Root Should I drop TEP

[Biggen0]

I rooted my phone last night to MikG 3.1 rom last night following ocnbrze post. Great job on that by the way. I used the HTCDev method as that seemed the easiest for me as I was new to all of this.

My question is now that I have a rooted phone is my Total Equipment Protection warranty no longer valid? Should I just cancel it? By the way, I'm elgible for an ungrade now and that was one of the reasons I decided to root. I figured if I bricked my phone it wouldn't have been a major deal since I could have applied my $200 upgrade credit for something else.

This forum is a wealth of information. I wished I had decided to root my phone when I got my Evo 1 1/2 years ago. Thanks!

 

[theTrashcanMan]

I wouldn't. Just because you're rooted doesn't mean your hardware won't fail, and most of the time, rooting wouldn't cause a hardware failure. Besides if something does go wrong, just unroot and take it in. I've had my evo since the day it came out, I would love to get a newer phone, but can't afford it. So i keep my tep, upgrade my roms, and hopefully one day they'll run outta refurbs and have to upgrade me

 

[Team420]

TEP (insurance for our phone) Does not care if we are rooted. Rooting only voids the warranty from sprint and HTC, I just used my tep to replace a rooted evo with a cracked screen, The sprint rep told me not worry about un-rooting as they dont care... I paid my $100 and had the new phone the next day, sent the old rooted phone back (completely wiped of course) and havent heard a word about it.

 

[Biggen0]

Ahh great! I'll keep in then. Eventually I want to move to a LTE Android phone on Sprint but it sure it hard to get rid of a phone like the Evo that is still VERY relevant. I guess when I get LTE in my area I'll make the switch but until then I'll keep on Evo'ing...