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Thread: Top 10 reasons NOT to root

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    Default Top 10 reasons NOT to root


    10. What will you do when JF, Haykuro, and The Dude go to prison for hacking the Pentagon?
    9. After succesfully rooting your G1, your sig has to be 13 lines long.
    8. Your internal memory gets pretty lonely with all those apps on your sd card.
    7. You start to insist on naming your firstborn Davlik.
    6. How can you truly experience the masochistic feeling of waiting for baked goods.
    5. You start referring to us non-rooters as noobs even though we've had our G1's since launch.
    4. Backup, wipe, install, repeat. Repeat.repeat.repeat.
    3. Auto-rotate makes you dizzy.
    2. How can you call it a mobile phone when it's constantly attached to your desktop.


    And the #1 reason to not root your phone..........................


    After you finish, you start posting like you just built Skynet.

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    Default Re: Top 10 reasons NOT to root

    Hilarious post... I love it

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    Default Re: Top 10 reasons NOT to root

    lol, that was funny
    G1 Running: Haykuro Rom ADP1.5Hr3 w/ Aero Theme

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    Default Re: Top 10 reasons NOT to root

    Lol... Espicially number 1. It is true that a lot of people who root their G1s think they are suddenly technology masterminds. But my sig isn't 13 lines I dont even have a sig...yet

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    Default Re: Top 10 reasons NOT to root

    10. What will you do when JF, Haykuro, and The Dude go to prison for hacking the Pentagon?
    Send them cupcakes with files in them.
    9. After succesfully rooting your G1, your sig has to be 13 lines long.
    What's a sig?
    8. Your internal memory gets pretty lonely with all those apps on your sd card.
    nah, I create a lot of shortcuts with bettercut to use up memory
    7. You start to insist on naming your firstborn Davlik.
    My wife shot down Luke Skye, you really think she'll go for Davlik?
    6. How can you truly experience the masochistic feeling of waiting for baked goods.
    Get a dominatrix baker
    5. You start referring to us non-rooters as noobs even though we've had our G1's since launch.
    Nah, just the ones who've only had theirs since Lunch
    4. Backup, wipe, install, repeat. Repeat.repeat.repeat.
    You've almost got the rhythm
    3. Auto-rotate makes you dizzy.
    I've got a prescription for antivert
    2. How can you call it a mobile phone when it's constantly attached to your desktop.
    I use a laptop

    And the #1 reason to not root your phone..........................


    After you finish, you start posting like you just built Skynet.
    Chrisitan Bale will save us all



    Sorry I couldn't resist having fun with this one, that was a pretty good top ten list

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    Default Re: Top 10 reasons NOT to root

    Hahaha, I tried to qoute your Top 10 in my sig and got told I wasn't able to have more than 500Characters.

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    @jdwme- fun is what's been missing from the forums for awhile..that's why I posted it..
    And who says we have to stop at 10..C'mon people, add some funnier ones..
    I

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    Default Re: Top 10 reasons NOT to root

    Quote Originally Posted by Robocop View Post
    10. What will you do when JF, Haykuro, and The Dude go to prison for hacking the Pentagon?
    9. After succesfully rooting your G1, your sig has to be 13 lines long.
    8. Your internal memory gets pretty lonely with all those apps on your sd card.
    7. You start to insist on naming your firstborn Davlik.
    6. How can you truly experience the masochistic feeling of waiting for baked goods.
    5. You start referring to us non-rooters as noobs even though we've had our G1's since launch.
    4. Backup, wipe, install, repeat. Repeat.repeat.repeat.
    3. Auto-rotate makes you dizzy.
    2. How can you call it a mobile phone when it's constantly attached to your desktop.


    And the #1 reason to not root your phone..........................


    After you finish, you start posting like you just built Skynet.
    10: The dude is too crafty. They'll never take him alive.
    9: I list just the facts mam.
    8: Better than the memory card getting lonely!
    7: It's actually going to be adb remount
    6: We cant.
    5: Why own the device when it only uses half of it's potential. noob.
    4: New builds are no wipe from now on.
    3: You can turn it off.
    2: just to move over a 40 meg file...
    1: I hate it when people think they're smarter after just following other's directions.
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    Default Re: Top 10 reasons NOT to root

    Lol Nice List But I Think Everyone's A Noob Except The People Who Makes Builds/Apps/Scripts Etc. But The People Who Did It First Aren't Noobs If They Help Other People Out With "Hacking" Their G1.
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    thanks for the laugh im also a non root supporter!

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