Hi,
As above, I know the warranty on my One X will be void due to having to unlock the bootloader through HTCDEV, not sure about the Nexus 7.
Thanks
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It's a given that unlocking the bootloader of a device and installing non-stock firmware will technically void the warranty, although some OEMs are less stringent about it than others. That being said, it's quite simple to restore everything to stock on a Nexus device for a return or warranty exchange.
Great. So if the devices developed a H/W fault of some kind, I could relock, go back to stock and Asus would be none the wiser?
My only reason is to revert back to 4.1.2 because of Bluetooth issues
Thanks for your help
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I have looked but can't find an answer. Sorry if this has been posted before.
When re-locking the bootloader on the N7, to send in for repairs, does the bootloader say "relocked" or "locked"? If "relocked" can a stock bootloader be flashed to revert to "locked"? I have an HTC Amaze and flashing a stock bootloader and recovery is the only way for it to say "locked" as to not void the warranty. Thanks in advance for the help.
Im pretty sure it would say LOCKED, never tried myself
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Just says locked not re locked.
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Hi!
I want to root my Nexus 7 with unlockroot but I know that then warranty won't work anymore. But if I unroot then my warranty will work again. So my question is.. When I root my Nexus and when somethong happens (like not turning on anymore or etc.) then I can't unroot it? It means that warranty won't work and I have to fix it by myself or take it to some business who does things like this.
Just use one of the nexus toolkits and you can unroot or relock bootloader, whatever you want.
What toolkit do you suggest using? Because I just ordered a new 16 gb Wi-Fi version
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As far as I know they are both as good as each other. It seems to be down to your UI preference. I use mskip's toolkit, but other's prefer Wug's.
So if my Nexus 7 is not turning on I can easily relock bootloader and unroot?
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jeremin said:
So if my Nexus 7 is not turning on I can easily relock bootloader and unroot?
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Exactly
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Wat from do you guys suggest starting out with
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jeremin said:
So if my Nexus 7 is not turning on I can easily relock bootloader and unroot?
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How would anybody do anything to a device that can not be turned on?
Perhaps you meant "won't boot", but who knows really.
If you experience a hardware failure or do something dumb like flash junk to the bootloader (or erase it without flashing a valid one before exiting the currently-running bootloader), then nobody here can guarantee you anything at all.
There have been a couple of reports on here of devices which developed apparent hardware troubles which did not totally brick the device (that is, the unlocked bootloader state could still be observed), but apparently wrecked things to the point that no currently known techniques could rescue the device or relock the bootloader.
Having said that, there have been even more reports of newbs doing stupid stuff and bricking their devices. Interpret that any way you like; I interpret it to mean the owner bricking the device is more likely than it being caused by hardware failure.
Until there is something like "nvflash" for the N7 (might never happen), the N7 should not be considered to be unbrickable (say compared to Samsung devices that work with Kies/heimdal).
good luck
I rooted my phone.
I need to send it back to google for warrantly replacement.
If I install the phone back to stock, will I still be able to do so?
Will Google still honor the warranty?
Has anyone done this here?
Yes. It will be fine.
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Does anyone know if its possible to remove the knox bootloader from a phone that applied the update?
Why can't we just odin an older stock tar? Will that not work?
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Not currently possible to rollback the bootloader, however there are a number of "un-knox'd" ROM's available.
You have some reading to do.
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Would running an un knoxed rom trip the warranty fuse knox enables? Are there any aosp/cm un knoxed roms out that u know of?
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All aosp/cm roms are unknoxed. That has nothing to do with the bootloader. Once an S4 has been upgraded to MJA or newer software you have the knox enabled bootloader and the only way not to trip the knox warranty flag is not to root it. This flag is pretty useless and means nothing to most users. It has no affect on your phone usage or modding ability. All it does is let Samsung know that you rooted the phone if you send it in to them for warranty work. They may or may not choose to work on your phone under warranty. It doesn't affect your ability to go to Sprint and have them fix your phone. It only matters if you are going to ship your phone to Samsung to fix. If you have insurance (TEP), best buy, square trade, or any other program than you are good, Just use your damn phone and enjoy it!
Oh good to hear thanks
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How does rooting your s4 affect EE insurance if you have a problem with your phone?
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When you root your android phone, it's warranty is immediately voided and can no longer be looked at by the provider.
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Just unroot before bringing it in. There have been reports of people sending in broken phones with custom roms and still getting repairs with Samsung.
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Just unroot before bringing it in. There have been reports of people sending in broken phones with custom roms and still getting repairs with Samsung.
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Thats true bt if he is on 4.4 or 4.3 he will not be able to recover the knox warranty void
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aayushkhajuria2842 said:
Thats true bt if he is on 4.4 or 4.3 he will not be able to recover the knox warranty void
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No that is impossible to recover from but I know several people who still redeemed warranty even with a tripped knox counter.