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Method of Madness:
It's definitely still under warranty, just not sure if it's worth the hassle or the risk.
94ssd:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 07 Sep 2014, 19:40 ---It's definitely still under warranty, just not sure if it's worth the hassle or the risk.
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Honestly unless your phone has very limited memory it's kind of overrated.
LTK:
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--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 06 Sep 2014, 09:59 ---Considering rooting my LG G3. Y/N and why?
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Depends if it's still under warranty. Unlike jailbreaking, rooting has always been legal, but it does void your warranty and if you send your phone in for anything they'll find out about it. If that isn't a problem for you, rooting is pretty great because it allows you to get rid of pre-installed bloatware and download apps that help your phone run better.
The other downside besides warranty cancellation is that you have to be careful what apps you download - you open yourself up to viruses and spyware. Do research before downloading any. Also before rooting make sure you find a good set of instructions and follow them carefully, because it is possible to brick your device trying to root it.
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Yet except in the most dire circumstances, rooting is completely reversible. If you relock the device before sending it in for a warranty claim (and reinstall the original OS if you installed something else) then I believe your claim is still valid.
Aimless:
Man, I can't get over wanting the Moto 360, even though it'd probably mean having to get a new (second-hand) phone and I'd have to keep it in a pocket at least 8 hours every working day. Stupid gadgets why do you have to be so sexy!
Re. rooting, if you have no particular reason for rooting it right now--no particular thing you want to do that requires rooting, eg. a specific app that you want to use--then there's no real point. You can indeed unroot most phones but, even though rooting itself is easy, all of these antics can lead to unexpected loss of time, energy and good cheer.
However, if you're okay with that and enjoy mucking about with gadgets in ways that occasionally make them go wonky then root it :P
Rooting has helped me get a lot more life out of my phones, because it's a prerequisite for installing custom ROMs which in turn is basically a prerequisite for being able to use the latest features after the phone's manufacturer stops upgrading their own shitty software. Many custom ROMs also come with a lot of cool features, although an inordinate amount of features have to do with more-or-less useful "customisation". It also gives me low-level control of what gets installed to my system partition as well as exactly what my apps are allowed to do or not do (sometimes necessary both to extend the phone's life-cycle as well as to discipline important but naughty apps). Access to system files has also helped me solve a number of extremely frustrating problems eg. wrt connectivity, and recently it let me retrieve a couple of important wifi passwords.
Masterpiece:
--- Quote from: Aimless on 09 Sep 2014, 12:03 ---Man, I can't get over wanting the Moto 360, even though it'd probably mean having to get a new (second-hand) phone and I'd have to keep it in a pocket at least 8 hours every working day. Stupid gadgets why do you have to be so sexy!
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DON'T get the Moto 360. The battery life is said to be abysmal and you'd buy into an unproven platform that still needs to mature. Hold out on this and maybe the next generation.
I do get you though. I want a smart watch so bad! My choices are even more limited though, as I use Windows Phone.
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