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Are there any 'backup' programs that do this ?

Ive tired MyBackup Pro and the apps it installs dont seem to get new updates.
Many apps (like handcent) dont keep any of there in app settings.
Ive heard Google backup works but not with root.
Is Titanium backup any good ?
Im looking for a program that will restore all my alarms/settings INCLUDING my individual app settings , AND registers everything on the market so i can continue to get updates.
Suggestions ?

Titanium pro (with donation) does everything you mentioned, plus! i cant find a better app for backup and restore. its about $4

Does the non-donation version not do all that then?

For some reason, I can not see the pro version in the market. I found the free one though. Anybody else having this problem?

Pro version is the same one.
When buying you get a txt file that you put in the root of your sd card and then you have pro version.

The only problem is:
I don't use paypal. No chance to get it on another way paid?

Titanium Backup rocks. It backs up apps & data, and restores the Market entries when it restores apps, so Market will show the updates. You can even back up system settings like the launcher (home screen) configuration. With the donate version it does even more cool stuff - highly recommended. It's one of the best apps out there for rooted phones.

So I can get those good features with the standard ?....but the PRO just makes it asier right ? ((seems like it says one touch install))

xManMythLegend said:
So I can get those good features with the standard ?....but the PRO just makes it asier right ? ((seems like it says one touch install))
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Mostly. If you ever want to do a batch restore (wiped phone?), the pro is well worth it. With pro you also get the ability to keep multiple backups so you can easily restore old versions/data, and it's faster.

Bicster_ said:
Mostly. If you ever want to do a batch restore (wiped phone?), the pro is well worth it. With pro you also get the ability to keep multiple backups so you can easily restore old versions/data, and it's faster.
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Thanks for the tip. Will be trying it.

Titanium Backup

BTW, You dont need paypal to get it.
Click the donate thing on Titanium Backup Program.
Paypal will act as a middleman for your CREDIT CARD.
Safe and easy.
Did it yesterday, and within 10 minutes i had my "Pro" email.
As for the usefulness? If you backup 100 apps having to click install every time is ANNNOYING. Well worth 4 bucks to avoid that pain! Plus its faster backing up too, so really a small price to pay for your time.
Also, the program is pretty awesome, so well worth supporting the developer.

Yeah, I'd try it and its great!
Paypal with guest and VISA Card and 10 Minutes later I had my key-mail!
It works great! Everything fine!!!

My market/downloads section doesnt show up all apps (Titanium Free).
No other way to fix this but to upgrade to paid?

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[Q] Rooted Droid X questions. 5 issues. Please Help!

Okay, so my Droid X has been rooted for about a month now and I've been going happy-go-lucky with deleting bloatware off of my device. Thusfar I believe I've uninstalled the following: Amazon MP3 player, City ID, Kindle, News, News and Weather, Weather, Terminal Emulator, My Verizon Mobile, Skype, VZ Navigator, and Visual Voicemail. My first two issues relate to this.
#1- I went to Titanium Backup the other day I noticed as I was scrolling up and down the list that contactsunconnected.apk was frozen. I only have the free version of Titanium Backup so I don't even have the capability to freeze apps, so this baffled me. Anyway, when I noticed it I unfroze it and went along my merry way. When I restarted my phone afterward I noticed it was frozen again. I found out that it re-freezes it every time that I restart the phone. So...what the heck does that file even do? And is it okay to leave it frozen? Or should I unfreeze it ever time?
#2- AFTER I'd uninstalled all these apps I happened to be browsing some forums and I was reading that it wasn't a good idea to uninstall these apps, but rather..."freeze" or "rename" the apps so they wouldn't run, but they would still be accessible later on. I read the reason for them needing to be accessible is that if you wanna receive an update (like Gingerbread) in the future you still have to have ALL the bloatware that came stock with the phone. How difficult is it to get this bloatware back? Does anyone have a link to these files?
#3- This is slightly unrelated to the other two issues, but how do you guys feel about the stock Droid X file manager vs Astro File manager? I refuse to be redundant and have two apps that are so similar, but I've noticed that each one has some different strengths that the other doesn't. I really wanna get rid of one, but I'm not sure which one yet. Any suggestions?
#4- The only custom ROM I've tried on my phone was Fission and I was very unhappy. I mean, the ROM looked cool and ran smoothly, but not all my apps carried over. I want a ROM that carries over 100% of my apps. Any suggestions?
#5- How do I go about overclocking my device? And what is the max that I can SAFELY overclock my device at?
Anyway, if you guys can help me with any of these 5 issues that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

