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Are they running now ? Those apps are from Google, Amazon, Verizon, etc. Footprints is the only HTC app. No reason for them to be part of Sense.
 
If you're using Advanced Task Manager, or another one that looks at the very particular processes that are running, you will see some of these things.

ATK and TasKiller probably won't.

Footprints is running all the time, it's incredibly annoying. Peep services try to run constantly too, and so does Stocks, if you look at the running processes. Processes that check if they can/should auto-update (but since you haven't set them to, they don't. They just pretend!).

Software that should be 100% able to be disabled.

Root to the rescue, for this situation.
 
pkopalek said:
If you're using Advanced Task Manager, or another one that looks at the very particular processes that are running, you will see some of these things.

ATK and TasKiller probably won't.

Footprints is running all the time, it's incredibly annoying. Peep services try to run constantly too, and so does Stocks, if you look at the running processes. Processes that check if they can/should auto-update (but since you haven't set them to, they don't. They just pretend!).

Software that should be 100% able to be disabled.

Root to the rescue, for this situation.
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thank you=]
 
I restarted my phone, launched Astro and it's process listing tool. Rather disappointed in how many apps are running ! Sense is... ;-( So is Footprints. Too many to type out on my phone but I will from my PC.

Peep is not, nor is Stocks though.
 
Hi, sorry about my newbness to rooting. Here is my question anyway :D

Will the alleged 2.1 update screw up the rooting of the phone? Lets just say you get the root like 3 days before the 2.1 update is released. Would you then have to go through the whole process to root the 2.1? Or by rooting any software version, is it the same as rooting all software versions?

Again, sorry if this is obvious, I am very new to rooting.
 
If we root we won't get the OTA update anyway, but if we do we should still have root :)

Most ROM's will probably be, 2.0 or 2.1 already...
 
Hello all. I've been lurking your thread for a few days now. A friend & coworker of mine is frustrated with the battery life and general sluggishness of his Eris. He spent some time playing around with my rooted Sprint Hero, and absolutely could not believe that they were fundamentally the same phone. He's not much into tech, so I've been checking in here, keeping up with progress on getting the Eris rooted in order to help him out.

No doubt some (many?) of you probably lurk and/or post in the Sprint Hero forum, particularly the threads pertaining to rooting. If so, you know that most of us are very happy with the results. I'm posting here to offer you encouragement; I had all of the same frustrations that I'm reading again and again in this thread. Speaking strictly from my own experience, and my Hero is the first phone I have ever rooted or flashed, I can almost assure you that once your dev team accomplishes their goal, rooting and flashing a new ROM and Kernal into your Eris will be the answer to your prayers.

However underpowered our phones may be compared to a Droid, N1, or newer offerings soon to become available, once you're able to flash a ROM and Kernal, offload some or all of the bloat, and get the CPU tweaked, your phone will perform leaps and bounds over what you've become accustomed to. You might even think you got a new phone (which in a manner of speaking, you will). In my case, I can now live with my Hero, happily and frustration-free, until my contract will subsidize an upgrade to more substantial hardware later this year. I would wager that once rooted, the majority of you will concur.

I hope you won't take my post as a cheap attempt to tease or a troll. I mean only to encourage you all to keep your dev team happy. Like the team that cracked the Hero (or maybe they're the same guys?), they are mostly a bunch of very clever, very cool people, doing your community an altruistic favor. By keeping them happy, you're all going to be very happy campers once they figure this out.

Just my .02; remain patient & positive, it'll be worth the wait. Have a good one.
 
Ohh, so if we root at the 1.5 that we have now, then we wont get any OTA updates from now on? We will just have to download ROMs for the newer software versions?
 
YEAAA!!! LETS GO DEV TEAM
ROOT OUR ERIS
WE BELIEVE IN YOU
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uminchu said:
Hello all. I've been lurking your thread for a few days now. A friend & coworker of mine is frustrated with the battery life and general sluggishness of his Eris. He spent some time playing around with my rooted Sprint Hero, and absolutely could not believe that they were fundamentally the same phone. He's not much into tech, so I've been checking in here, keeping up with progress on getting the Eris rooted in order to help him out.

No doubt some (many?) of you probably lurk and/or post in the Sprint Hero forum, particularly the threads pertaining to rooting. If so, you know that most of us are very happy with the results. I'm posting here to offer you encouragement; I had all of the same frustrations that I'm reading again and again in this thread. Speaking strictly from my own experience, and my Hero is the first phone I have ever rooted or flashed, I can almost assure you that once your dev team accomplishes their goal, rooting and flashing a new ROM and Kernal into your Eris will be the answer to your prayers.

However underpowered our phones may be compared to a Droid, N1, or newer offerings soon to become available, once you're able to flash a ROM and Kernal, offload some or all of the bloat, and get the CPU tweaked, your phone will perform leaps and bounds over what you've become accustomed to. You might even think you got a new phone (which in a manner of speaking, you will). In my case, I can now live with my Hero, happily and frustration-free, until my contract will subsidize an upgrade to more substantial hardware later this year. I would wager that once rooted, the majority of you will concur.

