if i root the s3 - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

i have a tmobile galaxy s3 if i root it will i lose the insurance that i have on my phone ?? i know is a stupid question i just want to be 100 percent sure

Yes
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Depends on the insurance. Need more info. Also a diff between rooting and being caught rooting. If it is working enough for them to tell you rooted on a claim it is working enough to reverse before you send it in. Some insurance don't care either way.
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I believe you can always unroot it/use triangle away and it will seem as if you did nothing to it. Just don't be stupid and hard brick it
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If your able to restore stock whitout trouble you can !
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If you shatter your phone and they replace it I don't think they will have a problem replacing it if its rooted.
Besides, if your really paranoid just tell them you dropped it in a lake, (It happened to me once).

um I have asurion as insurance i dont know if by more info this is what you meant.
SOLGarion said:
Depends on the insurance. Need more info. Also a diff between rooting and being caught rooting. If it is working enough for them to tell you rooted on a claim it is working enough to reverse before you send it in. Some insurance don't care either way.
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thank you all for your replies. I am really a noob when it comes to rooting any phone i once manage to root a g2x with alot of videos lol but yeah i wish to root my galaxy so i can use the siaxis app but i dont want to lose my insurance

Warranty yes, insurance no. Rooting voids your warranty, not your insurance. Insurance covers physical damage, so if you hard brick your phone, just to be safe you "accidentally" dropped it in the bathtub.
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thank you very much
Towle said:
Warranty yes, insurance no. Rooting voids your warranty, not your insurance. Insurance covers physical damage, so if you hard brick your phone, just to be safe you "accidentally" dropped it in the bathtub.
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I think you'd win in small claims if Samsung denied you warranty because you rooted your device, assuming there is a product defect.

To be honest there's also a choice DONT ROOT. It seems like it's all new to you, and believe me Samsung phones are way easier to brick than LG or HTC if you don't read carefully. Look if it's worth the risk playing a android game with a ps3 controller or loosing your phone for a period of time. If you go ahead and do it make sure you BACK UP YOUR EMEI, many times that gets overlooked when it's really the most important thing in your phone.
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I think you'd win in small claims if Samsung denied you warranty because you rooted your device, assuming there is a product defect.
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thank you

daxecutioner24 said:
To be honest there's also a choice DONT ROOT. It seems like it's all new to you, and believe me Samsung phones are way easier to brick than LG or HTC if you don't read carefully. Look if it's worth the risk playing a android game with a ps3 controller or loosing your phone for a period of time. If you go ahead and do it make sure you BACK UP YOUR EMEI, many times that gets overlooked when it's really the most important thing in your phone.
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thank you.... im scared to root my phone so im still thinking

Georican said:
thank you.... im scared to root my phone so im still thinking
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Just read, read, read. Then read some more. Make sure you fully understand every possible thing that can go wrong (I.e. Losing imei) and how to fix it. If you know what can happen, and how it happens, you will know how to avoid those things. Never have the "I will cross that bridge when I get there" attitude. Almost everything that can go wrong is 100% preventable/curable if you know about it ahead of time. If you don't feel like you can explain to someone else how to root or fix their phone, you're not ready yet.
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Georican said:
thank you.... im scared to root my phone so im still thinking
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No problem haven't rooted mine and I rooted every other phone I have. I just feel android is android it all looks the same. Not much difference between roms apart from the speed with build props and bloatware free. While you can always prepared yourself 100 percent there's always that random encounter that you can get with electronics that is not your fault and just happens.
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Do I need to unroot?

So there is something rattling around inside my phone and the screen is clicking down when pushed on..do I need to unroot to take into Sprint?
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call and ask the store, the one by me has no problems with a rooted phone unless you are there with a software issue.
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call and ask the store, the one by me has no problems with a rooted phone unless you are there with a software issue.
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Thanks I will try that then
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Thanks I will try that then
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Just call like he said and ask. Since there is a rattling, I would hope they can see it isn't software related, so you shouldn't have to unroot for that.
If the phone is older than 1 year, it's out of warranty anyway. I don't think insurance cares if the phone is rooted.
They didn't care when I activated my already rooted EVO. Just flashed it back to stock to not confuse anyone. Luckily, they did not pay attention to the fresh install of Superuser. The guy was an iPhone user anyway. Addicted to asking Siri for everything.
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Rooting for others