mj23kb08 said:
Okay, so my Droid X has been rooted for about a month now and I've been going happy-go-lucky with deleting bloatware off of my device. Thusfar I believe I've uninstalled the following: Amazon MP3 player, City ID, Kindle, News, News and Weather, Weather, Terminal Emulator, My Verizon Mobile, Skype, VZ Navigator, and Visual Voicemail. My first two issues relate to this.
#3- This is slightly unrelated to the other two issues, but how do you guys feel about the stock Droid X file manager vs Astro File manager? I refuse to be redundant and have two apps that are so similar, but I've noticed that each one has some different strengths that the other doesn't. I really wanna get rid of one, but I'm not sure which one yet. Any suggestions?
#4- The only custom ROM I've tried on my phone was Fission and I was very unhappy. I mean, the ROM looked cool and ran smoothly, but not all my apps carried over. I want a ROM that carries over 100% of my apps. Any suggestions?
#5- How do I go about overclocking my device? And what is the max that I can SAFELY overclock my device at?
Anyway, if you guys can help me with any of these 5 issues that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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3. I used to use astro, but once I got my droid 2 and titanium backup, there didn't seem much of a point to having astro any more.
4. What are 'your apps'? What do you mean by 'carries over'? If they came with the x, then they might rely on blur. If you downloaded them from the market, then they should work fine in fission. Either way, no custom rom will have everything you want, and moto roms will have more than you want.
5. There's a thread all about this in the droid x forums.
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#1 and #2- Do you have any info about these issues?
#3- I see your point. With the built in file manager and Titanium I suppose Astro is useless.
#4- I understand that some of the motorola stuff won't carry over, but some things that I installed from the market didn't carry over. Clockwork Mod was one of those and I had to redownload it just to be able to flash back to stock. Also, some of the other stock apps like Gmail, Email, and Messaging that I DO like didn't carry over. It was frustrating.
#5- Can you give me a link to this?
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mj23kb08 said:
#1 and #2- Do you have any info about these issues?
#3- I see your point. With the built in file manager and Titanium I suppose Astro is useless.
#4- I understand that some of the motorola stuff won't carry over, but some things that I installed from the market didn't carry over. Clockwork Mod was one of those and I had to redownload it just to be able to flash back to stock. Also, some of the other stock apps like Gmail, Email, and Messaging that I DO like didn't carry over. It was frustrating.
#5- Can you give me a link to this?
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Not sure about number one at all, I never use that function in titanium.
Likewise, for number two, I'm always running a custom rom, so I never have to worry about that.
5 - followed a link from the d2 forum to the original work done for droid x:
http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/201920-droid-x-2-2-overclock-kernel-module-w-instructions.html

Need tmobile apps back!

Im trading in my phone and need all the tmobile apps back can someone please upload all the tmobile bloatware also the ea games app too! thanks

I'm assuming that you're rooted because you said delete not freeze. It probably would have been wise to do a Titanium Backup of all that Tmo crapware before deleting. That being said, there are stock images floating around in the developer section, and if you have CWM installed, a NANDroid as well.

ya but sadly i dont have a micro sd card! it hasnt come in the mail yet! can you do it just with the phone?

