Guest Yfael October 9, 2011 Share October 9, 2011 Hey guys, After months of research, and waiting for the price to drop, I went out and bought the Nexus S. I've been hearing a lot of mixed feelings on rooting android devices. Does anyone have any really good (useful, not just fun) reasons for rooting your phone? Features like increased root directory don't appeal to me as I haven't seen a use for them...yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chang October 9, 2011 Share October 9, 2011 Well rooting your phone gives you complete control your device and you can change the way it looks the way it feels and everything .though rooting in cases of some phones cause the warranty to be void but trust me its worth rooting your phone ......! I have a rooted samsung captivate and i love it. One biggest advantage of rooting is that you can easily install custom roms on your phone which are way to awesome to let go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yfael October 9, 2011 Share October 9, 2011 That was good enough for me. Went with this website : http://nexusshacks.com/nexus-s-hacks/how-to-root-nexus-s-or-nexus-s-4g-new/#comment-622 Worked like a charm. Looking forward to tinkering around with root access :) Especially the CPU and Power Management features! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chang October 9, 2011 Share October 9, 2011 Well if your rooted and want to play around and get to the good stuff for your android come over to: xda-developers.com Ypu will find it the best place for your smartphone and everything is for free.....! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yfael October 9, 2011 Share October 9, 2011 Well if your rooted and want to play around and get to the good stuff for your android come over to: xda-developers.com Ypu will find it the best place for your smartphone and everything is for free.....! I'll check it out. Hopefully I'll have more luck there. So far I'm having some starter issues. Got my phone rooted and a Superuser installed. I can't detect my network atm. Even after manually entering my network provider settings. Also, tried installing the Cyanogen Mod Rom and Bootloader gives me an error when I go into the Restore branch. Little Android with a exclamation mark above him! Only way to reboot then is a hard reset(battery) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chang October 9, 2011 Share October 9, 2011 oh oh please go to XDA asap and read the threads there you may have soft bricked the phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yfael October 9, 2011 Share October 9, 2011 Why do you think that? When i'm in the bootloader screen it says i'm unlocked, and the superuser loads fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chang October 9, 2011 Share October 9, 2011 oh your phone starts properly ?then your not soft bricked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest coolbird22 December 9, 2011 Share December 9, 2011 yeahh, if it starts, then it isnt softbricked ... do you get an option for factory defaults in the bootloader ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ConfusedJoe December 10, 2011 Share December 10, 2011 frankly speaking, if u r just a normal user, ie surfing and playing games... there is no need for root. Unless u wanna customize or installed programs that need access to the root...e.g. droidwall (a firewall) for me i root cos i can block unwanted connection out of the phone and block apps that read imei, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tristan Lear October 17, 2012 Share October 17, 2012 Root has become essential for me because I use Wifi tethering. 4g hotspot without paying the extra $20/mo. i use it constantly. even with torrents. it's about 10mbps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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