Rooting?

[shanedroid1]

Hey AC community, I have recently switched to the galaxy nexus from my Droid x recently. I rooted my DX because, well frankly, stock sucked lol. I am happy with stock ics so far so can someone give me a reason to root, or maybe suggest your favorite rooms that are worth rooting for? Is there a significant improvement in performance and battery life once rooted on the nexus?

Thanks everyone.

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[zero neck]

Hey AC community, I have recently switched to the galaxy nexus from my Droid x recently. I rooted my DX because, well frankly, stock sucked lol. I am happy with stock ics so far so can someone give me a reason to root, or maybe suggest your favorite rooms that are worth rooting for? Is there a significant improvement in performance and battery life once rooted on the nexus?

Thanks everyone.

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There are a ton of great roms - aokp, cna, axiom monolith/patient zero, gummy, bugless beast, liquid, etc.

those are the well established roms. there are lots of features and performance increases, and if you pair those roms with nova or apex launcher you can have ics your way, configurable however you want it.

aside from that, you get to mess with kernels, tethering, themes, etc.

downside: no google videos or books i think. so you can't rent thru google. everything else generally works and works better than stock, imo.

 

[NotJustAPhone]

If you're someone who likes to tinker with things, you will want to root your phone. If not, staying with stock is probably a better option.

I fall into the former category, and shortly after getting my first Android device (HTC Thunderbolt) last March, I rooted it. You don't need to load custom ROMs and kernels to benefit from rooting. For example, rooting lets you block ads while web browsing. Rooting definitely is not for everyone, but it lets you use your device as you want to use it.

Also, can't speak for videos but Google Play Books works fine on my rooted devices.

Enjoy and don't hesitate to ask questions.

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[greydarrah]

Definitely worth it. The ROMs are mostly running 4.0.4 and will soon be running 4.0.5. They will always be ahead of whatever OS Verizon has approved. The popular current ROMs give you better performance and longer battery life. I was on codename and it was great, but I personally like axiom more. Even if you don't want to run custom ROMs, if nothing else, rooting gets you Titanium Backup, which is worth the process.

If you think you might want to root (even later on), it's best to do it earlier than later, because the first and only time that you unlock your bootloader, you will loose everything on your phone, including anything that's on your sd card (virtual sd card). So, before you do it, copy you pictures/music/ringtones (whatever you copied to the phone via file explorer) to your pc, unlock, root, then copy it back. It's a bit of a hassle, but it only happens that first time. Thereafter, data wipes for ROM flashing leave whatever is on the sd card alone.

 

[zero neck]

If you're someone who likes to tinker with things, you will want to root your phone. If not, staying with stock is probably a better option.

I fall into the former category, and shortly after getting my first Android device (HTC Thunderbolt) last March, I rooted it. You don't need to load custom ROMs and kernels to benefit from rooting. For example, rooting lets you block ads while web browsing. Rooting definitely is not for everyone, but it lets you use your device as you want to use it.

Also, can't speak for videos but Google Play Books works fine on my rooted devices.

Enjoy and don't hesitate to ask questions.

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i stand corrected on the books. touche

 

[davey11]

Almost everyone wonders after rooting why they didn't do it sooner.

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[shanedroid1]

thanks everybody I'm def gonna root. Not tonight since I gotta go through the copying all my files process and I got school early lol. But you convinced me, I was looking at droidmodderx's review of the crossbreed rom and it looked pretty sweet. By all means though if anyone has anymore rooting/rom suggestions I'm all ears. Also what's the difference between roms and kernels?

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[greydarrah]

thanks everybody I'm def gonna root. Not tonight since I gotta go through the copying all my files process and I got school early lol. But you convinced me, I was looking at droidmodderx's review of the crossbreed rom and it looked pretty sweet. By all means though if anyone has anymore rooting/rom suggestions I'm all ears. Also what's the difference between roms and kernels?

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I heard it best described here as the kernel is like the engine in a car, with the ROM telling the engine what to do. I always start out with whatever kernel the ROM developer provides. If I have issues, or get board, I might try a different one out after a day or two. My favorite to run (if I'm not in love with whatever came with the ROM) is Franco's latest kernel. You can usually find links to this stuff in the thread of a specific ROM.

With kernels, there are always some devices that just don't run well on certain ones.

 

[Sploinkin]

My biggest reason to root was to disconnect the notifications/ringer volumes. AOKP had that option about when I decided to root so it was perfect.

 

[chubb]

I'm waiting for a way to root without a computer. My phone and wifi Xoom are the only computers I have access to. But I bought the phone for vanilla android with vzw lte. If there was a root method I could download to my Xoom to root my gnex I would do it in a heartbeat. Don't know it wugs will though.

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[zero neck]

I heard it best described here as the kernel is like the engine in a car, with the ROM telling the engine what to do. I always start out with whatever kernel the ROM developer provides. If I have issues, or get board, I might try a different one out after a day or two. My favorite to run (if I'm not in love with whatever came with the ROM) is Franco's latest kernel. You can usually find links to this stuff in the thread of a specific ROM.

With kernels, there are always some devices that just don't run well on certain ones.

yeah basically. the kernel controls the power aspects- what gets power, how much, how fast, and when. it also collects info from the base parts of the phone - bootloaders, etc, and all protocols, and relays/manages that info. (this is my very basic understanding).

then the rom sort of puts it all together, based on that information gathered and supported by the kernel, and makes it presentable.

if you google linux kernels or android kernels you can probably find some in depth reading for days on the subject.