First off. My phone is rooted using PwnMyMoto. I have the twrp recovery. I plan to except the newest OTA in an attempt to brick/or make it look as if it is bricked. (Don't ask me why). If I accept the new OTA update right now as I currently have it, would I still be able to boot the phone into twrp? I realize I will bootloop if I try to boot into android. I just want to make sure I won't be able to boot into twrp. If so, could I flash back to the normal stock and still have it boot loop? And if neither of those work. How could I go about bricking my phone the easiest?
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maybe try flashing random files in twrp. flash a GS3 radio or something and see what happens.
Looking for more of a sure thing
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Looking for more of a sure thing
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At the risk of adding to a weird idea, try flashing the boot.IMG from the moto x KitKat fxz. It will (soft)brick and can be recovered by flashing the proper boot.img
How come we can't ask why?
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How come we can't ask why?
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^^^^^this
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I can only assume that the op is looking to get a warranty replacement or an insurance claim for his phone which he probably doesn't want anymore. It seems unethical at best and fraudulent at worst.
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I can only assume that the op is looking to get a warranty replacement or an insurance claim for his phone which he probably doesn't want anymore. It seems unethical at best and fraudulent at worst.
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Warranty claim? No way. The warranty would be void. Insurance claim? Why not just use an unethical hammer? Lol
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I've bricked a couple of S2's accidentally when I was on Sprint. I told them they were rooted and they replaced them under warranty with no problem. If it's not suspect, then he should say why he wants to brick his phone. Seems fishy, that's all.
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MrTweakers said:
First off. My phone is rooted using PwnMyMoto. I have the twrp recovery. I plan to except the newest OTA in an attempt to brick/or make it look as if it is bricked. (Don't ask me why). If I accept the new OTA update right now as I currently have it, would I still be able to boot the phone into twrp? I realize I will bootloop if I try to boot into android. I just want to make sure I won't be able to boot into twrp. If so, could I flash back to the normal stock and still have it boot loop? And if neither of those work. How could I go about bricking my phone the easiest?
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After it's been rooted, the internal counter is incremented, and any service or warranty center worth a damn will check it when you try to pawn off your "bricked" phone on them.
Thanks for contributing to the locking of bootloaders and increase in warranty and rate charges. We all appreciate it greatly.
As for "bricking it", the best you can do is a soft brick. The bootloader won't allow flashing anything not signed by Motorola, so you really can't mess it up too bad.
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Hey guys I've been searching google.com and xda forums for the last 3 hours trying to find a way to unroot my phone so I can bring it in for service. My phone's speaker broke and I get no sound so I have to bring it into the store. What would you guys suggest to do? I don't want to use Odin cause it's not recognizing my phone and I don't want to trip the counter using the .tar Any help please!
Got to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348
Follow all instructions exctly and your phone will be 100 percent stock no root
Well first thank you for your reply. Ive been trying this method but I can't get Odin to detect my phone in download mode. It detects it when the phone is booted. I've reinstalled drivers and rebooted computer nothing has worked. Any suggestions?
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Did you flash cwm? If not and all you want to do is unroot that's simple..install a root file explorer and delete superuser.apk. now they can't tell you rooted the phone.
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Hey guys I've been searching google.com and xda forums for the last 3 hours trying to find a way to unroot my phone so I can bring it in for service. My phone's speaker broke and I get no sound so I have to bring it into the store. What would you guys suggest to do? I don't want to use Odin cause it's not recognizing my phone and I don't want to trip the counter using the .tar Any help please!
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Why don't you brick it instead?
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if its just a speaker, they most likely will just replace the speaker.
Make sure you backup anything you dont want to loose, they may wipe the phone ,
I got a laptop back one time, that just needed a new keyboard, they wiped the damn thing, retards. ( this was way back before i was smart enough to do all that myself lol )
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Why don't you brick it instead?
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Well if I brick it then ill probably have to pay $200 dollars for a new one.
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jamesd86 said:
Did you flash cwm? If not and all you want to do is unroot that's simple..install a root file explorer and delete superuser.apk. now they can't tell you rooted the phone.
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Yes I have cwm.
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evocalante said:
Well if I brick it then ill probably have to pay $200 dollars for a new one.
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Weird, my warranty replaces my phone for free if it won't even turn on. Plus, there isn't physical damage.
