1. Brand dont care
2. Budget rm1000 - 2000
3. Specs snapdragon 800 above
4. What you need in the phone
+ easy to root & hack without knocking warranty out.
+ SD slot is a must
+ cool operation. warm is ok, hot is not.

my brother used note 3, and he cant root without tripping KNOX and voiding warranty. I used nexus 5 because it is the phone to go to if we want root hack custom thingy...(my hacker friend manage to convince me) but the lack of SD card is driving me nuts. I consume content as much as I can download. 32gb is small. I need 1tb built in phone if i cant have sd card slot.

I want to find a phone that can root and restore back to stock without manufacturer knows.

I also want a phone that have SD card support. I can live with swapping out few 32gb or few 64gb sd cards. i used to have compact camera with a lot of 8gb cards, and I dont mind swapping around and I have good system to know what is contain what. so to people with "you have 2 sd card also dont use, confuse, etcc..." i dont. YOU DO.

easy or not rooting is subjective, I dont mind typing commands in cmd or installing drivers.

I am eyeing LG G3, but does it have safety mechanism like Samsung KNOX that makes rooting hell?

Samsung built a good quality phone, but software is not so good.

But some phone we can revert back to their stock to return for warranty. Only samsung I think have some hardware level detection like KNOX. once tripped, its over. So I dont know about other phone as my family member only have Samsung and Apple.

All iphone that can jailbreak, once return to stock, can sent to warranty,

Ya, I agree with hellish procedure to root. I tried to root my friend CSL phone, almost made it to paperweight... really lucky I can revert back to stock, if not I must replace his phone lor.

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