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I swapped out my Vibrant for a new one and forgot to delete the file for root

I swapped out my Vibrant for a new one and forgot to delete the file for root. Is this a problem or will T-Mobile not even notice the file and just wipe the internal mem? I unrooted it before I sent it in but I forgot to delete the file.

Authorities have been notified..... probably on their way to your house now......

alecjake said:
I swapped out my Vibrant for a new one and forgot to delete the file for root. Is this a problem or will T-Mobile not even notice the file and just wipe the internal mem? I unrooted it before I sent it in but I forgot to delete the file.
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Pack your bags, get on the first flight out of town.
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Hahaha nice jokes.
Don't worry they don't check every phone infact they putthe phones on racks and a computer auto turns them to stock erasing everything
No worries
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I bricked mine and sent it back to them with a custom rom and a i9000 kernel on it....no problem once its in good physical condition they wont give you any trouble
alecjake said:
I swapped out my Vibrant for a new one and forgot to delete the file for root. Is this a problem or will T-Mobile not even notice the file and just wipe the internal mem? I unrooted it before I sent it in but I forgot to delete the file.
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Vibrant + Nero + OCLF

I hope you don't get charge cuz if they find out you will. Trust me I got a couple of friends working for Tmo.

I did the same thing OP, no big deal... I didn't get charged..

When I got mine I asked the sales person about rooting the phone. Keep in mind this is a salesperson and not T-Mobile corporate, but she really knew her stuff. She was the one everyone else in the store went to for help when they were not sure of the answer to a customer's question.
She said, if you have to return it just get it back to looking stock. Have the stock ROM on the phone and remove any obvious root or root required apps if they are still installed after you put the stock ROM on there. She said if it made me more comfortable I could remove busybox and su, but that nobody was going to go digging into the file system to see if the phone was rooted.
Basically they know, even if they don't officially acknowledge, that rooting the phone does not break it. If the phone is running stock firmware and it is still having issues then it is highly likely that the issue is hardware. Also, the preliminary acceptance or denial of the claim is done in store. If it makes it back to the factory it is pretty much accepted unless something really fishy pops up, like it is obvious you have been dissembling the device. They might kick it back if they find a FFC or soldering at the GPS antenna, but they are not looking for the su executive at that point.

They don't check the phones out that they get back they just restore them or whatever
lrobles787 said:
I hope you don't get charge cuz if they find out you will. Trust me I got a couple of friends working for Tmo.
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Vibrant + Nero + OCLF

Yeah. Everyone is right. No worries. I ducked up a captivate on a30 day test drive with ATT, I took it back with stock ROM and even left superuser icon on there just hid it with launcher pro. Shouldn't have any problems. I didnt and believe they didn't wanna take that phone back on day 29.
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I've sent mine to samsung after i bricked it messing with roms, it was sent in with absolutely nothing original software wise.
didnt even get a warning. they flashed and sent it back A-ok

Going to sprint store with modded phone.

I'm fed up with the battery life on my phone. It's only lasting about 8 hours on a full charge with medium usage, fb and twitter set to never refresh and using juice defender. I'm taking it to the store to see about getting the battery replaced as I've only had the phone 6-7 months. Are they going to give me **** about my phone being modded eg; running CM?
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Depends on the people that work there. Out of the two sprint stores by me, one has a few employees who actually talked to me about rooting the day I got my phone haha. I know they don't care whether I show up running a custom ROM or not.
But the other store is the complete opposite, they take everything seriously and follow all those rules/restrictions on people who root
So, I'd say if you don't know what kind of employees are at your sprint store - nandroid backup your phone and run the RUU. Then possibly hint about being interested in learning about "this rooting thing." And take it from there

Same here the two sales reps were actually showing me cm6 on their ssmoment because I had a rooted mytouch running cm6 it really does depend on who u talk to and it is always better at service and repair centers instead of stores that just do sales
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They will most likely blame the bad battery life on the custom ROM..we all know it's BS, but that's what they are trained to say. 3rd party software is always to blame. Just flash stock if you want the best chance of getting what you want.

I say nandroid, then install a 2.1 sense rom. Then take it in.
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Policy rule: Yes they will. Nandroid, save it off your SD card, RUU it, then go in.

I've found that if you go to stores that are third party instead of a corporate store you'll have better luck. Make sure its more than just a.kiosk in the mall though because it seems they never know what the heck theyre talking about. And btw, I go through phones faster than underwear, and really dont have issues when I have to take it in to a third party store...
I am sofa king we todd ed

oohaylima said:
Policy rule: Yes they will. Nandroid, save it off your SD card, RUU it, then go in.
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Agreed.
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Where can I find a rooted 2.1 rom so that I can do a factory reset so sprint will replace my wife's phone that constantly shuts off.

Deadsoulsniper said:
Where can I find a rooted 2.1 rom so that I can do a factory reset so sprint will replace my wife's phone that constantly shuts off.
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You don't need a pre-rooted RUU file to bring it back to factory setting. In fact, that's something you don't want to have installed. Go to htc's support website, select your phone and download their RUU program. Follow the instructions and then you're set.

