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Root Asked verizon about rooting

andadroid

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Picked up a car dock today for my droid and wanted to check on my insurance plan. I heard there were two plans and I wanted to be sure I had the bigger one. I do indeed, so I asked what the plan covers. Theft/water damage, accident, etc. It does NOT cover things you do to your phone intentionally. So I had to ask..."what if I'm playing around with different settings, you know hack into it a little, and break it." I was shocked when the verizon tech person said "there's not much to hack unless you want to get root. But I don't recommend it. Android 2.1 was lifted from the N1 and is a little buggy on the droid. Unless you want to tether it it's not worth rooting."

Really surprised she mentioned tethering. Also said that if I they see I have root insurance won't cover it, but I can always try. However a manager was shaking his head behind the counter, so maybe they marked my file or something. Oh well. Just thought I'd share. Usually the tech people have no idea what's going on.
 
Picked up a car dock today for my droid and wanted to check on my insurance plan. I heard there were two plans and I wanted to be sure I had the bigger one. I do indeed, so I asked what the plan covers. Theft/water damage, accident, etc. It does NOT cover things you do to your phone intentionally. So I had to ask..."what if I'm playing around with different settings, you know hack into it a little, and break it." I was shocked when the verizon tech person said "there's not much to hack unless you want to get root. But I don't recommend it. Android 2.1 was lifted from the N1 and is a little buggy on the droid. Unless you want to tether it it's not worth rooting."

She doesn't quite know what she was talking about. Root gives you access to custom roms (among other things) that have components of 2.1 but they also have many other features (default high quality YouTube, Wi-Fi tethering, overclocking, access to "root-only" apps, etc). The only component of N1 that is buggy on the droid is the 3D Launcher/App drawer, which is something that you don't have to install if you don't want it (you are given a choice when you flash the ROM). Everything else works great, in my experience. Of course, there are many different roms and there is always room for error if you don't pay attention to what you're doing.
 
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you know, i wondered about the whole insurance thing. i've made claims with asurion before (twice) and they and the vzw people tell you that asurion wants to hear that YOU ****ed up your phone and that it isnt a manufacturer defect, and if it is a manufacturer's defect they tell you to deal with the manufacturer. so you are allowed to take a hammer to your phone and get the insurance, or throw it off a bridge, so why wouldn't you be allowed to root it and get a new one?

also, did anyone else feel strange about downloading sholes from the android market? that seems like giving the folks at google proof that you are breaking your warranty.
 
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Now when/if your phone actually does break the first thing they are gonna think is "oh he rooted his phone". Snitched on yourself SMH. :rolleyes:


I didn't ask about rooting--the title is misleading. I just asked about "playing with settings, downloading files, etc." The tech person was the one who brought up root. I was curious to know the extent of "user damage" covered. Basically if you hit it with a hammer it has to have been an accident, not because you wanted to see what would happen if you hit a droid with a hammer. But either way she didn't seem to think it mattered. Rooting isn't covered by insurance and neither is jamming the wrong cable in the charger, it happens and they usually replace it.
 
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WTF were you thinking, why would you ask Verizon about rooting your phone? :thinking:

For the record, I have not rooted my phone, nor do I plan to do so in the near future. I was asking about insurance coverage and software/settings/non-hardware user-generated damage. Just thought it might be amusing or somewhat interesting to people who are rooted and are curious about the insurance.
 
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She doesn't quite know what she was talking about. Root gives you access to custom roms (among other things) that have components of 2.1 but they also have many other features (default high quality YouTube, Wi-Fi tethering, overclocking, access to "root-only" apps, etc). The only component of N1 that is buggy on the droid is the 3D Launcher/App drawer, which is something that you don't have to install if you don't want it (you are given a choice when you flash the ROM). Everything else works great, in my experience. Of course, there are many different roms and there is always room for error if you don't pay attention to what you're doing.

Only the sholes ROM's give you choices when they install, none of the others do this. When using a real N1 2.1 ROM there is bugs besides the launcher and it tends to run slower then any 2.0.1 ROM's.
 
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Only the sholes ROM's give you choices when they install, none of the others do this. When using a real N1 2.1 ROM there is bugs besides the launcher and it tends to run slower then any 2.0.1 ROM's.

Yes, and the Verizon rep he spoke with made it sound like one had no choice but to install laggy 2.1 based ROMs with root. Of course, she neglected to mention (maybe out of ignorance or maybe to pursuade people from rooting) that there are 2.0.1 based ROMs that run smoothly.
 
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