Just a question, is root still possible after the OTA?
blud7 said:
Just a question, is root still possible after the OTA?
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Yup. use the CWM method.
it'll up your flash count.
HG! said:
Yup. use the CWM method.
it'll up your flash count.
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Thanks, i have triangle away so I can live with that!
HG! said:
Yup. use the CWM method.
it'll up your flash count.
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What does upping the flash count do?
smaw51 said:
What does upping the flash count do?
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As I understand it, it is just a counter. But anyone with a bit of a brain could /
would know that you had flashed / rooted your tablet. The main concern most
people have is in returning the tablet, where the manufacturer or dealer would
know that you flashed software and this MAY void your warranty.
blud7 said:
As I understand it, it is just a counter. But anyone with a bit of a brain could /
would know that you had flashed / rooted your tablet. The main concern most
people have is in returning the tablet, where the manufacturer or dealer would
know that you flashed software and this MAY void your warranty.
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you understand correctly, and yes, Triangle Away resets that counter. However it's also worth mentioning that with recent Samsung devices, even if you reset the counter the device will still be marked as MODIFIED. Which makes it pretty much silly to use anyways. You basically need to be unrooted for that to go away in the case you need to claim warranty... But then there's probably something wrong with the tablet that would prevent one from resetting that if you're looking at the warranty. Have a 0 counter all you want, if they find superuser/SuperSU and some root apps... then you're caught
I know you will laugh after reading this post. But I have to ask this question
I have more 2months of warranty on my ace plus. Should I root my phone now or after warranty finished?? I'm in confusion. I have rooted my galaxy y after the warranty finished. Rooting means no warranty further, so little bit worry working on me. I can handle any type of problem related to software or by help of XDA-developpers. But if after some days of rooting my phone's hardware starts problematic then what..
Jayadratha Mondal said:
I know you will laugh after reading this post. But I have to ask this question
I have more 2months of warranty on my ace plus. Should I root my phone now or after warranty finished?? I'm in confusion. I have rooted my galaxy y after the warranty finished. Rooting means no warranty further, so little bit worry working on me. I can handle any type of problem related to software or by help of XDA-developpers. But if after some days of rooting my phone's hardware starts problematic then what..
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i had the same situation... but when i did i had like 1.5 years of warranty
Well I would say you should root when you want because 3 months after rooting i had a battery problem.
I even had a custom rom in it that works perfectly (cm10.1 by TheWhisp) but i knew they would see this so i did the easiest thing: flashed my stock firmware.
sent to my local service and i got a new battery
i think they can see what i did but they will not spend their time testing our phones...
i have 5 more months of warranty and how i said if it starts being problematic just flash the stock firmware with odin and you will have the phone like you had when you bought it, i think they do the same thing if you send it to a service so just be careful what you do
if you only want to root it i bet you will have no problems, even it will work better.( that's why i did )
so my answer is Yes! you should do
yes u can...
well if u want to use custom roms & all other mods,
you have to root ur device which u may also know
& yup root mean void warranty but if u face any problem just reflash stock rom which mean u r in warranty period not a single sign of rooting when u flash stock firmware
j.posarekar70 said:
well if u want to use custom roms & all other mods,
you have to root ur device which u may also know
& yup root mean void warranty but if u face any problem just reflash stock rom which mean u r in warranty period not a single sign of rooting when u flash stock firmware
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What about flash counter?? If i flash with stock firmware will it be erased or set to zero?? You know about custom flash counter which countes how many time you have flashed the nand memory.
ShadowsDie said:
i had the same situation... but when i did i had like 1.5 years of warranty
Well I would say you should root when you want because 3 months after rooting i had a battery problem.
I even had a custom rom in it that works perfectly (cm10.1 by TheWhisp) but i knew they would see this so i did the easiest thing: flashed my stock firmware.
sent to my local service and i got a new battery
i think they can see what i did but they will not spend their time testing our phones...
i have 5 more months of warranty and how i said if it starts being problematic just flash the stock firmware with odin and you will have the phone like you had when you bought it, i think they do the same thing if you send it to a service so just be careful what you do
if you only want to root it i bet you will have no problems, even it will work better.( that's why i did )
so my answer is Yes! you should do
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I think you will also want to answer the above question. Will the flash counter be removed or erased after flashing with stock firmware??
