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New droid owner

Ok Ive been a long time iphone owner since they came out and ive never owned an android product. Im tired of the crappy service I get with att anywhere outside of large cities and the iphone in general so me and my wife are switching over to verizon. We both ordered the droid x two days ago and somehow we are getting them tomarrow despite the aug 4th ship date that they said. The more I review about android OS and the droid x the more I think I will love it compared to the iphone. My question is which meathod of rooting should I take. Ive never rooted before of course so should I use the one click method or the list of instructions method. Im real tech savvy so if the list instructions way to root it is the best im comfortable with that. My next questions is on updates. Do i need to have the phone unrooted everytime that I preform an update or is that unnessisary? Also if I delete or rename some basic bloat ware do I need to make sure it is all back the same before I update? Thanks for any help and I look forward to be on the droid side

Ok i have my phone. Any answers to my post? Is this the wrong site to be asking this?
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I rooted mine using better terminal emulator right on my phone. Took all of 15 mins maybe. I've never done the one click thing but have heard great things about it. I guess its really what you're comfortable with. Just make sure you take your time and don't miss any steps!
Good luck & welcome to DROID!
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Thanks for your reply. If i root now will it conflict with future updates?
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It shouldn't. At least it hasn't yet. Just be careful with what bloat you delete. Make sure you keep anything that is blur related and verizons backup assistant. Its been said you will brick if you delete any of those.
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I've rooted several phones and the one click was so easy. Once I extracted the files & installed the drivers it took less than a minute.
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+1 for the one-click method!! it worked flawlessly!

Honeycomb on the Inc

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/02/18/video-droid-incredible-actually-running-honeycomb/
another reason why our phone (and the devs) are awesome

Looks nice, thanks for the heads up.

The gentleman in the video had actually posted up a thread about it on the forum about a week ago and for some reason the admin's shut it down pretty quickly......
Does anybody know where to get the zip file for this port?

Cool but this was done by r2doesinc...nuff said
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And the link for it is here.
http://t3hh4xx0r.com/?p=1350

So, not sure what I did wrong, but when I try to instal OMHC, it won't allow me to. Running Gingerbread based Recovery, ClockworkMod. Is this something that can be worked around, or no?

Is it CWM 3.0?? I know a bunch of things have issues with that recovery.

Smokeey said:
Cool but this was done by r2doesinc...nuff said
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Who gives a ****?
These devs are great.

Smokeey said:
Cool but this was done by r2doesinc...nuff said
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With u on this
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dpwhitty11 said:
Who gives a ****?
These devs are great.
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With you on this

dpwhitty11 said:
Who gives a ****?
These devs are great.
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Agreed. He's awesome. No ones perfect. I personally don't care about all of the drama, I just care about how the ROMs.
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And back to trying toto help the Guy who made this thread. Are you using version 3.0 recovery?
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For what it is worth, I can state that this will install using recovery 2.5.0.5, as I just got done doing so.

Yep, i've reverted back as far as ROM manager allows and so far so good with backing up any ROM and flashing any ROM
As far as this Honeycomb port goes, I wish I had this on my Gtab. Obviously needs some work, but wow this is a 10 on the cool factor. Who cares who did it or not, these Dev's deserve mad respect for their time and hard work. I actually approached the dev for a port on the Gtab and he says he's been trying, but still no luck. As an owner and avid Gtab forumster, I can say that many people on the Gtab forums would consider this guy a god if he were successful on porting this over.
Everybody chill out about the drama and give props where it's due. This is awesome news and fantastic work.

Yes, it is. Is there another recovery I could use?
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Yea go into rom manager and at the bottom it has older recoveries use a 2. whatever one.

flashed for a little but forgot to install gapps. pretty useless right now most stuff doesnt work. along with the bad lag its also pretty hard to navigate since its made for a tablet. things are really small and the mouse has to be moved with the toggle which is a pain in the ass among many other things. might go back to it and try gapps just for ****s and gigs. otherwise useless. will be cool when the bionic comes out and a port comes to that.

First things to do with new zoom.

Hello guys and gals. I'm excited to get my zoom in the mail tomorrow from verizon. So I'm reading up on these forums to understand where everyone is at. I'm asking if any one would would he willing to give a quick check list of first things I should do when I get it. Then I can do some research based on your feed back and get it all set up. Thanks.
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Download flash player from the market , then set your browser to on demand in the settings. Get feedly for your google reader or pulse, but I prefer feedly as it's much snapier. Download plume for tablet and friend caster for tablets.

