I remember from my old Samsung rooting days that Samsung phones had a tamper flag, so even if you restored to stock they would know that you rooted/how many times etc. Does the razer phone have a similar thing? Reason I ask is I have been used to OnePlus phones where it doesn't void your warranty to root and now I have the razer phone (loving it too!) - don't mind rooting it if I can flash stock and lock bootloader and no one knows the difference (for warranty etc!)
manor7777 said:
I remember from my old Samsung rooting days that Samsung phones had a tamper flag, so even if you restored to stock they would know that you rooted/how many times etc. Does the razer phone have a similar thing? Reason I ask is I have been used to OnePlus phones where it doesn't void your warranty to root and now I have the razer phone (loving it too!) - don't mind rooting it if I can flash stock and lock bootloader and no one knows the difference (for warranty etc!)
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As far as I can tell, no. I originally had my phone rooted and running Magisk and I reverted back to stock and relocked the bootloader to do an RMA because my screen had developed a group of dead pixels. They accepted the RMA and sent me a replacement device after I put it back to stock.
For real? Dam
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As far as I can tell, no. I originally had my phone rooted and running Magisk and I reverted back to stock and relocked the bootloader to do an RMA because my screen had developed a group of dead pixels. They accepted the RMA and sent me a replacement device after I put it back to stock.
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Ah awesome. You in the UK? Got my phone with 3 and Debranded it to get the 8.1 update earlier - I have the insurance for it anyway so no matter what I do to it, it should be covered really - Also sorry for the slow reply... Busy busy! Now to wait for some ROMs to show up, or a Magisk image I can flash that's 8.1 compatible!
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I am new user of android and i have xperia ray (ST18) and i want to know that if i flash my xperia ray with wotanserver. com , then i will void my warranty or not ?? Plzz guys reply my question and help me plzzzzzzzzzzz ...... and i want to know one more thing that if i root my phone without unlock bootloader then i will void my warranty or not ??? and sorry for my bad english ....
flashing would be looked at as modding your device. very likely the warranty will be voided. i sent phones back rooted with custom roms for warranty by mail from calling my carrier "at&t" and got lucky. they usually just check for visual damages on device. its worth a shot for a defected voided device lol. just make sure you have cash to pay if they notice you voided your warranty
Do people even care about warranties anymore?
I rooted my Skyrocket the day I got it, and have tried numerous roms (from this site) and finally found one I like.
I had to get rid of the CIQ that AT&T decided to load on my phone, along with all the bloatware. The battery life is so much better now!
I say do it!
If you need to push it back to stock to get some warranty stuff done, I'm sure you'll figure it out.
If not, you can always try to get lucky like others...
Rooting will void your warranty, though I've never heard of a phone being checked when being returned for service. Read up on returning your phone to original along with modding. Before I did anything to my phone I made darn sure I knew how to return it to stock.
just make a backup of the entire system and then do what you want with your phone
when you want to send your phone to warranty, just restore the backup and will be ok...
I think you can't do such a backup without root, so:
1. root your phone
2. backup with titanium
if you have problems
3. restore the backup
4. unroot
5. send it back to warranty
Note: You will not void the warranty of your Sony Xperia device by flashing new firmware using this guide. In addition, you do NOT need to unlock your bootloader nor do you need root to flash your handset.
- http://www.xperiablog.net/2016/03/12/install-xperia-marshmallow-using-flashtool-and-xperifirm-guide/
Hello!
Hope all is well. First I wanted to say i'm sorry if this is a duplicate - I searched and saw similar questions, but not exactly the same as mine .
I own a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S4 M919 and I had rooted it and installed a custom rom. Im having hardware problems and need to return it for repairs, so I reflashed the stock system and recovery, used triangle away to remove the binary counter, and hard reset the phone. In my download mode, my phones reads "Current Binary: Samsung Official" and "System Status: Official", as well as reads official on the device status in android so all went well.
