On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
It depends on the phone, but normally this is easily done. There are the usual caveats about rooting a phone to update it, but as Russell has said, he has had trouble with his Sony phone.
I had trouble with my Samsung phone, but got it working, fortunately it is designed for easy recovery. I never tried moding my Sony phone because Sony make it really hard to do that and you'll never get a good result.
When it comes to LTE or other "regional" differences, there is usually multiple versions of each phone model -- even the iPhone has different versions for different regions due to radio requirements.
LTE will probably add extra difficulty for the "modem" files that you need to enable the frequencies in the chipset. Basically you need firmware files that match the model of phone and the frequencies in use in your region. On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
On 8/10/2012 9:47 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
Except that mobile phones that are "free" on contracts cost more than phones from Kogan.
Yes, of course, but some plans do work out cheap IF the phone plan itself suits otherwise -- you can get a subsidized phone. If you over buy the phone plan, then yes, you are over buying the phone and the total minimum commitment is high.
No, some plans used to be cheap. But now the plan prices have increased while the phone prices haven't.
You can win out with a plan though. I've previously bought a $500 phone at $20 * 24 months payments with no extra charge.
I've previously done that too. But now it seems that no telcos offer such good deals. If you believe that a telco does provide such a good deal then please provide a reference. Please provide references to support your claims. I've cited my blog post analysing the current prices, if you aren't willing to do the same amount of work then please just stop making claims.
I usually buy outright now due to tax reasons. I am entitled to buy as part of salary packaging, a phone in my name. The company re-imburses me the cost of the phone in lieu of salary and claims the phone expense. I can then claim the phone expense in my personal income tax return; but I must buy the phone in my own name. Talk to your accountant to see if it will work out for you.
You can't claim something twice. If the company claims the phone then you can't claim it.
Generally when you want any warranty support you need to demonstrate that it's not something you did.
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. Technically if you use ANY charger not supplied by the manufacturer, your warranty might be void, but again I see that as an unfair copout which the manufacturers should not be able to get away with.
The malfunctioning Galaxy S I posess randomly crashes, when it's not crashing it works well. The manufacturer would probably claim that the crashes are due to a bad CyanogenMod image - a bad image could cause exactly what the phone is doing now. However I had the phone working perfectly for over 6 months before it started crashing so I know that it's not CyanogenMod at fault, I can't prove that as there's no way of going back to a stock image. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/