reason why HTC is taking awhile to roll out the update mainly because they are working on that camera fix.

I really can't send mine for repair easily as I'm in Asia for good, but my phone was purchased in the UK.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ardmanz:
I see, so it seems to be a mix of 4.3 with sense 5.5 and firmwares post 3.17 that are causing the problems? May try a downgrade, see what happens.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InfinitiGuy:
I had this combination for a while and my pictures were as purple as ever. This combination is Not a fix.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisyng:
When it comes to combinations of roms and firmware, be aware that kernels also have an effect on how the camera behaves.

I am currently on insertcoin 5.02 and 3.54 firmware, when I tried a the custom kernels, the camera stopped steping down ISO to 800 and have me purple blue tint almost immediately going into the camera app in low light. Going back to the stock kernel, the camera is taking much better low light pictures, I can still force it to show tints if I have it open long enough, but it definitley improved things.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SleemLDJ:
when you got your device back from repair, did they change anything else like front grills or just the camera changes.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ac3kill:
Just change camera and you will prob get new back if they tear it up to much which usually happens so same grill screen everything. If your s off they will swap out your cpu chip giving you a new serial also
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slashas69:
Man you are talking bull****, s-off doesn't mean that cpu replacement is necessary, it is software thing, not hardware and just bootloader and other soft re-install is enough to get s-on again, serial changes only if you replace motherboard...

Sometimes is better to be silent instead if talking crap and disinformation, you look stupid...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamaniff:
Yes, this is after i tap focus .. still same
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ank707:
Seems like you haven't seen people posting here who have tried replacement as many as 6 times and all they received was the PURPLE wonder back and that too at times a refurb piece with dents. Also there are people here who bought this $600 wonder from Amazon or Ebay or are at places from where they couldn't send the piece for repair/replacement.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sulaimanalmani:
At that time i bought for 650$ ... But i cannot send it in for repairs coz in my country there is almost no HTC service...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ciebiada:
Weren't those extreme cases when you replace the unit with retailer, instead of HTC directly? If (looking at the pool) over 80% of units are faulty, then risk of getting bad unit when swapping is quite big. However when HTC replaces the camera itself, knowing what the issue is, is more likely to help.

Anyway, I guess you are right, if warranty repair is not possible, of from various reason not wanted. Then yeah, it makes sense to get a new phone. I give you that.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trapjo:
disappointed!!!

owner of htc one in greece WITH PURPLE TINT VERY DISAPPOINTED BY htc SUPPORT, DISHONEST ABOUT THE PROBLEM AND DENIAL TO REPLACE IT WITH A NEW 100% FUNCTION HTC ONE PHONE! TRULY SORRY THAT was A COMPANY WITH LOGO ''quietly brilliant'' AND END UP JUST ''quietly''.. it s almost a month since i m writing them about it and the support prompt me to wait the 4.3 with the fix and the service to send for repair..
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Well i got my first replacement phone in the mail today. My first One was having the purple issue in low light an also when covering the lens,plus in pitch dark. I tried this replacement phone sent by att in the mail an the camera works flawlessly! I got lucky. I left the camera on a good 5 min taking pics,HDR,video an still remains perfect with no purple tint. This was all on 4.1.2 out of the box testing. I then updated to 4.3 OTA (non-rooted) and then gave it a stress test once again an still no signs of purple. Only issues i have are cosmetically. Theres a small gap left upper side by the speaker aluminum an white core. Second is a small light leakage an the bottom right side,right of the home icon key. Its closer to the edge but in the same black bar of the home key. Id send it back but i may get a faulty camera so ill just settle with this. Im going to test it out for a couple days an see if it holds up.

My HBOOT is 1.44 and says July 5. Serial starts out as HT39.

My previous was 1.55 and says September 10th an serial is HT36
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dassub:
Sounds promising for sure, but if I take a look back to the low light photos I took in May when I bought the phone, they don't have tint issues either. They seem to have popped up several months later, unfortunately. It sounds like something that might get worse with age.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hmmm good to know,though i hope it doesnt happened to the one i just got in. I know my original One had the tint issues out of the box once the camera was on for a bit or after i covered the lens with my hand. I have a friend with the same One from launch date an no tint problems at all, yet.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rn2011:
Where can I download ARHD 21.0???
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cangia:
send to HTC and come back into 1 week :) they change camera sensors ( prev st vd6869(1.0 ) cinesensor 2013-04-25, new st vd6869(1.0 ) cinesensor 2013-09-03 ) ) , screen :confused: and complete front cover :confused: .. screen all black , no camera issues.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tuborg68:
Man, they changed a lot: both grilles, the plastic rim, camera glass and I also think the alu backside (at least a white little scuff I made is not there any more).

But as I posted before, the sensor file indicates that cam has not been changed. But tint (most of) is gone and camera app doesn't flicker like mad in dark conditions.

Skickat från min HTC One med Tapatalk
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SleemLDJ:
Hopefully i will get my grills changed too coz i left scuffs on it. I sent it in yesterday and UPS says it has gotten to them
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvdmartian:
Same here.

