New DROID Incredible! Root questions

[htcdroidinc]

I have searched and nothing's answered these specific questions, and there were disagreements between sources in my research.

1: Does rooting delete anything from your phone? Just using unrevoked? Does that delete anything? That is what I want to know.

2: If you root your phone with unrevoked, how do you get updates? Do you get notifications? If you do and you press yes to install, what happens, will it update and break the root? Also, if it doesn't install and update, how do you get the update? Do you have to unroot, get the update, and then re-root?

3: Do you really have to uninstall doubletwist? Or can you just make sure it's not running?

Also, should I take my SD card out or leave it in or does it matter? Please help, thanks in advance if you do.

[Ads]

[jpr]

1. rooting deletes nothing.

2, if you root, you probably will not auto-install any over-the-air updates from Verizon. But so what? Every ROM generated a few weeks after an update has been sent out will incorporate whatever was in the OTA update.

3. Who told you you had to unstall doubtletwist (and what is doubletwist, anyhow?)

Also. Whoever suggested that your SD card should be taken out and for what purpose?

[enlightened]

The tutorial says to uninstall doubletwist. You can try to root without uninstalling it but the process may fail, in which case you will have to remove it if until after rooting is complete.

[FatherSarge]

Yea, don't worry about the sd card, just leave it in. Just make sure your contacts are backed-up on your google account (export contacts list from phone to sd card, the import from the sd card and select the google option will make move all contacts to your google account easily)

Other then that, make a list of apps you'd like to reinstall later, then follow the tutorial (to the letter?) in enlightened's signature.

[jpr]

[QUOTE=FatherSarge;72852]... make a list of apps you'd like to reinstall later...QUOTE]
In the interests of saving another tree, note that such a list is unnecessary. If you've got an account at HTC Sense, or if you've got an AppBrain account (both of which cost nothing), a list of your apps exists "in the cloud", and you can readily get all the apps back after flashing a new ROM.

If you have Titanium, then it will backup the apps to your sdcard, and restoration will be quite a bit faster than over the airwaves from AppBrain or HTCSense.

[FatherSarge]

I was under the assumption Titanium only worked if you were rooted? If not then thats great!

PS, I was going for more of list on notepad on your comp! Tree SAVED!

[enlightened]

Titanium Backup will only work on rooted phones.

[jpr]

Reinforcing what I posted a couple of messages back, I installed three different ROMs this PM. In each case, I answered the Setup prompts, including id&pw for HTCSense.

Without my directing anything to happen, my apps started to come back automagically. I went into Market, clicked on MyApps, and could see them all reinstalling, one after the other.

Upon installing other new ROMs, I've skipped Setup, installed Titanium, and told it to restore apps. That was faster, as I said before, but my point just now is that if you've got syncs set up for HTCSense and Gmail, your apps and contacts all come back on their own.

[FWIW, my third ROM of the day, with which I think I shall stick "for a while", is NilsP's smooth and stable and solid Business_Sense_Desire-Z-v4.2.]