For whatever reason, my wife decided to go back to her old BlackBerry Bold from her Evo 4G, so I decided to scoop that up to replace my ridiculous Samsung Transform. Out of everything that I've read so far THIS has been the step-by-step guide that I feel the most comfortable following to root, it reads really well and isn't worded as if I should already know what I'm doing.
First of all, the HTCDev method seems pretty straight-forward, I have not read through the other two methods listed so far. From what I understand, the only real difference is that the HTC method retains a watermark on the bootloader? Does this method preclude me from doing anything in the future, should I decide I want to? I did stumble across a "one click" method to root and unlock nand or whatever, but I'd like to go through the long way to get a feel for what's really going on with the process.
Now, to the important portion. I understand the concept of using custom ROMs like extra features, different kernels, better performance, etc. I'm not opposed to flashing a new ROM, but I'm just not certain that I really need to. Basically what I want is to have root access so that I can have wifi tethering when I occasionally need it, and be able to delete stock apps that I know I will never use that may or may not run in the background automatically.
Are there any compelling reasons for running a custom ROM that I may be missing?
First of all, the HTCDev method seems pretty straight-forward, I have not read through the other two methods listed so far. From what I understand, the only real difference is that the HTC method retains a watermark on the bootloader? Does this method preclude me from doing anything in the future, should I decide I want to? I did stumble across a "one click" method to root and unlock nand or whatever, but I'd like to go through the long way to get a feel for what's really going on with the process.
Now, to the important portion. I understand the concept of using custom ROMs like extra features, different kernels, better performance, etc. I'm not opposed to flashing a new ROM, but I'm just not certain that I really need to. Basically what I want is to have root access so that I can have wifi tethering when I occasionally need it, and be able to delete stock apps that I know I will never use that may or may not run in the background automatically.
Are there any compelling reasons for running a custom ROM that I may be missing?