And now I have noticed that purple started appearing on the edges of mine, but only in Zoe mode. None in normal pictures or videos.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v-b-n:
Interestingly, the new batch here in Singapore seems to have a hardware fix with it ... All black screen , no tint whatsover independent of the ROM type ... I have experienced on Sense 5, 5.5 & CM ... Sometimes, there is a quick flash of red on screen but immediately its toned down to pitch black ... hard to explain ...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_eclectic1:
Glad to hear they have a hardware fix. I still have the purple issues. Will send into HTC service at some point. Recognised you from HWZ :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ank707:
Have more people tried this. I have my ONE S-ON, gonna do the S-OFF and will try soon. If more people have tried this can they share their results ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vegetaleb:
I think I am gonna back to 3.17 from 3.57,purple is now everywhere even in video mode and ISO 100.

Can I downgrade FW with S-OFF?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slashas69:
Yes you can ;)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ericj418:
HTC One still on strong -

*Running 4.2.2 with Maximus HD 1.0.0 rom for Dual sim model.

Camera was replaced via repair about three weeks ago. The camera still has the red/purple tint when placed face down. However there is no tint or any purple in photo shooting. My buddy's One which he bought in June is still going on strong too...strange eh?

Taken with HTC One

The phone lighting the drink is an Apple iPhone 5S
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Albert Poon:
Very good use of 5S!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cipjanin:
i bought yesterday a htc one and i have purple red photos in dark without led, and with led is good... so there are too many pages before can someone explain me what is the problem?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vegetaleb:
Ok downgraded to 3.17 using Viperx 2.7 (4.2.2) still purple tint but much less than with 3.57.

With 3.57 the whole picture went purple while with 3.17 only dark objects are purple,also Zoe,video and ISO 100 are 90% purple tint free again :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sulaimanalmani:
Can you post some samples please?

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Can you post some samples please , at different iso levels ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvdmartian:
The firmware is the "software number" in settings right? Mines 1.26. A bit far from the 3.xx huh?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sulaimanalmani:
I think its the build number present in software information < more

Coz mine is 3.57.xxx and tint is still present..
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] born_fisherman:
So if my new device now has a purple screen when the camera app is on and the phone is put on the table, than does this mean the module is bad? Should the display stay black like my work iphone? I looked at a few devices in the warranty center and all of them turned somewhat purple/red when left on the counter with the camera covered..
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ali812:
When I first installed ARHD 21.0 to get the results I posted earlier, I was S-ON with 1.26 as well. If you don't want to initially S-OFF you can just simply flash the ROM assuming that you're rooted. Regardless of if you flash the firmware itself or not, the firmware version in settings after flashing ARHD 21.0 will say 3.17.

However, as most people, I would recommend getting S-OFF, easy to do and it's always good to have in case you ever want to unroot and go back to stock.

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Yep, a camera module working properly would act the same way as your work iPhone, pitch black when laid down on a flat surface. The purple/red defect is pretty much what this 200+ page thread was about.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] born_fisherman:
Thanks - That is what I figured. I couldn't find specifically if the display should stay totally black anywhere.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvdmartian:
If I stay s-on and flash ARHD, will my firmware change too? Or will it only change in settings but it's still actually the same? And if I s-off, will I be able to return it as if it was never touched before? I heard it will say "relocked" after?

And I read your past posts and I'm a bit confused. 3.17 is the best firmware? Is it possible to flash ARHD 30.0 or any rom and have 3.17 FW so that there's no tint? I'm looking for a Sense 5.5 Rom without tint.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ali812:
No firmware isn't built into the ROM, it'll change in the settings menu but if you run the fastboot command "fastboot getvar all" when in the bootloader it'll show your actual firmware version which will say 1.26. Being S-OFF is mandatory to upgrade/downgrade firmware. However, if you want to go back to out-of-the-box stock you should S-OFF, it can say locked instead of relocked once you do so, more info on going back to stock here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2471869

As for the confusion I may have created, I'll simplify it a bit. The tint issue isn't related to firmware but the kernel included in the ROM. In my scenario, the kernel in ARHD 21.0 (which is a ROM based off of 3.17 firmware) made the tint less noticeable. First time I was running ARHD 21.0 I was till S-ON and on firmware 1.26 such as yourself. So no, flashing ARHD 30.0 on 3.17 firmware won't reduce the tint, I tried this myself and got terrible results (as seen in the comparison photos between ARHD 30.0 and ARHD 21.0 in my previous posts). All of the sense 5.5 ROMs have given me the most amount of purple tint, even more than I did on stock or 4.2.2.

So in the end, stay on whatever firmware you desire (1.26 or 3.17 or whatever, your choice), but your ROM has to be ARHD 21.0, at least that's what did the trick for me. Some people tried what I did and it didn't work for them so I can't say it's a guarantee that you'll get better results. Hope this helped.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abu46:
few night shots from my one, it was evening time
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Macca1980:
Better getting another
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmberBoy:
Agree with you, it must be software. Just changed ISO from auto to 100 and problem is gone.

Tapnięte z HTC One.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bosotros:
Of course it is. High ISO speeds are the problem. ISO 100 - 400 works okay. This makes perfect sense if you understand what ISO is. It's the same thing as "film speed". The faster, the more noise (or grain in film). Higher numbers are faster. Faster means you can use a higher shutter speed which means better low light or less blur.

BTW, I'm on 4.1.2 as are a lot of people with this problem. Also, if it's software, why does it get worse with time?

I'm getting a firmware update, downloading right now, let's see if this fixes it.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cangia:
You are on 4.1.2, well, tell us if the update fix the issues or not, tnx