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Old February 20th, 2010, 01:59 PM   #32 (permalink)
charrion
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Originally Posted by markusn82 View Post
So just to get this straight the European Milestones can get root even though their bootloaders are locked? Does the locked bootoader only prevent the use of custom roms and not root?

I honestly don't care about custom roms (in fact I like using stock ROMs) I just want to ensure that I can install the official updates and also paid apps (via MarketEnabler).
That's about it in a nutshell. European Milestones with 2.0.1 have been rooted, there just appears to be enough difference between them and the Telus one that the root method doesn't work here.

As I understand it, the locked bootloader is only preventing the custom rom development and like you, I don't care overmuch about custom roms. The stock rom on the Telus Milestone is nice and clean and runs quite well. My big beef is the lack of access to the paid apps in Market and until Google yanks their thumbs out of their collective arses, the only ways we can get access is by either unlocking the phone and putting a U.S. sim in temporarily or rooting and running Market Enabler.
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