I just got my galaxy s2 a month ago and was wondering, if I get a hardware defect or brick, will Tmobile replace It as long as its the first year on contract? That is what happened about 4 years ago with my other phone but I would like to know if Tmobile will still do this.
Thanks
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Rooting voids your warranty. If they can *see* its been rooted, you will be charged a restocking fee of $400+
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It's best you go through Samsung, from eat I've heard, as they not really check if you're phones been rooted
htwnzballa09 said:
I just got my galaxy s2 a month ago and was wondering, if I get a hardware defect or brick, will Tmobile replace It as long as its the first year on contract? That is what happened about 4 years ago with my other phone but I would like to know if Tmobile will still do this.
Thanks
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Well...i got mine about a couple months. They told me they could replace the phone only if phone has not been software or hardware modified..as i understand...only if they see phone is like when they gave it to u @ very first time. There is a way to restore ur phone and unroot it. So make sure u dowload the .tar file and keep it in PC in case u need to flash stock rom...via Odin before send phone to replace it....or any other similar situation. Follow the link at the bottom.
If u pay insurance Samsung will replace ur phone even if its stolen or lost. In that case u have to pay $150 in order to get a new one. Sorry about my english. ...just trying to help. Good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
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ToledoG28 said:
Well...i got mine about a couple months. They told me they could replace the phone only if phone has not been software or hardware modified..as i understand...only if they see phone is like when they gave it to u @ very first time. There is a way to restore ur phone and unroot it. So make sure u dowload the .tar file and keep it in PC in case u need to flash stock rom...via Odin before send phone to replace it....or any other similar situation. Follow the link at the bottom.
If u pay insurance Samsung will replace ur phone even if its stolen or lost. In that case u have to pay $150 in order to get a new one. Sorry about my english. ...just trying to help. Good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
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I've heard of T-Mobile replacing the phone at the cost of the $130 for Tier 3 Smart Phones, but Samsung replacing them? I haven't heard of that.
Hmm...I voided my options the day I got mine, Lol.
TerrorCandii™ Gaming
I bought the insurance.
Thing is,everything in writing,it seems nothing is covered.
I spoke with tmo,and the insurance,and they both said "no matter what happens (excluding rooting/roms) "
Is covered.But in writing,nothing they said seems to be covered.
From my understanding tmo will replace the phone if its less than a year.But tmo is in financial hardship so who knows what they will do.
Im still waiting on a $30 credit for stuff I never purchased.
Forgive my English...
But,Im just illiterate.
Just go back to stock.its easy.
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Samsung warranties their devices for 1 year, it has nothing to do with tmobile. Return your device to stock and get a new one if there is a problem. If it's hard bricked tmobile cant tell what you've done to it, anyways. They send it to sammy and they jtag it and it goes back into circulation as a refurb.
You can reset the counter of flashes in order to return the phone for safe stocking
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You can reset the counter of flashes in order to return the phone for safe stocking
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But note, the flash counter is only changed when you flash roms through Odin. Any roms flashed through Clockwork Recovery will not add to the counter. Just adding on to what you said.
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But note, the flash counter is only changed when you flash roms through Odin. Any roms flashed through Clockwork Recovery will not add to the counter. Just adding on to what you said.
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This is somewhat true. Some custom kernels such as cm kernel can add to the counter even if flashed through CWM.
Touche to the posts made by the community. Good work.
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But note, the flash counter is only changed when you flash roms through Odin. Any roms flashed through Clockwork Recovery will not add to the counter. Just adding on to what you said.
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Hey g1...
I don't know much of Odin,but I returned to stock twice?
Would that show up as 2 for the flash count?
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sunlaw2 said:
Hey g1...
I don't know much of Odin,but I returned to stock twice?
Would that show up as 2 for the flash count?
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Check your counter, sometimes it trips and sometimes it doesn't. Very simple to check yourself, as no one can tell you what's on your phone
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Hello everyone, my GS2 is hard bricked because I accidentally flashed an I1900 international ROM on my T989 and I chatted with Samsung and they emailed a shipping label and such since it's under warranty. Is there anything I should do to give me added security to them not finding out that my phone was rooted and flashed or can they see that since my phone is hard bricked?
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Hello everyone, my GS2 is hard bricked because I accidentally flashed an I1900 international ROM on my T989 and I chatted with Samsung and they emailed a shipping label and such since it's under warranty. Is there anything I should do to give me added security to them not finding out that my phone was rooted and flashed or can they see that since my phone is hard bricked?
