Thinking about rooting

[JohnnyS101]

Hey guys, I've been thinking about rooting my droid 3. What are the upsides and downsides of doing this?

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[tcrews]

There are no downsides. I guess the downside that could exist would be based off you. You now would have the ability to delete things from "normally" Read-only folders so if you delete some of these you can screw up your phone.

Upsides - Remove some bloatware, use Titanium Backup to backup your apps data (like game saved positions, configured settings in apps, etc..) so if you ever need to do a factory reset, swap out devices, etc...you can easily and quickly restore that data. Future possibilities of overclocking the CPU, installing alternative ROMs vs. the stock, etc...

 

[JohnnyS101]

There are no downsides. I guess the downside that could exist would be based off you. You now would have the ability to delete things from "normally" Read-only folders so if you delete some of these you can screw up your phone.

Upsides - Remove some bloatware, use Titanium Backup to backup your apps data (like game saved positions, configured settings in apps, etc..) so if you ever need to do a factory reset, swap out devices, etc...you can easily and quickly restore that data. Future possibilities of overclocking the CPU, installing alternative ROMs vs. the stock, etc...

Can you expand on the roms I'm new to rooting

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[tcrews]

Not yet because there are no ROMs other than stock.

However...if we are lucky and can get a bootstrap, recovery and/or unlocked bootloader this can lead to others compiling ROMs from source but adding software tweaks, code replacements and enhancements the stock phone does not come with.

 

[Fr33dom]

There is one downside. You have to unroot before you take your phone to Verizon.

 

[BenLand150]

If you payed for insurance.. simple problems, they won't notice to care. Plus you agree to it when rooting, so the downside doesn't really count. It's your doing should anything happen.