Any Reason To Root? - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Can anyone give me some inspiration into rooting my new shinny GN i have rooted every other devive ive had i.e G1 Nexus One SGS I9000 xperia Play and HTC hero,
But i cant find a good enough reason to do it with this device, but everyday i feel that i need to i dont know if im just because im used to having something new to flash everyday?
What do you think guys?

garner said:
Can anyone give me some inspiration into rooting my new shinny GN i have rooted every other devive ive had i.e G1 Nexus One SGS I9000 xperia Play and HTC hero,
But i cant find a good enough reason to do it with this device, but everyday i feel that i need to i dont know if im just because im used to having something new to flash everyday?
What do you think guys?
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I feel the same way. The stock ICS seems to be a lot faster than the MCR's at the moment - not sure why.
The only reason to root is to get things such as Ad Free, Full Backups, Underclock CPU when screen off, Apply Paul's UI tweaks.
Obviously things will grow in the future. If you do it now, then you dont risk the chance of losing the ability to in the future (doubtful that will ever happen with a Nexus)

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Here's a much better question OP... Any reason to not root it?

The big ones for me are AdFree and Titanium Backup.

To improve battery life.
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This is the first Android OS where it seem so much useable and stable, that I see no use to root. This coming from a primarily IOS guy. I hope I don't have to root.

also, tethering on tmobile
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Arcadia310 said:
To improve battery life.
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by rooting?

Reason #1: to customize the device by playing with the system files

I will need to root my Galaxy Nexus (when I get one) so I can connect my PS3 controller up and play emulator games.
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Tone503773 said:
I will need to root my Galaxy Nexus (when I get one) so I can connect my PS3 controller up and play emulator games.
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Is it possible to connect a PS3 controller and play games with current devices today? If yes, could you point me to the application

I will only root if a kernel with ridiculous battery life surfaces. Otherwise this may be the first Android phone I really see no reason rooting. Strange thought.
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mohitrocks said:
Is it possible to connect a PS3 controller and play games with current devices today? If yes, could you point me to the application
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+1 I wanna know how lol
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spovat said:
also, tethering on tmobile
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No need to root for that.

garner said:
Can anyone give me some inspiration into rooting my new shinny GN i have rooted every other devive ive had i.e G1 Nexus One SGS I9000 xperia Play and HTC hero,
But i cant find a good enough reason to do it with this device, but everyday i feel that i need to i dont know if im just because im used to having something new to flash everyday?
What do you think guys?
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No reason. I couldn't even come up with a compelling reason to root my Nexus S.
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spovat said:
also, tethering on tmobile
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You dont need to root to tether with this phone

I would do it just for Google Wallet
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If you are here, you should root. Ad free and Titanium back up are worth it by themselves.

Aridon said:
If you are here, you should root. Ad free and Titanium back up are worth it by themselves.
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AdFree is pretty silly IMO. Blocking connections using the host file? Really? I guess the creators don't know what a firewall is or how to use iptables.

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Gingerbread source kernel available from HTC today

7.29.11
Sorry if its a late pass, but the source kernels for the gingerbread update for a whole slew of new HTC phones, including the incredible 2 are available today from the HTC website.
This allows developers to get cracking on a root method for the 2.3 update right?
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I'd be happy for an oc sense kernel as well. All the aosp roms are too buggy for me. But uv and better schedulers would make sense even more perfect and better battery life.
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Can't wait for some developers to put out custom sense kernels! This phone is about to smoke.
I just want root on 2.3.
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acPIZZA said:
I just want root on 2.3.
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Same...root for the wifi tether here. The rest is really stuff i can do w/o.
rivera82falcon said:
Same...root for the wifi tether here. The rest is really stuff i can do w/o.
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You may already be aware of this hotspot hack for non-root.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122289
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You may already be aware of this hotspot hack for non-root.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122289
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Ya know what? I I did But I put it off for some reason. I am using it now though and I am happy to say that I love you for reminding me about this.
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rivera82falcon said:
Same...root for the wifi tether here. The rest is really stuff i can do w/o.
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Forget WiFi tether. I just want to be able to use Titanium Backup so I can restore my apps data from my previous phone. Debloating would be nice, but this is my first HTC phone, so I have plenty of exploring around Sense to do in the meantime. Really missing Root Explorer as well
Have to wonder if this has anything to do with the "Revolutionary" news from Unrevoked & AlphaRev TBA.....
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Looks promising! I was lucky enough to have gotten my phone with 2.2.1. Hopefully there'll be a soolution for those who shipped with GB.
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New to Samsung ...which Rom should I use?

