[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh I just checked your link. the G3 and S5 are almost identical. Both really nice, new smartphones. AND, they are both rootable and can be rommed! I did not check out the other ones, but if you are talking DumbleCore, he is not the kind of guy would would get a phone he cannot root and tweak. He is *very* experienced and very good at this stuff.

If you can get one of those phones and root it, you are in good shape, [MENTION=4929841]crackerjack1957[/MENTION]! Me, I will not get a phone I cannot root, period. I have grown to love this so much it is something that does not cost me money all the time and is so much fun. Beating the pants off the advertising, ridding my phone of bloat and payware, and using hotspot and tether on a very high speed network for free. The LG G3 XDA root is right here, or at least one method.

Remember the Turbo Frenzy in this thread? Verizon really has it in for rooters and will do almost anything to "rid the world of these pests". But hey, we are paying customers too and the percent of rooted phones is super tiny. Verizon made Motorola go over that Turbo from top to bottom to make sure that someone like Dan Rosenberg would not find a weakness in the permissions and get root binaries on that device! There is no root for the Turbo and probably never will be. And Verizon was sooooooooo slick about it. They practically "gave the thing away", IF, you turned in your old, working smartphone. Meaning they were not going to take old stuff out of the junk drawer, they wanted your rooted smartphone, the good one, to get this Turbo and very little time to think it over. Limited time, get one NOW!

I got caught up in that frenzy for almost a full 24 hours until I realizled hey, what about root on this new phone? All Verizon Motorola phones got rooted by exploits and there would be nothing on this new Turbo to exploit. I would have to pay for everything, choke on the ads, and could not remove the bloat. NO WAY! Good thing too, had I taken that cheap offer, financing a phone requires you to take a new plan. And if I did that, there goes my "Unlimited Everything for life" deal. Again NO WAY! A Turbo Developer Edition can be rooted but that is full retail price, if you can get it.

So are you going to get one? Which one? How much will it cost, you financing it and paying $25/Mo for 2 years extra or buying it outright, retail, ACK! You will get one for sure that you can root, right? I am asking because I need to know more about the new phones.

To be fair I will tell. The S5 I want will cost me full retail, $700 at Verizon, OR, I can buy my own, anyway I want, must be Verizon carrier, and cannot be stolen or hot. I don't pay nothing else and my bills and plan remains the same. I no way have that kind of money so I looked online. Even at Amazon they are $699. To get a working Razr on eBay costs very close to or at least $100. For me to get a working, "Verizon" S5, even used, would be terribly expensive, even on eBay. I am really bummed that is why I am asking what yours will cost. You can PM if you do not want to say out loud. Let me check eBay real quick for the S5...

Oh man, eBay has the S5 for as little as $400, used. This one looks nice and "Carrier" is "Unlocked" but this one is actually $480. So does that mean I could get it and have it activated at Verizon? I think so but must be sure about this. It is

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