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Originally Posted by WoodDraw
I know this is old, but I just read through the last few posts in this thread.
I've said it before, but the Android development community is incredibly overrated. Most of their work is absolute shit, and completely unsupported. And you have to remember, many of these "custom ROMS" don't involve any real coding or knowledge of the real workings of Android by their authors. It's like downloading one of those old register tweaks for Windows. Mostly they're just skins and edits to settings, along with some bug fixes/modifications, almost always taken from one of the few real Android developers that knows what they are doing.
So when people always talk about root and Android, I always say be cautious. Even more cautious when you start thinking about flashing a custom ROM. I rooted my phone, flashed several of the popular ROMS, and I was disappointed by all. Once Samsung released official FROYO for my phone, I flashed back to stock and haven't regretted it since. And even more, I haven't even felt the need to root it again.
There are some exceptions, especially with the AOSP projects and with developers that support legacy devices. And mainly, rooting to get rid of bloatware and stupid limitations dictated by carriers. But mostly, it doesn't bring much to the average person.
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You acknowledge it a little in your post, but just to be clear, I think there's a huge difference in "rooting" and running a "custom ROM" in terms of value. The former unlocks a ton of useful apps (Wireless Tether perhaps being the biggest one) and is really pretty safe as long as you use a method that a lot of others have used.
Custom ROMs, on the other hand, vary widely. If you've got a phone that the CM7 team is working on, that's worth it. Most of the rest are crap. However, I will say that I've loved the one I'm running right now, which is just the Sprint stock ROM with all of the bloat removed.