Are there any downsides to rooting?

[mcdaking84]

I know if you jailbreak your iphone it is laggy and slower, is it like that for the GN?

I am a noob to android so does anyone have a site they use?

 

[dmmarck]

You may void your warranty, but generally you can get more features, probably more bugs, maybe some glitches, and some definite performance upgrades.

I use RootzWiki and XDA Developers, as well as the topics here.

 

[Nechasin]

if you mess up you'll end up with a laggy phone, but if you follow directions you will have www.better higher performing phone.

 

[sicario666]

You'll gain way more from your rooted phone.

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[moosc]

yep there is you void your warrenty, you open your self to bag oh crap why did that. plus side u can undo what they dont want you to do you have control

 

[michikade#AC]

The only real down side is if you mess up installing a custom rom or mess up a tweak - you can end up with constant boot cycling and possible bricking.

However, the pros outweigh the cons and you can find tutorials to fix almost all problems.

I suggest reading as much as possible about it before proceeding. Kind of like measuring twice and cutting once.

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[dmmarck]

You can also take it all the way back to stock relatively easily. As long as you're careful, the benefits far outweigh the risks.

 

[zero neck]

The real downside is the possibility of bricking your phone, however, it is very difficult and rare to hard-brick (never work again) the phone. It is relatively easy to soft-brick, which can fixed in a number of ways.

Bricks can almost always be avoided by following the correct procedures and reading directions. Also, paying attention helps.

The voided warranty is not really an issue because once you put the phone back to normal no one at verizon will be able to tell.

The other possible downside is that learning the correct ways to do things can take your time - some see that as an upside, however, if you like having a hobby.

 

[droid780]

I agree, im surfing the forum here and rooting my first android device with advice from AC. I'm very excited. I'm rooting a basic optimus V (Lg from virginmobile ) and looking forward to tweaking it to run faster and running cross over apps from ubuntu.

 

[mcdaking84]

The voided warranty is not really an issue because once you put the phone back to normal no one at verizon will be able to tell.

is this true?

and is rootzwiki the best site to learn about this?

 

[davidsnoodles]

From my experience, after rooting what would cause a laggy phone would be the ROM I would be running on the Thunderbolt. For the first couple of days it would be really zippy and fast and then slow down - akin to hot molasses cooling down lol. However, I've had my Galaxy Nexus rooted and running Pete's Bugless Beast ROM for a while now and I've seen the same performance time and time again. Mind you I'm running Franco's Kernel, a good investment for performance.

As far as warranty, unrooting and unlocking the Galaxy Nexus is a breeze. Just keep a backup of your ROM on your computer so that if you ever have problems, you can unroot, unlock and get a new Galaxy Nexus, unlock and root and restore your ROM! You'll find all the help you need on AndroidCentral's various forums.

 

[davidsnoodles]

is this true?

and is rootzwiki the best site to learn about this?

Yeah, it's true. Some people at Verizon are complete IDIOTS. When I was having issues with my Galaxy Nexus, they asked me if I wanted them to put the SD card into the new phone... Ermmm, there's no SD card on the Galaxy Nexus lol. When you unlock your phone, the Google boot screen will show a padlock type thing that indicates the phone is unlocked. That's probably what they're looking for. As I've said before, unrooting and locking your phone is really really easy and will make it so it's essentially like it's a brand new Galaxy Nexus.

 

[zero neck]

is this true?

and is rootzwiki the best site to learn about this?

When it's been unrooted, and the bootloader is locked again, they won't be able to tell it was ever otherwise.

Rootzwiki is a very good source of information, but if you would like my personal opinion, you will in general get more user friendly instructions and help here than there for several reasons.

But it's an excellent resource.


About the thunderbolt roms - those are kind of a different story, because alot of those roms are built from sense software meant for different, more powerful phones ... Also, the kernel source wasnt realeased for a long time so in the early days (re: many months) all the kernels were frankenkernels, made up of different kernel parts from other htc phones, and so none of them were ever going to really give you perfect results.

I also found many sense roms to work great for a week, and become laggy (part of this is cache building up as well). The leaner, aosp roms for tbolt were better - cm7, etc.

 

[sicario666]

Don't forget about using Odin to return to stock. Its as easy as pie :thumbup:

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[davidnc]

is this true?

and is rootzwiki the best site to learn about this?

As everyone has mentioned the pros outway the cons .
As long as you follow the steps on unlocking, rooting,and Rom flashing you will be ok .
Ask questions if you dont understand something.
Alot of people here are on android central and rootzwiki.
I would say the main thing to do after you unlock and root is to make a nandroid backup,Before Custom Rom flashing .There are guides in the stickies in the galaxy nexus forum on how to do that ,again tho ask questions if dont fully understand something .

A couple years ago when I first got my first android phones I thought I never would root them.Having experienced root tho now I couldnt imagine not rooting them ha

 

[davey11]

Taking into account all of the above, I'll keep it simple. NO DOWNSIDES. Just pure joy. ;-)

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[mcdaking84]

thanks guys, another question, how do I know what roms off rootz to use?

 

[davey11]

thanks guys, another question, how do I know what roms off rootz to use?

At this point in time, there is only one choice and that is Crossbreed. Since you are new to flashing roms, I would suggest the monolith build.
Of course all that is just my opinion, and there are tons of solid roms out there, but you could hardly go wrong with crossbreed as your first custom rom.

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[Droid_Evo_8]

At this point in time, there is only one choice and that is Crossbreed. Since you are new to flashing roms, I would suggest the monolith build.
Of course all that is just my opinion, and there are tons of solid roms out there, but you could hardly go wrong with crossbreed as your first custom rom.

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Crossbreed? Blah!!!

 

[mcdaking84]

At this point in time, there is only one choice and that is Crossbreed. Since you are new to flashing roms, I would suggest the monolith build.
Of course all that is just my opinion, and there are tons of solid roms out there, but you could hardly go wrong with crossbreed as your first custom rom.

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This is a dumb question but what is the monolith build?