I saw this in another thread and I thought it had some great similarities to what we root and rom flashers go through.
Just add your own funny conclusion to "You know you're rooted when...."
Have fun!
Examples:
You know you're rooted when you miss multiple calls from friends and family and they ask why and you tell them that you must have been "in recovery". They don't understand... We DON'T have a drug or addiction problem!"
You know you're rooted when you spend more time on XDA forums than with your family or on Facebook/Twitter.
You know you're rooted when you never have to clear out your sms inbox because it happens everytime you flash a new rom.
You know you're rooted when your wife or girlfriend doesn't understand why you spend so much time "fixing" a brand new phone.
So what's your best "You know you're rooted when...."
Sent from my rooted HTC One with a custom Rom
You know your rooted when you laugh at anything that will be posted by others in this thread because odds are its happened to you!
Reserved for best of "You know your rooted when...."
You know you're rooted when you wake up at 1am phone in hand and works!
You know you're rooted when you tell some random person at the bar who asks how your day was and you say you still dont have 422. They respond with don't you mean 420?
You see that they have an Iphone and glassy eyes and just walk away.
You know you're rooted when: Your brand new phone works less than a 3 year old HTC Hero.
You know your rooted when you have a brand new paperweight on your desk.
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You know you're rooted when...
Someone who has recently purchased the very same Android handset as you; brags about the quality of features (which are available out-of-the-box), only for you to suddenly realize you have the, "World's Most Snarky & Pretentious Smirk of Empathy" on your face; as if you were pitying a child who can't quite walk, just yet.
Sent from my Dark (as) Knight HTC One.
You know your rooted when you are viewing this post from a device other than your phone as it is currently in the process of being flashed.
Sent from my HTC One
You know your rooted when you get caught "flashing" by your wife/mom/friend at work, at school, at church or any public place.
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You know your rooted when you're not allowed to drive with your significant other in the car because you can't set the phone down yet you are not even texting or talking.
Better yet, they just offer to drive because they already know you are going to be on the phone.
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You know you're rooted when you're excited when plans get cancelled because your favorite developer just released nightlies for a new Rom.
You know you're rooted when someone gets a new device and says "NO. You can't touch it, it works!"
You know you're rooted when you flash a AOSP room and get bricked.
You know you're rooted when you don't have much needed warranty on your month-old phone
You know you're rooted when you get very excited about getting something working, and you talk about rooting so much your friends are starting to understand you.
You know you're rooted when you find yourself explaining what a ROM is to everyone who checks out your phone.
You know you're rooted when people ask you about blink feed and what it looks like while you're running an AOSP rom and have to go through the hassle of explaining why you don't have blink feed.
You know you're rooted when you text friends after they call saying "I can't take your call because my mic doesn't work but we can text"
You know you're rooted when you take a bare copper wire to make a connection to two copper points on a phone because some guy on an XDA post said it would get you "S-OFF" (VIVID, REZOUND..... a few others...)
You know you're rooted when you have never uttered the words "I love iOS".
You know you're rooted when you've resigned yourself to ever getting that one particular thing to work ever again.
you know youre rooted when you flash a gsm rom on a cdma phone before reading that they arent compatible lol
and then you come on xda for help lol
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I got help here to root it so I could get a proggy on there that would allow me to get fonts in larger sizes and yes, I'm very happy. HOWEVER, my HOT SPOT feature is not working and I"m guessing that pimpin' it is what did it and NO, I'm too stupid to fix it and the guy that helped me rooting it had no idea what to do. I'm close to Charlotte, NC and I was wondering if there's anyone around here that could help me? Ie, rooting it AND getting my hot spot stuff to work which is one of the reasons I bought this one and paid a small fortune for it.
Thanks and yes, I would be glad to pay a lil' sumptin' for it, take you out to lunch or help YOU out in any way.
George
you may be a noob, but seriously you didn't really expect anyone to have sympathy did you?, we all started somewhere.. hint: start by reading the stickies
God forbid someone would have sympathy but NO, the crying icon was there to spruce the thread up.
I have gotten great help in forums and I've run into a lot of a$$holes if that answers your question?
As for reading the stickies, I have a reading comprehension problem so that doesn't work for me. Of course, you may want to say that this is bull$hit
and I'm just trying to make it easy on my self and yes, I am but no, the reading thing is not bull and reading instructions are useless.
