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Rooting risk
is there a risk when rooting my phone?
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there is the risk that you can "brick" the phone when rooting it but it is small
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What Arjuun said. Just do research before you root and you'll be fine.
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or yah know, just get really drunk and fumble your way through it like i did. Its almost foolproof
*poster takes no responsibility for his posts. If you get drunk and brick your device, its your own damn fault*
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tpusaApr 13, 2011, 10:34 AM
or you can be lazy and use superoneclick. just do a nandroid back up.
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lovoApr 25, 2011, 7:48 PM
it can be risky if you dont do your reasearch sum phones are easy sum are tricky
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so for example I have a CDMA hero and am upgrading to the Nexus S on Sprint the only place I had found prior was XDA developers but the instructions is super-hard 😢 would super one click be better, it is my first time rooting and I wanted to play with rooting on the hero because if I brick it its a no harm no foul... what I couldnt figure was stuff like ROMs or APK and I let it go any help because I thought that I was fairly good at this kind of tech and rooting really threw mw off my game
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ok so here are some vary general steps that will guid you in your rooting.
you will need to get the phone rooted. superoneclick may work for your devices if not you may have to learn ADB commands and do it that way.
now the phone is rooted you will have an aplication called superuser that with gives other apps the ability to use the root of your phone.
you will the go to android market and download rom manager. rom manager will alow you to instale a new bootloader on to your NAND. once this is done you can then make a NAND back up so if you screw up you can restore. now your past the risky part.
then go to xda and find your phone and go to the development section. there will be may posts and this will look a bit over welming. d...
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