I was until recently a complete noob and still am to a certain extent, yet have over the past two weeks rooted an HTC desire HD, a Samsung P3100 and a Samsung GTi9300. I really should have stopped at the HTC desire HD, but it was so interesting, I kept on going through all my media.
Rooted my HTC desire HD because It was never going to get an icecream sandwich or JB update from HTC and this annoyed me. I wanted to make certain that when* Samsung pull the same type of BS on me, I could cope and do my own thing. It is fortunate, that my HTC desire is no longer needed as a main phone and simply lies dormant waiting for me to lose my GT-i9300 in the back of a taxi or through some stealthy pickpocket.
I used the aahk stuff to root the HTC and the manual, despite being read fully over a dozen times was not easy to follow for a newbie. For instance, I wasn't sure what were essential services on my work PC that needed closing. In the end I shut down everything that it would let me shut down - i tried it from my mac, but the manual is a bit light on instructions for it and it did not work. The closing down of essential stuff seemed to appease the Manual. I don;t know if it ever effected the PC I was using, as work the very next day replaced it with another ... (I really wonder what I closed down, but not enough to find out). And with the help of a VPN from behind the Great Firewall of China, I was able to manage the required files downloaded in their entirety - eventually. I don't know why, but this step required several attempts.
Actually rooting it and then installing a new ROM wasn't overly hard, but stressful in that I wasn't really sure if what I was doing was the next step to bricking the device. All of the options are easily acccidentally selected, and I did almost format my SD in order to gain more space on my P3100 - which I gather would have been slightly disastrous seeing as I hold down a full time job, family, thingy, and cannot really afford the time to spend on recovering stuff.
Anyway, the practice with the HTC was valuable and allowed me to venture forth into rooting the P3100 tablet I have (I had thought it was previously rooted as I had replaces the Chinese ROM with an Indian one in order to access Gapp). If you're like me and in China - make sure you have access to non-chinese sim cards.
Now after using CWM, I cannot believe how easy the whole process is. I feel a little tied to Cyanogen nightlies for both my regular samsung devices. But the ease of which I press one button and download the most recent ROM is AWESOME! I was worried at first that it would delete all my modifications to apps and folders, but it keeps everything.
I still have a couple of lazy person questions though...
A) Will I ever be able to show off the multitasking capability of the GT-i9300 video and text at the same time thingy (sorry for such extreme tech jargon)?
B) Will the camera and video ever produce as nice a resulting photos as the Samsung stock software?
C) If I decide to change to another ROM developer from Cyanogen, will all my pimped up screen stuff disappear?
ANyway, if I can do this rooting thing - most certainly anyone can - and it is very, very addictive.
Cheers.
*I remember when Nokia was king ... They burned their customers. I remember when Motorolla were kings ... unitl they burned their customers. I remember when BB were king (actually, never owned one, cause there was always something better out there), I remember when HTC were king etc. I don't believe that Apple ever really had the best phone for me, but I have always hoped they would. Long story short - I am sure Samsung will bite me sooner rather than later.
Rooted my HTC desire HD because It was never going to get an icecream sandwich or JB update from HTC and this annoyed me. I wanted to make certain that when* Samsung pull the same type of BS on me, I could cope and do my own thing. It is fortunate, that my HTC desire is no longer needed as a main phone and simply lies dormant waiting for me to lose my GT-i9300 in the back of a taxi or through some stealthy pickpocket.
I used the aahk stuff to root the HTC and the manual, despite being read fully over a dozen times was not easy to follow for a newbie. For instance, I wasn't sure what were essential services on my work PC that needed closing. In the end I shut down everything that it would let me shut down - i tried it from my mac, but the manual is a bit light on instructions for it and it did not work. The closing down of essential stuff seemed to appease the Manual. I don;t know if it ever effected the PC I was using, as work the very next day replaced it with another ... (I really wonder what I closed down, but not enough to find out). And with the help of a VPN from behind the Great Firewall of China, I was able to manage the required files downloaded in their entirety - eventually. I don't know why, but this step required several attempts.
Actually rooting it and then installing a new ROM wasn't overly hard, but stressful in that I wasn't really sure if what I was doing was the next step to bricking the device. All of the options are easily acccidentally selected, and I did almost format my SD in order to gain more space on my P3100 - which I gather would have been slightly disastrous seeing as I hold down a full time job, family, thingy, and cannot really afford the time to spend on recovering stuff.
Anyway, the practice with the HTC was valuable and allowed me to venture forth into rooting the P3100 tablet I have (I had thought it was previously rooted as I had replaces the Chinese ROM with an Indian one in order to access Gapp). If you're like me and in China - make sure you have access to non-chinese sim cards.
Now after using CWM, I cannot believe how easy the whole process is. I feel a little tied to Cyanogen nightlies for both my regular samsung devices. But the ease of which I press one button and download the most recent ROM is AWESOME! I was worried at first that it would delete all my modifications to apps and folders, but it keeps everything.
I still have a couple of lazy person questions though...
A) Will I ever be able to show off the multitasking capability of the GT-i9300 video and text at the same time thingy (sorry for such extreme tech jargon)?
B) Will the camera and video ever produce as nice a resulting photos as the Samsung stock software?
C) If I decide to change to another ROM developer from Cyanogen, will all my pimped up screen stuff disappear?
ANyway, if I can do this rooting thing - most certainly anyone can - and it is very, very addictive.
Cheers.
*I remember when Nokia was king ... They burned their customers. I remember when Motorolla were kings ... unitl they burned their customers. I remember when BB were king (actually, never owned one, cause there was always something better out there), I remember when HTC were king etc. I don't believe that Apple ever really had the best phone for me, but I have always hoped they would. Long story short - I am sure Samsung will bite me sooner rather than later.
