Essential Official Android Thread

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

brehs is it worth rooting my S3? And can it randomly "brick" and just be dead because of rooting? I've fukked up too many phones brehs... I gotta hold onto this one for a grip

 

[JohnL]

Exclusive: International Samsung Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean update coming next week | Android Central

Galaxy S3 users are about to

 

[Golayitdown]

brehs is it worth rooting my S3? And can it randomly "brick" and just be dead because of rooting? I've fukked up too many phones brehs... I gotta hold onto this one for a grip

Nope not "randomly". After you get permanent root permissions, you're not going to fukk your device up unless you flash the wrong rom/radio/etc. At that point it's user error.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Nope not "randomly". After you get permanent root permissions, you're not going to fukk your device up unless you flash the wrong rom/radio/etc. At that point it's user error.

is there really a reason to though? Jellybean should be coming out shortly I dont know how clock work manager and all that crazy shyt works.. you can save your current rom in case you fukk up you can revert cant you?

 

[Golayitdown]

is there really a reason to though? Jellybean should be coming out shortly I dont know how clock work manager and all that crazy shyt works.. you can save your current rom in case you fukk up you can revert cant you?

Faster/more optimized roms, can remove bloatware and better battery life are the benefits.


Saving your current rom with a Nandroid backup is a must. Those can save your ass...

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Faster/more optimized roms, can remove bloatware and better battery life are the benefits.


Saving your current rom with a Nandroid backup is a must. Those can save your ass...

all this nandroid clockwork manager shyt, I'm scared breh.

 

[Golayitdown]

all this nandroid clockwork manager shyt, I'm scared breh.

Don't be scared






For real though, read up on your phone on the xda forums before you do anything and you should be fine.

 

[Kartel13]

yo how is the chrome on android? Been using dolphin for a min now

Dolphin is still better. Swipe to access bookmarks>>>>>>

 

[Rice N Beans]

Prefer Opera Mobile to Dolphin myself. New Dolphin Beta makes it a bit more bearable but Opera is just better overall imo.

Xscope was dope until the newest update.

 

[head shots101]

ICS leaked for the thunderbolt
HTC Thunderbolt Official Ice Cream Sandwich Build Leaks, Ready for ROM Flashers to Entertain – Droid Life

 

[JMurder]

Prefer Opera Mobile to Dolphin myself. New Dolphin Beta makes it a bit more bearable but Opera is just better overall imo.

Xscope was dope until the newest update.

Stopped using it after Chrome...what did the newest update do?

 

[Rice N Beans]

Stripped older support namely. 4.0+ only. Felt clunky and slow on both of my devices. Theme sucked. I still have my older version but Flash is picky there.

 

[diggy]

Get Root or Die Trying.


Am seriously considering jumping ship from TMO once my contract is over in 4 months , mostly likely going to MPS too , this SIII is good look

is tmo service bad or the bill? you can do the tmo prepay for 60

straight talk is 45, simple is 40-60

gsm gives you more options IMO rather than metro

 

[JMurder]

Stripped older support namely. 4.0+ only. Felt clunky and slow on both of my devices. Theme sucked. I still have my older version but Flash is picky there.

who still rocks Gingerbread tho

 

[the next guy]

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