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[HTC Droid DNA] drowe:
I've rooted all my previous phones to remove bloatware and to tether my tablet on occasion. With this one, Jelly Bean lets me disable most of the bloat and the rest I can hide from the app drawer so that is taken care of and the built in hotspot works just fine. I have no desire to root this one. Maybe in a year or so when somebody develops a safer root procedure and gets S-off I'll be bored and start rooting again.
[HTC Droid DNA] ROFLsplash:
Ill drink to that
[HTC Droid DNA] klarson:
I'll join you in that haha
[HTC Droid DNA] BBEgo:
The only things I need that I don't get from the stock Rom is wireless tether and a long-press 'back button' function that kills the current process.

This phone is so good, as-is, that I have barely felt the desire to root at all. And I must say that coming from the Rezound, that is a huge thing for me.

Sent from my HTC DNA
[HTC Droid DNA] rfarrah:
Yeah, as others have stated, it's pretty phenomenal right out of the box. There are still tweaks I'd like to have, but the main reason i went ahead and rooted was so I could enjoy wi-fi tether. I use it fairly often when I travel.

ROMs and kernels are in development and get better and more interesting almost every day. I can feel the need to flash a new one coming on....
[HTC Droid DNA] dodgebizkit:
I've never rooted and won't until I this is my secondary phone lol

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[HTC Droid DNA] slide83:
So I tried the unlock method and bricked my phone.... Fun stuff.
[HTC Droid DNA] dodgebizkit:
Nasty, mate. good luck unbricking it, let us know how that goes. unfortunately I have no idea how that works so can't offer any advice but mate hope you can do it easily.

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[HTC Droid DNA] Bigandrewgold:
I'm pretty sure that if you do actually brick it whole unlocking, you can't fix it.
[HTC Droid DNA] orangechoochoo:
Go to the DNA channel on irc for help.
[HTC Droid DNA] knucklhed:
Sweet! Cant wait to try!
[HTC Droid DNA] Serinety:
Bricking happens when you don't pay attention . You can brick anything.. drive down the road with your eyes closed? Bricked car...

Light some candles and put them them on the window seal but forget to move the curtains from dangling in the flame? bricked house....

Try to root a phone and don't read directions before flashing, type wrong command at wrong time? bricked phone...

Sure.. things happen.. your power goes out right as you start to flash a boot loader. kitty walks across your keyboard and types "bricked phone" with his cute little feet..

**** happens, but MOST of the time when bricks happen, its user stupidity.. guys.. my 11 year old daughter rooted her rezound with the paperclip and did her DNA all on her own..

seriously, don't not root your phone because you are afraid of it bricking. This isn't a friggen lottery.. you are 100% in control..

It always amuses me when people say "its not worth the risk".. the risk of what? you being a moron and facerolling your keyboard while watching obamaporn?

Sorry for the rant.. not really.. but whatever. its 3am.. been up doing physics. And not kiddy HS physics, the kind that melts your brain and steals your little swimmers.
[HTC Droid DNA] cc16177:
Yes it's worth it but I recommend having the IRC channel ready if you have any issues. The first time I unlocked (I had to file an insurance replacement so I did it twice) it took me 3 hours because I had problems. I was in the IRC channel the entire time and since I explained exactly what errors I was getting people were able to help me.

All I can say is yes it's worth it but be careful during the unlock and be ready to ask for help if you need it.
[HTC Droid DNA] klarson:
Haha couldn't have said it better myself.
[HTC Droid DNA] liquidhaste:
Weak sauce, rooting is fun
[HTC Droid DNA] SharpIS03:
I root for the sheer fun of it, and I'm learning how to build custom ROMs.
[HTC Droid DNA] slide83:
Most times, I would agree with you. However, I have unlocked, rooted and rommed many phones over the years and never had an issue. I followed the directions to a T and it still became a brick. I even asked questions in IRC as I was doing it to make sure I wasn't making any mistakes. As one of the mods on the channel said: "The restore doesn't always take, bricks happen".

