42 rader
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42 rader
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HTML
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<html newsdate="2012-11-06">
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<version>1</version>
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<head>
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<title>Flashing your device does not void your statutory warranty
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- FSFE Legal</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>Flashing your device does not void your statutory warranty -
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FSFE Legal.</h1>
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<p>One of the main concerns of Android users
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is related with its warranty: whether flashing their device will void the phone
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assurance. </p>
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<ul>
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<li>FSFE Legal team has analysed this issue and the answer, if the consumer bought it inside the EU, is no.</li>
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<li>The consumer does not loose the obligatory 2-year warranty on the device just because the device is flashed.</li>
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<li>"A good test to see if it is the software’s fault is to flash it back with stock firmware/OS and see if the problem persists. If it does, it is not a software-caused problem. If it is not possible to revert it to stock software any more, it is also not a software-caused defect. There are very few hardware defects that are caused by software".</li>
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</ul>
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<p> Matija Šuklje, FSFE Legal Coordinator and Carlo Piana, FSFE’s General
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Counsel state <a href="/freesoftware/legal/flashingdevices.html"> in their
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article</a> that consumers can flash or root their devices, so to say
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modifying its software, without loosing the two years warranty of the good,
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provided by the EU law. Aimed to answer people's concerns about their warranty
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rights, most of them made during the Free Your Android workshopss, which FSFE
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is organizing, these two lawyers have written a joint blog post to clear it
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up.</p>
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