Rooting yay or nay

[blueeagle69]

Hi mate.
Here is a guide that works.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-20 ... tery-life/

What I found was the Excel started throwing a wobbly, after the last app was deleted but a pin in the Reset hold fixed that.
When it booted back up it was fine and dandy.

Hope this helps.

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[Astro]

Great find, blueeagle69, thank you. I'll enjoy having a read of it.

I know what you mean about learning too much... I'm Windows through and through and hadn't touched Android till last month. I've learnt a lot, but mainly I've learnt how little I know about Android! The lack of plug an play was a bit of an eye opener... like being back in the old days of DOS (if you remember it). All good fun though!

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[Charlie]

Hi mate.
Here is a guide that works.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-20 ... tery-life/

What I found was the Excel started throwing a wobbly, after the last app was deleted but a pin in the Reset hold fixed that.
When it booted back up it was fine and dandy.

Hope this helps.

Sent from my Scroll Excel using Tapatalk

Thanks for the link to the guide - I will be most likely renaming the phone apps too - (still waiting for an excel), When I got my 1st scroll, the way it was done was different, - I found that you had to do it like this, phone.apk, (reboot) mms.apk, telephoney.apk - Maybe its because that one was OS 2.1 and the excel is 2.3.4

[Astro]

In the feedback to the article there's some speculation that, if the device doesn't have any telephony kit in it, it doesn't expend battery (nor, presumably, processor) power on that part of the OS, thus rendering the removal of the telephony software unnecessary... what do you think?

I agree about renaming rather than removing files... it it all goes wrong, it's easier to revert the files to their original names than it is to reinstall them.

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[Mitre]

we seem to have drifted off topic charlie has started a thread for the phone apks removal here
viewtopic.php?t=1863&p=13466#p13466
Thanks

[Charlie]

That is food for thought there excel. I have started a thread on this here

Lol - you beat me to it Mitre