[Galaxy S 4 General] Absolon:
Are you another Samsung employee? Just asking? Because if not, you are unique, just as your certificate in you phone, in thinking this is ok.

Rooting is NOT == I will do sinister things like hacking Merkels phone! That is NSA's job.

Rooting your device and voiding your warranty is

your choice

and it's not illegal.

But it's illegal to destroy someone property,

I'm sure that's the case in all the countries that we live in (if not by the government but at least here Samsung never been granted exclusion from the

property laws, so it IS a crime causing harm on purpose and that was THEIR CHOICE!).

They expose you to virus and I even heard some lame argument about combating piracy. Still they are not the police. GTF out of my phone!

I rather encrypt my data with real proven solutions with AES then have a secret solution from Samsung that blows up my phone if I want to peek into it.

And again and again and again. An "enterprise solution" has NO PLACE on my private phone.

The only one that knows what really goes on in my phone and what it really contains is Samsung and (insert 3 capital letters of your choice).

This smells way too much work, planning and trouble for a simple rooting to be just that. It has been planned way before production. WAY before.

THINK! The whole infrastructure. The certifications. All the planing, all the code, E-bombs, all the chats with NSA. ;)

Then they tested it on the group they hate the most: The bad bad evil ROOTERS at XDA! :rolleyes:

But if you look at the forums here what do people REALLY use root for in 99%?

1) To remove unwanted bloatware from your phone. My system is almost 80% full after a "normal" install. Do I want "Samsung Hub"? Can I deinstall it? HA!

2) To install or make a custom rom that looks differently, most often way better then the original. WAY better.

3) To install a kernel that has a few more options then just two and that you can also adjust to your needs.

Sure you CAN overclock, but most do the opposite. Since the battery stinks and you can't have your GPS turned on all day. It's totally impossible.

So you rather have a scheduler/governor that is trying to save your juice then otherwise.

As a funny thing, my pc's have automatic overclocking in the bios. Intel doesn't seem to mind?

And it's VERY easy to see if you have melted down your CPU by insane values, but that is why you have the thermal safety built in. To throttle down.

If you are stupid to clock your cpu to 1337 MHz then it's your fault. But you should be allowed to do it.

If you are even more stupid to turn off the thermal control of as well, then you are too dangerous near electronics in the first place.

But again, that is YOUR CHOICE!

Have you ever burned a cpu that didn't have that, like old AMD's? There is/was a video on "Toms Hardware". Check it. Pretty obvious marks.

Have you ever burned a circuit board at all? You can smell the cancerogenic fumes 2 months afterwards, not to mention the black stains from the small

fire you usually caused :angel:

And of course all know that you root!

At HTC, you can register and make the choice of getting the unlock-key to your device and thus invalidate your warranty. Same at Sony.

It's exactly the same game we play as with the broadband. Do you think I have 500 Mbit/s because I want to browse XDA faster? Of course not!

The servers are awesome and fast! I use it to stream Youtube better and to speed up the loading of flash commercials of course!

So in the end....

Did you see any information when their update came about Knox and it's implications or repercussions when they released their update?

Did you get a chance to opt-out from this corporate solution?

Did your salesman inform you of Knox, that is of so significant change, that it might make you decide to buy something else if known?

They have to inform you if the phone is sim-locked, for how long, and the cost to remove it. This is just as vital information that can affect your decision.

"Oh, did I FORGOT to mention that we refurbished old Russian tank engines in your new Porsche?" Sorry.

But you should read the sealed warranty that, btw, does not mention this and if you open it you can't return your car.

And damn it, I looked. In the warranty. At the net. There is nothing about blowing up my phone in the warranty??

Cause I never saw that, nor was I informed, nor had I Knox turned on or even visible when I bought my device.

I can log onto Sony or HTC and just download it from there.They even give advice on what too look out for. So you don't break your phone!

This IS AND SHOULD be so obvious, but after my talks with the "support" in two countries I begin to understand their view at customers, even though I

always bought monitors, tv's from them. They do good stuff. But that just don't cut the deal.

How do I know my refrigerator doesn't blow up as well if I happen to put the temp outside the recommended temperature-range?

Have they installed a trasher in my washing machine if I don't follow the label? We can go on, since this can apply to anything that IS legal but not recommended.

If you as a consumer, that pays heavy money for their products, get almost a "Duck you" in the phone, they ignore you, give you prefabricated answers,

destroys your property and they treat you as garbage because there are plenty suckers left?

It's not OK

(parapharsing a friends campaign).

Try to get someones email? No, you have to enter your text it in some small pop-up. Or give me yours ;)

Well... Things can change really fast in the electronic world.

Nokia, best and biggest and then, what, where?

Ericsson? Got saved by Sony. Then they made some slick designs and Sony left but seemed to forget to bring the designers with them???

Microsoft? Well, they had money, but they had to pay a lot for IE. More then it was worth I think.

Google? Their new "User agreements"? Didn't go so smooth in this pesky EU (damn the French!). ;)

Ok, ending the night with a little Roxette.

"But every time they get to grow from small,

Crash Boom Bang!

They try to f**k the users but then they hit the wall.

Crash Boom Bang!

Because greed, is their name,

and it always ends the same.

That's the thing, that's the game,

but bankruptcy is the same."

/Absie ;)

THANK YOU SAMSUNG!​

I INVESTED IN YOUR COMPANY AND YOUR PRODUCTS

AND YOU DESTROYED THEM DELIBERATELY!

AND!

I Paypal'd Chainfire and so should YOU. He does an amazing job for us and he needs all the support he can get to crack this!

He really deserves it! Come on! It's Christmas! He works his ass off for

YOU!

---------- Post added at 03:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:07 AM ----------

Yes, I think I said that?

You can make a choice with that and live with it if you brick your phone. You say "Hereby I void my warranty by getting full access to my property"?

But you can make THAT choice and HTC will not come home to you, stamp on your phone and steal candy from you at the same time, do they?