want to know how to root the phone, new to this found an app for my battery life to make it last. its called overclockwidget.if anyone knows hows?
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Hello, I'm a new Android user and have had no experience with it before yesterday. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post.
I bought a Samsung Ace S5830 (with a white back) and found the navigation easy to use, even though I liked the HTC's (Sense?) in the stores a lot more but I didn't bought the cheapest in line (Wildfire) due to it's poor screen quality, there are a lot of apps in the market which seem useful (altough my experience with my Apple iPod Touch and iPad app stores are a bit more positive so far).
I figured out the system works with Launchers to change home screens, but all it does is change the display I'm looking at and nothing about the back-end/inside system. Also I get a slight idea this drains battery life fast.
I'm wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to root the phone already, but first I'd actually like to know what Rooting actually does and what benefits apply, nowhere it's explained simple for new users and every guide I'm trying to look into gives me a headache and I get lost within it with the countless of phrases and references I don't know anything about.
So my basic questions are:
1. Is the Samsung Ace (S5830) root-able?
2. What are the benefits of rooting this phone?
3. In case I f*ck things up so badly, can I restore my phone to factory defaults? If yes, how?
I'm looking for simple answers with steps a new user can execute, keep in mind I don't know a lot about Android as of yet and nothing at all about rooting.
Hey so I have read a lot of the threads on rooting but I think (hope) mine is a bit original for you. I am one of those skittish goody-two-shoes type people who have a bad record of breaking their electronics. My family is updating their tmobile plan in August and I am planning on getting a lg g2x. It seems like a great phone that'll be able to keep up with the advancements of Android for a while. However I have heard the battery life is really bad (as it is for most androids) and that there are all of these great methods I could use (setCPU, Battery Calibration, etc.) and I can get rid of ads on my apps (adfree) and even use ROMs and Themes!! This sounds great EXCEPT all of the above requires rooting. So my question is, if I install Battery Calibration, setCPU, adfree, etc, while rooted and then just unroot, will they all still work??? Also, in the case that this is possible, if I have any problems with my phone and have to send it in for service, as long as it's unrooted I don't have to delete any of the apps to put it back under warranty do I? And (yes there's more) can I continuously root/unroot as I please in order to change themes and ROMs and even updating the android system once my phone is out of date (though I hope I'm not obsolete within 2 yrs) and no longer gets updates from my phone company? I know superoneclick is supposed to be really easy but as I don't have the phone yet I was wondering how fast it actually is as well.
Thanks for all of your help!!
Hmm....lots of questions young one, well 1st of all by rooting it technically voids the warranty, and yes for the programs to work properly you will need to keep it rooted because some off them actually need root access to tweak the device.
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Hey so I have read a lot of the threads on rooting but I think (hope) mine is a bit original for you. I am one of those skittish goody-two-shoes type people who have a bad record of breaking their electronics. My family is updating their tmobile plan in August and I am planning on getting a lg g2x. It seems like a great phone that'll be able to keep up with the advancements of Android for a while. However I have heard the battery life is really bad (as it is for most androids) and that there are all of these great methods I could use (setCPU, Battery Calibration, etc.) and I can get rid of ads on my apps (adfree) and even use ROMs and Themes!! This sounds great EXCEPT all of the above requires rooting. So my question is, if I install Battery Calibration, setCPU, adfree, etc, while rooted and then just unroot, will they all still work??? Also, in the case that this is possible, if I have any problems with my phone and have to send it in for service, as long as it's unrooted I don't have to delete any of the apps to put it back under warranty do I? And (yes there's more) can I continuously root/unroot as I please in order to change themes and ROMs and even updating the android system once my phone is out of date (though I hope I'm not obsolete within 2 yrs) and no longer gets updates from my phone company? I know superoneclick is supposed to be really easy but as I don't have the phone yet I was wondering how fast it actually is as well.
Thanks for all of your help!!
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1. If you install the root required apps, root, then unroot, they will stop working. Once an app requires root and your phone is not rooted, even if it was before but it's not now, they will not work.
2. There are many one click root apps. e.g. z4root and universal androot.
3. You will have to unroot and remove the root required apps to put it back under warranty. I say this because if you leave them, then your provider will know that you must have rooted your phone to put them on it in the first place. (It would be like sending an Iphone for servicing to AT&T with Cydia installed. They will know that you jailbroke it.
4 Superoneclick does work fast. It may take up to five minutes (depends on your phone model), but remember what I said in #2. Good luck.
I am possibly looking to sell my phone and buy one on Craigslist or eBay but it makes me nervous because I don't know what I'm getting. I don't truly know how the previous owner used or abused the phone.
My question is this: Does rooting and flashing custom roms or basically not leaving the phone stock shorten the life of the CPU or processor?
Let's be honest, stuff wears out and eventually quits working. I was made aware of this when I had to replace my home wireless modem. I had no idea that connecting numerous devices to my network would shorten the life of it. So it makes me question if someone uses their phone more than what it was originally intended for by the manufacturer and carrier by modding it, does that in fact shorten the life of the phone? Is it worth taking a chance with buying a used phone when I don't know how it's been used or if it's been modded or not?
