What system mod are you talking about?
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NOTE: Please read this message and the 2 other messages I posted after this one before replying to my questions. I have found an answer to the root problem.
I think I'm stuck again.
I ran an app that need the system to be rooted.
I thought that the version of upgrade I used was the EL29 rooted and su?
Here is the file name I used: SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED_NODATA-OneClick.exe
From what I read, this is stock rom with root (I guess superuser as well, but I do have superuser so I'm ok with that, just not the root part). And it also kept my data. And it did that perfectly.
You helped me fix the slow problem, which I did by clearing all the caches.
So now I am wondering why I can access root with an app?
Is there anyway to tell if I am really not rooted. And if I used the rooted version how come it never rooted?
I know you said if all fails, I should try and perform the operation again. But I won't do that until we (you) really think I should.
Another thing, when looking around for an answer, I discovered that over at xda, they now have an EL30 (and possibly an EL31), do you know what that is all about. Maybe since I'm in the process of doing all this work, I should just go and try that?
As far as your question: which system mods, I was making a general statement to gain knowledge of what Android system mods are all about. If you are familiar with WebOS, you know that we never had a different ROM, we always adjusted or modified the stock ROM. If you got into trouble, you just re-wrote the whole device and you were back to normal stock.
Oh, yes, there is one area where we would have a different ROM, that would be the overclocking. That is the only thing that was changed from the stock rom, it would just be a modified ROM that handled the overclocking. I personally took my 500mhz Palm Pre and ran it at 1 mhz. And yes it really worked and made the phone fast. And no, it did not burn up the phone. But I was a heavy into patching the phone.
So when talking about how Android works, I am always trying to compare things to WebOS as a base. That is why I don't understand what system mods do. Such as Clockwork, Cynmode (whatever the spelling is for that, but you know what I am talking about). I don't know what they bring to the table. If they just give me a different launcher, I don't need or want them. I hear people talking about how they like this mod or that mod. It hard for me to picture (remember I am comparing to WebOS and how that worked for a reference) what the differences are that they are getting.
From my point of view, I want to play around with the stock rom and adjust it to how I like. Then if I don't like what I did, I would restore it back to the factory rom, just like I did in WebOS.
Or am I misunderstanding all of this? And maybe you don't play around with the system mod (whoops, yes, I see which system mod) I should have said the stock mod, in this paragraph.
Back to the root question? What can I try to fix that.
Also, in a previous message I you that when I do boot into (for lack of better words) developer mod. I don't have things like 'backup' system rom or restore system rom. What that because that was due to having Clockwork installed? I did like having some of those features on there.
Oh one more thing before this becomes a book.
I found an app called: Super Status Bar. I think that will provide me with what I wanted to modify without having to play around in superuser or root.
I am find an app (haven't figured out which one) that is placing advertisements in my notification bar area and if I accidentally click on it, its taking me to a web page via a my Dolphin Browser (my default browser) for an ad that I won an iPad. So it's crap or some sort.
The icon looks like a red star surrounded by a white circle. Have you even seen that?
As I said, I'm look for which app is causing that and want to remove it. It could have been this new Super Status Bar, I have not yet purchase the 'premium version'. I deleted it for now and not sure if the ads are now gone or not, haven't used the phone that much yet after that deletion.
OK, I'm going on way too much.
Thanks for you help as always!
Rob