The Android Rooting and ROM Thread

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The wife and me finally upgraded and each got new Galaxy SIII thru Verizon (on another note: fxxx you Verizon for charging an upgrade fee and then for insulting peoples' intelligence by claiming it's to fund "workshops" because smart phones are so complex) and the first thing I did was root mine so that I could play around with some of the custom ROMs and various tweaks that rooting allows for. So far I've used AOKP Build 4 and Build 5, and now I'm on CyanogenMod 10.1 release candidate M2. I haven't had any actual problems with any of them so far, and so far the only differences to me (there are many; these are just the ones that I've taken notice of so far) are bootup times (AOKP 5 is best so far) and customization capabilities of each ROM. Overall I prefer CM10.1, but a big complaint I have is that it gives you this stupid crop layout when you try to use a gallery image as a wallpaper. I haven't seen any other ROMs do this. To get a better idea of what other complaints and/or problems might pop up, I figure I'll use a certain ROM for a couple weeks, then try another and just stick to the one I like best after I've have a chance to get deeper into them.

So who else has rooted their Android phone or tablet? What ROM are you using and what do you like/dislike about what you've used?

...and just for you iPhone guys I thought I'd share the boot animation that I put on my phone :D
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I've been rooting phones since my first Android device which I would keep forever btw the all mighty N1 from HTC

In that phone I follow the CM line up to the CM7. Pretty amazing room just figure with this one N7000 I will try something different and that's how I end with Alliance RoM

Before the alliance I yest fee others as sweet JB for example but didn't like it that much.

In a related note who thinks this is complicated I recommend Odin Mobile app it's just such an amazing app..
 
I have a droid RAZR max. You guys have any advice on best way or best program for a root on it? I dont know much about rooting but i do know i hate bloatware.
 
Question:

would rooting the S3 allow one to delete a carrier-only lock?
 
re_guderian said:
what do you mean by carrier only lock?
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I suspect he's asking if rooting a phone bought from one carrier (Verizon, Sprint, etc) would allow it to be programmed to work with another. If that's the case, I would suspect there's a way to do it, but at that point I think you'd have to really get into the meat & taters of the phone's firmware. I honestly don't know, since I've never tried it. I could be way off and it could even be as simple as changing out the SIM card. Just not sure :meh:
 
Anyone know the logic on why an end-user cannot remove the various apps off a stock cell phone. For example there are three or four games that I would be happy to remove, but I'm unable to do so. I have never understood the logic behind this restriction. Verizon is the company, android phone, older model 3 g htc incredible2 is the phone.

on a similar tangent how does rooting impact future upgrades of the OS software on the phone?

I know the attraction on rooting is the ability to unlock certain features and to install and remove items at will.

What's the deal with locking the phone where you cannot remove some of the apps? I could see potentially locking anything to do with the normal features and options, but not games or crap like vz navigator or other items not necessary for the phone to function.
 
Elbert said:
Anyone know the logic on why an end-user cannot remove the various apps off a stock cell phone. For example there are three or four games that I would be happy to remove, but I'm unable to do so. I have never understood the logic behind this restriction. Verizon is the company, android phone, older model 3 g htc incredible2 is the phone.

on a similar tangent how does rooting impact future upgrades of the OS software on the phone?

I know the attraction on rooting is the ability to unlock certain features and to install and remove items at will.

What's the deal with locking the phone where you cannot remove some of the apps? I could see potentially locking anything to do with the normal features and options, but not games or crap like vz navigator or other items not necessary for the phone to function.
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$ and agreements...
 
Spook50 said:
I suspect he's asking if rooting a phone bought from one carrier (Verizon, Sprint, etc) would allow it to be programmed to work with another. If that's the case, I would suspect there's a way to do it, but at that point I think you'd have to really get into the meat & taters of the phone's firmware. I honestly don't know, since I've never tried it. I could be way off and it could even be as simple as changing out the SIM card. Just not sure :meh:
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right, that's what I meant. Buy a phone locked to ATT and unlock it yourself to use on Tmob by rooting it - or not.
Nope, changing the SIM won't do it, of course, that would not be much of a lock.
 
Elbert said:
Anyone know the logic on why an end-user cannot remove the various apps off a stock cell phone..
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flash another ROM and problem solved ..
 
I'm just about up on my 2 year VZW contract on my first Android phone, Samsung Gnex. I joined androidcentral.com and learned a whole lot about things that I'll probably never do. Its an entire subculture, just like Land Cruisers.

Anyway, there's a tremendous amount of information on every aspect of rooting, carriers, specific phone models, etc.
 
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