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Originally Posted by Canefan
I have read countless threads on rooting and flashing various cooked 2.1 ROMs and I want to do this very badly but a couple of things are holding me back.
There seems to be several different methods to rooting, some involving just a few steps, while others are much more complicated with more room to screw up. Why are there so many different ways to root and is the end result the same??
There are a number of different 2.1 versions floating around out there. Is one more stable and bug free than another?
I would try it if I fully understood how to back up my current system and restore it in the event of a screwup. I know that Nandroid is somehow involved in this but again the process is described differently in multiple threads.
I am not well versed in Linux, but I do have a computer science degree (from a LONG time ago) and am typically very good at doing this sort of thing. I just like to have a better understanding of what the steps are before I begin rather than just blindly following a cookbook recipe of steps.
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So I was bored yesterday and thought well - I'll just apply the root update and see what happens. So I did ... and nothing bad.
Then I thought, okay now I'll just try to install DroidRootHelper and see what happens. So I did ... and nothing bad.
Then I thought, let me see if I can make a Nandroid backup of my current 2.0.1 system. Easy. Now I'm getting confident.
So yada yada I have 2.1 running on my phone.
Btw, the new Gallery is absolutely sick. One thing that I haven't seen mentioned is that it links to Picasa and pulls in any galleries that you have on PicasaWeb. I clicked the gallery and thought "whoa - where did all of those pictures come from"? It also does automatic face detection if you are adding a picture to a contact from the gallery. The gallery is a really elegant app now. The live wallpapers are very very cool. Voice entry with the screen keyboard works really well. Overall, very impressed.