Was doing my regular lurking here, and I found another method to RUU it back if you want.
[SOLVED] Return to stock (unroot) without USB or without a computer (non-RUU method)

To root or not to root?

Figured I would finally start a thread.
I've had my EVO for awhile now, 6-9 months. I love it. Initially when I bought it, I had every intention of rooting it, but after having used the native fw I'm not even sure it's necessary. What am I missing that rooting my EVO has to offer?

rrasco said:
Figured I would finally start a thread.
I've had my EVO for awhile now, 6-9 months. I love it. Initially when I bought it, I had every intention of rooting it, but after having used the native fw I'm not even sure it's necessary. What am I missing that rooting my EVO has to offer?
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Wen you root your phone you can flash custom roms free wifi theder you can overclock the CPU also you Dan download titanium backup and backup all your apps and app data. I would recommended rooting
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Root. It's not a question, its a must. The benefits are endless
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there is nothing wrong with stock, in fact you won't need to deal with a lot of the bugs and hiccups of custom ROMS.
However, there are many benefits of rooting. There is tethering (or pay for it), over/under clocking, battery saving features, AOSP ROMS (which in my mind make it worth while), and different sense versions to try. Rooting also helps optimize your phone. the amount you will learn is priceless. Everytime you flash a new ROM it is almost like getting a brand new phone.
If you don't like be rooted, you can easily unroot.

I rooted my Evo soon after getting it but I remained stock quite a while.
There are plenty of reasons to root even if you want to remain totally stock.
For me the reasons were:
- Occasional use of tethering. Never needed it enough to pay for it and I never used that much data.
- to back up my apps and all data.
- to remove apps that I did not want to prevent them from running. (Amazon MP3, Sprint Navigation, etc).
- to be able to integrate updates (to Maps, Gmail, Facebook) into the ROM using Titanium Backup. Saved space in the Data partition for other apps.
- Modify the hosts file to block some ads.
- etc...
When I decided to flash something I started with the kernel (to try SBC and then just to use HAVS).

The 'brick' warnings always made me edgy about doing it. Any recommended ROMs worth giving a shot? Would be nice to get a better swype-like keyboard, can't really think of anything else I 'need'.
I wouldn't use tethering either, I barely use my laptop as is and if I did I would get a verizon 4g LTE mifi since Sprint's 4g is a joke.

rrasco said:
The 'brick' warnings always made me edgy about doing it. Any recommended ROMs worth giving a shot? Would be nice to get a better swype-like keyboard, can't really think of anything else I 'need'.
I wouldn't use tethering either, I barely use my laptop as is and if I did I would get a verizon 4g LTE mifi since Sprint's 4g is a joke.
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U can still get a better keyboard without rooting. And the bricking part if anything goes wrong people here will gladly help you if you ask. Also if your not that type person who mess around with your phone just leave it be. You can always bring your phone back to factory stock if you need it too.
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I always thought bricked was unfix-able. Good to know. I'm a developer, so completely open to modding my phone, so long as there is added benefit.
Is there an easy way to move your current apps over to the new fw, or is that one of the caveats to having stock fw? SD data is untouched, I'm assuming?

I did it to get rid of Nova. That app gave me nightmaress.

Yes you can alwayz do a nondroid backup and if you brick you phone you can bring it back to your last backup.. right now I'm using team noctunals xplod e4g rom based of Sony experia working very well
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Truballa4real7 said:
Yes you can alwayz do a nondroid backup and if you brick you phone you can bring it back to your last backup.. right now I'm using team noctunals xplod e4g rom based of Sony experia working very well
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You will not be able to restore a nandroid if you brick your phone. When the phone is truly bricked you can not get into the bootloader or recovery. The good news is it is very difficult to brick your Evo unless you really screw up. Just about the only way is to pull the battery while flashing the radio. Flashing a ROM is pretty safe. Even if you screw it up you can always get into the bootloader or recovery and reflash.

I suggest you don't, and if you do, make sure it's not from cyanogenmod.

Good Luck!!

[Q] Sprint Service and Repair

So my epic was rooted. I was on the stock rom, just removed all the bloatware. I kept getting the google services framework force close and random reboots. I ODIN'd back to stock froyo ec05 (before the Gingerbread update came out) and it was still happening. I have TEP, so I figure I'll just bring it in to Sprint and maybe they can reflash it or something. I drop it off, they tell me to come back in 3 hours. I return and the girl brings out this piece of paper with some stats on it. She asks me if I have ever rooted my phone. I want to say no and play dumb, but it looks like I'm busted anyway. She shows me the sheet of paper, it says "version in:" and below that "version out:" She tells me this is how they can tell the phone has been rooted, it's blank next to one of them. She also tells me that because it's been rooted they can't do anything with it; no reflashing, no repairs, nothing. She tells me I can pay the $100 deductible and get a replacement but that's it. She also tells me her phone is rooted, and most of the employees there root their phones too. So I leave and reflash with ODIN once again. My problem seems to be resolved, but then I ran across this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1211794
According to Squishy, it sounds like they could have at least reflashed it. Is it at their discretion? Did they just not want to deal with it? Or maybe the policy has changed?
Has anyone else tried to bring a previously rooted phone in to Sprint and had this happen?

