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[Jmath679]

When I renew my contract for the s4, I am planning on using the bionic as a music player. I am trying to decide if I would rather run a rom for this purpose or just update. It should be an easy decision but I am hedging with no good reasons for doing so.

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[brainwash1]

Why not update and run a rom?

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[Jmath679]

Until there is reliable root access I wouldn't be romming and besides, point me to a jb rom.

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[brainwash1]

CM 10.1, AOKP, etc work on safestrap with JB.

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[MarkusMcNugen]

Until there is reliable root access I wouldn't be romming and besides, point me to a jb rom.

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If you do it correctly, you should be able to retain root with OTA Rootkeeper when you update to the Jellybean OTA. If you do upgrade and retain root access, why wouldnt you install SafeStrap and put some roms on it?

 

Here are a few links to some JB based ROMs. The newer ones, not the older ones.

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[dg5301]

The most important consideration I can think of, since you say it'll just be used as a music player: do you have the headphone whine issue? The JB update eliminated the whine for me and several other people. That would be reason enough for me to take the update. Root can be preserved if you read Sam's thread all the way through and follow all the precautions carefully. If you don't have the whine issue, I'd just leave it as is if it meets all of your needs as a music player.

[Jmath679]

That is a good point I had not considered. I do have the whine.

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[johnlgalt]

Also, as a music player, do you really need root?  If you need root, follow the steps carefully - I took the OTA after making sure Voodoo had root backed up (Koush's superuser.apk and su binary, FYI) and was able to restore root without a hitch.

 

But if you do not want to ROM, and just use the basic JB and music apps to play music, I think that trying to make sure your backup is current (deleting existing backup, updating suepruser.apk, then updating su binary) and then making a new backup would be the steps to perform before taking the OTA.

 

Then, take the OTA, and if you can restore root, great, if not, well, you still have a JB-based music player.

[Jmath679]

I am keeping this phone so that if my new phone is not usable for some reason I have an immediate back up. Though I will be using it as a media player otherwise I would like to still have options open if I have to use this one again.

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[johnlgalt]

Then if you follow my instructions it should retain root fine so that if you decide to put a ROM on later on, it will be feasible.

 

Another option is to use HoB to FXZ back to pure stock ICS, then the root, then follow my instructions before you take the OTA, so that the OTA applies on a pure stock (rooted) phone giving it less opportunity to fail.