Torrentula81 said:
Hello guys and gals. I'm excited to get my zoom in the mail tomorrow from verizon. So I'm reading up on these forums to understand where everyone is at. I'm asking if any one would would he willing to give a quick check list of first things I should do when I get it. Then I can do some research based on your feed back and get it all set up. Thanks.
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First, try and get the name right... ;|

jondwillis said:
First, try and get the name right... ;|
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Lol, now that's a bit ugly. Zoom zoom xoom

get portfolio case =P and i get google+ asap

download dolphin for pad. Better than stock browser.

LOL, typo. I really asked thinking I would be rooting it right away like I did with my Droid X. I probly will though. Just can't leave thing alone. So really I'm just looking at different methods that are out there. One click would be nice.
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Torrentula81 said:
LOL, typo. I really asked thinking I would be rooting it right away like I did with my Droid X. I probly will though. Just can't leave thing alone. So really I'm just looking at different methods that are out there. One click would be nice.
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One click is to much steps(irony right?)....
Do the catch recovery before reboot method which is really simple and easy. You get root and recovery at the same time.

Kippui said:
One click is to much steps(irony right?)....
Do the catch recovery before reboot method which is really simple and easy. You get root and recovery at the same time.
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Would you happen to have a link to follow steps? Very helpful thanks.
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Torrentula81 said:
Would you happen to have a link to follow steps? Very helpful thanks.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078019
I used this method, quick and easy.

First thing, right out of the box, root that puppy and install the latest Tiamat ROM.

Kippui said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078019
I used this method, quick and easy.
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WiFi only version. Using verizon zoom. I gather that means its The 3g version people are talking about. I'm browsing the developers section still.
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Sistema1927 said:
First thing, right out of the box, root that puppy and install the latest Tiamat ROM.
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Play with your xoom for a while then this. I would install the tiamat rom but I don't want to wipe my xoom.

I've decided to skip roms and tiamat or whatever. Looking at threads some are WiFi version only. Then some are different firmware version. I just want stock Verizon with whatever current version its at instructions. It's just to big of a mess for me to spend time digging through literally hundreds of posts researching on what should be closed threads restarted with fresh instructions. Not 4 month old threads. I'll just root adb, use setcpu, and wait for 3.2 uupdate. Then ill join in since ill know where other people are starting from.
It really is a mess. With my Droid x it was simple. A few ways to gain root and all the Roms nicely laid out ripe for the picking. Instruction clearly labled if you have firmware xxx do this, xxy do this. No wonder people are afraid to root. I am, now.
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Ok I can't quit that easy. Looked at xoomforums. I think my whole problem was forum layout. Viewing this forum on their premium app jumbled everything together. Seeing everything laid out rom, kernels, ect, much easier. I'll go with launchpad 1.3 then try tiamat. At least I don't feel lost. As long I'm not browsing through their app.
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There you go. That's what a productive person does, finds ways and doesn't sit and cry.

Anyone else having trouble installing the Update?

It gets the a quarter full and then it gives me the sideways robot.
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1/4 through mean you deleted some bloat I would guess. Matts util.

That's the thing though, I used the utility to go back to stock and remove the root I had. It should install normally right?
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doesnt the newest update block root? if so and you want root i would hold off

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43781134&postcount=112

pbanj said:
doesnt the newest update block root? if so and you want root i would hold off
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i realized that I really don't use root for much, I can live without it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43781134&postcount=112
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Not sure what I'm reading here.
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notdeadyet01 said:
i realized that I really don't use root for much, I can live without it.
Not sure what I'm reading here.
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The best guide we have for taking the UD.

[Q] Nexus 10 Root

Hey, haven't really posted here before and sorry for asking a question that's probably been asked a million times, but I've just had an information overload today.
I rooted my Nexus 10 today using the CF Auto Root, which also unlocked my bootloader. I won't really be tampering with much on the device as the main reason I wanted to do it is to use my PS3 controller to play games. My question is, what do I need to do with my device still to ensure it doesn't encounter any difficulties with the root?
Sorry again for the basic question, and thanks in advance!

murrich said:
Hey, haven't really posted here before and sorry for asking a question that's probably been asked a million times, but I've just had an information overload today.
I rooted my Nexus 10 today using the CF Auto Root, which also unlocked my bootloader. I won't really be tampering with much on the device as the main reason I wanted to do it is to use my PS3 controller to play games. My question is, what do I need to do with my device still to ensure it doesn't encounter any difficulties with the root?
Sorry again for the basic question, and thanks in advance!
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Well, nothing.. It's a Nexus..
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mrgnex said:
Well, nothing.. It's a Nexus..
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Thanks, I really don't know much about rooting, didn't want to risk anything.

murrich said:
Thanks, I really don't know much about rooting, didn't want to risk anything.
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No it's all fine. And since it is a Nexus it's unbrickable.. Or you have to do something really stupid.. You can fix it almost always.
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If something does go very wrong, just restore the factory images. Welcome to the wonderful world of rooting!
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It's so easy
A caveman can do it.