Uh... for the sake of argument, yes.so is rooting like hacking the psp with kernal or whatever the hell it was?
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Uh... for the sake of argument, yes.so is rooting like hacking the psp with kernal or whatever the hell it was?
If they figure out root, doesn't Motorola/Google just need to release and update to the phone that has a different password, or can they still use the exploit?
Um, be quiet?
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c) I find it implausible that someone would be able to point at a droid and say "oooo! lookz! A DROID! I'm going to steal it and sell it on the BLACK MARKET" when you can go get one at frickin' verizon.
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I would find it hard to believe that you've ever been outside.
I've been around linux systems since the 80's
awesome post, im gonna add this in to the first post so the info doesn't get buried.There is still a large amount of confusion in regards to the rooting devices. Hopefully this post will clear up most of it.
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What's the password?
There is no password involved. It's not like if we had some magical password would be able to go to Settings > Login as Root. Don't think of root access as an administrative user. Think of it as a level of security clearance. And that security clearance is simply not granted to anyone using, or any application running on top of, the stock Motorola Android OS.
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minimum of a data plan on the phone required. Kill the service, you have to pay the ETF.Why do you need to buy out your contract to root the phone?
minimum of a data plan on the phone required. Kill the service, you have to pay the ETF.
Why do you need to buy out your contract to root the phone?
i'm not the most tech savy person alive (somehow i'm technically in IT though) so i have a question. the only thing i can think of that would be a plus for me personally would be tethering. how does that work on a rooted phone? does that mean you can tether without having to pay VZ? so anytime i hook my phone to my computer i can get online assuming i have a signal?
You don't need to root to tether. Download PDAnet.
Rooting will allow us to flash custom roms, make modifications to the core apps, etc.
While I have not browsed but a fraction of the source code, I find it probable that they have done away with unnecessary protocols like user accounts.root is a user account, why shouldn't it be that easy unless they disabled root entirely?
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