Before I was rooted, I used ADB to set installlocation so that I could move some of the larger apps to my SD card (namely Gameloft apps).
Now I am rooted, what is the best way to do the same thing? Most of these Gameloft games are now taking 30mb up on my internal memory whereas it was like 500kb before.
Also, what is the best general app when rooted for removing bloatware?
What are the best things to speed up the phone that I can do now but couldn't before.
Thanks!
I used titanium backup (free) and moved all the gameloft games to sd now under 500kb.
Removing bloat, you can use the free version of titanium backup to uninstall the bloat. But i have froze the bloat instead of removing it in hopes i can unfreeze it all and do the ota update to 2.3.4 when it comes out and hopefully still keep root. If you uninstall anything you will have to reinstall it before doing an ota update.
I use Bloat Freezer to freeze the bloat and it does what it is supposed to do. You could pay for titanium pro to freeze the apps but that like £3.69 where bloat freezer is only £0.62. If you freeze intsead of uninstalling you will not gain any internal memory but you will gain ram so boot up is faster and phone is faster e.t.c. If you uninstall or freeze any of the bloat found here your phone will be alot faster so no other program is needed.
Removing Bloatware only frees memory. I didnt see much speed increase from rooting my phone tbh.
2.3.3 stock is pretty damn efficient in all honesty.
You can overclock to 1.5ghz now you are rooted. Ive never done this but an extra 500 mhz will speed things up alot. Search other threads in this forums to see how to do this.
How did you root 2.3.3?
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I'm on Rogers (2.3.3) unrooted.
How would I root my phone? First android phone
I'm on Rogers too, I flashed my phone to generic uk version version 2.3.2. Then I used gingerbreak to root the phone. After using the software update through your phone (ota) update to 2.3.3.
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Deoxlar said:
I'm on Rogers too, I flashed my phone to generic uk version version 2.3.2. Then I used gingerbreak to root the phone. After using the software update through your phone (ota) update to 2.3.3.
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Yes, this is how I did it.
I am on a factory unlocked UK phone.
Thanks for the advice Mozza2k11.
I had lareday deleted Timescape and FIFA but luckily made a backup so I have restored them and will look into freezing instead.
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I've had my EVO for a while, rooted and working great with Froyo 2.2 on it. My music player app required root to be installed (miui i think is the name) Earlier this year, I updated to GB and i've had nothing but problems. Still root, flashed an RUU on here that was rooted already.
Music player force closes randomly, facebook has connection errors, other apps force close for no apparent reason. Phone has gotten extremely sluggish even after wiping cache/deleting all texts. Basically, I'd love to know which is the newest RUU I can flash that's got root still. I want a clean fresh install and hopefully that will solve my problems.
I recently acquired an HTC HD2 for $100.00 from craigslist. Refurbished phone with WM6.5 on it. I got WP7 working on it and I'm jealous of how fast and smooth it is. Too bad WP7 couldn't work on our EVO's... alas, I doubt we'll ever see that day.
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I've had my EVO for a while, rooted and working great with Froyo 2.2 on it. My music player app required root to be installed (miui i think is the name) Earlier this year, I updated to GB and i've had nothing but problems. Still root, flashed an RUU on here that was rooted already.
Music player force closes randomly, facebook has connection errors, other apps force close for no apparent reason. Phone has gotten extremely sluggish even after wiping cache/deleting all texts. Basically, I'd love to know which is the newest RUU I can flash that's got root still. I want a clean fresh install and hopefully that will solve my problems.
I recently acquired an HTC HD2 for $100.00 from craigslist. Refurbished phone with WM6.5 on it. I got WP7 working on it and I'm jealous of how fast and smooth it is. Too bad WP7 couldn't work on our EVO's... alas, I doubt we'll ever see that day.
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i love this...even after reading and searching (it appears) this one just rephrases the "big question"
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As long as you're s-off, you can flash the official RUU and still maintain root. Search the threads in the dev section and download the 4.24 RUU and you'll be g2g. I just did it with my fiancee's and she still has root.
Yes Marty, I built a time machine out of a DeLorean.
