Questions about rooting...

[nleksan]

Droid_Mike: I am in a similar boat as you, except I don't have anywhere near that kind of experience with electronics (custom gaming PC's, liquid cooling systems, home theater PC's, home networks, etc, is about as far as I go; but I also do home theater setups, and I love to tinker and "customize/improve" anything electronic). I just have ZERO familiarity with the Linux platform, so while I have no problem doing a single thing on Windows, from cleaning up horrible messes of PC's for friends, to writing custom Registry strings, it is like a second nature.
But Linux? Yikes... Does not make me feel so confident...

 

[papatar]

I have absolutely no electronics experience and no more than basic computer skills at best but wanted to root my OG droid just to see if i could. It went off without a hitch. I played around with a lot of different roms 'til i finally settled on one i liked. I found myself spending way too much time messing with the phone at the expense of other things that needed attention. For that reason I haven't rooted my nexus yet but I;m getting close. Most of these guys on here and the things they discuss are still way over my head but you'll pick up a lot as you go. The only way you're going to satisfy that itch is to go ahead and give it a try.

 

[nleksan]

Another thing holding me back...

Well, I wouldn't mind rooting the phone so that I can use TiBU and SetCPU and whatnot, but I just feel that with the phone only being a month old, the ROMs and everything else will be a hundred times better come Spring... I love being an early-adopter with the phone/ICS, but I am less-confident in being an "early adopter" for custom ROMs and whatnot... Especially with my complete unfamiliarity with Linux.

Meh...

 

[bhfd64]

The custom ROMs that are out now are very stable. I'm sure as time goes there will be more customization available, but as far as everything working, that's already there.

 

[ksaul]

to anyone who is scared - check out this toolkit -- http://www.droidforums.net/forum/galaxy-nexus-development/192031-wugs-galaxy-nexus-root-toolkit.html

i am backing up my SDCard now and going to attempt to root my phone with the toolkit posted above - its supposed todo all the work for me, and also has a backup feature incase i do brick my phone (although the tookit does all the work for me, so it shouldnt brick). Since the toolkit is doing all the work, I feel much safer doing it. also there is major success rate judging by the comments (atleast 98%)

 

[nleksan]

to anyone who is scared - check out this toolkit -- http://www.droidforums.net/forum/galaxy-nexus-development/192031-wugs-galaxy-nexus-root-toolkit.html

i am backing up my SDCard now and going to attempt to root my phone with the toolkit posted above - its supposed todo all the work for me, and also has a backup feature incase i do brick my phone (although the tookit does all the work for me, so it shouldnt brick). Since the toolkit is doing all the work, I feel much safer doing it. also there is major success rate judging by the comments (atleast 98%)

Haha, it's funny you mention that... I actually have both version 1.0 as well as the newest version downloaded on this PC (my laptop, which is my "general-purpose, go-to, has everything I use on it" computer). I haven't installed them yet, but I have the installers just sitting there...

I still have to buy Titanium Backup in order to not lose ABSOLUTELY everything...