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Root My D3 has been transformed!!

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MicroNix

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Wow, after rooting and using Titanium Backup to freeze the bloat, I was still experiencing crappy lag, music players (my favorite, PowerAMP) that would stutter, horrible battery life, etc. Almost like I had anything BUT a dual core machine. Seems that whenever there was radio activity and syncing going on that everything else was fairly useless.

Then came Steel Droid 4.5! I finally decided that I had it and wanted to see if it was the rom or not and flashed up SD. WOW! Before I made it through the day only with the Maximum Battery Saver setting. Now I'm at 13hrs and 19min and still at 62% battery and that is with playing music for over 4 hours throughout the day. Best of all, that is with the PERFORMANCE battery setting! Incredible. I can now play music with PowerAMP and it never flinches. This is how the D3 should have been but never was from the factory! Finally, my D3 is how I always expected it to be.

:D
 
The two sticky messages to this root forum have all the detail in it. I rooted with Pete's tools some time ago, installed Droid 3 Recovery Bootstrap (yes I paid for it), installed ROM manager (used it all the time on my D1) and via ROM manager installed clockworkmod recovery. Once all that was done, I created a backup of the stock rom in case I wanted to go back via ROM manager. Then I downloaded the Steel Droid rom listed in the sticky msgs, put it in the root of my D3's files as update.zip, when into ROM manager and chose to flash that rom and the rest is history.

Don't do this of course unless you are comfortable doing so. I had done it many times in the past on my D1 but this was the first for the D3. Read the sticky threads good before attempting.

All I can say is that I will never look back now! Off to donate to the rom chef for this one. He has done what Motorola couldn't!
 
Yea that is very complicated. Someone would have to do this for me. I mean I totally understood what you said, but it is too many steps I can screw up lmao
 
It really isn't hard at all. I'm not good at any of this stuff either, but I was able to follow the step by step and install a custom ROM in less than an hour.
 
Well, I guess as long as I back up, and have you guys in case I screw up......

I am so happy I rooted (Pete's One Click rocks), but I still have some lag too (although a thousand times better), it might be worth trying!
 
MicroNix said:
The two sticky messages to this root forum have all the detail in it. I rooted with Pete's tools some time ago, installed Droid 3 Recovery Bootstrap (yes I paid for it), installed ROM manager (used it all the time on my D1) and via ROM manager installed clockworkmod recovery. Once all that was done, I created a backup of the stock rom in case I wanted to go back via ROM manager. Then I downloaded the Steel Droid rom listed in the sticky msgs, put it in the root of my D3's files as update.zip, when into ROM manager and chose to flash that rom and the rest is history.

Don't do this of course unless you are comfortable doing so. I had done it many times in the past on my D1 but this was the first for the D3. Read the sticky threads good before attempting.

All I can say is that I will never look back now! Off to donate to the rom chef for this one. He has done what Motorola couldn't!
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You way over complicated this process man. Just place the ROM .zip on your ext-SD. Once you have the recovery installed, you can use M+Power then select BP Tools. This will get you to CWM. Go to backup and make a Nandroid backup. Then go to Install .zip from SD then pick the .zip and hit yes. It'll flash and you're done. (Probably after a data wipe.) There's really no need to rename it and place it on the root of the phone, or use ROM manager even.
 
Sorry...I just like rom manager and the ease of flashing from it. This rom just rocks. Donation well deserved by the rom chef of Steel Droid.
 
Can others vouch that SteelDroid is that good? I've only tried Liberty, but if it's THAT good, I might give it a go...
 
Personally, I like Liberty best because of its battery life, but I was having constant camera issues where, upon pressing record, the camcorder would just exit. That's why I switched to Mav 3.0 built from the newest leak and it's quite snappy. I haven't tried SD since its early days.
 
yeah steel droid 4.5 is pretty awesome, i prefer blur over go launcher, so i removed go launcher from zip before flashing
 
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