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Root Rooting my phone

I am thinking about having a computer geek friend of mine root my triumph.. I am nervous that when he does ( he is very tech savvy) I will lose all my pics and videos that are on it now or that it might not work well anymore, it has worked very well so far on the stock system ( I have had no problems at at all with it). I do have most of them backed up on my computer. He says he can do it so I can switch back to the stock system if I want. He also said he can do it so that I can boot up from either the root system or the stock system. I am just looking for a way to get more storage, I have everything that I can on my SD card, yet I only have about 8-9% space available. Thoughts please?
 
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I am thinking about having a computer geek friend of mine root my triumph.. I am nervous that when he does ( he is very tech savvy) I will lose all my pics and videos that are on it now or that it might not work well anymore, it has worked very well so far on the stock system ( I have had no problems at at all with it). I do have most of them backed up on my computer. He says he can do it so I can switch back to the stock system if I want. He also said he can do it so that I can boot up from either the root system or the stock system. I am just looking for a way to get more storage, I have everything that I can on my SD card, yet I only have about 8-9% space available. Thoughts please?

Don't worry about losing anything, as the others have said.
You may be running out of space because of the log file issue some users have reported. Seems that the stock ROM writes log files that never get deleted.
After rooting, if you install a custom ROM, that problem will be gone.
Rooting just allows certain apps to have root access, if they request it. Like Titanium Backup and ES File Explorer.
Look in the sticky guide at the top of this forum for details, but basically you just open Terminal Emulator (or download one free on the Play Store) and type: SUDO
Then you type in these two lines:
ln -s /system/xbin/sudo /system/bin/su
ln -s /system/xbin/sudo /system/xbin/su
reboot, and bam, you're rooted.

No big deal, really... don't be nervous.
;)
 
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Don't worry about losing anything, as the others have said.
You may be running out of space because of the log file issue some users have reported. Seems that the stock ROM writes log files that never get deleted.
After rooting, if you install a custom ROM, that problem will be gone.
Rooting just allows certain apps to have root access, if they request it. Like Titanium Backup and ES File Explorer.
Look in the sticky guide at the top of this forum for details, but basically you just open Terminal Emulator (or download one free on the Play Store) and type: SUDO
Then you type in these two lines:
ln -s /system/xbin/sudo /system/bin/su
ln -s /system/xbin/sudo /system/xbin/su
reboot, and bam, you're rooted.

No big deal, really... don't be nervous.
;)

Yep, rooting is super easy on the MT and you won't lose a thing! It sure sounds like you have the runaway log file problem- really easy to fix by deleting them every once & a while, but you do need to be rooted.
 
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It's not a big deal until that priceless photo is accidentally deleted. I guess I was suggesting that it's a good idea to have a copy of your photos and videos stored somewhere else. That's all.

That won't happen during the rooting process. And it could already happen if you are not rooted.

Yes backing up your stuff is important (very much so), but you should do that already and rooting this device won't delete anything.
 
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It's not a big deal until that priceless photo is accidentally deleted. I guess I was suggesting that it's a good idea to have a copy of your photos and videos stored somewhere else. That's all.

ANYTHING important to you should always be stored somewhere else besides your phone... yep. Accidents happen, phones break, get lost, stolen, etc...
I'm all for having multiple backups.
rule of thumb, from experience :mad:;)
 
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