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There is a 1 year manufacturer warranty. Against hardware defects.. excluding water damage
Hey I have a question about rooting my phone. I just got a new phone a few months ago, and it is still under warranty. I have been thinking about rooting it for a while, as my old phone was rooted. The only problem is that I dont want to void my warranty, and thats when I read a post on here that was talking about it being okay to root your phone. According to the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, a company has to prove that you broke your phone because you rooted it. Is this true? My only concern is because all of the companies like T-Mobile and Verizon and all those are atill saying that if you root your phone it automatically voids your warranty. If the act is still saying that they cant void your warranty by rooting it, then why are they still saying it does?
Not if you know how to revert your device to its completely stock state
I usually unroot first if i want to go.ssc but honestly once i got hardbrick on my devices*root condition*..but its fine when checked no void my warranty after all ssc i dont know why... Guess im lucky
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inoe_day said:
I usually unroot first if i want to go.ssc but honestly once i got hardbrick on my devices*root condition*..but its fine when checked no void my warranty after all ssc i dont know why... Guess im lucky
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There have been users in X8 forums that get hard bricked and their warranties were still in effect. Maybe the manufacturers can't check it when it's a hard brick?
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There have been users in X8 forums that get hard bricked and their warranties were still in effect. Maybe the manufacturers can't check it when it's a hard brick?
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Yeah exactly manufacturers don't check often
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inoe_day said:
I usually unroot first if i want to go.ssc but honestly once i got hardbrick on my devices*root condition*..but its fine when checked no void my warranty after all ssc i dont know why... Guess im lucky
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Yah, normally root will void the warranty. but we can still unroot b4 b4 sending back to SSC like you said. Unless totally brick its depend on the SSC.
Awesome, but if I have an unlocked bootrom?
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Awesome, but if I have an unlocked bootrom?
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I believe you can revert that, right? (I'm not 100% sure)
After seeing postings about a Verizon Galaxy S III update yesterday, I checked using "About device -> Software update" in Settings this morning.
A 30 MB download started and the update completed in about 5 minutes. Software Update says it was an update from LF2 to LG7.
Yeah and kills universal search and you cant disable the remote diagnostics if youre stock and not rooted.
Also several users have confirmed it will break root. They all were stock rooted with stock recovery.
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I am on the Stock rom, rooted and bootloader unlocked Using Voodoo OTA RootKeeper, EZ-Unlock, and CWM. Re-Locked bootloader, disabled root, took the update. After the update completed, CWM asked to disable the new boot image, selected yes. Rebooted, got a message saying the update failed, however it installed and I am at I535VRLG7. I was able to restore root, and unlock bootloader without any problem..
How do I keep the phone from taking the update?
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How do I keep the phone from taking the update?
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Read a Page or two back
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ali87va said:
Read a Page or two back
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Rofl.
Please excuse my Galaxy S III, it's a bit Paranoid.
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There's only 1 page to this thread.
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Also several users have confirmed it will break root. They all were stock rooted with stock recovery.
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OTA's always break root, that is what OTA rootkeeper is for!
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OTA's always break root, that is what OTA rootkeeper is for!
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Is that what they only do. Or do they brick the phone as well? I'm currently rooted and on stock recovery and don't know if updating will break my phone please help!!!
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You will probably lose root and have to redo. Might cause issues worse than that
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Not getting the update here in Atlanta
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I am on the Stock rom, rooted and bootloader unlocked Using Voodoo OTA RootKeeper, EZ-Unlock, and CWM. Re-Locked bootloader, disabled root, took the update. After the update completed, CWM asked to disable the new boot image, selected yes. Rebooted, got a message saying the update failed, however it installed and I am at I535VRLG7. I was able to restore root, and unlock bootloader without any problem..
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Didn't know Voodoo RootKeeper worked on this. Have on my Asus tablet and never failed me yet. You are hereby knighted with your first "thanks"
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Is that what they only do. Or do they brick the phone as well? I'm currently rooted and on stock recovery and don't know if updating will break my phone please help!!!
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Did you unlock your bootloader? If so did you read the BIG WARNING?if not go back and read it. Generally once you root you don't want to give vzw a chance to unroot you. If you unlocked your bootloader It could brick your phone.
So generally don't take ota updates! You wait for the devs to check them out First and modify them for us.
