Yeah so basically I've tried reading upon rooting but everytime I get to understand one thing something else confuses me.I've read somewhere that the new DHD update needs to be downgraded for rooting to work? I mainly want to root my phone to increase battery performance and make my DHD smoother.

Is there anyone kind enough to post a simple and safe tutorial on rooting my DHD with sense 3.0 and help me decide what ROM to use?


Sorry but I'm quite a big noob, as I've never done anything like this on a phone......

 

Thanks , I'll have a go with that! I don't have to do any downgrading or anything since im on 2.3.5 sense 3 do I ?

And what's with this warning message oing this WILL severely degrade bootloader performance on Inspires (and likely DHDs) and causes issues trying to install RUUs. In other words, it WILL jam you up. (Note: Issue unconfirmed on DHD - ignore at your own risk).

 

Thanks,

I just did it as I read somewhere that the process itself will downgrade my sense 3.0 which it did and However I just checked with some app on the market that my phone has not been rooted?
Also the thing you do on booting, power and volume down thing comes up.

 

Yeah I used that app.
Ermm when you hold down the volume button and press the power button some root screen appears with some options like recovery and fast boot ( sorry for the vague English).

Anyway I just tried to do the process again and it worked I got root access now. Sorry for all these questions but can anyone show me how to get Cyanogen mod 7.1 and that lord mod Kernel on my phone now?

 

Is it normal for Android market not to work?
On the old android market I get a download unsuccessful error every time so I tried to download the 3.4.4 one to see if this resolves that issue, but the 3.4.4 one just keeps saying no connection :/

 

Yup worked, Thank you very much

 

Now I got cyanogen mod 7.1 everything looks fine and I think it's. Really good however USB tethering doesn't work anymore, in the notification bar it would say tethered but no internet access on the pc

 

That would be great!

I've just got the lord mod kernel to run on cyanogen 7.1 and so far this is way smoother than the sense 3 I was on earlier today

 

Doesn't work regardless of it being disabled or enabled.

 

So yeah, anyone know how to fix USB tethering?

 

Was the ROM good? And did it fix the tethering problem?

 

Thanks for your response.
Before rooting USB tethering worked perfectly, so I would assume my carrier (O2) would have no issues with USB tethering. Besides my phone wasn't supplied by my carrier.

 

I'm trying the absolution ROM, El presidente advised that the tethering issue might have been due to a bad flash, so I'll see if the issue has been resolved with the new ROM when I get home.

 

Tethering doesn't work on Absolution 3.3 either :/ also tried Oxygen and Miui but no luck there, but I like how Miui looks like so I'll stick with that since it's clear it's not a ROM/ Kernel fault.

Edit: The tethering options on the roms itself seemed to be at fault, I downloaded Wired Tether on the internet and usb tethering works when using that application only glad it works now though!