I'm sure *most* people will be fine using this method. Unfortuantely for me, I'm one of the minority of folks where it didn't work. Lesson learned. People saying that there isn't a risk if you do everything right are simply wrong.

I'll definitely be waiting until more safe methods come out before attempting to unlock another phone.
[HTC Droid DNA] Serinety:
Well, like I said.. things happen. When people say "sometimes it doesn't stick" that's just a cop out way of saying.. "i really don't know enough to know why it didn't work"

I'm an electrical engineer , usually its my job to figure out the "sometimes it doesn't stick" problems.

unfortunately for xda and the android community.. and well hell, me too, I am not well versed in the ways android programming.

the point is, in almost all cases where I do discover the problem, it almost always involves the end user doing something incorrect, usually without knowing it even having control over it (like bad source voltage) it is almost never the systems themselves.

in the case of rooting.. and in your case it seems as well.. those things happen and you have a bad day.. but in all situations.. ya, someone did something retarded and then claimed "i did it eXACTLY, the way guide said "

Glad you got it resolved though. I have never bricked a phone, but ive broken a good many of them :)
[HTC Droid DNA] cowisland:
Bottom line is that there are many steps and people always make random mistake with non zero probability. All you can do is pay attention to minimize that probability of a brick, but you can't completely eliminate it, unfortunately. Hence the worry.

So, the more steps you have, the more people are worried, justifiably so.

So far I have only rooted my TB (the long manual way that originally came out) and I felt some stress for sure with the process. Luckily it came out fine.
[HTC Droid DNA] mike_augie:
yes

more than doubles your battery life and runs so much smoother
[HTC Droid DNA] deathrow1992:
Yeah roms usually are debloated and kernels will usually either boost performance or help prolong battery life. Normally I'd do this right off the bat, but I've been so blown away with how the phone is stock that I really don't feel the need to root at the moment.

Maybe when CM10 comes to the DNA I'll root, but right now I don't see a reason to. Never been much of a flash freak anyway.
[HTC Droid DNA] Bigandrewgold:
It may help a little as far as battery life goes, but it sure as hell doesn't double it.
[HTC Droid DNA] dodgebizkit:
Out of interest is there any 4.1.2 ROM for int s3 with all of the features of tw/premium suite but withkut all the crap like chat on that no one on earth uses?

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[HTC Droid DNA] croppz:
Definitely agree with you on this. I'm coming back from that nazi run company known as Apple. Had a Droid 2 before my iphone and I finally came back..ANYWAY, this phone operates so smooth and processes things so quickly I haven't seen a need to root it just yet. I rooted my D2 as soon as I could and it made it an okay device. This one doesn't need much aside from a few things like removing the wifi notification and a long press to kill apps like you said.

Other than that, it's almost perfect (to me at least)...and I know you all can't stop looking at the screen. :cool:
[HTC Droid DNA] Orion575:
Could you please tell me how did you disable all the bloat without rooting the phone ? I would really appreciate that !
[HTC Droid DNA] [TSON]:
#1 reason to root: WiFi notification.

Ugh!
[HTC Droid DNA] Bigandrewgold:
Settings>apps>'all' tab>click on an app you want disabled>click disable.
[HTC Droid DNA] Orion575:
Thank you very much for help, hopefully Ill get a little better bettery life !!!
[HTC Droid DNA] xShin:
You can actually get rid of the WiFi notification without needing to root, as someone helpfully pointed out in another thread:

1. Pull down your notification bar.

2. Long-press on the WiFi notification.

3. Press "App Info" when it comes up.

4. Force close the resulting app that comes up (even though it says Android System, it's fine).

5. WiFi notification is gone! (until a complete reboot, at which point you simply do it again)
[HTC Droid DNA] Orion575:
Cool thank you for that little tip it worked fine on my DNA

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Every time I turn wifi on or off it appears again in a notification bar
[HTC Droid DNA] jerrickdamon:
I would have to agree with not having the need to root this yet.
[HTC Droid DNA] Serinety:
While I can support the fact that the DNA is awesome out of the box.. I don't really see the "no need to root" thing.