Jayadratha Mondal said:
What about flash counter?? If i flash with stock firmware will it be erased or set to zero?? You know about custom flash counter which countes how many time you have flashed the nand memory.
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yup use triangle away app...(search it on xda)
it will remove binary counts which comes with rooting/ flashing cwm...
& it will work on stock rooted gb even on all other gb based roms...
j.posarekar70 said:
yup use triangle away app...(search it on xda)
it will remove binary counts which comes with rooting/ flashing cwm...
& it will work on stock rooted gb even on all other gb based roms...
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Yea... I forgot to mention i used triangle away to reset the binary counter
Hi, i need a way to get only root access, without unlock, with all stock and avaiable ota, there is a way to do this?
I did it with my tf300t with one-click-transformer-root, and i did same thing with my note 2 lte with framaroot and ota rootkeeper.
I need a way to not lose warranty, and have just root access.
Thank's in advice for answers!
anthraxx90 said:
Hi, i need a way to get only root access, without unlock, with all stock and avaiable ota, there is a way to do this?
I did it with my tf300t with one-click-transformer-root, and i did same thing with my note 2 lte with framaroot and ota rootkeeper.
I need a way to not lose warranty, and have just root access.
Thank's in advice for answers!
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You have to unlock the bootloader to root. You can relock it afterwards if you want to
Edit, day 2 of 7 with the internet working
anthraxx90 said:
Hi, i need a way to get only root access, without unlock, with all stock and avaiable ota, there is a way to do this?
I did it with my tf300t with one-click-transformer-root, and i did same thing with my note 2 lte with framaroot and ota rootkeeper.
I need a way to not lose warranty, and have just root access.
Thank's in advice for answers!
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You can't root without unlocking the bootloader. If you ever have to exchange it under warranty, you can reset the tamper flag and relock the bootloader, they'll be none the wiser.
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I had read somewhere, that google accept rooted device in warranty, is real?
anthraxx90 said:
I had read somewhere, that google accept rooted device in warranty, is real?
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If you need to warranty it just flash the factory image and lock. Simple, easy
jd1639 said:
If you need to warranty it just flash the factory image and lock. Simple, easy
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And if i brick it? My last bricked device was not recognized in anyway by any pc, no adb, no fastboot, just api, but can't fix it.
(and I have not broken it doing stupid things, just installed clockworkmod app from playstore and flash cwm for my device, what's result? after some day i read that cwm dev, put the wrong files in tf300t section, and the app flashed tf101 files)
anthraxx90 said:
I had read somewhere, that google accept rooted device in warranty, is real?
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No they do not.
Stupid, was using ROM manager to begin with.
good day.
chopper the dog said:
Stupid, was using ROM manager to begin with.
good day.
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i think stupid is who publish an application without notifying error that brick and make unusefull a device bought for 700€
regardless from the user experience.
Plz next answers , follow the question, not personal comment.
jd1639 said:
Edit, day 2 of 7 with the internet working
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LOL! (Yes, I got the reference)
anthraxx90 said:
i think stupid is who publish an application without notifying error that brick and make unusefull a device bought for 700€
regardless from the user experience.
Plz next answers , follow the question, not personal comment.
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if you think modifying your device keeps you safe from bricking it, you need to stop rooting your phone and stick to stock.
people make mistakes and your blind following makes you look ignorant and uninformed.
Zepius said:
if you think modifying your device keeps you safe from bricking it, you need to stop rooting your phone and stick to stock.
people make mistakes and your blind following makes you look ignorant and uninformed.
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really, I am in the modding since I bought the first galaxy young, and all the developers warn worthy of respect and do not take responsibility for damage to devices, if we do not take resposability we do not public on play google, on google play store a child may install and tap 2 buttons, that is how I publish a tread "Root your galaxy Note 2," and i put inside the kernel of Commodore64, before you speak of ignorance think of ignorance with which you answered without even knowing what we're talking.
anthraxx90 said:
really, I am in the modding since I bought the first galaxy young, and all the developers warn worthy of respect and do not take responsibility for damage to devices, if we do not take resposability we do not public on play google, on google play store a child may install and tap 2 buttons, that is how I publish a tread "Root your galaxy Note 2," and i put inside the kernel of Commodore64, before you speak of ignorance think of ignorance with which you answered without even knowing what we're talking.
