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New Desire from Meteor
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13-09-2010 4:02pm#1
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There's a few advantages of rooting but for the average joe it isnt really necessary as Android is already very open.
But its pretty much like jail breaking on the iPhone. Giving you full access to the phone.
Its mainly used for flashing custom ROMs onto the phone. Theres a few back up apps that require root access. You can also use market enabler which allows you to get paid apps. Say if you dont like HTC Sense you can flash a different ROM that doesn't have it and with battery fixes and performance improvements and bloatware removed.
You can check your firmware version is by going into settings scrolling down the whole way down and go into about phone
all software information should be there
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Rooting is giving yourself "superuser" access to your phone. If you're in anyway familiar with Linux that means giving yourself "Root" access or total access to the phone. It doesn't offer too much unless you're technically minded but some things it does offer to the non-techie of usI have just got my Desire locked from Meteor and now I want to play with it so I have a couple of newbie questions as this is my first android phone.
What is rooting?What are the advantages of doing this?Does doing this unlock the phone?
- Custom ROMs which add new features much earlier than HTC do
- Custom Themes which look slick
- The ability to run a full Linux distro like ubuntu on your phone
- The ability to run root only apps like Titanium Backup
- The ability to use APPS2SD+ which allows you to create a separate partition for apps and is much more efficient than the stock method of storing apps on the sd card.
- The ability to use your phone at the lowest level (In other words, you can use it as a PS3 Jailbreaking device for instance)
Plenty of benefits
Just push Menu -> Settings -> About Phone -> Software information and look for the Android version.As for HBOOT that is your phone's bootloader (So to speak). I'm going to guess it's either HBOOT 0.83 or HBOOT 0.92 as it's fairly new. To check just restart your phone with the Volume down button held down and it'll be written up on the top.How do I find out what version of android is on the phone? Ive read a couple of threads on different HBoot versions that could be on the phone how do I find out which one I have?
Asking questions is how we all learnSorry for all the questions but as a long time iphone user this is all a bit confusing.. 0
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