I put that task on hiatus for now, as I'm hoping that the upgrade will occur sometime soon. From what I read, once it is rooted, an OTA upgrade is not likely to work. If the upgrade doesn't come, then I'll eventually give up on waiting and root it without the upgrade.
I rooted my last phone by following instructions I found online. I didn't have to unlock the bootloader that time; the prior owner must have already done that. Or maybe that step wasn't required on whatever Android version that was back then. The main reason I wanted to do it that time was to remove the startup sound that always played when turning on the phone.
For this phone, I found instructions online too. Otherwise I'd have no idea of what to do. There's always a chance it won't work, and I will brick the phone. But I'm optimistic and willing to take the chance. This time, the main reason is that I want to try increasing the number of volume steps that the volume button has. It's nothing I couldn't live without, but once I found info on how it might possibly be done, then I wanted to try doing it, and it requires root.
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I rooted my last phone by following instructions I found online. I didn't have to unlock the bootloader that time; the prior owner must have already done that. Or maybe that step wasn't required on whatever Android version that was back then. The main reason I wanted to do it that time was to remove the startup sound that always played when turning on the phone.
For this phone, I found instructions online too. Otherwise I'd have no idea of what to do. There's always a chance it won't work, and I will brick the phone. But I'm optimistic and willing to take the chance. This time, the main reason is that I want to try increasing the number of volume steps that the volume button has. It's nothing I couldn't live without, but once I found info on how it might possibly be done, then I wanted to try doing it, and it requires root.