Lately I've had a few people ask me to root their phones for them. I am not sure if I want to do this or not, it seems there is a lot of liability involved when hacking on a phone that isn't mine. On the other hand these people are offering $$$ for the service, so I guess I am just looking for opinions.
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I'd say its cool, your providing a service that they can't do themselves and is realitively safe as long as you know what your doing. Just know that if anything goes wrong with the phone regardless if it has to do with you rooting it, that they'll most likely come back to you with the expectation you have to fix it. Just my opinion.
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I'd say its cool, your providing a service that they can't do themselves and is realitively safe as long as you know what your doing. Just know that if anything goes wrong with the phone regardless if it has to do with you rooting it, that they'll most likely come back to you with the expectation you have to fix it. Just my opinion.
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This is exactly why I won't root friends phones..IMO rooting is easy enough. If someone can't bother to or can't figure out how to root, chances are they will encounter problems down the line which will inevitably be your problems.
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Yup. You'll be married to it every time the phone hiccups.

[Q] Dumb TWRP backup question.

Quick question:
I'm getting a replacement GN2 on Monday.
Before running Triangle Away and restoring my current phone to stock, if I were to take a TWRP backup, could I simply restore the entire backup to the new phone without any issues considering it's all the same hardware?
I'm assuming that the other one will be an i317 as well, not a i317m. I'll verify though.
Yes, it's dumb, but I've never actually found a need to restore a backup in my life before despite the countless flashing.
Thanks!
Yes
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Yes
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Thanks!
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its a waste of time bothering to restore to stock, since they wont care if your phone is rooted if its being replaced..
never understand why people bother going through the hassle if they are getting a phone replaced..
wase4711 said:
its a waste of time bothering to restore to stock, since they wont care if your phone is rooted if its being replaced..
never understand why people bother going through the hassle if they are getting a phone replaced..
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My phone is being replaced through Javelin Media, they're a marketing company that sets up Samsung booths. One of their employees damaged my phone, so they're replacing it and they intend on repairing mine and doing idk what with it. I'm not really sure if I should revert to stock or not honestly.
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Might as well..it's easy to do
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or just flash a "stock looking" rom..those fools wont bother looking at it too closely
I was thinking of just flashing a stock rom all together. Because they intend on getting it repaired, I don't really want to leave any chance for them to say something about it.
Looks like reverting to stock is easy enough though, may as well do it I guess.
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Lemme know if you run into any problems or questions :beer:
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Even though I agree with wase4711.. I wouldn't give these guys any chance to screw you over.
I remember your problem from the other thread.. And if your phone gets back modified to some guy like the one who did the damage, then they would definitely find any reason to say something.
You never know, there may be some people from xda working there. If they are paying for the replacement, one would think that they would go through the trouble to make sure that it hasn't been tampered with.
Good luck!
Just got the replacement today!
No creaks!
The issue is, I restored my old backup after having to rename the TWRP folder to match my old phones ID, but now it wasn't a "full" restore? My s-notes, ringtones, etc are missing?
I definitely don't want them to screw me over, so I'll make sure they get a phone in the same state as they sent me.
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Samsung is pathetic

