Hi guys,
First off....I've found this forum to be fantastic! I'm a relatively new member but have been looking at the forums well before joining. I have some questions on rooting. I have an old Droid 1 that I plan on rooting. I've been doing a lot of research on the topic with this being my first attempt at it. I plan on installing "SuperOneClick" to root it and then installing a custom rom. I'm thinking of going probably going with Cyanogen as the customer rom....or using one of the ones from xda developers.
I've found a lot of good tutorials on the step by step for SuperOneClick and Cyanogen so I'm good on that. But what I haven't been able to find/maybe don't understand is, do I need to install a customer Kernal in addition? or should I?
Also, are there any other programs or options on the phone that I should be installing or doing on the phone to avoid Verizon sending out overnight updates that reverse my root?
Do I need anything else to keep my phone rooted?
Once the phone is rooted, am I able to visit google play and download everything like I would on a normal stock OS?
Thank you in advance for answering. I've been searching the forums and google for answers to some of these questions but can't seem to find a good answer. So I most certainly tried before posting as I know that can be annoying to some.
I originally learned about rooting after trying to find a way to increase my internal memory as now-a-days....I can't do too much on 250MB of internal memory as Facebook and Google Maps etc....all run on internal and it fills up fast. So I was looking for a way to take and use space from my 32GB SD card and partition 1 or 2 GB to the internal memory....then I learned about the wonderful world of rooting....I want to bring this dinosaur of a phone into the new age
First off....I've found this forum to be fantastic! I'm a relatively new member but have been looking at the forums well before joining. I have some questions on rooting. I have an old Droid 1 that I plan on rooting. I've been doing a lot of research on the topic with this being my first attempt at it. I plan on installing "SuperOneClick" to root it and then installing a custom rom. I'm thinking of going probably going with Cyanogen as the customer rom....or using one of the ones from xda developers.
I've found a lot of good tutorials on the step by step for SuperOneClick and Cyanogen so I'm good on that. But what I haven't been able to find/maybe don't understand is, do I need to install a customer Kernal in addition? or should I?
Also, are there any other programs or options on the phone that I should be installing or doing on the phone to avoid Verizon sending out overnight updates that reverse my root?
Do I need anything else to keep my phone rooted?
Once the phone is rooted, am I able to visit google play and download everything like I would on a normal stock OS?
Thank you in advance for answering. I've been searching the forums and google for answers to some of these questions but can't seem to find a good answer. So I most certainly tried before posting as I know that can be annoying to some.
I originally learned about rooting after trying to find a way to increase my internal memory as now-a-days....I can't do too much on 250MB of internal memory as Facebook and Google Maps etc....all run on internal and it fills up fast. So I was looking for a way to take and use space from my 32GB SD card and partition 1 or 2 GB to the internal memory....then I learned about the wonderful world of rooting....I want to bring this dinosaur of a phone into the new age
