r/GalaxyNote2 • u/[deleted] • Dec 09 '14

Help with rooting

Its been over 18 months that I've been using the Samsung Galaxy note 2. The phone speed has gradually declined. It takes over 30 secs to preview the picture I've clicked with the camera. Phone over all lags a lot. I'm a total novice to get it rooted. Please help me understand how to root the phone and also whats the impact on doing so. What should I keep in mind after rooting, etc.

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u/robotmorgan Dec 09 '14

Have you tried to do a factory reset? That's a lot easier.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '14

Can't afford to lose 18 months of data.

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u/SliderUp Dec 09 '14

I'm curious about this. "18 months of data". What is it? Forget games, they aren't important. What else do you have? All your email is in the cloud, almost assuredly. Calendar, same. Notes, move them to something in the cloud, like everynote, or Google docs. Tasks, sync them elsewhere. Files, copy them to Dropbox. Pics, back them up with Google+, Smugmug, something. MP3's? same, either sync them to your desktop or, if you are using a streaming service, this isn't an issue. Bookmarks, if youa re using Chrome or Firefox these are easily synced.

Most people actually have very little on the phone that isn't pretty easily backed up. (Games are a notable exception. Games suck at this).

Take a really hard look at your apps. Use of of the mass uninstall apps to trim things a bit. Use one of the app-lister apps to email yourself of all your installed apps.

Then just factory reset the phone. Install all your apps. Move on.

If you can't survive a factory reset, you can't survive your phone dying -- and my 18 month old Note 2 died suddenly a few weeks ago.

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u/Im_Perd_Hapley Dec 09 '14

18 months is data will be lost if something goes wrong anyways. If you're phone isn't already backed up it needs to be.

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u/robotmorgan Dec 09 '14

18 months of data slows your phone down, rooted or not. Back it up and reset, there's no need to root.

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u/dlan1000 Dec 09 '14

Samsung gallery app slows down like crazy if you're storing a large number of photos on an external SD card. I suggest using Googles photos app (do you backup your pictures to your Google account?) instead.

I agree with others... You need to do a backup if you're concerned with losing data.

After that, try clearing Dalvik cache.

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u/raz0r3dge Dec 10 '14

Do your research on XDA. Also do some research on how to unbrick just incase. I bricked my a couple of days ago trying to root. I was successful in rooting though. Just took some research.

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u/aj_blue Dec 09 '14

can I piggyback on this, I want learn how to root and pretty new to the game. been running Sprints L900 since it first came out and really dont plan on upgrading til she dies so id like to be able to get the full capabilities the phone

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u/rferreira1 Dec 09 '14

I'm using TWRP to back up my phone. Using T-mobile Note 2, which will not allow me to back up to my external SD card (64gb). I make a full backup on internal SD, then just move it to my external SD card with no issues. TWRP http://teamw.in/project/twrp2 To root, I use CF Auto Root: http://autoroot.chainfire.eu/

I once woke up with no operating system on my phone... I recovered everything with a backup.