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Juice3250 said:
I am possibly looking to sell my phone and buy one on Craigslist or eBay but it makes me nervous because I don't know what I'm getting. I don't truly know how the previous owner used or abused the phone.
My question is this: Does rooting and flashing custom roms or basically not leaving the phone stock shorten the life of the CPU or processor?
Let's be honest, stuff wears out and eventually quits working. I was made aware of this when I had to replace my home wireless modem. I had no idea that connecting numerous devices to my network would shorten the life of it. So it makes me question if someone uses their phone more than what it was originally intended for by the manufacturer and carrier by modding it, does that in fact shorten the life of the phone? Is it worth taking a chance with buying a used phone when I don't know how it's been used or if it's been modded or not?
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That would depend on what you were planning on doing with your phone, i will give you a couple of examples.
1. if you plan on playing graphic games then this would demand more out of your hardware, and could possably shorten the life of your phone.
2. If you plan of pushing your cpu to the limit by messing around with overclocking then this could also shorten the life.
3. If you are planning to just install a custom rom, then i would say this would benfit your phone, as most custom roms remove all the bloatware, thus demanding less from your hardware.
But to be honest unless your are going to push your phone to its limits, and you only flash everyday roms, kernels, themes, then you will not really cause you phone any more harm than you would using it normally on stock.
Hi I had some questions, that if the action can be done by rooting my phone i was wondering if someone can send me to a video or tell me them self step by step clearly how to root a phone and if needed a custom rom with detail enough that i wont brink my phone i would very much appreciate that.
First My phone seems when on the app store to download apps really slowly, i have factory reset my phone but still acts this way can anyone help me with this issue?
Also my battery life seems to be very bad i see my phone at 97 percent one moment the 80 the next. Is the only way to increase battery life is by power saver mode and limiting my cpu and setting my brightness to nothing? or are there better options out there?
Also I was told rooting my phone and using battery calibrate might help is that true?
I have the Samsung galaxy s2 with a 1.5 cpu from t-mobile running on 4.1.2.
P.s Any other information you might know about this that will help my phone for the better please also include seeing that i have never dealt with this phone. (also i know its kinda old but with college its the only thing that really fit my budget)
P.s.s i wrote this same post on the wrong section can someone tell me how i can delete it so this isnt considered as spam or anything, would be appreciated
Hi all
i Just got my one plus one last week
it was amazing , it was snappy , the screen is gorgeous , and the CM is plain great , albeit many apps did find unresponding oddly enough
i've had many phones in the past that are not so great x10 mini , x8 , galaxy ace, galaxy nexus
all of which are miles away when compared to the one plus
and since they are so freaking lag i decided to root them and gave them root and changed their bootloader
but from one phone to the other all of them seems to die out in about 9 months after i root them , and i don;'t know what i did wrong , most of them are dead because i fried the motherboard or something
still why would you root the one plus when it's already so fast ? i am considering rooting mine but i am really scared i might kill it
First, rooting doesn't make it faster or slower. Also, it doesn't broke the phone neither now or in 12 month time.
Second, you need root for some in depth access on your phone, or some programs like Titanium Backup may require root to work.
Third, the rule of the thumb say, if you don't need it, don't do it!
greenify, adblock, titanium more than enough reasons to root.
I go by the old saying "If you have to ask, you'll never know"
Generally anyone who's asked me if they should root their phone, or install 3rd party firmware, my answer is no. It has to be something you want to do and something you're willing to accept the risk doing. I'm a flashaholic. I flash a new rom every few days, or update existing ROM i have. I'm never content with the status quo on my phone and devices and always play. I accept the risk of running into a situation where I go to make a call, watch a movie, or open a email and my phone locking up due to running bleeding edge untested code. Mind you I can always recover from bootloader and know how so I know I won't permanently screw a phone, just until I can flash a older rom, or recover with a PC. If you have to ask, it means you're not sure about what you're getting into. If you fall into this situation I would refrain from asking others and instead read around in the 1,000's of posts in this OnePlus forum and decide for yourself.
Not that being said, root is simple. It's a more of a "Set it and forget it" type of deal, at least until a OTA update arrives. Custom roms is where the aforementioned comes into play mostly. If you want to start getting into the Flashing world with Android its the place to start. Myself I read and read after I got my Galaxy S4, first real Android phone, and went straight to CyanogenMod with it. Skipped rooting.
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Generally anyone who's asked me if they should root their phone, or install 3rd party firmware, my answer is no. It has to be something you want to do and something you're willing to accept the risk doing.
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He may not be aware of what can be accomplished with root access and find the profits interesting. He doesn't necessarily know if he wants to do if he doesn't know it exists/is possible.
I don't want to flame or anything, but since you've been around for almost 3 years, you should really know better.
Firstly, rooting does not fry your motherboard. Seriously, why would you think so?
The fact that your previous phones became slow after a short while is because you probably got them stuffed with bloatware and have not maintained your phone in a healthy way.
As to why you should root your phone,...
Well, most apps that help you maintain your phone and keep it as optimized as possible require root.
This kind of proves my previous point regarding the speed of your previous phones.
I would start reading some more and eventually you'll be able to answer your own question.
Good luck!
Well that's easy, if your not interested in using apps that need root access there's no use in rooting your device. It's nothing magic which will make your device fly or make a cup of coffee for you.
Why not?