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If you can't get into recovery or Download mode, there's not much you can do. If you can, I would flash the "Download Reset" to reset the download counter to 0 and make it seem marginally less like you've modified it.
Thanks for the quick reply, I can't get the phone to do ANYTHING at all no matter what I tried even a jig didn't get a single response from the phone. I have read on here that people have done something very similar to what I did and Samsung repaired it for free and someone from Samsung told them not to flash roms on it lol.
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Thanks for the quick reply, I can't get the phone to do ANYTHING at all no matter what I tried even a jig didn't get a single response from the phone. I have read on here that people have done something very similar to what I did and Samsung repaired it for free and someone from Samsung told them not to flash roms on it lol.
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Yeah, if you can't access it at all, there's not much you can actually do to make it any less obvious. Maybe tape a $20 to the inside of the battery compartment. Lol.
ahahaha well hopefully if they find out and decide to not repair it under warranty they will tell me instead of repairing it and forcing me to pay.
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ahahaha well hopefully if they find out and decide to not repair it under warranty they will tell me instead of repairing it and forcing me to pay.
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As what I know, they dont care if you installed a custom rom on it or not. I think you will be ok. Do they charge you shipping fee? I request a warranty exchange from Tmobile, and they charge me 20$.
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No the lady said it's under warranty so she emailed a shipping label and all I did was drop it off at UPS today. Hopefully they fix it and I get it back without paying lol. Learned my lesson to read twice before flashing a rom also need to clean up my ROM folder.
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No the lady said it's under warranty so she emailed a shipping label and all I did was drop it off at UPS today. Hopefully they fix it and I get it back without paying lol. Learned my lesson to read twice before flashing a rom also need to clean up my ROM folder.
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What if they replace your S2 with a S3 lol
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What if they replace your S2 with a S3 lol
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If they do I'd be in heaven then I can use my upgrade for the S4 in March, which I plan on doing anyway.
WOOOHOOO Samsung fixed my phone even though I accidentally broke the vibrator thing they fixed that and unbricked it now they are sending it back free of charge.
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WOOOHOOO Samsung fixed my phone even though I accidentally broke the vibrator thing they fixed that and unbricked it now they are sending it back free of charge.
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Congrats on your fix...(so, no SIII, heh?).
BTW, just curious, how did you "accidentally" broke the vibrator?
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premiatul said:
Congrats on your fix...(so, no SIII, heh?).
BTW, just curious, how did you "accidentally" broke the vibrator?
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I am saving my upgrade for the S4 that is coming out in March. I was taking the phone apart to mess around with it and after I disconnected everything I didn't think the vibrator was glued down and I thought it would pop out but I broke the ribbon that connects it lol.
They sent you the same phone,but fixed right,? How long did it take for them to fix? I requested warranty exchange at tmobile store, and they sent me a refurbished phone.
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They sent you the same phone,but fixed right,? How long did it take for them to fix? I requested warranty exchange at tmobile store, and they sent me a refurbished phone.
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It is on its way to me now they gave me a tracking number last night but I think it is the same phone. They received it on October 5th and completed repairs on the 11th.
So yesterday my brother called tmobile(its its account) to try a warranty exchange on my note, since my charging port is too loose. They said that my warranty is void becouse the phone been rooter. they went thru my web history and found the xda page there. So right mow im f*cked! no warranty and a phone woth a loose port! Gonna try unrooting for a while and not use the xda page for a while to see if does bastards will forget about me been rooted. Im gonna miss been rooted... ahhhhh!
Any one can visit xda. That should not be reason why they said you are rooted.
Unroot phone and get tmo on chat. May be that will work. Best of luck
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That means nothing. Return it in stock form and they must make it right.
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Lol Careful op might be an undercover t mobile agent ... jk
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So yesterday my brother called tmobile(its its account) to try a warranty exchange on my note, since my charging port is too loose. They said that my warranty is void becouse the phone been rooter. they went thru my web history and found the xda page there. So right mow im f*cked! no warranty and a phone woth a loose port! Gonna try unrooting for a while and not use the xda page for a while to see if does bastards will forget about me been rooted. Im gonna miss been rooted... ahhhhh!
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Try calling samsung directly. They won't swap your phone instead will fix it. Still better than nothing.
chingoo04 said:
Try calling samsung directly. They won't swap your phone instead will fix it. Still better than nothing.