You don't need SD card to backup with titanium use internal 8gb
You could always get them back from the nandroid or stock image in Dev section
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demo23019 said:
You don't need SD card to backup with titanium use internal 8gb
You could always get them back from the nandroid or stock image in Dev section
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How would you go about extracting apps from a .img file?? My bad they are probably .zip right..
G2X

Can't you just download them from T-mobile?
http://android.t-mobile.com/android-apps

You need root to complete this.
- Download the system dump in the Developer section
- Unzip that zip or tar or whatever compressed archive it is
- Connect your phone via USB
- Copy the files you deleted (or all of /system/app/) to your phone's internal SD card
- Use a program such as Root Explorer to copy the files you deleted from your SD card to /system/app/
- If you want to be thorough, set the permissions of those copied files to match those of the existing ones
- Reboot
ALWAYS take a nandroid backup before you make changes.

Here's a zip file that contains all of the bloatware that I removed. Use Titanium Backup to restore these. I haven't tried restoring, but it should work.
It includes:
Wi-Fi Calling (com.android.kineto)
EA Launcher (com.ea.launcher.moregames)
NFS Shift (com.ea.nfsshift)
NOVA (com.gameloft.android.GAND.GloftNOHP)
Polaris (com.infraware.docMaster)
Logmein Rescue (com.logmein.rescue, com.logmein.rescuesecurity)
T-Mobile TV (com.mobitv.client.tmobiletvhd)
My Account (com.nuance.nmc.sihome)
TegraZone (com.nvidia.tegra)
Swype (com.swype.android.inputmethod)
Telenav (com.telenav.app.android.telenav)
T-Mobile Apppack (com.tmobile.apppack)
T-Mobile Device (com.tmobile.selfhelp)
Zinio (com.zinio.mobile.android)
EDIT: nevermind, my zip file was missing most these files.

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Tmo crapware
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Why do they even add this garbage in?
I doubt anyone would care if the **** is gone, even a T-Mobile store.

samson_420 said:
Why do they even add this garbage in?
I doubt anyone would care if the **** is gone, even a T-Mobile store.
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Advertising.......
able to sell phone for a "cheaper" price

This is one of the least bloated phones available, period. In fact, the Nexus S is probably the only phone available new which has less.
Some of this stuff is useful.

Not all of this should be considered bloatware. Some of it can be useful. I actually had T-Mobile My Account installed on my Nexus One from the Market and use it often to check my bill. Two free games I don't consider bloatware. I enjoy NFS Shift and not sure why you consider a free game bloatware. The only apps on here I think is complete bloatware and not useful to some is TeleNav since everyone has a better navigation for free already and T-Mobile App Pack, which is just to buy stuff at ridiculous prices from T-Mobile. Other than that, I will probably keep most of the preinstalled apps and even backup the APKs for later install on CM.

I consider it all bloat, but that's just a personal opinion. If I want it I'll download it myself. Also the fact that it doesn't let you remove the bloat (unless you root) is most irritating, otherwise nobody would really care.
I got rid of all of this, it's all bloat I don't want locked into my phone:
EA Launcher (com.ea.launcher.moregames)
NFS Shift (com.ea.nfsshift)
NOVA (com.gameloft.android.GAND.GloftNOHP)
Polaris (com.infraware.docMaster)
Logmein Rescue (com.logmein.rescue, com.logmein.rescuesecurity)
T-Mobile TV (com.mobitv.client.tmobiletvhd)
My Account (com.nuance.nmc.sihome)
TegraZone (com.nvidia.tegra)
Swype (com.swype.android.inputmethod)
Telenav (com.telenav.app.android.telenav)
T-Mobile Apppack (com.tmobile.apppack)
T-Mobile Device (com.tmobile.selfhelp)
Zinio (com.zinio.mobile.android)

mapin0518 said:
I consider it all bloat, but that's just a personal opinion. If I want it I'll download it myself. Also the fact that it doesn't let you remove the bloat (unless you root) is most irritating, otherwise nobody would really care.
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That is true for many of the apps, but they aren't all available on the market. I am all for removing ones you don't want, but I don't think it will matter for the average user. If they don't want them, they just don't open them. I have no problem with T-Mobile including apps they find useful personally. Ideally they would be uninstallable, but then some users would uninstall and not be able to reinstall and get angry. Take a look at a stock Verizon Android phone and you will be impressed with the G2x by comparison.

