I want to root my droid charge to enjoy some of the benefits but I am new to the rooting scene and there seems to be many different programs to root the phone with? The guide sticky is a few months old... does that still work for droid charge or things has changed - if it has what is the latest guide? I do have my droid charge with latest update. Thanks!
Root Newbie trying to root for first time... need some help
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kraisydave
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shaselai,
If you are still stock and have updated the last Verizon sent, FP1, then you will need to root following an FP1 guide. Older methods will likely cause problems such as one known problems is to disable wifi.
Check under settings, about phone, baseband version - does it end in FP1?
I just posted a video on here that you can follow. Let me know if you have any questions.
Dave
If you are still stock and have updated the last Verizon sent, FP1, then you will need to root following an FP1 guide. Older methods will likely cause problems such as one known problems is to disable wifi.
Check under settings, about phone, baseband version - does it end in FP1?
I just posted a video on here that you can follow. Let me know if you have any questions.
Dave
kraisydave
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You are welcome.
1. Eclipse is a ROM, not an OS. It is based upon Samsung's FP1 build of Android 2.3.6 as of Eclipse 2.0.
2. If you're upgrading from one version of a ROM to another version of the same ROM (ie. Eclipse 2.0 -> Eclipse 2.1, when it comes out), you can usually do so by flashing the update over your current setup. If you're changing ROMs (ie. Stock -> Eclipse, Stock -> Tweaked, Eclipse -> Tweaked, etc), then you should do a complete wipe of your phone (data, cache, and dalvik cache). You can then restore user apps and user app data (never system apps, system app data, or settings) from Titanium Backup.
3. There is no ICS for the Droid Charge... at least not one that is fully working. Samsung has not released the code for the phone's RIL (radio interface layer), so devs have been mostly unable to get an ICS setup to fully work with 3G/4G. There is an ICS release that is wifi only (or perhaps some 3G at this point) floating around, though it's far from a daily driver.
