Don't install Demo.apk

tomoffel · Apr 9, 2013

Hey my friends,

Played around with my one and found a file named "Demo.apk" and installed it.. Watched the fancy movie.. and I just realized that all my apps are gone..

So be carefull..

Greetings from Germany

Gesendet von meinem HTC One

tim84us · Apr 9, 2013

dobknobby · Apr 9, 2013

What was the video like?

Bit strange how your apps have gone? Can you enlighten, is it all apps? Or Play Store Apps, or HTC Apps .. .. if HTC Apps a hard reset may bring them back?

Now you said this will be interesting to see how many people try it for themselves. . . lol

autophone · Apr 9, 2013

Could it be the demo video for in-store display?

Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app

vegetaleb · Apr 9, 2013

I added a warning in the app section long ago,I installed it on my OneX and it erased both messages and phonebook to replace them with fake ones

ant78 · Apr 9, 2013

So where does this demo.apk come from? Did you download it?

Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app

tomoffel · Apr 9, 2013

The file is stored in /system/demoflo/
And was allready on my phone.

It was some introducing to the phone, with following links/information to the HTC zoe, boom and stuff..

All Apps, installed with the store AND manual installed with apk are gone, also messages..

and there were fake contacts and apointments in Phonebook and Calendar..

Gesendet von meinem HTC One

Xlice · Apr 9, 2013

Restart

Are the apps also gone after restarting the phone?

tomoffel · Apr 9, 2013

jepp, all apps are gone even after a restart..

r2001uk · Apr 9, 2013

Can the apk be deleted? I'd hate to accidentally install it! What were HTC thinking?! Is that path only accessible with root?

tomoffel · Apr 9, 2013

No root here, and not possible to delete it :/

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appelflap · Apr 9, 2013

So it's a handy app to use to display the phone in stores. Users could go out of their mind, install apps and rerunning the app would clear the phone.

Just to make sure. It didn't remove the original apps that came with your phone right? So, just do a factory reset and set up your accounts again. Good luck and thanks for the tip.... (Although I have an almighty urge to run that app now lol)

terminal 7 · Apr 9, 2013

LOL

i did this after a couple of days of getting my ONE just how i like it..

i wasnt too pleased but hey if your gonna go digging expect to fall into a hole now and again.. LOL

HTC have a mini website about this file giving shop staff a kind of prep talk "your perfect pitch is just a few steps away"

i wont do this again..

cobbcobbdavid · Apr 11, 2013

tomoffel said:
The file is stored in /system/demoflo/
And was allready on my phone.

It was some introducing to the phone, with following links/information to the HTC zoe, boom and stuff..

All Apps, installed with the store AND manual installed with apk are gone, also messages.. and there were fake contacts and apointments in Phonebook and Calendar..

Gesendet von meinem HTC One

I cant find this in my phone. Did you root your phone? Or this file can be access without root?

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terminal 7 said:
i did this after a couple of days of getting my ONE just how i like it..

i wasnt too pleased but hey if your gonna go digging expect to fall into a hole now and again.. LOL

HTC have a mini website about this file giving shop staff a kind of prep talk "your perfect pitch is just a few steps away"

i wont do this again..

How to access this file? Did you root it?

cobbcobbdavid · Apr 11, 2013

tomoffel said:
Hey my friends,

Played around with my one and found a file named "Demo.apk" and installed it.. Watched the fancy movie.. and I just realized that all my apps are gone..

So be carefull..

Greetings from Germany

Gesendet von meinem HTC One

What is your Rom version?

shuflie · Apr 11, 2013

I had done this as well, two days after I got the phone, you can only get to the demo.apk by using a file explorer that lets you get to the root of the file system, rootexploer does this by default and esfile explorer can be set to go up to root.
For anyone that has done this have you noticed the phone randomly resetting itself and the WiFi crashing (won't connect to access points and wifi setting are unresponsive) requiring a reset to re enable it? My phone is doing this and I'm not sure if I have a faulty phone or if its because I powered the phone down when I noticed it complaining about too many calendar deletes at once as the demo app was running.

tomoffel · Apr 11, 2013

cobbcobbdavid said:
What is your Rom version?

1.27.206.1

jepp, I reached the apk with a file browser in /system/demoflo/

cobbcobbdavid · Apr 12, 2013

tomoffel said:
1.27.206.1

jepp, I reached the apk with a file browser in /system/demoflo/

I think that Demo is for shop demo purpose. It will delete some app and play some random video and delete lots profile. E.g Contact, message thread. The only way to recover is to do Factory reset

Riyal · Apr 12, 2013

Hmmm just wondering why did you even install the app located in the system partition? lol

Just makes me wonder I haven't really encountered someone who installs apk inside the system partition

jameski182 · Apr 12, 2013

Demo sucks except you want to test the game so badly. haha

Don't install Demo.apk

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