Stock nandroid works
I just used the stock nandroid from developers section to restore my apps. everything looks good so far.

c3plok said:
I just used the stock nandroid from developers section to restore my apps. everything looks good so far.
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Side note....I did not use nvflash only ROM Manager donate version to install CWM.

c3plok said:
Side note....I did not use nvflash only ROM Manager donate version to install CWM.
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so do nvflash. it's not that hard. really.

crazythunder said:
so do nvflash. it's not that hard. really.
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I was a little worried about it because i only have windows 7 64 bit and i read a couple posts that said it was iffy. Even so the guide worked like a charm.
I did read that i would need nvflash for a permanent solution as rom manager is a fakeflash.

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That is true for many of the apps, but they aren't all available on the market. I am all for removing ones you don't want, but I don't think it will matter for the average user. If they don't want them, they just don't open them. I have no problem with T-Mobile including apps they find useful personally. Ideally they would be uninstallable, but then some users would uninstall and not be able to reinstall and get angry. Take a look at a stock Verizon Android phone and you will be impressed with the G2x by comparison.
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For me, I just want to be able to control what I have on my phone. It's irritating that one has to go to such lengths to remove applications that one does not desire, but if T-Mobile had made them uninstallable and re-installable like any other app, this wouldn't be a problem. That being said, Wi-Fi calling is infinitely useful, but I deleted it along with everything else when I was testing possible battery drain fixes. I would have done a TiBu, but I'm learning along the way.

Potiential to Mod

I have been around and around the G2x forum trying find a specific thread for app mods for the G2x. I have flashed a couple of times now and feel comfortable dropping zips to my SD card. I have two different areas of potential modding I feel I haven't tapped. First I don't change Roms a lot because of the time it takes to even get the phone aesthetically back to where it was. Second feel like I have modded to the potential of my G2x. Have changed the screen density but don't want to let my paid rooting apps to go to waste because I don't know how to use them correctly.
My paid rooting apps
Titanium backup
Absolute root tools
Any one have any app and or modding tips?
Should this be a stickie?

i've read your post three times now and still can't figure out what you are asking?

Are you asking what tools every root user should have in their toolbox?
Sent from my Galaxy5 using XDA App

Maybe an example may help.
Iv'e found that there is the potiential to chage the buid.prop on our phones would be able to view netflix movies. I have Absolute system root tools and have usd that app and others but thats been 3 tweaks using 3 paid apps. Wish I knew more doable tweaks.
If anyone has any other root app tweaks I was hoping people would plop them here. Also is there any way I can flash a rom already themed.

nend said:
Are you asking what tools every root user should have in their toolbox?
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I guess but if your follow up has me exploring for myself, between 5 kids and working no time to.

The abilty to customize this phone is almost unlimited. What do you want to do? I am stock rooted. Black taskbar. No problem. Freeze apps, try anttek app manager free. Better battery. Setcpu. Download to the phone, try download all files. Block ads, try adfree. What are you trying to do?
Waiting on gb for netflix and a couple of other things.

I think he's saying that he's wondering if he's missing anything out of the couple of Root-required apps he bought?
Well I barely use Titanium backup. I started using it more because the G2x is a powerhouse and I'm currently playing several games that require me to backup their save files. The paid version lets you backup multiple copies of the same app... which is useless to me. So I use the Free Version. As long as I can do 1 backup before I format, so I can restore afterwards.
Also Root Explorer is a god-send.... although while I did buy that I hardly have the need to download it EVERY time I flash. The built-in file manager from CM7 works well enough to navigate folders. I guess if you are changing your density it kind of requires it though.
The other thing I would download, is ROM Manager. It will check your Rom Version and alert you when there are new updates. It will download them for you, plus whatever else you need, and start the flashing process automatically (once you accept). Handy with CM7 nightlies because you DON'T have to constantly blow everything away... just flash the new nightly over an old one.
Not many apps require root access but these are the 3 main ones.

