If you look over the Internet rooting is everywhere! Rooting an Android device used to be simple.  Easy. You’d download a file, you’d unzip it, copy it to the phone and that was that. Well, not anymore. Nowadays you need to do a lot of workarounds. You need to find the right versions, due to the Android fragmentation you need to look for them on Internet, you need to learn how to do a Goldcard and other things – I only got to the Goldcard business! :-)

I need to root my Desire in order to gain access to simple things like screenshot application, the ability to increase the sound volume on the headset and especially on the speaker  – I like my podcasts and I can’t hear them at all when playing it thru the speaker. And that’s about it. Just for that. It’s not much and it should be default but it’s not. There are other advantages, too:

  • you can  uninstall all the Google crap that comes with the phone: Gmail widget, stocks, Peep Twitter client, Sense U.I, clock widgets.
  • you can install another ROM: lighter, faster and less crappier; with or without the Sense U.I .
  • you can get full access to the O.S.
  • edit system files.
  • relocate apps cache and  the apps themselves over the SD.

Taking into account it’s some time since the Desire root emerged improvements are surfacing. I just tried a safe-fail method ( usually once you start there is no turning back) and….it failed, of course. I was expecting this. There are just too many variables. But I will try again.

The benefits are huge for an Android geek.