Samsung is so sad.I bricked my s3, accidently put an international rom on it...I know, I feel like an idiot. Anyway, I called their service center, created a ticket and sent it away. They received in 2 days, and then it took about 7 business days since arrival to get any other update, which was today. So I get home today from a horrible work day and notice Samsung is trying to charge $180 over literally a small circling Corning hairline crack. If I had the phone I'd show you guys. Its so small that people dont even notice it at first sight till told. I even notified samsung of this small crack while setting up ticket and they claimed that it was fine. On my online status they didnt even write anything about the actual hardware needed to be replaced, just the lcd. That just leads me even more to belive that samsung will say anything to get out of a warranty repair/replacement. I know their service center had a bad rep but this is pathetic. I just should've sent it to mobile tech for repair. Any of you guys have stories like this? I'd love to hear some.
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Yup.
I have basically the same story. Bricked a T999 and sent it to Samsung to see if they might repair it and ended up with a bill for an LCD repair. Told them to send it back and I'm here with another T999 now. I'll just send it to MobileTechVideos to be JTAG repaired.. Samsung was not worth it.
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I have basically the same story. Bricked a T999 and sent it to Samsung to see if they might repair it and ended up with a bill for an LCD repair. Told them to send it back and I'm here with another T999 now. I'll just send it to MobileTechVideos to be JTAG repaired.. Samsung was not worth it.
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Yeah its ridiculous but can't help but see how funny this is funny. You say you have another t999, did you get it replaced or you mean you just bought another one.l?
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Cyphers23 said:
Yeah its ridiculous but can't help but see how funny this is funny. You say you have another t999, did you get it replaced or you mean you just bought another one.l?
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I had to buy another one. The first one was actually off-contract. Now I'm stuck in a contract again.
Well if you bricked your phone it means that there no boot animation whatsoever. Samsung probably thought it was the LCD because they didn't see anything coming up on the screen. It must have been a lazy employed to figure it was bricked.
Yeah I'm pretty sure they would want the screen CRYSTAL Clear when sent for repair when phone doesn't even turn on . sometimes the glass can be broken but not seing unless it's opened, lazy worker probably didn't bother trying to open it or anything to see that wasn't the case.
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What I don't understand is if you guys have Tmobile why not just refurb the thing? They give you less crap than Samsung. Heck if you have the insurance they next day ship it it to you for 5$. Unless you don't have insurance or your warranty is gone I'd think of samsung.
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gypsy214 said:
Well if you bricked your phone it means that there no boot animation whatsoever. Samsung probably thought it was the LCD because they didn't see anything coming up on the screen. It must have been a lazy employed to figure it was bricked.
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I told them that phone died on reboot and wouldn't turn on. So they listed it under no power/no charge.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure they would want the screen CRYSTAL Clear when sent for repair when phone doesn't even turn on . sometimes the glass can be broken but not seing unless it's opened, lazy worker probably didn't bother trying to open it or anything to see that wasn't the case.
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Crack was barely visible and under back button not even on screen, plus it's been there for a while. But yeah your right, I think it was just a lazy worker. I'm done with them, as soon as I get it back I'm sending it to mobiletech videos to have fixed, I've been without my s3 for too long
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I'm sorry but how is it Samsung's fault that you bricked your phone? If it was a factory defect that broke it, fine. Then I would sympathize with you. But you broke it by flashing the wrong rom. Suck it up and buy a new phone. People pulling stunts like this are the reason why most warranty and return policies are so bad now. I'm sure I will get some heat for this, and it's nothing personal against the OP, but if I knowingly made a mistake and bricked my phone I would not scam the manufacturer or warranty company to take a loss for my mistake.
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monkeypaws said:
What I don't understand is if you guys have Tmobile why not just refurb the thing? They give you less crap than Samsung. Heck if you have the insurance they next day ship it it to you for 5$. Unless you don't have insurance or your warranty is gone I'd think of samsung.
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Yeah this would be the best thing to do but unfortunately the phone wasn't connected with T-Mobile so I sent to Samsung. Now it seems Samsung might've voided my warranty over a small croner crack that looks more like a small deep scratch.
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Exeodus said:
I'm sorry but how is it Samsung's fault that you bricked your phone? If it was a factory defect that broke it, fine. Then I would sympathize with you. But you broke it by flashing the wrong rom. Suck it up and buy a new phone. People pulling stunts like this are the reason why most warranty and return policies are so bad now. I'm sure I will get some heat for this, and it's nothing personal against the OP, but if I knowingly made a mistake and bricked my phone I would not scam the manufacturer or warranty company to take a loss for my mistake.
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Yeah I get you but I'm not neccessarily mad at Samsung for not fixing my phone but the fact that they didn't even examine and voided the warranty over a small crack that I was told wouldn't matter. I understand it was my fault but just got the phone recently. I know some people might not agree with trying to get a warranty repair when you bricked your phone but I usually never do that and said heh might as well try since I just got the phone. I'm more mad about the fact that they had the phone for like 9 days and were just now saying this to me. If they would have said that day 1 or once received I'd simply say yes ok and send elsewhere to get fixed. I'm mad more over time wasted but guess I can't complain much about it huh?
