Do most XDA members root their phone(s)?
I could say about myself one thing, the first thing i do when i get a new phone is root it and install custom rom (if possible)....
And b4 i started h8ing apple i got an iphone 4 i opened the box for the first time and plugged tue iphone into the computer and jailbroke it.... Then i started installing stuff.
So how about you guys?
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I tend to play around with stock for a few days, then root.
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I rooted and flashed CM10 on my G3 before I even used it. :good:
just owned my s3 for a little over 2 weeks
seems to fulfill all my needs ... for now
can definitely see myself rooting it in the near future
I haven't had root for months.
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I research rooting and rom availability, then root and flash strait away, why avoid the probable..?
3 days after buying my cell....
And 5 mins after getting info on how to root..
Globally recognised and certified NOOB
My first android stayed root-free for months. Then I got a touchpad, and got hooked on root. I rooted everything I have - phone, tablet, wife's phone.
Recently I went a step further and replaced stock ROM with a custom on my phone to get ICS. Couldn't be happier. Even started theming and making my own apks.
Tis a slippery slope
Can you please edit the thread title to "Do most XDA members root their phone(s)?"
BTW: rooting is the second thing I do after charging the battery.
I always rooted my HTC devices and put custom ROMs on them. My last two devices are Razr Maxx and Razr M, so I don't see much of a need to root them. There is little custom development for them and the newer versions of Android let you freeze apps.
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1. New Phone
2. Turn on
3. Root
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jader13254 said:
1. New Phone
2. Turn on
3. Root
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Y turn on first? sony phones u root from bootloader... LoL
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aryehzev said:
Y turn on first? sony phones u root from bootloader... LoL
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Nope Turn On, Run emulator hack, root
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Nope Turn On, Run emulator hack, root
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My bad never had an arc just almost got one
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When I buy a new android. I always say to myself "I will not root it at least for 1 month!".
But looks like I'm lying to myself. I can't even wait for 1 day
I haven't rooted my one x since I bought on launch day, because it seems good as it is. I'll make my decision after it officially get jelly bean.
I rooted my HTC Desire the first day I got, since it was rubbish on stock
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I haven't rooted my one x since I bought on launch day, because it seems good as it is. I'll make my decision after it officially get jelly bean.
I rooted my HTC Desire the first day I got, since it was rubbish on stock
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Never got the hox cuz im a flashaholic and that dont work W/O S-OFF....
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Got it in the mail before my baseball game. I was . Played with it as much as I could. Got home about 3-4 hours later. Rooted it and hard bricked it. :banghead:
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1. Before buying check specs of the phone
2. Check if there is Development going on there!
3. Buy it
4. Play with it for 1 or 2 days to get all Info about the phone
5. Root it
6. Flash custom Roms!
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I actually ran stock Sense for a couple months, while researching that the TBolt couldn't be rooted. THEN I found out a new way, thought about it, and rooted. So much happier.
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Just got this phone and I'm curious, with out rooting, OS there a way to get Google play? I still have the old market....but I'm on 2.3.
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It will eventually update itself. Or you could just download the apk and install it yourself.
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Try going into remove programs and select "Market". Clear the cache and data and then go to the market. This has been known to trigger the update for some.
Thanks guys, I ended up just downloading the apk. However I am curious as to y my signature says desire and not inspire....this is a refurb handed to me by a technician lol.
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Thanks guys, I ended up just downloading the apk. However I am curious as to y my signature says desire and not inspire....this is a refurb handed to me by a technician lol.
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You flashed something that changed your build prop
zelendel said:
You flashed something that changed your build prop
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no mine did to when i first used xda and when i first used it i wasnt rooted
Yep, I haven't gone on a root adventure with the inspire yet. I just soft bricked an atrix, I think I'm done rooting for the evening lol.
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Ok I've read this before but can't find the answer now, I've rebooted my phone which is still stock, not rooted yet, turned my phone off then on, and it came on with a unlock sign? I've done nothing special yet why would my phone all of a sudden do this my phone is new since launch it was a pre-order, I've turned it off and on before this never happen before.any ideas?
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You didnt try to odin any rom???
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No I didn't do nothing just switch my regular battery with the extended,I usually change them out when I play my games heavy.
