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[HTC Inspire 4G] lschuman:
Wasn't there the ability to use Z4root for Froyo devices? Maybe that's how?

My Inspire shipped with Gingerbread so I used the remarkable ace hack kit. I waited and read a little for about a week before root, mainly because I wanted to be comfortable with the process before I bit the bullet.

My main reason for rooting was to gain tether ability. I use it infrequently and for non-data intensive purposes so I just couldn't justify signing up for an expensive tethering plan, losing my grandfathered unlimited plan in the process.

So now I'm rooted and can tether on those rare occassions when I really need to. My next step is to try a new ROM but I'll read up on them for a while first.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bdaman80:
Rooted mine the next day

<warning>**** I Void Warranties ****</warning>
[HTC Inspire 4G] ZeroRilix:
Had my Inspire stock since I bought it off contract on Feb 27. I waited till the night before Thanksgiving, in the midst of all the cooking and baking I was doing, to finally root. Read the effen manual from the hack kit only 3 times after downloading the kit Tuesday the 22nd! Root was smooth, flashed ARHD, and flashed the recommended radio, got terrible battery life yesterday. Flashed the stock Gingerbread radio and flashed RunnyDroid and now I'm all set! At least until after that following week after Christmas and before New Years, when I will be using my upgrade to get the HTC Vivid but will still alternate between this and the Vivid.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MrMickeyMoose:
Bout 3 weeks. A friend mentioned rooting my phone and I was like, "Huh?". Then I got on XDA and the rest is history. To date I have rooted my Inspire twice, rooted 2 Atrix's, then once the bootloader was cracked, I unlocked those 2 bootloaders. Android and my phone has been a big part of my life since then. And XDA Is awesome. I love XDA and the Android community and am looking forward to seeing Android evolve.

Sent from my Inspire4G running

-MIUI 1.11.4

-12.39a.60.19U_26.06.06.30_M
[HTC Inspire 4G] Rayvin56:
After I first heard about it, first thing I did when I got home was root it...and never looked back. Did the wife's Inspire next. Both of us currently running ARevHD and lovin' it!
[HTC Inspire 4G] squint986:
well coming from the i**** 3G i decided to wait it out a bit and get used to the OS i got mine june 22nd and i rooted it on August 23 now im happy i use MIUI 1.10.28 and loving it! ^_^
[HTC Inspire 4G] Sully6789:
My inspire was stock for the car ride home. Now its rocking ICS courtesy of the awesome devs in the DHD thread.
[HTC Inspire 4G] superman2112ms:
When Did I Root

I waited a few months. I had my Aria rooted in a week. When I got the inspire I read alot of XDA and it seemed to be a little more work. So I kept reading. I finally did it out of boredom. Now I can not decide on a ROM. I know I know I should just start trying them out.
[HTC Inspire 4G] palanku:
buy it for my wife in the afternoon...at midnight was rooted...
[HTC Inspire 4G] jmollabi:
i see people like to steal my jokes..loser
[HTC Inspire 4G] mrhaley30705:
Took me about 3 days. A new device, new procedure, attn1 took down the hack kit. Several things kept me from it for a few days. But I'm rooted and on my 5th rom since then :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] mateusm:
I believe attn1 has gotten the hack kit development going again.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mrhaley30705:
Yes he has, and yes i have.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jjpeasl:
think i stayed stock for about three months ive rooted phones and all that before just dont mind the stock rom, but now its rooted and im waiting for the ICS to be out of its beta stage.
[HTC Inspire 4G] SGF11:
How long before rooting?

When I was looking for an upgrade, I searched XDA for the latest phones that could be rooted. I purchased the Inspire as it was the phone of the day, and when I seen that attn1 had a way to root it, this is the one I purchased. So to answer, I was rooting before I purchased. :):cool:
[HTC Inspire 4G] glevitan:
The Inspire was my first smartphone and I actually didn't have much idea of what rooting meant. By chance I came across this awesome forum and after 6 months I

rooted with Attn1´s hack kit and since then I have rooted my wife´s Aria and two fellas Motorola Defy....I promise the next time It´ll take me couple of hours...:D
[HTC Inspire 4G] nmbr1ctrman:
I rooted after a month I'd say. I had an iPhone 4 before and I jailbroke that so I was used to Modding my phone. Its definately worth it.
[HTC Inspire 4G] :
Ancient thread bump.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Wulamoc:
Seems I currently hold the record at 11 months. Did some lurking since I'm only vaguely familiar with Linux, got busy working in the mountains over the summer where I had no service and not much use for the phone.