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I read your post twice and still can't figure out exactly what you're trying to say - you published a thread about rooting your note 2 (by installing and tapping 2 buttons on google play), and put the thread inside the kernel of commodore64? wut?
Your original question was "Can you root without unlocking bootloader" - the answer, as several folks posted (and was mentioned in earlier searchable threads as well) was "No"
Did that answer your question? Or do you have a follow up question? - Not trying to sound rude - just trying to understand if your question has been answered or not.
jd1639 said:
If you need to warranty it just flash the factory image and lock. Simple, easy
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...but not before resetting the TAMPER FLAG.
anthraxx90 said:
And if i brick it? My last bricked device was not recognized in anyway by any pc, no adb, no fastboot, just api, but can't fix it.
(and I have not broken it doing stupid things, just installed clockworkmod app from playstore and flash cwm for my device, what's result? after some day i read that cwm dev, put the wrong files in tf300t section, and the app flashed tf101 files)
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If you brick a device, it's on you. Why would they replace a device that was damaged by your tampering with it?
BirchBarlow said:
...but not before resetting the TAMPER FLAG.
If you brick a device, it's on you. Why would they replace a device that was damaged by your tampering with it?
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Perfect, this man understand what i want to know.
"the note 2 root and commodore, was an example, i was talking about rom manager with tf101 file instead of tf300 when i was installing cwm (for this i lost my tf300, cause hardbricked), and someone tell me that it's my error lol, for this i say:"now i publish an app on google play store that promise u to give root to your note 2 or any other smartphone, and instead of root it flash on your device the commodore64 kernel, and this make ur device broken forever"
My english is not good, but the sense is clear -.-
Close please, BirchBarlow give me all correct answer
for a warranty claim?
My sticker is still on but its almost 100% white now. And my bootloader is unlocked (but still on the factory ROM) so should I relock it?
You can take off that sticker btw.
I'd relock it just to be safe and reset the tamperflag with bootunlocker, but google said themselves that rooted phones don't void the warranty if it's a nexus.
Beauenheim said:
I'd relock it just to be safe and reset the tamperflag with bootunlocker
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Keep in mind that if you need to unlock the bootloader again for any reason, it will wipe your data, but I guess you can do a backup and restore if you have a custom recovery installed. Definitely a wise idea though (especially in retrospect).
Beauenheim said:
google said themselves that rooted phones don't void the warranty if it's a nexus.
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Can you point me to a reference to Google making this statement? It might come in handy if I run into warranty issues when I return my faulty device.
Beauenheim said:
....but google said themselves that rooted phones don't void the warranty if it's a nexus.
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Really? Is there a link to that?
aooga said:
Really? Is there a link to that?
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Sorry, I ended up not being able to find a link. I guess it was all in my head.
thanks for the replies.
Beauenheim said:
I'd relock it just to be safe and reset the tamperflag with bootunlocker, but google said themselves that rooted phones don't void the warranty if it's a nexus.
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by bootunlocker do you mean this specific program: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.segv11.bootunlocker&hl=en
spitswap said:
thanks for the replies.
by bootunlocker do you mean this specific program: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.segv11.bootunlocker&hl=en
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Yes, that's the one.
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Your warranty will be void and there's no way to get it back after rooting.
enesuzun2002 said:
I have 14 months of samsung warranty my warranty will be void i know and without the warranty what will i lose if i root my phone then should i root my phone now i have nearly 5 hours SoT so i dont want root for battery life
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Rooting is to customize the phone, giving it extra functions and looks. You you have no intention to do that, then no need to root.
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Rosli59564 said:
Rooting is to customize the phone, giving it extra functions and looks. You you have no intention to do that, then no need to root.
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Thanks for your answer.I changed my mind but when warranty finishes i will root it