when Sprint rolls out froyo, Will I be able to continue using free WiFi weather with my current Rom
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Don't upgrade until we know. Eventually it will work. Initially, I doubt it.
I dunno
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With your current ROM? I don't see why you won't be able to keep tethering. It's not like the roll-out for every un-rooted EVO is magically going to install a modification onto your phone which forces the tethering function to be disabled.
On the other hand, if you actually accept the OTA, and are lucky enough not to get bricked, you will lose root, will lose tethering, will lose your ROM, will (most likely) lose some apps, will see a drop in speed, will see a drop in battery life.
What data do you have to suggest a drop in speed our drop in battery life? Even the fastest 2.1 is less than half of a 2.2 linpack score and quadrant scores seem nearly double as well.
Unless you've already got the update and can confirm any of that...
I do agree though, you will lose wifi tether and probably root for the near term.
I, for one, will stick with good ol' DC3.2.3 until the devs get the 2.2 RUU incorporated into a new ROM.
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The stock Sprint 2.2 ROM will probably disable this built-in feature since they want to charge for their branded service. Rooted ROMs usually have those restrictions removed so you can install programs like Wifi Tether.
My advice is to wait for a rooted version to come out or wait for another modified ROM based on it. Don't install the new Sprint OTA unless you want to lose root indefinitely.
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I was running android 2.1 with Fresh 1.0.1 and Wireless Tether p2 till 3 days ago.
I mostly use Wireless Tethering, more than what i use my phone to call, text, or anything else.
I was very happy with the speeds i was getting, and i had not upgraded to froyo because i saw wireless Tether was not working on froyo 2.2.
Recently i saw a post of some ppl saying that Wireless Tether p8 was working great on Froyo 2.2 so i decided to go for it.
The results are Horrible, I cant even surf while in a skype call. Before the upgrade i could be on skype, in Aion and loading videos at the same time.
If anyone knows a way to downgrade, or to fix this let me know. I will appreciate it.
Well, seeing as you must be still rooted, just do a complete wipe of your phone and go for a nandroid backup from before the update. If you don't have one, shame on you! J/K, I sometimes forget too. Basically, you could just load a different ROM, like the one you were on previously. Just be sure to do a full wipe, including dalvik cache, cache, and system/data partitions. Then load the ROM and you should be back to 2.1.
One other thing. Did you update your radio images? If you did, then you'll want to find the old ones that go with your 2.1 ROM. If not, you should try upgrading them, as they may bring better data performance. Just a guess, but you never know.
Ty for your reply i appreciate your help ^^, if anyone out there has a solution for the teather or knows something let me know, but for now i guess i have to downgrade T__T
To my knowledge if you took the OTA update to Froyo from Sprint, then there is no way to downgrade as of yet because you need root in order to flash a new ROM. No one has come up with a way to root Froyo yet. Your best bet would be to use Easytether. It's ten bucks, but that's better than $30 per month.
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To my knowledge if you took the OTA update to Froyo from Sprint, then there is no way to downgrade as of yet because you need root in order to flash a new ROM. No one has come up with a way to root Froyo yet. Your best bet would be to use Easytether. It's ten bucks, but that's better than $30 per month.
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Or just search for the Easy Tether APK online and install it using your SD for free. that's what I did. Works great, but I'm still waiting to find out that Froyo is rooted.
Hey All,
Does anyone have a list of confirmed features thats going to be added on the official 2.2 ota update. I've searched around for a bit but can't find a simple list of what's going on it and what's not.
E.g Is it getting wifi tethering (apparently so) and is it going to get apps2sd?
I'm pretty sure it's not getting full flash support and I'm betting it's not going to get Live Wallpapers either (Unless it's on a custom ROM, but i'm not interested in them atm)
Thanks a lot
It is getting a2sd, and wifi tethering, thats about it. Definitely no flash support (ever) and no LWPs.
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If you are going to update to official 2.2, you can`t root. SO please, think before acting, we don`t need another person to whine about not being able to root, we have enough of them
don't say ever xD
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My computer hates everything about the rooting process so I decided to wait for the update.
Additionally, I found a site earlier which claimed the update carries a performance boost and an increase in battery life. Both of which are needed tbh :L
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I decided to install froyo.
