Hey guys
My girlfriend bought a phone from a local carrier to use on a different local carrier, and when they found out, they gave her a bunch of scary talk about how unlocking voids the warranty and it'll come up and blah blah.
So :
1) Can an optimus 2x once unlocked be re-locked?
2) Anyone have any first hand experience with getting warranty service done on an unlocked phone without an active account at Wind Mobile?
Thanks
If i'm not totaly mistaken, You can flash an original LG rom with NVflash and that should do it
Anyone correct me if i'm wrong
You can't re-lock it, but it will not void the warranty.
torespen said:
If i'm not totaly mistaken, You can flash an original LG rom with NVflash and that should do it
Anyone correct me if i'm wrong
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Please be very careful whenever anyone in this forum tells you to flash an LG ROM.
The Wind Mobile "Optimus 2x" is the P999. You should be asking questions in the inappropriately named "T-Mobile G2x" forum.
All of the ROMs and guides in this forum are for the P990.
Hey thanks cmstlist
that would have been a bad mistake.
Rusty! said:
You can't re-lock it, but it will not void the warranty.
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I'm with you, but I know of a person that had call LG Spain and they told him that the warranty is lost when you unlock the phone if the code was not given by the company who locks the phone.
Sorry for my english!!
Warranty or not, they can refuse to repair your phone when you broke the agreement..
So except Italy modding your terminal still avoids the warranty?
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I've just called a german general customer service.
You can mod your phone, since Android is open source, you may however not remove a sim-lock. Your warranty is void if you flash your phone to unlock it for sim cards for other networks.
So it seems like everything is fine as long as you flash it back to the original firmware, of course this only applies to stock-simlock free phones.
This is only for germany, and i dont know if its completely true, but it sounds good
Sounds like a load of crap to me, you don't flash to unlock, you have to get a code generated.
All statements "this and that voids warranty" are crap, since when you flash stock rom using SmartFlash, the phone is in factory state - they can't find out what you have been doing with it (not in any easy way).
But I don't know about sim unlocks, whether they are purely ROM thing or some deeper mod of the phone.. can't guarantee you that. Also, when you give the phone to somebody, you never know what he did with it.
Rusty! said:
Sounds like a load of crap to me, you don't flash to unlock, you have to get a code generated.
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You dont quite get it.
Everything is fine as long as you dont try to unlock the phone for other sim cards
FreeZr said:
You dont quite get it.
Everything is fine as long as you dont try to unlock the phone for other sim cards
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I get it just fine. There is no way something done in the correct manner is going to void the warranty. LG's service dept won't know if an unlock code comes from a carrier or eBay, they will be identical.
The problem is the carrier states it will void the warranty if they dont issue the unlock code...
Well, if you bring it in for repairs to your carrier (who I understand you bougt it from), they can refuse to help you if you broke your agreement with them. If after a year, when you can get the unlock code for free, there is no reason why they shouldn't help you.
If you bring it to LG, and keep your carrier out of it, there is no reason why they shouldn't help you..
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Well, if you bring it in for repairs to your carrier (who I understand you bougt it from), they can refuse to help you if you broke your agreement with them. If after a year, when you can get the unlock code for free, there is no reason why they shouldn't help you.
If you bring it to LG, and keep your carrier out of it, there is no reason why they shouldn't help you..
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Exactly. You might aswell just flash the original firmware and everything will be fine.
Hey guys, So i bought a Moto x from rogers in Canada 2 weeks ago. I then proceeded to unlock the phone to be able to use it with bell. I got the code from cell unlocker. 4 days ago i noticed specs of dust under the camera glass and on the camera lens, and sometimes the dust will make a little black spot on the pictures i take. Today i contacted motorola and they said i need to send my phone in for repair, but if i send it in for repair they warned me that my phone will be reflashed to rogers software and my phone will not be unlocked anymore. Will i be able to unlock the phone again? with the same code? or will i be out of luck and have a rogers only phone? is this unlocking thing a permanent thing?
if they give you back your phone with the same IMEI number the unlock code should work again.
If they give you a different phone, whether new or refurbished, you will need to purchase a new unlock code. This is most likely to happen.
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Did you pay for the repair?
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...Today i contacted motorola and they said i need to send my phone in for repair, ....
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Hey there,
I sorry if my question sounds a bit stupid, but the unlocking you were talking about is the bootloader unlock? Dont you loose warranty after unlocking your bootloader?
I want to mess with my moto x, but if i unlock my bootloader from motorola´s site, i loose my warranty. If i root my phone, i also loose warranty, but what if i root, install roms, and then got back to stock without messing with my bootloader, can i still send my phone to warranty i any problems arise?
thanks in advanced...
cheers
First, i do NOT have a problem (yet), where i need service...
And I m sure my warranty is void with att because unlocked rooted renamed the oem folder edited build.prop, im sure any tamper flags are tripped.
That said, if i break a screen or have a button that stops working or somerhing like that, can i send it into moto for repairs with the understanding that i would pay myself out of pocket?
When I broke the screen on my note 2, I found out after the fact that Sammy would fix it for something like $150, which was cheaper than aftermarket repair shops, iirc.
-Peter
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That said, if i break a screen or have a button that stops working or somerhing like that, can i send it into moto for repairs with the understanding that i would pay myself out of pocket?
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Yes.
Also, You should also create an account on Motorola's support site (not their retail sales site), and when you provide your IMEI # upon signup, your warranty will be tied to your account also, you know, in case you want to make a warranty claim through motorola instead of AT&T.
Can my rooted droid turbo get warranty at Verizon store ?
tz16 said:
Can my rooted droid turbo get warranty at Verizon store ?
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No one can get a warranty replacement at a Verizon store. If you go to a Verizon store, they will tell you to go home, go to this website, and file your claim there: http://www.phoneclaim.com/verizon/?pod=claim&icid=in-vzwclaim&tntref=https://www.bing.com/.
Now, the question is should you do this, and the answer depends on why you are getting a warranty replacement. If there is no physical/water damage, and the phone is less than 1 year old, you're better off getting a free replacement from Motorola here: https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/mcp/service/. I got a motorola replacement with a rooted phone, and there were no issues.
However, if your phone does not meet these requirements, you will need to go the Verizon route. While unlocking your bootloader technically voids your warranty, I've heard from a few people that it's not really enforced, and they'll replace your phone anyway.
When I am able to take it into Sprint, does anyone (preferably someone who's taken their device to Sprint recently) know what they will do? It looks like they no longer sell this device, so will they just send it to LG? Do they upgrade me to a G5? Or will they do something entirely different?
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When I am able to take it into Sprint, does anyone (preferably someone who's taken their device to Sprint recently) know what they will do? It looks like they no longer sell this device, so will they just send it to LG? Do they upgrade me to a G5? Or will they do something entirely different?
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you have to go through lg themselves for quikest turn around.
lg waranty
I had my second G4 bootloop a couple weeks ago. It depends if you're on contract or leasing. If leasing you can buy out the lease and get something else. If on contract they'll replace the G4. I got another G4 in three days so apparently they still have them in stock.