Does Rooting Your Android Phone Always Void Your Warranty?
One of the few downsides to rooting yourAndroid device is that you typically void your warranty. But contrary to what some people believe,your warranty isn’t automatically voided as soon as you root your device – atleast not on all phones. Here’s what you need to know about maintaining yourwarranty during a root:
If you send a manufacturer a rooted phoneand ask for warranty coverage, you’re probably going to get rejected. Fortunately, you can trick manymanufacturers into re-enabling your warranty coverage simply by unrooting thedevice. Android rooting software like One ClickRoot not only roots your device in a single click, but it also unroots your device with a single click. So you can enjoy the benefits of rootedAndroid as long as you like, and then simply unroot your device and restorefactory settings to make it seem like a brand new smartphone.
One of the problems with unrooting yourAndroid device is that Samsung’s KNOX Security app is difficult to fool. Thatapp keeps a flash counter that tracks the full history of your device. So even if you root and then unroot yourGalaxy S4, S5, or S6, Samsung will know and will likely reject your warrantyclaim. This is a problem Android rooting developers are struggling to solve.
After rooting, your phone is in acompromised state. You can access the root files of your device and perform allsorts of actions that your manufacturer doesn’t want you to perform. Manufacturers provide warranties to protectusers from built-in defects. This warranty assumes you’re using the phone in acontrolled environment. When you root your device, there are simplytoo many variables for the manufacturer to consider. If they provided warrantycoverage for rooted devices, they’d be Yes, it’s unfortunate that you can’t claimwarranty coverage on your rooted Android. But you can see where themanufacturer is coming from.
A new rooting tool called PingPongRoot hasbeen making headlines over the last few weeks. That independently-developedtool claims to be able to root the Samsung Galaxy S6 without voiding thewarranty. PingPongRoot claims to work by rootingwithout touching the flash counter. Typically, the flash counter is the toolSamsung uses to check if you rooted or not (which means you can’t simply unrootto re-enable your warranty). Thanks to the methods outlined inPingPongRoot, you may be able to root your future Android devices withoutSamsung ever knowing – which means your warranty will be completely intact. | |
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