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The [Android] Thread: We like portable shower buttons
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Only thing is I can't get the Urbanspoon app.
Also, customisation is a bit of a bitch.
Admittedly, though, that's only because there are way too many widgets and home screens and launchers to choose from.
It is. By jove, it is the most tedious thing I have ever used. It's so tedious my toes kept curling out of impatience.
It's a point frequently made, and it keeps new users from potentially making their phone so much more awesome.
Unless you literally say to the service rep, "My phone doesn't work anymore. Do you think it's because I voided my warranty by rooting my phone?" then nobody will give a damn. They check to see if it's obviously dinged up (maybe) and they check that dropped-in-the-water detection sticker. If you're super worried, just unroot your phone first. These people deal in volume. A crack team of forensic scientists is not going to examine your phone. You will not go to jail.
Put this shit in the OP.
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Now, what else should I be looking for? I'll need something that can play all kinds of fun musics so when I run I can use it.
Can I customize the lock screen? I mean its nice, but I'd like something unique. I had one called "Mileage" that was nice for keeping stats on my trucks gas consumption so I'll grab that again.
Basically I'm just overjoyed to have an Android again!
You brought a PC from the store, it comes with 90,000 programs that fucks with the registry, takes up space, makes you PC runs slow; i.e. bloatware. So you reinstall the O/S to get rid of that crap.
Basically it's the same with rooting your phone. It also gives you the ability to fully customize your UI and do a few hardware mods.
Basically, it gives you freedom to do what you want with your hardware without some corporate bizwiz going 'NO! NOOO! NOOOO! IF YOU WANT TO HAVE THOSE FEATURES THEN YOU NEED TO BUY A NEW PHONE!'
Hell, T-Mobile's latest app guide included a couple of apps that only work on rooted phones.
I see your point but this example really seems like a stretch since I can't imagine the phone being THAT hampered by a few shitty pre-installed apps like Amazon Mp3 and Blockbuster.
Like I said, I've never had any reason to do it. The phone is fast, snappy, I download/install/uninstall a shit ton of apps on a daily basis and the preformance is never less than stellar. I could see if the whole phone was just one big Verizon ad (like nearly every one of their regular phones is, hello VCAST) but thats far from the truth.
Then don't root your phone?
I mean, what exactly do you want? Some kind of endorphin rush for not rooting your phone or something?
-Titanium Backup, which lets me automatically backup all the apps and user data on my phone. Admittedly, rooting and messing around with the fiddly bits of the phone which are usually locked by security also causes you more likely to need these backups
-The ability to undervolt/underclock for better battery life
-Because I'm a massive nerd who likes doing stuff like replacing my phone's kernel or flashing it with new images that do different things. One week I can use something very similar to stock, another I can swap over to something which values AOSP like CyanogenMod
I installed CM6 after rooting, and its got a little bar with all kinds of handy things on it for toggling wifi, data network, voice network, bluetooth, and brightness. There's one icon on the bar which *I* associated with "refresh" but I have no idea what it's toggling. It's 2 arrows points at the others tail in a circle. Like this
Thoughts?
Another question, I'm looking for the app from my bank USAA on the market place and it's not showing up. I've used it on my Eris previously, so I know its around. Any idea why i can't find it?
this is the bit that folks who insist that everyone should root tend to gloss over. most users just want their phone to work. An occassional firmware upgrade isn't a big deal, but swapping roms, or having to reflash to a different rom because the one you picked had a bug, etc., these are things that most users would rather have bloatware than have to deal with.
Rooting is great for the people who want it, but it's not for everyone.
so it's not for me. I can live with a couple of extra apps. I can still customize the shit out of my interface.
believe me no one is trying to crap on the idea of rooting but for people who are into tech enough to say, post on a videogame forum in a thread dedicated to their phone, it's gonna be a thought but maybe something they want good reasons to do. so it's not that anyone is looking for an 'endorphin rush'... just a matter of needing to know what to put on the plus/minus side of the scale when making this decision.
As for AOSP, it means Android Open Source Project - basically that your phone is running 100% open source code.
"I have no reason to root my phone," or, "I don't want to root my phone because X," are fine. I just don't like seeing the newbie question, "So, I'd like to root, but does it void my warranty?" answered with a blanket "Yep." Instead of a, "Yeah, technically, but practically you're fine in almost all cases." Because half the point of an Android phone is the ability/freedom to root.
That's all. I'm not going to spell out the reasons to root. If you have to ask, you're probably better off enjoying your phone stock. I'm not trying to sell a religion, here, I'm just trying to dismiss the disinformation that rooting will prevent you from warrantying your phone if something goes wrong. It almost never will. It's like a lightning strike.
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Were you using large amounts of data? Say, over 5gb per month?
You may have had your data service terminated.
If you're planning to root your phone, you can easily change the default search provider to Google.
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this actually turned me on a little bit
Have you taken out the sim card and then put it back in?
I have to do this about once a week with my HTC Desire when it for no reason decides not to be able to connect using 3G.
It's is tres annoying.
Yay!
Then checked the HTC website to see they have just announced the new HTC Desire HD to come out next month.
Boo!
Hmm, do I stick with the Desire or wait for the HD model? I've used (and really liked) the Desire so maybe stick with what I know I like?
You can wait for the HD if you want the bigger screen for the monies
Like, I looked at a video, and all the shortcut icons (widgets) looked too far away under the guys thumb. Would be great for texting when drunk though.
I think I'll stick with the standard Desire. Hope it ships with 2.2 and not 2.1 not sure if 3 have put 2.2 out for the Desire yet though.
Going to need to look into what apps are decent too, literally no idea at this point!
I spend hours tweaking icons and themes on a desktop, so I understand the compulsion to customize.
But,
It voids the warranty is a perfectly acceptable rational for those of us that aren't in a position to do without the warranty. Such as, not being able or not wanting to pay for a replacement if something ever goes wrong (and I mean something independent of rooting, rooting is perfectly painless). That isn't somehow a weakness or fearful stance, but just plain and simple pragmatism. Will I root the day my warranty expires? Yes. But until then, it's stock, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Also half the point of an Android phone is having all the advantages of a smart phone, not running custom roms.
I think it still ships with 2.1
3 is rather tricky name for me to find web hits for the update in case it uses a branded rom. You can probably root the device and throw on an unbranded rom or one of the custom roms based on 2.2
app wise OP is a good start, bottom of the page also has appbrain profile links
AND SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IT TO ME
As far as I can work out, a bit rubbish.
Apple rules mobile gaming.
Where does one need to point one's browser to start learning about tmore hese matters?
I know -nothing- about messing around with phone hax and (LOL) rooting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/
I couldn't go back to it after that
Hard reset fixed it.
I tried to use LaunchPro but when I erased my 'Phone' hotkey, I couldn't reassigned the hotkey back to the phone.
Infact, I could'nt reassigned any of the hotkeys.
Haha when I was back in DC with VZW I had their unlimited plan. I heard about ATT capping people at like 200 mb and whatnot so I figured "Man I should see how much I use. I use this all the time."
I used about 500mb a month, sometimes 600. It was quite eyeopening.
The bits of sense I like tend to be the ones that aren't directly associated with the Rosie launcher, like the improved Exchange ActiveSync support
This happened to me yesterday. Rebooting the phone fixed it.