Last time, I had someone talk me through it in a chat and it worked but took around TWO hours. This would not have happened if it had been
done through here or e mail. You'd be talking days or weeks just getting the thing rooted.
However, I"m not sure how helpful your reply is? Plenty of that around the web. Lots of replies in help forums but LITTLE help. Mostly people that
think their $hit don't stink and that they can say anything just 'cause they're anonymous. Sounds like my neighbor. She used to talk all kinds of
$hit about EVERYONE and tell me how she stood up to someone and told them this or that to their face but she never did. Just told ME how damn
cool she was but I never saw any proof of it.
Yeah, it's easy to have an opinion online and make comments about any damn thing...
guiri_too,
Post in your local listings (Craigslist, for example). I'm sure there's probably someone in your area that can help you out.
An online forum isn't really the best setting for what you need. You need someone that knows what they're doing (no offense) to look at your phone and do what needs to be done. Otherwise... read through the threads, find rooting/modding instructions, get a custom recovery image on, make a backup, and flash a new ROM.
If you didn't know what you were getting yourself into, you shouldn't have done it. I don't mean that in a disrespectful way, either.
If I ONLY stuck to buying things I completely understood, I would NOT have a damn thing today and no worries, I wasn't insulted.
As for craigslist, haven't found much there but morons but I can give it a try.
However, I KNOW there's plenty of knowledge here, the trick is to find it. LIke I said, I got great help rooting it but now I see there's some problem which I ASSUME is from the rooting.
Note, NOTHING against the guy that helped me out, he did a great job and was very patient so I have no complaints, it's just that now that I found this out, I'd like to get it fixed.
Georg
well man, what you can do is give us some details too.. are you on a custom rom, or stock w/only root, also do you have stock recovery or kosh(sp) or Amon Ra's
If you know how to check you can simply go to about phone and check in there if you are on custom, usually in kernal it will have the devs name.. to find you bout recovery you get the app quickboot(in app market) and hit recovery if you have list of options and i mean a list then you have a custom recovery, if you only have 3 options then its stock..
If you got custom rom& recovery, then you can flash a different rom, this could have broken wifi or something along the way.. so what you do is find a custom rom you like( i say go with enomther) that one is close to stock as possible but with all perks taht are really needed
im new to the n1 communtiy as i barely got my n1 rooted, but i had my g1 for over a year or so and had bout 3 of those, and not much has change except the way to root it
Okie dokie Spanky, I'll see if I can figure it out and post back. I was hopin' someone local that's got more brains than I could pimp it but that's what I get for livin' in the boonies I guess
This is partly a matter of curiosity and partly a technical question. Since Cox has officially launched Cox Wireless in Hampton Roads, Omaha, and Orange County, we can be a little less paranoid about talking wireless tech.
And there will undoubtedly be some non-employee customers here, though they're all lucky enough to be able to start with the HTC Desire. I'm stuck with the Hero until they come up with some upgrade program for us early adopters.
So who here has Cox Wireless with a Hero?
More importantly, who has Cox with a Hero with CyanogenMod? Can you get MMS? If so, I may have other questions...
No I don't have cox. What is MMS.
lol, no. but a while back when i made a custom splash i remember seeing a great splash modified for cox, so whoever requested that should be on cox as well, here's the thread. cox, lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766042
@macwilliam21 - that may be the funniest post ever.
il Duce said:
lol, no. but a while back when i made a custom splash i remember seeing a great splash modified for cox, so whoever requested that should be on cox as well, here's the thread. cox, lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766042
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Heh. The only Cox splash I see on that thread is the one I made. Nobody requested it, I just figured I might as well share.
I made it partly because I wanted to "re-brand" my Hero back from generic HTC/CyanogenMod and partly because I wanted to prove I could make a prettier logo screen than our paid developers. Seriously, the Cox logo on the official ROM is tiny and grainy for no apparent technical reason.
And apparently two other people downloaded it.
Two people downloaded Cox.
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Wha... ? I though I was on xda. Apparently, I got redirected to 4chan.
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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!
I *had* Cox wireless with the HTC Hero but I dumped the service and went with another carrier for an Android 2.x phone because I can't even use the Cox HTC Hero for the things I want. Many of the apps I use such as Skype, Firefox, and just recently many Google Inc. apps, Google Voice, PayPal, and many other apps I like, aren't even found on the Market because the firmware is not supported. Its stuck on Android 1.5 and when I asked Cox tech support if there were any plans to upgrade the firmware I was told they have no intentions of upgrading the firmware. I wasn't interested in paying more money for an upgraded phone and restarting my contract from day 1 all over again after I've been on the service for the first year. I still have the phone though and looking to find some alternative uses for it besides selling it which I think ultimately I may end up doing because no matter what I try doing with it, or install to it to make the phone more appealing, I almost always get the error that this program cannot be installed to this phone.
