[Noisebridge-discuss] Android rooting resources?

[Thomas Stowe]

>From Lifehacker.com:

http://lifehacker.com/5642797/universal-androot-roots-most-android-phones-no-pc-or-hacking-required


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On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Kelly <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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