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jschlis

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Hi,

I am seriously thinking of retiring my carrying around two phones. I use a BB and a jail broken iphone 4. Been reading about, played with in store and am very impressed by the maxx hd.I do use a nexus 7, and also have a samsung galaxy tab2 7, so I am familiar with jelly bean and ics.

Each of the 3 phones has functionality that the others do not. For instance the profiles option on the bb is the reason that I keep it and us it as my phone, text and email phone. Rooting seems more difficult than jailbreaking. Is rooting difficult and is there a chance of 'bricking' the phone?
 
I have yet to root my HD max but I had a galaxy nexus and it was easy to root. Pretty much a one click method. I'm hoping at some point that the Motorola community does the same with the HD maxx. With any rooting or jail breaking process there is a chance of bricking the phone so you just have to take the risk. I will say I rooted and flashed more ROMs on my nexus than I ever did on my iPhone and never had a problem.
 
actually rooting is much easier than jailbreaking, rooting just gives you permanent super user access until you flash a factory image overtop of it. Yes even if you factory data reset you will still be rooted.
rooting is not by any means for noobies (no offense) it is something you need to know the ins and outs of, i only say this because if you start flashing roms and you make a mistake somewhere you could potentially have a brick on your hands.
however not many of the motorola devices can be completely bricked, but unfortunately i havent kept up much with the HD Maxx to inform you of a safe way of recovery from a brick or to unroot. it is something you need to research thoroughly before you do it.

i have been a rooted user on all devices i own, and currently i am back to stock.

also remember if something happens to the device the warranty is voided because you rooted the phone.
 
To build up on what Voided said, rooting basically gives you access to things most people shouldn't have. You could mess it up, although you kind of have to be an idiot to do it. I doubt you would since you're concerned enough to ask, you might have second thoughts about deleting random things. The process is very easy though, I made a thread about it in this section.

And if you do brick it, you can still fastboot it back to factory stock. So there's that too. I can also help you with that if need be.
 
Thank you all for your responses. Have a few more 'can it do' questions but will post under a new topic. Thanks again.
 
jschlis said:
Thank you all for your responses. Have a few more 'can it do' questions but will post under a new topic. Thanks again.
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You are fine here, it's in the root section.

It just gives you su privileges, that's all.... and an indicator in recovery that can't be undone. Basically it gives you root user on the system, google linux and root.

You probably don't need it, heh.
 
Sorry to hijack the thread but I have a similar question:

I haven't kept up with the rooting scene since my Droid 2 Global (I used my Bionic stock, and so far have been stock on my Maxx HD)
Do you still have to wipe/reset your phone in order to root?
 
El Blacksheep said:
Sorry to hijack the thread but I have a similar question:

I haven't kept up with the rooting scene since my Droid 2 Global (I used my Bionic stock, and so far have been stock on my Maxx HD)
Do you still have to wipe/reset your phone in order to root?
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Only if you took the OTA JB update. If you are still on ICS, you do not have to wipe/reset.
 
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