Rooting Android

[Money]

BATTERY LIFE IS TERRIBLE lol i took it off charger with full charge at midnight and by 4 am of no one touching teh phoone the batt died nd shut off

[Money]

it got caught in reboot loop but i fixed it

[Pressure Drop]

i just used revolutionary to root my evo... im having trouble on what i do next i got it all working liek it should but i dont get how to flash roms or what roms to use? HELP

yeah i found this too as the guide said to put the .zip rom onto the root of your sdcard which confused me a bit since my linux on my computer has a seperate root / partition and you cant just write to it.

but as it turns out you can use revolutionary to mount as a mass usb storage device and just put the .zip and google apps .zip in a folder on your sdcard then tell it to install it the zip from that folder and then the google app one.


on another note i got that tip about the cameraclick from the cyanogen forums but as i've since pissed about with the settings i found there does seem to be an option but you dont access it from the camera menu but insteand from the settings > cyanogen settings > sound



also like the bottom dock and the notifcations buttons you can customise.

like the adfree app for rooted phones if it works

does it always take like 2 hours for this cyanogenmod to install or someshit?

not sure what you mean about 2 hours to install ? i thought i would get a much improved boot time but i didn't, feels about the same though it mounts the sdcard quicker i've also wiped that for a fresh start.

[Money]

does it always take like 2 hours for this cyanogenmod to install or someshit?

[Money]

nevermind i got cyanogen 7now

[Money]

Okay, so I always thought that after rooting you had no other choice but to install a custom rom. But it looks like these two things do not always have to go hand-in-hand.

The rooting of my phone seems simple enough, it's all this jumbo about custom roms and selecting them and learning how to flash them onto my phone that seems to confuse me and frighten me a bit (with the whole bricking thing). Can I simply just root my phone and use some of the apps that are in the Market that require rooting, while using whichever firmwire/rom came with my phone? Then eventually I'll read up more about the various custom roms that are available to the Captivate and move on from there.

ya teh rooting was the ez part im confused with flashing roms n stuff too

[Money]

well today i rooted my phone

i'll go into a bit of detail for anyone curious - phone = htc desire (i hate the name)

i used that cyanogenmod one i was talking about earlier in the thread and i just followed the guide for my specific phone and hboot version but it all worked in the end the program http://revolutionary.io/ at first didn't work for me on linux and then when i tried windows it flashed up and closed down too quickly to read what the problem was, so i read it's faq page http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.p.../revolutionary and ran it as root on linux and bingo worked easy. Think my phone was still on HTC Sync mode from windows ? not sure but it worked anyhow on linux, installed the ClockworkMod Recovery when it prompted me then followed http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC...l_Update_Guide

i'm still testing it out, it's quite a change so far and not all for the better :P But since i synced it to my gmail account all the contacts etc were restored by resycning it which is really handy

still i was on 2.2 with no idea when my carrier was going to do the update and now i've root access and i'm on 2.3.6

BUT on my previous phone version i could disable the camera click in the options ... here you have to use your newly gained root access to rename/delete/replace with blank audiofile the file /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg

also one thing that 'annoyed' me was my carriers boot animation. Cyanogens one might be cooler but it involves more movement and i was hoping for something alot more minimal, so i renamed that and it falls back to a default android one that is the least annoying off the 3 for me. (/system/media/bootanimation.zip)

(i used file expert from the market place to do this, go into it's settings and give it root permissions and mount root read write , think that program that gives you root access allows you to do this)

anyhow from what i'm used to there is some GUI differences, some better some worse. i've not played around too much it seems to be running smoother looks cooler but with alot more animations.

i just used revolutionary to root my evo... im having trouble on what i do next i got it all working liek it should but i dont get how to flash roms or what roms to use? HELP

[Mobey]

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anyone know of a way to make the wireless more stable and faster on android? Takes my phone absolutely years to load forums and sometimes fails to even load and have to refresh.

edit: basically the image shows my phone loading 'convo' app server: forums.trenchwars.net yet it fails to load 99% of the time, this is the same with image heavy websites via my phone browser like tw forums yet when i enable my 3G services, everything loads pretty fast and smooth.. like the network is made for phone browsing (obviously).

