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So first off if this has been answered somewhere else please give me a link, but ok so i know they say rooting voids your warranty but lets say im rooted now but i install the official 2.3.6 update that removes all traces of rooting and so on. Would there be anyway for metropcs to check if the phone has been previously rooted or what?
 
KageBeast said:
So first off if this has been answered somewhere else please give me a link, but ok so i know they say rooting voids your warranty but lets say im rooted now but i install the official 2.3.6 update that removes all traces of rooting and so on. Would there be anyway for metropcs to check if the phone has been previously rooted or what?
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yeah as long as the binary count that appears in Download Mode is set to 0 you'll be fine. If you ever used Odin to restore though then the binary count will definitely not be zero even after the use of the Official tool. The official tool doesnt count on the binary count and it leaves the firmware status as official as oppose to Odin where it sets it to modified. sometimes the corpate office doesnt even check the binary count though depending on the issues... i do wonder if a jig would reset the count for us, hmmm...

Rampage1 said:
i think you are asking a question that leads to fraud!!!!!!!

Father time is watching from the lollipop fields. The misfit toys are having a party and u r invited. Merry Christmas
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its actually not fraud lol. Google supports rooting and most of everything we do here, they just prefer not us to and to enjoy the phone as we it when it bought. For Samsung phone we have this binary count that goes up everything the Odin tool is used. People have used homemade jigs to as it tricks the phone in Download mode and changes the count to 0. there is even an app called Triangle Away within the market. If it was fraud the app certainly wouldnt be there
 
I knew it wasn't fraud. Since it's not stealing money away from anybody. But ah ok. I was just making sure because my friend has an attain and he wants to uninstall the metro apps and i tell him you gotta root to do that but he's like nah man I don't want to void my warranty and yadda yadda.
 
I hate to break it to ya but fraud doesnt have to be just money.
Lets agree to call it grey area. Kinda like how most of the rules are interpreted to do what is rrquired and let slip what they want.
 
Rampage1 said:
I hate to break it to ya but fraud doesnt have to be just money.
Lets agree to call it grey area. Kinda like how most of the rules are interpreted to do what is rrquired and let slip what they want.
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But this isn't fraud. It's not a way to work around something necessarily. Just a question of if I do this will it mess this up permanently
 
At least they are not like my insurance company who tries to find any reason to deny you. System activity logs may reveal indicators.Or A phone that has a battery stats file created the morning you show up may give a hint.I think it may depend on how deep they want to dig
 
Its a prepaid carrier folks they're not going to go all CSI on you. Yes it is fraud if you root and brick and try to make an exchange, let's not be naive. Its been a fact since the first exploit on the G1 oh so long ago. That's why a lot of the big 4s return policies have changed etc.
 
If you need the warranty for something that wasn't caused by you breaking it by rooting or flashing the wrong thing, then there's nothing wrong with unrooting and taking it in for warranty service. Example, the hardware fails-the screen dies


If you brick the device and then try to get warranty service, that's a different story.

Also, flashing phones to a different network is going to be illegal very soon. No more grey area
 
Rxpert83 said:
If you need the warranty for something that wasn't caused by you breaking it by rooting or flashing the wrong thing, then there's nothing wrong with unrooting and taking it in for warranty service. Example, the hardware fails-the screen dies


If you brick the device and then try to get warranty service, that's a different story.

Also, flashing phones to a different network is going to be illegal very soon. No more grey area
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That's EXACTLY what i was asking. I wasn't talking about bricking it and trying to get the warranty service.
 
KageBeast said:
That's EXACTLY what i was asking. I wasn't talking about bricking it and trying to get the warranty service.
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My first brick came after doing the prl update lol. My phone only got 1x but then I did the prl update and after it shut off it would just stay in the glowing samsung screen, for a whole day lol. I had to factory reset and cache delete and it finally booted up :D
 
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