The reasons I thought you didn't mean that thread are:
- it says the rooting will invalidate the warranty. By 'stock/rooted' I was thinking maybe you meant there was a kind of rooting that didn't.
- I don't know all the jargon, but in that thread it looks like one is doing more than rooting, but actually installing a fresh OS. I've already done this, and don't want to have to hassle with that.
- supplemental: did we get screwed in Gingerbread on camera shutter sounds?...that is, there's now no option to turn it OFF.
1: rooting will void your warranty, if sprint finds out. Basically if you are having an issue you believe to be hardware and want to bring it to the service center, first ODIN back to full stock. If the issue is gone, great. If it persists, just tell 'em that you factory restored. No sign of root ;-) at that point. If you somehow manage to fully brick it (very difficult to do) they wont know what you did. Just tell them it shut down and wont power back up...
2: a: there is full stock, as it came from sprint.
B: Stock/rooted is the unchanged OS, with CWM and SuperUser installed. Good for stock appearance and performance with root only apps (titanium backup, wifi tether, etc...)
C: rommed, could be a stock-ish but with under the hood mods like a switch to the MTD file system, or changed kernels for performance or battery life tweaks, all the way up to roms like CM9 to get ICS installed. I hope all that is clear enough.
D: glossery: CWM is the advanced recovery.
Root is nothing more than superuser privilages
Kernel is the inner workings of the OS, the engine if you will.
Rom is typically a full package of kernel and OS/apps. The whole car, seats, radio, etc. May not always contain a kernel, pick your own engine...
3: yep. The stock camera app removed silent mode with 2.2, some say to comply with privacy regulations. There are other cameras you can install even on stock that have silent mode so not that big of a deal i guess.
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