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[General Questions and Answers] dritz33:
Hello, I have a Motorola Droid X, and was wondering if it was worth while to root it. My dad has a rooted phone, and I kind of think it's cool some if the stuff you can do. But, I don't think I totally understand rooting yet.

So because if this I'm wondering if there is anything that makes it worth rooting ? I've also seen some of the custom themes and stuff that you can get on a rooted phone. Do those make your battery life a lot shorter?

Thanks for any help I can get:)
[General Questions and Answers] show-p1984:
If root isn't worth it for you (depending on apps you are using and if you are a developer), then at least a custom recovery is. Making backups is quite an obsession, but can save u weeks of work.
[General Questions and Answers] dritz33:
What exactly is a custom recovery? Sorry I'm really new to this kind of stuff. I didn't even know you could change the homescreen until today:) and no, I'm definitely not a developer:)

So then what all can I do with rooting my phone then?
[General Questions and Answers] rogier666:
- Make screenshots.

- Run a firewall to keep apps offline that don't need internet but use it anyway.

- Control app permissions.

- Block ads.

- Tether your internet, even if your carrier doesn't support it.

- Make full backups of your data, apps,, and settings.

- Auto-sync your clock with a time server.

- Undervolt for longer battery life, overclock to make your phone faster.

And much more.
[General Questions and Answers] PMGRANDS:
I'd say YES! Personally its the Best thing I've ever done with my phone! Here's a few Incentives...

1.) Wireless Tether

2.) Increased Cpu Speed

3.) Better Battery Life

4.) Nandroid Backup

(Which basically Allows you to Fix Anything you may of messed up)

5.) New Custom Roms!!!
[General Questions and Answers] merin_83:
hi all, me to very new to this forum, and thought of asking questions regarding , what is rooting and what are the +vs of it. I get most from above replies thank you all for that, i have few more question.

1.) Does rooted phone UI will be stock version ?

2.) what may be possible -vs / disadvantages of rooting?

3.)what are Custom Roms, i see in many threads - yup am completely noob ;)

thanks,

merin
[General Questions and Answers] nevrlow:
a custom recovery system is used to flash zip files that are not signed (correct me if im wrong)

i suck at explaining things.

in your case you will be using a bootstrapper (just think of it as a custom recovery system, dont get confused)

once you learn and read more and see the benefits then you can decide if rooting is an option you want.
[General Questions and Answers] rogier666:
1) Yes. Rooting gives you access to the system files and folders. It doesn't change anything else, unless you start changing things after you've rooted your phone.

2) Plenty of advantages. The only disadvantage is that rooted phones are not covered by warranty. You can get your warranty back by unrooting, but if something on your phones breaks that prevents you from unrooting you're out of luck.

3) Modified versions of Android. It's a bit like all the different versions of Linux for computers.
[General Questions and Answers] TDavis45:
Definitely the best thing I have ever done to my Fascinate!
[General Questions and Answers] merin_83:
Thank you rogier666..

you explained everything...

Defiantly i want to root... But before that i guess i should do bit research on which version i should use O:-)
[General Questions and Answers] xninj4:
Unbelievably worth it in my opinion!

It opens up a whole new world of possibilities and fine tuning. In addition to this, you can often talk to the people who develop some of the custom roms/features and receive direct support. Also, this scale of developing usually means any problems are corrected within a week (instead of within 4-6 months from the manufacturer). Having the ability to make nandroid backups (think of them as save states) is yet another wonderful feature.

Happy rooting!
[General Questions and Answers] PMGRANDS:
Don't be Fooled by the Pessimists!

Rooting your phones the Most fun you can have with your Pants On!

Lol... Nah but Seriously its Definitely Worth it!
[General Questions and Answers] tedjacob10:
No your battery life will not be shorter if you flash the correct way, make sure you have it fully charged then flash. After this you drain it all the way and then charge it all the way. Do it again (twice) then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats. I think this is correct, I may have the steps switched around and someone correct me if i am wrong. Overall, many custom roms actually give you better battery life.
[General Questions and Answers] wescovallen:
To Root or Not To Root, That is the Question

The decision to root your phone is highly dependent on your personality and background.

