My reaction when someone says this 🤣🤣

I messed around with my android so much. But yes I did it all after warranty period. So I guess you can have your evil laugh

@andros705 Because we can revalidate it afterwards. You can unlock bootloaders and lock them again. Have done this many times and got many devices replaced for free; I'm talking Sony, Samsung.

@Torbuntu I don't. That's why I bought one without those things.

Happy with my Motorola G5+. I used to root and rom every phone, but with a clean stock android image and adblocking at the router level... haven't felt the need to do it so far.

@andros705 Well, it's my phone, isn't it? And I want full control over my devices, which includes root access. Why is wanting full root access on a smartphone you own considered weird...

I'm on the edge,the tipping point, waiting patiently...

@linuxxx agree with you there. In my opinion even if you wanted to buy a windows phone os license you should be able to install it on your Android phone, and vice versa.

Hardware and OS are way too tightly coupled in the smartphone market.

I could imagine that if you bring it in under warranty, and it turns out your custom rom was the only reason it didn't boot anymore, you'd get charged for a reinstall similar to laptop warranties. But software should never *void* hardware warranties.

Oneplus has no bloatware.

Because Android security sucks.

The regular security updates are very important, but afaik no manufacturer has monthly OTA support.

Currently using mokee on a zuk Z2 pro. "only" Android 6, but getting security and Firmware Updates regularly. If loosing guarantee means I can trust my device, which contains a lot of private data, a bit more, then I'm totally fine with it

@H4RD-C0D3R yep. I thing only Samsung have controls for this. Something called Knox kernel trip keeps a check on how many rooms you flashed

Everyone around me gets wowed when I say I don't care about a 700 € phone's warranty. I fix my cell's software issues on xda thank you very much...

And here I am with a OnePlus phone with no bloatware, and if I were to root it it wouldn't void the warranty.

@TheDevFreak the Android 7 image comes with two Motorola apps, which can easily be disabled. Their Rom barely differs from stock, and all their tools & modifications are open sourced on github.

They document how to unlock, root & rom your phone on their own website (they do indeed warn that bricking isn't covered by warranty, but offer comprehensive tools, drivers and manuals to try and restore bricked phones)

@zebMcCorkle, I've owned 2 oneplus phones... They might say they cover rooting & romming, but their customer service is so horrible that I wouldn't count on actually getting a bricked device serviced...

@bittersweet Aldo gotthe g5+ only reason I would unlock it is for adblocking but I don't mind enough to bother.

I own a YU Yureka. They said its a phone for developers and you can root the phone as it won't void the warranty. It's been 2 years, I haven't rooted my phone yet /(•∆•)\

@Pietson Firefox + uBlock Origin is pretty good for blocking web ads on Android.

At home I use a pfSense router (installed on old intel atom board), which does adblocking for the whole network... with the added advantage that on the go, I can just use it as a vpn server for my phone & laptop.

This is a pretty good starting point:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

If i manage to root it can i remove this annoyimg lenovo calc because i love googles'

@IntrusionCM i'm getting OTA update every month on my 3 years old samsung. No new features :-) only security patches.

@Mitiko yes you can, and can remove all the bloatware too, if any