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Ok I've read this before but can't find the answer now, I've rebooted my phone which is still stock, not rooted yet, turned my phone off then on, and it came on with a unlock sign? I've done nothing special yet why would my phone all of a sudden do this my phone is new since launch it was a pre-order, I've turned it off and on before this never happen before.any ideas?
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This has been covered so many times. Please search a little harder. We see one of these at least twice a week. It means nothing. Carry on.
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@mustbepbs first off I did look, if you have nothing nice to say...Don't...simple answer will just do.that's why this is the Q&A forum.good day....
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Yeah that's odd, you didn't do a custom recovery or anything did you?
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@mustbepbs first off I did look, if you have nothing nice to say...Don't...simple answer will just do.that's why this is the Q&A forum.good day....
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1808407 didn't look very hard.
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My device did this bone stock aswell...not sure why. Normally you will get a custom unlock screen after rooting with odinand flashing a recovery thru ez recovery on a locked bootloader. the fix, unlock your bootloader.
no I didn't do nothing that's why it's so weird I'm not even rooted,I have all the tools but haven't done it yet.
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Ok @ mustbepbs..I'm not rooted......that does not pertain to me that person rooted their phone...again doesn't cover my situation, be different if I had modded my phone but have not,I read that article before,I ask because I am curious.
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Ok @ mustbeps..I'm not rooted......that does not pertain to me that person rooted their phone...again doesn't cover my situation, be different if I had modded my phone but have not,I read that article before,I ask because I am curious.
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And im telling you me device and a few others did the same thing bone stock...its no big deal! Root , unlock, and enjoy!
I've noticed the ,sg3 forum is so quick to respond thanks.but not rooting atm, I'm ok with stock, I'm still learning a whole lot, coming from an x,x2 I do appreciate this phone, and I have rooted both my other phones, ran eclipse on both and loved it, this phone runs better then both of them.no reason to root,or custom Rom yet...I'm doing a ton of reading first.learning everyday.
P.s.let's keep it friendly we're not Apple..
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I've noticed the ,sg3 forum is so quick to respond thanks.but not rooting atm, I'm ok with stock, I'm still learning a whole lot, coming from an x,x2 I do appreciate this phone, and I have rooted both my other phones, ran eclipse on both and loved it, this phone runs better then both of them.no reason to root,or custom Rom yet...I'm doing a ton of reading first.learning everyday.
P.s.let's keep it friendly we're not Apple..
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It's fine now it's gone, thanks guys..for your input.much appreciated
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Hey everyone, so samsung has just given me the update for Jelly bean and ive already downloaded it.
Thing is it gave me the option to delay installation and it hit me, would this upgrade remove my apps? (ICS to JB here)
im only worried cos ive made it soooo far in wheres my water and i dont wanna lose my save files aswell as to download my apps again.
Please answer.quick
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It shouldn't.
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It shouldn't.
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^This!
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If you come from ICS, it will be like a new phone. If u can, made a backup using titanium backup which you need a root.
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suggestion
I suggest to list your apps and to back them up even if told that the upgrade is going to keep them.
Better safe than sorry
Thinking about swapping my Droid DNA for a Galaxy S3 and $50. My Droid is freshly unlocked, rooted and s-off all using my Mac 10.6.8 with ADB commands. The Droid is also factory unlocked for any GSM SIM including att and T-Mobile. My issue is I can't find a way to root and unlock the S3 so I'm on the fence about swapping and of course losing this amazing Quad core krait power. Advice?
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Thinking about swapping my Droid DNA for a Galaxy S3 and $50. My Droid is freshly unlocked, rooted and s-off all using my Mac 10.6.8 with ADB commands. The Droid is also factory unlocked for any GSM SIM including att and T-Mobile. My issue is I can't find a way to root and unlock the S3 so I'm on the fence about swapping and of course losing this amazing Quad core krait power. Advice?
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Get the S3 and to root and unlock the bootrom, you must use the Casual Rootkit. It will root your S3 and install Teamwin recovery. Trust me, it is worth it.
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Get the S3 and to root and unlock the bootrom, you must use the Casual Rootkit. It will root your S3 and install Teamwin recovery. Trust me, it is worth it.
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Go look at the Casual Toolkit thread and look at the issue I'm having. I'm the last post on there. Unless I can fix the issue, I can't get the phone because I can't root it. :/
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Go look at the Casual Toolkit thread and look at the issue I'm having. I'm the last post on there. Unless I can fix the issue, I can't get the phone because I can't root it. :/
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Do you have stock ROM or a different ROM?