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Cyphers23 said:
Yeah this would be the best thing to do but unfortunately the phone wasn't connected with T-Mobile so I sent to Samsung. Now it seems Samsung might've voided my warranty over a small croner crack that looks more like a small deep scratch.
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Yeah I get you but I'm not neccessarily mad at Samsung for not fixing my phone but the fact that they didn't even examine and voided the warranty over a small crack that I was told wouldn't matter. I understand it was my fault but just got the phone recently. I know some people might not agree with trying to get a warranty repair when you bricked your phone but I usually never do that and said heh might as well try since I just got the phone. I'm more mad about the fact that they had the phone for like 9 days and were just now saying this to me. If they would have said that day 1 or once received I'd simply say yes ok and send elsewhere to get fixed. I'm mad more over time wasted but guess I can't complain much about it huh?
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Samsung didn't void your warranty. YOU VOIDED YOUR OWN WARRANTY. What's the first line in every rooting and custom rom thread? "Your warranty is now void"
Samsung is pathetic for not replacing the phone you broke? Your pathetic for complaining that you weren't able to scam samsung
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Samsung didn't void your warranty. YOU VOIDED YOUR OWN WARRANTY. What's the first line in every rooting and custom rom thread? "Your warranty is now void"
Samsung is pathetic for not replacing the phone you broke? Your pathetic for complaining that you weren't able to scam samsung
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1 they don't know the phone is rooted nor flashed.
2. I think my warranty was voided because of the small crack on my phone that Samsung first said wouldn't have been an issue. I'm not even sure if it was voided for sure.
3. I'm complaining about them being pathetic for voiding a warranty over a hairline crack that couldn't possibly affect the phone's hardware. That they themselves said wouldn't be a problem prior to me sending it in.
4. I wouldn't have even been mad if they simply told me it wouldn't be repaired under warranty at first or atleast when they got the phone. But I was told this 9 days after they got. I could've simply went and got it repaired elsewhere.
I'm not trying to play the victim here. Yes it was my fault I bricked, reponsibilty accepted. When I told Samsung it wouldn't boot, they said they'd fix it. Held my phone for about 2 weeks and is now saying its a no go.
But honestly I'm not even mad about it anymore. I just wanna get my phone fixed and back in my pocket.
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1 they don't know the phone is rooted nor flashed.
2. I think my warranty was voided because of the small crack on my phone that Samsung first said wouldn't have been an issue. I'm not even sure if it was voided for sure.
3. I'm complaining about them voiding a warranty over a hairline crack that couldn't possibly affect the phon
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Whether they know its rooted or not, you knowingly voided your own warranty when you rooted and installed a custom recovery/rom. And then you tried to scam them by sending it in as defective. You have absolutely nothing to complain about.
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Whether they know its rooted or not, you knowingly voided your own warranty when you rooted and installed a custom recovery/rom. And then you tried to scam them by sending it in as defective. You have absolutely nothing to complain about.
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Well not in the sense that my phone was bricked and didn't get fixed through Samsung. I'm not mad about that. Samsung said small crack wouldn't be an issue, even put on the report and they said the technician even looked at my phone first day of arrival but yet waited till today to say it. I feel like they should've just told me the first day but hey maybe its a sign, on being more careful and not sending in tech for false warranty repairs. Never done it before, though what the heck. Honestly its whatever now, regardless of anything this while situation was a mistake and you (I) learn from it.
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Wow that is horrible. I wish you the best!
I always just send my phones back to the carrier, they are usually a little more friendly since they have a vested interest in making you happy. I have never had to return a phone due to bricking it or anything though, always for screen issues, or hardware button issues. Usually the carrier just fixes it or gives me a refurbished one as a replacement. The best carrier i have ever dealt with when it came to repairs and replacements was Sprint, Verizon was the worse, havent had to do any returns/repairs yet with T Mobile.
J-TAG repair can fix a hard-brick.
They have fast turn-around and they don't care if your phone looks like you ran it over with a car or if you flashed a ROM for HTC EVO on it.
And it's not fraud.
To be honest, the fact that so many people try to de-fraud them makes me feel it's justifiable that they are trying to find any reason not to repair. If people were screwing you over time and time again, wouldn't you ?
They didn't void your warranty over a crack, so stop making things up. If you would have been honest with them in the first place you would never have wasted your time.
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They didn't void your warranty over a crack, so stop making things up. If you would have been honest with them in the first place you would never have wasted your time.
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Look man I don't know, they told me becuasr of the crack on the bofttom corner of my screen it would no longer be repaired under.warranty. But I told them about this crack before sending it in and they said it would be fine. They didn't even bother putting up any other problem found before receiving payment for the LCD replacement. Anyway I don't care, it doesn't even matter now I honestly just want to get my phone to get it fixed and back in my pocket. They said they just shipped it out today so hopefully I can get it back tomorrow, most likely Monday though.
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Cracked screen, rooting, and insurance.

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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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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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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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

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