Rooting isn't just about hacking ir disabling bloat.. its simply the release from unneeded restrictions.

Some of you may not even know that it means to be "rooted" other than it means you can do "stuff"

Here is a simple analogy you can all relate too.

Have you ever used the computer at work, tried to do something, say, install some software you needed or maybe plug in a thumbdrive to get a file to find out that those actions are restricted? That is because your user account on the pc does not have administrator privileges, so.. you deal with it.

Sucks right? But its work.. and whatever, that's how it is. Now take your home computer.. the one you bought from "insert your favorite pc builder here". Would you be content with those same restrictions ? Would it be okay with you to NOT be the administrator on your own pc. Instead, "insert your favorite pc builder here", is going to hold the admin account and you are only able to create restricted user accounts. Want to install a new printer ? Restricted... want to install winrar instead of using the built in windows compressed folders ? Restricted...

Sure, you might say, "ya, but I don't need a printer and windows compressed folders work fine for me needs" and maybe those things are true. But would you consider it acceptable that your own home pc was governed by restrictions from the manufacturer? That you , as the owner of the computer did not have "permission" to make changes, regardless if you wanted to make changes or not?

When you have an admin account on your home pc, you are the root user, you have access to the "root" directory. Analogous to having access to the "windows" folder on your computer.

Rooting your phone makes you an "administrator" on the phone in the same way you are an admin on your pc.

Choosing not to root is choosing to be happy with guest account on the phone, with limited access.

In conclusion, the DNA being bad ass out of the box is irrelevant to rooting, as rooting is a matter if principle.

Also.. you can use gameCIH to get infinite coins in family fued lol.
[HTC Droid DNA] cc16177:
You could also say there's "no need" to add horsepower or aftermarket modifications to a Porsche 911.

But i'm still gonna do it when I get mine! ;)
[HTC Droid DNA] RLGL:
You do not know what you are missing. The possibilities are endless, the ultimate in customization.
[HTC Droid DNA] mk20051:
It is definitely worth it! I came from the Droid X to the DNA and it was difficult at first unlocking the bootloader and rooting, but once you do, you will realize what a huge difference it makes when you install a ROM like Viper DNA on it. Back on the Droid X, I had Liberty, Rubix, CM, MIUI, you name it. It was a pretty simple process to root and install roms. At least with the DNA, you don't have all of these ROMS that you can't even use the freakin camera (ahem...Droid X). This is more difficult and I will tell you to pay close attention to directions, but it is time well spent!.
[HTC Droid DNA] two_cents:
Disabling bloat is one thing but remember we do not have expandable storage.... so rooting and removing the files frees up a few gigs on your internal storage forget what the actual size of all the bloat is but I'm fully loaded and I still have 5 gig left and I have some pretty large games/apps installed.

Battery life is good stock (16 hours I have 40%left)

new kernels with the wakelock fixes I get great battery life (16 hours I have 65% left)

I understand its a calculated risk and I just saw a new unlock method that doesn't involve so much ADB... I rooted every phone I buy but I do try to live with stock for at least a few weeks and it was truly enjoyable on my DNA... sadly I dont reccomend this phone to friends because of the memory limitation with all the stock apps
[HTC Droid DNA] kj2364:
With the new unlock method, a chimpanzee could do this. First phone I've ever done, and it was easy. Had to have wifi tether, and it works great.
[HTC Droid DNA] JBH_Film:
You will find that most individuals willing to go to the trouble of unlocking and rooting will always say it was worth it even if no quantifiable measurements have been attempted. Most of the time that's not the point. Why root/rom? Because I can. Because I can recover usable storage. Because I can be free of apps I don't want (bloat) etc.

And there is my favorite "Wow the battery life is awesome on this rom!"

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Sure it will. Just by getting rid of bloat, the heaviest load on the battery (the screen) magically transforms itself and uses half the energy! :rolleyes:
[HTC Droid DNA] kern3l:
Totally worth it on this phone.

