So what is the point of rooting? Aside from removing bloatware and installing screen capture apps or customs roms. Is there something else im missing. If I happen not to be into trying custom roms. What benefits can I obtain from rooting?
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I bought a Droid X yesterday morning and within 5 hours I rooted and put a ROM on
that b*tch. Very fast, no ugly bloatware, free wireless tether. Screen shots are
pretty damn good too.
I keep thinking about doing it but I just can't imagine losing the things I love about TouchWiz. There's no way I would root my phone unless I saw one first hand that has been, to know if I like the look and feel of it.
I keep thinking about doing it but I just can't imagine losing the things I love about TouchWiz. There's no way I would root my phone unless I saw one first hand that has been, to know if I like the look and feel of it.
If you keep the same ROM but just root I do not see why UI would change. Please correct me if I am wrong-I have been wrong before.....
Doc
Yes, the wireless tether app has encryption that is password protected.
Doc
The last time I tried wireless tether I couldn't get it to become secured. have you tried most of them, and if so, what one was the best in your experiance?
The last time I tried wireless tether I couldn't get it to become secured. have you tried most of them, and if so, what one was the best in your experiance?
Touche; the X does have some code of Kernel problem that doesn't allow for it. A co-worker of mine has the same problem i tried everything and it will not work.
Touche; the X does have some code of Kernel problem that doesn't allow for it. A co-worker of mine has the same problem i tried everything and it will not work.
So say I decide to be daring and root my phone, I'll use Z4 from the Android market just because it seems like the easiest route, I have a few questions about what will happen and what I can expect.
1. Will I lose all of my downloaded apps?
2. Will I lose any of my media? As some may know the Galaxy S has two SD cards, one removable and one not. I have important stuff on both and the benefits that I know of rooting aren't worth the loss of anything.
3. I love the TouchWiz UI but mostly I love the layout of everything and have grown quite accustom to the system settings menus and would hate to have that change, so will everything stay the same operation and look-wise?
4. The widgets I have set up on my home screens, will they stay, or will I have to set them up again?
5. Is there a way to get 2.2 on it once I root? And if so, apply the update to the questions above as well.
Basically, I really want 2.2, because I want voice activated actions so that I can finally use my BlueAnt S4 the way it was intended, and I'd love to get rid of the bloatware on this dang thing, but losing anything or having even the slightest inconvenience because of it simply isn't worth it to me. I can wait for the update if necessary.
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to entertain the above.
1. Will I lose all of my downloaded apps?
2. Will I lose any of my media? As some may know the Galaxy S has two SD cards, one removable and one not. I have important stuff on both and the benefits that I know of rooting aren't worth the loss of anything.
3. I love the TouchWiz UI but mostly I love the layout of everything and have grown quite accustom to the system settings menus and would hate to have that change, so will everything stay the same operation and look-wise?
4. The widgets I have set up on my home screens, will they stay, or will I have to set them up again?
5. Is there a way to get 2.2 on it once I root? And if so, apply the update to the questions above as well.
1: if you root and do not wipe or load another ROM, no you will not.
2: if you root and do not wipe or load another ROM, no you will not. the only way you will lose media on the SD card is if you partition the SD card and reformat it.
3: Depends on the ROM you use. Some will use the TouchWiz and some will use ADWLauncher.
4: if you root and do not wipe or load another ROM, they will stay the same.
5: there are ROM coders out there such as Cyanogen and XDA That have created ROMS for nearly every Android out there. I'm sure someone has 2.2 ported to your phone.
Basically everything depends on you wiping the phone. Which you HAVE to do before updating your ROM to a 2.2 patch. IF you wipe you will have a virgin phone again.