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    Root Questions on Rooting

    What is the difference between a temp root and a perm root? I understand temp root is reversible but what is the difference in functionality? If I temp root and delete or install apps and I reboot will those apps return or be deleted? What are the perks of perm rooting? What are ROMs? Is...
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    Help Question about rooting and it's capabilities.

    Hey Guys, A couple of questions. 1. What is the functionally different between temp and perm rooting? 2. Do I have to root to change the theme of my phone? For example, changing how the lock screen looks or removing the faves button on the dock bar. 3. If I choose to use apps like launcher...
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    Help MyTouch 4g. Custom Keyboard for Swype + Microphone

    Hey guys, Is there a custom keyboard out there that will have the swype function AND speech to text function all in one keyboard? Iknow the other android phones have this functionality but for some reason they took it out for this phone. Thanks!
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    Minimum running apps for optimal battery and memory life?

    Hey guys, Not sure how to phrase this but I'll try. I want to save as much battery life as I can by having the least amount of applications running in the background. Which processes for the mytouch 4g are needed to keep the phone running? I know of course I can turn off "facebook" as an app...
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    Running Services vs Manage Application (Running)

    Would someone be able to explain this to me? What's the difference between the two? I turned off skype running services and restarted skype but it doesn't show up on running services anymore.