Comments on: Monday Poll: Root, ROM, Both or Neither?

By: Dodgesityballer

Dodgesityballer — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:13:00 +0000

Wish i wasn’t so worried about bricking my Thunderbolt or i’d root (yes there are some of us who are still worried). Also is it true the first time you root you lose everything? I have tons of sideloaded apps that i use on a regular basis that i can no longer find online (i’ve tried finding the same version app i have on my phone for friends and they’re no longer there).This is what really worries me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:15:00 +0000

Another bonus for android devices with unlocked bootloaders: you can reuse them for other purposes. I plan on converting my OG Droid into an extra home & TV remote, wifi phone, media player, alarm clock, etc. Without the unlocked/unsigned bootloader, I’d likely be stuck with an ancient, slow, and limited version of Android – not so useful.

By: Benjamin Mackie

Benjamin Mackie — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:36:00 +0000

I had the OG for I believe 1 hour before I had it rooted and running Chevy’s Simply Stunning

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:38:00 +0000

Thanks, I will give it a shot. I had Apex 1.3-1.4 back on froyo and enjoyed it before.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:42:00 +0000

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By: Loki4Droid

Loki4Droid — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:41:00 +0000

The only reason I can think of that your phone seems ‘ragged out’ after switching from ROM to ROM to ROM is that you may not be completely wipeing all the old data from the phone before the new ROM is installed. ROM Manager is a great program, but it may not clear out all the previous data from your phone when it d/loads and installs the next ROM. You will want to boot into recovery and do a wipe data/factory reset, and I would say do it at least twice to make sure every thing is cleared out. Plus wipe cache as well, then after reboot into recovery you can install the new ROM under ‘install zip from sdcard’. I have found that this is the best way to switch between different ROMs, and I haven’t experienced any slowdown of the OG Droid even though I have gone through many ROMs. Hopefully this will help you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:19:00 +0000

Rooted,Rom’d OG Droid, MIUI US. I will more than likely keep doing both as it allows personalization and keeps the phone up to date faster than any slow Corp can. They keep saying they’ll get the updates out shortly. Forget that,get it today instead of months down the road. I like the customization as well as Tethering….

By: Irtechneo

Irtechneo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:18:00 +0000

I did the same thing. I put up with my crappy stock thunderbolt for about 4 months out of fear of bricking but I was able to research here and other sites and learned how to do it. There are enough guides out there that the average person should be able to figure out how to root and install a ROM-I did after all. Now my Tbolt runs great! If you are on this site then you have at least probably considered it-go for it! That poll really should have more rooted users.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:16:00 +0000

Says ‘you had already voted’ when I had not…..

By: Irtechneo

Irtechneo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:06:00 +0000

eh to each his own. I may be the minority but I happen to love Sense 3.0. I love all of the sense widgets (friendstream, news, agenda, music, photo grid and people) and I have not been able to find equal quality widgets on the market. Beautiful widgets and fancy widgets just dont do it for me and the launcher pro widgets are not as good either. I was able to find Wizz widgets for my tablet which are just as good as sense but they are not available on phones. I will say though stock Ice Cream Sandwich is looking amazing and I might be forced to give up Sense. I am curious to see what HTC’s skin is going to look like with ICS.

By: Irtechneo

Irtechneo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:54:00 +0000

teambamf.net. Will have everything you need. I highly recommend Cubed 1.0.9 or just straight BAMF Forever 1.0.9. They are both good but the cubed version has more color and a few other enhancements. There are hundreds of mods to play around with as well. Dark Horse theme is the way to go if you like blue and zhpilot has some good red themes. My thunderbolt gets a new look every week

By: Giants9856

Giants9856 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:37:00 +0000

I just put Apex 2.0 Release Candidate 4 on mine with OTA Gingerbread and it runs like a brand new phone. Highly recommended.

By: Chris Dieleman

Chris Dieleman — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:14:00 +0000

I’m afraid I blue myself prematurely.

By: Chris Dieleman

Chris Dieleman — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:12:00 +0000

Because a large portion of the population that owns Android doesn’t know Google Navigator is free and superior. They simply pay the money for VZW Navigator like idiots.
All bloatware is just crap to get suckers to purchase.

By: Chris Dieleman

Chris Dieleman — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:10:00 +0000

Single-core rooted running custom ROM.
Why? Because I still have an OG DROID and it gave it some life for these last couple months to make it until the Galaxy Nexus is out!
Also, I can’t believe I didn’t have it overclocked and underclocked for so long. It is twice as fast running at 1.1 ghz and the battery still manages to last longer.