I was considering trying to upgrade it to 2.1 but I'm kind of reluctant because word on the street someone tried and it bricked the phone. Although I don't know how true that is.
puffidredz said:
Its stuck on Android 1.5 and when I asked Cox tech support if there were any plans to upgrade the firmware I was told they have no intentions of upgrading the firmware.
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This is true. I get the feeling that the Hero was more of a proof-of-concept or beta test phone and they had a bunch of them left over at launch time.
puffidredz said:
I was considering trying to upgrade it to 2.1 but I'm kind of reluctant because word on the street someone tried and it bricked the phone. Although I don't know how true that is.
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It's doable. Someone I know in one of the stores actually got a laundry list of reasons from the HQ in Atlanta about why we couldn't/shouldn't do it ourselves, so I upgraded to a proper 2.1 HTC Sense ROM just to prove it could be done safely and with full functionality. Then I upgraded it to Cyanogen 2.2 just for the hell of it.
But then I switched to a Desire when they came up with an upgrade program for us employee early-adopters who got stuck with the Hero. My interest in this section now is purely out of scientific curiosity.
ok....Im new to xda and new to rooting a phone but i cant take this 1.5 on the hero any longer and am in deperate need of directions on what i need to do. i was promised by cox that there was going to be an upgrade and now we find out that this will never happen. please help
you need to run the ruu from a computer witch will uprade u to 2.1 or since your still on 1.5 rooting will be easy for u and u can install a custom rom.also if theres a sprint tech store in your area they should be able to do the ruu for you regardless if your on a smaller regional carrier.
Just saw this recently gaining momentum in the Galaxy S2 Thread, thought of contributing some RootNerd jokes here too as i think we need some laughter on this side of the forums.
Post a funny conclusion to the sentence.
Have fun
Originally coming up from the Epic 4G, Galaxy S2 and HTC Rezound threads!
Examples
- You know you're rooted when someone asks if rooting is like jailbreaking their iPhone and you laugh in their face.
- You know you're rooted when you spend more time on the XDA forums than with your family.
- You know your rooted when when spend more time flashing roms than using your phone.
Bump it up with some votes and thanks meter if ya'all like it
Enjoy and here is my ones as well.
You know you're are rooted when you are stuck in a bootloop.
You know you're are rooted when you get a flicker in the eye due to the flickering screen on your phone
THANKS:
Many thanks to the guys who came up with this idea in the Rezound and GNex Forums and to my old chums in S2 forums as well.
you know when you are rooted when you do not know if you are going to unlock or not unlock to root..now that's when you know you are rooted
You know you're rooted when you didn't read the instructions and now your phone is.... .wait for it...... ...... rooted
You know you're rooted when you spend more time flashing ROMs then having sex with your wife.
You know your rooted when you try to send your phone back to repair a faulty screen and HTC send a reply "LOL... HTCDev? Rooted, go away".
You know you're rooted when you think jokes about rooting are actually funny.
You know you're rooted when you think the chefs can fix the screen flickering.
you know you are rooted when all you do is wipe wipe wipe
you know you are rooted when you are holding your sexy phone on the underground and you feel like a SuperUser hehe you get it...i know lame one
Thanks guys for your posts...just thought it be nice to have this kinda thread here to and enjoy a little giggle while we make this into the best forum and show that we have a powerhouse of a phone
you know you are rooted when your battery last longer then your current ROM
you know you are rooted when you see FC popup
You know you are rooted if you send your phone for repair and HTC send Chuck Norris back to give you a roundhouse kick.
BTW. Chuck Norris roots his phone just by looking seroius to it
JeckyllHavok said:
You know you are rooted if you send your phone for repair and HTC send Chuck Norris back to give you a roundhouse kick.
BTW. Chuck Norris roots his phone just by looking seroius to it
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haha that is a good one...nice one...
you know you are rooted when you have chuck norris as your live wallpaper and he pops out of the screen and tells you that you going to be rooted and round house kicks you in the face
JeckyllHavok said:
BTW. Chuck Norris roots his phone just by looking seroius to it
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Smiling also works.
