Ok, well I know this is a newbies question but yeaa. I am one .
I wanted to know if clockworkmod voids your warranty. I know rooting your phone voids your warranty but does clockwork?
I just unrooted my phone and I want to leave Clockwork on it so if i want to root it again.
If you have to return it you will need to flash the stock recovery.
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If you ever let TMO or LG know you rooted the phone or installed alternate recovery, yes, technically, your warranty is void. Just restore it to a stock rom and then flash stock recovery back and they won't know.
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I've rooted my phone, installed CWM, installed a custom ROM. Now my phone is still buggy, freezing a lot, rebooting a lot no matter what i try, now I want to make sure I do the correct steps to be able to return with no problem.
1. Flash stock ROM
2. Flash stock recovery
3. Unroot the phone
Am I missing something?
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Step 3 is unnecessary as the stock ROM is not rooted
I doubt they'd look for root before accepting the return but if u wana be safe..
They wouldnt even know better. Unless you install CM7 where your boot screen is custom.
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Yah unless you have a complete unrooted nandroid back up of the stock rom then unrooting it isn't necessary.
If you don't have a unrooted stock rom then you will need to download a stock rom rooted or unrooted somewhere and flash it.
i have returned g2x's with root on it. Mainly with Eagleblood on it. whoever receives it as a refurbished unit will be lucky. i saved them some adb commands. T-Mobile prolly wont even boot the device up in front of you. They just check for water damage and physical damage. I seen it plenty of times. but if u dont want to risk it.
download/install the stock root rom
use superoneclick to unroot
take batt out and hold vol up/down at the same time plug cable in
use one click recovery flash stock recovery
reboot into recovery and reset
i don't know about you all but i always unroot before i send any phone back to t-mobile, they'll sneak you when you think they're not.
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Step 3 is unnecessary as the stock ROM is not rooted
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where is this unrooted stock rom? flashable via cwm? i must be missing something. all i have seen are the bin files which proved to be to much of a pain to flash.
Been browsing around a bit and noticed that some people want to completely revert back to stock, but they don't want to use ODIN, due to the fact it'll trigger the flash counter for warranty exchanges. It's a backup I made literally IMMEDIATELY after I flashed Clockwork recovery, so it's completely unrooted and untouched. Just wanting to ask around to see if it seems like something useful to others before I upload it. Let me know! Could just flash the stock recovery and be at a completely out-of-the-box state.
Or possibly use it to make a stock flashable .zip?
It wont get rid of root and cwm and super user.
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Been browsing around a bit and noticed that some people want to completely revert back to stock, but they don't want to use ODIN, due to the fact it'll trigger the flash counter for warranty exchanges. It's a backup I made literally IMMEDIATELY after I flashed Clockwork recovery, so it's completely unrooted and untouched. Just wanting to ask around to see if it seems like something useful to others before I upload it. Let me know! Could just flash the stock recovery and be at a completely out-of-the-box state.
Or possibly use it to make a stock flashable .zip?
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Actually I would certainly have a usefor this. I made some boneheaded decision and unistalled.a.couple.bloatware apps before I made my first nandroid.backup
This would be pretty useful when the ics ota comes around.
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In order to get back to "out of box" condition for warranty/return purposes you need to reinstall 2.3.5 or 2.3.6 stock ROM, KERNEL, and 3e Recovery. The only time (based on what I've read on SR Forum), the custom binary flash counter gets tripped is when you use Odin to flash a Kernel (boot.img). So I think what you are proposing is to flash stock ROM/KERNEL using CWM, then use Odin to flash the stock 3e Recovery partition. Odin should not trip the flash counter if you only Odin flash "recovery.img" and not the "boot.img" (kernel). Correct?
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It wont get rid of root and cwm and super user.
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I was running SkyIce before, fully rooted, and after restoring this, I no longer have root priveledges and Superuser.apk isn't anywhere to be found.
And yes, restoring this to get a stock kernel and everything back, then just flash stock 3e with Odin to get the recovery partition back to stock.
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Verizon got root and clockwork without tripping the bit counter. Why can't us T-Mobile users do the same?
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I think we could..
If I understand correctly. They flash a rooted system in odin and then push the custom recovery with adb. If we can flash a rooted system(which i imagine we can) why couldn't we then do the same with the recovery. Looks possible to me. If im right i wish i'd known that before i tripped the counter :/
Care to try?
billard412 said:
If I understand correctly. They flash a rooted system in odin and then push the custom recovery with adb. If we can flash a rooted system(which i imagine we can) why couldn't we then do the same with the recovery. Looks possible to me. If im right i wish i'd known that before i tripped the counter :/
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Since you allready triped the counter and created a backup (im guessing you did) can you try that method and see if it works?
i rooted my s3, then i unlocked the bootloader. i still havent flashed anything but now when i reboot my phone i get the custom notification with the unlocked padlock. did i do something wrong or is this normal.
edit: i used a windows based program to root and i used twrp to flash the unlocked bootloader
I am waiting on a stable completely functioning rom before flashing.
krbernier said:
i rooted my s3, then i unlocked the bootloader. i still havent flashed anything but now when i reboot my phone i get the custom notification with the unlocked padlock. did i do something wrong or is this normal.
edit: i used a windows based program to root and i used twrp to flash the unlocked bootloader
I am waiting on a stable completely functioning rom before flashing.
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Sounds like it's not unlocked if you still have the custom boot screen. What method did you use to unlock?
You are not unlocked. When your bootloader is unlocked that Samsung screen just flies by. No padlock no waiting.
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Thanks! i used a windows batch file to do the unlock...guess ill give it another go.
worked thanks!
My SGiii now does this when booting. I have root. I used the devFS root method. I to my knowledge I have not flashed the boot loader. Is this what people were talking about by adding one to there flash counter? If so I might as well flash cwm.
Is my warranty void now?
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Xiuix said:
My SGiii now does this when booting. I have root. I used the devFS root method. I to my knowledge I have not flashed the boot loader. Is this what people were talking about by adding one to there flash counter? If so I might as well flash cwm.
Is my warranty void now?
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Has nothing to do with flash counter. It shows that software is modified and is caused by root. Unlocking the bootloader will get rid of lock. Warranty is void only if you don't revert to stock before return.
I have unrooted my phone and i don't know does that remove clockworkmod recovery. I want to know does my phone have CWM recovery. If it has how to delete it (CWM voids warranty)?
ps. Is that true that rooting does not void yout warranty bu custom rom does?
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AFAIK unrooting doesnt remove ur recovery.. It just remover superuser.apk su binary files.. If im not mistaken u can get stock recovery image to flash it .. So that u can get back a completely clean stock device
Root and installing custom rom onto ur device are voiding ur warranty
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Rooting voids your warranty. If you want to go completely to stock then flash a virgin stock rom for your device. These ROMs don't have anything done to them. If you can't find one those then just get a rooted stock ROM and use an unrooting tool. But remember you may have to reset the flash counter because that shows how many times you flashed a custom firmware on your device.
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