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Title: To root or not to root?
Post by: Bellend on 09 October 2013, 12:16

I rooted my Desire and absolutely loved it. What about on a Note 2 though? For some reason I'm on the fence but now is the best time as it's brand new! :grin:

Anyone got any experience with Note 2/S3 ROMs?

Title: Re: To root or not to root?
Post by: Jay on 09 October 2013, 13:35

I'm still using the original S3 rom, its great, I've rooted it but thats only for very few apps that need root. Cerberus is one of them.

Title: Re: To root or not to root?
Post by: WadGTI on 10 October 2013, 12:31

I rooted my old phone (HTC Sensation).

Alll I can say it was hard to get a stable rom which caused a few annoying issues. Some apps did not like it rooted either (some came up with the "not responding" error).

Good luck  :smiley:

Title: Re: To root or not to root?
Post by: Bellend on 10 October 2013, 12:42

After the longest battle ever it's running Cyanogen latest stable. Love it so far.

My memory card effed up so lost my backup. ParanoidAndroid just kept crashing keyboard, Cyanogen Mod then wouldn't accept SIM. downloaded a Portuguese Samsung ROM then downloaded latest CM got it going fine then installed Gapps and keyboard crashed. Then downloaded older Gapps and all good. Awesome ROM! :afro:

Title: Re: To root or not to root?
Post by: Jay on 14 October 2013, 14:07

Wow, seems like a lot of fuss for whats normally all done from ClockWorkMod. I flashed my S3 this weekend with CyanogenMod as I was going to factory reset it anyway, and it only took a couple minutes to download and flash it, with Gapps, all in one go.

Title: Re: To root or not to root?
Post by: Bellend on 14 October 2013, 20:18

Quote from: Jay on 14 October 2013, 14:07

Wow, seems like a lot of fuss for whats normally all done from ClockWorkMod. I flashed my S3 this weekend with CyanogenMod as I was going to factory reset it anyway, and it only took a couple minutes to download and flash it, with Gapps, all in one go.

Yeah it's all good now.

The proper version went straight on no problems. CWM is on the phone now. Tried loads of different ones til I found one that worked. No idea why but loads didn't install on it.

Title: Re: To root or not to root?
Post by: Wazzzer on 14 October 2013, 21:07

Jay what version are you running? I'm on 10.2 nightly at the mo and it seems really stable

Title: Re: To root or not to root?
Post by: Jay on 15 October 2013, 14:15

10.2 Nightly, built on 11 Oct. I thought I'd miss the Samsung "gimicky" features and so far I've not .... I like being able to customize the notification LED colours  :grin:

The only reason I flashed CM is I was going to factory reset the phone as I had installed so much crap on it, a lot of kids apps/games for my girls, battery life had gone to sh!t, so was an ideal time to try CM again.

Title: Re: To root or not to root?
Post by: Wazzzer on 19 October 2013, 18:41

Quote from: Jay on 15 October 2013, 14:15

I like being able to customize the notification LED colours  :grin:

I've spent so much time seeing what colours you can get on the LED lol