First Time Rooter? Are You Worried?

[atraum]

I'll start out by saying that I am technically inclined but have been worried about rooting my phone due to so many issues that I have read about regarding ROM's and missing features, even the newest IHO appears to allow you to fix the auto installs with Google Android Market but you have to sacrifice MMS. I have read an enormous amount of material in numerous threads over the course of months and always left it at that, no root.

Now I am rooted and I want to let you know not to worry. I rooted for one of the main reasons everyone does, more room. I was sick and tired of picking and choosing what apps to keep on my phone and what had to go. I have not changed the ROM so I am currently a rooted user that gets all the benefits of additional storage without any of the worries that are brought on by potential ROM issues.

What I did so you know:
1) Backed up my SD card in case thing went wrong.
2) Used Minitool Partition Wizard suggested by the LinkSD and you (a tutorial) thread in androidforums to prep my SD card for LinkSD
3) Followed post 1 in this forum thread called [HOW-TO] Simplified Root + Recovery + Custom ROM

Although I did skip the custom ROM part and stayed with LauncherPro on the stock Optimus V system the instructions were spot on and everything went flawless. In fact, I spent more time backing up my SD card than it actually took to root.

Bottom line, don't worry. If you're concerned about functionality don't load a new ROM just root and load the tools in the instructions plus LinkSD. I can't believe I didn't do this sooner, 73 apps and still more room than I can ever recall.

Once I see MMS back on IHO I probably will go that route!

 

[ShadyBusiness]

I have IHO. MMS works perfectly.

 

[Spiral_ouT#AC]

I have IHO. MMS works perfectly.

Same here. Currently running the latest Mirage build.

I think I waited a week and a half before rooting and throwing a custom ROM on my phone. My only regret is I didn't do it sooner. The performance increase with an IHO ROM compared to stock is unbelievable.

 

[atraum]

I have IHO. MMS works perfectly.

Thanks for the update! Last time I checked the error for the Market was linked to a message with a patch that fixed the Market but broke MMS.

Any other issues you running into? Camera? Hmmm, think the thread said everything else was fixed.

Hmmmm, think I know what I'll be doing this evening!

thanks for your response!

 

[kcls]

When I tried a build of iho a while ago, camera worked perfect.

Sent from my CM7'd NookColor using Tapatalk

 

[riggerman]

If I remember correctly the only known bug with IHO is the headset microphone not working properly.

 

[camf3xu]

If I remember correctly the only known bug with IHO is the headset microphone not working properly.

from this build further, it is said to be fixed. i dont know, because i do not use one.
(jerrys build iho)
Changes 08312011: Synced with Blarf's repo, Headset mic fixed, Camera geo tagging fixed, code cleanup, preparation for support of new phones, lots of CM7 tweaks that don't affect the Optimus V

 

[AlisN1dlan]

I use IHO 7.1 and everything - including messaging - works fine.

 

[wagonburner]

Not only an I using a older copy of backside but I have mms and auto up date working perfectly. Love rocking gingerbread