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Or you can buy a new usb and fix it yourself http://www.etradesupply.com/oem-samsung-galaxy-note-ii-sgh-t889-charging-port-flex-cable-ribbon.html $12.00
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Or you can buy a new usb and fix it yourself http://www.etradesupply.com/oem-samsung-galaxy-note-ii-sgh-t889-charging-port-flex-cable-ribbon.html $12.00
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That's not bad at all.
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Z51 said:
That's not bad at all.
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Cheaper then the warranty replacement fee t mobile charges
Im going to return it back to stock for sure. What ive been thinking was just taking it to the tmobile store directly, and from there maybe they can make the replace order. Thats what my sister did last time with her htc one s. Im going to try that first and if dont work im just gonna call Samsung.
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Im going to return it back to stock for sure. What ive been thinking was just taking it to the tmobile store directly, and from there maybe they can make the replace order. Thats what my sister did last time with her htc one s. Im going to try that first and if dont work im just gonna call Samsung.
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Don't forget triangle away if you've tripped your flash counter
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Sounds like your device status has changed to modified, go in download mode and check the binary counter.
If its "Yes" then use triangle away to reset the counter, and then odin back to stock.
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Yeah, it does say modified and thanks, I will use triangle away
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So yesterday my brother called tmobile(its its account) to try a warranty exchange on my note, since my charging port is too loose. They said that my warranty is void becouse the phone been rooter. they went thru my web history and found the xda page there. So right mow im f*cked! no warranty and a phone woth a loose port! Gonna try unrooting for a while and not use the xda page for a while to see if does bastards will forget about me been rooted. Im gonna miss been rooted... ahhhhh!
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So you actually think that they knew it was rooted based on a phone call someone else made?
Odin to stock triangle away then take to store
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My wifes old vibrant was rooted and the speaker went out on it, took it too tmobile and they sent me a free replacement.
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Only reason they knew is due to not using triangle away.
Has nothing to do with visiting the xda forums. It would be bad businesses if they did that and unacceptable.
Many people here are not rooted who visit these forums.
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What about mobile odin? I used it and flashed the version I was with mobile odin and it returned me back to stock even when I was rooted and running JM11. It all said no no and official. And normal status.
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What about mobile odin? I used it and flashed the version I was with mobile odin and it returned me back to stock even when I was rooted and running JM11. It all said no no and official. And normal status.
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"Where you think she at when she ain't with you?"...
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The t mobile dude was trolling him and he bit., plain and simple
Some people are just gullible.
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Try a good protection plan, so in the future you can skip dealing with T-Mob.
http://www.squaretrade.com/
I recently cracked my display, was going to go in and pay my deductible, was just wondering. Should I restore my device back to stock first? Are they going to try to say I some how broke my screen by running a custom rom?
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i would go ahead and restore just in case... but if you dont want to you could go ahead and try sending it in or you could just buy a replacement screen off of ebay
I agree with eisawi, just nandroid and flash the stock tar and when you get your phone back restore the nandroid
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xblackvalorx said:
I recently cracked my display, was going to go in and pay my deductible, was just wondering. Should I restore my device back to stock first? Are they going to try to say I some how broke my screen by running a custom rom?
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I suggest following the link and using that method to get 100% stock with flash counter reset
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
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miller710 said:
I suggest following the link and using that method to get 100% stock with flash counter reset
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
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Agreed :good: . When sending a Device in for Service, it's always best to be 100% Stock. You never know who's going to be poking around.
all u need is to reset the flash counter to 0 and ul be ok. they could careless about root. i took my htc evo in to get my s3 and the worker was impressed with me getting s-off. told him im gonna root my s3 when i get home
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all u need is to reset the flash counter to 0 and ul be ok. they could careless about root. i took my htc evo in to get my s3 and the worker was impressed with me getting s-off. told him im gonna root my s3 when i get home
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Not everyone is lucky with cool sales reps
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I asked him if it was illegal he said no. Unlocking the phone is
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unrevoked said:
I asked him if it was illegal he said no. Unlocking the phone is
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Yes, it's not illegal. But it does void your claim on the warranty, and if the rep was having a bad day, he could have easily turned you away for rooting.
What I have found is that although it is not " illegal " . It does not necessarily mean that you will not get a hard time about it. I have had very different experiences even in the same store. Both negative, and positive. So I've learned it's better to remove as many reasons for people to give you a hard time as possible.
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I asked him if it was illegal he said no. Unlocking the phone is
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It isn't. But there's always "That Guy" who feels he can deny you service because you can do fancy things to your phone
Yea i could understand that. But i would tell them il come back hen its not void. Thats just my way of handling people like that. If not u can always say u lost it in the lake or it got stolen. Just means more paperwork.
