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Is Apple going downhill with mobile devices?
- Thread starter Capt. Obvious
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Awesome. Congratulations... you have Androids 2nd best phone
I'm rocking a G2 now. Thank you! Im currently liking the change, though trying to fugure out how to do visual voicemail...
Sent from my IWC 3777 using a gappy SEL
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Coming from Apple, is that 1080p screen beautiful or what? Are you going to be doing any modding or do you want to keep it locked up?
The screen is frigging unbelievable!!!! So is the camera!!!
I'm going to root it eventually cuz of the memory thing but not just yet!
Wanna do some research first!
What are the advantaged of rooting?
Sent from my IWC 3777 using a gappy SEL
I'm going to root it eventually cuz of the memory thing but not just yet!
Wanna do some research first!
What are the advantaged of rooting?
Sent from my IWC 3777 using a gappy SEL
Depending on what you wanna do with the phone, rooting is a great thing. After rooting, which is a necessary step to an unlocked boot loader... You can modify just about anything. If you're not already a member, create an account on xda-developers. And nowadays they have made rooting so easy. After reading so I knew what I was doing. It took about 30 seconds.
Once you're rooting you have access to many programs. You can over/underclock the processor. There's one I use called adfree, it gets rid of the ads in the free versions of programs. One popular one is GMD autohide. You won't need it be a use you have a gs4 with actual buttons... but on the G2 with the navbar on the bottom taking up some of that 5.2" screen, GMD hides the bar and you can bring it back with small swipe from the bottom of the screen.
There are definitely perks to rooting, but the main reason people do it is so they can unlock the phone. They you can flash custom Roms, mods and kernals aimed at performance or power adjusting to prolong battery life. Take a look at cleanROM. It preserves all the stock functionality but debloats the phone of all the preinstalled carrier crap. Then my preference is Nova launcher on top of that. I also flashed a couple files on my phone to get rid of the "Verizon wireless" on the lock screen, as well as, remove the 4g logo when I'm on WiFi and the am/pm from the clock... cleans up the notification bar up top.
Once you're rooting you have access to many programs. You can over/underclock the processor. There's one I use called adfree, it gets rid of the ads in the free versions of programs. One popular one is GMD autohide. You won't need it be a use you have a gs4 with actual buttons... but on the G2 with the navbar on the bottom taking up some of that 5.2" screen, GMD hides the bar and you can bring it back with small swipe from the bottom of the screen.
There are definitely perks to rooting, but the main reason people do it is so they can unlock the phone. They you can flash custom Roms, mods and kernals aimed at performance or power adjusting to prolong battery life. Take a look at cleanROM. It preserves all the stock functionality but debloats the phone of all the preinstalled carrier crap. Then my preference is Nova launcher on top of that. I also flashed a couple files on my phone to get rid of the "Verizon wireless" on the lock screen, as well as, remove the 4g logo when I'm on WiFi and the am/pm from the clock... cleans up the notification bar up top.
Wow!!! Thx for the info man! Will start reading up about this soon! Rep points!!!!!
Sent from my IWC 3777 using a gappy SEL
Sent from my IWC 3777 using a gappy SEL
Glad I could help. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I definitely don't know it all, but I'll help where I can.
I think apple has fallen behind the past few years. If I wasn't married to the Eco system I would have jumped ship by now.