A simple add-on turns the Samsung Galaxy Nexus into a Galaxy S III

5. McLTE posted on 30 May 2012, 09:00 0 2

To root your phone, yes the process will wipe your phone, so you'd want to save your data.

You will also not receive the official update from Google. This isn't much of an issue however, as most of the good ROM developers are way ahead of the official updates, integrating them into their ROMs very quickly.

6. Mario1017 posted on 30 May 2012, 11:05 0 0

When you root your phone you don't lose any of your data at all...I don't know who told you that. When you flash a custom from you have to wipe so the ROM is written properly. You can flash certain add ons without having to wipe and you can also sometimes update rooms without wiping.

9. ervman1 posted on 30 May 2012, 11:41 0 0

This isn't always the case. A lot of times when you root your phone is erased. Have you tried "rooting" the nexus series? I say "root" because it's very easy to do so and enabled as a developer feature by Google but when you do so, everything is erased.

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12. Mario1017 posted on 02 Jun 2012, 01:25 0 0

and how many times have you rooted phones. Ive rooted many of my friends phones and never once have i had to restore the phone, nor has the action been prompted. Phones do not get erased when you root them, all youère really doing is installing superuser, which allows those actions. and flashing a recovery does not reset a phone either.
Also there is a way to root the GNex without resetting it.

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10. DigitalBoy05 posted on 30 May 2012, 13:48 0 0

do all of the S Voice functions work with this addon? I have S Voice installed on my GNexus but only about half the commands work. It will force close if it wont do the command.