The attitude to not reflash your device with independent (not even saying anything about FLOSS here) software is just childish. If the device is going to be returned, I’ll just turn it back to stock firmware (+ re-lock the b/l in some edge cases) and it will look like nothing ever happened.
If you care about warranty, don’t worry (at least in EU), it’s not void unless the manufacturer can prove your custom FW did some physical damage to the phone (which is pretty much impossible these days, except Samsung Knox eFUSEs, but let’s not talk about this).
My Nexus 4 once broke. I reflashed the stock OS but I forgot to relock the boot loader. The store refused to warranty my Nexus 4 (fun fact, you can’t ship it to LG. The manufacture pushes the warranty to the store, which is fucking bullshit).
New Zealand has consumer protection laws and my coworkers told me I shouldn’t let the shop get away with it. I had to go to court, had two hearings, and eventually the arbitrator found in my favor and awarded me the $400 for the phone.
It’s pretty bullshit I even had to go through that process. You can install Linux, FreeBSD, etc. on your Windows laptop and not void the warranty. The US FTC reticently put companies on notice for their warranty stickers.
But that’s part of the point I guess. If it’s a work phone and you -like the author- don’t really want to customize it 100% to your needs (with your apps) why bother with flashing another OS?
On the other hand looking at what the end result of that phone was - how will the author use it? Only websites? Only phone calls? Then it really wouldn’t matter to me, with that usage pattern I wouldn’t even have a preference of Android or iOS or Windows Phone I guess.
The attitude to not reflash your device with independent (not even saying anything about FLOSS here) software is just childish. If the device is going to be returned, I’ll just turn it back to stock firmware (+ re-lock the b/l in some edge cases) and it will look like nothing ever happened.
If you care about warranty, don’t worry (at least in EU), it’s not void unless the manufacturer can prove your custom FW did some physical damage to the phone (which is pretty much impossible these days, except Samsung Knox eFUSEs, but let’s not talk about this).
My Nexus 4 once broke. I reflashed the stock OS but I forgot to relock the boot loader. The store refused to warranty my Nexus 4 (fun fact, you can’t ship it to LG. The manufacture pushes the warranty to the store, which is fucking bullshit).
New Zealand has consumer protection laws and my coworkers told me I shouldn’t let the shop get away with it. I had to go to court, had two hearings, and eventually the arbitrator found in my favor and awarded me the $400 for the phone.
It’s pretty bullshit I even had to go through that process. You can install Linux, FreeBSD, etc. on your Windows laptop and not void the warranty. The US FTC reticently put companies on notice for their warranty stickers.
But that’s part of the point I guess. If it’s a work phone and you -like the author- don’t really want to customize it 100% to your needs (with your apps) why bother with flashing another OS?
On the other hand looking at what the end result of that phone was - how will the author use it? Only websites? Only phone calls? Then it really wouldn’t matter to me, with that usage pattern I wouldn’t even have a preference of Android or iOS or Windows Phone I guess.
Its not about the warranty, the root or custom ROM are not allowed by owner of the phone, not allowed during my usage of it.
In other words - not my device not my rules ;)