I am switching over from my Droid X to a Verizon GS3. As it seems so far, the Verizon S3 might not have root for a while. That's all fine and dandy, but I want to be able to transfer my app data over as simply as possible. Stuff like my save data in games. Does anyone have an easy way to do this that doesn't require root?
I did however backup my apps with Titanium on my rooted Droid X, but those files won't be useful 'til Verizon's S3 gains root.
Any help would be much appreciated, thank you! Google should really have an easy way to do this....
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I just purchased Samsung Captivate and is missing PC Internet option. Is there any way to bring it back?
I noticed that too, so I rooted my phone and side loaded a wifi tether app, you can find the link in one the stickes for faq's about the captivate. Of course the next step would be to load a custom rom like Cognition or Auxura. I'm running Auxura right now and it's pretty awesome. Hopefully this helps!
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bkhams said:
I noticed that too, so I rooted my phone and side loaded a wifi tether app, you can find the link in one the stickes for faq's about the captivate. Of course the next step would be to load a custom rom like Cognition or Auxura. I'm running Auxura right now and it's pretty awesome. Hopefully this helps!
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This is absolutely one of the top five posts I've seen on the net and the best one on xda.
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Thank you for the reply, I will try to root my phone.
Which method of rooting do you recommend?
This is my first android phone, so to learn about it and what's going on in it I used the update.zip that just roots it. Did everything to it piece by piece until I got comfortable with it. I don't like those one in all wonder drugs that people made. I learned doing it myself.
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I just now got the update from JH6 to JH7, and this option is now missing from the USB selection screen!!
With the UK USB drivers, my PC was happy chugging along through 3g on my captivate with rather impressive transfer rates -- I canceled my land line internet connection it was so good! I'm really not interested in rooting the phone, as I feel very comfortable with the level of consistency I've been having compared to other horror stories. My GPS is even decent the majority of the time.
My question -- is there a way to revert back to JH6 without loosing all of my data? Or better yet, another way to gain back the tether without root?
I believe PDAnet will let you tether without root. Look in the market or google it. Flashing back to JH6 via ODIN is the only way to go back, and you will have to reinstall what you don't backup.
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I just now got the update from JH6 to JH7, and this option is now missing from the USB selection screen!!
With the UK USB drivers, my PC was happy chugging along through 3g on my captivate with rather impressive transfer rates -- I canceled my land line internet connection it was so good! I'm really not interested in rooting the phone, as I feel very comfortable with the level of consistency I've been having compared to other horror stories. My GPS is even decent the majority of the time.
My question -- is there a way to revert back to JH6 without loosing all of my data? Or better yet, another way to gain back the tether without root?
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Just a word of advice to keep an eye on your data usage. I'm assuming you are on AT&T, and if you are just now getting the update, you are probably on a 2gb data plan. If that's enough to get you by on your home pc, that's awesome.
A great program for this is 3g Watchdog, free on the market.
Luckily I'm grandfathered in a corporate plan, and only the iphone data plan has the limited use services. With the android phone, I'm still on unlimited data.
PDAnet is not available on the market, at least not from the Market app on the captivate, perhaps it may need to be side-loaded?
It really sucks that the market pulled ryans OCLF because that was TRULY the easiest way to root period. You could flash the leak as it has everything you need to tether.
EDIT: seems I need to catch up, the easiest way in the world to root is back on the market, RyansOCLF, pay the 1.99 its worth it, even if you dont use the lag fix you can root 2.1 in 2.1 secs.
Being the xoom has sideload what other incentives are there to root? I have an atrix and thing of geting the xoom but w/o custom roms what does rooting do for you? And are there custom kernals if so what do those do thanx
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I think the better question is Why not root?
Rooting brings backups, recovery, ownership of the system, customization, and the ability to run modified hulu flash
You don't HAVE to root.
My XOOM is running stock 3.1
I've unlocked my TouchPro2 which sometimes runs Android too, rooted my wife's CDMA Hero and her NOOK Color.
