Ok so I decided to finally take a chance a root my droid.. I was scared at first because I couldnt find directions I liked until I found some videos on youtube from DroidReview (which gave a link to this forum)(thank you)
so I followed the videos and succesfully rooted my droid.
I also created a nandroid backup following the other video.
The only thing I have done to my phone so far is install a couple apps (quake 3, beautiful widgits, and HTC keyboard) (which seems like I could have done without rooting??)
Anyways I had a couple (hopefully simple) questions that I would appreciate if someone would answer
I really want to install a ROM but I am also scared of installing a janky one, or an outdated one. I did a lot of research last night and I honestly can't tell whats new or whats outdated now.. there are so many websites and so many different roms.. I really want the opinion of someone that has done this before.
I really like the random generated smoke I saw somewhere, but I also like simplicity and to run smooth without lagging..and I would not give that up for a cool wallpaper..
Does anyone have any opinion or input on that?
Second my other concern is that after I was doing more research last night apparently the 0.99.2b recovery I installed is outdated, and there is a 0.99.3b update. Unfortunatly I could not find the official source of this download, nor instructions on how to install it?
How do I get this file from the source, and how do I install it and get rid of 2b.. also are there benefits of doing this?
My last question is overclocking..I honestly dont see the benefit of overclocking.. I feel like the phone runs fast enough and I dont want to ruin the phone / battery / motherboard lol..whatever could get ruined! I also dont want to pay for that app.. (although I did find it on demonoid in a set of 2.2g of .apks!! :/ )
Does using ROMS require overclocking?? Because that it what it seems like to me, but I am still unsure. also do you need to overclock to run Wifi Tethering? I also can't find this app online, but it does seem to show up in features of certain ROMS..
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO TAKING YOUR TIME TO READ THIS AND ANSWER MY NOOB QUESTIONS!!
I really like my droid and don;t want to mess it up, so I am taking all the precautions doing this.. Please dont say USE GOOGLE OR SEARCH... honestly I did.. I found a lot of things... almost too much which is why I can't decide what is outdated and what isn't..lol... I could mess around and figure it out by experimenting but i'd much rather have the RIGHT way of doing things before I mess it up and have to fix it
THANKS AGAIN
so I followed the videos and succesfully rooted my droid.
I also created a nandroid backup following the other video.
The only thing I have done to my phone so far is install a couple apps (quake 3, beautiful widgits, and HTC keyboard) (which seems like I could have done without rooting??)
Anyways I had a couple (hopefully simple) questions that I would appreciate if someone would answer
I really want to install a ROM but I am also scared of installing a janky one, or an outdated one. I did a lot of research last night and I honestly can't tell whats new or whats outdated now.. there are so many websites and so many different roms.. I really want the opinion of someone that has done this before.
I really like the random generated smoke I saw somewhere, but I also like simplicity and to run smooth without lagging..and I would not give that up for a cool wallpaper..
Does anyone have any opinion or input on that?
Second my other concern is that after I was doing more research last night apparently the 0.99.2b recovery I installed is outdated, and there is a 0.99.3b update. Unfortunatly I could not find the official source of this download, nor instructions on how to install it?
How do I get this file from the source, and how do I install it and get rid of 2b.. also are there benefits of doing this?
My last question is overclocking..I honestly dont see the benefit of overclocking.. I feel like the phone runs fast enough and I dont want to ruin the phone / battery / motherboard lol..whatever could get ruined! I also dont want to pay for that app.. (although I did find it on demonoid in a set of 2.2g of .apks!! :/ )
Does using ROMS require overclocking?? Because that it what it seems like to me, but I am still unsure. also do you need to overclock to run Wifi Tethering? I also can't find this app online, but it does seem to show up in features of certain ROMS..
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO TAKING YOUR TIME TO READ THIS AND ANSWER MY NOOB QUESTIONS!!
I really like my droid and don;t want to mess it up, so I am taking all the precautions doing this.. Please dont say USE GOOGLE OR SEARCH... honestly I did.. I found a lot of things... almost too much which is why I can't decide what is outdated and what isn't..lol... I could mess around and figure it out by experimenting but i'd much rather have the RIGHT way of doing things before I mess it up and have to fix it
THANKS AGAIN