I have been reading about rooting my Galaxy S2 (AT&T) for days. Thanks for all of the info here. I'm trying to sort through all of the info, but I can't seem to get a good grip on a solution to what I want to do, so here goes.
I want to root my phone so I can delete ATT navigator, Live TV, latitude and Facebook. These are all programs I never use, yet with any restart they begin running in the background. Sometimes they just start by themselves and I have to kill them manually, which irks me.
I would also like to freeze WiFi hotspot. This little gem of a program is on by default so any restart of my phone means I have to dig and manually kill this app. This program almost made me return the phone as I was getting about 5-6 hours of charge on a battery with almost no use. (Literally 5-6 texts and 2 calls of less than 10 minutes with no blue tooth and wifi turned off meant I was at 30% battery). Luckily the salesperson found it and showed me how to kill it.
After deleting the offending bloatware apps, I don't think I want to put on a custom ROM. I actually enjoy everything else about the OS after coming from iPhone 4. Maybe my next Android will have me installing custom ROM. Do I want to leave my phone rooted or return it back to unrooted status.
Flashing kernels is still a foreign concept to me so I still need to do a bit more reading, but I don't want the large warning triangle every time I restart. I've read about a "jig" and other workarounds but those all seem difficult and complicated.
SO, can I just root, delete and return to unroot? And is this something that "makes sense" or should I just leave it unrooted. And is there a ROM already out there that has all ATT bloat already deleted?
Thanks in advance for any responses
I want to root my phone so I can delete ATT navigator, Live TV, latitude and Facebook. These are all programs I never use, yet with any restart they begin running in the background. Sometimes they just start by themselves and I have to kill them manually, which irks me.
I would also like to freeze WiFi hotspot. This little gem of a program is on by default so any restart of my phone means I have to dig and manually kill this app. This program almost made me return the phone as I was getting about 5-6 hours of charge on a battery with almost no use. (Literally 5-6 texts and 2 calls of less than 10 minutes with no blue tooth and wifi turned off meant I was at 30% battery). Luckily the salesperson found it and showed me how to kill it.
After deleting the offending bloatware apps, I don't think I want to put on a custom ROM. I actually enjoy everything else about the OS after coming from iPhone 4. Maybe my next Android will have me installing custom ROM. Do I want to leave my phone rooted or return it back to unrooted status.
Flashing kernels is still a foreign concept to me so I still need to do a bit more reading, but I don't want the large warning triangle every time I restart. I've read about a "jig" and other workarounds but those all seem difficult and complicated.
SO, can I just root, delete and return to unroot? And is this something that "makes sense" or should I just leave it unrooted. And is there a ROM already out there that has all ATT bloat already deleted?
Thanks in advance for any responses