I'm not opposed to rooting my XOOM, I just don't have a NEED to right now.
Its fast enough for my games, google reader and XDA app, I don't need overclocking, and I prefer the longer battery life anyway.
32GB of storage is quite a bit, so I don't need the SD right now, don't have a SD card for it yet either.
All the other little bits of neat things here and there are cool, and would be fun to play with. I probably will root eventually, but isn't necessary right now.
Don't let all this talk of rooting make you think you HAVE to, you don't.
If there's something released that you just absolutely have to have, root then.
Rooting alone won't make unicorns appear or magical gnomes keep your house clean.
But should someone write an app for the gnomes to clean my house, you can guarantee my XOOM will be rooted lol
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You don't HAVE to root.
My XOOM is running stock 3.1
I've unlocked my TouchPro2 which sometimes runs Android too, rooted my wife's CDMA Hero and her NOOK Color.
I'm not opposed to rooting my XOOM, I just don't have a NEED to right now.
Its fast enough for my games, google reader and XDA app, I don't need overclocking, and I prefer the longer battery life anyway.
32GB of storage is quite a bit, so I don't need the SD right now, don't have a SD card for it yet either.
All the other little bits of neat things here and there are cool, and would be fun to play with. I probably will root eventually, but isn't necessary right now.
Don't let all this talk of rooting make you think you HAVE to, you don't.
If there's something released that you just absolutely have to have, root then.
Rooting alone won't make unicorns appear or magical gnomes keep your house clean.
But should someone write an app for the gnomes to clean my house, you can guarantee my XOOM will be rooted lol
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I am also running stock 3.1. Rooting gives you the ability to do several things with your system because when you are "root" in a *nix environment you have control of everything. You can overwrite files, you can delete files, you can install whatever you want and you can also easily break stuff.
The last part is where users get into trouble.
My advice is always going to be to save rooting for the technically inclined. If you're technically inclined and feel like you can competantly run amuck in your system go for it man there's a ton of fun stuff you can do. If you're the slightest bit leary that you might get something wrong, or don't want to install development tools, etc... stay stock.
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I am also running stock 3.1. Rooting gives you the ability to do several things with your system because when you are "root" in a *nix environment you have control of everything. You can overwrite files, you can delete files, you can install whatever you want and you can also easily break stuff.
The last part is where users get into trouble.
My advice is always going to be to save rooting for the technically inclined. If you're technically inclined and feel like you can competantly run amuck in your system go for it man there's a ton of fun stuff you can do. If you're the slightest bit leary that you might get something wrong, or don't want to install development tools, etc... stay stock.
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How do you manage to keep your nexus one stock? Lol
I for one have rooted every android device I owned I've never been a fan of stock either way its all up to you but my opinion is rooted >stock
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I think the better question is Why not root?
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Because Google will be blocking movies (and I'll bet Netflix does, as well) on rooted devices. Which then leaves us stuck with how to do things like backup, customization, etc. without a rooted device...
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Personally... overclocking, underclocking, screenshot, adfree, Hulu, system backup, Titanium backup.
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Because Google will be blocking movies (and I'll bet Netflix does, as well) on rooted devices. Which then leaves us stuck with how to do things like backup, customization, etc. without a rooted device...
eric
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Drm only hurts honest people...
Netflix currenty works on rooted devices. I can't see a logical reason why it would change either. But nothing the riaa does is really logical to me so who knows. But Netflix is streaming only so it is different than a 24hr rental service that you can actually download the file for offline viewing.
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How do you manage to keep your nexus one stock? Lol
I for one have rooted every android device I owned I've never been a fan of stock either way its all up to you but my opinion is rooted >stock
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Well actually I wouldn't mind rooting the Xoom or the Nexus one I just don't fiddle around with ROMs or kernels. Merely rooting the device all by itself is pretty safe and gets you a lot of things I guess.