You know your rooted when John Terry get's a red card,
You know your rooted when you spend billions and fail to qualify for the final,
Edit: Well done Chelsea.
You know you're rooted when you keep refreshing a custom rom thread to check for any new posts
You know you are rooted when you don't have to ask how to flash boot.img.
You know you're rooted when you have to make an important phone call and your phone gets in a bootloop
You know you're rooted when you find your self flashing anything with a .zip extension.
You know you're rooted when you start your car in the morning and with a smile on your face say: "Good, it boots."
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nikzDHD said:
You know your rooted when John Terry get's a red card,
You know your rooted when you spend billions and fail to qualify for the final,
Edit: Well done Chelsea.
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good post
you know your rooted when Torres finally scores a goal and an important one as such.
you definitely know you are rooted when next match Torres will not score and probably miss a sitter..
Well done to Chelsea though
djolebih said:
You know you're rooted when you start your car in the morning and with a smile on your face say: "Good, it boots."
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Ahahahaha, I actually do this!!
You know you're rooted when the first thing you install on a new phone is titanium backup!
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You know you're rooted when your phone goes into a bootloop the first day of a holiday abroad
Searched for two days before asking this so if I missed this-my apologies in advance. Is there or is there not a working root tool/utility if I currently have 4.3 on the device (I was sent a new one and it was updated already)-and what/where is it? Please point me in the right direction and I really, really appreciate the help here.
How bout u post in correct section but first why dont u use something called google not sure if u know how but do this.
1. Type in address bar www.google.com
2. Search in google bar how to root sprint htc one running 4.3
3. Press the enter button.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2244060
Appreciate the help here.
-TheEdge- said:
How bout u post in correct section but first why dont u use something called google not sure if u know how but do this.
1. Type in address bar www.google.com
2. Search in google bar how to root sprint htc one running 4.3
3. Press the enter button.
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Thank you-sincerely.
EmSeeMAC said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2244060
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New guys being ugly to older guys. Now I've seen everything. He does have a point, though. I did that and had three links in three seconds. :angel:
This kind of thing goes under Q&A.....
BMP7777 said:
New guys being ugly to older guys. Now I've seen everything. He does have a point, though. I did that and had three links in three seconds. :angel:
This kind of thing goes under Q&A.....
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Sorry....wasnt trying to be harsh but i hardly ask questions anymore. Googles has mostly everything there already. ?
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BMP7777 said:
New guys being ugly to older guys. Now I've seen everything. He does have a point, though. I did that and had three links in three seconds. :angel:
This kind of thing goes under Q&A.....
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Some context since I have a moment: I Used some type of tool/program to root this thing when I got launch day. I finally broke it on a business trip in Japan last week and I have honestly fell off the forums completely since my son was born about the same time as I originally rooted this thing. That, combined with a partnership I have taken on in business- has essentially taken all free time away and, when my replacement arrived yesterday, I felt completely inept and without any reference point in my head to work from. Sad, I really miss having the time to mess around with my gadgets and I've learned so much here, but I'm really hoping to find some balance soon enough. So on lunch, after a day and a half of searching, I gave up and indeed made a very clumsy post, absent of any real thought-clearly showing some frustration. I Still have no idea where this all in one that I know I used to root this originally went and I certainly posted in the wrong section-no excuse for that- the gentleman has every right to react how he sees fit although after 7 years here I never found any productivity come out of commenting in that manor-so I choose to conduct myself differently from the outset. Appreciate the time and help.
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ipclark1 said:
Some context since I have a moment: I Used some type of tool/program to root this thing when I got launch day. I finally broke it on a business trip in Japan last week and I have honestly fell off the forums completely since my son was born about the same time as I originally rooted this thing. That, combined with a partnership I have taken on in business- has essentially taken all free time away and, when my replacement arrived yesterday, I felt completely inept and without any reference point in my head to work from. Sad, I really miss having the time to mess around with my gadgets and I've learned so much here, but I'm really hoping to find some balance soon enough. So on lunch, after a day and a half of searching, I gave up and indeed made a very clumsy post, absent of any real thought-clearly showing some frustration. I Still have no idea where this all in one that I know I used to root this originally went and I certainly posted in the wrong section-no excuse for that- the gentleman has every right to react how he sees fit although after 7 years here I never found any productivity come out of commenting in that manor-so I choose to conduct myself differently from the outset. Appreciate the time and help.
