I asked Verizon to help me with my phone, as it booted into TWRP and not the OS, because I accidentally accepted the OTA update. So they are sending me a replacement, because I pretended I didn't know what happened, and I said I looked up how to back up android and It said to install an app and I installed it and it had a loading bar that just said done. He is sending me a replacement because of this, and he said the broken phone is being sent to LG for repair. I am rooted, but when they find out (if they do) Will they fine me? or will they just try to fix it? The guy said they will only fine you if it has any physical damage. The replacement is coming tomorrow and I have to send the broken one back within 5 days of it arriving. Unfortunately, I found out the next day how to get out of it, but oh well. Its too late now. But will they fine me or force me to give back the replacement?
Anybody?
I did this as well- I was able to use a tool to unroot it, and sent it back and they were none the wiser.
Verizon will charge you the full amount because it's technically out of warranty once you mod it. However, LG doesn't care if you send the phone directly to them.
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This is just an update for you all. Here's my story. I had a Nexus One and had it swapped due to volume key not functioning properly.
The new one I got, I rooted after close inspection and after 2 weeks got dust under the screen. I sent it in after getting my swap ( which is messed up now too).
after 3 weeks I got an email saying my repair quote was done. I checked it out and they wanted $196.00. I called and they didn't know what it was for. They said they would escalate the matter. Also on their quote page, you have an option to comment when you deny the quote to be contacted. I messaged them about my problem and everything.
A week has now passed and I haven't gotten a call. Out of curiosity I went back to check my ticket status, and it has changed from my quote being ready , to the ticket being completed. Seems someone got my message. Now time to root it.
Can you clarify the point of your post, other than your warranty claim was denied because you were rooted?
A completed ticket could mean a couple of things... either they fixed it for you or they're sending it back and charging your card for diagnostics. You should call HTC asap.
As it says I broke my G2 stepped on so the screen lights up but all black I can't see anything its fully rooted and nothing erased. Just got my replacement bout to send broke 1 back but should i worry cause it s-off fully rooted oh and i did tell the i woke up and my screen wouldn't work so get new phone. Should i worry or is there anything i can do before sending PLEASE HELP......
Are you replacing through Asurion or through a warranty exchange? If its an insurance replacement there's nothing to worry about.
If you're doing in through the warranty, they're going to be able to figure out that it has physical damage if you stepped on it and broke the screen.
You'll probably get hit with the out of warranty fee.
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Assuming that you have it rooted, you already have USB debugging on, google for a program called Android Screencast. You can use to it control your phone with your mouse and keyboard on your pc. The screen will be displayed on that program and you can click on the display on that and control it. So you can unroot with that. If you have a custom rom, you can then restore your old stock rom.
When you are doing all of this, you have to remember that while its doing restore, you cant see the screen doing the restore on the program as your phone isnt fully booted in android. But just leave it and keep an eye on it, it will vibrate when the phone reboots after restore.
How do I know this? I stepped on my desire z and had it rooted with CM7! I managed to unroot, get S-on, and restore my old rom!
Final thing I will tell you, is that if you after restoring your old rom, you decide to format it back to factory settings, usb debugging will be put back to off so the android screencast wont work and you cant actually tell if it has succeeded. But if you do a factory reset, let the phone boot up and put your volume up and down, you should be able to hear the beeps, which means android has booted perfectly fine.
Oh and even thought i stepped on mine, HTC themselves couldnt tell i stepped on it and they fixed mine for free in warranty!
Good luck mate
don't sweat it. if you can't see anything, neither can they. all you really have to worry about is if the water mark thing is red or not. i've sent mines with the same problem, screen won't show anything but turns on, rooted and s-off. i didn't have a problem.
don't tell them you rooted it though. happy days!!!
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don't sweat it. if you can't see anything, neither can they. all you really have to worry about is if the water mark thing is red or not. i've sent mines with the same problem, screen won't show anything but turns on, rooted and s-off. i didn't have a problem.
don't tell them you rooted it though. happy days!!!
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Thinking about it, since it isnt a repair, and its only t mobile not htc themselves you are dealing with, you dont have to worry. Tmob probably just see if its broken as you say and then toss it in a pile to send to HTC. My situation was different because it was a repair and HTC will defo look at it.
