I've had the S3 for a month and I'm starting to think about rooting. The phone is pretty sick stock...aside from bloatware and bad battery life.
Why are you rooted?
Sent from my S3 on ACS
Why are you rooted?
Sent from my S3 on ACS
Why am I rooted? Simple, no device should have hardware keys, they are unnecessary
Wanted soft keys like the nexus
Sent from my SPH - L710 running Pac Man Rom 4.1.2, seeder and ktweaker kernel
Love the wallpaper and clock setup. Onscreen keys suck though but to each his own
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I rooted because I wanted Beats Audio, Titanium Backup and Cerberus Anti Theft, oh and a custom kernel that makes phone run faster with less battery.
I'm not rooted as I don't have a effing clue of how to do it. I do see a lot of nice set ups though that folks have posted. I need a "Rooting and Installing ROMs Guide for Dummies".
Mine is mainly because I like having full administrative rights to my phone so I can always do something if I want. Such as I like being able to browse all the system files... Why? Well for things like disabling camera sounds and stuff
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Lmao, better than having to press your physical home button for ten years to open your recent apps manager, when I can just press my recent button for it, lol
And I can take a screen shot by holding my notification button on my nav bar
And did I forget to mention that not only so I have soft keys, but widgets in my navigation bar?
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Much more function than some useless hardware keys
Sent from my SPH - L710 running Pac Man Rom 4.1.2, seeder and ktweaker kernel
@chaos. AYE, onscreen nav' keys are DUMB when u have them on the bezel......
Unbranded international rooted s3 with Official 4.1.2 JB. Paisley, Scotland, Western Europe :beer:
At first I had serious hatred for on screen keys, but like other things you get used to them. I have a basically stock tablet with no keys and they themselves are not bad.
What is stupid is that no matter what they take up space and I would rather have the screen real estate.
My example is the n4. You have a 4.7 inch screen, but only 4.41 of usable space. If I buy 4.7 I want all 4.7 inches for whatever. If you want to take the bezel and replace it with onscreen keys and say something to the effects of it is a 5'' screen with 4.8'' of usable space I am fine with that.
Sent from the nexus of the Android world, the SGS3.