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I successfully rooted my brand new 2.20 AT&T HTC One X, flashed CM10 rom and TWRP 2.2.3 custom recovery. Everything was going great; much love to the community and djrbliss. Here's my issue: Yesterday my phone went flying, hit the ground BLAM! and shattered the screen. I've therefore voided my warranty and it looks like theres no way out of this $600 accident. Panic mode....
But, I have a plan: I have premium accidental damage coverage. But in order for me to be elegible for a complete phone replacement I need to revert to the stock ROM, lock my bootloader, eliminate the custom recovery, and finally reset the flash counter with a USB jig. I need it to appear as though I havent changed a thing. Heres my question for you all: Is it possible to revert my phone completely? If I am successful, will AT&T notice? What steps should I take?
Any tips would be great. I'll keep you all updated on what develops.
-T
if the phone powers on and such you should be able to relock bootloader and run the ruu. thats all you really need to do for insurance claim. you cant remove the relocked bootloader message without s-off, but it shouldn't matter since your claiming physical damage.
Having a custom rom/bootloader shouldn't affect a physical warranty claim, but from the things I hear about AT&T I wouldn't be surprised
area51avenger said:
Having a custom rom/bootloader shouldn't affect a physical warranty claim, but from the things I hear about AT&T I wouldn't be surprised
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Looked into it, turns out at&t will charge $200 for a physical damage claim IF they decide its under warranty... Sucks. Looks like ill be buying and replacing the digitizer/lcd myself...
tom0779 said:
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I successfully rooted my brand new 2.20 AT&T HTC One X, flashed CM10 rom and TWRP 2.2.3 custom recovery. Everything was going great; much love to the community and djrbliss. Here's my issue: Yesterday my phone went flying, hit the ground BLAM! and shattered the screen. I've therefore voided my warranty and it looks like theres no way out of this $600 accident. Panic mode....
But, I have a plan: I have premium accidental damage coverage. But in order for me to be elegible for a complete phone replacement I need to revert to the stock ROM, lock my bootloader, eliminate the custom recovery, and finally reset the flash counter with a USB jig. I need it to appear as though I havent changed a thing. Heres my question for you all: Is it possible to revert my phone completely? If I am successful, will AT&T notice? What steps should I take?
Any tips would be great. I'll keep you all updated on what develops.
-T
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No way to completely take it back to stock. It will always say "RELOCKED". But to get to that point, you need to relock your phone and run the RUU. AT&T shouldn't care or check honestly.
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Alright I know that when you flash your phone it voids the warranty, but if you were to lets say flash back to your service providers ROM before returning it would they be able to tell?
I've just bought the Captivate a few days ago but I plan on returning it to Rogers due to the horrible battery life. I'm never at home and need my phone a lot so having a bad battery life isn't an option for me.
The thing is I flashed a custom 2.2 ROM last night. I plan on returning it tomorrow, but I've realized that I voided the warranty. I've downloaded the stock Rogers ROM and can flash it before I go but will they still know some how?
So basically I'm wondering if I'm screwed or not.
Thanks in advanced
Hypercore said:
Alright I know that when you flash your phone it voids the warranty, but if you were to lets say flash back to your service providers ROM before returning it would they be able to tell?
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I seriously doubt it, however since you're on rogers you'll need to get rid of that at&t logo upon startup when you flash back to stock so good luck.
Also the 2.2 roms encrypt some of the files in the /efs directory, if rogers digs deep enough and find that out they might figure out that you flashed a rom. Unless you backed it up and restored it... however i doubt you did.
Returned one with no trouble after flashing back to stock at&t. As long as you can get it to look like stock on boot I doubt you will have any trouble, regardless of efs files being altered
Hey, I have a question about TempRooting my phone. I dont want to root my phone because i dont want to void my warranty. But, I want to do a few things with my software that require root access. For example, I want to install a CRT animation on my phone which, of course, required root access. Basically what my question is, is if I temproot my phone and modify a few things like installing CRT animation, will it void my warranty? I know TempRooting will not void the warranty, but Im curious as to if installing a CRT animation will void the warranty. Also, if I do it, will i still be able to receive the OTA updates via wifi? Thanks guys
Temptooting Voids your warranty, Dunno where you heard that it doesn't.
Mod it. Thats all I have to say
Using this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591601 will put you back to stock COMPLETELY. Tmobile can't tell. I got a HD2 with windows mobile on it and flashed android on it. Yea, a completely different OS. Found some hardware issues (was a refurbished phone) restored back to stock using a similar technique and sent it back to Tmo. They have never contacted me or ever asked me about it. My friend also had text messaging problems on his Exhibit. We rooted and flashed CWM and a new rom to see if it fixed and ended up restoring back to stock and getting a different phone. There is also a way to edit the flash counter though I do not know where to find one for our phone atm.
so basically if I temproot my phone, mod the hell out of it, im good to go? and if i ever need to take it in to Tmobile or if i want to upgrade to 4.0 when the OTA comes out, i just follow that guide and everythings all good? and your sure that its legit and it works? i dont really trust one-click programs
You are always taking a risk if you root. Period. But I have sent rooted phones in to be returned without issue and if you return to stock as described in the post you will be able to get the update.
Hey, I just read a post on XDA describing why its okay to root your device, according to the Magnuson-Moss Warranty act. It says that a company has to prove that you broke your phone by rooting it if there is a problem with it, and its under warranty. Is it really true?
