I've been searching the forums trying to find out if ill be able to take my device in to have it serviced once rooted. I know ill have to unroot it first, but will the people at sprint be able to tell if its been rooted like the verizon varient?
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I unrooted mine the other day and no they shouldn't be able to. unless mine was just a freak accident . I would wait and let someone else back me up on this.
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I've been searching the forums trying to find out if ill be able to take my device in to have it serviced once rooted. I know ill have to unroot it first, but will the people at sprint be able to tell if its been rooted like the verizon varient?
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The good thing about Sprint is the majority of techs don't even care if it's rooted. I know I sure as hell don't! What are you bringing it in for?
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uToTMeH8 said:
The good thing about Sprint is the majority of techs don't even care if it's rooted. I know I sure as hell don't! What are you bringing it in for?
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The device is fine right now, this is just a precaution. I've had techs of both persuasions pro and anti rooting... Im coming from the E4GT on sprint and the only problems i had were hardware issues... No SD slot here so i see this breaking for a software issue? Am i wrong to think this?
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I saw this on another thread and thought it was funny so I'll start this out....
You know your rooted when you take your sII to a Sprint store, to get the sIII, and forget there is a live kernel boot animation on it.
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You know you're rooted when your girlfriend has to compete with your phone to get your attention
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You know your rooted when your phones goes over 123*F from heavy use...
You know you're rooted when you have 10+ backups
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ou know you're rooted when, you know more about phones than the sales associates do.
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You know you're rooted when you have 10+ backups
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You know you're rooted when your external sd is 90% full from cwm backups.
You know your rooted when your wallpaper is a pink unicorn, and you talk about how "badass" it is
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You know you're rooted when your girlfriend thinks you're cheating because your texts are missing every few days from flashing.
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You know you're rooted when your girlfriend has to compete with your phone to get your attention
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LoL very true
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You know you're rooted when the first thing you do when you get up in the morning is check/post to XDA.
#addicted
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You know you're rooted when your girlfriend has to compete with your phone to get your attention
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Lol how about when your wife kids and job compete for your attention.haha
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You know you're rooted when you set your default homepage is forum.xda-developers.com
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when you got 1 TB hdd full of roms and android staff
When you don't have an S3 yet. But you already know how to root it. Lmfao
Me before I got it lol
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You know your rotted when you forget how to take a screenshot !(cm9 and stock is different )
You know your rooted when you have to clear music and amazon devices of your cloud
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You know you're rooted when you just became the guy for "technical support".
Or
you know rooted when the guys from technical support ask: "what do you mean rooted ? "
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You know ur rooted when You try to explain what ur phone shouldent do to ur girl friend and u just give up.
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You know your rooted when you just named your brand new pair of betta fish "Odin" & "Flash"
You know you're rooted when your favourite animal happens to be a PINK UNICORN!!!
AOKP FTW!!!
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You know you're rooted when you tell your friends you can't hang out, because you are too busy fixing your bricked phone.
Hi everybody. I have hard bricked my phone. I have a warranty with best buy. Can I bring it to them or they will know that I root it
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I'd check your warranty to see if it's still under warranty since you rooted it. If it doesn't turn on it'll be hard to see anything.
Mine also hard bricked. Sent it back to samsung for repair, no issues other then the almost 4 week turnaround.
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So you got your phone back with no issues?
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No issues at all. They placed my pcm board I think it was
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AT&T Device Support Center will just swap out the phone.
I will bring it back for warranty
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I would try an get the one you have running, will it even get into d/l mode? Reason I say this, you are taking a chance on getting a MF3 version replacement, and then, you may get a device that is bootlocked until a fix is created.
lets try and fix what you have.
Thanks
Why I buy accidental damage warranties on phones: if all else fails, break the screen and get a replacement.
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Delakit said:
Why I buy accidental damage warranties on phones: if all else fails, break the screen and get a replacement.
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Can you say, insurance fraud. I wouldn't be posting this here.
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Can you say, insurance fraud. I wouldn't be posting this here.
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Well this whole thread is kind of about warranty fraud....
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Can you say, insurance fraud. I wouldn't be posting this here.
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Using an Accidental Insurance claim for an Accident? Sounds like a real problem. Can you say, "oops, my bad." I wouldn't be posting that here either.
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Well this whole thread is kind of about warranty fraud....
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My friends s4 is stuck on mf3..is it possible to downgrade? Tried to odin an older stock and it failed.
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My friends s4 is stuck on mf3..is it possible to downgrade? Tried to odin an older stock and it failed.
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Sorry, once you update to MF3 there's no going back. Cannot downgrade.
