Send rooted eris to verizon - Droid Eris General

Ok im getting a replacement for my eris and what would happen if i sent a rooted eris to verizon
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Who knows? Either way just unroot. Flash the 2.1 image.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND SENDING A ROOTED ERIS TO VERIZON! UNROOT TO BE SAFE IT IS NOT HARD.
But I did send a rooted one in for a refurb and nothing was ever said. Didnt get a bill for the phone or dropped from verizon. I honestly don't think they even look at these phones once u mail them in... Probably just wipe it back to factory setting, check and see whats wrong with it and if it can be refurbed.

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Needing to give my wife my photon, do I need to go back to stock?

Since I'mnot using my sprint account anymore and my wife is hating her evo 4g I told her I would give her my photon
To switch with her will I need to return to stock or just go to a stock ROM and still be able to stay rooted? Just read a post about returning to stock and it doesn't look to much fun.
Same with her evo? since I will.probably just put my line on that phone or my old hero. All of which are running cm9 or ICS roms
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I would factory reset it regardless what ROM you decide on. After that, it's her personal preference of ROM and how much tech support you want to do on her phone. I left my wife's completely evo stock.
I had a ns4g rooted and unlock, when I got the photon I put the ns4g back to factory now she loves it. Before I did she would come to me saying something happen to the phone all the time lol
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[Q] Do I need to unroot my Thunderbolt to have it activated?

I just bought a Thunderbolt, and decided to root and try some ROMs out before deciding to make it my daily driver.
Now that I'm ready, I need to take it into Verizon to get a SIM card, and need to know if I need to unroot it, or if I can just flash a Sense ROM (doubt any Verizon employee would know the difference).
Thanks!
ejsholly said:
I just bought a Thunderbolt, and decided to root and try some ROMs out before deciding to make it my daily driver.
Now that I'm ready, I need to take it into Verizon to get a SIM card, and need to know if I need to unroot it, or if I can just flash a Sense ROM (doubt any Verizon employee would know the difference).
Thanks!
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I had lots of problems when I tried activating while I was rooted. I had to unroot, lock the bootloader, and have a Verizon tech do a master reset on the phone to get it to activate.
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disconnecktie said:
I had lots of problems when I tried activating while I was rooted. I had to unroot, lock the bootloader, and have a Verizon tech do a master reset on the phone to get it to activate.
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Is there any way I can perform this master reset myself?
No. You have to be on the phone with the tech and do a factory reset at the same time. You should first try to go back to stock and activate it normally. You will need a new sim probably.
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I took a rooted HTC TBolt that was loaned to me into the Verizon store a few weeks ago to have it activated. I did get a lecture about how the warranty was voided by rooting (it wasn't under warranty any longer anyway), but they activated it no problem.
I traded a Droid charge for my tbolt and called support and had it switched to my account. It was s-off and rooted and it worked just fine. I know its a little different than op but i think you will be okay.
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I got a phone that was previously rooted and keeps rebooting

