Root To Root or not to Root

[dtindall8705]

I just bought the inspire and already like it much more than the iPhone 3/4.

It was cheaper and seems to be a lot better.

But I hate the battery life. My brother rooted his EVO and said it helped alot with setCPU and some other random apps.

I really want to know is there any way of "rooting" with out changing the standard ROM. I like the way the phone feels from the factory just hate the battery life. From what I understand the setCPU just underclocks the CPU during idle to save the battery. Can i keep the way the phone is now with just installing setCPU and advanced app killer(already have it).

I don't need/want a fancy skin or any extra featuers really. The phone works great. The internet is really fast (NYC). I have no complaints except the battery.

What should i do FULL Root or just enough to put setCPU on?

to root or not to root

 

[El Presidente]

I'd say do it, full root and custom ROM

From my experience of the Desire HD (The UK, 3G variant of the Inspire), there are a lot of ROMs similar to stock, that just offer performance tweaks and better battery life. You also have the option of some visual tweaks too.

I'm currently using LeeDroid and it looks as though he has an Inspire ROM too: [ROM]LeeDrOiD 4G V3.3.3 GB [KERNEL] V3.2.1 >EPIC!<11th August | HTC GB | OTA | CRT TV - xda-developers

If you don't like, you can easily change to another, that's the beauty of root.

Welcome to the forums BTW.

 

[droidbaby]

I'm on the same boat...
Also, root explorer is on sale for .99 at Amazon.
However, just a quick question...
What apps do I need to buy (pay for) after I've rooted my phone that is required to successfully flash a new rom? Looking at cost factor here.

 

[El Presidente]

I'm on the same boat...
Also, root explorer is on sale for .99 at Amazon.
However, just a quick question...
What apps do I need to buy (pay for) after I've rooted my phone that is required to successfully flash a new rom? Looking at cost factor here.

You don't technically need to pay for anything although Titanium Backup is recommended. You'll need to download the free version, then pay for the license key. It lets you backup your app and app data so when you switch between ROMs etc, you won't lose configs/saves and all that sort of thing.

SetCPU might interest you, but a lot of ROMs will do their own underclocking/overclocking when they need it.

Those are the only apps I've paid for that are really root specific. I don't have SetCPU installed any more though, I just let the ROM do all the work.