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Because my S3 on VZW is rooted fully and Unlocked.
My Droid is custom. I haven't traded for the S3 yet because I can't get casual to run on my mac. The casual thread has the errors its giving me.
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Dang.... I don't have $50 but I have a rooted s3 and I've kinda eyed the DNA....
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Dang.... I don't have $50 but I have a rooted s3 and I've kinda eyed the DNA....
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Haha. Yea honestly can't do a straight trade. Just got mine on contract 4 weeks ago and still mint with the box and papers.
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Regardless, even IF I considered (key words) it, how would we even ship these bad boys? Haha.
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No idea lol
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So, just traded my 3 week old DNA for a BRAND NEW S3. I'm sure I lost money on the trade but I feel at home with the S3. Now on to my problem, rooting it with a Mac or Linux (run from a live CD). advice?
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Vfan23 said:
So, just traded my 3 week old DNA for a BRAND NEW S3. I'm sure I lost money on the trade but I feel at home with the S3. Now on to my problem, rooting it with a Mac or Linux (run from a live CD). advice?
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Is your Mac on 10.8? If so, using Casual from Beanstown106 will work. You'll need Java 7 installed for Casual to work. I almost encourage you to use the Casual 634 from the Verizon GSIII section on Rootzwiki instead of the Casual 734 linked in the dev section of XDA. There seems to be some issues with r734 recognizing the device is connected but it can work even so.
Alternatively, you can do the manual route using Open1your1eyes0 root thread in the dev section. It requires Odin which works great on Windows, is incompatible on Mac, and idk about Linux.
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No, I have 10.6.8 but if you head over to the Casual thread, you can see my issue...I posted what my terminal was telling me about the error message when I try to run Casual.
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No, I have 10.6.8 but if you head over to the Casual thread, you can see my issue...I posted what my terminal was telling me about the error message when I try to run Casual.
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I'm not sure you'll be getting Casual to work on your setup. Maybe try the manual method by Open1your1eyes0 or the toolkit by mskip. Like I said there, if these don't work then you might want to find a spare laptop when available and knock this out.
Can I use the Odin method with heimdall?
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Cause I MIGHT be able to get heimdall working on my Mac....but I have never used heimdall in the past, I've always used Odin.
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Cause I MIGHT be able to get heimdall working on my Mac....but I have never used heimdall in the past, I've always used Odin.
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Its possible, but there is no documentation/thread that I know of that goes into detail for this device. Might have to look on the other carrier models for threads. Everyone always uses Odin.
Damn :/
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I rooted it with motochopper, but do I HAVE to be unlocked to flash Roms?
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I rooted it with motochopper, but do I HAVE to be unlocked to flash Roms?
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Motochopper? Wasn't that for Motorola devices? Just asking general questions, what prompted you to try that?
Yes, you do need to be unlocked to flash roms. Are you positive you are rooted? Do you have working SU or SuperSU? If so, download EZ Unlock v1.2 from Rootwiki and press unlock.
Actually, I Google "root Verizon s3 4.1.2" and his exploit works on all american galaxy s3's
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I recently bricked and fixed my Atrix 2. Since I flashed it, the battery life has been extremely short and the phone has been getting extremely hot. Any clues?
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I recently bricked and fixed my Atrix 2. Since I flashed it, the battery life has been extremely short and the phone has been getting extremely hot. Any clues?
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You need to give me some more info bro what ROM are u on is ur battery having a problem or is the ROM not compatible with ur version of A2
Like ME865 & MB865 most ROM's are common but a couple of them cause heating issues and high battery drain i had that problem
with MIUI...........
So just give me some more info and read my thread on all the option available for you .................
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2472331
Well I have the ATT stock ICS right now. I'm not sure what else I can give you.
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Thinking about it now, it might not be compatible. I bought my A2 unlocked and without a carrier. It had some weird but much better version of Android on it when I bought it.
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Thinking about it now, it might not be compatible. I bought my A2 unlocked and without a carrier. It had some weird but much better version of Android on it when I bought it.
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It doesn't matter of it's carrier unlocked or not, if it says AT&T on the front then it's an AT&T phone. It probably had a custom ROM installed when you bought it. You should browse around the development section for a bit. I think you'll find that the custom ROMs posted there are WAY better than Motoblur any day.:thumbup:
If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.