News - Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition is a US exclusive

[crossy]

Hey you guys that have S3's - we have a 2 year warranty on these things right? I'm just waiting for the warranty to run out before I root mine n all. Only had it about half a year so far though...

UK S3's DO have a 2 year warranty - at least according to http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/wa...Information.do

And why wait for 2 years to root it, if that's what you need* to do. (* no point rooting a phone unless there's a reason - like debloating, Titanium Backup, etc - to do so)

Couldn't you just do a factory reset install (and maybe run Triangle Away) to return it to stock if you've got to put it in for warranty service?

[crossy]

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[3dcandy]

Nope, my Sense experience was with an HTC One S - which I would have thought was a fairly recent version of Sense. No what I hated about it was that, although it was quite fast to use, it seemed to be a horrible hybrid of modern and pre-ICS methods. So you did things expecting to get the ICS behaviour (because it looked right) only to have them fail.
Not that I'm saying for a millisecond that TouchWiz is perfect, because it manifestly isn't, but it suits me better and I find it's closer to that "stock" Android feel. And judging by the number of hits you get for "remove htc sense" I'm not the only Sense-naysayer.

Of course, the S4GE (is it just me, or does that look like "sage"?) has the stock Android experience so that's going to suit a lot of people. For all my liking of TouchWiz I'd like a stock experience more, but just CBA'd to deWiz my S3 at the moment. Although if Samsung's updates keep slowing it down then I'll be tempted.

Erm, yes, SE Xperia X10 - and found the UI after the ICS upgrade to be pretty reasonable albeit a bit on the "oh-my-god-why-won't-you-do-SOMETHING" slow side. And I liked their UI (UXP?) more than Sense too.

That's what I'm getting at Timescape™ is slow as a slow thing...

[3dcandy]

UK S3's DO have a 2 year warranty - at least according to http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/wa...Information.do

And why wait for 2 years to root it, if that's what you need* to do. (* no point rooting a phone unless there's a reason - like debloating, Titanium Backup, etc - to do so)

Couldn't you just do a factory reset install (and maybe run Triangle Away) to return it to stock if you've got to put it in for warranty service?

I think he's getting at that if it dies before de-rooting? (made up word alert)

[3dcandy]

UK S3's DO have a 2 year warranty - at least according to http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/wa...Information.do

And why wait for 2 years to root it, if that's what you need* to do. (* no point rooting a phone unless there's a reason - like debloating, Titanium Backup, etc - to do so)

Couldn't you just do a factory reset install (and maybe run Triangle Away) to return it to stock if you've got to put it in for warranty service?

I think he's getting at that if it dies before de-rooting? (made up word alert)

[ZaO]

UK S3's DO have a 2 year warranty - at least according to http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/wa...Information.do

And why wait for 2 years to root it, if that's what you need* to do. (* no point rooting a phone unless there's a reason - like debloating, Titanium Backup, etc - to do so)

Couldn't you just do a factory reset install (and maybe run Triangle Away) to return it to stock if you've got to put it in for warranty service?

I think he's getting at that if it dies before de-rooting? (made up word alert)

Well I just don't wanna void the warranty when it has a lot of time left incase something happens. It's a shame that the warranty even gets voided from this. I had the impression that this is what Android is all about. It's a bit nazi from the phone makers really. Anyway, don't wanna take this to far off subject. I knew there was some kind of program to aid with this sorta thing. I will search that one you mentioned. Thanks

[crossy]

Well I just don't wanna void the warranty when it has a lot of time left incase something happens. It's a shame that the warranty even gets voided from this. I had the impression that this is what Android is all about. It's a bit nazi from the phone makers really. Anyway, don't wanna take this to far off subject. I knew there was some kind of program to aid with this sorta thing. I will search that one you mentioned. Thanks

Link time:
Chainfire's Auto Root for the S3
and
Triangle Away (which, I hadn't realised, is actually usable on a lot of Samsung devices - both phones and tablets)

Was going to PM you these links, and then realised that perhaps others might be interested. Can heartily recommend Chainfire's method - I'm no great phone guru but if I can manage it then it must be straightforward. Although the first time you do it is pretty nail-biting! I've been running my phone rooted since about the second day I bought it (which was when they came out in the UK) since I wanted to use Titanium Backup as my preferred backup method.

Haven't bothered with Triangle Away as I figure if my phone is borked enough to do a warranty return then either I'll be able to reflash a stock ROM else it'll be so knackered that doing T.A. won't matter (or work even!)