Thread: want to root my phone

so i just looked at my "upgrade" time interval and i'm not up for an upgrade until next january. that's fine and if i break my phone in between now and then it's my own fault and i'll have to buy a new phone anyway since insurance is for suckers.

all of the constantly updating programs and additions of bloatware that i don't need is starting to get to me. i also would hope that with a more minimalistic setup that my battery life would increase from where it is now because killing my phone with "normal" usage throughout the day by dinner time is getting old really fast (charging your phone all the time is also for suckers).

i have an HTC rezound and with the minimal research i've done it looks like rooting it is possible and fairly easy going so long as i don't change anything stupid along the way. the part i have zero clue about is running different roms, how that affects phone updates that verizon pushes, programs i am able to download and run after that, etc.

can anyone recommend anything in particular to me that'd be a good choice as far as roms and possible walkthroughs on how to get everything done?

Every phone tends to be specific when it comes to roms on how it is done and what ones work the best for the device. Sometimes you will find a Rom for one phone works awesome, then someone will port it over to another device, make all the necessary changes and it sucks horribly. If you do do a custom Rom, you will no longer be able to do updates from verizon unless you are just running a debloated/rooted/deodexed/or what have you rom that is still the stock rom at the OS level.

Custom roms are really just ways to add other features from other devices (like ink lockscreen), theming, performance and battery management. Is it worth doing, yes if you are bored and want to learn a few things sure, is it totally worth it, no; Alot of times the best roms are the stock debloated and rooted Roms in all honesty, at least then all the features of the phone tend to keep working. With a rom like that you can then mess with the kernel and put different cpu governors inplace/change more pertinent settings with the phone/and increase performance. There is a number of reasons we all do it.

As far as how-to's, XDA forums is your best bet. You can often google your phone plus the name of the rom and there will be a youtube how-to video.

Here is the HTC Rezound section on XDA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1389

Cyanogen mod is a big maker of ROMs and now people have started building roms off of their architecture design; which in reality is all built off of Google's base line. This is why fragmentation is becoming an issue because companies like Samsung, HTC, and others come in and take the Google base rom and warp the **** of it and no longer works like google intended it to. So Cyanogen mod builds off of google's base line, this is why the Nexus 4 is awesome, it is just pure Google and google controls every aspect of what appears on the phone Vs HTC's sense or Samsung's Touchwiz which all is pure crap.

i'll have to do a bunch more reading it looks like.

i basically just want to strip all the junk that it won't let me delete in stock form and tweak a setting or three to try and get it to respond more nicely to how i use it. i don't necessarily want to install super custom stuff and play with it that much, it's a phone.

I had my D2 and D3 rooted just for the same reasons you want to. I'm thinking about doing it to my RAZR HD. On my other phones I noticed a small difference but nothing huge.

I'm also still waiting for Google to really take control of Motorola phones so they'll be pure Google phones.

I've rooted and jailbroke my phones before, it's pretty simple..you just need a program and do a couple steps. Just google "root" with whatever phone you haven read up like you said.. Usually what I do to help a little when I get a new phone is go into application manager and you can disable some of the crap they put on there stock. It just stops it from running in the background or ever.

Originally Posted by Bio248

i'll have to do a bunch more reading it looks like.

i basically just want to strip all the junk that it won't let me delete in stock form and tweak a setting or three to try and get it to respond more nicely to how i use it. i don't necessarily want to install super custom stuff and play with it that much, it's a phone.

For the longest on my Galaxy S3 I just had it rooted with the stock rom and the bloatware removed (Sprint is HORRIBLE for bloatware, took off a good 20 sprint programs) All I did was follow the directions to root it, went to the app store and downloaded the Titanium Backup program (free one) and once installed and running was able to go through and pick each program I wanted to delete to strip it down. Alot of phones have lists on XDA for what all can be removed without compromising the integrity of the Stock OS for those that don't want a custom rom, just want more room and customization.

That said, after a while I got bored and moved on to a couple roms, settled on Cyanmodgen 10 like I had back on my HTC Evo. They really do make a great rom and always updating it to work for each patch and problem that arrises.

As far as Verizons updates, once rooted, if you try and download one over the air as normal, it will do 1 of 2 things, fail on the update and restart and nothing happens until it tries and fails again, or it downloads - runs - glitches mid update - bricks the phone. Usually it see's the phone as rooted and fails and reboots until it tries to push the update again, then fails and reboots. This was part of my reason for a custom rom, I hate that lol.

But yes, lots of research.

If you have a droid..dl 4shared in app store and make an account for free. You can get any app for free then thru there. I have torque and tapatalk from it for free..even tho its only 5 bucks a piece lol. But if you just wanna get rid of bloatware try the application manager like I said n disable all the bs.

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Get on XDA developers website find your phone forum and you'll have all the tools there you need to run root and do whatever else you need to do.

Simple... sort of... but good write-up. Love these guys, they usually have alot of GOOD information, and big user base for any questions.

Scottys noob friendly root guide-start to finish - Android Forums

^ How to specifically for the Rezound

Basic forum section for the Rezound
http://androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/