Or you can just do a full wipe and flash the stock rooted rom (or any other rom) through recovery. If you like froyo more than gb, try something like Myn's Warm 2.2 or Sprint Lovers - they're pretty close to stock.
You can backup your apps/data with Titanium Backup, but don't restore any system stuff. I'd also advise against batch restoring your apps. Just restore apps as you need them and you'll be surprised how many apps you don't need and how much faster your phone will be.
If your phone still feels sluggish, try increasing the vm heap size to ~40-48. You can do so with the app "VM Heap Tool".
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Or you can just do a full wipe and flash the stock rooted rom (or any other rom) through recovery. If you like froyo more than gb, try something like Myn's Warm 2.2 or Sprint Lovers - they're pretty close to stock.
You can backup your apps/data with Titanium Backup, but don't restore any system stuff. I'd also advise against batch restoring your apps. Just restore apps as you need them and you'll be surprised how many apps you don't need and how much faster your phone will be.
If your phone still feels sluggish, try increasing the vm heap size to ~40-48. You can do so with the app "VM Heap Tool".
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I guess that would be a lil easier to do than my suggestion eh?
Thank you all for the quick replies. I'm getting very close to just going with CyanogenMod again since it worked so good on my Hero.(Is it true they got 4G working?) I'm getting fed up with the force closes. A lot of them are related to superuser which is getting root priviledges from the OS, correct? I wonder if I could have S-off but somehow not be nand unlocked, could that be causing this issue or am I being dumb. (feel free to call me dumb, i'll admit average knowledge of mobile phone OS architecture)
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Thank you all for the quick replies. I'm getting very close to just going with CyanogenMod again since it worked so good on my Hero.(Is it true they got 4G working?)
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Yes, it's true.
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I'm getting fed up with the force closes. A lot of them are related to superuser which is getting root priviledges from the OS, correct?
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No.
ndoggfromhell said:
I wonder if I could have S-off but somehow not be nand unlocked, could that be causing this issue
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No. S-off is NAND unlocked.
mattykinsx said:
Yes, it's true.
I might have to make the switch to CyanogenMod... I'm sure it has less bloatware installed on it. I use ADWlauncher instead of Sense... not sure what else I'd be missing with the change
No.
I was under the impression when an app loads and needs SU priviledge, it communicates with the superuser app and is run under root permissions if approved. I try to run apps that require root and they crash at this step (which I thought was necessary) and then won't perform root functions. Was I mislead?
No. S-off is NAND unlocked.
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Cool, I wasn't sure because I rooted so long ago, I forget the terms anymore. I should probably refresh myself with the basics of android modification.
Thank you all for the help you've provided, and hopefully others find something useful from this thread as well.
I got a message last night on my note that there is a firmware update available. I've got a GT-N7000 on AT&T and am running a rooted stock ROM with CWM. When I try to install the update it reboots the phone and then tells me "Failed to update firmware. Try again using PC software (Kies) or visit a Samsung service centre". The update is 101MB. I did a search and didn't see any other posts about this so thought I'd ask if anyone knows what the update is and how I can get it installed.
Thanks.
Its probably because your rooted. I was on a rooted rom and flashed the stock kka firmware my phone came with then updated without a problem. I did't try to update while being rooted though.
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You could just flash a stock rooted rom of the update. The update is the Lc1 firmware.
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Look for OTA rootkeeper on the market. Never tried it but some people that they could update OTA and keep their root
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I have the same problem. I'm on the international Note (in UK), have rooted the phone for titanium backup and autostarts (I've deleted some bloatware and frozen others), but haven't played around with custom roms or flashing because I don't really know about that sort of stuff. Also, the firmware update here is 73.5 mb.
Tried ota app, but that doesn't really make a difference and it's only intended to keep root if an already successful ota update has unrooted the phone. Our problem is the the update isn't completing successfully.
I'm worried that the upcoming ICS update won't work either.
Any solutions would be massively appreciated, especially if they don't involve flashing or doing a factory reset.
