I want to root my phone, but I have a protection plan, the protection plan can give me 3 replacement phones a year.
Isn't the word on the street that rooting MAY void your warranty? Do we have any evidence of someone being denied warranty claim? I've seen posts of people returning unlocked phones successfully. When you unlock, I'm not sure it says anything about losing your insurance, so I'm saying your fine. I'm paying for insurance with an unlocked phone, and am not to worried about being denied. I mean the insurance is for those times you do something stupid, like drop your phone in the toilet while texting your mom about peeing bar bathroom, right?
Can someone convince me? I want to Root. But i find it a pain to have to reload my apps and re-do my appearance EVERY time i update cleanrom.
I mean if you end up bricking your phone the good ole "My Phone Was Stolen" excuse works good if your that worried lol
My phone's rooted, and I'm getting it replaced this week. Its not really as scary as those devs/people make it sound.
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What exactly should happen if you were to root your phone, play around with ROMs/hacks/etc., somehow manage to break it, and then send it in to Verizon for a warranty replacement? Should you be allowed to get a replacement or not? According to reports, you can get a replacement, but the rooting of your phone voids any warranty you had and gives Verizon permission to charge you for a new one if they determine that your broken phone was tampered with.
Our buddy @P3droid has apparently heard from a couple of friends who have run into the scenario that we described above and then been slapped with a pretty hefty and unannounced bill. Fair or unfair?
I?ll just say this ? we?ve known that rooting your device voids your warranty since well back in the original DROID days, so it makes sense that Verizon would do this. As unpopular as this may sound, I can?t fault Big Red for going this route. If you decide to take your phone out of its original factory status, tinker with its guts, and break something, it shouldn?t be their responsibility to take care of you.
With that said though, a broken volume rocker, faulty screen, etc. has nothing do with rooting, so I?d hate to see someone get charged for something that they didn?t cause even if they decided to root. It?s an interesting topic, and one that I would love to hear all your opinions on.
Update: Our friends at Verizon saw this post and wanted to reach out to clarify everything immediately. First up, is the fact that their policy says absolutely nothing about checking for root on devices. When a phone is received, a phone is checked for three things and that definitely isn?t one of them. They check to see if the box that the device was sent in is damaged, if the outside of the phone looks awful, and if it powers on ? satisfy all of those and they move on to the next phone. So basically, these reports of being charged for a rooted phone simply mean that these people were sending in garbage phone with defects.
I have always been under the impression that if you are questioning whether you should root your phone or not, that you shouldn't do it.
Root is great and has it advantages/disadvantages but if you don't know what those advantages/disadvantages are or don't needs those advantages at the risk of the disadvantages then you don't need root. Period. Read up on Root and make a well thought out choice. Don't let someone talk you into it because they aren't going to fix your phone if you break it.
Root is not a necessity for everyone and please don't make it out to be some sort of geek status symbol.
I completely agree with everything you just said. Rooting is about taking control of your phone. A lot of Rezound users did it just to get rid of the Verizon bloat. You have to root to theme, use wifi tether, even backup your applications. But if it's something that you have to question then don't do it.