At the right moment.
player911 said:
I think he's saying that he's wondering if he's missing anything out of the couple of Root-required apps he bought?
Well I barely use Titanium backup. I started using it more because the G2x is a powerhouse and I'm currently playing several games that require me to backup their save files. The paid version lets you backup multiple copies of the same app... which is useless to me. So I use the Free Version. As long as I can do 1 backup before I format, so I can restore afterwards.
Also Root Explorer is a god-send.... although while I did buy that I hardly have the need to download it EVERY time I flash. The built-in file manager from CM7 works well enough to navigate folders. I guess if you are changing your density it kind of requires it though.
The other thing I would download, is ROM Manager. It will check your Rom Version and alert you when there are new updates. It will download them for you, plus whatever else you need, and start the flashing process automatically (once you accept). Handy with CM7 nightlies because you DON'T have to constantly blow everything away... just flash the new nightly over an old one.
Not many apps require root access but these are the 3 main ones.
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Go figure I'm backing up apps for a flash and I am lucky enough to catch the attention of a dev. Thanks every one for their replies. ^ I am asking this question, thank you again for answering. First the part about root explorer/file manager there is no one place to find a number of tweaks so i'm then midnight flashing (pun may be intended ) and by the time apps are downloaded titanium backed up im no longer interested and tweaks out side of screen density and Cm settings. Obviously Rom manager solves my time issues . I wont have to re theme and tweak right just a Rom flash? Can I use the one packed in CM7? Do you have any other root explorer/ root tools tweaks suggestions (part of root question) would love to read?
On your part with out knowing answered a lot of other questions I had.

USELESS apps that came with my phone

LG Optimus 3D
my phone came with 48 applications. plus 10 3d applications.
there's a lot of crap I don't use and I want them gone.
I need to factory reset anyway just to install god damn skype again. but I want to know if will remove these apps.
I won't root AT ALL because I know nothing of it and can't take the chance of losing my warranty.
3d apps:
3d camera
3d gallery
3d games
3d games & apps
3d guide
3d space
asphalt 6
gullivers travels
lets golf 2
nova
apps:
alarm clock - i use
angry birds - i use
application manager - i use
browser - i use
calculator - i use
calendar - i use
call log - i use
camera - i use
car home - never used it but useful I suppose.
contacts - i use
email - i use
facebook - i use
finance - useless for me
gallery - i use
gmail - what is the point of gmail if I have email app already?
google search - i use
latitude - built with google maps I think.
LG world - no idea what this is.
mobile backup - no idea what this is. must be a subscriber? call 611? wtf?
maps - i use
android market - i use
messaging - i use
music - i use
rogers my account - i use
navigation - i use
yahoo news - i use
on demand (Rogers) - no idea what this is.
phone - i use lol.
places - i use
polaris office - used it once to open a pdf.
rich note - never used it.
rogers ringbacks - useless crap
rogers ringtones - useless crap. just links to a webpage like above.
rogers navigation - useless crap. google is better. rogers you have to pay for.
settings - i use
rogers shop - just links to a stupid webpage
smartshare - no idea what this is.
google talk - dont use
twitter - dont use
rogers urMusic - Horrible layout with ads. worse than the standard android music player.
video player - never used it but useful I guess if you copy movies.
nuance voice control - useful I suppose
voice recorder - useful I suppose
voice search - never used.
weather - useless.
what's new - never used
youtube - i use
flash player settings - never touched.
downloads:
google translate
soundhound
google earth
scanner radio
wifi finder
gstrings
mobile metronome
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WILL factory reset wipe these?
I cannot ROOT my phone. #1 because I don't know how. #2 because I can risk voiding warranty.

Factory wipe will only reset it back to how it was when you got the device... with all those apps. I know in ICS it lets you all but remove apps like hides them and kills them but your device doesn't have ICS.
I would suggest getting a third party launcher like Launcher pro or ADW EX and hiding the apps.