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Yea i could understand that. But i would tell them il come back hen its not void. Thats just my way of handling people like that. If not u can always say u lost it in the lake or it got stolen. Just means more paperwork.
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I guess it's easier to complicate things and waste more of your time instead of taking an extra minute and running ODIN.
Well I don't think being rooted would have any affect on a cracked screen. However I would restore and unroot to be safe. Never know if some pissed of employee wants to take is anger out on you and flag something on your account. Or put notes that could hurt future insurance issues.
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Well I don't think being rooted would have any affect on a cracked screen. However I would restore and unroot to be safe. Never know if some pissed of employee wants to take is anger out on you and flag something on your account. Or put notes that could hurt future insurance issues.
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Regardless if you want stock the method I linked to is one zip to flash saves a lot of time tbh. I keep it on my sd card after I went through hell to get back to stock when my charge port busted and I couldn't connect to my pc.
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I was having an issue with my wife's Epic 4G and I was talking to 2d level tech support and told her I was rooted and she said that didn't matter. Also had the support person at the store (not a 3rd party store, but an authorized service center) in KC tell me the same thing. So I just don't worry about it now.
best to be on the safe side
look, its best to stay on the safe side... make a nandroid backup and unroot your phone... its your best bet... it is easily the safest way to go
So I convince my sister to let me root her phone after showing her my awesome phone. I get all the files and prepare for the Odin flash but when I go into download mode on her phone everything says custom and she has a flash count of 7. Weird thing is that her phone isn't pre owned and I can guarantee that her phone has never been rooted or had anything flashed on it. Anybody see this before?
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Not I. The only way to trip the counter is to flash anything but official firmware via odin.
You sure it wasn't a refurb, or used and repackaged? Unless she got it direct from T-Mobile or a Wal-Mart type store, this is very possible.
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That's the weird thing, she bought it straight from tmobile. My sister has no idea how to do any of this stuff so I know she didn't root it before.
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Maybe it was used for batch testing? I kinda doubt there's any way to get to the bottom of this one...
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Yeah but it kind of makes me curious what would have happened if she ever needed a warranty replacement...
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marcoxx626 said:
Yeah but it kind of makes me curious what would have happened if she ever needed a warranty replacement...
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TriangleAway?
Yeah I used triangle away after I rooted it
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If I get the UVUAMDL file that you flash with Odin from the computer and take the root off, will they accept the phone or can they still see I voided it somehow? I pay 10 bucks a month for tmobiles premium handset insurance plan... I cracked the glass so I'm assuming I'll have to file a claim....
Another question, do they send you the new device first? Or do you gotta pay the waiting game with them?
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That won't reset the flash counter, but it will unroot it.
But if it's with T-Mobile, I don't think it will matter.
And they usually send out the phone first.
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That won't reset the flash counter, but it will unroot it.
But if it's with T-Mobile, I don't think it will matter.
And they usually send out the phone first.
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Yeah T Mobile sends the new phoen first. Then you have like 7 days to return your old phone or they charge you $600 for it. But they'll send you a return case and everything with prepaid shipping. Just slip the old phone in there and put it in a UPS box. They are really easy to work with on stuff like this.
I have no idea if you really need to reset teh flash counter or not, but it's insanely easy to do it so you may as well. Do a search for Triangle Away by Chainfire. You just get back to complete stock rom and recovery through Odin, root using CH auto root, install Triangle Away and run it, and it will reset the flash counter. Then uninstall the Tiranlge Away app and go to the Superuser settings and click "complete unroot" (Or something like that, I forget what the term for it is, but it's obvious)
You will now have a phone with stock rom, stock recovery, no Superuser APK, and a flash counter that says 0.
I just did it last week. Took me all of 10 minutes to do the whole thing.
lucas said:
If I get the UVUAMDL file that you flash with Odin from the computer and take the root off, will they accept the phone or can they still see I voided it somehow? I pay 10 bucks a month for tmobiles premium handset insurance plan... I cracked the glass so I'm assuming I'll have to file a claim....
Another question, do they send you the new device first? Or do you gotta pay the waiting game with them?
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Flash the UVUAMDL stock file.
Use CF Auto root by Chainfire to root phone.
Use Triangle Away to reset flash counter (TA need root hence step above)
Open SuperSU app and choose "Full unroot". It will remove SU binary and SuperSU app.
baseballfanz said:
Flash the UVUAMDL stock file.
Use CF Auto root by Chainfire to root phone.
