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bryan.allen

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Ok, I'm a rookie. I bought a bionic and used petes one click root program to root. I was having the same problems with the bionic as everyone else so I figured id try a ROM to help with the battery. I installed the theory rom. That didn't help. I called verizon and they want to do a warranty exchange. I need to unroot first but I no longer have my pc, I use a MacBook now and petes tool doesn't work with osx. If I do a factory reset, will that remove the rom and unroot? Also, what's the best way to root for osx?

Secondly, I read today they are releasing the ics code to developers. Will there be an ics ROM for the bionic? I'm not even sure I know what exactly a ROM does?

What do you experts recommend I do? What current roms do you guys use? I choose theory because it was the only one available at the time. I know I'm a rookie, sorry....
 
bryan.allen said:
Ok, I'm a rookie. I bought a bionic and used petes one click root program to root. I was having the same problems with the bionic as everyone else so I figured id try a ROM to help with the battery. I installed the theory rom. That didn't help. I called verizon and they want to do a warranty exchange. I need to unroot first but I no longer have my pc, I use a MacBook now and petes tool doesn't work with osx. If I do a factory reset, will that remove the rom and unroot? Also, what's the best way to root for osx?

Secondly, I read today they are releasing the ics code to developers. Will there be an ics ROM for the bionic? I'm not even sure I know what exactly a ROM does?

What do you experts recommend I do? What current roms do you guys use? I choose theory because it was the only one available at the time. I know I'm a rookie, sorry....
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imagine if Microsoft released the code for Windows, and people start tweaking it and making their own versions of windows, and sharing their work so other people could use their hacked versions of Windows.

That's what a Rom is. Some developers take the actual code from Google and bulid a custom ROM pretty much from scratch, other devs take a ROM for one phone, and customize it (port it over) to fit another phone. They are just replacements for your android operating system, that come in .zip format that you "Flash" using recovery mode or Rom Manager.


Right now there aren't many ROMs because motorola kinda sucks and makes it as hard as possible for devs to crack the phone. But eventually the devs will crack it, just like they did with previous phones (like my incredible) and you will see new ROMs pop up every day, giving you loads of opportunities to break and unbreak your phone.
 
johnlgalt said:
http://androidforums.com/bionic-all...-all-things-root-guide-updated-11-1-11-a.html

Has everything you need to know about rooting and unrooting.
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Worked great with the unroot. Tried to root the new bionic but for some reason it will not work. Doing everything it says and when it gets to the point where I put it in charge only mode, it never is able to communicate with my device. I tried it in PC mode and the same result. Restarted and same result. Guess I'll be using an unrooted bionic until iget to a pc. I forgot how much crap they put on this phone out of the box....
 
Does anyone know why my computer won't recognize my device through my USB cable? It charges but it won't recognize it as connected. Tried all the USB connection options. Maybe I'm missing a driver?
 
try plugging the phone in, make sure USB Mass Storage is selected, and restart your phone. I have to do that sometimes. a lot of times my work computer recognizes the sdcard but not my internal memory, until I restart the phone, then it recognizes both. annoying but workable.
 
welbinator said:
try plugging the phone in, make sure USB Mass Storage is selected, and restart your phone. I have to do that sometimes. a lot of times my work computer recognizes the sdcard but not my internal memory, until I restart the phone, then it recognizes both. annoying but workable.
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On a PC you can power the Bionic Off and power it back ON. After it is completly installed both devices are visible.

... Thom
 
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