as a seniour app dev too..
i respect what the Samsung engineers are asking.
it is not that ROOT is the cause for the bricks
but with ROOT you may give access to things that the kernel was not intended to do under normal circumstances.
I have wipe cache and wipe system on stock on ICS LPY and on LPF with no root..and have not had a problem (had flashed 4 times stock ICS (trying LPY then LPF then LP9 then LPF again)
so ppl take this as an opportunity..because it sounds like they are listening...for once and if anyone has bricked their devices with no root...
then simply send them a logcat.
i respect what the Samsung engineers are asking.
it is not that ROOT is the cause for the bricks
but with ROOT you may give access to things that the kernel was not intended to do under normal circumstances.
I have wipe cache and wipe system on stock on ICS LPY and on LPF with no root..and have not had a problem (had flashed 4 times stock ICS (trying LPY then LPF then LP9 then LPF again)
so ppl take this as an opportunity..because it sounds like they are listening...for once and if anyone has bricked their devices with no root...
then simply send them a logcat.