Reasons To Root Your Phone.

The Sensation XE from HTC -

my phone of choise. a.k.a. The one I liked and could afford, when I bought a new phone.

The list of annoyances that needs root to fix:

• Useable shell extensions

• after rooting jump to "Google Play" and find a busybox installer

• The incredibly loud boot jingle

• really special since it's accompanied by the animation revealing "HTC quietly brilliant".
• Fix:
  • adb shell
  • su
  • busybox mount -o remount,rw /system
  • mv /system/customize/resource/android_audio.mp3 /system/customize/resource/android_audio.mp3.dist
  • busybox mount -o remount,ro /system

• The ICS wake from volume buttons idiosyncrasy

• A annoyance of holding
• Fix:
  • adb shell
  • su
  • busybox mount -o remount,rw /system
  • cp /system/usr/keylayout/pyramid-keypad.kl /system/usr/keylayout/pyramid-keypad.kl.dist
  • busybox vi /system/usr/keylayout/pyramid-keypad.kl
    • Move to the space after VOLUME_DOWN and press "D" (capital d)
    • Move to the space after VOLUME_UP and press "D" (capital d)
    • press "Z" (capital z) twice
  • busybox mount -o remount,ro /system

• Firewalling

• Jump to "Google Play" and find a firewall (I like DroidWall)