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Originally Posted by dabx724
I'm not assuming its the same way, and absolutely not saying its the 1 click process, but the general idea of rooting an android is quite similar is what i'm saying. there are steps to rooting a phone of course, and the sprint Hero was just recently released, they will discover a way to root it, VERY soon.
There is a risk, but its so insignificant it shouldn't even be claimed as one. Something called Nandroid back up, that if you ever brick your phone, you can return it to normal, therefore you really can't brick it. Well yeah obviously you can't just root an android phone and do nothing with it. Rooting an android phone means purpose to that. Once an android is rooted, so many doors open to what it can really do and how amazing it really is. Custom build roms are far better and more efficient than any official released rom. Developers take what the official rom contain and expand on that.
And honestly it doesnt take a rocket science to root a phone, there will always be step by step instructions for the real noobies to have what the geeks have, a pretty fly android phone.
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Ok 1) rooting is
NOT in any way the same for any phone... Nor is it possible to 1 click root any phone just because it is Android 1.5... The SPL/Bootloader is different on every phone and a recovery image needs to be specific to the phone and its setup... Rooting process in its self is simple once someone else has done
ALL the work to manipulate the spl and writen a new recovery image..
2) Nandroid is essentially a photo it creates .img files of your phones current state and although this provides a 99.9% restore possibiltiy it is still possible to brick your phone when messing with things like going from stock bootloader to engineering bootloader or hard spl.... especially if your HTC device has a DVT board....
3) To truly understand root and what it does you must have a solid knowledge of linux based operating systems as Android is linux based..