Use Triangle Away to reset flash counter (TA need root hence step above)
Open SuperSU app and choose "Full unroot". It will remove SU binary and SuperSU app.
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Don't forget to uninstall the Triangle Away app too! (It's kind of a giveaway that you messed with it. hahah!)
It installs as a user app though, so a factory reset after this would wipe the app out anyway.
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Don't forget to uninstall the Triangle Away app too! (It's kind of a giveaway that you messed with it. hahah!)
It installs as a user app though, so a factory reset after this would wipe the app out anyway.
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Asurion never said squat to me about it and I still had a custom ROM on it when I sent it back.
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Asurion never said squat to me about it and I still had a custom ROM on it when I sent it back.
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Ha!
I once took a phone with Cyanogenmod to a t mobile store to get some help with something. The guy asked how I made the phone look so different. I told him it was an app from Google Play. He believed me. (Technically that was true. He was commenting on the theme, which was an apk downloaded from google pkay)
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Why does everyone get warranty and insurance confused? When you file and insurance claim it does NOT matter if it's rooted, if you bricked it, or dropped it in water. You're paying the $175 deductible sobit doesn't matter. If it was a warranty exchange THEN you would have to return to stock since they only charged you $5 for an exchange.
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Get Triangle Away. Run the app FIRST. Then Odin back to stock. Make sure to do wipe....then its all good
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alloycowboy said:
Get Triangle Away. Run the app FIRST. Then Odin back to stock. Make sure to do wipe....then its all good
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TA will not reset the counter unless your on the stock Rom, kernel and recovery.
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alloycowboy said:
Get Triangle Away. Run the app FIRST. Then Odin back to stock. Make sure to do wipe....then its all good
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The Odin flash to stock always increases the binary counter for me. Triangle Away is used after all your Odining is done.
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The Odin flash to stock always increases the binary counter for me. Triangle Away is used after all your Odining is done.
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Well I guess it must be different than the S3. Cause I have always did Triangle Away, then Odin. Counter was then zero.
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Ha!
I once took a phone with Cyanogenmod to a t mobile store to get some help with something. The guy asked how I made the phone look so different. I told him it was an app from Google Play. He believed me. (Technically that was true. He was commenting on the theme, which was an apk downloaded from google pkay)
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I guess if you rooted, then used Rom Manager to put CM on there it would be an "app" that made your phone have Cyanogenmod after all.
elflip88 said:
Why does everyone get warranty and insurance confused? When you file and insurance claim it does NOT matter if it's rooted, if you bricked it, or dropped it in water. You're paying the $175 deductible sobit doesn't matter. If it was a warranty exchange THEN you would have to return to stock since they only charged you $5 for an exchange.
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Yup. If you broke your screen you are paying the 180 or whatever for a new phone. May as well tell them you lost the phone and keep your cracked one for Battery and what not. Even a good back up phone.
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tylerholbrook said:
Yup. If you broke your screen you are paying the 180 or whatever for a new phone. May as well tell them you lost the phone and keep your cracked one for Battery and what not. Even a good back up phone.
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It will not work as a backup phone. The IMEI will be blocked.
Also, while I get what you are saying and understand you are trying to suggest the most cost effective way to do something....what you are suggesting is insurance fraud and could be a felony.
Im not judging you because I agree the insurance company is dumb for making it advantageous to lie aboit what happened to a phobe. Im just saying you are advocating a crime. XDA tends to prefer that you don't do that here.
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It will not work as a backup phone. The IMEI will be blocked.
Also, while I get what you are saying and understand you are trying to suggest the most cost effective way to do something....what you are suggesting is insurance fraud and could be a felony.
Im not judging you because I agree the insurance company is dumb for making it advantageous to lie aboit what happened to a phobe. Im just saying you are advocating a crime. XDA tends to prefer that you don't do that here.
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I didn't meant to promote insurance fraud. I just always at least keep battery and when micro sim cards came with the phone 4 years ago. Figured paying 180 for a new phone should cover that but I get what you mean
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elflip88 said:
Why does everyone get warranty and insurance confused? When you file and insurance claim it does NOT matter if it's rooted, if you bricked it, or dropped it in water. You're paying the $175 deductible sobit doesn't matter. If it was a warranty exchange THEN you would have to return to stock since they only charged you $5 for an exchange.
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Thank you. I knew I wasn't looking for a warranty exchange cuz I cracked the screen too... So I knew I was gonna have to file a claim, and it does cover whatever you do to it, so it does make sense that messing with the system like that wouldn't matter. Thanks again. I don't even run custom roms, the s4 rooted is fine too me.
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