sooo here's my question, what benefits have you seen now that you rooted it and stopped a few apps from loading, or is it that it hasnt' been rooted long enough yet for you to report that you've customized the phone completely to your liking?
To be completely honest, the only place I have noticed any gained speed is on backlight during a call and ending a call. When I pull the phone away from my ear, the light comes on instantly. When I hit end, there is no delay. It just simply ends and goes to the call log immediately. Otherwise... no... nothing I can tell so far.
But then again, I am tired and moving at half speed right now. Ive been up for a day and a half, and I have to go to work in an hour.
What else can be done on a rooted phone? Right now I don't see anything worth the risk of bricking it. Also, I heard you can get apps for free when you have a rooted phone
First... stop trying to talk yourself into rooting the phone. If you don't have a reason that supersedes the risk of bricking it, then you don't have a reason to root. When you are no longer debating whether or not you should do it, then you will have your answer.
Second... yes, we get free apps. It is called "Market". There are TONS of free apps in there.
I am trying to uninstall some apps, but i get stuck at this step
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
It says operation not permitted. And with root explorer (/system/app) i get
Warning com.amazon.mp3.apk cannot be deleted because the file system is read-only
Download "Root explorer". It is GUI, so you won't get messed up with Linux Terminal commands.
Can you still get OTA updates when you root?
Absolutely not. You'll have to wait for new updates to be uploaded which retain root access... or you will have to manually install the new update and lose root. No more OTAs.
Is there a way to install .apk files via root? Or do I just have to use the apk installer? The only reason I want to do it via root is because some apps i get the parse error.
Yes... you can push the apps to the phone. I would love to look up a link for you, but I'm insanely tired and my eyes are starting to cross. I would probably link you to the official blues clues fan club or something. Sorry. In any event... do a quick google search for basic linux commands. It shouldn't be hard to find a how-to on pushing apps to your phone.
Ok, so Cyanogen has an Eclair (2.0) build up. Now that the droid is rooted, has anyone tried to drop Cyanogen's Mod onto thier Droid?
I would be willing to bet big bucks that it won't work, since the dev has already announced that he is working on a droid ROM. If an existing one worked, he wouldn't be wasting his time.
I dont know how to enter fastboot mode on the droid.
I don't either, but in doing a search in Market for "Root", I did see an app called fastboot. it looks like a boot grub menu that allows easy switching between various boot modes. Perhaps that is what they are talking about?
So if i install the root update.zip, without doing all the other terminal jazz after, should Root Explorer App work? I'm getting "read only" or i need to put it into "su" in a terminal before the app will work?
Couldn't tell you... but if it doesn't work, just download the terminal and type "su" and be done with it. Not really a big deal.
