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How long until the Incredible is rooted??

How long until The Incredible is rooted??

  • Before it is officially released!

    Votes: 3 8.8%
  • Within the first two weeks.

    Votes: 24 70.6%
  • Around the same as the Eris.

    Votes: 6 17.6%
  • Never.

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Total voters
    34
Okay, I put within first two weeks, but I didn't want to vote as long as the Eris. I definitely won't take as long as the Eris because it was just a hard phone to root and this one will have WAYYYY more super good developers working on it. (not saying they didn't have good ones, the Incredible is just a more appealing phone...). So I would say about 2 -4 weeks. That seems about right in my book. So within the first month of release, like the Droid was!
 
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The Desire is rooted already. Problem is that it has a write access restriction to /system. So root and useable root are two different things with the snap dragon phones; unless you count the N1 which comes unlocked.
I'm assuming this means we can't install custom/optimized ROMs? If so, is there a chance a workaround can be found?
 
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I'm assuming this means we can't install custom/optimized ROMs? If so, is there a chance a workaround can be found?


I really hope so, cause one of the things I enjoy most is trying out all the ROMs that are out there. However, knowing that The Inc is already going to be ridiculous as a stock phone, I'm still going to get it even if the devs never get total root access.
 
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