Comments on: Thursday Poll: Rooted or Non-rooted?

By: Dominick S.

Dominick S. — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:43:00 +0000

Has nothing to do with making a profit. It has to do with making a profit at the expense of other people via greed, corruption and all manners of evil.. see Libor scandal, wall street bail outs, outsourcing and corporate banking elite.

By: Dominick S.

Dominick S. — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:41:00 +0000

While I technically agree with you, the croney capitalism and wealth disparity in this country is absolutely appalling. In reality, these corporations have been robbing us blind and have enslaved us via their banks. To be honest anyone who can use a loophole with their policies, take advantage of their policies or get some value out of their services that would in SOME way measure up to the cost I don’t blame them really. I think the line is probably where they are hooking it up to and running their network with it. That’s what reps with some actual awareness have more so explicitly and consistently told me.

By: Dominick S.

Dominick S. — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:35:00 +0000

Not rooted. While I’d like the ability to be able to overclock, get rid of bloatware and such, though admittedly don’t have an interest in ROMs (obsessing over which is best which I know could easily get out of hand for me) etc, I don’t trust the process unless it came that way via a developer version from the manufacturer. I don’t like the idea of it being less secure/having security holes, messing with the phone in that sense especially seeing how Motorola puts checks to see if it’s been rooted. If I think that could in any way leave me open to some bad legal issue down the road, I won’t even bother. Besides that, there are so many things you can do with todays UI/OS and the hardware is so much more advanced, the app store that much bigger with so many more choices that it’s almost become unnecessary. If there was a way to overclock without needing to root that would be sweet. Seems though that there are app options for tethering, hotspot and screenshots are already built in now. Hated the days when I had to use java or a software to get those to work. The only thing left for me I think is really bloatware. We can even now hack the apks to get them to work in the multiview, so I really can’t see any other reason to root.

By: Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:40:00 +0000

I don’t even know what rooting means or does for me. I have a PANTECH Burst™ with Android ICS 4.04

By: NathanDomier

NathanDomier — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:54:00 +0000

I was rooted back when I had my OG Dinc, but I haven’t yet rooted my SGSIII (SC-06D – Docomo in Japan) All of the reasons I rooted my Dinc are gone – my phone comes stock with flashlight capability, free tethering, ability to hide bloatware, and other things… I can’t really remember all the things that gingerbread didn’t have or support.

That said, I probably would have rooted my phone if the dev community for the SC-06D wasn’t so small. We’ve got one working port of CM10, and that’s about it. Plus, the process isn’t as simple as things were on the Dinc, requiring you to flash back to stock recovery every time if you want to keep most of your hardware working.

Also… I had more time for these things in college XD

By: Christopher Theofilaktos

Christopher Theofilaktos — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:41:00 +0000

Rooted all the way. My first Android device was a HTC Desire Z (G2), the HTC software on it was horrible… And I mean truly horrible I really was not enjoying the experience, once I rooted and installed a custom Cyanogenom based rom I never looked back, the phone was running so smooth it was like a totally new phone, and it still holds up on Jellybean pretty well (Besides the occasional lag), while my S3 with a quad core CPU and 1gb ram had to redraw every time I pressed the home button on touch wiz. Root ftw, AOSP ftw.

By: Champion1229

Champion1229 — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:15:00 +0000

I actually miss FoxFi. I rooted and now I just use AOKP’s built in Tethering app but it doesn’t let me view who is actively connected to the network and it doesn’t show the estimated top speeds. Oh and there isn’t the option to use the proxy mode like what FoxFi had (don’t really know if that just configures a proxy server or if it actually turns the phone into a proxy server?).

By: Champion1229

Champion1229 — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:11:00 +0000

Thats a little extreme I mean I can see if its an emergency such as durring a hurricane (we get those a lot in central florida) when the internet / cable goes out and you only have a laptop with a charged battery or a backup generator! Personally, I only use tethering for school. Its just so annoying with 1500+ students trying to access ONE wifi network thats ran by a consumer grade internet connection (I used to help out the school’s tech geek when he needed help and it seemed like every day Bright House had a hiccup). So its faster to just connect my laptop and tablet to my phone especially on 4G LTE! Not to mention I don’t have to deal with the blocked websites and firewalls the school has!

By: DNA rooted

DNA rooted — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 01:12:00 +0000

I rooted my DNA day one, bricked the 1st one tho (they took it back). Anyway wanted to root it to use my unlimited data plan for free hotspot, and if I have to pay full price for a phone I’m going to make VZ pay for it to. I was able to successfuly root my 2nd phone and set up wireless teathering.

By: Devin Rodriguez

Devin Rodriguez — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:07:00 +0000

That’s a good point, I guess I’ve never had to deal with any device that required rooting first to bypass the bootloader.

By: donebrasko

donebrasko — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:07:00 +0000

So I would be able to just use the Verizon hotspot app?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:56:00 +0000

I think they’re more concerned with the people who tether to their router and run their entire home network off their 4G connection.

By: Jackson Emch

Jackson Emch — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:42:00 +0000

Yeah but besides the performance and extra customization with the ROM, is it really that different? I mean don’t get me wrong, I do love the feeling I get when I install a new ROM on my device, but it just doesn’t seem necessary to me.

By: Chris Pinola

Chris Pinola — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:54:00 +0000

ahhh very good point, did not know that

By: mcdonsco

mcdonsco — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:34:00 +0000

Actually, I haven’t tried foxfi, if it works of rather do that for $7 once then to risk root or pay $30/month.