I wouldnt take any chances though...
Hi
Can anyone give me some advice?
I have now been with out my phone for over three weeks. I originally sent it back to HTC as the touch screen stopped work. I got the phone back 8 days later but the first day of using it the phone crashed in a big way and would not boot back up, on top of that the magneto (compass) didnt work. I sent it back the next day and have still not had it back.
They keep sending it back and forth between test and repair as they keep finding that they cannot fix it so try to repair it again it then fails the test and its back to repair.
I am just not getting anywhere with them. They will not send me the phone till the are 'happy' that it fix but they cant fix it and they wont send me a replacement.
I really dont know what to do!?
Any help would be great.
Thank You in advance
Nick
I bet they've lost it, but are holding off admitting it till they can decide who to blame/how to blame you..
I hope not.lol
They did tell me 2 days ago that they didnt know where it was, that was over a week after they had it back. Then they said that they found it and went on to say that it had been repaired and failed the test so was back in repair.
I know they have it as they arranged the courier and I've checked with UPS and they have delivered it, so i have the confirmation.
This is so frustrating
My phone is bootlooping and I can't access recovery. I can't restore the phone's stock software because I edited build.prop and it's not showing up as a Verizon phone. I decided to bite the bullet and just pay LG to reset it. However, when I contacted them to do this they told me I need to mail the phone in and they will tell me how much it costs after their tech looks at it. I'm worried if I do this that they'll charge me an exorbitant amount to fix it... Does anyone have any idea how much they usually charge to do this?
Sending the phone off to LG should be your last resort. It sounds like you've not tried everything!
Send it in to warranty. As long as there's no physical damage Verizon isn't going to give a rats a$$
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Send it in to warranty. As long as there's no physical damage Verizon isn't going to give a rats a$$
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Well, in another thread a Sprint tech said that LG did not give them a method to flash the stock software if the model check failed. I assumed this was the case for Verizon as well. I'll call them tomorrow and ask, I may have misunderstood what he wrote. I can't seem to find his post now. I'll update this post after work tomorrow if they can recover the phone.
theoneofgod, what is it that you think I haven't tried yet? If you have a suggestion which would save me the trouble of sending this phone in I would be super happy. To recap, here's what I've tried:
1. Using hard keys to factory reset (on TWRP 2.6.3.1 so it actually factory resets instead of booting into recovery)
2. Hitting "adb reboot recovery" over and over as TWRP loads and performs factory reset (this worked for people on 2.6.3.1 on AT&T but doesn't seem to be working on my Verizon phone for some reason. I've tried it dozens of times and even wrote a batch file which spams "adb reboot recovery" many, many times faster than I could type it)
3. Flashing the .tot file through download mode (Model check fails)
4. Flashing the .kdz file through download mode (Hangs at either 4% or 10% and asks me to restart. Never gets past 10%)
5. Entering my IMEI into the LG update tool, letting it download the software for the phone, and letting it try to flash the software (it fails)
What was the reason for bootloop? i also change my model name to make camera app show pics in menu, but it didn't help, and i returned to stock build.prop. So whats your story? Its good to know what i should NOT do with the phone.
Yea a good idea if you share what you've done so readers can be aware of it. Goodluck to your G2 pal and we're sorry for you..
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Yea a good idea if you share what you've done so readers can be aware of it. Goodluck to your G2 pal and we're sorry for you..
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Np don't mind sharing, thanks for the sympathy this definitely sucks aha. I usually add in qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 to get rid of the software keys when I put a new ROM on. It worked the first time I did it on this phone, my best guess is that I mistyped something. I'm not 100% sure why this is making my phone not show up as a Verizon model during the model recovery check...someone more knowledgeable than me would have to explain that.
Melodycd, I think you should be fine doing that as long as you're careful. I was pretty careless and made a lot of mistakes to get in my position. As long as you don't do ALL of the following things you should be safe:
1. Not have the latest recovery
2. Not have USB debugging enabled
3. Mess up while editing a build.prop file so you bootloop
It doesn't matter what they can or can't do with the phone. They don't care what you did to it as long as it's not physically damaged or have water damage. Software issues can be fixed. If they couldn't flash new software they wouldn't have CLN devices to send out for warranty.