Welcome too the Bermuda triangle tech goes in but it dnt cme out
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Sorry, once you update to MF3 there's no going back. Cannot downgrade.
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This is gotta be at&t's fault no? lol I have t-mobile, it's for a friends s4. he's stuck on mf3
AT&T and Verizon have locked down bootloaders. When the OTA install starts, it blows a Qfuse making it impossible 'at this time' to downgrade back to a previous build.
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So I couldn't use Odin to flash an earlier version of the baseband to also root, and stop myself from upgrading to mf3 again?
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So I couldn't use Odin to flash an earlier version of the baseband to also root, and stop myself from upgrading to mf3 again?
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No. The bootloader is locked, and does not allow downgrade. Once you are on mf3, there is no going back.
No. It is impossible to downgrade anything. Read up on it. There is more in depth stuff than what I said. As of now, there is no way to downgrade, install a custom recovery, flash a rom, use Odin, etc. Only root is possible.
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So I couldn't use Odin to flash an earlier version of the baseband to also root, and stop myself from upgrading to mf3 again?
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Nope
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I was really thinking about rooting because i wanted to install this audio mod for music. That's really the only thing I wanna do. Also, to get rid of some bloat ware. But I still have very good battery
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Root is possible, but if you mess something up, you may not be able to fix it until we get an Odin flushable MF3.be very careful with it.
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I was really thinking about rooting because i wanted to install this audio mod for music. That's really the only thing I wanna do. Also, to get rid of some bloat ware. But I still have very good battery
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If anything goes wrong with installing the mod you may be screwed. Also, saying you want to "get rid" of bloatware leads me to believe you want to delete. Don't, just freeze them.
I would wait--
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If anything goes wrong with installing the mod you may be screwed. Also, saying you want to "get rid" of bloatware leads me to believe you want to delete. Don't, just freeze them.
I would wait--
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Probably will. I just hope someone comes up with something quick. I love my s4
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Probably will. I just hope someone comes up with something quick. I love my s4
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Probably the best decision for now. There are some threads in General that are tracking this--
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Probably the best decision for now. There are some threads in General that are tracking this--
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What do you mean " tracking" ?
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vividblu2020 said:
What do you mean " tracking" ?
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just discussing and keeping up on any progress, it is being worked on
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just discussing and keeping up on any progress, it is being worked on
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Sounds good. Yea, I've been looking at it often
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Sounds good. Yea, I've been looking at it often
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:good:
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Sounds good. Yea, I've been looking at it often
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Keep your eye on this app called Safestrap by Hashcode. It's being developed for Verizon S4 but most likely will work on AT&T's as well. Read more on what it is and other cool things about it here, be sure to read thoroughly so you fully understand what it does haha.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2441441
I'm on MF3 as well and I know how you feel. At least we can root.
Good things come to those who wait
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Keep your eye on this app called Safestrap by Hashcode. It's being developed for Verizon S4 but most likely will work on AT&T's as well. Read more on what it is and other cool things about it here, be sure to read thoroughly so you fully understand what it does haha.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2441441
I'm on MF3 as well and I know how you feel. At least we can root.
Good things come to those who wait
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Hey I appreciate the advice, and the help man. I will keep an eye on the topic.
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There is still no good and approved root for MJ7 correct? Im not really to thrilled on the kingo idea but dont have the time to get on XDA every day and check for new meathods.
What sucks most is i didnt update my phone by choice the sales person at Verizon did when i got the phone :crying::crying:
This is the AT&T forum.
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Wow my bad. Idk how I ended up here. Sorry about thay
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So I'm a few months in, and I'm already starting to look what is coming out. It's kind of hard to down size screen. You guys waiting for anything in particular?
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Whatever it is, it cant have a smaller screen than the Note 3. Same size or bigger.
Samsung note 5
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Samsung note 5
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Good one! I would say so to, but I'm tired of the boot loader issue. Although I have no desire to flash kernels, I feel when the boot loader is locked, it deters people from developing on the phone.
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PhilPan said:
Good one! I would say so to, but I'm tired of the boot loader issue. Although I have no desire to flash kernels, I feel when the boot loader is locked, it deters people from developing on the phone.
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Get used to it with vzw.
njfoses said:
Get used to it with vzw.
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+1 I have a feeling all providers will be having locked bootloaders sooner or later... We all may have to go to Dev edition phones, unfortunately. But my next phone may be on T-Mobile (depending on if sprint buys it or not though)...
I,ve had the note 2 and 3 and can probably guarantee that I will get the note 4. My wife gets my hand me downs. Having a locked bootloader stinks but it helps that we can still obtain root and there is always safestrap though I haven't gone there yet.
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there is a sticky for this discussion here ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2466108