[whoever,hey]

Has anyone rooted their Nexus 10?

I was just wondering if anyone had rooted their Nexus 10 and the reasons they did it.

The only reason i can think of is to use Titanium Backup. Any other reasons?

[superboy]

Originally Posted by whoever,hey

Has anyone rooted their Nexus 10?

I was just wondering if anyone had rooted their Nexus 10 and the reasons they did it.

The only reason i can think of is to use Titanium Backup. Any other reasons?

- GMD gesture control - control the entire tablet using gestures. Much quicker, intuitive, and gets rid of that horrible black bar

- LMT Pie - an alternative method of control, also better than the default

- To calibrate the display and get rid of the horrible whites

- Change the dpi to 240, to fit more on the screen. Due to the high res, everything looks extremely sharp

etc etc. Could go on, but it definitely gets a lot better after root

[whoever,hey]

Well i can tell you like your gestures

I'm not that fussed about those, i dont even use the shrink gesture on my S3.

The res issues i'm not sure i've found that an issue tbh.

Please go on, because i need a reason if i'm going to root it.

The downside to rooting for me is not getting future updates from Google automatically , i'll have to faff about installing roms again.

[clonmult]

Originally Posted by superboy

- GMD gesture control - control the entire tablet using gestures. Much quicker, intuitive, and gets rid of that horrible black bar

- LMT Pie - an alternative method of control, also better than the default

- To calibrate the display and get rid of the horrible whites

- Change the dpi to 240, to fit more on the screen. Due to the high res, everything looks extremely sharp

etc etc. Could go on, but it definitely gets a lot better after root

Or in other words, you prefer it. Not necessarily better

Rooting/jailbreaking some devices is the only way foward due to a lack of updates via official sources (ie. my vega, some SE devices, HTC, etc.), or obvious shortcomings on the device (ie. the iPhone).

These stock Android devices from Google don't have anything like the same issues.

[Pretinama]

Why would anyone root something that was 'stock Android' anyhow?

[Gormond]

Originally Posted by Pretinama

Why would anyone root something that was 'stock Android' anyhow?

For the same reason you would jailbreak an iPhone, to do things that are normally locked.

[Gormond]

I would like to ask a question about backup that was mentioned as a reason for rooting.

What advantage is there in doing a back with a rooted device rather than using something like Carbon without rooting?

[whoever,hey]

Originally Posted by Gormond

I would like to ask a question about backup that was mentioned as a reason for rooting.

What advantage is there in doing a back with a rooted device rather than using something like Carbon without rooting?

Root is required to backup app user data. I backup absolutely everything to a 64GB SD card, then to the cloud.

[whoever,hey]

Originally Posted by Pretinama

Why would anyone root something that was 'stock Android' anyhow?

Isn't that kind of what i've asked in the OP?

[Gormond]

Originally Posted by whoever,hey

Root is required to backup app user data. I backup absolutely everything to a 64GB SD card, then to the cloud.

Not true, Carbon backs up app user data and you don't need to root.

It even backs up ever day at the time you choose to the cloud service of your choice.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ikdutta.backup

[whoever,hey]

Originally Posted by Gormond

Not true, Carbon backs up app user data and you don't need to root.

It even backs up ever day at the time you choose to the cloud service of your choice.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ikdutta.backup

I'm not sure then, even after a google.

[flagpole]

The one issue would be to unlock the USB storage, or possibly some other restriction that Google may have applied. Other than that it is if you think some dude who lives in his mum's basement knows better than Google.