[Noisebridge-discuss] Android rooting resources?

Kelly hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 23:39:19 UTC 2010


Yeah I'm on 2.6 on an original G1 running cyanogenmod, and it's abysmally
slow.

Also, my GPS broke when we rooted my phone.

-K

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 15:23, Joel Jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:

> 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<travis%2Bml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org>
> >     <mailto:travis%2Bml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org<travis%252Bml-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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