rooting question

[matthewjoseph255]

I currently have the asus prime and i love ics the browsers speeds are amazing. I have no rooting experience but i used to have a iphone 4 and jailbroke it all the time is rooting as easy... also will i get the browser speeds of ics as i do on the prime. And does the beats eq still work. Sorry for the noob questions

 

[Wanda]

Rooting won't change the speed of anything that's currently on the device, be that the browser or just the speed of the UI in general. All rooting does is give you "root" access to parts of the phone that you otherwise wouldn't be able to access. It won't change anything about the phone or device execpt for that. After you've rooted you can then go about changing things via a custom recovery through which you can install custom ROMS and kernels.

Rooting on the rezound is a fairly painless process as long as you follow the instructions and understand the risks (I'm guessing you do since you jailbroke you iPhone)

I'm not sure what the browser speeds of the prime are but the Rezound on Gingerbread is pretty dang fast being 4G and all. If you wanted to get ICS on your Rezound you would have to do the following in this order:

Unlock your bootloader through HTC's dev site

Root the phone using one of the root methods available, perm-root I think is what I used

Install a custom Recovery like Amon Ra or Clockwork Mod (I found this to be the trickier part because I'm no good with c: commands and all but follow the directions and you can muddle through it like I did)

After you have a custom recovery I would highly recommend you make a full nandroid backup in case you don't like the ROM your about to flash and you'd like to or need to get back to straight up Gingerbread

Flash the ICS ROM of you choice...as of now I think there are at least 2 ICS ROMs for the Rezound that I know of.

By doing all of this you will be voiding warranties blah blah blah but more importantly you will be performing a factory reset of the device and wiping all the data on it (not the SD card, just the internal stuff) so if there's stuff you want to save you'd better do a backup of those apps and data with Titanium Backup.

As I said, there are more detailed instructions floating around here and on XDA. Good luck.

Oh and to answer your last question, no Beats EQ will not work on ICS.

PS: Unrelated, how's Oahu? I lived in Eva Beach for 3 years...can't say I miss that part of the island though.

 

[matthewjoseph255]

I found my old droid X so i am going practice rooting that and flashing roms before i mess with rooting the rezound... Coming from Cali to Hawaii is a huge change I miss California alot but hawaii beautiful

 

[Wanda]

Fyi, since the Droid X is a moto product and this is HTC the rooting and flashing process may be vastly different as far as procedure goes. I can't say with certainty because I've only had HTC Android devices but I would guess they're pretty different.

I went from NC to HI...talk about a change!! Had never seen spam and rice served at a McDonald's

 

[xxfallacyxx]

Oh and to answer your last question, no Beats EQ will not work on ICS

Yes it does. I'm running Scrosler's ICS ROM and Beats is included and works.

 

[Wanda]

Yes it does. I'm running Scrosler's ICS ROM and Beats is included and works.

Really!? Wow...I stand corrected. Guess I figured with the pain it was to get running on the Sense 3.5 ROMs for the Inc it would only work within its native environment.

 

[Coop1969]

So I started the process of unlocking the bootloader at HTCdev.com. I'm on a 64 bit windows machine. I installed HTC sync and SPK like the instructions said. When i get to Step 5B and try to install the SPK tools, I get 'Installation Failed' messages, and 'Folder can't be created' messages. Any ideas? I mainly want to root just to get rid of Verizon bloatware. Thanks.

 

[xxfallacyxx]

Run as an administrator.

 

[Coop1969]

thanks xxfallacyxx. That did it. Now on to rooting

 

[Coop1969]

i've run the 1 step root process as mentioned on androidforums, it says i'm rooted, but I'm not. I've received the latest verizon update. I've run the 1 click file as both administrator and not. Any ideas?

 

[sbb888]

Don't feel bad,I've been trying to root this thing for over four hours, I have read post after post till I'm blue in the face. I can't get past the step where you find the file with the command prompt on htc's site. I rooted my fascinate and didn't have near this trouble. I'm so pissed off I'm ready to throw this************. Now I have to leave so I'll have to start over late tonight or in the morning.

 

[Coop1969]

sbb888 - i feel ya. it took me all of 2 minutes to root my og droid

 

[xxfallacyxx]

The OTA probably broke the rooting process. If that's the case, you're now in for a waiting game until a new method is found.

 

[sbb888]

Everything goes ok till I download the fastboot. It does not put that file in the android folder. It puts it in the download folder, so I drag and drop it to the android folder but when I use the command prompt it does not see it. It's probably just something I'm doing wrong.