Thanks a million.. Those were the exact files I was trying to locate.. I knew exactly what I needed but every time i found them I was directed to a metafire download link that was expired....
SO... Now that I have the super user app installed and have root access. What should I do from here... Custom roms? I've heard a very little about these and don't know which ones I should flash or why... Do you know where I can find a list of the best roms for the Droid 3? And possibly explain which ones you would prefer
Ok, that's great. I'll take some time a bit later to detail some of these things - what you can do rooted stock, good custom ROMs, best practices to try them out, etc. Give me a bit, though.
Hi Doogald,
Thanks for the well thought and effort to reply to CalebDutrow's post.
This morning I decided to upgrade my Droid 3 (maybe to a S3), but would like to minimize the transition. Keeping apps and contacts are key. I noticed I had ROM Manager and a 16G SD card, but not rooted.
Is rooting ideal for this use case, or is another option a better choice? Ease and accuracy is the balance, of course
If you are planning to root the new phone, there are some benefits to rooting the D3 for this (particularly backing up apps and data and restoring them to the the new phone.) However, rooting a brand new phone is a *huge* step, at least to me. I neve do myself. One reason is that Verizon and the other carriers give you a try-out period when you can return a new phone, and rooting and then returning - which invalidates the warranty - just isn't for me.
If you do want to root the new phone right away, though, I suggest getting a copy of Titanium Backup Pro. It's worth the cost to me, and allows you on the new phone, from menu->batch, retore all user apps and data to the new phone. (I'd stay away from system apps and data, though.)
However, for contacts and apps, you should be all set, rooted or not. If your contacts are all synced with Google contacts, then when you activate your new phone with your Google account, the contacts will all sync.
If your contacts are synced with Verizon's Backup Assistant Plus, and you get another Verizon phone, your contacts should also sync.
If your contacts are not synced, the D3 contacts app, from menu->manage contacts, allows you to back them up to your SD card. You can then take that file, import them into Google contacts, and then sync them down on the new phone.
That *should* also happen with your applications if you have (from home) settings->privacy set up with "Back up my data". When you activate your new phone, one question will be whether you want to restore your apps - the apps on your phone now *should* be installed on your new phone as part of the first synchronization. That said, that hasn't always worked for me.
However, if you go to the
Play Store on a PC browser, it should show all of the apps that you had installed on the D3. And, as long as our new phone supports the app, you should be able to install them from the PC browser. It is one-by-one, but at least you have the option to quickly install from a computer rather than doing so on the phone.
I hope that helps...
