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[etrorteepe]

I'm guessing Verizon sees the locked boot loader as a way to minimize false warranty claims? I can't think of any other reason why they would want it locked, and we all know there are people that will turn in bricked phones on warranty claims.

[trikotret]

I'm guessing Verizon sees the locked boot loader as a way to minimize false warranty claims? I can't think of any other reason why they would want it locked, and we all know there are people that will turn in bricked phones on warranty claims.

Other way around. If you have an unlocked boot loader, people will never brick their phones. However, with a boot loader you seeing lots of people getting bricked and doing warranty claims.

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[imandroid]

In all honesty its my device I buy off contract give the individual the opportunity have the device unlocked. It can be done I'm fed up with Verizon here's a GREAT BIG F$%K YOU Your shared plans are a joke I cant wait till I go to AT&T or T-Mobile both kick rear end in the Philly Area.

[LGeX]

Posted this over on the Galaxy Nexus forums. Which is where I belong since I've sold my Razr

[Thach]

Before anyone asks, a edit was made to the OP and it for some reason jacked up the format. We are looking into the issue so please hang tight.

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[Thach]

Had that happen quite a few times lol, gotta redo the entire OP now. It sucks.

Just like that, I have it fixed without retyping the entire thing

[Thach]

Ok smarty but you had to go through and delete all the format text, then add back the format lol.

Nope. I copy and pasted the entire thing before I clicked submit the first time. So i just had to delete it all and paste again.

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[etrorteepe]

Other way around. If you have an unlocked boot loader, people will never brick their phones. However, with a boot loader you seeing lots of people getting bricked and doing warranty claims.

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VZ must see some benefit to the lock or else they wouldn't do it. Maybe they think custom kernel = overclock = melted CPU.

[Thach]

Shanks

No problem, anything to keep the grammar police off your back and bring them my way lmao.

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[fusion3286]

I, for one, will be leaving verizon when my contract is up.

[JMSexton]

Lol no i meant to say shanks that's how my daughter says it:)

Lol Pretty sure Hicks was trying to make you comfortable, like XDA, and be your grammar police. Don't you just love the little things, I know I love it when my daughter does stuff like that. (Triple checked for grammar... But probably still failed somewhere haha)

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[shizumie]

I have been with vzw for a long time. Long time! I have 6 devices including tablets with them. Sadly they suckered me in to renewing early to miss the shared data. But I will be dust in the wind just as soon as I see my exit.

I am fear my blade!

[Armus]

I don't mind paying full price for a phone because that means I'll never sign a contract. If and when I want to leave, I can. But until that day, I will stream, tether, and download as much headache as I can for VZW. The want us gone. We tie up their bandwidth and forums like this encourage it- plus hacked tethering.

This company as usual cares only about its bottom line. If I could honestly say sprint or tmobile was different I'd switch but they are all alike. So switching to me isn't the answer.

A girl working in the local store tried to justify the price hikes to me saying some folks abuse the system. How do you abuse unlimited data? You bought it. They agreed to provide it. Their only stipulation was a contract period. Now they want to cry foul when people use what they pay for. Tough.

You want to make VZW hurt, lets see just how much bw we can use.

[OlDirtyGrizzly]

as a fellow verizon 3rd party rep i do agree. i do not like how alot of these phones have locked bootloaders. i am a firm believer that if its yoru phone then it should be made your phone and you should be allowed to do whatever you want with it. dont get me wrong as a fellow verizon CUSTOMER i love the service. but i am mad that i have to buy a phone out right just to keep my unlimited data for me and my father. we both need our data for work and we do not want to loose that freedom. thats why we came to verizon to have the freedom of unlimited on a great service but then i was dissapointed and somewhat let down :/ Now when a customer comes in and wants to upgrade and look at their account and want to upgrade and it tells me they will loose their unlimited data i have to tell them to keep it because i feel like unlimited data is a brotherhood and i can not be dishonest nor can i let them get rid of it lol.