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Are you rooted or stock?

Is your droid rooted or stock?

  • Stock

    Votes: 133 37.9%

  • Rooted

    Votes: 192 54.7%

  • Planning to root

    Votes: 24 6.8%

  • Planning to un-root

    Votes: 2 0.6%
  • Total voters
    351
  • Poll closed .
carmencrishnaya said:
i want to root but im scareddd
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Well. I did a lot of reading on it in the last week while waiting for my phone. there are really 3 main steps..

1) Apply the Root

2) Prepare phone to back-up current ROM

3) install new ROM

It is not bad to do, you don't really need to be technical, but look at it this way.. you are on these forums, you know what root is and what the results can be. now you just need to take the time to try it out. search here and post questions, once you finally Root and ROM your phone, you will be happy you did
 
-=Jeff=- said:
Well. I did a lot of reading on it in the last week while waiting for my phone. there are really 3 main steps..

1) Apply the Root

2) Prepare phone to back-up current ROM

3) install new ROM

It is not bad to do, you don't really need to be technical, but look at it this way.. you are on these forums, you know what root is and what the results can be. now you just need to take the time to try it out. search here and post questions, once you finally Root and ROM your phone, you will be happy you did
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yeah i've gotten a lot of suggestions and i always here people speak so highly of their phones after they did it so hopefully i will have the same experience
 
Insomniac said:
I'm planning on rooting, but first I'm patiently waiting for the 2.1 OTA update to be released.
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but there is always the possibility that you may not be able to root after the OTA.

I too am waiting for the OTA, but I figured, Root now and if the OTA is better then just switch back and get the OTA at that point.

with the current ROM i have many of the 2.1 features, just not all. so with the OTA have the same or less or more? I don't think anyone really knows yet
 
-=Jeff=- said:
but there is always the possibility that you may not be able to root after the OTA.

I too am waiting for the OTA, but I figured, Root now and if the OTA is better then just switch back and get the OTA at that point.

with the current ROM i have many of the 2.1 features, just not all. so with the OTA have the same or less or more? I don't think anyone really knows yet
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That's not the case anymore. One of the stickies in the All About Root forum that says something like "now you can live without fear of bricking your phone" is about an SBF file released for the Droid. This means you can use RSDLite on your computer to flash your Droid back to factory condition with the SBF file. 2.0.1 factory condition. You can update to 2.1 and even if it can't be rooted, you can use that method to flash back to 2.0.1 and then root.
 
aaronmach1 said:
sorry but what is overclock?
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Overclocking is setting your CPU to run faster than the stock speed, which on the Droid is 550 Mhz. The fastest I've seen the Droid overclocked to so far is 1.2 Ghz. It isn't recommend to do this unless you know what your doing, since you can burn up you CPU if your not careful.
 
-=Jeff=- said:
Rooted..
Got my Droid Wednesday afternoon, set it up Wednesday night in OEM form

Rooted Thursday night to BB 1.1 (2.0.1) with a 600 MHz Kernel

Debating on going to BB 0.5 (2.1) but will give this mod I have a few days first
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I used 2.0.1 BB for awhile and loved it. I'm on 2.1 BB now and I don't see any improvements at all... I'm debating whether or not to do a nandroid restore of 2.0.1
 
El Blacksheep said:
I used 2.0.1 BB for awhile and loved it. I'm on 2.1 BB now and I don't see any improvements at all... I'm debating whether or not to do a nandroid restore of 2.0.1
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Good to know. any different features of 2.1? I think if Launcher2 was fixed from issues I read it has imight switch if Pete implements it. otherwise happy so far with my setup
 
Rooted with DroidMod 1.0 and can honestly say, though I did it with hesitation, I absolutely love it! Thank you to all of the devs that make it possible for enthusiasts (like me) to enjoy our phones to their potential without having the knowledge and skill to program them ourselves. Kudos!
 
I rooted last night, and stayed up way past my bedtime doing it. Then I flashed a new rom this morning before even getting out of bed :-D
 
I'm stock...haven't found a compelling reason to root yet. The phone does everything I want, and I'm compulsive about my phone -- if I root it, then anytime it acts the slightest out of the ordinary I'll be paranoid that it's because I rooted it and it's about to fall apart....
 
Rooted a couple days ago and then loaded Smoke Glass V4 from over at Alldroid. AdamZ's work. Then I o.c to 800 mhz. I think I noticed it ran slower actually than stock. Lagged a bit between screens and such. Reloaded my backup, which by the way I had named Retail Backup 0210 and it wouldn't load got the 21 error. Then I remembered that Linux does not like spaces and you have to have either it either all together or a _between the words in order for it to work.

Thinking of trying a different ROM but not sure what one to do or try.
 
Rooted and love everything about it.. instead of waiting for motorola to add cool features, I just did it myself :)
 
FXRS said:
Rooted a couple days ago and then loaded Smoke Glass V4 from over at Alldroid. AdamZ's work. Then I o.c to 800 mhz. I think I noticed it ran slower actually than stock. Lagged a bit between screens and such. Reloaded my backup, which by the way I had named Retail Backup 0210 and it wouldn't load got the 21 error. Then I remembered that Linux does not like spaces and you have to have either it either all together or a _between the words in order for it to work.

Thinking of trying a different ROM but not sure what one to do or try.
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Did you like the look and feel of adamz's smoked glass? If so, check out sg5.0.1 also by adamz. If you have heat issues check out Chevy's kernels.
 
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