Root Will this void my nexus 5 warranty

[high_motor]

I have the nexus 5 on T-Mobile jump I root it will it void the warranty, and if it does can I UNroot it and would they be able to tell?

 

[Hook]

Technically, yes because rooting requires unlocking the bootloader but there are many methods for returning the device to stock, unrooted with the bootloader relocked so, no, they won't know. Look through the stickies at the top of the "Nexus 5 - All Things Root" subforum and ask questions there.

My favorite tool for automating both rooting and unrooting is WUG's toolkit.

[Toolkit] Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit v1.8.1 [U

 

[Unforgiven]

I moved this to the ATR subforum.

 

[Incakola]

There's an app called bootunlocker specifically for the nexus devices which gives you the ability to switch the tamper flag to not tampered but it might not work until you manually relock the bootloader. I'm not sure that this is the only indicator that phone companies look for when checking if it was rooted.

Here's an XDA thread that has the file I used to relock my bootloader http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239421
It's on op last file called cwm-nexusbootloader.zip or something like that. It will not erase any data.

What I did was flashed the bootloader zip and it locked my bootloader then I installed the app (needs root obviously). Then my warranty is presumably intact.

 

[Incakola]

Yes the app works. My phone is still rooted and the recovery is still custom. I can still flash stuff like kernels and such. The app let's you toggle the bootloader to unlock.

 

[Hook]

There's an app called bootunlocker specifically for the nexus devices which gives you the ability to switch the tamper flag to not tampered but it might not work until you manually relock the bootloader. I'm not sure that this is the only indicator that phone companies look for when checking if it was rooted.

This looks interesting. I hadn't seen this. Thanks.

 

[Incakola]

This looks interesting. I hadn't seen this. Thanks.

No problem.

 

[high_motor]

Thanks guys.