Thanks
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I have the same problem. I'm on the international Note (in UK), have rooted the phone for titanium backup and autostarts (I've deleted some bloatware and frozen others), but haven't played around with custom roms or flashing because I don't really know about that sort of stuff. Also, the firmware update here is 73.5 mb.
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If you've played around with /system, you won't be able to OTA for the most part, as these updates are patches and expect to find an untouched /system partition.
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Dave
I tried OTA Rootkeeper but no luck. Is there a way to back up my apps and settings such that I could easily restore them after flashing a stock ROM that includes the update?
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I tried OTA Rootkeeper but no luck. Is there a way to back up my apps and settings such that I could easily restore them after flashing a stock ROM that includes the update?
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install LC1 ger rom - latest no wipe . or open eu - but only biggest file - also no wipe
Is there really a point to root right now with not many Roms to load etc. Still kinda new to Android so bare with me. Yes I would love to get rid of this Rogers bloatware.
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Is there really a point to root right now with not many Roms to load etc. Still kinda new to Android so bare with me. Yes I would love to get rid of this Rogers bloatware.
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Depends if you like to use apps that require root? Tether? Titanium? etc...
Yes de bloat your phone run a nanodroid lol and access other apps that require root
SetCPU...flash custom apps/mods.etc
Ad Away, Titanium Backup, Tethering, freeze/remove bloatware.....
If you're like me... in case a ROM pops up while you're out and about and you can't wait to get home and root then flash it. That's actually the sole reason I'm rooted now
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What everyone else said. I almost always stick with stock ROMS with root and s-off so I can remove bloatware and run android wifi tether and titanium backup.
Root makes it a more enjoyable device IMO. That alone makes it worth it (The roms even more so of course)
Im waiting for a one-click method like there is for my ET4G.
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Depends if you like to use apps that require root? Tether? Titanium? etc...
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All canadien service providers allow tethering.
But to answer his question, yes, rooting the device is not only about roms, its about CPU management, running root options on apps like juice defender and mybackup pro, in my case i need root and recovery to run ceberus from CWM to make sure if i get my phone stolen i can always track and recover it no matter how many times the thief factory resets it. Android is a beautiful OS, rooting is an extra bonus...but i could very well live without it (if touchwiz wasnt so damn ugly)
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Im waiting for a one-click method like there is for my ET4G.
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If you can post on a web board you are saavy enough to root this phone via odin. The instructions are not difficult to follow and the whole process takes less than 15 minutes
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If you can post on a web board you are saavy enough to root this phone via odin. The instructions are not difficult to follow and the whole process takes less than 15 minutes
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yeah.
i'm an idiot, and it took me 4 minutes.
New to Android here too. I have to follow a method that doesn't increase the 'counter' to preserve the warranty right?
I did it to freeze all the bloatware Sprint and Samsung added to the s3. Also, so I can use apps that require superuser permissions.
I am currently on Verizon Gnex that is running Cyanogenmod. When I get my Note3 it will be my first time moving from one phone to another.
What would be the best way to move my apps (especially the data saved by each app) from a rooted non-stock device to an unrooted stock device?
I currently have titanium backup but since root isnt yet available on the note 3 it doesnt sound like that will be useful.
Thanks for any help / advice you can give..
Although I have not tried it myself, Helium looks like a good option. Does not require root and developed by the infamous Clockworkmod.
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I used Helium without issue
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Dalboz said:
I am currently on Verizon Gnex that is running Cyanogenmod. When I get my Note3 it will be my first time moving from one phone to another.
What would be the best way to move my apps (especially the data saved by each app) from a rooted non-stock device to an unrooted stock device?
I currently have titanium backup but since root isnt yet available on the note 3 it doesnt sound like that will be useful.
Thanks for any help / advice you can give..
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I used Helium and everything went swimmingly. Backed up everything on the Note 2, saved in Google Drive, then went to restore on my Note 3. The only drawback is that you have to have all of your apps already downloaded on your new device before you can restore them, though the app does link to that respective app in the Google Play store so that you can redownload it.
i also read about a fix for Titanium Backup users here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2473114
Helium will let you back up the full apps as well as data. It just takes far longer to do so. I like some older versions of apps and some that are no longer available.
