BACON BITES!

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Originally Posted by firebird_1995

While we're on the subject, I have a razr that has recently been acting up with horrible service and rebooting on its own. Ever since the ice cream sandwich update its been junk. Do you think if I root it that would cure those problems? I've rooted an ally and x2 before and liked it. But I've heard they put a tattle tale on ICS that shows if its been rooted.

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Yeah, but for some phones there are ways of rooting it without tripping the flash counter. Hell, on my SGS2, I was even able to find an app that reset the flash counter to 0 after I was done installing everything I wanted lol. The XDA-Developers forum is your best friend for rooting and ROMing know-how. They have sections broken down into each phone by carrier and such, then general, development, themes, etc. subsections for each phone. I personally have only messed with Samsung Galaxy phones, but there are lots of guys on the XDA forums who will know exactly what's up with your RAZR.

My wife's SGS3 was acting up and doing some stupid shit in stock form. I rooted and ROMed it and it fixed most of the issues, but narrowed down a couple of things to faulty hardware. So we took it back to Best Buy and got another one to root and ROM :lol:

I think I should just turn this one for insurance. The screen is cracked where I got weld spatter on it and the speaker sounds like its got a cold. I'll get a new one the root it.

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Originally Posted by firebird_1995

I think I should just turn this one for insurance. The screen is cracked where I got weld spatter on it and the speaker sounds like its got a cold. I'll get a new one the root it.

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Sounds like a good plan. If you have the insurance on the phone, I say abuse it, especially if it's the Geek Squad protection through Best Buy, since there's no deductible.

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Originally Posted by Blackbird96WS6

Lol I can easily teach you fellas. And "the way it's meant" is very relative to your opinion on what you should be able to do with your phone. ;) Google built Android with the intent of it being free and open and 100% customizable. Then the dirty phone carriers got their hands on it and locked it all down and put what they want you to have on the phone before selling it. Me personally, I like to rip all that shit out and go with a nice clean and free Android OS without all the excess bloatware and crap. But, that's up to everyone's individual choice! :)

Shoot me a PM if you'd like to learn how to root your phone. Samsung Galaxy phones are the easiest ones to root, takes just a few minutes lol. I can take a stock Galaxy phone fresh out of the box and be up and running on a custom ROM in under an hour start to finish. ;)

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But if its rooted...it wont do updates....and warranty will be void..right?

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Originally Posted by popo8

But if its rooted...it wont do updates....and warranty will be void..right?

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So the developers who create the ROMs push out updates much more often than the carrier does. Depending on the ROM, as in the case of my personal favorite AOKP, they push out updates almost every couple weeks, and there are others that update nightly (if you really wanna be an update whore lol). The beauty of this, though, is that as Google releases the newest and latest and greatest versions of Android, the ROMs tend to get those same updates within days of the update dropping from Google, whereas the carriers like to wait up to a year to push that update out. For example, my SGS4 I just bought came out of the box with Android 4.2.2 thank God. Google just announced that very soon, Android 4.3 will drop to the public. If I were to stick with the stock phone as AT&T sold it, I may see that update sometime around Christmas of 2014 if I'm lucky. If I go with a custom ROM, I can bet you I'd have 4.3 on my phone within a week of it hitting the public. On top of that, custom ROMs like AOKP and such add tons of extra features that, once you have them, are hard to live without that aren't even included in the vanilla Google update.

As for warranty, it depends on where your warranty is from. If you're through the carrier for warranty, then yes, it voids it. If you did like me and bought from Best Buy Mobile and got the Geek Squad protection, they don't even care. Rooted, ROMed, bricked, broken, whatever, they'll replace it, no questions asked. I know this because I've abused it lol.

That was a very nicley written ROOTING 101 lol....My warranty is thru sprint

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Originally Posted by popo8

That was a very nicley written ROOTING 101 lol....My warranty is thru sprint

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Lol thank you. If your warranty is through Sprint, it's really up to you to risk it or not. If you have a Galaxy phone, they're really easy to flash back to stock (as long as the phone isn't hard-bricked aka hardware dead), which removes all root/ROM/flash counter data. Say you crack your screen, you flash it back to stock (which takes a couple minutes to do), then take it in and boom, warrantied and nobody has a clue. ;) Just always make sure that you can unroot and flash back to stock whichever model phone you do have before making the jump. I know the older HTC phones were perma-rooted (meaning once you rooted it, it was impossible to undo). Researching the undoing of your work is just as important as researching how to do it, all in the name of covering your ass lol.

I bought my Note ii through a company on ebay(few friends used them). I didnt want to waist my upgrade on my plan just incase.

Im open to doing this if i know i can without messing it up.

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Originally Posted by MeanTA

I bought my Note ii through a company on ebay(few friends used them). I didnt want to waist my upgrade on my plan just incase.

Im open to doing this if i know i can without messing it up.

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I'll hop on XDA when I get home from work and look up what all is involved in rooting and ROMing your phone. I'll do the best I can to take all the work out of it for you lol.

If u can link us on how to root phones I am curious if my droid razor Max is able to be rooted as it is acting up lately.

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