[Galaxy Note 3 General] omegatotal:
The

bold and underlined part(s)

of the above quoted text just gave away your skewed and flawed view of reality and invalidates any words coming out of your mouth (or from your fingers) from this point forward.

Now regarding "normal usage", you can not truly define a

normal usage

pattern, however, you can attempt to restrict usage if you are a developer.

One way is to include mechanisms to deter usage outside the developers idea of

normal usage

patterns, through scare tactics or EULA's that you are required to accept nearly always immediately following power on! (A flawed system since you have to use the device to change/uninstall the software, thus you are forced to accept the EULA even if you never intend to use the included software, and there can be waivers in these EULA's that you waive your right to a class action lawsuit even when the developer is completely at fault, apple fails at this, windows/PCs do not!)

The other is to physically or through software, actively attempt to prevent changes to the hardware/software which will allow usage outside of the developers idea of

normal usage

. And like allot of manufacturers are doing now, include a software detection process in the boot loader that flags any device that is modified for tracking warranty claims.

Tracking for warranty claims is understandable. I dont have a huge problem with this, however, flat out denying all warranty claims over just rooting the phone is a flawed practice! Denying a warranty claim over flashing a custom modem/rom/kernel/bootloader is understandable, if the warranty claim is regarding a failed transmitter for example, but designing hardware without a built in, hardware based failsafe/protection against overclocking/overvolting is just stupid! The added protection alone could cut down on warranty claims while still keeping ALL the consumers happy.

Luckily since android is such an open system it is very difficult to prevent someone from making changes to an extent.

But a bootloader that is custom designed to interface with the kernel/android O.S. to forcefully install an application for tracking/prevention is very borderline if not completely unacceptable !

P.S. Please forgive me if its a little bit of a ramble as have had a few drinks tonight and it has been a long long day :P

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Also, as a new Note 3 owner, I really want to root to disable this stupid My Magazine thing that comes up when you press the home button while on the 'homepage' of the phone... It is very annoying and utterly useless to me! As well as remove all the provider bloatware and navigation software that I will never use.

Having to void my warranty and risk having this knox security kit potentially cause other problems... It is just silly as I do not plan to change anything regarding the radio/modem/kernel etc as it all works for me at this time,

Yet another reason to root is to install my preferred lost/stolen phone tracking software as a system service so that it can be hidden from the running apps/task manager/etc. This way if my phone is lost/stolen it will take longer for someone to find/disable it, thus giving me a better chance to track them or my phone and recover it or at least capture enough useful data for a police report.

Then theres the volume limiting BS, where every time you plug in a headset/aux cable you have to raise the volume...

There are a few other things but I cannot think of them right this second.