Was a bit lazy after that. Did some lurking again when GB came out for the HTC...

Finally found an ICS rom I was willing to root for.
[HTC Inspire 4G] tomburnes:
This is my first smartphone (unless you count the blackberry bold), so I was nervous, and ended up aahk'ing it 2 weeks after purchase.

Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] pissat4motion:
2-3 days only because of limited access to a computer

Sent from wherever you feel most comfortable
[HTC Inspire 4G] sjs87:
I purchased my inspire a few weeks after it released. I rooted about a month ago. So I'd say about a year. Only reason I rooted was because it started to get glitchy on me. The phone's been smooth ever since.
[HTC Inspire 4G] da__beast:
Got mine in June of 2011 - didn't root mine until Jan of 2012. I wanted to get to know android. It was my first android phone and I was still learning. One day my un-rooted phone got into a slow rolling bootloop (30-90 min between reboots). Thought as long as I was wiping and starting over, might as well root. I am really glad I did. ARHD is really stable and fast - like the sense 3.0 feel.

If HTC would make a tablet from my Inspire, I would buy it!
[HTC Inspire 4G] bigbuckin:
Bought my Inspire 4g on the fly last spring. Old phone (lg xenon) had a screen freak out and it was driving me crazy. I had no experience with android, and quite a bit with iOS; but i have never been a fan of iOS. Too restrictive... i hated that they were so pricey and "snobby"

So i bought the "best" android phone at the time from ATT. The Inspire. I liked it a lot; lots of customizations. Had it about 6 months and was becoming a bit bored. Did some research on rooting for about two weeks, rooted it one day. Never looked back!

My wife never knows how to use my phone because there is always a new rom on it :)

Its like a new phone whenever i want it to be!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Scott_S:
3 weeks.

If the phone had any manufacturing defects, I wanted to know about them and get it resolved, beforehand... Burn-in period.

I also wanted to get a feel for how the phone performed stock, so I'd have a point-of-reference for future modding.

That's not to say I didn't WANT to root ASAP. I just felt that some restraint would be wise, especially having bought the phone off-contract... No way I was gonna get stuck with a lemon out of the box.

Inspired Ace 1.0.1¦ XDA Premium
[HTC Inspire 4G] churro7:
Till gingerbread

sent from planet snarf
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
Bought the phone in the first week of its release and rooted it as soon as I got home from AT&T
[HTC Inspire 4G] schinner16:
i waited 1 month and a week....like its been said i wanted to make sure everything on the phone worked and i wanted an idea of how it performed stock.

Was great stock...even better now! except for the fact that searching on google brings back uk related stuff....
[HTC Inspire 4G] id10terrordfw:
IN the AT&T store, LIKE A BOSS.

But really I just left and went to a nearby pub with wifi and did it there.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Mustang302LX:
4 hours. I had been reading up on it when I had the FAIL of a device the Atrix and got the Inspire on my lunch break. Finished work and then rooted and been on CM7 ever since (well with a hint of other ROMs briefly).
[HTC Inspire 4G] Inarius03:
Rooted mine within an hour of getting it home.
[HTC Inspire 4G] newter55:
lol...I did root one of the salesman's captivate for him in the store a while back. Sad they can't even figure simple stuff like that out when they have nothing to do but play with phones :/

They are pretty a pretty nice bunch of guys there though. One even said he had my name on an infuse when I went to check it out on launch day but I had to pass on that phone. Just felt like an oversized captivate.
[HTC Inspire 4G] willwalk93:
i waited two weeks to root for several reasons. First, this was my first Android device. Second, I did not wand to brick it (which i learned was nearly impossible so i rooted) Thirdly, limited bandwidth on satellite interned (GRRR HughesNet :mad:) Fourthly, I was busy with a few odd and end things and didnt start as I was unsure of the time required. All things considered, I should have rooted two weeks before I did!
[HTC Inspire 4G] ST3ALTHPSYCH0:
Wow, I'm only the second to post that went over a month. I think that today marks 1 month and 7 days by calendar date.
[HTC Inspire 4G] hyun18:
About half a month after I bought it...

At first I was kind of scared but then I tried it anyways and it was actually pretty easy.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Frikkinwolfie:
It took me about three months... I had jailbroken my iphone 3g and had a bad experience, after I jailbroke the phone it made it much slower, almost unusable, not enough memory to support what was going on.. When I got the inspire it was a major upgrade for me, it ran so fast and so perfect (or so I thought) that I just wanted to leave it alone.