On android, no. Without rooting, the baked in apps are there to stay.

you need root you phone and then find some uninstall tool in MARKet.

how do i know for sure some of these apps are there to stay?
I meant to bold some of them I guess they didn't copy over.
Like all these useless rogers apps. pay for a worse navigation? I hope your joking!
crappy music player... no thanks.

If they were on the phone when you got it then they'll be on there after a factory reset, as that's exactly what happened to it prior to being put in the box.
Only rooting will allow you to remove them if they're system apps.
Alternatively you could try a different launcher. I only suggest this because many of the launchers on the Market will allow you to hide apps from your app drawer. Okay, they're still there, but you can just forget about them and carry on regardless.

ya you have to root to do any thing about it. If you do root make sure you make backups before you start uninstalling these programs just in case.
i have the thrilll 4g almost the same phone as you and i know what you mean what i did was get titanium backup pro has to be pro and froze all the apps i dont like so they dont eat battery or ram they still take up space on the card but o well
"I cannot ROOT my phone. #1 because I don't know how. #2 because I can risk voiding warranty."
i didn't know a thing about android a week ago now i'm rooted and doing all kinds of stuff to my phone if your worried about warrenty u can always unroot when you send it back.
check this page out has everything about rooting and clockworkmod for backups.
for rooting http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412490
and CWM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1365876

Root it if you can my friend, it will be the best choice you ever made

Android-UK said:
Root it if you can my friend, it will be the best choice you ever made
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if it breaks I can't afford to buy another phone for 3 years. I don't know **** about rooting.

Read read and then read some more but i been jailbreaking and hacking ps3/wii's for a long time so it wasent a big jump for me

How can one be sure if it is safe to remove a system app? Is there a list or something?

kulti75 said:
How can one be sure if it is safe to remove a system app? Is there a list or something?
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There are lists for some devices, but it varies from ROM to ROM and device to device. The best way to test is to use something like Titanium Backup and freeze an app. This is equivalent to uninstalling something, without actually uninstalling it. If anything goes wrong you simply unfreeze it.

I was in the same boat you were about a week ago. I started reading about rooting (even watched a few videos) and it seemed pretty straight forward. Since then, not only have I rooted it, I've also upgraded to the latest ICS v12 and did away with all the crap that was on my original Eclair OS. Happy camper now.

NeoCHoZen said:
I was in the same boat you were about a week ago. I started reading about rooting (even watched a few videos) and it seemed pretty straight forward. Since then, not only have I rooted it, I've also upgraded to the latest ICS v12 and did away with all the crap that was on my original Eclair OS. Happy camper now.
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^^^ exactly. It's very easy of you follow all instructions and don't cut and corners. You won't be disappointed when you realize your phone is way better rooted, and running a custom rom.

KayxGee1 said:
^^^ exactly. It's very easy of you follow all instructions and don't cut and corners. You won't be disappointed when you realize your phone is way better rooted, and running a custom rom.
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an what is a custom ROM?
I would take chances if I had money. If this phones bricks it's game over.
where is a legit guide and download for my phone? - lg optimus 3d.

umirin said:
an what is a custom ROM?
I would take chances if I had money. If this phones bricks it's game over.
where is a legit guide and download for my phone? - lg optimus 3d.
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I can understand how you might be leery of trying to root your phone for fear of "bricking" it. However, there's plenty of guides out there that can help you "unbrick" it as long as you do the research.
A simple google search came up with this tutorial that seems pretty straight forward.
androidauthority.com/how-to-root-the-lg-optimus-3d-p920-38038/

umirin said:
an what is a custom ROM?
I would take chances if I had money. If this phones bricks it's game over.
where is a legit guide and download for my phone? - lg optimus 3d.
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Check the optimus 3D forums here at xda and you'll find all the info you need.
I didn't flash a new rom as can't afford to buy new phone if I damage it but have rooted and its so easy you just run a program on pc called superoneclick connect your phone via usb and presd a button
Dave
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If you root it you can go to system/app folder and delete them,but u said u wouldn't so u cant
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