I just had my Nexus repaired by HTC a couple weeks ago and they wiped it... even though I don't have all these fancy back up measures in place it took me all of 10 minutes to put the phone back the way it was.
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Because Google will be blocking movies (and I'll bet Netflix does, as well) on rooted devices. Which then leaves us stuck with how to do things like backup, customization, etc. without a rooted device...
eric
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doesn't bother me cos australia can't get movies anyway... i rooted to get more control (for system apps and stuff) and for otg stuff
because you can. root then unroot if you have to.
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Yes there are custom kernels. These add SD card support and real micro USB otg hosting, including the ability to read thumb drives and hard drives. That to me was enough to root. I don't want to pollute my Xoom's disk space with 10gb of music and another 10 with movies. Google music beta solved the music and hot swaping USB solved everything else.
Hello, want to transfer my app data mostly my game info from my old droid bionic to my droid maxx.
I usually root it and use titanium backup but i upgraded to 4.4 and at least for now it seems way more advance for me to root my maxx.
everything is saved to the micro SD card, but i don't think i can just copy the information over can i?
Thank you
The Migrate function worked pretty well for my wife. Not sure if game save data transferred, but everything else certainly did (Driod X to Droid MAXX).
nope, does not transfer game data.
This is probably a dumb question but, is there anyway to get some of the benefits of a rooted phone without rooting. I have a Galaxy S7 SM-G930T with T-Mobile as my carrier and I haven't been able to find what seems like a trustworthy guide for rooting it. I've never rooted before which is why I'm hesitant. Is there any way to get some of the perks of a rooted phone without rooting it? Better yet, does anyone have a trustworthy guide for rooting this phone they could share?
I used to root my phone the moment I got it. The S7 is the first one I didn't root, because you really can get (almost) all the nice things without actually rooting the device.
The important ones for me are:
Good Lock - changes the apparence more to the stock android look. But that might not be for everyone. You can find it in the Galaxy App Store.
EZ Disabler - you can disable apps you don't want. I disabled the Gear VR App and some other ones. But be careful with what you disable.
Disconnect Pro - this one was free for a while, you can find it in the Galaxy Apps Store. It disables ads on your phone, very very helpful. I rooted my other phones to get AdAway running, but Disconnect Pro does the same job without rooting. A free alternative would be "Adhell", but I didn't try it myself.
What kind of perks are you looking for? Would help us so we can make suggestions.
For ad blocking, DNS66, AdGuard (my personal choice) or AdHell work well.
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So I had galaxy S9 stolen and went and got a pretty good galaxy s4. Then rooted it also almost had perfect for me then my girlfriend thought she would mess with it! OK so taught her a little about some apps and shortcuts. (Don't like where this is going? It's not the end of rainbow! No pot of gold) so I had hulu playing on samsung tv with verizon unlimited plan. Not really unlimited bc it was skipping and she decided that the app I had open with root access is how she would go about making it stop! The app I think wad Qualcomm 8 or something like that for smoothing out hotspot, batt, and system. She decides to check 70 something apps user and system and kill them bc on her phone they don't delete and uninstall! Idk what she really did just that there are alot of system apps removed now. I think so much so that it the reason that some are deleted and some left on screen dark grey and say Uninstaller. I can not and will not remember them. I know some bootloader and googleplay and who knows what else. So idk if backup from root is still there bc my root app is not highline anymore saying root but I do have root. My question is what is the safest way to get phone back to normal again to start over with root? Can I do a factory data reset or flash drive with TWRP? which when it rebooted I tried to go in reboot and it will not pop up probably bc so much is gone! I was just starting to like this phone all over again and get it perfect then this happens! Please any help is greatly appreciated!! I'm still so mad and keeping a really good cool about it bc I like doing this kind of stuff on cpu and phones. I really hope there still is a fix!?? If not I only paid $30 to a pawnshop for it uncracked. Even my chrome and contacts are gone