Root HowTo - My Guide To Rooting and Romming (Beginner)

[thaDroidz]

got stuck installing the ROM did realize I had to keep flashing before the reboot.

I see Frozen Yogurt...

also could figure out how to get past install success screen.
power button toggled me back 2 menus to reboot.

about phone confirms
Liquid frozen yogurt
time for a theme..?

 

[JYo]

i'm a little new to all this rooting, so if i want to leave froyo on there all i do is steps 1 & 2 and if i do that can i remove some of the factory installed apps and install an app and use wifi tethering

I'm wondering ten same thing. I'm really only in a hurry for the wifi tethering (for my iPad). Thanks for any help/guidance

 

[Amrov]

I'm wondering ten same thing. I'm really only in a hurry for the wifi tethering (for my iPad). Thanks for any help/guidance

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I'll speak from experience -- yes, you can just root and leave your OS as-is (no custom ROMs) by doing steps 1 and 2 and then get wifi tethering from market. I did that before I ventured into a custom ROM (I use LFY 1.41, no themes). Make sure you reboot after rooting for it to take effect. Then go get a wifi tethering app (if you don't reboot first, your system may not show as rooted in market). When you download the tethering app, it will ask for "superuser" permission. You'll know you're successfully rooted then.

The wifi tethering works GREAT with the iPad. I use Barnacle. There is one note on Barnacle -- you have to go into "settings" and check "skip wpa_supplicant" for it to work with 2.2. Have to do this each time you want to connect. After you do that, the iPad should find you no problem. The first time I connected, the signal was weak for a few minutes, but then I got full wifi bars after that and subsequent times.

Happy surfing!

 

[hecate]

I used this method to successfully root FRG01B, and found that Clockwork Recovery kept getting overwritten by the stock recovery on every reboot. Then FGR22D OTA hit, so I figured I'd let it load. It installed without any errors, but killed root.

Easy Root now goes through the motions and says I'm rooted, but BusyBox etc. won't install. The phone works fine, so I guess I'll just wait for Easy Root to catch up.

 

[ar10]

Can anyone confirm if I can use any 1-click root programs like Easyroot with stock FRG22D? hecate, can you install customs roms or are you stuck til easyroot's developer updates?

 

[binjay]

I was having so much trouble not being able to boot in recovery mode and after reading for 30 seconds all I had to do was reflash...lol, well thx