Who really sees a need to root this phone?

[elementalwindx]

Honestly out of all the phones I have had, I must say that this is the first phone that I have not had the desire to root yet.

The only reason I see to mod it is to get the free hotspot. But the catch 22 is its only really worthy if you have 4g in your area (which I dont). If you use the 3g, you get kicked off when you recieve phone calls. Or you cant recieve them. I can't remember which way it goes.

Who else has not had any desire to root their phone yet?

[fenixjn]

Originally Posted by elementalwindx

Honestly out of all the phones I have had, I must say that this is the first phone that I have not had the desire to root yet.

The only reason I see to mod it is to get the free hotspot. But the catch 22 is its only really worthy if you have 4g in your area (which I dont). If you use the 3g, you get kicked off when you recieve phone calls. Or you cant recieve them. I can't remember which way it goes.

Who else has not had any desire to root their phone yet?

Well it depends... I use my laptop and if I dont want/cant/have around to carry the micro USB cable, having wifi access is very nice.

As far as how it goes... it can go both ways depending on the setting you have for DDTM mode.

[grad20_09]

Random phone reboots??? Rooted I havn't had an issue yet....

[mlin]

Rooted and love it. At first (about a week), I thought about rooting but held off. I got to the point where I couldn't wait anymore; I wanted to try Froyo, overclocking, underclocking, custom ROMs, extensive theming, etc. I am very glad I rooted, I like to have full control and endless options on my phones.

[elementalwindx]

I dont have the crap battery everyone talks about or the random reboots. Now if I have pandora playing all day, hell yea the battery only lasts like 4 hours. I pre ordered that 3500mAh battery and still patiently waiting for it to ship....

[TheBundo]

Originally Posted by elementalwindx

Honestly out of all the phones I have had, I must say that this is the first phone that I have not had the desire to root yet.

The only reason I see to mod it is to get the free hotspot. But the catch 22 is its only really worthy if you have 4g in your area (which I dont). If you use the 3g, you get kicked off when you recieve phone calls. Or you cant recieve them. I can't remember which way it goes.

Who else has not had any desire to root their phone yet?

I don't get that many phones calls at night, and it works fine on 3G to stream Netflix Movies through my Roku box. It looks as good as on the cable wireless, and the cable goes down quite often here, so I love the wireless tether. while there is an ethernet port on the Roku box, there is no USB port, so the Wifi tether is the only way. And Unrevoked is "root enough" for free wifi tether and many other things that need root, and it's about as easy to install as an app.

[p-slim]

Rooted and removed all the junk ware

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[Askym]

rooted mine as soon as i got it. first thing to go was the bloatware. dont use it nor do i want it. i also get rid of those pesky unwanted ads. if you pay this much for a phone i dont see why anyone wouldnt want full control of their phone.

[aman1127]

Originally Posted by p-slim

Rooted and removed all the junk ware

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Same here. Works like butter now


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[GoodThings2Life]

This is the first phone I've ever owned that I did want to root it. In the WinMo world, I was perfectly content to just hack the registry and tweak things to my liking, but with Android I'm at the mercy of HTC and Sprint until I root it and set it free from their shackles.

Now, rooted, I have a more stable experience by removing all the Sprint crap; better battery life (can easily get 15 hours on moderate to heavy life); and I can install Wifi Tethering for Root and get free wifi tethering that effectively turns my $10 premium data fee into a $20 savings on tethering. That's a no brainer bargain in my opinion.