8 Oct
2012
8 Oct
'12
2:23 a.m.
Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
I still don't subscribe to that theory; if the phone is faulty, it is faulty. Just about the only way you can damage it [by something you did] with root access is perhaps frying a radio by increasing it's power beyond the "normal" level or over clocking the device. Aside from that, I would expect a manufacturer warranty to be 100% okay even with a rooted phone.
The user might, for example, overwrite and corrupt the boot loader and whatever software is needed to install an OS image on the device, rendering it useless. As long as the software needed to load an image remains intact then one should be able to recover from a failed copying operation or a bad image, though.