Warranty is still fine, just a major schlep. 3 week round trip for a phone repair and the major inconvenience of restoration. Problem would lie with the odin users, not sure what effect that would have on your warranty.
from what I know once its bricked it needs a hw reset, I bricked my nexus s, but if sammy sa can check ur rom, they know ics aint available locally yet.
Problem was originally believed to be a problem with cwm and custom roms, but later came out that the root cause comes from the official samsung kernal.
Apparently its 1 line of code that badly interacts with the specific hardware of the note, s3 and evo g(i think).
Of the reported cases from what I read, only 1 so far is from an official unmodified rom/kernal.
I am using the UK firmware from sammobile, I don't with core stuffs, my experience with custom kernals has been dismal and have removed CWM. Actually removed CWM before reading all this as I had no intention of putting on a custom rom, if it aint broken, don't fix it.
I will however enable TB's auto backup and probably by that sync app someone recomended in another topic to send said bacup to my pc. At least then of anything terrible doeas happen Im at most a few days out on my app data.