Well as time passed I stumbled upon this website and did some looking around at the custom roms and realized that it was going to be a much better experience that I had with my iphone.

I downloaded a hack kit for the inspire, and spend the whole day screwing around getting it to finally get to where I wanted it and boy am I happy with the results, I am running the most current version of LeeDroid (3.1.1 I believe) and I dont have a single complaint, runs super fast, saves on battery majorly, and is just a much better all around experience and I would never go back.
[HTC Inspire 4G] :
We all should use your post as an example to iPhone users, Android is an Apple killer. And yes it does not nearly have enough RAM to support some of the major features of jailbeaking.
[HTC Inspire 4G] wintersway:
First thing I did when I got home from the ATT store was root and install Ingersoll! Cant bear to have all that bloat ware and market restrictions on my phone.
[HTC Inspire 4G] tempster:
+1 ..... :) I had a htc pure so I was used to the whole thing
[HTC Inspire 4G] superspuds86:
I rooted about 4 days after I bought the phone. This is my first Android phone. But I couldn't help but to go ahead and root it. It's like an itch you just have to scratch!

sent from my Inspire 4g - hacked and slashed - Leedroid_3.1.1 - 1344Mhz
[HTC Inspire 4G] diasas:
For me it was a week, had a bad experience with my tablet on a root. The phone was alot easier to do. Glad I did it, I will not go back to a stock un-rooted phone.
[HTC Inspire 4G] XITruthiX:
The moment UPS dropped it off in my office... I was trollololing the whole time.
[HTC Inspire 4G] rpogorek:
About four days. But I would never do such a thing, as that would break my warranty....
[HTC Inspire 4G] terhett:
Went right home after I bought it. I just know that AT&T screwed up their Windows Mobile phones so bad that they would screw up their Android phones.
[HTC Inspire 4G] andy442:
Took me about 3 days. I like to get the feel of the stock phone then I do my homework. After all what good is a phone if you can't mess with it!?:D
[HTC Inspire 4G] neoblackz:
I buy the Inspire 4 days ago and still don't rooted... is my first Android device... I'm a little scary... hahaha... I try this Saturday get Coredroid in my phone...
[HTC Inspire 4G] Psionfenix:
Exactly 45 minutes. That was how long it took to drive home from Fry's. and CM7.0.1 (i believe) was on it right after.
[HTC Inspire 4G] nyamoV2:
3 days due to my work schedule ms time constraints at the time of purchase
[HTC Inspire 4G] Pope Viper:
3 days for me, my first Android, and wanted to research everything beforehand. Used bubby's method, and it was flawless.
[HTC Inspire 4G] lostwarriorhere:
Two days
[HTC Inspire 4G] duvalla:
Waited about a week and a half as I wanted to see what I wanted sense or no sense rom first. Glad I did though. Love this phone.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Anthonok:
Got mine on launch day and.probably waited about a week only cause the root method looked so intimidating.

Sent via the power of a unicorn's horn.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Vanto:
Several hours later
[HTC Inspire 4G] Simba501:
About 3 months.

Sent from my Inspire 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] brainiacthemaniac:
I finally rooted my HTC Inspire 4G! I have had it for two months and have been scared to root it as I was afraid I would brick it, but I used the one click method that attn1 created and it was super easy, I did a little research before hand so I was at least somewhat educated on the basics of what I was attempting, and it was very easy. I tried Android Revolution for my first ROM and decided to go with Honeysense, It is a beautiful ROM and so far very stable. I screwed up and did not back up my contacts so I lost them, but I just went to ATT and got the numbers off of my data usage, and put them in, replacing them took longer than rooting and flashing the phone. I LOVE IT!!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] florelui001p:
In about 1 day 1 hour and 1 second!
[HTC Inspire 4G] talsout3162:
Same day I got the phone It took me a little longer then expected, this was my first Android phone:cool:
[HTC Inspire 4G] brd912:
Maybe an hour. But i tried rooting the display inspire with several apps lol. In Verizon I did root the fascinate display Haha. I like to try it with all the display phones,I'm not sure wether they find out or not
[HTC Inspire 4G] CH33FZ:
What program did you use to root it?
[HTC Inspire 4G] psyc0:
i waited a few months. prolly out of lazyness
[HTC Inspire 4G] Simba501:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=961406
[HTC Inspire 4G] badhand386:
8 1/2 hours before I rooted.... because I wasn't home near a computer. If I was, would have done it sooner.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jjr3211:
I did mine in 3 days after I bought it. it started out simple enough I just wanted the ability to be able to load 3rd party apps and now I have leedroid and am very happy with it.
[HTC Inspire 4G] solrac8126:
i bought it unlocked , but upgraded like 1 day after haha
[HTC Inspire 4G] Carlrobling:
Less then a week. I did a lot of research as this wasn't the most simple root I've done. Turned out pretty simple with ace hack kit on mac. Tried it on windows was having trouble getting past one of the steps. Worked flawless on mac.
[HTC Inspire 4G] shawn1224:
I've had a plethora of android phones and all of them rooted. Although this was my first Sense phone so I waited a week so I could fully enjoy the Stock Sense UI. Even now I mostly steer towards Sense UI roms.
[HTC Inspire 4G] sark14:
I had a Captivate a few months ago and that thing was crap out of the box. It was fine after I rooted and flashed some custom ROMs. So when I got the Inspire, I was a bit apprehensive regarding how the stock ROM would work. Surprisingly, it was very functional and I liked it a lot. I lasted a whole 9 days before I rooted! The main reason for rooting was because on day 8, my battery lasted a total of 8 hours. That was with 5 minutes of talk time and 1 game of Words with Friends. I don't know what process was running to kill the battery, but 8 hrs is not something I can live with.

