HTC One M8 Network Name I have a verizon HTC One M8 running Android 6.0.  I recently noticed that the network name that appears on my routers DHCP list for this device is "X2E GmbH".  I confirmed that this device is indeed my phone by comparing the MAC address, but I can find no information where this network name came from.

This seems awfully suspicious as the first result for X2E GmbH on google results with a German company which sells datalogging equipment. This is not a rooted phone, so it seems more likely that the network name change may have come from something malicious within my computer network. 

Does the network name originate from my phone?  What should a default network name be?
Ok. I have figured it out. I've learned quite a bit trying to figure this out, I don't have all the details but here is my Hypothesis:

I believe it is a bug in my router. The router performs a search on the IEEE Standards website to look up the manufacturer of each device based on the first three "octets" of the MAC address WIKI. The first three octets (xx:xx:xx) of the MAC address are unique to the manufacturer of the device. For me, my phone is HTC and so the first three octets for HTC are "50:2E:5C". The router must have a bug where it is doing a search and pulling the first manufacturer from the result and using that manufacturer name as the "Client Name". For instance, for my device: Example you'll notice the first hit is "X2E GmbH" which is what my phone is showing up as in my Client List. I don't know why only the android device seems to have the Client Name replaced by this result from the IEEE lookup and not other devices (as all the manufacturers are incorrect, but the client names are correct), but I think it is enough energy spent solving this mystery.