Root question on rooting a new Skyrocket

[rdahl578]

Hi all,

I am a Current T-mobile customer but switching to AT&T soon to get on a family plan with my wife. Planning on getting the Skyrocket. I rooted my T-Mobile G1 to use Cyanogen, decided not to root my G2 because I was happy with it. But I was thinking of rooting the Skyrocket right from the get-go. Only real reasons are to disable the bloatware and to be able to install root-only apps. So my question is, can I root but still use the phone as if it were non-rooted (ie not planning on installing any custom roms), still receive OTA updates, etc? I understand that may cause the phone to lose root, which I am OK with.

Thanks,

Randy

 

[D-U-R-X]

Hi Randy,

I've not had any experience with the Sykrocket but, as far as I am aware, if you tried to do an OTA update to your phone, having removed pre-installed carrier bloatware, you could have a problem.

The OTA update would be from your provider and could see that the pre-installed apps aren't there and therefore mess things up for you... either that or it may actually re-install them (as they are part of the carrier's version of the firmware).

You may want to look at rooting and then installing a stock unbranded ROM from the device maker - this, I believe would be the way to keep getting OTA updates - I'm sure I read that some fellow DHD owners had unbranded versiona and that HTC had pushed out updates OTA.

Hope that this is of some help - feel free to PM me if you want more info!

 

[rdahl578]

awesome, thanks for the info!

 

[Midiman]

If you root the phone you can "freeze" the bloatware, which will prevent it from using resources but will allow over-the-air (I hate acronyms without a guide) updates because the apps are still there.

 

[Mr. Ed]

Keep in mind that you will also need to restore the stock recovery

Its much simpler to flash a rooted update

 

[Midiman]

Keep in mind that you will also need to restore the stock recovery

Its much simpler to flash a rooted update

I'm not sure forced, over-the-air updates are a real good idea in the first place. When I heard 2.3.6 was out, I scratched my head and wondered why I was still "stuck" with 2.3.5. I checked the update option everyday for a week and no new version presented itself. Turns out that the 2.3.6 update many people were FORCED to accept... started draining battery power like crazy and AT&T pulled the update. I'm glad I was spared and allowed the time to let others find the problems with the update without having to deal with them myself. I may root just to stop AT&T from forcing things down my throat.

Windows Mobile NEVER did that stuff to me. I watched in horror (and never-ending complaining) as my girlfriend dutifully performed every iOS update Apple supplied, despite the fact that it was clear all their updates were really aimed at phones newer than hers which didn't have the muscle to run them properly. Every new update rendered her phone slower and slower to the point of uselessness.