For example, many people "just want it to work." This basically means that they don't care how it works, they just want to use the device as-advertised. They expect the device to give them what they pay for. Their priorities are elsewhere.

This gets a little more complicated because rooting is basically tearing down a wall that is hiding additional functionality. The complication comes from the person knowing the extra functionality is behind that wall and finding value in that extra functionality. The question of whether rooting is "useful" depends on how much value the person puts on that addition functionality (minus the potential headache of figuring out to root).

An example is tethering to access the internet with a laptop by connecting to the phone via wifi, USB, or other means. For tethering, service providers charge about $20-$30 which can be gotten for free with rooting + the appropriate apps. That's an obvious value. The cost is when the service provider decides to try to block that tethering which can be a headache trying to circumvent. There are also the moral implications...

Other reasons may be to

- learn the unknown -- who knows, you might try to make an app to do what you want to do and get paid. you could dig into the kernel and become an expert, you could start creating themes and become skilled at visual/UI design.

- control the bull$#!^ that your service provider is trying to feed you (media, ads, pay apps, etc). remove all those junk apps that they force upon you too.

- impress the ladies -- seriously, if you can get them facegoogle+ in a car on a road trip they may nod a googlyface in the future. nerd girls get their own by definition, don't try, just belong.
[General Questions and Answers] MartyLK:
My opinion is it depends on the particular device and what the root consists of. I have an Inspire 4G that I won't root because it just works too well as is and the root process is super-duper ugly and convoluted. However, I also have a Nexus S and, although it works perfectly fine without rooting, I have it root because the rooting process is simple and straightforward and the bootloader is open to being unlocked by a normal means rather than an ugly hack. And I only use root on my Nexus S to use certain apps that require root. I don't flash any other ROMs and I even allowed it to return to the original recovery image. Also I relocked the bootloader.

The only difference between my Nexus S and it's original state is the super-simple root. In fact, the only way to tell my Nexus S is different is to run an app that requires root. The app will work on mine and not on the original.
[General Questions and Answers] Mimoro:
I wil do it olsow
[General Questions and Answers] stonewall72:
+1 - well said
[HTC EVO 3D] CrippleB:
This method I got from Evo 4G forums. I don't claim this as my own and I can't remember who posted it first, hopefully it can help someone. Remember nandroid first cause if anything goes wrong you can go back.

I first removed the old sywpe using Titanium Backup and then used root explorer to delete the swypecore.lib(also has numbers but I can't recall). You can search in system/libs or just do a search with root explorer menu. After that I restarted to see if there were any fc's. None at startup so then I went and installed swype 3.0 After setup I restarted again(because usually the fc's start after reboot) And sure enough when I went into swype it fc'd. So I uninstalled and made sure swypecore.lib was deleted as well in root explorer. Installed swype beta 3.0 one more time and this time it held with no fc's. Hopefully if you get an fc the first time you can try again and have sucess.
[HTC EVO 3D] Spyderekz:
I froze swype and installed over it. It won't authenticate til you unfreeze, but it worked for me

Sent from my EVO 3D
[HTC EVO 3D] CrippleB:
Nice. Didn't think of that but I did get the 3.0 beta to work after uninstalling the baked in swype. I am a registered beta user and I always keep the apk handy.
[HTC EVO 3D] lyric911:
From the official Swype support forums, read the last paragraph.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15364394#post15364394

More or less what the OP said.
[HTC EVO 3D] benjimatt:
Honestly just do a search with root explorer for swype and reboot the phone and do once more search and if everything is gone you should be good.

After that instal the swype installer
[HTC EVO 3D] myersn024:
I know what I'm about to say is a little off topic, but I think it's cool that Swype is attempting to help out people who aren't running "official" firmware on their phones.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mimic42100:
Hello! I've been lurking here for about a month trying to learn all I can about my ATRIX device.

So last night I successfully unlocked my device and upgraded to 2.3.4

After doing the upgrade I tried to access the web using the 4g wireless and I get an error saying im not connected.

