[Dell Venue] social-design-concepts:
the dev-edition conversion only available for the v8 throws an obvious flag that the device has been tampered with being the intel inside logo before the dell boot animation (well Dell didn't animate it but thats what it is)

to speed the restore process to jb4.3sw.1.16 up i opted out of doing / formating a few things /logs, /factory, /config the current tool only flashes fastboot, boot, recovery ,system then reboots back into fastboot and issues fastboot -w to wipe /cache /data this is done incase you're coming from 4.2.2 or reverting back to 4.3 from 4.4.2 to ensure no issues with Android Version specific dalvik-cache or setting causing boot loops.

i could change this to use the wipe process of the dev-edition and completely have the emmc repartitioned erasing and reformatting everything i would say this would probably get rid of all traces of modification that might be stored on the emmc but if you ask users that did the initial dev-conversion this process is painfully slow and who knows what the potential wear and tear on the internal storage over doing this might cause.

so it didn't seem like a good fit for the main toolKIT so i'll package this as a separate download later that you can add to the the v1.16 restore package if needed.

there is another packages that will be put together in the coming weeks this package will void your warranty as its an unbrick package device specific but if your using this package its because you cant send it in to dell any way..

the new root methods jb and kk don't require wipe-data/cache so you shouldn't lose anything in the process but backing up is always a good thing.

the toolKIT does have a Quick-backup / Quick-restore using the standard adb backup / restore tool

note: do to not knowing what version a user might be coming from i opted out of backing up system stuff through the QB option to try to limit bootloops that could be caused by version specific things it also doesn't backup paid apps.

i did integrate the batch version of the Ultimate Android Backup Tool found on XDA that give users a few more backup options.

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you have to understand i'm a simple hobbyist in reality i have no functional use to actually own a tablet outside of figuring this stuff out being a fun challenge and if my hobby benefits others great, its why i took on the idea of building a toolKIT and why it took so long to get it out before this i had never put together a batch file that was more than a simple do this, then to this, then do this. simply put it was a fun learning exercise.

so with that being said, as for lingering traces that might be elsewhere i couldnt really tell you visually if you restore to v1.16 then update to v1.25 nothing seems to indicate that your device is more than stock and then optionally update to v1.26 shows nothing visually that would indicate its anything more than stock.

but with all the analytics built into android i probably suspect Dell could know what serial numbers have ever been on what version not sure, if they would record this information at all or each time you initially setup or they might log it whenever they issue an ota to know that the device took the update successfully.