[Q] Best Buy Trade In - Do I need to UN-Root?

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Best Buy Trade In - Do I need to UN-Root?

Title pretty much says it all. What's your thoughts? Do I need to Un Root my OG Evo before I trade it in at Best Buy?

Thanks for any advice you can offer -

Jack

Yea.... Definitely. Unless you want trouble from the boys in blue.

I asked at best buy when I pre ordered and was told that they were taking phones that were rooted.

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Well I dont trust those guys. Give it to them stock.

I'll give you advice in the middle of the road. Wipe the device.... and load a rooted stock rom..... DO NOT have a custom rom on it...... that way its a suttle root.

This pass Friday I traded my EVO 3d to Best Buy, rooted, flashed to boost and S off. The cops still hasn't knocked on my door yet!!!

No need to unroot. I just gave same advice on the Evo 4g forum last week. Dude didn't have any problems. 2 or 3 other people chimed in saying they has no problems returning rooted phone either.

******but it probably is a good idea to flash a stock-ish ROM on it. When I take my Evo into sprint for servicing, though, the techs and some sales people love seeing android 4.0 running on my old Evo.

sent from 2yr old Evo on ICS

I would take above advice and just flash a stock rom ..I've never un rooted my phones ..I traded in og evo rooted np ..have gotten ttwo replacemts for my evo 3d and I even got caught one time during repair process and then me and the Sprint guy talked about roms for a couple mins ..I don't think they really care

I'm just gonna wipe and unroot mine because whoever gets the phone next and wants to root it will have to figure it out for him/herself.

sent from my iPhone killer

Originally Posted by david279

Yea.... Definitely. Unless you want trouble from the boys in blue.

The Blue Man Group?

It's not illegal to root your phones. It does void your warranty, but the most BB could do is say "Sorry, we can't accept rooted phones." They would have no reason to call the cops, and if they DID call the cops and detained you until the cops arrived, you'd have a hell of a lawsuit because you've done nothing wrong and certainly nothing against the law.

But it sounds like BB accepts rooted phones for trade-in anyway.

Edit: It just occurred to me that BB employees wear blue shirts. If that's what you meant, then ignore me.