Did you Root your droid?

[SnickerDoodle]

So with the help of a friend on here i now have a rooted droid. At HTC Inspire 4G, which is the same as a Desire.. Who else has a rooted droid? And what ROM are you running? I haven't picked one yet. I really like GingerBeast but last night the developer was editing it so i couldn't download the newest version.

 

[ryandavenport]

I don't even know what any of that means. Please put that in lamens terms.

 

[SnickerDoodle]

It's like jailbreaking for an iphone.

The best way to explain it is say you have a house with an indoor pool, retractable roof, heated floors, central air, track lighting and everything else a house of this caliber may contain - but all of the controls are in the basement and the basement door is locked...rooting unlocks that door.

 

[TN4x4Xterra]

I'd love to get rid of some apps on my droid like MySpace which I don't even have, and few miscellanous items that can't be removed unless you root it.

 

[J Everett]

RATT has a rooted Android phone (Dunno what model) and I'm planning on rooting my Kindle Fire sometime soon, after I do some more research.

 

[ryandavenport]

So rooting it voids the warranty right? I guess that would be ok since mine is out of warranty.

 

[TN4x4Xterra]

Yes, very much will void any warranty if you root your phone.

 

[RATTFINK]

Yep, my Droid is rooted and running the CyanogenMOD 7 rom.

 

[SnickerDoodle]

Apparently from what i was read with my inspire is that the rooting wont void my warranty unless i brick my phone (which would make it unusable) But seeing that i had only paid $0.01 for my phone and have a back up iphone 3gs if needed i wasn't too worried about it.

 

[NismoFire]

Anyone found a root for a Mac? I know apk runs on Google, but yeah....

 

[Roadwarrior]

I plan on rooting my droid after the 1 year warranty is done..

 

[Trexterra]

you can erase all evidence of root fairly simply as long as you don't perma brick your phone. Some types of brick can even be recovered. I've rooted a droid x and a galaxy nexus. I've done it the one button click root method and i've done the manual scripting version and that sucked ass. But basically I just have it rooted for the wifi tether and a few other things like underclocking my cpu or setting parameters for when it can use max cpu, etc... I ran cyanogenmod on my droid x before and didn't really care too much for it but I think i'm getting bored with my stock UI on the galaxy nexus so maybe i'll find a rom for this one.

 

[Trexterra]

just decided to try out the new GUMMY rom. we'll see how it goes

 

[xearth]

Cyanogen 7 and ICS were my favorite roots as far as interface goes, but both of them lacked functionality that the phone could provide. I'm using 4.3 Fresh right now, and it allows you to keep a similar HTC UI, built in Wi-Fi tethering, a good quick short cut menu in the notifications, and oh yea, everything works like it's supposed to. (HTC EVO 4G btw)

 

[SnickerDoodle]

i"m trying to find a good rom for my HTC Inspire 4G- which is the same as the HTC Desire. but so far nothing is striking my fancy.

 

[Trexterra]

 

[SnickerDoodle]

ohh a blank screen, hmm. :erm:

 

[Trexterra]

so far i haven't really seen anything that cool about doing the rom other than 1. changing the color of the notification bar. 2. having 2 extra programmable options out of the lock screen (set to directly message my wife and friend) 3. It came with sound level manager so i could increase speaker volume

 

[Trexterra]

 

[RATTFINK]

What are you guys using for a WiFi tether?

I have used Barnacle WiFi Tether and had connection problems as of late.

Right now, I am using Open Garden WiFi Tether and it is flawless.

 

[rjr162]

I'm currently running CyanogenMod 9 (TeamHacksung build 17) on my Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000T.... pretty stable and works well for being Android 4.0 on a device that's not getting ICS from the manufacturer. There's still some features missing that CM7 has (a few of which may or may not be fixed due to driver source issues).

Also, Chrome Beta for android works a bit better than the built in browser for some things, and seems to render pages faster as well.

As for anyone with a SGS and CM7, the glitch kernel is a great replacement for the one included in CM7 (overclocking, under-volting, etc)... and the neutrality (I believe that's what it was called) app is nice for changing the DPI to make for "more screen realestate")

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[Trexterra]

hmm wonder where my pictures went?

 

[rjr162]

What are you guys using for a WiFi tether?

I have used Barnacle WiFi Tether and had connection problems as of late.

Right now, I am using Open Garden WiFi Tether and it is flawless.

I've always used androids built in tether.. but my Sammy galaxy s also isn't carrier locked or even carrier modified so it wasn't screwed for features like my wife's version Samsung fascinate which is the same phone but with a flash for the rear camera rather than having a front camera like mine (mine has no flash)

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[NismoFire]

Currently running SkyRaider Zeus 1.3 on my Thunderbolt. Gotta love TeamBAMF.

I use Open Garden WiFi Tether and both ROM Manager and ROM Toolbox for various tweaks.

This thing also has a super cool camera tweak.