[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dominick_7:
That's true. Good points. I hear what you're saying, I'm just trying to be cautious and looking ahead.. they seem to be battling and if you look at power, the corporations have the power to get rid of what they may view as annoying flies messing with their control. An example of the battling being that it seems that the only reason the last update was pushed was to deal with the bootloader. There was just a legal move to make it illegal to unlock your phone, if they don't like the idea of people controlling their own devices it seems like either a set up for a legal battle in the future and or a take over (ala Megaupload) or infiltration to make them change up their goals to fit a globalist corporatist control freak mentality. I realize the potential issue of bricking nowadays is not really an issue at all, so that concern I think was dealt with in my psyche. My only other concerns are with being empowered with the reasoning of how to know there's nothing harmful in the rooting or bootunlocking apps and the set up for a legal issue. I know I'll be the one where I send my Note 2 in for a replacement and they JUST come out with a way to find out if you used Triangle to get rid of the counter.. You know what I'm saying?

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From what I understand I believe Verizon had a developer edition RAZR available and the way it worked was it came with OEM software that allowed you to root it, and or unlock the bootloader, but with the warning that you would violate your warranty. Are you sure the developer edition for the Note 2 doesn't come with its own manufacturers software or we know it won't and will definitely have to still use XDA software to do it? If it was OEM software I wouldn't have the same concerns really as it came from them. I don't really want to get into the ROM world as I know I'd end up always trying to find the best ROM out there, wasting time working for my phone instead of having it work for me. What I'd like to do is just be able to overclock it, uninstall bloat, install apps to the SD Card, make backups using Titanium and tinker with it in other ways, such as use other apps like Screen Record, tethering, custom alerts, etc. Wouldn't just rooting allow me to do all of that or would I need to unlock the bootloader as well? My impression was all of that only required rooting, where as unlocking the bootloader allowed for custom ROMs. I'd prefer not to destroy the partition but just get superuser access. as in the one click app exploit, unless that will cause problems as I've heard it might. Wish this was possible just by entering some codes in a hidden developer screen on the phone or by programing via CMD prompt. Hmm.. one line of reasoning helped besides what you just said regarding how people have just not complained about security was that the code for the rooting software is available to everyone and if something was malicious it would be viewable and reportable, to the extent that the developers future would be done for.

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This is a douchy response and is not helpful what so ever. Hope no one will dismiss you when you feel you have real concerns and everyone that could help you tells you you're crazy and to get lost. Do your research and stop being a sheep, the media told you to think and say that. Well done.

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Thankfully they're at least talking about the customizing your smartphone part. Sounds good and fair to me, but unless there's outcry and pressure I don't know if this will happen.