Help Android virgin here.....

Drag2blaze · Mar 7, 2010

This is my first android based phone, i have the motorola backflip. This may be a dumb question, but can this phone be rooted? And if it can be, how? Thank you guys for your responses.

tenio · Mar 7, 2010

Since it is such a new phone, it is unknown at the moment....but I am certain it will be rooted eventually.

james27007 · Mar 7, 2010

This one is going to be a bit more complicated to get rooted than other phones. From what I understand there is no boot.img or recovery.img. If anyonme is going to find out how, it may be here: [System Dump]Motorola Backflip Blur_Version.0.1.1199.MB300.ATT.en.US - xda-developers

If I find out, I'll post

BiGMERF · Mar 7, 2010

welcome to the forum, glad to have ya aboard!

linuxdood · Mar 8, 2010

Probably never. But that's ok. I gave up the iPhone with my constant cat and mouse jailbreaking. I don't want to root it. I want ATT and motorola to allow Android to live up to its potential on this phone. There should be no reason to ever need to root an Android phone.

Drag2blaze · Mar 9, 2010

Thanks guys for the responses. I am a firm NON iphone person. And coming from the HTC Tilt 2, i enjoy my phone. Im just ready to really start playing with it.

Spooky Electric · Mar 9, 2010

linuxdood said:
Probably never. But that's ok. I gave up the iPhone with my constant cat and mouse jailbreaking. I don't want to root it. I want ATT and motorola to allow Android to live up to its potential on this phone. There should be no reason to ever need to root an Android phone.

I fully agree. Thats the ONLY reason why I wanted an android phone. I feel as its more AT&T this time around. Granted I don't like the fact you HAVE to use an email for motorblur to turn the phone on and use it for the first time.
If there was a way around it, I didn't see a way.

james27007 · Mar 9, 2010

As for the status of the root, the big devs are waiting on spicific files that need to be leaked from Motorola (same that happened with the cliq). For now we can at least install non market apps via ADB. I'll try to keep things updated here as it unfolds

Drag2blaze · Mar 10, 2010

Cool guys thanks. I have been looking aound with droid explorer but i have no clue what im looking at. I have taken several c programming classes so i am kind of guessing what is needed is something i can recognize. Does anyone happen to know what files are stopping the Backflip from being a droid? I found something interesting by digging around in And-explorer, It was a file called BLOCK. It contained several other files that i cant remember at the moment. I also found something in the ABOUT PHONE section and it had a liscenses in it that said the phone can not be locked because it is an open source OS. If that is the case.....isnt that a violation of terms?

Spooky Electric · Mar 10, 2010

I don't know enough, but I am going to say no. Since updates are allowed and the said companies have contracts with each other, other situations apply. The lock that you speak of seems on the motorola side. Granted stuff AT&T has done has created a huge upstir so they might change their tune. Especially since android is getting more and more popular AT&T is going to have to be more careful how they treat the software to keep up with competition. Someone else probably has a more knoweledge of a response. Iam drunk!!!

james27007 · Mar 10, 2010

Drag2blaze said:
I found something interesting by digging around in And-explorer, It was a file called BLOCK. It contained several other files that i cant remember at the moment. I also found something in the ABOUT PHONE section and it had a liscenses in it that said the phone can not be locked because it is an open source OS. If that is the case.....isnt that a violation of terms?

Kinda a violation, sucks hna? I think they locked the phone to get everyone worked up and get the phone. Then when things start to cool down, they will leak the files. Same happened for the cliq.

Drag2blaze · Mar 10, 2010

I hope so i have had mine since the day it dropped and i am enjoying it. I really like the speed of it and the ******ed apps. But i think i am ready for the full android experience. I tried to get the cliq when it first came out but no one could unlock it to use it on AT&T's network. I want to learn as much as i can now so when it is available i will be able to truly fall in love with it. Hopefully by then i can write some of my own codes for it also.

Drag2blaze · Mar 12, 2010

I really hope someone knows how to use this information. Because im tired from work and at a loss. Maybe this will help someone figure something out.

[System Dump]Motorola Backflip Blur_Version.0.1.1199.MB300.ATT.en.US - Page 2 - xda-developers

Androidhead · Mar 27, 2010

Drag2blaze said:
This is my first android based phone, i have the motorola backflip. This may be a dumb question, but can this phone be rooted? And if it can be, how? Thank you guys for your responses.

Got this link from another forum.

Rooting in progress.......................

Got Root on Motorola Backflip? I do. Part I.

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