There are no live wallpapers
jit is not enabled
wifi teathering is
so is apps to sd for supported apps
the camera now works in portrate mode
but still only shoots low res
there is no flash 10.1 but the flash lite as found in the eclair rom is there
IT WILL UPGRDE YOUR HBOOT AND YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ROOT
and the app backup function has been hidden
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Additionally, I found a site earlier which claimed the update carries a performance boost and an increase in battery life. Both of which are needed tbh :L
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Hardly. If you look around the forums a bit, people are complaining far more after the update about lags, poor battery life et al. The only solution is to format phone + SD, and, after that, it is normal, but, there is no "gain" over 2.1
For me its running at the same speed
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Ive been reading about the possibilities of rooting and why its a good thing.
Well I finally rooted, but what should I do now?
I've already removed the bloatware and im not interested in themes.
As for ROMS/CustomOS, there hasnt been any ROM that sets it that much more better then the stock 2.2firmware that came with the phone. Aside from the possible swipe texting, is there any significant benefit from using a custom ROM as oppose to the standard OS?
Also what are some must have apps for rooted phone?
Feels like the only real benefit from rooting (if one is not interested in themes/looks) is just removing bloatware
Same boat
So I just rooted my phone too, I was hoping to gain the ability to remove the bloat ware and maybe free mobile hot spot, but im such a noon im too worried about bricking my phone so really all I've done is the initial root, I did download the liberty 1.5 and saved it to my memory card but I don't really know if I did a full backup or not. I downloaded the titanium backup app that specifically says root on it and did what I thought was a backup in preparation for putting the liberty rom on my phone. Do I automatically gwet free mobile hotspot or is that a separate app all together?
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So I just rooted my phone too, I was hoping to gain the ability to remove the bloat ware and maybe free mobile hot spot, but im such a noon im too worried about bricking my phone so really all I've done is the initial root, I did download the liberty 1.5 and saved it to my memory card but I don't really know if I did a full backup or not. I downloaded the titanium backup app that specifically says root on it and did what I thought was a backup in preparation for putting the liberty rom on my phone. Do I automatically gwet free mobile hotspot or is that a separate app all together?
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Im not sure about titaninum backup or the liberty 1.5 youre trying to install.
However, I can hopefully share with you what I know about the free mobile hotspot. If by that you mean tether, than yes, you do need a seperate app. In fact the app is the only thing you need, no need for roms and what not. Some of the tethe rapps are PDAnet, easytether, and wireless tehter
theres probably more but those 3 are the ones I see most mentioned and hear success stories with most of them
alot of the Roms out there include a wireless 3g hotspot app in them, for example the rom im rocking is Darkslide 4.2 and it includes the app, and always remember to give credit where credit is due ^_^ and always thank the devs for doing this for free
Oh for sure, I appreciate the help info ethus site is the bomb and the dev's here kick butt. So I was using pda net before I rooted but I was told by someone that you can get the wireless hot spot by rooting. I might check out that dark sliders rom too. Is it a lot of work tojump between roms?
Just remember than Verizon is now monitoring rooted phones and they can send you a bill for data. I would suggest against it but it depends on where you live as to if they are monitoring.
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Just remember than Verizon is now monitoring rooted phones and they can send you a bill for data. I would suggest against it but it depends on where you live as to if they are monitoring.
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How do they even know that a phone is rooted? Im guess I don't know what to think of that.. I know its a service you are supposed to pay for but isn't that kinda along the same lines as apple or google monitoring you? Do we know what markets Verizon is monitoring? Is it something where they pick the people who are using gig's of data, I've only used maybe a couple hundred megabytes
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How do they even know that a phone is rooted? Im guess I don't know what to think of that.. I know its a service you are supposed to pay for but isn't that kinda along the same lines as apple or google monitoring you? Do we know what markets Verizon is monitoring? Is it something where they pick the people who are using gig's of data, I've only used maybe a couple hundred megabytes
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He's confusing Verizon with AT&T:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/...-using-unauthorized-tethering-methods-to-pay/
My daughter has the EVO Shift. Have there been any problems with the new OTA Gingerbread update? Pro's and con's versus stock? I don't care to root her's because she doesn't really care. I like my rooted Evo4g though.
