unrevoked risk?

dave31175 · June 25th, 2010, 02:28 PM

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but given the cost of the EVO, plus my propensity for things I touch turning to crap, I'm wondering if there's any risk to installing/running unrevoked from unrevoked? If I understand correctly, this merely gives root access, leaving the rest of my android intact, correct? I'm wanting to try wireless tethering since I've been unsuccessful trying to use pdanet with my mac.

THEFORCE · June 25th, 2010, 02:46 PM

all it really does is give you access to use root programs, and you shouldnt have any problem with everything else

dave31175 · June 25th, 2010, 03:06 PM

Thanks, as you can tell I'm a bit paranoid about bricking! I'll give it a try.

THEFORCE · June 25th, 2010, 04:08 PM

jus make sure you read and understnad what you are doing, if you dont know, ask...thats what a forum is for

dave31175 · June 26th, 2010, 01:50 PM

Thanks again. I've run unrevoked, installed wireless tether, and it's working perfectly! So what other nifty things do I do with unrevoked root access? Most of the threads here seem to involve full rooting with installation of custom ROMs, and I'm not sure if I'm ready for that yet...

THEFORCE · June 26th, 2010, 03:10 PM

Well just search for root in the market for root apps...one of my favorites is titanium backup

nitty917 · June 26th, 2010, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by dave31175

Thanks again. I've run unrevoked, installed wireless tether, and it's working perfectly! So what other nifty things do I do with unrevoked root access? Most of the threads here seem to involve full rooting with installation of custom ROMs, and I'm not sure if I'm ready for that yet...

now root it all the way. and flash a custom rom.

dave31175 · June 27th, 2010, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by nitty917

now root it all the way. and flash a custom rom.

Is there a list somewhere of all the EVO custom ROMs? I probably won't try a full root until there's a froyo ROM...

SebastianX · June 27th, 2010, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by THEFORCE

all it really does is give you access to use root programs, and you shouldnt have any problem with everything else

How do you know this? The apk installs a superuser app then calls an external binary file to achieve root, do you have the source code of that binary file?

How does it achieve root? Do you have any legitimate proof what so ever of what it does to gain superuser access.

Until you can answer any/all of those question you should NOT tell people all it does is this and that because you don't know that, and that team isn't releasing any information about how it gains root. For that reason I refuse to root via that method.

THEFORCE · June 27th, 2010, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by SebastianX

How do you know this? The apk installs a superuser app then calls an external binary file to achieve root, do you have the source code of that binary file?

How does it achieve root? Do you have any legitimate proof what so ever of what it does to gain superuser access.

Until you can answer any/all of those question you should NOT tell people all it does is this and that because you don't know that, and that team isn't releasing any information about how it gains root. For that reason I refuse to root via that method.

I'm just putting it in simple terms....using the first unrevoked method didn't allow you to flash a custom rom so it only really allowed you to use root apps