Thinking About Rooting...

[Bizzle69]

Ya.. I got great battery life out of 2.4, and somehow got about the same on 3.0 (with no tweaks! But I used the new power saver option in sense).

I use titanium backup every time... Just make sure you don't back up "system settings" seeing as each rom will most likely have different things going on in /system; I just back up "apps w/ data".

Everything on your sd card will be safe when flashing new roms/factory resetting/installing. Now I would still advise copying most of your folders/files onto the PC just in case you corrupt your sd card and lose everything (you can always format it if this happens and start over)
I only mention this because I did this one time and freaked out haha

^^that happened because I kept rebooting the phone while it was trying to boot up into a rom (got impatient and kept reinstalling, and interrupting the boot up)

 

[RawisTheGameHhH]

I use titanium backup every time... Just make sure you don't back up "system settings" seeing as each rom will most likely have different things going on in /system; I just back up "apps w/ data".

is it just batch backup then backup all user apps? if so will that capture all the settings and such from those apps?

 

[Bizzle69]

Right when you open titanium back up, hit the clipboard icon on the top right of the screen, then look for "back up all user apps"

 

[RawisTheGameHhH]

do you think 3.1 of viper will release soon; i think ill wait for that version

 

[Bizzle69]

I'm guessing within the next few weeks. I've been running JellyBam for a couple weeks now, this rom is BA! Best hybrid rom yet.

 

[RawisTheGameHhH]

I'm guessing within the next few weeks. I've been running JellyBam for a couple weeks now, this rom is BA! Best hybrid rom yet.

or it dropped today!!! same install directions that you provided earlier with the boot.img via flash gui?

 

[Bizzle69]

Yep, flashed it myself the same way about 10 minutes after he posted it haha

 

[Bizzle69]

Make sure you come here with any questions first... LOSTS of new people over on his thread asking the same questions haha

 

[RawisTheGameHhH]

Make sure you come here with any questions first... LOSTS of new people over on his thread asking the same questions haha

thanks; how do you like it? i am thinking of loading it up soon; did you have to flash the super user fix and wifi fix as well?

 

[Bizzle69]

thanks; how do you like it? i am thinking of loading it up soon; did you have to flash the super user fix and wifi fix as well?

Nope, just flashed the rom by itself and everything seems to be good. If you end up having any issues, just wipe and reinstall. I went back to JellyBam cause I'm loving the tablet and phablet UI too much haha (although I am running a sense theme on it). Ill be back on viper as soon as they implement scrolling wallpaper (htc took this out for some stupid reason) and the increased grid size for home screen. Battery life on viper 3.1 is flat out crazy good (as usual for viper) and there are tons of tweaks. If you end up flashing it, you'll be playing with your phone for a few hours, it's great!

In fact, I think I may flash back and toy around with it again haha

 

[Bizzle69]

This is jellybam by the way

Sent from my JellyBammed One X using Tapatalk 2

 

[Bizzle69]

And actually you do need to flash the wifi fix afterword, but that's it

 

[RawisTheGameHhH]

And actually you do need to flash the wifi fix afterword, but that's it

what do you think are the best settings to choose in aroma?

 

[Bizzle69]

what do you think are the best settings to choose in aroma?

I chose stock signal icons (work the best) and I chose certain sense apps to be removed, but I only took away a couple I don't use. Make sure you wipe in the aroma installer at the beginning no matter what.

 

[RawisTheGameHhH]

every time im about to do it; i dont because of that 10% who is saying there are errors and reboots and stuff

 

[loraque]

Do a backup first. You can easily restore to exactly the way you have it now if things do no work out, or if you just want to run both for the time being. No danger, beyond the 10 minutes it would take to do the restore.

I bet most of those reboot issues are from restored data, or some other no-no. I removed every app I wanted to use from Aroma... I think some those get installed as /system apps, which in turn causes problems when using TitBU to "Back all user apps with data" later. I removed most HTC stuff, except what I use (flashlight and calendar I think), ticked the complete removal of Sense and chose Nova for launcher. Viper has quite a lot you CAN do before you even flash the ROM, but you do not have to. If it seems overwhelming, just flash and try it out. You can always redo.

After a backup of course. Always keep one or two good backups around, or good points on whatever ROM you like, so you can recover quickly if you make a mistake.

 

[Bizzle69]

Make sure if you are still stock, do the back up, but also look for the stock rom/boot.img for when you need to fastboot it/flash GUI flash it

 

[RawisTheGameHhH]

Make sure if you are still stock, do the back up, but also look for the stock rom/boot.img for when you need to fastboot it/flash GUI flash it

yes i am still stock rooted with twrp installed

 

[Bizzle69]

If you end up flashing JellyBam at any point (like most cm/AOKP roms with hboot 1.14) once you flash it it will take a long time to boot.. After 5 minutes I usually just hold power down until the screen turns off and then it boots fine within a few minutes

 

[RawisTheGameHhH]

so to return to the backup of stock rooted i need a boot.img? where do i get that from?