You can:

-> get rid of the most irritating thing (for me) i.e. the 3-dot menu eating up screen space, by using a custom ROM

-> undervolt your device to save battery

-> remove bloatware (obvious)
[HTC Droid DNA] croppz:
I wanted all the bloat and useless crap off my phone. So it was worth it to me.

Sent from my SuperCharged DNA
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The_Wood:
Is it possible for anybody to make flashable file that will replace the Dialer, Constacts and Phone on ICS... they are really slow... i preffer GB apks.... help me .... it's too laggy and slow... my phone ringtone doesn't start for at least 5 seconds of vibrationg...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Vell123:
I installed the slim common and Slim galaxy s 4g custom rom for my SGS4G phone. I was awesome. Great features like screenshot and fast charge. However I noticed side effects similar what everyone else has noticed like the battery drain problem. I was wondering though. Has anyone been having battery issues in general like battery saying its completely charged but it wasnt and then the phone cutting off on you randomly or the phone giving false readings of the battery saying its 84% then 60% the 94%.? I thought maybe it was my phone so I brought the same exact phone and the same problems occurred. Just curious. Are there any tweaks for these problems? I have Samsung galxaxy s 4g and I installed the slim custom rom by team kick ass. Awesome rom BTW good job guys
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Those are signs that your battery is going bad. You bought another phone to test?? Did you buy another battery?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Vell123:
Yes I bought another phone brand new not refurbished and I'm going to buy another one tonight. I was just wondering if I flashed this new one will I have the same side effects.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Everything should be normal. I good trick to clear the phone before you put a new battery in is to hold the power button for 20 seconds or so without the battery in the phone. Then pop in the new battery and FULLY charge it with the phone still off. Turn on your phone and enjoy your new battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Vell123:
Also I wanted to know is their anyway to keep some of the old features from the galaxy s 4g like the camera. Its amazing but the ics camera app is horrible..
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] getochkn:
How is the ICS camera horrible? I find it faster and more options.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] jtsrtr13:
Was just wondering if all of the extended battery sizes require a new back cover? Like is there an extended battery that fits in the stock phone casing?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
Not that I'm aware of. I have the extended battery and love it. Even if it is bigger.

Sent from my Venomized ViperINC
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] jtsrtr13:
Yeah I have one too, its just that since there aren't really any sturdy cases that fit the ext batts I was wondering if I could get a smaller ext batt that would fit in a normal sized housing and therefore normal sized case
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NegativeOne:
I've seen a few, and they seem to have their quirks. Is there a good one you guys can recommend that will create an update.zip with an updater script compatible with GSIII?

I'm basically just interested in something that will let me install some system apps
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NegativeOne:
Anybody?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jjon43:
I accidentally deleted the contents of my SD card when installing a rom, and then I reverted back to CM 10.1. This obviously deleted all of my data, backups, ect but I had TB set up to sync with dropbox, so I had the backups. I wiped the phone and installed TB. I put the backups back onto the SD card and set the location in TB preferences. Now it will only detect a few of the backups. I've tried everything that I can think of or that I found on line but to no avail. Does anyone know a fix for this? I really don't want to lose all of my data.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jjon43:
bump
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] goodtimes50:
Did you install the Dropbox app and then enable Dropbox in TB's preferences?

Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood. Usually when something like this happens to me it's do to apps being filtered out somehow. Make sure you have "All" selected for all the "Filter by..." options.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jjon43:
Thanks for the reply! Yeah, that was the first thing that I checked. There are no filters on. I even tried to reinstall TB and delete the settings file on the SD card, but it still won't recognize the backups.

I'm also gonna try to install CM 10 and see what happens. I don't have much hope though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jjon43:
Ok, more info. I tried installing CM10, but it didn't do anything. When I set it to the backup directory, it only finds 13 backups, but there are well over 100 in the folder.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jjon43:
I'm running out of hope, but bump.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] otoolerc:
Sorry man, but you gotta bite the bullet.

