[Noisebridge-discuss] Android rooting resources?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On 9/21/10 3:17 PM, Robert Fletcher wrote:
> I've got a G1 running 2.2 and it is clunky as all get-out. 

Yeah I went back to 2.1 for more or less that reason. still I think that
pretty good for a mobile that arrived in my hands october 2008 to remain
useful and running a fairly modern if unsupported os variant 2 years later.

> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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