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93fuelslut
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well im rooted..i told verizon the power button works when it wants to..so lets see what happens..dont see how rooting will affect a physical button..but u never know with vz
$500 is the max they can charge you if your phone is rooted, etc, when you return it for repair. My point is that if the damage is hardware failure or something not caused by simply being rooted then it's ridiculous for them to charge up to that max amount. My digitizer failed and if for some reason I hadn't been able to SBF back to stock they would have charged me up the wazoo for something that was unrelated to being rooted. Ridiculous. I own the device and if I choose to root to remove the bloatware that makes the phone unstable and actually more prone to issues I shouldn't be charged when something unconnected fails.The deductible is only $100, where do you keep coming up with $500.
what phone did u sbf?$500 is the max they can charge you if your phone is rooted, etc, when you return it for repair. My point is that if the damage is hardware failure or something not caused by simply being rooted then it's ridiculous for them to charge up to that max amount. My digitizer failed and if for some reason I hadn't been able to SBF back to stock they would have charged me up the wazoo for something that was unrelated to being rooted. Ridiculous. I own the device and if I choose to root to remove the bloatware that makes the phone unstable and actually more prone to issues I shouldn't be charged when something unconnected fails.
Moto Droid 2what phone did u sbf?
to bad that trick wont work on ics phones
I'm getting the figure from the letter that VZ sent with the replacement phone stating that if the broken phone is returned in anything other than stock condition or if it is not returned at all that I could be charged up to a maximum of $500. VZ also sent daily texts once I received the phone until they got the old one back and verified that it was stock.Again, where are you getting this figure from? As of a year ago when I worked there, it was $300 flat, if a phone was sent in that was not covered by warranty. The reason didn't matter and there was no sliding scale.
Moto Droid 2
I'm getting the figure from the letter that VZ sent with the replacement phone stating that if the broken phone is returned in anything other than stock condition or if it is not returned at all that I could be charged up to a maximum of $500. VZ also sent daily texts once I received the phone until they got the old one back and verified that it was stock.
I'm not sure there is too much to worry about in this area, as I have returned many previously rooted phones in the last 3 years of owning smart phones and never got smacked with fees.
A gnex is ics...and sbf'ing wont do the trick as in to not getting caught...maybe the i.t tech was hungover that day and didnt care much abt detail..
How recently? It's just with ICS they added the easily visible indicator on the restore screen. Obviously writing that information to some other memory somewhere. Don't know if they did that or something similar before and just didn't display it. Not sure who does the inspection to make that determination either. Possibly VZW or maybe it's checked by Motorola when they get it for refurb?
I just returned my GNex with the broken charge port about 2 months ago. I'd imagine they would have smacked me with the fee by now if they were going to. Is it a known fact that they check every single phone for previous root? If so, maybe they don't punish you if the phone was returned for a legitimate hardware issue or something.