Crazy people. Good to know that they know.
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Yea, it's at the individual stores discretion, based on how big of an ass the manager is, and that store's exchange attainment scores. Too many unnecessary exchanges, comes back to hurt a store's goals, so some manager's will institute policies as such, to give themselves leeway. Take it to another store, preferably not a corporate store.
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after a fresh odin all root remnants are removed. The sprint rep was just stupid.
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brimart said:
So my epic was rooted. I was on the stock rom, just removed all the bloatware. I kept getting the google services framework force close and random reboots. I ODIN'd back to stock froyo ec05 (before the Gingerbread update came out) and it was still happening. I have TEP, so I figure I'll just bring it in to Sprint and maybe they can reflash it or something. I drop it off, they tell me to come back in 3 hours. I return and the girl brings out this piece of paper with some stats on it. She asks me if I have ever rooted my phone. I want to say no and play dumb, but it looks like I'm busted anyway. She shows me the sheet of paper, it says "version in:" and below that "version out:" She tells me this is how they can tell the phone has been rooted, it's blank next to one of them. She also tells me that because it's been rooted they can't do anything with it; no reflashing, no repairs, nothing. She tells me I can pay the $100 deductible and get a replacement but that's it. She also tells me her phone is rooted, and most of the employees there root their phones too. So I leave and reflash with ODIN once again. My problem seems to be resolved, but then I ran across this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1211794
According to Squishy, it sounds like they could have at least reflashed it. Is it at their discretion? Did they just not want to deal with it? Or maybe the policy has changed?
Has anyone else tried to bring a previously rooted phone in to Sprint and had this happen?
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Before i got into flashing roms, themes, mods. The only thing i knew how to do was root. Before i even knew odin and this forum existed, i bricked my phone 2 times within a week.... Both times didn't know any better other then to take it the closest sprint repair store. Both times they replaced my phone which was rooted and bricked when I walked in....
Moral of my story- it's the stores discretion.
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[Q] Possible to COMPLETELY unroot I337UCUAMF3?

I have an AT&T Galaxy S4 running Android 4.2.2 I337UCUAMF3. I rooted the device using the method posted here:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...-root-new-root-method-found-mf3-firmware.html
Everything was fine. No custom recovery, but I had root access. Well, my company is reclaiming all company-provided BlackBerrys and rolling out Good for Enterprise on personal devices. Without the ability to use ODIN to completely reflash the device, I tried other methods to remove ROOT -- Universal Unroot, and others that unfortunately I don't recall. I've done multiple factory data resets, and that does not help either.
These methods seem to work as I no longer have root access, however, Good thinks I do which causes my account to get disabled anywhere from 1 hour to 3 days after setting it up. My device is currently showing Device Status = Official and I no longer get the "custom" logo when rebooting. The people at Good sent me a Malware Test app that normally does not show anything, but occasionally will return something running a root shell, but no indication of what -- obviously this is what's causing my device to be flagged as rooted periodically and causing my account to be disabled.
So, in the absence of a stock MF3 firmware to install with ODIN, what else can I do to completely remove root?

You might consider going to best buy that has a Samsung kiosk. They can flash the stock mf3 firmware.

From reading around this forum it sounds like you can take it to Best Buy and go to the Samsung Experience there and they have the ability to flash the completely stock ROM on it (MF3). you just need to call around to your best buys stores to make sure they can do it before heading over there. Others have stated that Samsung sent them to the Best Buy Samsung Experience to do this. It also sounds like MOST of the Samsung Experience people had to call Samsung Support to be able to flash it. Hope this helps
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Is there anything I need to tell them for them to do it? Do I say I rooted and need to reflash the stock ROM to completely remove root? I mean, I never would have gone into an Apple Store and said I need to unjailbreak my phone, just not sure what the protocol is to get your phone reflashed by Samsung.
Thanks in advance.

bpdunsta said:
Is there anything I need to tell them for them to do it? Do I say I rooted and need to reflash the stock ROM to completely remove root? I mean, I never would have gone into an Apple Store and said I need to unjailbreak my phone, just not sure what the protocol is to get your phone reflashed by Samsung.
Thanks in advance.
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Just tell them your company is rolling out good for enterprise and something happened to your phone where it won't install and they suggested you return it to stock firmware. And you heard that best buy can do that and could you please help me.

Went to Best Buy yesterday. The Samsung rep only comes to the local store on weekends, but one of the other folks was able to help me. I couldn't see her PC screen, but based on what I saw on my S4 screen, it looked like she was flashing the ROM. So far, no issues with Good for Enterprise, so my issue may be resolved.
Thanks everyone for the help.

bpdunsta said:
Went to Best Buy yesterday. The Samsung rep only comes to the local store on weekends, but one of the other folks was able to help me. I couldn't see her PC screen, but based on what I saw on my S4 screen, it looked like she was flashing the ROM. So far, no issues with Good for Enterprise, so my issue may be resolved.
Thanks everyone for the help.
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Glad it worked out for you.