Root Important DROID X Questions

[Inous]

Hey everyone!

I'm new to this forum and though I would ask a few questions.. I used the introduction forums to post my original post but haven't received a response yet so I figured I would post in here since its a root forum. Here's my original forum post

Hello all!

I thought I would introduce myself and say hello to a new community of friends. I'm coming from the blackberry world.... Which I have to say I wasn't all that impressed, but wanted Verizon's first touch screen so.. eh. Anyway, I'm currently deploy in Kuwait, and am returning home in the near future. The first thing on my checklist is to buy an Android phone! I've been drooling over the Droid X for about a month now. I just heard that the Droid X is getting Froyo in the next few days (if not already) and was curious to know whether or not you guys think that FroYo will be able to be rooted. I read on droid life that the Official FroYo isn't going to have tethering like the Currently rooted ROM 2.2 for Droid X. My second question is by the time I get home the DROID X will come stock with Froyo 2.2, so with that, will it be hard to wipe load 2.1, root and put the Better FroYo ROM (the one with tethering) on there?

Oh and one more question.... I remember hearing Motorola announcing that they will have a few phones that are 2Ghz by the end of the year. Do you guys think that they will be 4G phones? Maybe Dual Core snap dragons? Android OS is a given... They would commit suicide to get rid of Android now that it is the King for Q2 2010.

Lastly, My name is Aaron, I'm from San Diego and I can't wait to be back state side. Thanks in advance!

Aaron

 

[bobomatic]

"the Official FroYo isn't going to have tethering"
i think i read somewhere that the DX, will have WIFI tethering.
with 2.2 you can pay Verizon to use it, if you need it right away.
but it will get rooted sooner or later, and you will beable to tether free.
good luck over there.

Edit: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/verizon-droid-android-update/

look at paragraph 8.

 

[HalfFrozen]

We already have WiFi on our rooted phones, not ROM rooted, but semi-rooted.

Froyo isn't going to have WiFi for only the original Droid... The DX will though.

I think you are confusing the DX with the original Droid with alot of your facts...

 

[Gskellig]

Although 2.1 on the droidX can be rooted, the bootloader is locked so there is no custom ROMs for it. Froyo is supposed to come out soon for the X, but like 2.1 it will be loaded with the usual bloatware that people end up ditching for custom roms.

There are plenty of tethering apps that work on 2.1 and 2.2.
If you're talking about the "mobile 3G hotspot" from verizon, that costs extra a month, but allows multiple devices to be connected.

 

[Inous]

Ah ok, I'm trying to grasp all the in's and out's of rooting. So you root the phone to open the phone to use ROM's correct? Can you load multiple ROM's simultaneously? Is the process all that hard to root and Unroot? Also, if a phone is bricked is it almost always recoverable? I ask this because I'm going to want tweak the hell out of my phone.

 

[Inous]

Although 2.1 on the droidX can be rooted, the bootloader is locked so there is no custom ROMs for it. Froyo is supposed to come out soon for the X, but like 2.1 it will be loaded with the usual bloatware that people end up ditching for custom roms.

There are plenty of tethering apps that work on 2.1 and 2.2.
If you're talking about the "mobile 3G hotspot" from verizon, that costs extra a month, but allows multiple devices to be connected.

Actually this is what I'm referring to:

Reports are coming out today which suggest that the Motorola Droid will not have the mobile hotspot option when Android 2.2 hits the device this week. Surprised? If you are involved in the rooting scene at all you won

 

[HalfFrozen]

Actually this is what I'm referring to:



Here's the source:
We Knew Mobile Hotspot Would Be Left Out, But No Tethering for the DROID? | Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

Once again, that doesn't have anything to do, at all, with the Droid X

 

[Inous]

"the Official FroYo isn't going to have tethering"
i think i read somewhere that the DX, will have WIFI tethering.
with 2.2 you can pay Verizon to use it, if you need it right away.
but it will get rooted sooner or later, and you will beable to tether free.
good luck over there.

Edit: Verizon Denies Tethering, Hot Spot Features to Droid Customers | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

look at paragraph 8.

Thanks for the link, Primarily before I left I used a program called tether for my Blackberry. I paid a one time fee of 10 bucks for the program and loved using my laptop on the road with unlimited data usage. I hope to find this with the DROID X. And come to think of it this tether program had an android version in beta. I wonder If I can use my same account and download the program for DROID X when I get home. Either way free mobile hot spot and tether is what I was looking for, which to my understanding is free now with the Froyo ROM thats out for the DROID X. Can this be confirmed by someone here?

Thanks a ton!

EDIT: Disregard, I was looking at a DROID article and not a DROID X article, wow! thanks again

 

[Inous]

Once again, that doesn't have anything to do, at all, with the Droid X

OH CRAP, Sorry... I can't believe I just now realized that... That's embarrassing...

Completely missed the Fact there wasn't an X there after DROID... haha

 

[Lars]

Ah ok, I'm trying to grasp all the in's and out's of rooting. So you root the phone to open the phone to use ROM's correct? Can you load multiple ROM's simultaneously? Is the process all that hard to root and Unroot? Also, if a phone is bricked is it almost always recoverable? I ask this because I'm going to want tweak the hell out of my phone.

You root the phone to root it. The bootloader is used to load ROMs. They are somewhat unrelated. You can load ROMs without root. You can root without loading ROMs. From there it gets hazy based on what you want to load but only one ROM at a time. Sometimes root is necessary. Rooting is easy once someone has done the hard work so I don't know how to answer that. A bricked phone is rarely recoverable. Best of luck tweaking the hell out a platform you are unfamiliar with (see previous sentence).

Having said that, you'll enjoy Android. Tethering is available on all Android handsets in some form.