After I rooted and flashed Leedroid, I've been pretty happy. Battery life still sucks, but there's a HUGE difference between 12-16 hrs vs 8 hrs!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Carlrobling:
Yea i enjoy the eye candy and features of sense. So after rooting i stayed stock for a few weeks till i saw RCMix3D KINGDOM v1.2 Evolutionary Sense! THE ORIGINAL SENSE 3.0 DHD. I def love it and would recommend it to anyone that likes sense. I also got netflix working on it so now i no longer miss anything about my iphone lol. I def have to say thanks to all the devs for all there hard work. It makes life easier for the rest of us.
[HTC Inspire 4G] KarlJ:
About a month... Wanted to make sure I wanted to keep it, to RTFM and get used to it, and spend time reading up on all things Android. Otherwise, it was: 25% nervousness, 25% cluelessness, 80% laziness.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Simba501:
EDIT

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[HTC Inspire 4G] joker3:
got my inspire 4 months ago, researched rooting for about 3 weeks-then finally did it 4 days ago and i am glad i did..
[HTC Inspire 4G] Cerberus2k7:
Less than 24 hours.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MartyLK:
Not rooted. I don't see any need to root. Been using my Inspire for the last 2 months without any issues. I sufficiently customize mine from market apps and sideloaded apps. The Inspire has become the most valuable phone in my collection and is becoming the most favored of all. Even my HD2, which has been through countless configurations and is highly esteemed by me as one of the best phones ever created is starting to take a back seat to my Inspire.

The only thing I miss with my Inspire is the ability to do screenshots. But I don't miss it bad enough to root.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Mister J:
I literally got the phone today and rooted it a little while ago. I had a Xperia X10 previously(rooted of course :])
[HTC Inspire 4G] bandjosh:
I never booted it up without starting the process xD

~Sent from my AT&T Inspire 4g via XDA dev app~
[HTC Inspire 4G] nobitacu:
I waited over a month to finally root my phone, as I couldn't decided if I really needed to have my phone rooted, but now that I done it, I'll never go back to stock, ha ha.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Canio Wolf:
2 hours! Traded my Atrix for the Inspire (absolutely NO regrets) and it took me a while to find an updated hackkit (used v11 and worked so easily that I felt stupid afterwards lol)
[HTC Inspire 4G] gnarlycs:
Probably an hour or two after I got back home from the store with the new phone. Haha
[HTC Inspire 4G] provenflipper:
Bought phone brand new on craigslist, took it home rooted it right away, flashed CyanogenMod, then took it to at&t to activate.

ASOP roms all the way for me. Sense is easily my favorite OEM mod, but still not good enough for daily use.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Canio Wolf:
I feel the same way
[HTC Inspire 4G] dmeans2:
Maybe a month but thats because this is my first android phone and I knew nothing about this until I talker to a coworker that had done this with his Galaxy. After a week of research I manned up and messed up my phone for about 5 hours using the hack kit. Once I tried the one-click root, I've never looked back.

