New Droid 3 n00b

[Gato]

Got mine yesterday. I'm coming from an Eris so a phone that does what I want it to do is an alien concept for me. I kid. The Eris was a nice phone if you only want to run 4 apps on it. Maybe. And you don't expect to always be able to just answer your calls.


At any rate, I see that the 3 can be rooted which is nice to know. But can someone sum up known bugs,fears and problems? Is there a forum kept bug list? Are there cons to rooting this phone?

 

[redsox985]

To my knowledge, there are no issues running a rooted phone (I do it myself), it's what one does with root access that gets one into trouble.

 

[IzelTokatl]

This should be in the ROOT section.

No cons to rooting, you can UNroot, and Root doesn't mess any stock settings (only you do in having root access and whatever you would change).

The latest update has fixed the core of the issues on the phone, but added on bug (swype spanish settings, ie some on screen help is now in spanish?)

welcome aboard.

 

[SpecialEd]

Why root if the original phone works fine for what I need?

With PDAnet I can tether.

The only thing I can think of is to dump the Moto default applications and delete some non-deletable bookmarks.

What am I missing? Why should I risk bricking my phone?

 

[redsox985]

Why root if the original phone works fine for what I need?

With PDAnet I can tether.

The only thing I can think of is to dump the Moto default applications and delete some non-deletable bookmarks.

What am I missing? Why should I risk bricking my phone?

You can run ROMs and themes over it if you root. Also, there is next to 0% chance of bricking your phone by just rooting it. Rooting gives you super user access, bricking can only happen when you exercise those new rights.

 

[doogald]

Why root if the original phone works fine for what I need?

With PDAnet I can tether.

The only thing I can think of is to dump the Moto default applications and delete some non-deletable bookmarks.

What am I missing? Why should I risk bricking my phone?

I'm with you. I rooted my Eris because I had to - the Eris software was too buggy. I just got my D3 on Monday, but, for now, I see no reason at all to root it. The phone seems just fine without root. I'm leaving it stock until I find a reason why I should.

The only major reason to root (for me) would be to use Titanium Backup to restore my apps with data after a factory reset, but I don't really intend to do that. And, at this point, it would save me maybe 45 minutes over just doing a reinstall from scratch.

Obviously, I'm fine with people rooting their phones, but this one doesn't seem to need it.

 

[redsox985]

The only advantage I can see would be that TB paid will do daily backups to your SD. In the unusual event that your phone takes a swim or forgets to pull its rip cord on the way down, you can just remove the SD and pop it into a new phone. This way you have a backup BEFORE you need it.