Hello fellow blog readers, I hope this blog find’s you all having a wonderful week. It’s been some time since the last blog post I know I’ve been slacking as of late but hopefully I will be able to get on track with some of my thoughts. If you have any topics for Blog posts or YouTube video’s I would love to hear your suggestions. Feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me at Rebecca.Marie27@gmail.com.
As you may have noticed in one of my previous videos on YouTube, I finally took the plunge in rooting my Motorola Triumph on Virgin Mobile service. In the video I discuss some of the differences in your phone when running a custom rom instead of a stock rom. Please keep in mind that I am a new user when it comes to rooting a device.
So for those of us who have no idea what I am talk about Rooting is a process to gain administrative rights to your phone. But a very important thing to know is that if you decide to root your phone it will make your phone warranty invalid so please keep that in mind. Android is an open source operating system but you don’t have full access to everything. There are many different devices available nowadays that can be modified. The first ever device I hacked was an IPod Touch 2Generation I jailbroke it. Basically Jailbraking is the same term as rooting but Android and IOS are two different platforms so the word is different. There are many reasons why someone would want to root an android device, for me I wanted to root my Motorola Triumph to obtain a faster phone and remove stock applications. Custom Rom’s make rooting a phone much more exciting. Because although your phone may be running an older version of android operating system when you root you have options of Rom’s to pick out so you can get a newer build of android on your phone. Currently I’m running CyanogenMod7.2.0 TG-Reloaded and I love it. There are significant speed differences and my phone has way more storage capacity. Currently they are putting together an ice cream sandwich Rom and although it’s only in an alpha build at the moment, it looks simply amazing I tested it out a little and I’m excited to see what’s to come with it.
So after I had rooted my phone I started to experience some very odd behavior, I use a wired headset with built in mic to make phone calls on my triumph and to my surprise my phone during calls would turn on the stock android music player and cut the call right off. I spent day’s changing versions of CyanogenMod and even reverting back to stock build. After I got everything back to the stock build my phone begun to do it again. So then I thought there was a problem with my phone. So I called Virgin Mobile and told them the problem unfortunately I was dumb enough also to tell them that the phone had been rooted and they refused to replace it. I have to have a phone that I can connect the wired headset into and use so I was pretty upset as you can imagine. I spent about a week going over phones and looking for what would be my next android devices. I took a look at the HTC Wildfire S and the Lg Optimus Slider from Virgin I’ve had many questions if I would get either of them devices, I love the look of the HTC Wildfire S especially the white one but I wouldn’t step a foot into a Radio Shack and buy anything! But the problem with the Wildfire S is quiet simple the biggest complaint is there is no storage, which makes zero since to me, why would you make such a nice little phone and not put any storage on it? Of course I’m going to hear things like well you can add a bigger Micro SD Card in it? Although that’s true when you save an application to the micro SD card some of it still stores on a phone. So there’s no chance I will have that phone. As for the optimus slider I’m just not amused with that phone it’s just okay. So I started considering some other phones from other companies such as the ZTE Warp and the Samsung Transform Ultra on Boost Mobile, Both look like really nice phones so I was ready to make the switch to a different company and a new phone. Until I took the headset and plugged it into my IPod touch to make a call using talkatone, have you ever used that cool little application? You can make free calls from your Google voice account on your IPhone, IPod and IPod Touch it’s simply amazing. So I bet you can’t guess what happened!? You guessed it! All of the sudden during the call my IPod Music player cuts out the phone call. After all this hassle of thinking my phones been broken and going through all this hell the issue turns out to be my headset!? It was insane! I would have never thought for a second that my headphones could mess up to even cause this issue and that my Motorola triumph was just fine. So a 20 dollar replacement headphones was close to turning out to be a 200 dollar phone replacement... Wew… glad that I figured that one out it sure took a while.
Anyway guy’s that’s what’s been going on with my phone issues. A lot of people have been asking me on twitter because I had been posting messages about the issues. Luckily I won’t have to get a new phone as of yet because I really do think the Motorola Triumph is the top phone at the moment on the prepaid market. Anyway though guy’s I hope your all having a great Fat Tuesday , Sorry if I rambled a little much but I appreciate you guy’s reading my blog post it means a lot.
Peace & Love,
Sassy Tech Girl
Rebecca Marie
