Some questions

[The_Chief]

Will that really help, Han? I thought Verizon looked at root/non-root to determine whether or not to push an OTA update to the phone, not an app inventory. Or maybe it's the presence of a custom ROM that blocks OTA?

 

[HanSolo]

Will that really help, Han? I thought Verizon looked at root/non-root to determine whether or not to push an OTA update to the phone, not an app inventory. Or maybe it's the presence of a custom ROM that blocks OTA?

You're right on the second one. Most ROMS (at least the ones I've tried) have disabled OTA updating.

However, if you suddenly want to go to stock and receive an official update, and you have some apps missing that the update affects, it will screw it up. I don't know if it will brick, but nothing good can happen.

Now, this is all theoretical. In the almost-2 years that I've had my rooted OG, I haven't once downloaded an update.

 

[The_Chief]

Neither have I

I bought the Droid on Launch Day, November 6, 2009 and rooted in December. Loaded Bugless Beast (king of the ROMs back then, of course ROMs were pretty scant) that same month and have been modding ever since.

With 1GB of RAM, I'm not sure that bloatware will really affect the Prime's performance enough to warrant rooting and freezing... but time will tell, I guess. I'll give it 30 days pure stock before doing anything fancy to it, anyway.

 

[jinwons]

I doubt performance will be affected negatively with 1Gb RAM even if they load some bloatwares. Even 512Mb RAM won't be bogged down if memory is mapped, utilized properly.