24-12-2019, 08:00 PM
This guide will explain how to hide or remove Yellow, Red and Orange state warnings on a Mediatek Android device. Its ideal for those who feel irritated by constantly seeing these warnings on reboot.
Spoiler Alert!
For Red State, you'll need to flash a factory signed firmware
Note
For models with Verified Boot (dmverity), ensure to disable dmverity first
What are Yellow, Red and Orange state warnings?
They are verified boot states. You'll get these on some devices after either unlocking the Bootloader or flashing a modified / non-factory-signed file to the device (usually on a locked bootloader). Red State is often synonymous with a brick.
- Green state means the device is locked or verified, the keystore is verified with an OEM key, and that the boot image was verified by the keystore
- Yellow state means that an alternate keystore was used to verify the boot image
- Orange state indicates that the device is unlocked, so no verification was done.
- Red state means that a device in the locked or verified state had a boot image that did not verify.
The warnings look something like:
Quote:Red State
Your device has failed verification and may not.....work properly...Please download %s image with correct signature.....or disable verified boot....Your device will reboot in 5 seconds
Quote:Orange State
Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted..Your device will boot in 5 seconds
Requirements
- LK.bin or .img either from your device's firmware or backed up / dumped from the device
- Hex Editor (HXD @ https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ is used in this guide)
Steps to hide or remove Red or Orange State warning on Mediatek devices
For Red State, you'll need to flash the factory firmware. Follow the steps below to get rid of / stop seeing Yellow or Orange state warnings
See the video below or @ https://youtu.be/wFi7Ao4liNw
- Launch HXD
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- Click File
- Click Open
- Highlight the LK file and click Open
- It should get loaded in HXD. Click Search
- Click Find
- Change Datatype to Text-string
- Type Red State or Orange State (depending on which you wish to hide) then click OK
- Take note of where the text you wish to hide begins and ends (highlighted in this example)
- Change each character pair to 00 (at the second column), this will translate to . at the third column
- Take note of the range for Orange State warning
- Change each character pair to 00 (at the second column), this will translate to . at the third column
- Click File and select Save
- You can now flash the LK file. The LK.bak is a backup of your unmodified LK. You can always flash the .bak backup if something goes wrong
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How to remove 5 seconds boot delay time in Orange State warning on Mediatek devices
- Launch HXD
- Click File
- Click Open
- Highlight the LK file and click Open
- It should get loaded in HXD. Click Search
- Click Find
- Click Hex-values tab (or set datatype to hex-values depending on the hxd tool you're using)
- Search for: 7B441B681B68012B
- Once found, ensure that the 8 values before what was found is 08B5**** (asterisks means any random numbers but the first 4 values must be 08B5). If the found values does not have the 8 characters mentioned as prefix, then search again until you find the right one
- Basically you should have 08B5****7B441B681B68012B (24 characters in total). Highlight all 24 characters
- You copy this new 24 characters 08B5002008BD1B681B68012B then return back to HxD window then right click on the highlighted items and select "Paste Insert"
- The newly modified 24 characters will be displayed in red
- Click File and select Save
- You can now flash the modified lk file
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Important Notice
- Red State might mean your device will be unable to boot to home screen. Flash the factory / signed firmware if this happens
- The patch for removing the 5 seconds boot time delay isn't available to all mediatek devices
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