Root Coolest thing you have done with your rooted phone

-ebby- · Aug 22, 2010

verditsgerman said:
Wiimote connect + NESoid, SNESoid, Gensoid = the best reason to have root.

Do you need a different kernel or rom for the wiimote to work? I thought stock didn't have the right bluetooth stack or something

verditsgerman · Aug 23, 2010

birthofahero said:
Ya I need to get me a wiimote. Why havent they made one that works with the ps3 controller. Which is also bluetooth right?

I would LOVE to be able to use a PS3 controller. Its bluetooth too, you would think there would be a way...

-ebby- said:
Do you need a different kernel or rom for the wiimote to work? I thought stock didn't have the right bluetooth stack or something

Yeah, you have to have a ROM. It can't have Sense on it. It works great with CM6, but I couldnt get it to work with Sky Raider Vanilla.

welbinator · Aug 23, 2010

Le0_Br4zUc4 said:
I made a phone call

WHOA! Do you need root for that?

jmwood · Aug 23, 2010

I rooted and put Windows 7 on it, with touch screen function!

ikediggety · Aug 23, 2010

verditsgerman said:
Wiimote connect + NESoid, SNESoid, Gensoid = the best reason to have root.

Did You have to go to a sense-less rom to do that?

verditsgerman · Aug 23, 2010

ikediggety said:
Did You have to go to a sense-less rom to do that?

Yeah, it won't work with Sense at all. This is a huge part of the reason I went back to CM6 from Sky Raider Vanilla. Sky Raider Vanilla is still based off of a sense ROM, I think? At least that's how I understood it. I looked like an idiot the other night at a bar trying to get the Wiimote to connect to my phone when I had just installed Sky Raider. Fail.

necosino · Aug 23, 2010

CM6 is written from source, where-as SkyRaider/Adryn are just customized from official leaks.

ArmlessRifleman · Aug 23, 2010

jmwood said:
I rooted and put Windows 7 on it, with touch screen function!

I have been waiting for someone to think you were serious. If this was XDA there would have been at least three people asking you for instructions.

ArmchairBear · Aug 23, 2010

watch hulu on 3g in the web browser.

jmwood · Aug 24, 2010

ArmlessRifleman said:
I have been waiting for someone to think you were serious. If this was XDA there would have been at least three people asking you for instructions.

Ain't that the truth...

Droidguru · Aug 25, 2010

birthofahero said:
What is the coolest thing you have done with your rooted Dinc? I have just rooted and I have to say I really enjoy cyanogenmod cm6. But im new to this so Im interested to see your guys' opinion.

I just rooted my phone today and I have the same ROM installed as you. I think the coolest things I have done with my rooted incredible is to make it run faster via SetCPU and being able to enjoy FroYo.

Tommy Subway · Sep 12, 2010

Changed my Boot splash screen and animation, made it so it doesn't say "Droid" when I boot up. Added WiFi Tether. Removed bloatware from Verizon. Made about:debug a bookmark in the web browser so I can easily access extra settings.

sdrawkcab25 · Sep 12, 2010

EVERYTHING done with a done with a rooted incredible is cool.....but now we have PSfreedom! that's effin cool (thanks adrynalyne)

Bob Denny · Sep 12, 2010

You win MY prize at least, that is awesome!

crazydog said:
The coolest thing I've done so far was something I did today.

I was developing an android application from work via Remote Desktop to my home PC, while actively debugging it via ADB over the internets.

adbWireless 1.0 - Android app on AppBrain

nkk · Sep 13, 2010

I used the wifi tether so a friend could use the internet (we were in a hotel room). I then proceeded to look at the output from Shark for Root (a traffic sniffer) and narrate his actions from across the room. He was more than freaked out by the fact I knew exactly what he was doing/what sites he was visitant.

-Nkk

Terabethia · Sep 13, 2010

chris61292 said:
watch youtube on my laptop driving to virginia from pa =)

Hey, I just made that same trip 2 weeks ago. Sadly it was for a funeral

Hope your trip was better than mine!

welbinator · Sep 13, 2010

watched flash videos that made fun of iPhones while browsing an apple store.

padrone00 · Sep 13, 2010

Lurking here. I actually have the Eris and was on the way to the football game Thursday night riding with a family of Apple lovers. The boy had a Ipod Touch and I told him, hey, if you want to get online let me know, I can do that for you. So I fired up my wireless tether and boom, they were all blown away. So he played online the entire trip with his Ipod Touch and went home ranting and raving about what my droid phone could do.

I do have a buddy of mine that has the Incredible and he used his to hack his ps3. It is now completely open to whatever he wants to do with it.

blacknsb · Sep 13, 2010

Hand76 said:
Honestly being rooted is cool but nothing that I have done has jumped out at me as OMG.

disabled the included flash player in favor of a version that would play Hulu.

How did you do this? I was hoping Flash would have taken care of this with the new version.

Ok, so I read a little further. Where do you find this other version? I have tried Hulu on my current version and is says that my player does not support this.

gasolinev8 · Sep 13, 2010

Used my Google Voice number to prank call my ex-wife in the middle of the night. Don't need root for that, but the best I can do until the phones start coming standard equipment with built in tazers...

tbeas · Sep 14, 2010

Changed my splash screen and boot animation. And installed a new theme. My phone looks completely different than all of my friends' Android phones.

b4ckd00r5p1d3r · Sep 15, 2010

Rrrracer said:
I'm not necessarily about one-upmanship but here goes...

A buddy of mine has a GF that has an iPhone, and she is always talking it up. He just rolls a little flip phone and doesn't like the iPhone because she is always slamming his.

They were at my shop the other day and he needed to access internet on his laptop... I whipped out the good 'ole wireless tether and he was rolling in seconds.

He turned and asked her if her iPhone could do that, and no it couldn't... and he said to her, "Wow, Droid DOES!"

I had to laugh... LOL

In all fairness the iPhone actually wifi tethers after jailbreak which is much easier to do then to root. So actually iPhone wins

gasolinev8 · Sep 15, 2010

b4ckd00r5p1d3r said:
In all fairness the iPhone actually wifi tethers after jailbreak which is much easier to do then to root. So actually iPhone wins

Really? Didn't seem all that difficult to root my Incredible. Or my Droid. Download a program, click a button and done. Plus, I have different UI options, kernel options, themes, vanilla, sense, sense-less. You got different phone options, big screens, small screens, physical keyboards, soft keyboards, black ones, silver ones, white ones. The Iphone is like going to a dealer to buy a car and finding out they make only 1 model in 1 color. I don't know about you, but I like options.

Rigg3L · Sep 15, 2010

I Hacked my PS3 with PSFreedom! By far coolest thing I've done so far!

dhats235 · Sep 16, 2010

Played PS3 online with wireless tether

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