Root.... but no ROM?

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Is there any danger to rooting my phone, but not flashing a ROM? I've had some bad experiences with flashing ROMs before on an older phone, and am a bit wary this time around with a newer phone. I still plan on all the "usual" root things (acceleration, ad blocking, etc.), but i want to make sure i won't end up with a brick.

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Originally Posted by Crepusculi

Is there any danger to rooting my phone, but not flashing a ROM? I've had some bad experiences with flashing ROMs before on an older phone, and am a bit wary this time around with a newer phone. I still plan on all the "usual" root things (acceleration, ad blocking, etc.), but i want to make sure i won't end up with a brick.

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From my experiences in the forum for a few months..

Backups are your friend Just incase anything doesn't like running on stock and messes things up.

Its kind of hard to fully brick a Bionic. There are FXZ files out there to recover it back to stock.

I would recommend using safestrap and dual booting roms so you can have your stock "unsafe" system and then whatever rom you want to experiment with on your "safe" system. You can always revert between the two.

Im sure there is a way to safestrap your second "safe" system as stock blur, i've just never done it because I like Eclipse 2.2

I had my phone rooted for a couple months on stock along with using some apps that required root. Never had any problems except for using root due to an update and the rooted apps thus not working until I restored root.

Originally Posted by Crepusculi

Is there any danger to rooting my phone, but not flashing a ROM? I've had some bad experiences with flashing ROMs before on an older phone, and am a bit wary this time around with a newer phone. I still plan on all the "usual" root things (acceleration, ad blocking, etc.), but i want to make sure i won't end up with a brick.

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Nope nothing wrong with not using a ROM. But make sure you back up anyway just to be safe.

I would think with just a rooted phone,,,the only area of concern would be loosing root in the event of an OTA update. That certainly seems to be the case with everything I've read so far, and even on other platforms other than the Bionic.

Even if something went wrong,,would not a factory restore then re-root get you right back to square one?

@ priddyma: What would you suggest to make a backup? CWM?

Cwm or safestrap. For what you want to do cwm is fine. Voodoo it's rootkeeper will allow you to keep root through otas.

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