The mobile network state is "disconnected". I've called att and they just want to test my sim (it works fine. I connected to the web with it in a blackberry bold just fine). I've searched both here and google trying to find a solution and can find nothing. Im not sure what I did wrong during the update.

I've booted the phone into cwm using volume down on boot to try to enter recovery mode to clear the cache, however when I try to start recovery I get a DROID guy standing under an exclamation mark. And now, I am stuck. Help me fda! You're my only hope!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andesman90:
4g mobile net issue 2.3.4

Hi, when you get the android guy, you should tap on the lower right corner to enter recovery mode, and you should see direction to what to need to do, use your up and down volume key to move around and your power button to select,

hope that works.:)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mimic42100:
I just tried that. went to recovery and the Icon with the droid guy came up. I tried tapping on the bottom corners and all around the screen (and pushing like search, home etc and volume buttons) nothing worked.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma6628:
me too, no any selection in the android recovery mode, just stuck at the droid guy screen :(
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vangelis13:
Do you have this CWM or the old one..? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138541
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma6628:
I had it before, but i already wipe all the data and restored it back to 1.2.6 then updated to 1.57 - 1.8.3 - 4.5.91(OTA).
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] glitzbd:
Ok guys I have a Sensation and I thought I'd guinea pig my WiFi Flyer to see if the permroot method from it works, and it does!

So I will copy from this thread!

Step 3. TO permanently root your Sensation - THIS WILL NOT AFFECT WIFI

1. Copy su-2.3.6.3-ef-signed.zip to your sdcard root DOWNLOAD HERE:

2. Start clockworkmod recovery (instructions below)

3. BACKUP YOUR ROM USING CWM BEFORE ATTEMPTING ROOT!

4. Press Volume Down, Select "Backup & Restore" then select "Backup"

3. Select "install zip from sdcard" after backing up

4. Then select "Choose zip from sdcard"

5. Then select "su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip"

6. Then select "Yes - install su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip" to confirm

7. Then go back

8. Then reboot.

9. You're rooted!

EDIT: If you get stuck and the device will not reboot hold Power/Hold+Volume Down for a while and the device will restart!

After this the device rebooted, and I was able to obtain SU in terminal and also use root explorer to mount R/W!

So big ups to ikhzter for the guide!

Hope this helps you guys out!

Also I will say I used this only on a WiFi Only US Flyer and cannot guarantee this will work on your Flyer/View! Again this is for S-Off devices only!

EDIT: People have reported this working on the View 4G and Flyer GSM

Also if you did not get the ClockworkMOD installed after AlphaRev check here for directions on how to obtain CWM!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] kilroyjelly:
Worked thanks :cool:
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] glitzbd:
Great!

Great glad to hear, if anyone tries this on a View or GSM Flyer (if you can) could you report back so I can update the OP
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] ElAguila:
It worked on my View.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] StormMcCloud:
Out of curiousity how did you get clockworkmod?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] sookieball:
worked easy as pie! thanks!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] sookieball:
It's in the thread "its here! S-off something. " It asks is you want to flash cwm after the root script runs.

regards,

Ernie.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] superdino:
You can install CWM when you make your device S-OFF, at the last step you are asked if you want to download and install it.

Worked nice on my Flyer.

You can also do it this way: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14693680
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] sookieball:
**** I'm sorry I thought I edited before your response! No its in the other thread!

Edit. Oops sorry, I quoted the wrong person.

regards,

Ernie.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] i00:
I believe that the instructions to do this are in the faq on the http://revolutionary.io site ... you should be reading this before s-off'ing in the first place... hense already know this

Kris
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] CrippleB:
Help, I just ran s-off for my wifes view and clockwork mod will not reststart the device. I tried power down and restart but nothing will work. I am now stuck at android box open with arrow and nothing will get it to move. Can't find a place to pull bat. Is this even possible?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] alwayslearning:
press and hold the power button (for a long time) until it powers off, then power it back on
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] alwayslearning:
I have the 3g unit and I followed the steps to s-off (another thread) and I also did the steps above for prem root, it worked
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] CrippleB:
Holy crap that was scary. Thank you so much. My wife is against root and if could not get it going. Why would that happen is there a problem with cwm? I am wary of using it cause had other problems in the past.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] StormMcCloud:
Thanks man, revolutionary never offered to let me do that. It gave me s-off then when it went to reboot fastboot the second time it hung and gave me lemonaid.

