how to remove the "verizon wireless" text from lockscreen?

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You can download a 3d party lock screen from the Google Play Store. Otherwise your stuck with it. Mine has AT&T on it. It was a little annoying at first, but I got used to it. All part of carrier branding.
 

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No need to change lockscreen, go settings -> lockscreen -> additional information and make sure it is set to OFF.
 

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It isn't part of carrier Branding as I have an unbranded phone and Mine shows Vodafone UK on the Lock Screen whether I turn off the setting to show information or not
 

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It isn't part of carrier Branding as I have an unbranded phone and Mine shows Vodafone UK on the Lock Screen whether I turn off the setting to show information or not

Yes. Carrier branding. It shows what network you are on.

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Sorry I thought Carrier Branding meant that the Firmware/Rom was edited by the Carrier and put onto the phone before shipping leading to bloatware etc?

Displaying the carrier on the lockscreen is something most phones do all the time, it may even be required by law in some areas but i'm not sure why. I've never had a phone where the network wasn't displayed on the home/lockscreen
 

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Nexus devices do not have this obviously. This is part of your skinz / carrier branding that is inherent with devices like the Galaxy line and many others.
 

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not a fan of it at all, it's pretty annoying ....

If you have a rooted device then you can remove that lockscreen carrier branding text as well as the text in the notification area by installing Xposed Framework and then Wanam Xposed.

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If I'm not mistaken it pulls the network name from the SIM card. Hence if I slap an AT&T SIM into my T-Mobile it will say AT&T in all the spots it says T-Mobile now.

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Yes. Carrier branding. It shows what network you are on.

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It's not part of the Carrier Branding. It's in the FW and built in by the OEM to display what Carrier you're connected to. The iPhone and Windows Phones do the same thing, and the carriers aren't allowed to modify those OSes.

It's there for informational purposes. Some people SIM Swap and that info is useful.
 

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It's not part of the Carrier Branding. It's in the FW and built in by the OEM to display what Carrier you're connected to. The iPhone and Windows Phones do the same thing, and the carriers aren't allowed to modify those OSes.

It's there for informational purposes. Some people SIM Swap and that info is useful.

seems pretty obvious carrier branding. Call it what you want, describe it how you want, carrier still displayed. And that's ok. It should be that way.
 

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If I'm not mistaken it pulls the network name from the SIM card. Hence if I slap an AT&T SIM into my T-Mobile it will say AT&T in all the spots it says T-Mobile now.

Sent from my T-Mobile Note 3 using AC Forums.

Rightly said.

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Well since I can't do that does anyone know how to remove the notification bar in the lockscreen? I dont like that it displays the time 2 times. it doesnt make sense.
 

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you can already root the s5? wow thats fast. i dont know where to look into doing that though.

Chainfire has already worked out root method for certain variants of the s5,head to XDA developers forum to see for yourself.

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