What's up everyone, new to this forum, have had my phone for a little bit now, and need some tethering for my HP tablet with android. So its time to root!
I was looking at some of the Rom's and thought I'd get some of your opinions.
I like stock, but battery life is important and speed, any suggestions?
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pbrbent said:
What's up everyone, new to this forum, have had my phone for a little bit now, and need some tethering for my HP tablet with android. So its time to root!
I was looking at some of the Rom's and thought I'd get some of your opinions.
I like stock, but battery life is important and speed, any suggestions?
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Battery life, calkulin.
Just all around good looks, blazer:3
I saw one on YouTube named Noname, looks nice.
But couldn't find a topic on it
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Get Unnamed, its great. The bar just got set higher.
I've just been using the xda phone app, I can't seem to find the topic for it, could anyone post it, ill prolly do that, I really liked the video on it.
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pbrbent said:
I've just been using the xda phone app, I can't seem to find the topic for it, could anyone post it, ill prolly do that, I really liked the video on it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1386280
Awesome thanks!
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Quick question, do I need a SD card to root? I haven't got one yet but if that's the case I need one
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pbrbent said:
Quick question, do I need a SD card to root? I haven't got one yet but if that's the case I need one
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The epic 4g touch has a built in memory card.
Sent from the future.
Ah ok so unless I just wanna add more gb I don't need one? Well awesome
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pbrbent said:
Ah ok so unless I just wanna add more gb I don't need one? Well awesome
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You will want to get one eventually though. The roms are fairly large averaging 300 mb. I think I have most if not all of them stored on my external card
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pbrbent said:
What's up everyone, new to this forum, have had my phone for a little bit now, and need some tethering for my HP tablet with android. So its time to root!
I was looking at some of the Rom's and thought I'd get some of your opinions.
I like stock, but battery life is important and speed, any suggestions?
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You wont be disappointed with (UnNamed v1.0.1) check it out - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1386280
pbrbent said:
What's up everyone, new to this forum, have had my phone for a little bit now, and need some tethering for my HP tablet with android. So its time to root!
I was looking at some of the Rom's and thought I'd get some of your opinions.
I like stock, but battery life is important and speed, any suggestions?
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Read my signature...a question answered lol if you have any questions hit me up

V6 supercharger

Anyone ever used one? I used it on my epic 4g and it made it run faster... thinkin bout tryin to on here. Anyone have any opions on it?
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I did, but then I got rid of it because it caused it to sleep-die frequently. But lately, my phone has been sleep-dying regardless. It does make it faster, but with the high frequency of deaths, it was annoying to keep running it every time i turned the phone back on.
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Shouldn't of had to do that if it was injected into the phone...
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phatryan69 said:
Anyone ever used one? I used it on my epic 4g and it made it run faster... thinkin bout tryin to on here. Anyone have any opions on it?
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Used it ... switched to RAM Manager (Pro).
It avoids using ram scripts & tweaks.
Works great since then.
Why? Android is perfect, just the way google made it. If you don't want multitasking, get an iphone.
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frav said:
Used it ... switched to RAM Manager (Pro).
It avoids using ram scripts & tweaks.
Works great since then.
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Join the club. That dev ripped off both of us.
ajt1995 said:
Why? Android is perfect, just the way google made it. If you don't want multitasking, get an iphone.
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Which version do you mean?
And why does Google keeps changing it?
Or is perfect with each change?
And why, with ICS, does Google make minfrees dynamic ie. different depending on a devices RAM instead of them being the same on every device like it was before?
And why did they do that after I did?
Hell, why did htc copy my bulletproof launcher on a recent stock rom for the One X by giving it a priority of 0?

Disadvantages of Rooting the "G.nexus"?

hi guys, i'm wondering about the Disadvantages of Rooting the specially G.nexus ?
thanks
If you know what you are doing or have the ability to read carefully... none, it's a amazing thing!!! Your phone will be a Lion among a herd of yaks.
If you do not posses either of those two things, it's scary bad. I'm not trying to be mean but thats the honest truth. I have rooted peoples phones for them and some left to their own devices have managed to make their phones slower and laggier than stock ever good be with many things not working or barely working. It's usually they skipped a step or changed a setting they shouldn't have.
Why the double thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771460
There's disadvantages?
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Smokeey said:
There's disadvantages?
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Smokeey said:
There's disadvantages?
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Some people like stock devices.
1.) You'll never be happy with an unrooted phone ever again.
2.) Your friends will be like "Can you show me how to root?"
Only ones I can think of.
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There's no disadvantage. You only gain function. Root is the equivalent of having admin access on your computer. There's no reason why you'd want to not have admin/root access to your phone.
samhawk said:
hi guys, i'm wondering about the Disadvantages of Rooting the specially G.nexus ?
thanks
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And you bought gnex for what ? Its a Dev phone so root is its right ,funny when people have these doubt
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samhawk said:
hi guys, i'm wondering about the Disadvantages of Rooting the specially G.nexus ?
thanks
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Symptoms of rooting may include:
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nightmares
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flashbacks
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emotional detachment or numbing of feelings
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insomnia
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irritability
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hyper-vigilance
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avoidance of reminders
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excessive startle response
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memory loss
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self-medication through increased alcohol use or turning to drugs.
The only disadvantage is that you can't rent movies from the Play Store. It won't let you watch them if your rooted.
Other then that, nothing. Rooted just means you have admin access to certain folders normally that are read only.
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If you have to ask this question, then you probably don't need to root the phone.
You have to be careful with what you flash that is rooted. There is a developer I've seen in the Gnex section that worked with another that was putting keyloggers and crap into his rom. He still deals with him to this day.
I rock my Gnex unrooted mostly, I'll flash a rom for a week and see how it goes. Build a kernel and see how long until I get sick of force closes and reboots. My phone is more of a toy, there is absolutely nothing important I do on my phone and I like to keep it that way.
Worst part of rooting is everyone asking me how to root theirs.
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Ur rooted device might be a reason for nuclear Holocaust...
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hooligan007 said:
Ur rooted device might be a reason for nuclear Holocaust...
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What one can expect from a hooligan other than a very poor wording

