[Noisebridge-discuss] Android rooting resources?

[Robert Fletcher]

I've got a G1 running 2.2 and it is clunky as all get-out.  About ready for
an upgrade myself.  Google is notorious for giving away phones at Google IO
worth more than the ticket price.  At the last one a friend of mine got two
phones, including the HTC Evo.  He sold the other for $250, almost enough to
cover the $300 ticket.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ryan Rawson <ryanobjc at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you are on tmobile and buy the phone outright you can get their
> unsubsidized rate.  That discount is worth about $20/month.  So a
> subsidized smart phone is around $200, plus a $80/month plan over 2
> years.  If you buy the phone for around $500, your monthly is now $60
> instead, and you save $480 on the plan over 2 years.  The subsidy is
> worth around $300 so you are actually saving $180 over 2 years.  Yes
> inflation messes this up a bit :-)
>
> I have the n1 and I unlocked it, HTC will honor the hardware warranty.
>  I am running CM right now, and it is great.
>
> Most of the other phone roots involve model specific flaws.  Since you
> can always force a downgrade, if there was even just 1 rom with a hole
> in it the phone is rootable.  I did this to my older G1.
>
> However the N1 supports loading your own roms into any of the multiple
> firmware spaces without hacking.  It's pretty cool, but the phone is
> rapidly becoming obsolete and I dont think we'll see another phone
> like it in a long time sadly.
>
> -ryan
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:07 PM,
> <travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org<travis%2Bml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org>>
> wrote:
> > Nexus One, though not commercially available, is said to be a
> > crud-free phone.  The developer models come unjailed and unlocked.
> > You supposedly can get them from Google at their Android developer
> > meetings sometimes, and employees might be able to obtain them.
> >
> > It may be intimidating to pay $500 for a phone, but it's a small
> > difference over the subsidized price ($200) compared to the cellular
> > plan for a year, not to mention the life of the phone.
> >
> > If you have an older iPhone, you probably have the unlimited data
> > plan, and can move the SIM card to another AT&T phone like the HTC
> > Captivate (when it comes out) without informing AT&T, and do all the
> > tethering you want.
> >
> > Note that the Android actually acts as a WiFi AP (hot spot) that
> > gateways to the 3G/4G/whatever network, so "tethering" is a bit of a
> > misnomer - there's no cables involved.  You basically get Internet
> > access for every WiFi device in range.
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