Grab a drink, go to play.google.com and reinstall the apps you want.

Has happened to me twice... makes a quick, simple flash on Sunday night turn into a tired lug to work/school on Monday morning.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Greycloak42:
My guess would be that the Dropbox sync in TB was never able to complete. Uploading gigs of files can take some time, even on a decent connection.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxsicknessxx:
I had something like this happen. I put a new rom on and even though I didn't do anything to my backups now in Ti backup it says im missing a ton of them. There more backups then it claims I have apps.

Anyway I deleted all the history for the app, clear all pref , reinstalled and its working now use Ti backup to uninstall its self lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Kediil:
Seeeveral months later, but I had the same problem. No version of my backups would be detected, etc. Happened after an incident while redoing a ROM. And this is the only thread anywhere that seemed to say anything about the issue.

What ended up working, for whatever reason: I cleared everything from my SD, probably not entirely necessary, just remove TB and it's folder. Reinstall, update TB. Do a new backup of everything. Then I hooked the phone to the computer, copied my old stuff into the folder, overwriting the many that asked for it. When I went back to TB and did a batch restore, it picked up all the previous programs.

Unfortunately, I did have to sit with my phone, and most applications would ask if I wanted to install it, click Install, then Done, then it would move on to the next. Or if it was a system application, just hit cancel and it would skip it.

But it fixed it. So, I'm not complaining too much.

Next step is to delete all backups, do NEW backups, then go forward from there. Will probably see about doing a full wipe and TB backup, which I sure hope works.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] amworsley:
My fix

I logged in through adb as root and found that the external SD card was being hidden from Titanium. So I just copied the files as root onto a directory next to the existing Titanium back up (the one just created that it could see) via bash command

jfltexx:/ # cp -a /storage/6163-6233/TB_orig/ /mnt/sdcard/

I think each new release the Google people decide to move around the SD card and generally make it hard for old data to be seen by Apps on the new system in the name of security or some fancy new feature.

Painful but as I could see the SD card when plugged into my laptop I knew it was really there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] DarthScabrous:
So, I'm in Minnesota. Currently running CM9. Before this, I was running JellyBam. Well, I woke up this morning with no signal whatsoever. Changed roms, then changed modems, still nothing. Now, we are supposed to be expecting a whiteout. This is my first time with a cellphone, so this may seem stupid to you, but to me its a legitimate question. Will the whiteout affect my cell signal? Could that be the problem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 4-2ndtwin:
Could be that the cell towers in ur area are without power and without backup generators. Happened in my area Christmas week when we had a winter storm.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] DarthScabrous:
That would seem to be it. Everyonce in a while, I get a little signal, but not enough to place a call or anything. Luckily, I get out of here tomorrow, right before the whiteout hits where we are at. Hopefully when I get back near south I will have service.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 4-2ndtwin:
Good deal.

Yeah we had spotty edge of edge service for a few days...:banghead: but all is good now. :beer:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
A friend of mine recently was playing with his Samsung Galaxy Note and the phone somehow froze during a flash and he got the battery out. The phone after that wasn't turning on and he sent it to a local service shop. The service shop tried JTAGing the phone with Riff box but probably the servicer who was trying the JTAG screwed the EMMC chip even more and completely fried it. He told me all of this and I thought of the idea buying the phone so I decided to offer him 100 euros... and he agreed.

After 3 days of Google-ing, searching everywhere on the internet and trying everything (even for other phones), I found that the only solution for this phone is replacing the EMMC chip which costs 60 euros if I order it from here (I haven't found any other website to order N7000 EMMC chip but if you know some other, please share!).

Now I'm going to order this chip tomorrow and it should arrive in a week so I'll post the progress of my project. :)

Thought of sharing my experience with buying and repairing a completely screwed up phone that even JTAG couldn't fix it.

Click here to read last update post...

Тоtal money spent: 125 euros.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nokiamodeln91:
Hmmmm. Good. Following it