I hope you won't take my post as a cheap attempt to tease or a troll. I mean only to encourage you all to keep your dev team happy. Like the team that cracked the Hero (or maybe they're the same guys?), they are mostly a bunch of very clever, very cool people, doing your community an altruistic favor. By keeping them happy, you're all going to be very happy campers once they figure this out.

Just my .02; remain patient & positive, it'll be worth the wait. Have a good one.
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Good deal, man. Deep down inside, a lot of us that are frustrated know what the phone can do. We're upset it wasn't done in the first place (just the simple bug fixes, which three months later, still have not been fixed). The rooting will take its time, but hopefully, it will do what we're anticipating it to do.
 
Correct, but ROMS are updated quicker and will probably go to farther version #'s of Android over are contract, farther that HTC/VZW will support.

@uminchu - Good to hear! I hope Gumbo (or something similiar) is available for eris!
 
I am really hoping and praying that root will be the answer that I am looking for. I know it will open up the Eris to be able to be the answer I want it to but it will be up to the Rom cookers to produce something that can show off the Eris the way it should have been from HTC. Well the way I think it should have been from HTC. I have confidence that they will create something that I want and then I will customize it the way I want it with every "T" crossed and every "j" dotted. Root right now is the only thing keeping me going with this phone or else I would find a way to move on. So with that said Keep it up Devs and work you exploitive magic! This phone has such potential it really would be a sham if it went to waste with what Samsung tried to do with their custom UI.
 
i really wish i knew how to even begin finding a way to root a phone. Is there a Root for Dummies that could show how to being this? I wanna join the fields of battle
 
smacky said:
Good deal, man. Deep down inside, a lot of us that are frustrated know what the phone can do. We're upset it wasn't done in the first place (just the simple bug fixes, which three months later, still have not been fixed). The rooting will take its time, but hopefully, it will do what we're anticipating it to do.
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I know exactly what you mean, because I felt the same way. That said, once my phone was running right, none of that stuff mattered to me anymore. That all faded to a distant memory within about 5 minutes of wow factor following the initial reboot, followed by numerous tweaking binges. Btw, I still burn the battery, but it's more about liking the phone so much more these days that I geek it to death. Sprint pushed an OTA at least 2 or 3 months ago that fixed the messaging app battery issues, and also fixed the clock widget bug. Didn't VZW do that for you?
 
uminchu said:
I know exactly what you mean, because I felt the same way. That said, once my phone was running right, none of that stuff mattered to me anymore. That all faded to a distant memory within about 5 minutes of wow factor following the initial reboot, followed by numerous tweaking binges. Btw, I still burn the battery, but it's more about liking the phone so much more these days that I geek it to death. Sprint pushed an OTA at least 2 or 3 months ago that fixed the messaging app battery issues, and also fixed the clock widget bug. Didn't VZW do that for you?
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Nope. Latest one did something so trivial I can't be bothered to remember it. The one before that screwed up the message app so now character count blocks some of the text box to where you can't see some words you typed.
 
smacky said:
Nope. Latest one did something so trivial I can't be bothered to remember it. The one before that screwed up the message app so now character count blocks some of the text box to where you can't see some words you typed.
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I just got my Eris so I guess that is now a feature.
 
smacky said:
The one before that screwed up the message app so now character count blocks some of the text box to where you can't see some letters you typed.
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In portrait mode only (which I only tried to use a time or two before I started going right to landscape mode for the best keyboard).

But that character count blotch right there in the text field in portrait mode seems like something even the drunkest of the developers of Eris would have noticed and corrected for us.
 
Candroid said:
Correct me if I am wrong. I thought that we are already running at 528 mhz but were originally supposed to be running at 728 mhz. I read...that we were under clocked by 200 mhz. I just want to make sure I understand you right. I did a quick search on google and all results show that we have a 528mhz. Unless you have other source, I'd love to read it.
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MSM7600 is rated at 528MHz nominal with the OS underclocking during light load to save battery (mine usually jumps between 479 and 527). The chip can be clocked higher or lower depending on binning. I would assume Qualcomm bins the chips to ensure they will run at 528MHz 100% stable. Now not all the wafers that roll off the line are the same. Some are better while others are scrap. I'm sure if you have a very good chip, you can squeeze some extra MHz out of it, same as overclocking a desktop CPU.
 
sic4672 said:
MSM7600 is rated at 528MHz nominal with the OS underclocking during light load to save battery (mine usually jumps between 479 and 527). The chip can be clocked higher or lower depending on binning. I would assume Qualcomm bins the chips to ensure they will run at 528MHz 100% stable. Now not all the wafers that roll off the line are the same. Some are better while others are scrap. I'm sure if you have a very good chip, you can squeeze some extra MHz out of it, same as overclocking a desktop CPU.
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Thanks man for the info!!! Much appreciated!!!
 
No problem, happy to help. I curious to see how these chips handle extra juice. I look forward to when the talented dev's delicately disassemble the Faberg
 
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