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Root What I Have Done With a Droid Now That It's Rooted

ICANSEEYOU7687 said:
what id really like to see is a way to change your packet headers so you can tether with absolutely no worries about verizon seeing it.
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But they will still see the amount of data you use. I don't see how this will help, unless the packet headers are marked 'phone' & 'pc' in some way?
 
prerunnerseth said:
So, what are the consequences of rooting... besides a possible bricked phone. is it illegal, voided warranty?
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Bricked phone, loss of software support. Hardware warranty should still be good, but I don't trust corporations to honor a warranty if they really don't want to.

I used to do warranty work, and there is ALWAYS a way out.
 
craighwk said:
You'll also have to do manual updates in the future when a new system is released. OTA updating probably will not work.
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Yeah I figured this much. I miss being able to do this kind of things. I had an ATT Tilt. used to load a different cooked rom on that thing every week.
 
Tymanthius said:
But they will still see the amount of data you use. I don't see how this will help, unless the packet headers are marked 'phone' & 'pc' in some way?
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depending on the browser, this would change the header files of packets, which can be sorted and filtered. So verizon, with the right equipment can see if the packets they are recieving are from a mobile device or not.

And "amount of data you use" is a huge misconception. Most people only use tethering in areas where they dont get service. Me personally, I would only use it for emergencies, but still would like this option.

If I want to see a website, I can do it quicker on my phone, then to plug in my phone, turn on the development crap, launch pda net, and connect.

I know with windows mobile devices they can do this fairly easy though, but I dont know about android
 
barry99705 said:
HaHa!!! Found it! /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg Changed it to camera_click.bak and not more click! Now I need to find the beepbeep when you push the button.


Hey, quick question for the guys that's been playing with this longer than the hour I have. Is there a terminal emulator that has tab completion? I'd even settle for cut and paste.
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Have you found the sound from the autofocus? doesnt seem to be in the same directory.
 
Tymanthius said:
Ok, so Cyanogen has an Eclair (2.0) build up. Now that the droid is rooted, has anyone tried to drop Cyanogen's Mod onto thier Droid?
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ROM's are almost always device-specific, so trying to install a Magic/Dream-built ROM on the Droid will probably result in Brick City. I don't think their's a custom recovery image for the Droid yet, anyway.
 
So i modified the bootanimation.zip file but when trying to move it from the sdcard to the system/media directory get an error. failed cross-device link
 
prerunnerseth said:
So i modified the bootanimation.zip file but when trying to move it from the sdcard to the system/media directory get an error. failed cross-device link
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try either:
cat /sdcard/bootanimation.zip > /system/media/bootanimation.zip
or
dd if=/sdcard/bootanimation.zip of=/system/media/bootanimation.zip
 
Paul_C said:
try either:
cat /sdcard/bootanimation.zip > /system/media/bootanimation.zip
or
dd if=/sdcard/bootanimation.zip of=/system/media/bootanimation.zip
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Yeah.. already got this far. But, it wont play the modified bootanimation.zip file. Might be time to wait for someone better with this stuff to work on it. I found that its not a matter of how i copy it. Because, i can copy the original zip back onto the phone and it works. I did find out that if you delete the file then you get a pretty cool android animation on bootup.
 
prerunnerseth said:
Yeah.. already got this far. But, it wont play the modified bootanimation.zip file. Might be time to wait for someone better with this stuff to work on it. I found that its not a matter of how i copy it. Because, i can copy the original zip back onto the phone and it works. I did find out that if you delete the file then you get a pretty cool android animation on bootup.
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It's most likely a color thing. You might have more colors in your files than whatever runs the show can support.

prerunnerseth said:
Have you found the sound from the autofocus? doesnt seem to be in the same directory.
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No, but I haven't been looking for it.
 
barry99705 said:
It's most likely a color thing. You might have more colors in your files than whatever runs the show can support.



No, but I haven't been looking for it.
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Ok. I might give this a try. I will have to play around with the settings in photoshop. Tried editing the images with both photo shop (interlaced and non interlaced PNG) and also tried editing with the win7 paint. no go on either.
 
ok so i updated and rooted my phone, mainly did the root so i can use some of the apps that require root access,im confused on what superuser permission app is and what it does. when i opened it there was a plus sign with lil information,i touched it and it went to a blank page and i dont know what to do with it and how to,lol but i installed dropcap2 and was able to take a screen shot of my homescreen. so my root must of been successfull but back to the question,what is the superuser permission app?
 
prerunnerseth said:
Ok. I might give this a try. I will have to play around with the settings in photoshop. Tried editing the images with both photo shop (interlaced and non interlaced PNG) and also tried editing with the win7 paint. no go on either.
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Might I suggest opening the original png's in pshop and what stats they have? Size, color depth, etc.
 
so now that my droid is rooted,can i grab root files off my sd card and drop on my computer. i used root explorer and i see some files id like to copy and place on my pc so i can edite them.
 
sneaky_zekey said:
so now that my droid is rooted,can i grab root files off my sd card and drop on my computer. i used root explorer and i see some files id like to copy and place on my pc so i can edite them.
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Yes. That part is simple. Getting them back to your phone is where it all goes wrong. ;)
 
I would be willing to bet big bucks that it won't work, since the dev has already announced that he is working on a droid ROM. If an existing one worked, he wouldn't be wasting his time.
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LINK! where did you hear this? I was hoping this would happen, but I haven't found any evidence of it
 
Let us know if you have any more updates. Just rooted my Droid, took like a minute. lol.

Anyway to take out apps like Amazon and VM without renaming them?
 
Cloud said:
Let us know if you have any more updates. Just rooted my Droid, took like a minute. lol.

Anyway to take out apps like Amazon and VM without renaming them?
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Sure instead of using the mv command use the rm command. Not that it matters. From what I'm seeing those apps are stored in a read only file system. When they are used they are copied to a read/write location in ram. I don't think you are going to really free up much space by removing them. If people are rooting the droid they better have at least basic linux command knowledge. There's no undo.
 
so now that we have root, will someone be working on a way to push a ssh dameon on the phone,so we can connect to winscp to edite the phone files on a pc.
 
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