All you people with rooted phones

[holmes6]

no way.. imo insurance for phones is a rip off

 

[furbearingmammal]

Please keep this civil.

To answer your question about not being able to get it back to stock -- if the phone is that screwed up you file an insurance claim. If there's a hardware fault you flash SBF and take the phone in.

 

[furbearingmammal]

Oh, and if you have a homeowner's policy or renter's insurance or anything else that might cover the device already look at it as it might cover loss, theft, or whatever in case it breaks.

 

[luigi90210]

When you're rooted if something does go wrong with the phone you bring the phone back to stock and then you exercise your warranty.

I'm not sure why people would pay for the warranty...or phone insurance for that matter. My phone broke once, Verizon replaced it without any questions. Sure we walked through some troubleshooting steps...but that is it. I unrooted and sent them the damaged phone.

not trying to flame you guys but these are the reasons why manufactures are locking us out of our phones

if you root and break your phone take responsibility for your actions and claim it on insurance, NOT on warranty

if users like you(again not flaming you guys just using you as an example) keep claiming it on warranty and making the manufacture take all of the cost than all i can see in the near future are phones like the iphone, all locked down so the user cant mess with settings so bricking and killing a perfectly good phone wont happen

again i apologize if it seems like im flaming you guys but its that kind of stuff that really makes me mad



@wuzz you pay for extended warranty, but you get a year of warranty when you buy the phone

 

[happenstance314]

doUnRoot is a wonderful thing.

Plus, if your phone gets hardbricked, it's kind of hard for them to tell if you ever rooted.

Other than that, Droids are virtually impossible to softbrick irrevocably.
You can always just flash back over to stock if you mess up too bad on the firmware rom.

Bootstrap is your friend!

 

[Sniper_5]

The previous owner of my D1 got the extended warranty, which I was forced to use today due to software defects( touch sensors started crapping out and causing serious issues) I flashed my " stock" backup, updated to the newest version( somehow didn't lose root) and took it in. Even after seeing the super user app on my phone he pulled out a new phone, tossed in my battery, SD card and fired it up. No charge.

Sent from my DROID running UD2.5 @ 1Ghz