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Originally Posted by nycebo
Let's address the buttons because I know where you're going. The standby/power button and the volume rocker buttons are solid (Mercedes Benz solid as mentioned above). Maybe the power button could be a little easier to press but then it would be 'easier' to press and be turning the screen on all day long while it's in my pocket.
Now the camera button? That's a totally different story. It's feels a little cheap in terms of the click, and what makes it worse is that the camera software is laggy. Hopefully 2.1 updates this issue. Other than that, my phone, including slider, is damn tight.
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Personally my power and volume buttons seem pretty bad... they seem loose and unresponsive at times ): Perhaps I have a faulty Droid, the issues are annoying, but definitely something I can learn to deal with.
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Originally Posted by CRPercodani
If you definitely want to have root access then I would root now and wait till a 2.1 ROM is made from the update, as of now we have no way to root the droid like before. The exploit that was used was fixed the day after we found it, so all new releases will have to be rooted a different way. Before we found that exploit there was a 34 page thread going and no one had found any way to root, so I wouldn't expect anything to quickly.
If you have no need for root and don't plan on using anything that requires it then just use the OTA update.
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Well, I'm pretty sure that (at some point) I will want root access, so I may get rooted soon. The thing is, my main things I would like my Droid to be able to do at this point that it has not been able to is:
1) Remove useless apps (Visual VM, Amazon MP3, ETC)
2) Overclock to 800 MHz
3) Make the Droid able to go to a lower brightness setting (I have my Droid on the lowest setting, it's still plenty bright, and it's ridiculous... I look at my battery usage and and 49% of the battery is being used by my screen, yet the d*mn device cannot go any dimmer! Do y'all know if there are any apps to accomplish this after rooted?)
Most of these options will probably never be possible with a non-rooted Droid (Remove apps, overclock - Do you guys think it's a possibility that our Droids will ever be able to do this?). And the lower brightness setting? I'm not holding my breath for the 2.1 update to address this. Though I'm not 100% sure I'll be able to do this with a rooted Droid anyway, I haven't found a conclusive answer to this.
So anyways, I have a few more questions and I figure I won't waste forum space by creating a new thread:
1) After researching for a bit, I've come to see that the actual "rooting" of the phone is a very simple process (seemingly), as well as safe, while installing custom roms is a more risky business. To root my phone, I just need the update.zip and run it after booting the phone using X+Power button, correct? Also, is it necessary to create a NAND backup before rooting? Is it even possible to back up the NAND before the device is rooted? Would y'all suggest that at this time, I just do the 5 minute process of rooting and then hold off? I'm not trying to rush into loading roms yet, but I would like to insure that I am not locked out of root access if I receive the 2.1 OTA update (somebody mentioned that once it's released, if I were to reboot my phone, it would automatically update).
2) Can anyone confirm if I will be able to get a lower brightness setting that the current lowest, after rooted? And do you know if there is any significant increase in battery life?
3) Is this a reliable guide for rooting my Droid?
Obtaining Root | Root Your Droid
I tried to to find the update.zip on this website and I could not find it. I'm just very paranoid and afraid I'm going to come across a site that intentionally has files to brick my Droid... If anyone can just confirm this site it would be great! haha
Well if anyone has answers to these, I very much appreciate the help, Also, thanks to everyone for the help provided thus far!