Thread: Mobile Device App Thread [merged]

Your contacts are saved to your Gmail account. Your can restore them through that. Yes I have the full version of fission rom manager.

Originally Posted by gokingsgo

Your contacts are saved to your Gmail account. Your can restore them through that. Yes I have the full version of fission rom manager.

For some reason, not all of them saved to my gmail account. I must have had that unchecked the whole time I had the phone un-rooted. I guess I'll just have to manually edit them.

Can you e-mail me the full version? borinka99 [at] hotmail

Thanks!

So, now that I have the ROM manager, I won't have to do a factory reset if I switch between ROMs? Is it easy to go back and forth?

Also, if you have any other recommendation for rooted apps or ROMs, send them over.

Originally Posted by borinka99

For some reason, not all of them saved to my gmail account. I must have had that unchecked the whole time I had the phone un-rooted. I guess I'll just have to manually edit them.

Can you e-mail me the full version? borinka99 [at] hotmail

Thanks!

So, now that I have the ROM manager, I won't have to do a factory reset if I switch between ROMs? Is it easy to go back and forth?

Also, if you have any other recommendation for rooted apps or ROMs, send them over.

Unfortunately you're gonna have to wipe with pretty much every ROM you switch too.

I'll send the .apk file to ya, if you need help installing just let me know. If you don't have it, download droidx bootsrapper. That and titanium backup are the 2 most important.

Originally Posted by gokingsgo

Unfortunately you're gonna have to wipe with pretty much every ROM you switch too.

I'll send the .apk file to ya, if you need help installing just let me know. If you don't have it, download droidx bootsrapper. That and titanium backup are the 2 most important.

That sucks about wiping. Am I doing something wrong with Titanium? I have the free version, and it takes forever to backup because I have to click install for each app. Same if I do it from appbrain, I still have to click allow for each app. Is there a faster way?

Got the e-mail, thanks! I have the bootstrapper.

Do I really need astro file manager to run .apk files? I was able to run the z4root apk with just the regular file manager that comes with the phone.

If the regular file manager works that's cool. I just like Astro. Sometimes that's why they want you to buy their programs. I think the full version of titanium you can one click and done.

Originally Posted by gokingsgo

If the regular file manager works that's cool. I just like Astro. Sometimes that's why they want you to buy their programs. I think the full version of titanium you can one click and done.

I see. In that case, I might just buy the full version. It would save a ton of time.

Originally Posted by borinka99

That sucks about wiping. Am I doing something wrong with Titanium? I have the free version, and it takes forever to backup because I have to click install for each app. Same if I do it from appbrain, I still have to click allow for each app. Is there a faster way?

Got the e-mail, thanks! I have the bootstrapper.

Do I really need astro file manager to run .apk files? I was able to run the z4root apk with just the regular file manager that comes with the phone.

The free version of TB doesn't allow batch restore of apps. You should be able to batch save though (or you used to be able to). It's well worth the few bucks if your rooted. Menu > Batch > RUN-Backup all user apps. BTW, when restoring apps across different roms do NOT restore apps+data. Restore apps only or your begging for problems.

Originally Posted by gokingsgo

If the regular file manager works that's cool. I just like Astro. Sometimes that's why they want you to buy their programs. I think the full version of titanium you can one click and done.

ES File Manager and Root Explorer are also good file managers.

Originally Posted by borinka99

I have a droid x as well. I was reading around on androidcentral.com about rooting it.

More battery life would be great! I am paranoid of bricking the phone though lol. Will probably do this over the weekend.

I know you've already completed this step but rooting the phone is the only risky part. On some phones even that is simple but I had to go through a 15 step process to get full root on my Evo as the nand partition was locked. That was before unrevoked3 came around with an easy root solution.

Once you have root just make sure you nandroid before installing a new rom or kernel. If you have good nandroid you can always restore your phone to that state so there is little if any risk in bricking it. There is a risk in bricking your phone when you flash new radios, pri's, etc (assuming this is possible with a locked bootloader) so make sure any radios you've downloaded are good (use ManD5 to check the md5 sum of the file). The absolute best source for rooting information is found at xda. Click on the sub-forum for your Droid-X and everything there is to know can be found. Droid X Android Development - xda-developers

The kernel will have the biggest impact on your battery life and many roms will come cooked with a custom kernel. Kernel's can overclock, underclock, undervolt, use HAVS, CFS, BFS, etc. That being said I believe the bootloader on your phone is locked so I doubt you can flash a new kernel. FWIW, I saw that Moto released a statement that in the future they'll be more friendly towards the dev community (something HTC is notorious for). Maybe custom kernels will come your way in the future.