And the link you sent worked. Thanks again!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] ElAguila:
As far as I can tell it didn't give the option to anybody that I know of with a View. I had to go to the thread and do it but it was easy to do.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] CrippleB:
It gave me cwm on my view in revolutionary. But after getting into clockwork it froze and had to hold power to shut off. After reboot cwm made nand successfully. That is as far as I can go until I convince my wife there is a better rom.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] ElAguila:
Shoots that theory down. I know why it didn't install on mine. I was one of the ones where it said it failed but when I rebooted I actually had s-off after all.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] StormMcCloud:
Mine did the same thing. I just followed the link that superdino posted and it worked great.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] CrippleB:
I screwed up my Evo 3D root(well not entirely). After I got s-off on 3D I was so excited I unplugged before I ran CWM install. So when I realized the stock recovery would not flash anything even with s-off I went to run revolutionary again only to get "Your device is not supported at this time" Thankfully I was able to flash TWRP using fastboot with their instuctions. My 3d is really the only new device I can play with. My wife does not know her view is rooted.Oops
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] glitzbd:
CWM

Hey guys I updated the OP, with the results y'all reported back!

Also I linked to the thread containing CWM for every device if you did not flash it! It must be done through Fastboot and isn't too hard!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] oneseeker:
Thank you so much!

After feeling ignored for so long, I was afraid we would never see root action on the Flyer.

Now if we can just get someone to incorporate the stylus into other apps!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mody:
Hello

I tried the threads here to unlock the side kick 4g but that did not work, can any one help
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lexian_za:
With ice cream sandwich coming out at the end of the year, does galaxy tab not qualify for it? As far as i know its within the 18 period for upgrades as specified by google. Or am i completely wrong on the release date?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eongab:
i don't think so. even honeycomb will not come in our tab officially but thanks to Spacemoose1 we will have HC soon.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micha3lall3n:
I dont think so either.. I got my tab 6 months ago and feel like its already outdated by the dual cores out now like the xoom and new galaxy tab 10 and with the new icecream comming up I dont think that itll be getting the update.. Also by hearing talk of quad cores coming out.. Im not 100% but I have read they want to push the new android cause the new apple os they want android phones n tabs based on the same instead of froyo n gingerbread on phones and honeycomb on tabs. Who knows we might end up seeing it... Until they announce it we wont know for sure.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andnej:
Galaxy Tab is a high end device, samsung should take care of their high end customers.

If not, there is CyanogenMod. I get android 2.3.5 faster than Samsung's release :D

I might get Ice Cream Sandwich faster than Samsung release as well :p
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjhiza:
Guys, we will always get faster releases from Spacemoose, the CM team, ect, as it pertains to the Galaxy Tab. Unfortunately, the device was "dead on arrival", and has seen almost zero support from the carriers or Samsung. I firmly believe that (while the Tab is spectacular) it was nothing more than a "feeler"… a test product, thrown into the market, in order to guage the public's desire for tablet devices. I'm pretty sure that the 10.1, Xoom, and other tablets were already being tested when the 7" Tab came out, and that it was always the plan to make the 10" tablets the real "powerhouse" devices. Fortunately, we have great devs on XDA, who thumb their noses at Samsung's lack of support, and work hard to get us at least one or two really excellent ROMs. No doubt, we will never see a Honeycomb or ICS OTA, but Space is working to complete the Honeycomb 3.2 port, and I'm sure we'll see an ICS firmware almost as soon as it drops! Happy flashing guys!! :)
[Xperia Play General] xanderharris86:
So I use handcent and I recently noticed that none of my text messages are being deleted when the limit is reached. I currently have it set (on the stock messaging app) to delete texts over 100... but in one conversation I have over 1000, and a few others are close behind. This is obviously lagging up my texts and I want to know if there's a way I can fix this little annoyance.