Ok so I had a international galaxy note that was a little beat up and I wanted a new evo lte. So I posted a ad on Craig's list to sell the note or trade for a new evo. A guy hit me up to trade today and we met and did a trade. Well the evo seemed to be working fine at first. But now it keeps freezing and rebooting. I did a factory reset to see if that solved the problem, and when the phone rebooted I saw a splash screen that said team winning. So I think the guy tried to root and messed something up. Is there a quick and easy way to flash or back to normal without bricking it ? or should I just claim it gets stolen,pay the deductible and get a new one? Any help on getting this back to stock would be great. It's in great condition but literally freezes and reboots every few mins.
Look in the dev section for the ruu.
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Well what you are saying is insurance fraud and don't think you can talk about that here.
I would flash a stock ruu if I were you and test your luck. At the end of the day you bought/traded from a 3rd party that was not retail and have to deal with your own decisions.
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See if.u have a recovery installed by turning the phone off and loading into the bootloader by pressing and holding power + volume down at the same time..if so I guess u could attempt to unroot with a stock ruu
Didn't mean to mention the insurance thing if talking about that is against the rules. My apologies. When I enter recovery the teamwin recovery screen comes up. Also at the top of the phone it says unlocked and tampered or something like that. So should I just try to flash the stock rui? And are the instructions in the dev section? Thanks for all the help guys. I have flashed stock roms on my og evo and my evo 3d but never a custom Rom.
You can't flash an RUU. Just flash a regular ROM and see how your phone works.
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shook187 said:
You can't flash an RUU. Just flash a regular ROM and see how your phone works.
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Ok. How would I be able to tell if the phone is rooted? Like I said when I go into recovery it says tampered and then unlocked. Does that mean it's rooted? And if so can I just load a stock rom on it ? or should I watch the how to uproot video and run the rui? Thanks in advance for the help.
Edit. I need to edit cause im not going to help you commit insurance fraud
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shook187 said:
Edit. I need to edit cause im not going to help you commit insurance fraud
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People like you is why TEP went up.
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BaltimoreBull said:
Ok. How would I be able to tell if the phone is rooted? Like I said when I go into recovery it says tampered and then unlocked. Does that mean it's rooted? And if so can I just load a stock rom on it ? or should I watch the how to uproot video and run the rui? Thanks in advance for the help.
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Tampered means rooted, Unlocked means bootloader is unlocked. Just load another ROM zip on SD card and flash it in recovery after doing factory reset, cache wipe and davlik wipe. Might be OK after that.
Thanks for all of your help. I will try to run the ruu or flash another rom after work today. I really like the phone and hope that that fixes the problem. Thanks again.
Use TEP on that. I have done that with my past ebay/craigslist phones with no problem. I bought them and then they ended up having hardware issues a few weeks or months after I bought them. When Sprints' techs ask me where I got the phone, I tell them Craigslist or eBay. One of them told me "That's pretty smart" when I explained how I bought a used phone and put TEP on it.
One of the reasons I love TEP is they don't care where the phone comes from! :good: :good:
If you can verify the power cycling while a service tech is present you shouldn't even need to pay a deductible
I would flash the Superwipe than any ROM of your choice. I like Stock with Goodies.
Just get a ruu and run it from your pc. That will get you back to complete stock. Use it stock and see if any issues come back up. If they still do then worry about fixing it. But I think you should be good after ruu
Thanks everyone for the help
I installed and flashed mean Rom and that seems to have cleared up the problem. Thank you to everyone who helped. I think I'll run this rom and see how I like it. if I have any problems with it I'll just go get the ruu and run it. I read in the forums that I have to relock the bootloader before I can run the ruu. How do I relock it? Thanks again.
I believe it's from adb:
Fastboot oem lock
Stop me if im wrong, but from what I read you could only add TEP within 30 days of a newly upgraded line. So im not quite sure how you ended up adding TEP on a use phone without a line upgrade.
http://protection.sprint.com/
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shook187 said:
Stop me if im wrong, but from what I read you could only add TEP within 30 days of a newly upgraded line. So im not quite sure how you ended up adding TEP on a use phone without a line upgrade.
http://protection.sprint.com/
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Whenever I have bought phones outright or from off the net they have always just transfered my insurance from the line that I activate the phone on. I had a Palm Pre and bought the og evo from Sprint for full price. They simply transferred the insurance. As soon as I activatedthis Lte evo I got a message saying my tep went up from 8 to 11 dollars. And when I talked to the rep she said that the insurance transfered over.
Unfortunately I have to take this phone to the repai center tomorrow. I loaded mean rom on it and it worked great for 20 mins. Then it got stuck on Chrome and the screen wouldn't turn off. I came home relocked the phone, ran the ruu, and unrooted the phone. Still randomly reboots and resets itself. The guy at the sprint store said if they can't repair it and there is no sign of physical damage or water damage they will just give me a new one.
Yeah insurance transfers to a new device even if it's not "new"
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Does verizon care about re-locked status?

Ive been having a few problems with my DNA, which I rooted, and verizon is sending me a replacement. I have brought my phone back to stock but it says "relocked". Has anyone ever returned a relocked device? Does verizon care? Do they even check?
They don't really care/don't check it. But even if they did there's nothing you can do about it, so yea.
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Just call them. They walk you through reseting it, and if the problem is still there, they'll send you a new one. Then you send yours in. If they did care, there's nothing they can do about it at that point.
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If they are already sending you a replacement then I wouldn't worry too much, they probably aren't looking to hard.

HELP Replacement phone coming! Should I re-lock and flash to stock??

I attempted to activate a rezound with viperez to one of my lines at the Verizon store. And the guy actually did it for me with no questions asked. It can get data and can receive texts but the phone identity says unknown. After this I went home and flashed a stock rooted ics vigor ROM in hopes of activation. After several calls to customer service and 4G technical support. The techs are sending me a new Rezound. I will get my replacement first before they get this one back. However..
This rezound is s-off, unlocked, and rooted. Will they deny me service or charge me the full phone price if they see this? I heard they really don't check and destroy them as soon as they arrive. I've also heard that due to the FCC Verizon can't deny my warranty if it's modified. They will just frown upon you and not recommend it.
If you have actually read this far, I really would appreciate your advice! As the replacement will be here overnight tonight. I need to know my course of action
Thanks
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stanleyopar2000 said:
I attempted to activate a rezound with viperez to one of my lines at the Verizon store. And the guy actually did it for me with no questions asked. It can get data and can receive texts but the phone identity says unknown. After this I went home and flashed a stock rooted ics vigor ROM in hopes of activation. After several calls to customer service and 4G technical support. The techs are sending me a new Rezound. I will get my replacement first before they get this one back. However..
This rezound is s-off, unlocked, and rooted. Will they deny me service or charge me the full phone price if they see this? I heard they really don't check and destroy them as soon as they arrive. I've also heard that due to the FCC Verizon can't deny my warranty if it's modified. They will just frown upon you and not recommend it.
If you have actually read this far, I really would appreciate your advice! As the replacement will be here overnight tonight. I need to know my course of action
Thanks
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It's always best to relock the phone and they can if they want charge you a fee for third party software on the phone. With that said I have never heard anyone say they was charged that for sending a rooted phone back after getting a replacement.
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Do I have to s-on as well?
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Any more advice?..
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S on everything make it stock when you first got it
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