10.1 developments?

I noticed that the 10.1 section is empty. Will a custom rom from another size work?
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confyzone said:
I noticed that the 10.1 section is empty. Will a custom rom from another size work?
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Unfortunately no since both of the other Tab 3 variants use different CPUs. Think at this point it may be some time before anything gets going on the 10.1. I'm not really sure what the stigma is here it seems to be a pretty good performing tablet would be nice to have root to remove the bloatware and make better.
jeffw111 said:
Unfortunately no since both of the other Tab 3 variants use different CPUs. Think at this point it may be some time before anything gets going on the 10.1. I'm not really sure what the stigma is here it seems to be a pretty good performing tablet would be nice to have root to remove the bloatware and make better.
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I know if I wouldve known this device is so dead for root and Roms I would've just gone with the nexus7
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confyzone said:
I know if I wouldve known this device is so dead for root and Roms I would've just gone with the nexus7
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I don't think that it's necessarily a dead device just need someone to actually take a look at it instead of believing that theirs nothing good about it. From what I've seen so far it seems to have good battery life and not half bad in performance either and contrary to what I've seen in the reviews the GFX performance it actually also very good as well it beats my TF700 pretty solidly though resolution may be a factor there.
jeffw111 said:
I don't think that it's necessarily a dead device just need someone to actually take a look at it instead of believing that theirs nothing good about it. From what I've seen so far it seems to have good battery life and not half bad in performance either and contrary to what I've seen in the reviews the GFX performance it actually also very good as well it beats my TF700 pretty solidly though resolution may be a factor there.
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I guess I did use a wrong word, didn't mean dead device but dead development, so I'm gonna start baking custom Roms again
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Its a very new device! I have a Razr I with intel chip also, we have root a some custom roms but no lucky with cm, pa or pac roms, :/
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What's your build number, I'm prepping to do a pre rooted Odin flashable stock for the 10.1. Just to get the ball rolling......
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Zidkijah said:
What's your build number, I'm prepping to do a pre rooted Odin flashable stock for the 10.1. Just to get the ball rolling......
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I'm on build number JDQ39.P5210UEUAMH1.
Thanks for taking the initiative on rooting the 10.1. I've had one for quite some time and can't wait until rooting and roms can start coming in. Too many samsung features that are awesome, but I personally dont need taking resources and would like to remove.
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Is that your device after root?
This is what i'm working with and hoping for root soon:
essay708 said:
Is that your device after root?
This is what i'm working with and hoping for root soon:
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Nope haven't found a root method for 10.1 yet
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Can't wait...
Zidkijah said:
What's your build number, I'm prepping to do a pre rooted Odin flashable stock for the 10.1. Just to get the ball rolling......
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How's the 10.1 root coming along?
Can't wait.
essay708 said:
How's the 10.1 root coming along?
Can't wait.
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Uploading a test build now............. I'll post in the Dev section.:silly:
Good afternoon.
I came upon a new tablet GT-P5200.
Really looking forward method to obtain root ...
Build number JDQ39.P5200XXUAMFC
Development will start on 10'1
Im working also on stock rooted rom, and trying to get a recovery as well.
I don't have the device yet, so if you have it, and gained root... I would like some files:
recovery.fstab
graphics.c
postrecoveryboot.sh
If someone is able to get those after you have root, and get them to me... a CWM recovery is on the way
essay708 said:
Is that your device after root?
This is what i'm working with and hoping for root soon:
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Please HELP ME i have safe mode and i can't remove it or make it dissapper and have a problem in sound rocker did you faced this problem too please tell me

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