Any suggestions?
[HTC EVO 3D] ruffneckZeVo:
was this an accident or a feature lol i know on my og evo i always had to spend 30 mins restoring my apps after a flash but with my 3d all my old apps were there after the new rom flashed
[HTC EVO 3D] Spyderekz:
Perhaps the rom doesn't wipe the partitions first. Some developers do so in order to prevent issues

Sent from my EVO 3D
[HTC EVO 3D] siege121677:
I've noticed that sometimes Google will backup my apps and restore them after flashing a new ROM, and sometimes it doesn't. I have no idea why Google doesn't restore them every time though.
[Motorola Droid 3] Deodexed:
I do not have a Droid 3 yet, But I am considering it. What came to mind was the fact that root is not established yet, as far as I know. This makes me want to take a run at it, they were the best days when I use to work on the hack for Droid X.

But before I start playing around with a new device, I was wondering if anyone has tried this? And also I am wondering what other apps and methods have been attempted?

http://www.techofweb.com/technology/root-android-gingerbread-gingerbreak.html
[Motorola Droid 3] nerdslogic:
Gingerbreak tried and failed

Z4Root tried and failed

Superoneclick tried and failed

Doroot tried and failed

that is just what I tried and I am no "pro rooter" like some others.
[Motorola Droid 3] dpwhitty11:
To my knowledge, no 2.3.4 device has been fully rooted yet (for the exception of the nexus).

I could be wrong, though. Completely, totally wrong.

But nothing out there can get us root. That im sure of.
[Motorola Droid 3] sparkyman216:
Gingersnap restated my phone. And that am I root app. Says when I select advanced details it says I am root but all the su files say permission denied.
[Motorola Droid 3] nerdslogic:
So...it kinda worked? Maybe that is something to work off of. Sounds like you got farther than anyone else. I would start a thread or something titled "Gingersnap reports successful root on Droid 3" so others can see and maybe expand upon it.
[Motorola Droid 3] dpwhitty11:
....Yeah, no. If it "kinda worked", he would have temproot.
[Motorola Droid 3] ovelayer:
Well right now we dont have a sbf but they just released a rooted gb for the droid x2 so shouldnt be long for us
[Motorola Droid 3] tcrews:
This release has no relationship to the Droid 3 getting root sooner or later unfortunately. This is updating Froyo to Gingerbread (and 2.3.3 at that) and since Froyo was easily rootable, they used a rooted device to pull the update that was OTA and then rooted the update. Rooted devices with custom recoveries (which the froyo based DX2 had) can install unsigned .zip files....so you can install the rooted "update.zip" and have Gingerbread with root.

None of this applies to the Droid 3 because we started at Gingerbread (and 2.3.4 too which is even more difficult to root) and no custom recoveries (because root will have to happen first).
[Motorola Droid 3] Deodexed:
Sounds like fun and challenging!
[Motorola Droid 3] elkay:
The Atrix has been rooted from an unrooted/locked state on 2.3.4.

http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/index.php/Motorola_Atrix
[Motorola Droid 3] faylix:
Interesting.. is this fasboot flashing the unlocked bootloader?
[Motorola Droid 3] elkay:
No, this is with the bootloader still locked and 2.3.4 already installed. Here's the full discussion. Second post is the method from the wiki. I already asked if the original creator of the exploit was on the thread and could say whether we would be able to use the same method with the D3.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138204
[Motorola Droid 3] faylix:
I'm guessing you meant couldn't say.

What we need is a list of bootloader verisions and exactly what is being installed here with this update. Our bootloader is 0A.03 I don't know what the atrix is.

I also don't know exactly what its being overwritten here... how or how make copys of the things being replaced. *sigh*

any chance we coudl use a program like RDlite or backup our bootloader before we go ahead and write all over it... ?

this is close guys... 2.3.4 has been rooted on its own and now its just a matter of time before it makes it s way to us!

- faylix / local