Root What I Have Done With a Droid Now That It's Rooted

Apeman · Dec 9, 2009

Thanks for the guide! I am a tech geek, and know how to do this, but I stupidly set it up as "update.zip" when it was already a zip. Hopefully I can continue on with my TV-out project now that the Droid is rooted.

efdisaster · Dec 9, 2009

Jarek said:
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I finally got rid of Amazon MP3, Visual Voicemail, Corporate Calender and Email applications, by downloading Terminal Emulator from the App Store and typing the following into my droid into the terminal emulator:
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not to knock the idea of rooting, but I haven't seen corporate calendar or email pop up in my running application list since I updated to 2.0.1

now, getting rid of that camera click sound seems like it's worth it.

Apeman · Dec 9, 2009

barry99705 said:
Sure. As root, and after you did the remount thing at the top of this thread, cd to /system/media/audio/ui. Then mv camera_click.ogg to camera_click.bak, would look something like this,

Code:

# cd /system/media/audio/ui # mv camera_click.ogg camera_click.bak

Do the remount thing, also at the top of this thread and reboot.

Any idea if we can replace sounds?

prerunnerseth · Dec 9, 2009

Anyone find a screen capture app that works with the droid yet? I tried screen capture paid app in the market and it didnt work.

mickeyx323 · Dec 9, 2009

Apeman said:
Any idea if we can replace sounds?

You probably just have to convert a sound to the .ogg format and rename it the same name as camera_click. Then move it to the same location as the old file(just a guess).

mickeyx323 · Dec 9, 2009

barry99705 said:
That's because I didn't follow those directions, whoever magicandroidapps is has screwed with some files to make it say that, which I think isn't cool.

I see. I didnt know that. Thanks for the info.

DroidRX · Dec 9, 2009

barry99705 said:
Sure. As root, and after you did the remount thing at the top of this thread, cd to /system/media/audio/ui. Then mv camera_click.ogg to camera_click.bak, would look something like this,

Awesome! Worked like a charm. Thanks

DroidRX · Dec 9, 2009

prerunnerseth said:
Anyone find a screen capture app that works with the droid yet? I tried screen capture paid app in the market and it didnt work.

drocap2.

Looks like it's a screen capture app that requires root access and it's free. I haven't tried it yet.

LEP · Dec 9, 2009

barry99705 said:
Anybody find the camera click sound yet? I'd love to make that go away. I don't care about the focusing sounds, that's mechanical, but that damn click is stupidly loud.

That would be great to be able to turn it off. Here in Italy and Germany and maybe also the rest of Europe it is law that all camera's on mobile phone's (cell phones) to have the 'click' sound. It helps to stop all the perverts from taking foto's of girls etc.

prerunnerseth · Dec 9, 2009

DroidRX said:
drocap2.

Looks like it's a screen capture app that requires root access and it's free. I haven't tried it yet.

Drocap2 works great! thanks

DroidRX · Dec 9, 2009

Just tried the overclockwidget app. It doesn't let me set it higher than 550 but I can underclock it and there's a noticeable difference when I change it to 250. Not bad. But I wish there was a way to set it to 600. There's also a setting to have the phone underclocked when the screen is off. I wonder if that will preserve battery??

prerunnerseth · Dec 9, 2009

I seem to have broken the gallery. Hmmm... says activity not found

never mind.. just the shortcut was broken.. strange.

Mrwirez · Dec 9, 2009

I am waiting for the first thread... "My DROID is bricked because I don't know what I am doing". I would wait and let the pro's do their thing FIRST. I am pretty sure everything at Cyanogen is for HTC phones, for now. Also, I am not sure there is a Recovery Image for the Droid yet. I played with Red Hat Linux years ago and forget half the commands... I am holding out for the noob thread.

shadowdude777 · Dec 9, 2009

DroidRX said:
Just tried the overclockwidget app. It doesn't let me set it higher than 550 but I can underclock it and there's a noticeable difference when I change it to 250. Not bad. But I wish there was a way to set it to 600. There's also a setting to have the phone underclocked when the screen is off. I wonder if that will preserve battery??

Can you report back on how well setting it to 250MHz when the screen is off prolongs battery life? I'd root just for this. And of course, the ability to overclock when the screen IS on would be really nice.

barry99705 · Dec 9, 2009

Apeman said:
Any idea if we can replace sounds?

Heh, yep.

http://idisk.mac.com/barrywoods/Public/camera_droid.mov

There's no cp command, so you have to use cat.

Now I gotta go delete that file....

DroidRX · Dec 9, 2009

shadowdude777 said:
Can you report back on how well setting it to 250MHz when the screen is off prolongs battery life? I'd root just for this. And of course, the ability to overclock when the screen IS on would be really nice.

I set for it to run underclocked when screen is off and will see how it performs in the next couple of days.

craighwk · Dec 9, 2009

Mrwirez said:
I am waiting for the first thread... "My DROID is bricked because I don't know what I am doing". I would wait and let the pro's do their thing FIRST. I am pretty sure everything at Cyanogen is for HTC phones, for now. Also, I am not sure there is a Recovery Image for the Droid yet. I played with Red Hat Linux years ago and forget half the commands... I am holding out for the noob thread.

Heh yah I am just sitting back and watching the show. I'll wait a few weeks before trying anything. Considering I have never rooted a phone before, this is probably the best course of action.

Plus I really haven't seen anything yet that shows me "Wow, I need to do this".

Darkbleed · Dec 9, 2009

The terminal annoys the hell out of me because you can't use dir.

Tymanthius · Dec 9, 2009

Darkbleed said:
The terminal annoys the hell out of me because you can't use dir.

Think Linux, not DOS.

it's 'ls' as in LiSt.

barry99705 · Dec 9, 2009

Darkbleed said:
The terminal annoys the hell out of me because you can't use dir.

Linux-101.

Darkbleed · Dec 9, 2009

There we go! Weird, I use linux extensively and have always used dir.

Tymanthius · Dec 9, 2009

Darkbleed said:
There we go! Weird, I use linux extensively and have always used dir.

Some distributions have a symlink(?) that makes dir = ls. It's to help noobs. But as I recall, dir doesn't 'officially' exist in linux. Unless maybe someone either recompiled ls & named it dir, or made a new program?

Darkbleed · Dec 9, 2009

Could be. I've used a lot of different distributions over the years - Knoppix, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, and Puppy and dir has worked on all of them. Of course, I'm strictly amateur and don't have any friends who even know what linux is, everything I know has come through a lot of trial, error, and google. Typing ls instead of dir is going to be a rough habit to break... but it's one less character to type.

ICANSEEYOU7687 · Dec 9, 2009

what id really like to see is a way to change your packet headers so you can tether with absolutely no worries about verizon seeing it.

prerunnerseth · Dec 9, 2009

So, what are the consequences of rooting... besides a possible bricked phone. is it illegal, voided warranty?

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