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I hear you; five kids, a full time job, and full time school and I try to build ROMs for this device. I understand where your coming from. Not the end of the world. But, as I have said in my threads before, if you make a really silly request, I reserve the right to mess with you about it. That's just me. But, I do it in playfulness, not actual meanness. Be cool, and if you need any help with anything, look me up.
BMP7777 said:
I hear you; five kids, a full time job, and full time school and I try to build ROMs for this device. I understand where your coming from. Not the end of the world. But, as I have said in my threads before, if you make a really silly request, I reserve the right to mess with you about it. That's just me. But, I do it in playfulness, not actual meanness. Be cool, and if you need any help with anything, look me up.
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No doubt you have that right and I'm all for bustin chops as well-to a point of course and yours was constructive. But some of the rage that I regularly see come out in comments here really bewilders me-I mean a paragraph about what a blanking idiot someone is or details about what they can go do to themselves- all because they are having trouble with something or even made a thoughtless post (like I did) -makes me want to say- "dude what happened in your day/life to react that strongly over something so insignificant?". Who knows. Anyway, I really appreciate you reaching out and relating to my situation a bit- especially since you clearly have a very busy life yourself-to say the least.
So I've done a lil searching and can't quite figure out what I want to know....
Lil history on what happened today:
My S4 screen cracked and I was attempting to replace it and broke the digitizer so called up Asurion and they said the S4's aren't in stock so they are giving me the One as a comparable replacement....
I got the Thunderbolt when it first came out and ran it till I got the S3... not gonna lie the Thunderbolt was revolutionary but the S3 was epically revolutionary then I got the S4 after Sammy/VZ put out that update that locked the phone down hard and I've learned to get used to Hyperdrive and have started to love it but I still miss all the flashing etc so I'm taking the opportunity to give HTC another shot essentially to see which device I will get next the S5 or One(2)?
So my question to the One community is how do things work here? How is flashing? How much better are these custom roms than stock? Can I even flash bc I went 3 months b4 safestrap cracked it for us on the S4..?
If it is gonna be possible to flash what do ya'll recommend? Favorites? 2nd's? Link to process for rooting etc?
Thanks ya'll!
Stolly08 said:
So I've done a lil searching and can't quite figure out what I want to know....
Lil history on what happened today:
My S4 screen cracked and I was attempting to replace it and broke the digitizer so called up Asurion and they said the S4's aren't in stock so they are giving me the One as a comparable replacement....
I got the Thunderbolt when it first came out and ran it till I got the S3... not gonna lie the Thunderbolt was revolutionary but the S3 was epically revolutionary then I got the S4 after Sammy/VZ put out that update that locked the phone down hard and I've learned to get used to Hyperdrive and have started to love it but I still miss all the flashing etc so I'm taking the opportunity to give HTC another shot essentially to see which device I will get next the S5 or One(2)?
So my question to the One community is how do things work here? How is flashing? How much better are these custom roms than stock? Can I even flash bc I went 3 months b4 safestrap cracked it for us on the S4..?
If it is gonna be possible to flash what do ya'll recommend? Favorites? 2nd's? Link to process for rooting etc?
Thanks ya'll!
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You can forget everything that you've learned with the Sammy. Flashing is a breeze on the one and development is amazing. There's stickies in the Q&A section on unlocking, rooting, and flashing a recovery. You will need to read and follow instructions. We expect everyone to carry their own weight around here, and we don't do a lot of hand holding, the development community is too big for that.
Also, the One is nothing like the Thunderbolt was. Really it's like comparing the Thunderbolt to a flip phone, that was a long time ago in the evolution of technology, I loved the Bolt, but it's apples and oranges with the One. If you're considering a Verizon One, you will want to check specifically the Verizon One section, as the development will be more limited as the rest of the world is on a different. That's not to say that there aren't things in here that will work on the One and apply to the One, but Verizon people may give you a different opinion as they are on a device with small market share as far as consumers and developers.
If you want to learn about development and flashing on your device I advise against purchasing from a company working so hard to eliminate the unlocking of their device, and go with a company that's more geared towards an active development community.
Well yes I am with VZ so it will be a VZ One and yes they tuck me off with all this lockdown garbage! So is their a specific vz HTC one forum or is it all in this sub forum? Im going to start doing research on how to work it all... I appreciate all your help and advice!
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