I've sent in several dozen phones that I left rooted (for legitimate defect concerns) and none were charged back. They don't need to know what happened to the phone when you call all they need to know is its not working and to send you out a device. They'll receive yours, flash it or send it back to LG to flash, then send it out to someone else as a warranty device.
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It doesn't matter what they can or can't do with the phone. They don't care what you did to it as long as it's not physically damaged or have water damage. Software issues can be fixed. If they couldn't flash new software they wouldn't have CLN devices to send out for warranty.
I've sent in several dozen phones that I left rooted (for legitimate defect concerns) and none were charged back. They don't need to know what happened to the phone when you call all they need to know is its not working and to send you out a device. They'll receive yours, flash it or send it back to LG to flash, then send it out to someone else as a warranty device.
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Okay I'll send it in tomorrow. Thanks man, I was just worried that since the phone says "rooted" in download mode they would flip out about it. Appreciate the reassurance.
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Okay I'll send it in tomorrow. Thanks man, I was just worried that since the phone says "rooted" in download mode they would flip out about it. Appreciate the reassurance.
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I'm just sharing my experience. Over the past 5 years I've been rooting and returning. I can't guarantee anything but i can tell you my experiences and what I've been told by vzw people I know.
I had my g2 repaired when it was rooted. My camera wasn't working atall would just show up black when i opened the app. I sent it in rooted w CWM recovery as i stupidly forgot to remove it. And i had a replacement within 5 days no questions asked.
Not sure if this is because i am in UK or not, but they didn't blink an eye.
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I had my g2 repaired when it was rooted. My camera wasn't working atall would just show up black when i opened the app. I sent it in rooted w CWM recovery as i stupidly forgot to remove it. And i had a replacement within 5 days no questions asked.
Not sure if this is because i am in UK or not, but they didn't blink an eye.
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Yep I was just worried because the Verizon phone explicitly states that it is rooted. Just to follow up for those who are on Verizon and are stuck bootlooping and with no way to flash the stock ROM, what 06stang said held true for me (so far). The Verizon rep on the phone couldn't help me (she said she needed me to put my SIM card in my G2 when I was calling her from my old phone) so I took it to a Verizon store. The dude checked it for physical damage, tried to turn it on, and when he saw it bootloop he put in an order to get me a replacement phone. I'll report back in a week or two after I send in my rooted phone and let people know what happens, it seems like they won't charge me as of right now though.
It was a lazy autumn day that fateful afternoon when my Asus Zenfone
3 beeped and told me another occasional FOTA update was ready,
"Estimated time: 10 minutes". I pushed "accept."
Then the reboot ... loading ... reboot ... loading cycles began.
(I don't remember the exact words. It was a month ago and I only now
have regained my composure to write about it.)
Holding down the power button forever didn't help, and one cannot just
take out the battery anymore. It was my first cellphone mid-life
crisis.
Normally geographically astute me got on the wrong bus but at least in
the right direction, got off at this big river on the map that was
easy to follow no matter what mental state, and finally made it to the
Asus Royal Service Center or whatever it is called, in Taichung, TW.
I agreed they could wipe everything off my phone and indeed they fixed
it. Yes it was still under warranty and no I didn't "root" it.
Moral of story: from now on I will only check for updates when I am
nearby their service center and not expecting any important calls, etc.
(I see the version it happened with,
https://www.asus.com/zentalk/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=184831
was not recalled, meaning the problem only affected me.)
I figured out how to roll back to any firmware I need. Got back my lovely 13.16.5.49 version and with no help from worthless ASUS, who wouldn't even do it even if I RMA it. Apparently they said I should go see a "3rd party phone repair shop, they should be able to do it". What a joke.
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I figured out how to roll back to any firmware I need. Got back my lovely 13.16.5.49 version and with no help from worthless ASUS, who wouldn't even do it even if I RMA it. Apparently they said I should go see a "3rd party phone repair shop, they should be able to do it". What a joke.
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Would you share the rollback method with us, mere mortals?
Just flash the recovery version of the firmware version you want to downgrade to, after which you will have to flash the full firmware image of that firmware version.
Do note that a factory reset might be needed if the phone does not boot after.