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Root Why root?

madmonk

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OK, so I waited for froyo on HTC desire locked to Orange, and got me a flashlight. Great.

What advantage OTHER than being able to move apps from internal memory to the SD card, does a rooted phone offer please. I thought Froyo would do this, but it clearly only does it with a small number of apps.

There's a thread on the forum that if followed will apparently allow this transfer with non-rooted phones.

So why root? (I'm not being facetious or rhetorical, I'm curious - I cant find the answer. I'm clearly missing something and all this talk of flashing ROM's is decidedly placing me outside my comfort zone.)

Ta
 
Some useful apps need root, like Titanium backup, screenshot apps (saves from plugging into PC to use the SDK ddms) and I'm liking AnReboot so I don't have to wear out the power button and droidwall (a firewall app) to prevent certain apps from accessing 3G since I'm on a limited data plan. Moving apps to the SD card doesn't need root, it needs 2.2 but making a different partition on the SDcard and making the phone think it's the internal storage is another thing which is much nicer than the standard apps2sd.
 
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Well titanium back up would only be useful If rooted anyway. If you were chopping and changing roms often. That's what its for.

I like root. The custom.roms are good. I can run android without any HTC sense it apps. Customised status bar is nice too.

Mainly though, for me, its how I can configure my CPU to behave differently and also with a custom kernel I can run overclocked at the same power consumption as the HTC sense Rom, or I can run at the same speed as HTC with lower consumption
 
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hes running a pretty stripped rom with a kernel from the gods. its rapid
im running leedroid 2.2a and again thats fast but not as fast as that (mine is a sense rom)

This is the HAVS kernel, which historically has been unstable.

The 1190 SVS I can clock to 1152 without random reboots, but this HAVS is stable and I cannot match its Quadrant with the SVS, so I am very happy with it.
 
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It was mentioned briefly above, but what are the benefits in terms of phone storage? I guess you can 'fool' the phone into using an SD card partition as phone storage, are there any hazards/problems with that? For example, can widgets run from SD or do they fail unless in phone memory? Storage space would be the biggest reason to root, assuming there's a benefit to be had.
 
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It was mentioned briefly above, but what are the benefits in terms of phone storage? I guess you can 'fool' the phone into using an SD card partition as phone storage, are there any hazards/problems with that? For example, can widgets run from SD or do they fail unless in phone memory? Storage space would be the biggest reason to root, assuming there's a benefit to be had.

im running leedroid 2.2a with a2sd+ and notice no difference with apps being on the ext partition of the sdcard
 
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So why root?

Here's what I've gleaned from the forums I visit:

1) Rooting = geekporn. "I'm running weedroid with a hyperlightspeed kernel running at +9000...."
2) Bricking a perfectly good phone. "Hey can anyone help me? My phone doesn't work after I wrestled my way into the Linux subsystem without knowing what I was doing."
3) Individualisation (of a platform that currently has the largest share of the smartphone sales in the USA). "I'm not a sheep! I use Android! Baa!"

And yes, I am joking (a bit) and yes, I am a little confused myself as to what everyone is banging on about or as to why it's necessary.

I took one look at the "how to root your desire" guides and knew instantly that rooting was not for me. Most guides seem to have a problem with infinite regression i.e. each "how to" guide contains a "how to" guide which contains a "how to" guide and so on infinitum. :D ("I want to root!" "Cool, here's a guide!" "Thanks, dude. It says I need a goldcard. What the hell is a goldcard?" "Here's a guide for you!" "Oh, forget it!")

I'm sure I'm missing out. :(
 
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Here's what I've gleaned from the forums I visit:

1) Rooting = geekporn. "I'm running weedroid with a hyperlightspeed kernel running at +9000...."
2) Bricking a perfectly good phone. "Hey can anyone help me? My phone doesn't work after I wrestled my way into the Linux subsystem without knowing what I was doing."
3) Individualisation (of a platform that currently has the largest share of the smartphone sales in the USA). "I'm not a sheep! I use Android! Baa!"

And yes, I am joking (a bit) and yes, I am a little confused myself as to what everyone is banging on about or as to why it's necessary.

I took one look at the "how to root your desire" guides and knew instantly that rooting was not for me. Most guides seem to have a problem with infinite regression i.e. each "how to" guide contains a "how to" guide which contains a "how to" guide and so on infinitum. :D ("I want to root!" "Cool, here's a guide!" "Thanks, dude. It says I need a goldcard. What the hell is a goldcard?" "Here's a guide for you!" "Oh, forget it!")

I'm sure I'm missing out. :(
Rooting isn't hard at all, the gold card part IS a pain in the butt but lekky posted a link to a one click gold card and it works. Some phones don't need a gold card if it isn't branded. It'd be even easier if Universal Androot worked on Desires, that thing is so simple.

I bet you look at the Froyo RUU guide and think "sheesh, I have to have HTC Sync, drivers and the correct RUU? I don't need it!".
 
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