My question is this - I got notification of a push update that is going to install Android 4.3, and apparently this "KNOX" software that I do no seem to currently have. My concern with this is that i'm reading that there is a flag with this KNOX software that is easily tripped, and once done, the download mode reads "KNOX WARRANTY VOID 0x1", which therefore voids warranties. Since I was able to get everything back to completely normal, I dont want to run any more risks since my phone really needs repairs very badly. Should I bypass this update? Though my phone is 100% official now, if I do the update, will the KNOX software catch that I had rooted/custom rom'd the phone in the past and trigger the flag automatically, or do you first have to have the update installed BEFORE you try to root it for the flag to trip? Everything is 100% stock now so when I download the update, I don't think there is anything present that would trigger anything, but I don't even have this "KNOX WARRANTY VOID" line in my download mode yet so I am wondering if I am just better off being safe than sorry?
Thanks!
It won't be tripped until you trip it so you will be OK if you update it to 4.3, But I highly advice against doing so.. Just leave it as is, and return it like that
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Hello!
Hope all is well. First I wanted to say i'm sorry if this is a duplicate - I searched and saw similar questions, but not exactly the same as mine .
I own a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S4 M919 and I had rooted it and installed a custom rom. Im having hardware problems and need to return it for repairs, so I reflashed the stock system and recovery, used triangle away to remove the binary counter, and hard reset the phone. In my download mode, my phones reads "Current Binary: Samsung Official" and "System Status: Official", as well as reads official on the device status in android so all went well.
My question is this - I got notification of a push update that is going to install Android 4.3, and apparently this "KNOX" software that I do no seem to currently have. My concern with this is that i'm reading that there is a flag with this KNOX software that is easily tripped, and once done, the download mode reads "KNOX WARRANTY VOID 0x1", which therefore voids warranties. Since I was able to get everything back to completely normal, I dont want to run any more risks since my phone really needs repairs very badly. Should I bypass this update? Though my phone is 100% official now, if I do the update, will the KNOX software catch that I had rooted/custom rom'd the phone in the past and trigger the flag automatically, or do you first have to have the update installed BEFORE you try to root it for the flag to trip? Everything is 100% stock now so when I download the update, I don't think there is anything present that would trigger anything, but I don't even have this "KNOX WARRANTY VOID" line in my download mode yet so I am wondering if I am just better off being safe than sorry?
Thanks!
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If you are having hardware issues and are returning the phone and
your phone is 100% stock without KNOX right now then why in
the world would you want to take chances with OTA updates or
any other updates.
If it was me I would have already taken/shipped the phone back for
repair or exchange instead of worrying about OTA updates.
Good luck!
Thanks for the advice! Download mode would be the only location of that "KNOX WARRANTY VOID" flag right? If it's not there, then as long as it states both Samsung Official and Official in download mode I should be good ya think?
Thanks!
Yes.. It will also show a message at boot
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Yes.. It will also show a message at boot
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Awesome yep - no boot message I see either - boots just like it did the day I bought it. So I am pretty sure I have the firmware before KNOX came out - It has been rooted since the summer so I probably luckily bypassed the official update with KNOX
Thanks to all for your information! Im gonna stay away from the new firmware just to be safe until i get the phone back from warranty!
Hmm - things got even more interesting. So it seems when i reset everything back to stock as mentioned above, the screen flickering issues have now gone away and I am not seeming to replicate them in any way at all. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I was using a version of Wanamlite ROM before i reset everything. I am wondering if it was just the ROM causing the screen flicker and not a hardware defect.
xgreenlanternox said:
Hmm - things got even more interesting. So it seems when i reset everything back to stock as mentioned above, the screen flickering issues have now gone away and I am not seeming to replicate them in any way at all. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I was using a version of Wanamlite ROM before i reset everything. I am wondering if it was just the ROM causing the screen flicker and not a hardware defect.
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It could have been
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Hi everyone,
A year ago I unlocked bootloader, rooted my phone and flashed a custom ROM. Is it possible to get my warranty back if I unroot it, lock the bootloader and flash a stock ROM?
Any help is appreciated!
Thank you guys.
lddangsta said:
Hi everyone,
A year ago I unlocked bootloader, rooted my phone and flashed a custom ROM. Is it possible to get my warranty back if I unroot it, lock the bootloader and flash a stock ROM?
Any help is appreciated!
Thank you guys.
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Are you sure it is still on warranty? If you have rooted the device year ago then most likely the warranty period is already over.