As far as i Can tell this ota just takes stuff away from us And installs some vzw remote access crap. ( with that on your phone you will have to go back to stock if you just call customer support for help)
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Did you unlock your bootloader? If so did you read the BIG WARNING?if not go back and read it. Generally once you root you don't want to give vzw a chance to unroot you. If you unlocked your bootloader It could brick your phone.
So generally don't take ota updates! You wait for the devs to check them out First and modify them for us.
As far as i Can tell this ota just takes stuff away from us And installs some vzw remote access crap. ( with that on your phone you will have to go back to stock if you just call customer support for help)
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The update itself has useful stuff (a new radio which fixes no sim issues), but we have that already and it should just be flashed by itself, imo.
Well got my first no sim with the radio epic fail.. So much for fixing that maybe just a push to get that bootloader relocked
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Well got my first no sim with the radio epic fail.. So much for fixing that maybe just a push to get that bootloader relocked
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Did you do it via OTA or flashed the radio? I'm hoping you flashed invisiblek's in Odin. That one was actually the wrong version.
Flashed the radio with Odin
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Flashed the radio with Odin
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Flash the CWM version. invisiblek accidentally bundled the previous radio in the Odin package. Not sure if it's updated yet.
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Is that what they only do. Or do they brick the phone as well? I'm currently rooted and on stock recovery and don't know if updating will break my phone please help!!!
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Freeze sdm 1.0
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So I tried installing this last week had trouble and got me on the screen that says something like 'this is non Verizon please take to nearest Verizon store' SOMETHING LIKE THAT, sure you'll know what I'm talking about. And I want to try over but I'm not to sure why that happened. I'm THINKING it was because phone wasn't unlocked. But I'm not to sure if it was locked of unlocked. Is there several reasons that message can come up or is there one main cause, that cause being phone wasn't unlocked??
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So I tried installing this last week had trouble and got me on the screen that says something like 'this is non Verizon please take to nearest Verizon store' SOMETHING LIKE THAT, sure you'll know what I'm talking about. And I want to try over but I'm not to sure why that happened. I'm THINKING it was because phone wasn't unlocked. But I'm not to sure if it was locked of unlocked. Is there several reasons that message can come up or is there one main cause, that cause being phone wasn't unlocked??
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Only reason why you saw this prompt is because the bootloader is still locked. Odin flash a stock image then use Casual to root and unlock or use Invisiblek's guide on Rootzwiki to root and unlock via Odin. What root utility did you use to root?
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Only reason why you saw this prompt is because the bootloader is still locked. Odin flash a stock image then use Casual to root and unlock or use Invisiblek's guide on Rootzwiki to root and unlock via Odin. What root utility did you use to root?
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Well I got it unlocked and rooted, so when I do the wipe and factory reset then flash rom it should all be fine right? The factory reset and wipe won't lock the bootloader?
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Well I got it unlocked and rooted, so when I do the wipe and factory reset then flash rom it should all be fine right? The factory reset and wipe won't lock the bootloader?
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Correct. It won't lock the bootloader.
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Thanks I got it flashed perfectly
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My Nexus 5 crashed while texting. Now I only have the bootloader and TWRP. Using fastboot wont flash anything. Says I does but everything stay the same. Wont mount any partitions and says I have no OS. I can't seem to flash a stock recovery... says its sucssfull but doesn't change and when I lock the bootloader it reboots unlocked. I was running SlimKat with fanco kernel 25.
Looks like a emmc failure... RMA it... Lets hope Google doesn't void the warranty!
Might be an expensive problem as I can't flash recovery or relock it. I'm concerned that Google wont warranty the eMMC in this state.
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Google understand that rooting doesn't cause emmc failure. At this juncture, you've nothing to lose
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Might be an expensive problem as I can't flash recovery or relock it. I'm concerned that Google wont warranty the eMMC in this state.
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There is a thread in General Section where Google had replied to a customer's email that they don't care whether the Bootloader is unlocked or not!
So you might be safe. Besides that, there's nothing you can do by yourself. It needs to be replaced.
Looks like a emmc failure... RMA it... Lets hope Google doesn't void the warranty!
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If he is in the UK they have to by law, unless they can prove that rooting caused the damage. This is a High Court
ruling.
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I'm in Canada so here's to hoping they warranty it. I've got my eyes, toes and fingers crossed.
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No problem. Fully warrantied by Google.
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