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phantasmagoria wrote:Do you have a link to a decent rooting guide Toxic? I rooted my old omnia but when it came to this I read so much conflicting information that I just couldn't be arsed...

This seems to be a fairly definitive guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=1321582

This seems to be another method with a video tutorial. However, some people are saying it's just regurgitating the info in the first link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=1499331

Also this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=1505172

One way or another, XDA is the place that knows.

Dunno if you guys follow lifehacker at all, but they have a page that claims to be the always up-to-date guide to rooting any of the more popular droid phones.

Anyone using Android 4.x yet?

Yes

lol poor ppl...

Mat Linnett wrote:Dunno if you guys follow lifehacker at all, but they have a page that claims to be the always up-to-date guide to rooting any of the more popular droid phones.

sexy. bookmarked

you know how I know my EVO is good? it's two years old and it's still in that list. 3rd from the top mind you.

So's my HTC Desire, time you upgraded. lol poor people....

But that's exactly my point...what does a new phone have that I don't?
There is no reason to upgrade. I have 4G, a big screen, 8mb camera, and enough power to run all my apps..I don't play games on my cellphone (not that any of them ever gave me an issue), and I can run android 4.xx why would I upgrade?

Do new phones have better battery life? no you say? there goes your only valuable leverage. Now that most phones use the same OS, there is no reason to change the hardware, as long as they all give you the same functionality...and having a main OS like android, it pretty much undermines the hardware end of things.

While I agree with you, the option is there upgrade to a faster phone, with better camera and brighter screen for free so why not take it up? especially because you can sell your old phone.

I was abroad with work a few weeks ago and put a second sim in my old Desire and the difference between that and the S2 side by side was massive. Pentium vs 486 kind of massive. Why should I bin my old 486 and get a pentium when windows 3.1 works on both...?

When i use my "free" upgrade, I want to feel like I got something out of it. I honestly don't see it struggle with anything that I use. Until a new phone makes my mouth water like the EVO did when it first came out, i might milk this one. Until a super duper version of android comes out that my phone physically struggles with.

One feature that I would like to have and would make me upgrade would be the possibility of connecting my phone on a tv or monitor and would effectively turn my phone into a portable computer, by recognizing the connection and instantly adjusting the operating system into a higher resolution layout, effectively making it into an iPad of some kind. It should recognize a set of wireless mouse and keyboard, too. Now that would make the faster processing and memory that is available in the new phones worth something.

Honestly , there isn't a single phone out there that I like better right now, with the exception of some better screens, but that's hardly enough of a reason.

Successfully flashed my S2 to Android 4.0.3 because Bell is too gay to roll out an upgrade. Didn't even lose any of my settings or apps and I have full functionality. Awesome

Oh, i managed to finally root my android, yay!

What are some must have apps for rooted phones? I'd be most interested in removing bloatware and improving battery life...

Titanium Backup, Droidwall

back up apps are good for a disaster case, but it's always better to re-install fresh and download your apps again.

Ryoki, I guess you should get a hotspot app. Don't remember what it's called, but they have a few out there.

And try to stay away from those aggressive battery life improving hacks, I've heard some stories of how they can permanently damage battery capacity...or something like that.

Titanium Backup does more than just back up apps, it can also freeze or uninstall carrier bloatware and restore app data and settings.

Cheers, snatched both Titanium Backup and Droidwall
Titanium is quite the beast isn't it... went for the free version so i'll try and not go mental with the crapware deleting as i don't know what's what half the time and freeze/unfreeze is for the paid version only but i already managed to destroy a few default apps i hated with a passion, so hurray for that.

What's this about a hotspot app, what does that do..?

just turns your phone into a wifi without having to pay for the service . I'm assuming your phone does that, bit it's locked out by your provider.

Hmmmz, must investigate this, ty

Tsakali wrote:just turns your phone into a wifi without having to pay for the service . I'm assuming your phone does that, bit it's locked out by your provider.

Unlikely that it's locked out. It's a native feature of Android and here in the Netherlands providers do not block wifi hotspot functionality.

lol, yeah right. Let me guess, you don't pay for health care either.

It seems I was wrong. Looks like the introduction of the feature in some iOS version triggered some providers to ask additional fees for use of the features.

I have used it before without any special subscription fees though.

Google doesn't let you back up your phone to the cloud?

rofl

Sure they let you, but rather than forcing their own limited walled garden version of it upon their users they allow their users to choose their own solution for it. Besides, you can stick all your contacts, appointments, email, documents, music and other stuff in "the cloud" through your Google account. So in that sense they are for the most part on par with Apple