In case you still have warranty proof you may take a risk to flash everything back to stock and bring to a service. If it will appear as hardware problem the case might be accepted as warranty (I've seen some posts telling this). And of course this might depend on the particular service center policies.
kvestas said:
Are you sure it is still on warranty? If you have rooted the device year ago then most likely the warranty period is already over.
In case you still have warranty proof you may take a risk to flash everything back to stock and bring to a service. If it will appear as hardware problem the case might be accepted as warranty (I've seen some posts telling this). And of course this might depend on the particular service center policies.
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Yes it is still on warranty and it is probably a hardware problem.
Tbh I have no idea, I imagine if you can relock it and unroot it and install the original RUU it might be fine. The one thing that would concern me is if the HTC boot screen still had the red writing on it...
If you buy a new phone now, can you root it? can you put a rom on it?
awskier08 said:
If you buy a new phone now, can you root it? can you put a rom on it?
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Yes you cant but will void the warranty
joej191 said:
Yes you cant but will void the warranty
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yes you can't?
that doesn't make sense. is that a typo?
I know that it will void my warranty.
Two things:
1) Complete instructions on how to root and mod your phone are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-galaxy-s6/general/how-to-to-100-stock-root-t3075448
2) Sprint stores do not, in my experience, care is you have tripped Knox. If you need to have a warranty repair, use Odin to restore stock (which is in the instructions above) and they will honor the warranty.
There are numerous articles, including here on XDA, on how rooting does NOT void your warranty. I have sold rooted phones back to Sprint. Of course I wiped and restored back to stock because I was not going to share my private data (which is just common sense.)
But to your question, yes you can root and there are some really good ROMs. Renegade is the slickest out now. You lose Samsung Pay (and Android pay if you stay rooted) but you have a great phone.
koop1955 said:
Two things:
1) Complete instructions on how to root and mod your phone are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-galaxy-s6/general/how-to-to-100-stock-root-t3075448
2) Sprint stores do not, in my experience, care is you have tripped Knox. If you need to have a warranty repair, use Odin to restore stock (which is in the instructions above) and they will honor the warranty.
There are numerous articles, including here on XDA, on how rooting does NOT void your warranty. I have sold rooted phones back to Sprint. Of course I wiped and restored back to stock because I was not going to share my private data (which is just common sense.)
But to your question, yes you can root and there are some really good ROMs. Renegade is the slickest out now. You lose Samsung Pay (and Android pay if you stay rooted) but you have a great phone.
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I have Verizon now and they don't have any way to unlock the boot loader yet. thinking about switching before my 14 days are up.
I was wondering if it was possible to flash back to 7.1.2 without rooting and voiding my warranty. This is due to the huge performance hit my 5x has taken since upgrading to Oreo as well as the super annoying persistent notifications.
Thanks
1. I am surprised there are phones that are still under warranty.
2. I am not 100% sure, but if you revert the phone back to the original ROM, there is no visible way to tell if it was ever rooted (unlike on devices such as Samsung tablets, which have a write only bit)
3. You don't even need root to revert to the original or older ROM, I believe.
4. I frankly don't believe that the phone manufacturer has a legal right to deny warranty only because the device was ever rooted or flashed with a third party ROM. This will never stand in any reasonable court. The claim that the manufacturer won't service your faulty device only because there is a proof it was once rooted is simply a scare tactic against the neophytes asking to fix their bricked phone because they tried to root and messed around with ROMs, or against those bringing for service a phone already running a third party ROM, or a stock ROM with root mods.
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1. I am surprised there are phones that are still under warranty.
2. I am not 100% sure, but if you revert the phone back to the original ROM, there is no visible way to tell if it was ever rooted (unlike on devices such as Samsung tablets, which have a write only bit)
3. You don't even need root to revert to the original or older ROM, I believe.
4. I frankly don't believe that the phone manufacturer has a legal right to deny warranty only because the device was ever rooted or flashed with a third party ROM. This will never stand in any reasonable court. The claim that the manufacturer won't service your faulty device only because there is a proof it was once rooted is simply a scare tactic against the neophytes asking to fix their bricked phone because they tried to root and messed around with ROMs, or against those bringing for service a phone already running a third party ROM, or a stock ROM with root mods.
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Ok that's enough for me
Thank you