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FrostyOrDie said:
Helium will let you back up the full apps as well as data. It just takes far longer to do so. I like some older versions of apps and some that are no longer available.
And Boom goes the dynamite! now Free
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(thanks for the clarification!)
Is it possible to "un-root" a phone without having to flash firmware? For example I'd like to use Samsung Pay which won't work because of a root check BUT would like to keep the debloated and optimized U ROM along with the non-provisioned WIFI-tethering, VVM, etc. that I originally rooted for. So is this possible? I understand that I will still be on the eng. boot kernel but that's fine.
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Is it possible to "un-root" a phone without having to flash firmware? For example I'd like to use Samsung Pay which won't work because of a root check BUT would like to keep the debloated and optimized U ROM along with the non-provisioned WIFI-tethering, VVM, etc. that I originally rooted for. So is this possible? I understand that I will still be on the eng. boot kernel but that's fine.
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You can try the unroot option in the SU app but I doubt it will work because the files are pushed to the system by ADB. I could be wrong though.
This is one thing I have been curious about as well. I just want to make a few changes to files that require root, then remove root to keep my Samsung Pay working but the changes still saved in place. I feel like someone has tried it, I just haven't ran across the post yet...
I'd like to keep the U firmware while having all of the Verizon essentials but without root. Even optimized with all battery savings, I'm getting heat just using chrome and having more battery drainage than when I was unrooted. I read it's something dealing with the eng.boot since it's not made for daily use.
So would it be possible just to factory reset U firmware and have the necessary Verizon apps to install afterwards? I'm guessing root isn't that beneficial for me at this point if it just drains my battery since I usually would have 3 hours of SOT by 50%, and now it's only 2 hours by 50%.
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So would it be possible just to factory reset U firmware and have the necessary Verizon apps to install afterwards? I'm guessing root isn't that beneficial for me at this point if it just drains my battery since I usually would have 3 hours of SOT by 50%, and now it's only 2 hours by 50%.
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You can install most of the Verizon apps through the Play Store except for VVM, which requires you to write into /system and thus requires root and thus the eng. kernel. Also you won't be be able to patch the HD Calling feature without root as well. IF you need these features, then the eng. kernel is a must have in order to obtain root to install.
If not, you're good to go. I'm sure there's probably something else I'm missing.
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You can install most of the Verizon apps through the Play Store except for VVM, which requires you to write into /system and thus requires root and thus the eng. kernel. Also you won't be be able to patch the HD Calling feature without root as well. IF you need these features, then the eng. kernel is a must have in order to obtain root to install.
If not, you're good to go. I'm sure there's probably something else I'm missing.
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Then it would already be pretty great to simply get a debloated stock Verizon firmware. Because I was amazed at how much free space I had for internal storage once I flashed the U firmware and the v15 debloat fix zip. If I could go all of that without the battery drainage that I'm pretty sure is coming from root itself.
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Then it would already be pretty great to simply get a debloated stock Verizon firmware. Because I was amazed at how much free space I had for internal storage once I flashed the U firmware and the v15 debloat fix zip. If I could go all of that without the battery drainage that I'm pretty sure is coming from root itself.
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Your battery drainage is due to the engineering kernel, not necessarily from root. It is not an optimized kernel at all. When I was rooted, the phone was 6 degrees C warmer at idle than stock and would lag. This is with all the V15 fixes from the S7 thread. And heat kills battery life.
I'm sure someone could do this. I'm from the verizon flat s7 forums and a person is suggesting getting on the rooted firmware then from that installing a debloated stock rom from there without root but with various cooked in optimizations. It's not out yet but I'm waiting to see what comes of it. Root hasn't settled enough for me to run it all the time just yet.
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I'm sure someone could do this. I'm from the verizon flat s7 forums and a person is suggesting getting on the rooted firmware then from that installing a debloated stock rom from there without root but with various cooked in optimizations. It's not out yet but I'm waiting to see what comes of it. Root hasn't settled enough for me to run it all the time just yet.
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That's actually perfect, when possible. :0
Could you not just apply the fixes and unroot or flashing will remove these?
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