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Root Rooting orig Motorola Droid

final question. will rooting/ installing a custom rom help stop all the force closes i get on apps like my music player, GO Launcher EX, etc.
 
Well...thats kind of a loaded question. The answer is a solid yes and no.

Depending on the ROM, yes you'll notice less overall FC's because the devs have taken advatage of some of the android code to allow more multitasking while at the same time telling the handset to not FC when RAM usage reaches X percent...

Alas, we are still saddled with a mere 256MB of RAM, so we still face a finite amount of resources... which means that no matter how sleek, smooth and fast they write the ROM, we are still hamstrung by hardware limitations.

If you're a "power user", you'll still feel that restriction as you try to squeeze every last bit of jiuce from your phone. I, on the other hand, am an average user- my phone spends more time in my pocket during the day at work than it does being used. The closest I've gotten to an FC is playing music in the background with a browser and FB open, then playing Angry Birds, and the game got choppy after about a half-hour.

YMMV, of course, but it boils down to hardware limitations more than anything. Overall I would say youll run better than ever and regret not rooting months ago. I know I did.
 
^^^ agreed. I rooted my phone when root was first found before we had any custom roms. I would NEVER go back.

And BTW CM7 RC3 is real close. I'm running the latest nightly (#31) and will see how it performs today, so far so good.
 
teddyearp said:
^^^ agreed. I rooted my phone when root was first found before we had any custom roms. I would NEVER go back.

And BTW CM7 RC3 is real close. I'm running the latest nightly (#31) and will see how it performs today, so far so good.
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is running RC's tough to maintain? like it;s my first time so i dont want something unstable and i don't want to have to update like right after i do it. but i do really want GB
 
SHPlaxBro said:
is running RC's tough to maintain? like it;s my first time so i dont want something unstable and i don't want to have to update like right after i do it. but i do really want GB
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Yes, there are. I am running the #31 nightly build right now and already there is at one more update. The RC's are basically just another nightly but called a Release Candidate instead. And nightlies are just about what the name implies. A new build comes out almost every night. And there's a whole grip of people making changes to the code every day, some is getting merged, some is not:

Gerrit Code Review

So while so far the nightly I am running is pretty stable, soon there will be a release candidate, and then an actual stable release. Right now the red led doesn't blink when my battery gets to 10% and I'm not sure about the vibrate. It vibrates when it's on my desk, so maybe my fat a$$ 'love handles' are absorbing it while on my hip, lol. Be patient grasshopper.

good luck
 
k im just about ready to do it. now stupid question. do i have to back up before i root? and not that z4root isn't in the market anybody have a real preference for how i root?
 
My friend asked me to root his Droid 1. I just want to be sure that z4root work on this phone? I have a droid x and that is how i rooted my phone.
 
I'd like to know this as well. I was ready (and actually started) to root my Droid 1 with version 2.2.2. Everything I had read said that Z4Root would work on Froyo update.

However, as I downloaded and attempted to root with no success, I began finding more and more information that says Z4Root does not work on this version.

Additionally, when I try to download Z4Root 1.3 it says it is incompatible with my device.

So, unless I am wrong, I don't think Z4Root will work with Droid 1 and the latest version update.

If that is the case, will SuperOneClick work just as easily?????
 
SHPlaxBro said:
k im just about ready to do it. now stupid question. do i have to back up before i root? and not that z4root isn't in the market anybody have a real preference for how i root?
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You can't really make a backup per se of your phone before you root it.

rjs987 said:
My friend asked me to root his Droid 1. I just want to be sure that z4root work on this phone? I have a droid x and that is how i rooted my phone.
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luckyheel said:
I'd like to know this as well. I was ready (and actually started) to root my Droid 1 with version 2.2.2. Everything I had read said that Z4Root would work on Froyo update.

However, as I downloaded and attempted to root with no success, I began finding more and more information that says Z4Root does not work on this version.

Additionally, when I try to download Z4Root 1.3 it says it is incompatible with my device.

So, unless I am wrong, I don't think Z4Root will work with Droid 1 and the latest version update.

If that is the case, will SuperOneClick work just as easily?????
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This is correct, z4root's success ratio dropped to near zero when the Droid 1 got updated to 2.2.1/FRG83D. If any of all you want the easy way, Super One Click is pretty much it. If you want the more technical way(s) I have a couple of guides at my site compiled from posts here and elsewhere.

good luck
 
having trouble rooting because i have a mac and i dont have bootcamp. not sure how to go about this. i saw something about mono for mac or something but idk wht thts about
 
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