Pros and cons to rooting

[projectPONY]

I'm particularly interested in comments from those of you with EVO 4G's, but I'm sure all contributions will help.

TIA





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[my fear]

there is no cons to rooting, and many pros. you get to flash better working roms for your phone, get to do stuff you couldn't before. just rooting itself isn't much to do, its when you get into flashing roms is where you have to read and be careful. and once you root you can overclock the processor and make the phone run way faster. check xda-developers.com on the evo forums and just read read read. most of the time if you mess up you can fix it. so have no fear.

links: cyanogenmod is one of the best

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/

xda the evo section:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=619

[projectPONY]

Thanks for the links, I'll check them out when I get the time.

Is there an online step by step on how to do this somewhere?





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[Tx Redneck]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701245

[projectPONY]

just rooting itself isn't much to do, its when you get into flashing roms is where you have to read and be careful.

links: cyanogenmod is one of the best

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/

xda the evo section:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=619

So basically what I'm getting from your post is that there is really nothing to gain from just rooting. Flashing roms is when the fun starts, correct?






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[ma67cpe]

Thanks for this thread. I have been wanting to root my evo for a while but never had the guts. I love this phone and do not want to jack it up. Let me know how yours works out.

[my fear]

So basically what I'm getting from your post is that there is really nothing to gain from just rooting. Flashing roms is when the fun starts, correct?






sent from htc EVO, the iCrap killer.

not necessarily, some great apps in the market require root. like titanium backup for saving your apps when flashing and setcpu for overclocking, rom manager is another good one. and im sure there's more but those are the main ones i use. to just root and nothing else doesn't really do anything but just sit there unless you go in to flashing new kernels for overclocking or a whole rom itself. and cyanogen mod has a step by step for installing the newest version of android on your evo. cm7 is the gingerbread port.

[ma67cpe]

I just used unrevoked and rooted my evo. Hey brian what custom rom are you using?

[Tx Redneck]

Cyanogenmod 7(CM7) is my preferred rom w/ Launcher Pro instead of ADW that comes w/ CM7. I'm testing different dialers atm because the AOSP on inCM7 has the HOLD button on the screen an I always put ppl on hold by accident.

[ma67cpe]

Cyanogenmod 7(CM7) is my preferred rom w/ Launcher Pro instead of ADW that comes w/ CM7. I'm testing different dialers atm because the AOSP on inCM7 has the HOLD button on the screen an I always put ppl on hold by accident.

So i just download that rom to the sd card and then go into the recovery menu and select it. The phone will do the rest?

[Tx Redneck]

DL rom, boot to recovery, make a nandroid in back/restore, wipe data-factory reset, advanced>wipe alvik cache, install zip from sd card, select zip

[ma67cpe]

DL rom, boot to recovery, make a nandroid in back/restore, wipe data-factory reset, advanced>wipe alvik cache, install zip from sd card, select zip

Will my apps that are saved to SD card stay or will those be erased as well?

[Tx Redneck]

Make sure and sync contacts, gmail...to google, dl titanium backup and backup all your apps, dl sms backup+ and backup all your text then you can restore all apps and text after flashing the new rom.

[ma67cpe]

Make sure and sync contacts, gmail...to google, dl titanium backup and backup all your apps, dl sms backup+ and backup all your text then you can restore all apps and text after flashing the new rom.

cool thanks for the advice man

[projectPONY]

Make sure and sync contacts, gmail...to google, dl titanium backup and backup all your apps, dl sms backup+ and backup all your text then you can restore all apps and text after flashing the new rom.

this sounds like it should be done first before anything, am I correct?