[Pressure Drop]

well today i rooted my phone

i'll go into a bit of detail for anyone curious - phone = htc desire (i hate the name)

i used that cyanogenmod one i was talking about earlier in the thread and i just followed the guide for my specific phone and hboot version but it all worked in the end the program http://revolutionary.io/ at first didn't work for me on linux and then when i tried windows it flashed up and closed down too quickly to read what the problem was, so i read it's faq page http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.p.../revolutionary and ran it as root on linux and bingo worked easy. Think my phone was still on HTC Sync mode from windows ? not sure but it worked anyhow on linux, installed the ClockworkMod Recovery when it prompted me then followed http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC...l_Update_Guide

i'm still testing it out, it's quite a change so far and not all for the better :P But since i synced it to my gmail account all the contacts etc were restored by resycning it which is really handy

still i was on 2.2 with no idea when my carrier was going to do the update and now i've root access and i'm on 2.3.6

BUT on my previous phone version i could disable the camera click in the options ... here you have to use your newly gained root access to rename/delete/replace with blank audiofile the file /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg

also one thing that 'annoyed' me was my carriers boot animation. Cyanogens one might be cooler but it involves more movement and i was hoping for something alot more minimal, so i renamed that and it falls back to a default android one that is the least annoying off the 3 for me. (/system/media/bootanimation.zip)

(i used file expert from the market place to do this, go into it's settings and give it root permissions and mount root read write , think that program that gives you root access allows you to do this)

anyhow from what i'm used to there is some GUI differences, some better some worse. i've not played around too much it seems to be running smoother looks cooler but with alot more animations.

[project dragon]

Okay!
So, my service provider finally has an update for 2.3.3 gingerbread.
I wish to download this.
I just rooted my phone (no rom) and from what I can find, it looks like if I upgrade, it will unroot my phone.
I wish to use Titanium to reload all my apps/data, but since it unroots, I will not be able to.

This post tells me how to root it, but I don't understand any of it. I rooted my phone with SuperOneClick, so this whole fugu kernel swap method makes me all "???".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=1182

Anyone know what that means ?

[project dragon]

Okay, so I always thought that after rooting you had no other choice but to install a custom rom. But it looks like these two things do not always have to go hand-in-hand.

The rooting of my phone seems simple enough, it's all this jumbo about custom roms and selecting them and learning how to flash them onto my phone that seems to confuse me and frighten me a bit (with the whole bricking thing). Can I simply just root my phone and use some of the apps that are in the Market that require rooting, while using whichever firmwire/rom came with my phone? Then eventually I'll read up more about the various custom roms that are available to the Captivate and move on from there.

[Money]

[Veloce]

Not to derail the topic but I'm trying to decide between a thunderbolt and droid 3. Since Jason and others apparently know a lot about cell phones, I'll ask...

I don't do a lot with my phone beyond the normal functions like google maps, a few low-resource intensive games, email, text, and talk. Everyone tells me I should get a droid 3 if that is the case, but I'm not sure what the huge downside would be to getting a thunderbolt aside from an extra 3-5$ I'd spend per month over the 2 year contract I sign?

Thunderbolt I hear sucks a bit on battery and there's no manual way for me to help that by switching it to the 3G network. How long would it last through the day?

Would I have any concern over having a phone still on 3G come 12-18 months? Probably no, right? Would I feel any pain considering what I do with my phone at that point?

These are the only real differences I see (battery life, network) aside from cost which has a minimal impact over a 2 year contract. Which phone would you recommend?

[Weak]

rooting android phones, if done correctly, bring a whole new level to the phones. Battery life on my Motorola photon increased a bit when i rooted it, and basically the speed of the phone went from the 1.2 dual core tegra 2 capability to almost a 1.4 (tested) ..

Ps: I work at sprint, reporting all of you for rooting / tethering.

jk <3's

[Jason]

so is your avatar