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I have heard the term 'rooting' before and keen to explore.
Any fellows rooters out there to give some advice
Please.
Any fellows rooters out there to give some advice
Please.
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METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Get it wrong and you will 'brick' that which you attempted to root!
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
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I don't know much about this at all but I do know that when my wife and I mentioned across a dinner table in Sydney last October that we were planning to have a root around Circular Quay the following day the reaction took us quite by surprise.
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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I wouldn't bother using powder unless you really have to. Most things take of their own accord anyway 
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Done it once on my old htc desire. Managed it after a few attempts but although rooted, for some reason the phone still had some of the old unrooted restrictions 
Some phones/tablets are easier than others. Not much help, i know.
Some phones/tablets are easier than others. Not much help, i know.
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I am not a techy at all if they were mechanical i would have half a chance!
I read the term 'brick' but is it right you can 'unbrick'?
What i am trying to do is free up some internal memory on my very crap Acer Liquid mobile as i have put just a few essential apps on it and it is 90% full and i can not move them to sd card and it runs very slow at times.
Any ideas cos i really do not want to brick it!
1066familyman
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Have you had a hunt around any forums for help?
You could try here for starters:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=583
You could try here for starters:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=583
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Thanks, but i did try this forum but lost the will to live after 20mins, i was hoping some of NSC finest could give me a dummies guide or an alternative.
I was just going to pay out of my contract and get a phone with a bigger internal memory but Orange inept service made me decide not to.
Mind you, I didn't even attempt to root my HTC One X because it seemed too expensive to risk.
It's really only worth it if you want to make some serious changes to your OS, or perhaps hide applications or stuff like that.
Oh and I managed to brick my back up buffalo external hard drivea few years ago, then my son spilt my coffee all over the lap top and it died. It looked like my 15 years of digital photos were gone, until I paid £250 to have a firm unbrick the buffalo for me. Lesson learned!
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
A girl once said "root me". I did eventually, I think.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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no, the very definition of "bricking" is that its irreversibly dead, only useful as a brick. see also door stop.
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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What is so bloody annoying is many of the mobile manufacturers simply failing to provide enough internal memory in the first place.
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Yes i repeated that to Orange saying basically you sold me a phone that hasn't even last a year usefully and got back 'you had 14 days to return it'.
No empathy and understanding or responsibility typical modern day customer service, they will not be my next provider or probably ever again.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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or, you could pay more for one with more memory. its one of the wonders of the free market.
DanielT
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What phone are you trying to root?
A couple of reason NOT to root: if you use Barclays banking app or Sky Go. They detect a rooted phone and won't install/run unless you "hide" your root (not that difficult as there's another app that will do it)
OK, so that being said, no reason not to root, and very many reasons to do so
A couple of reason NOT to root: if you use Barclays banking app or Sky Go. They detect a rooted phone and won't install/run unless you "hide" your root (not that difficult as there's another app that will do it)
OK, so that being said, no reason not to root, and very many reasons to do so
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Baron Pepperpot
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I rooted my Kindle Fire so as to use Google Playstore, which Amazon denied access to. I think it invalidates the warrantee though.
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What i am trying to do is free up some internal memory on my very crap Acer Liquid mobile as i have put just a few essential apps on it and it is 90% full and i can not move them to sd card and it runs very slow at times.
Where do i start