I am new to this whole concept of 'flashing' and "rooting' and stuff - I am begining to figure out what all the terms mean - I love my epic - I would like to improve the performance - heck,I would love to install lthe Gingerbread upgrade I have seen around - (I have a copy of it downloaded and havn't done anything with it yet) to be honest I am struggelling with the concept of 'rooting' my phone, concerned I am going to ruin someting and be 'screwed' if you know what I mean.
First of all - the instructions you have given here are the best I have seen so far for getting started down this path - and I think I can actually follow along and do all the steps correctly - but I guess what I want to know is - is it worth the risk? What are the chances that I will screw things up and not be able to get them back - and do the benefits you get from doing this stuff make it work it all? (I realize you are not giving instructions for doing the Gingerbread upgrade - but It seems to me if I did the things you are suggesting here - I would be closer to being able to that if I did decide to ) SOOOO - is it worth it ?
Would I be better off just waiting until the Gingerbread update comes along in a few weeks or months - or whatever?
One other question - when downloading some of the files necessary (not from your links but from others I have seen online) there was one file in particular that no matter where I attempted to download it from, I got virus warnings from Microsoft Essentials which ended up blocking and removing the file when I tried to download it - Was this normal or is it more likely that the file was corrupted and had a real virus in it?
I appreciate your comments -
I do appreciate your thoughts -
First the so called virus or trojan horse that your virus scan is finding is the "rageinthecage" file that is in the OneClickRoot apps to root your device. THIS IS NOT A VIRUS... It was listed as an exploit because of what it does, "its the needed key file to root your device" and all the virus scan programs were updated to treat it as a virus when you go to extract and use the root pgm.
When you go t extract the Oneclickroot pgm and actually root your device just temp. disable your anti virus scanners until your finished or else it won't allow it to root or extract the files.
As far as rooting there is always a risk but 99.9% of the time everything works and normally any screw ups can be recovered from if you just stop and ask questions.
Bottom line read up, and anything your not sure of just ask and we will help you out.