If you could careless about root then I would definitely say to take the ota update. What you'll get is an updated sense (which is pretty nice looking), new radios for wimax, and most importantly updated to gingerbread. I tried the rooted version of the new update and I like it but it doesn't really compare to custom roms so I didn't stick to it.
So basically stock 2.2 versus ota 2.3, I would say take the ota.
Some people, me included, are having problems after the update where every time you exit from an app you go to the white HTC and then it takes 10 seconds to refresh the home screen. This is very annoying. I called Sprint and there was two fixes. One to increase the size of my internal memory by clearing some files and moving apps to my SD card. The second fix was try sent me an OTA fix which was a fancy name for a refresh. All seems to be working now.
I am using the standard ROM
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Yeah I was having the same problem when sense would crash and all I would be doing is texting, so I went back to aosp for now
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It works good the battery life it a tad better my 3g signal is almost double.if u dont need to be rooted go ahead and update u wont regret unlike me i regret it cus i liked all the rooted apps and etc.
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for me i have a lot of bugs in the rom. i found a lot of apps and the OS to lock up from time to time and not work properly. i end up rebooting the rom to get it to work again.
NO ROOT ACESSS on this rom so if your like me your stuck with a crappy rom until a fix comes out.
I'm quite happy with the update other than the lack of root. No problems at all. So, if root isn't important to you, i really see no reason to not update.
Not an N7 owner yet - it's on my xMas list. Santa's gotta come through for me.
As a GNex owner, rooting my phone was a no-brainer. I got sick of VZW's bloatware and VZW is miserably slow on pushing out updates. I am not a crack-flasher - I am happy to stay with a specific ROM/kernel that works.
I was wondering if most N7 owners had the same sentiment as most of us GNex'ers - stock is just not acceptable - gotta root.
Or, is stock somehow more acceptable on the N7?
The Stock Rom on the N7 is good but I rooted mine because i use some apps that need root and i use a custom kernel. I think it's not necessary but if you don't use Google+ Currents and so on, you can save some space by deleting them with root. But why don't you wait for yours and see if you like it or not ? Rooting is very easy so there should be no problem in doing it
Root, allows you to use OTG to store huge apps on Flash drive instead of eating so pace and backup with titanium backup!
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I stayed stock. It's perfect for my use, and it replaces my laptop, so: no data loss allowed, no sod's, and no screwed flashing which requires a full wipe... I don't want to do the same as on my gnex ^^ at least one device that runs normal ^^
Like I said, stock is very nice, even though 4.2 made it a bit different. ( others report, got mine for a few days)
Battery life is nice, performance is awesome (sometimes I just open and close the drawer, open apps and close them, just to see how beautiful the transitions are ) and I have nothing to nag on... I recommend you to try stock for a few days and decide yourself if you need root, or a custom kernel etc. ^^
And if you say you want to root for like 50%, then I would unlock the bootloader before setting everything up
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I've rooted every single Android phone that I've owned. With that said, I have felt no need to root my Nexus7 and I've had it since July. OTG can be used as read-only with an app, no root required.
I'm running the stock android but it's rooted of course. The stock android nets me around 14-20 hours on a full charge. That using chrome to search the net and playing YouTube videos.
Plan on staying with the stock android with root access.
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I've rooted every single Android phone that I've owned. With that said, I have felt no need to root my Nexus7 and I've had it since July. OTG can be used as read-only with an app, no root required.
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Requires root to use bind directory to play games straight from flash drives.
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Thanks for the feedback so far. I figured that the stock/root decision is a personal one that a person makes after they try out the N7, but still it's interesting to see what decisions you folks make, and why.
I'm in a similar situation as I'll be getting mine in a few days.
All I plan on doing is rooting right away, just so I can get rid of some of the bloatware, and then I've always got the option to chuck on a custom ROM/kernel if I don't like the stock feeling of it.
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Thanks again for the input!
I've rooted but am otherwise on stock. I had game progress and stiff that I wanted to port over. I don't plan on flashing a custom ROM. I really like the stock JB, so for now I'm perfectly happy running rooted stock.
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schism70 said:
I've rooted every single Android phone that I've owned. With that said, I have felt no need to root my Nexus7 and I've had it since July. OTG can be used as read-only with an app, no root required.
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Same here. I don't see the point.