Originally Posted by
tobarger Thanks for the info.
I'm pretty sure I can keep from factory resetting my phone, but my GF, not so much.
Once she has a 100 dollar paper weight she will not do that again.
My buddies wife has the galaxy sii she wanted it rooted and a custom rom installed. We did all this and something went afoul a day or two later. She called Verizon because she thought it was her service and they had her do a factory reset....300$ paper weight. She called me and was panicking, I told her the truth and that was she bricked the phone. And that I had told her never ever do a factory reset. Not even sure how she managed it. I could have sworn the menu was removed from the phone. Unless she restored the factory rom. Verizon sent her a new phone and she shipped the broke one back, I told her not to do it because it was wrong to get a warranty phone for something she broke. The new phone is still stock because (1) I wont root and rom it, (2) her husband told her that if she broke another phone she was getting a dumbphone.
Too many people do stuff without reading up on it first. Some inevitably do something that messes up their phone, and they follow advice for other phones and do a factory reset. I, and many others here, have spent literally over 100 hours helping people fix their phones after such a situation occurs. Once I started building my own ROM, I immediately removed both that option and the bootloader option from the menus. Those who need to use either should know enough about the process to do what they need without using menus.
01-05-2012 11:58 PM
