Per @P3Droid they rooted the Bionic

[SamuriHL]

Re: Droid Bionic is Rooted!

I just use my Xoom's official wifi tethering capability if I need tethering. Yea, it's not unlimited data, but, I'm not usually in a place where I need to tether a laptop anyway. Besides, that's yet another thing that eats battery.

 

[dandreat]

Re: Droid Bionic is Rooted!

Quick Q: Regarding tether, is it fair to assume that 'Wireless Tether' will work simply because the Bionic can be rooted? The app appears to require a kernel which supports netfilter (iptables). Do we know for sure that the Bionic is so equipped? I searched, but couldn't find a definitive answer. Thanks in advance.

 

[KillerG]

Re: Droid Bionic is Rooted!

I may wait a little while before I root it, but I know I'll eventually want to try it. Especially for free tethering, I really want that

 

[fireplug]

As far as wireless tethering... I found I was able to "tether" through Bluetooth with the Motorola drivers installed on my windows 7 laptop. Fairly easy and I'm not sure if this mentioned as a no no by Verizon? Anyone know?

 

[ChevyNovaLN]

Re: Droid Bionic is Rooted!

As far as wireless tethering... I found I was able to "tether" through Bluetooth with the Motorola drivers installed on my windows 7 laptop. Fairly easy and I'm not sure if this mentioned as a no no by Verizon? Anyone know?

I'd say if you can do it with a completely stock build on your phone (no rooting, no new ROM, etc..) and it is using the built-in bluetooth stack that came with it, then they can't really fault you for it as you're not doing anything it wasn't capable of out of the box. However, if you've done any of the aforementioned steps to get to where you are, then they could easily see that as a 'no no'

 

[mjforte]

As far as wireless tethering... I found I was able to "tether" through Bluetooth with the Motorola drivers installed on my windows 7 laptop. Fairly easy and I'm not sure if this mentioned as a no no by Verizon? Anyone know?

Bluetooth tethering is supposedly not as fast though.

 

[ChevyNovaLN]

Re: Droid Bionic is Rooted!

Bluetooth tethering is supposedly not as fast though.

I bet its faster than my laptop can do on its own with no connection

 

[shadrap]

Re: Droid Bionic is Rooted!

Guys, just my opinion. Do you really think Verizon is going to hit thousands that are free tethering? I don't believe so. Yes it's easy for them to find, but what isn't easy is the time and effort to deal with it. Unless you are receiving multiple gigs a month in data through tethering they are not gonna bother.

Again, just my opinion. But I have been tethering since tethering was possible and have done so on iOS and android. I have never received anything, not even the little warning text.

 

[timothy]

Re: Droid Bionic is Rooted!

For those of us eagerly waiting our first Android device, could someone direct me to a step-by-step on how to remove the Bloatware once I root the Bionic? I understand there aren't any ROM's when phones are first released, but it would be nice to at least remove the VZW crapware?

Much appreciated.

 

[MagicMountainMan]

Well if you want to remove bloody right off the bat, I would use Titanium Backup Pro. There is a function that allows for the freezing of applications, including ones that cannot be uninstalled. The applications are still technically on the phone, but just in a non functioning state and you won't see any trace of them. You can always defrost the application and it will go right back to normal.

Just one of the many benefits if Titanium Backup Pro. I am a non payed spokesperson.

 

[ragnarokx]

Well if you want to remove bloody right off the bat, I would use Titanium Backup Pro. There is a function that allows for the freezing of applications, including ones that cannot be uninstalled. The applications are still technically on the phone, but just in a non functioning state and you won't see any trace of them. You can always defrost the application and it will go right back to normal.

Just one of the many benefits if Titanium Backup Pro. I am a non payed spokesperson.

If you have root access, anything can be uninstalled Titanium Backup can uninstall apps, or you can just use Root Explorer (or equivalent) to navigate to /system/app and delete the apps you want.

 

[SamuriHL]

I would still recommend backing it up first. You never know when you might decide in the future you wanted some piece of bloatware. But yea, I'm a huge titantium backup fan, myself. I'm going to back up my OG Droid so I can restore my app data. No sense losing my Angry Birds levels!

 

[labs point]

OK guys, non rooting relatively oldster here with a question as to why all the excitement regarding tethering via rooting when this device will support wi-fi on up to 8 other devices?

I have used PDA net on my current Eris while in CA on a boat outside of Ventura and in some airports. It worked great. I have been looking forward to not having to hard wire tether my computer thinking the wi-fi feature will get my laptop up on the internet by just having my phone on.

What am I missing here?

Thanks

 

[bplewis24]

OK guys, non rooting relatively oldster here with a question as to why all the excitement regarding tethering via rooting when this device will support wi-fi on up to 8 other devices?

I have used PDA net on my current Eris while in CA on a boat outside of Ventura and in some airports. It worked great. I have been looking forward to not having to hard wire tether my computer thinking the wi-fi feature will get my laptop up on the internet by just having my phone on.

What am I missing here?

Thanks

The device supports wifi on 8 other devices if you pay Verizon $20+/month for their mobile hotspot feature.

Wireless Tether or Wifi Tether via rooting allows you to do this (wirelessly, of course) without paying for it, but apparently there is security built into the OS or kernel software to disallow this, so PDANet via wired tether would be your only free option.

Brandon

 

[iambecoming]

If you have root access, anything can be uninstalled Titanium Backup can uninstall apps, or you can just use Root Explorer (or equivalent) to navigate to /system/app and delete the apps you want.

For someone who has never rooted before but would be very interested in removing apps I'd never use, will doing this affect getting OTA updates that may provide fixes to the phone after release?

 

[mjforte]

For someone who has never rooted before but would be very interested in removing apps I'd never use, will doing this affect getting OTA updates that may provide fixes to the phone after release?

Yes it would probably affect getting OTA updates but once there is an SBF file you could probably flash back to stock and take the update. Only problem with that is they may patch the root exploit. Most of the time the dev community will make a rooted version of the update shortly after release anyways. I know P3Droid has been really good about doing it for Droid devices so that would be the better route to go to keep root.

 

[SamuriHL]

Half the time the rooted update is available before the OTA update.

 

[SamuriHL]

P.S. Speaking of SBF, has anyone seen one for the Bionic yet? Would be nice to have in our arsenal.

 

[mjforte]

P.S. Speaking of SBF, has anyone seen one for the Bionic yet? Would be nice to have in our arsenal.

Well I know the Droid 3 doesn't even have one yet, so who knows how long it will take to get one for the Bionic.

 

[SamuriHL]

Well I know the Droid 3 doesn't even have one yet, so who knows how long it will take to get one for the Bionic.

AFAIU, that makes rooting rather dangerous in that you can't easily get back to stock. UGH.