It slipped my hand and fell into the road got crushed by an oncoming car in the parking lot and since it's snowy here got water and crush damage. Mrs Anonamoose is not happy at all and doesn't want me to do anything to the new one that would replace the stock bootloader. My question is ... could I find a way to possibly package a themed rom with a custom kernel and rooted of course as an Odin file and still have the original bootloader? Or would I HAVE to install that all on my phone first and hence use a custom recovery?
I'm also open to any other suggestions that anyone has that still keeps the Mrs Happy but I have root and a custom kernel (Galaxy Kor 2.2 was so smooooooooth)
Thanks
Anonamoose
The Friendly Moose
I believe the only way to run custom roms etc without unlocking the bootloader is to use kexec. And since noone uses kexec anymore I would say you have no choice but to run stock or unlock.
I would ask though...what's the big deal replacing the bootloader? You can always go back to stock.
Also. I am impressed that the Mrs knows what a bootloader is. Mine sure doesn't.
Sent through mental telepathy...or my unlocked SGS3
I have an At&t HTC one x, i need to return for a warranty replacement. I rooted and was running viper xl with TWRP recovery. I was able to run the RUU and everything is back to stock but no recovery just goes blank for a little bit and then I get the dreaded red triangle. I have been trying to use Hasoon's all in one kit to no avail. for some reason i cannot get fasboot to work on my computer. so I'm stuck with a phone that I'm a little nervous about sending back. I have searched and can't find a thread that works in my particular situation. Used all my lifelines called friends etc. XDA please help me, I have to go out of town for a week to run a summer camp and don't have anymore time to fool with it!
The screen with red triangle is stock recovery.
Are you going through AT&T for the warranty replacement? If so, AT&T doesn't give a poo whether the phone is stock or not. I have yet to hear a report of warranty service through AT&T being denied for unlocked bootloader, root, or even custom ROM installed on the phone. Of course, returning to stock (or close to stock) is the safest bet. But I wouldn't stress too much over it.
Alright, so I'm a pretty decent android user, not exactly a noob, but not an expert either.
Last night, I dropped my Verizon Galaxy S3 (rooted and unlocked, running the latest stable CM ROM), and the screen cracked and went purple,)
Screen was still responsive, but it was slowly going black. With the time I had left before the screen went black, I backed-up the entire ROM on my SD card.
Luckily, I had a backup Verizon Galaxy S3 running stock 4.3. I safe-rooted it using k1mu's method and managed to install TWRP. Then I tried to reboot into recovery. Bad idea. I forgot to unlock the bootloader, and came across the Software not authorized symbol. I managed to get past this by pulling my battery out, and rebooting into download mode, and choosing to restart my phone from there.
I know that the stupid Knox BS locked the bootloader for verizon phones now. However, I read that the CM installer App could be used to put CM on this new phone (even with a locked bootloader), and that SafeStrap could be used as the recovery program.
Can I install the backup data from my old phone onto my backup phone using SafeStrap? (I'm thinking that the data would now be compatible assuming the CM installer worked)
Or, would just be better to shell out hundreds of bucks to repair my screen? (Oh, and please let me know if there's any way for a cheap screen repair, because I'm assuming the LCD is broken along with the glass, but the digitizer oughta be working fine)
Airhari21 said:
Alright, so I'm a pretty decent android user, not exactly a noob, but not an expert either.
Last night, I dropped my Verizon Galaxy S3 (rooted and unlocked, running the latest stable CM ROM), and the screen cracked and went purple,)
Screen was still responsive, but it was slowly going black. With the time I had left before the screen went black, I backed-up the entire ROM on my SD card.
Luckily, I had a backup Verizon Galaxy S3 running stock 4.3. I safe-rooted it using k1mu's method and managed to install TWRP. Then I tried to reboot into recovery. Bad idea. I forgot to unlock the bootloader, and came across the Software not authorized symbol. I managed to get past this by pulling my battery out, and rebooting into download mode, and choosing to restart my phone from there.
I know that the stupid Knox BS locked the bootloader for verizon phones now. However, I read that the CM installer App could be used to put CM on this new phone (even with a locked bootloader), and that SafeStrap could be used as the recovery program.
Can I install the backup data from my old phone onto my backup phone using SafeStrap? (I'm thinking that the data would now be compatible assuming the CM installer worked)
Or, would just be better to shell out hundreds of bucks to repair my screen? (Oh, and please let me know if there's any way for a cheap screen repair, because I'm assuming the LCD is broken along with the glass, but the digitizer oughta be working fine)
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Honestly I don't think it's going to work, it's bettery to spend about $40 for screen repair (ebay) and now you still have 2 phones. Make sure you find the repair service that using UV glue.
buhohitr said:
Honestly I don't think it's going to work, it's bettery to spend about $40 for screen repair (ebay) and now you still have 2 phones. Make sure you find the repair service that using UV glue.
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Oh. Gotcha. Do you have any info on whether or not the devs are still working to unlock the 4.3 Knox-enabled bootloader?
Airhari21 said:
Oh. Gotcha. Do you have any info on whether or not the devs are still working to unlock the 4.3 Knox-enabled bootloader?
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I think this might be a solution, for anyone experiencing the same kind of problems
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2609197