Root Best route for the rooted?

[uechij]

Hey guys,

I'm somewhat of a noob to rooting and have a couple of questions. I roooted my evo4g with unrevoked 3. I want to stay with the stock roms that sprint/htc release OTA.

1. So when the next OTA is released, I understand I can just wait for someone like xda developers to release their version of the OTA, and install that rom. Will this have all the updated radio keys, etc I need so my phone works like if I had not rooted it?

Cause I was reading some where that when you flash new roms you have to update all your radios and other stuff on top of flashing the new rom. That's just too time consuming for me and really don't want to mess with all of that. If I would have known that sooner I would have not rooted. I hope this is not true.

2. Or should I unroot, update to the OTA release, then reroot again? I also read that this is not a good idea. Why? I read this a lot but no one explains why it is a bad idea. Is their a limit to this or something?

Any help would be appreciated, Thanks!

 

[Xtremedays]

It is much easier to wait for the devs to get out a rooted version of the OTA. There may or may not be new radios, but it is much less time consuming to flash the radio update and flash the stock rooted rom than to unroot, accept the OTA then reroot again. Especially since most likely a new OTA will have an updated hboot and it will be possibly a long time before Unrevoked would be able to root it again. My opinion, stay rooted and make the updates manually.

 

[An UrgeTo Dance]

If you were on the latest OTA when you rooted you will most likely not need to update radios every time you flash a ROM because you should have the latest already. Some ROMs are however based on older radios and you would maybe have to downgrade but you most likely won't ever have to do that. Also when a new OTA is released it doesn't always come with new radios, but if it does you will need to update them to get the ROMs based off of that OTA to work.

I would not suggest unrooting to accept an OTA. When a new OTA is released you have to wait for someone to gain root, which might not ever happen. Every time a new OTA is released Sprint changes the security slightly so they may somehow make it unrootable.

 

[uechij]

Okay cool and thanks! And BTW i was updated to the most recent version...2.2Froyo when I rooted.

So if i stay rooted and use someone like xda's stock OTA then I would only need to update the radios if the new stock OTA from HTC/Sprint had updated radios? I take it XDA or whoever will let me know that I need to do this?

And are the radios the only thing to worry about keeping up on when updating stocks?

Just don't want to loose any of my functionality cause i have a long time on my contract left.

 

[Xtremedays]

Okay cool and thanks! And BTW i was updated to the most recent version...2.2Froyo when I rooted.

So if i stay rooted and use someone like xda's stock OTA then I would only need to update the radios if the new stock OTA from HTC/Sprint had updated radios? I take it XDA or whoever will let me know that I need to do this?

And are the radios the only thing to worry about keeping up on when updating stocks?

Just don't want to loose any of my functionality cause i have a long time on my contract left.

XDA is actually another Forum set up and used mostly by developers. They are the ones that have come up with the things that we put on our phones. There are many custom roms that are fully functional so staying stock is not absolutely necessary for that.