2 of tmobile's top recommended apps are for root users only...

[rudeguy]

Interesting. Just got my copy of this month's100% you magazine and 2 of the top paid apps are Rom Manager and SetCPU. Both of which just happen to be root only apps.

Maybe they are officially relaxing on the rooting situation?

 

[Bateluer]

Has T Mobile ever been harsh on root users though?

Rom Manager and SetCPU are both EXTREMELY useful applications, I've bought both. SetCPU is dying a slow death, I believe, as more and more roms include overclocking by default, baked right in.

 

[rudeguy]

Has T Mobile ever been harsh on root users though?

Rom Manager and SetCPU are both EXTREMELY useful applications, I've bought both. SetCPU is dying a slow death, I believe, as more and more roms include overclocking by default, baked right in.

I have never talked to anyone who directly had problems. Mostly people who were nervous.

SetCPU for sure still has its place. OC'ing kernels are great but don't let you UC to save battery. Profiles are a huge plus.

I hate ROM manager but its the only way I know to get a custom recovery on my Vibrant.

 

[Bateluer]

I hate ROM manager but its the only way I know to get a custom recovery on my Vibrant.

Must be rougher for the Galaxy S phones. Rom Manager is fantastic for the Droid 1. It makes tasks so easy you almost forget how to do things the old fashioned way.

Yeah, I'm spoiled.

 

[Binky]

Rom manager works great. Not sure why you would hate it. Hate the phone, not the app.

 

[dguy6789]

T-Mobile = the best carrier for Android users when it comes to business practices and openess. Best deals too. $79.99 for unlimited minutes to any phone landline or mobile, unlimited text, unlimited data(including HSDPA+ which is faster than Wimax), and free unlimited tethering. Unfortunately their coverage leaves much room for improvement.

 

[rudeguy]

Rom manager works great. Not sure why you would hate it. Hate the phone, not the app.

The first time I used it I was trying to flash a ROM on my old myTouch. ROM manager FC'd in the middle of it and soft bricked my phone. Took me forever to flash it back to stock, then re-root, then reinstall everything.

Its much more stable now. I just prefer Amon_RA's recovery. It has more options and has never given me a problem.

 

[rudeguy]

T-Mobile = the best carrier for Android users when it comes to business practices and openess. Best deals too. $79.99 for unlimited minutes to any phone landline or mobile, unlimited text, unlimited data(including HSDPA+ which is faster than Wimax), and free unlimited tethering. Unfortunately their coverage leaves much room for improvement.

Their coverage is very YMMV. In my town its great every single place I want to use it except at my son's school. But my son's school is located next to a cattle pasture and a corn field, so its expected.

 

[Raduque]

I hate ROM manager but its the only way I know to get a custom recovery on my Vibrant.

Que? I don't have rommanager and I use clockworkmod recovery on my Vibrant. You just need the "update.zip".

 

[gorcorps]

T-Mobile = the best carrier for Android users when it comes to business practices and openess. Best deals too. $79.99 for unlimited minutes to any phone landline or mobile, unlimited text, unlimited data(including HSDPA+ which is faster than Wimax), and free unlimited tethering. Unfortunately their coverage leaves much room for improvement.

Hmmm... that is a pretty good deal. But yes, the coverage in my area as well is fairly spotty. Even in areas of "good" coverage my T-mobile using friends all seem to suffer random bouts of texts to different carriers taking hours to get delivered.

 

[zerocool84]

Hmmm... that is a pretty good deal. But yes, the coverage in my area as well is fairly spotty. Even in areas of "good" coverage my T-mobile using friends all seem to suffer random bouts of texts to different carriers taking hours to get delivered.

Yea T-Mobile's prices are great but their coverage really does suck. It really sucks if you're traveling between cities or near any hills. I had T-Mobile for 6 years and finally left to Sprint earlier this year. The difference in coverage is night and day.

 

[tatteredpotato]

I just saw ROM manager now can PUSH ROMs to your phone from certain websites.

 

[rudeguy]

I just saw ROM manager now can PUSH ROMs to your phone from certain websites.

yep...its come a long way.

I still prefer to download to my PC and then flash from recovery. Best to take every possible factor out in case you need to troubleshoot.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Yea T-Mobile's prices are great but their coverage really does suck. It really sucks if you're traveling between cities or near any hills. I had T-Mobile for 6 years and finally left to Sprint earlier this year. The difference in coverage is night and day.

Yep, I was talking to someone after a year or so of not speaking to them, and they commented, I see you still have crappy cell service... I'd gone from a give away phone to a Nexus One, pissed me off that a $500+ phone sounds so badly because of the carrier...

 

[tatteredpotato]

I still prefer to download to my PC and then flash from recovery. Best to take every possible factor out in case you need to troubleshoot.

I'm in a class where we play around with kernel programming on Droids... my buddy accidently zero'd out our recovery partition. I thought we bricked it but then I realized we didn't even try to boot into the OS (which did still work fine), so we were able to just re-flash our recovery partition.

 

[vshah]

i'v efound tmo is great in major metros but starts to lack once you leave that ~50 mile radius of suburbs.

of course, the east coast is one giant suburb so the effect is minimized. still not as much 3g coverage as I would like when traveling though.