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Root Rooting Q&A

Have the figured out how to overclock the processor yet? Has anybody found or written tutorials on how to remove stock apps?
 
Check the HTC Hero forums. THe Hero is almost idenitcal HTC for sprint and has been rooted for many months now. Anyway you won't get a great jump in speed and its a trade off in stability and battery life, more speed equal more battery consumption and less stable .
 
Not sure exactly where to post this, so here seems good as any...
There are a lot of us new to rooting and programming in general. I beleive we all understand that this takes a lot of work and some pretty ingenious people. My question is: For someone to start from scratch learning about this particular branch of programming, if for no other reason than to save some questions to those of you doing all of the work, where should one start?
Would a Linux basic understanding suffice or is there a particular "branch" of this language that would provide a more concise understanding?
Please provide any links or articles you would recommend. We'll start thinning the "noob" numbers yet!
 
Already rooted, so this is just hind sight.. If i change to a different rom is there any way to keep my home screen setup like widgets and apps and wallpapers?

Or will i have to re-download and arrange all of it again?
 
screennamie said:
Already rooted, so this is just hind sight.. If i change to a different rom is there any way to keep my home screen setup like widgets and apps and wallpapers?

Or will i have to re-download and arrange all of it again?
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i have the same question along with will i be able to go to the stock 2.1 im running now since i have rooted but not flashed a custom rom yet. will i be able to go back to where im out now?
 
screennamie said:
Already rooted, so this is just hind sight.. If i change to a different rom is there any way to keep my home screen setup like widgets and apps and wallpapers?

Or will i have to re-download and arrange all of it again?
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MyBackup. Don't backup the system settings. It worked pretty well for me when I installed the leaked 2.1.
 
Your entire ROM should be backed up. Once you have your home screens and settings set how you want, boot up in recovery and hit Backup/restore and make a backup. Then just reboot when you're done. This will save basically your entire 'flash'. Way better than any backup app can do.

One of the advantages of root.
 
The way I understood is if I restored the backup though it is of that rom and that rom only. Whats the point in using an old rom when you want the new one installed and running.

Don't you have to wipe each time before ya flash on a new rom?
 
So I'm a nOob in fact this is my 1st post on this forum. Ok I have several questions so please bare with me.
1: Does flashing the 2.1 also void your warranty & will you still receive the OTA version if doing so I read the forum at the top about this & it only mention that If you root & make drastic changes to the core system then maybe, but nothing about flashing.
2: I also read somewhere that even if u root & voids your warranty that when the OTA comes it does a complete system wipe & returns it to factory 2.1 & VWZ would be none the wiser. Is this true?
3: The brand new leaked 2.1 update that just came out yesterday do you have to root that or is that just the flash version? Can I just flash 2.1(brand new version) but if doing so will I be able to return to my stock 1.5 if I back up the whole system if I feel rooting was the better method to go with?
4: I have the app Astro will that back up my full 1.5 stock Rom?
5: If so where do I back it up at?
6: If not what app should I use to back up the whole 1.5 Rom & again where do I back it up? I'm assuming you back It up on your micro sd card& then tansfer the backup folder and or folders to your desktop. Please correct if I'm wrong.
7: Last question does this forum or website have a Twitter account?
I'm sorry for the long post I'm just trying make my questions as clear as possible. I'm just essentially wanting the 2.1 update to have the new features & fix all the bugs that come with 1.5 donuts I'm not going to change anything to the core system other than updating 2.1 @ least not until I become more familiar with how to do it. Thanks for everyone's hard work on this site. And I hope by asking all these questions it may help someone else by reading the answers. Thanks again. DjKoZ78
 
1. as far as I know upgrading to 2.1 does NOT void your warranty. Rooting however does. But root has a roll back to stock 1.5 and the leaks do not.
2.Some custom roms have disabled the OTA, so if you install those you will not receive it. If they do not disable the OTA then you will probably still receive it.
3.If you install the newest leak you WILL LOSE ROOT until they root it. Currently the only way to root is from stock 1.5. and I already answered your roll back question.
4. No it can only back up apps.
5.moot
6. there is a thread around here that explains the process to down grade from rooted 2.1 to stock 1.5. Once again this is only if you are rooted. THERE IS NO DOWNGRADE FOR LEAKS.
7.I'm not on twitter so I can't answer that.
 
If you are debating between installing the leak and rooting I would highly recommend rooting at this point because chances are you will want to root eventually and as of right now there is no way to root anything other then stock 1.5
 
+1 You aren't missing anything by rooting 1.5 now. Any new updates to the OS will quickly be ported for our rooting pleasure!
 
Thanks for he info. Personally, I only want to be able to Root so I can enable WiFi tethering. So, I don't think I'll be messing w/ the stock ROM in any other way. Hopefully, this will let me keep my Root when I upgrade?

Thanks, guys for your help, patience, understanding, and willingness to proliferate your knowledge.
 
After I install the original root rom (w/ the expiration date), then do amon's recovery image, can I just go straight to the VanillaDroid Rom?

I have the file for vanilladroid, does it need to be renamed anything to work??

Nevermind, I just did it...
 
I have a rooted Eris and a leaked Eris, on the leaked Eris will it receive the ota update or not... its my wife's phone and she wants the ota, and wont let me set up the newest leak she is still on the original leak, if I do set up the newest leak do I have to do a wipe first?
 
if you are on 2.1v2 leak right now...

1. you will not get the OTA
2. when upgrading to v3 yes, it will wipe the phone.
 
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