Replacement Phone after Update Brick

[bamcclure]

Received the OTA update from T-mobile and it bricked my phone. They are sending what they call a "Newer-like-new" phone (used phone.....) and the brick will be sent back.

Question:

1. If somebody rooted their phone with the stock rom, should they do anything to it before returning it?

They only mentioned cosmetic damage when going over what voided the warranty.

 

[howetechnical]

As far as I know, rooting voids your warrant, but I don't think they'd go through the trouble of finding out if it was originally rooted, if they even can once it's bricked.

If it were me (and it was, FYI) I would have just flashed the .tar from XDA (official ota update, just manually done). Would have taken 5 minutes and you'd get to keep your device, with all of your apps, settings, and files. A little research goes a long way.