As for the AOSP ROMs, once I worked my way to CM7 Nightlies from ARHD w/ no-Sense I've loved it. Loved mikes ROMs but I had to switch at the time for Netflix.
[HTC Inspire 4G] artro:
Day one of my first android phone (this one) I had it rooted. Now 3 weeks later I've booted Ubuntu on it.
[HTC Inspire 4G] pavaccar:
When I got home from the store
[HTC Inspire 4G] dxwilliams40:
Still waiting

I have had my inspire for about 3 weeks now. I downloaded bubby's, but still have not pulled the trigger yet. I rooted my galaxy tab without issue, so I am confident that I will not regret it. I originally waited to see if I would return for the samsung infuse, but I'm keeping my inspire.
[HTC Inspire 4G] justFaisal:
I am new to android, will wait some time them screw the system :p
[HTC Inspire 4G] gigawatts:
About 48 hours. I had never really played around with sense, so I gave it a short trial. Installed cm7 and never looked back. Jumped from a g1 with cm6. A very nice upgrade!
[HTC Inspire 4G] nicocoma:
Hello all......I have been going Rom crazy since I rooted my inspire,coming from my captivated I was taken back by how much these two phones were so different........so after I rooted my inspire it was now time to find a good Rom.I've tried probably 20 different roms and was trying to stay away from sense but after trying them all I finally gave core droid a whirl and I was glade I did its perfect,everything works like a charm,I can go two days without having to charge my phone........outstanding I have had this from on my phone for 3 days and don't expect to change it........guys try it and you will see what I mean.....well anyway my flashing is over for a while until something better comes out
[HTC Inspire 4G] JCreazy:
I got my Inspire the day it was released as soon as the AT&T store was opened. I rooted it within 20 minutes of getting it home thanks to attn1
[HTC Inspire 4G] swade69:
This is my first Android phone, came from a long line of Blackberry's. I had it for about 2 weeks before I felt that I had enough information (balls) to try it.

Used bubbys method and it went very smooth. I did not flash a rom for a couple of days, couldn't decide what I wanted. Finally decided on Rcmix's and found it painless. Getting rid of the tinny audio and echo that everyone heard when they talked to me on the other hand wasn't so easy.

After a few soft bricks (I guess that's what you call the constant white HTC screen) I finally sorted it all out today.

Thanks to all of you that help out around here, your experience and willingness to share information is what makes this a great community. Those who make the how to videos....I am forever in your debt.
[HTC Inspire 4G] TheBassman369:
I rooted mine the first day I got it, seeing that I hate Sense almost as much as I hate MotoBlur.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MikeF0209:
A week for me, after I was sure i could use my work exchange setup after rooting. Works like a charm :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] limezone:
I rooted as soon as I got home. This is my second android. I had a Captivate, I was very fond of, but bricked it. Was I nervous? Yes, I had just bricked my Captivate, but I am so glad I did.

I flashed a bunch of ROMs and settled on Coredroid. And yes, everything everyone says about it is true. If you don't mind sense, it's the way to go. I use GoLauncher EX anyway, so the sense thing is no big deal to me. I just want stable and fast, with good battery life. So far Coredroid has delivered admirably!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nochips4me:
A whole thirty minutes after purchase, wouldn't have it any other way.

Sent from my Inspire 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] wade7919:
Lets see here, ATT mailed my *Inspire* to me after i went through 5 Atrix's = FAIL, was at work. Got off work came home opened all packaging 3mins? plug phone to pc 1min? create goldcard 5mins? run bubby's 20mins give or take a few here and there? so pretty much 4 mins after i got home from work i started rooting the phone. about 30mins afterwards i was done
[HTC Inspire 4G] n1ne:
just got my inspire yesterday in the mail and rooted with bubby's method after playing around with stock for about an hour. upgraded from a g1 and i love it :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] :
I miss this thread...

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[HTC Inspire 4G] jpeepers:
I have had mine for 2 weeks now and have not rooted yet. Most of my other phones I rooted almost right away but this inspire has been running so good for me I'm afraid to change anything? My battery life is fantastic (2 days), Not a fan of sense UI and lockscreen but I already changed to Zeam Launcher and added widget locker and it seems to be working great.

I'm really itching to root it but I don't want to out of fear it won't work as good as it does now! :)

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[HTC Inspire 4G] southygov:
I haven't yet. I've read through a ton of stuff regarding rooting but I'm more of a visual learner. So, cutting the fat, I would love to root but am not really tech saavy. However, if there's someone out there willing to help I would obviously be extremely appreciative. Any takers? The only pay back I can offer is to pay it forward. Thanks folks
[HTC Inspire 4G] heathroi:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=952352 follow the effen manual takes only a couple of minutes
[HTC Inspire 4G] 1ChesterD:
Got mine the first day of sale. Didn't root it until after the GB update. Spent about a week prior to rooting researching roms. Started with Rum Runner 3, and currently running kraken.