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Dustin

Newbie
Dec 11, 2008
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Howdy folks, not exactly sure which forum this belongs, but this seemed appropriate. I'm debating getting an Android phone in the near future, but sadly don't know anyone locally where I can toy with the OS, see if I like it. So I downloaded the SDK and have been tinkering with the emulator. With the emulator you can start it with the -shell flag to get a root shell into the phone, now my question is can something like that be done with a real phone or is that simply a dev tool with the emulator?

Thanks :)
 

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