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Rooting the Android
Sep 26th
d@rk3mp3r0r presents: the comprehensive guide to rooting.
credits: original authors. warning: do this at your own risk.
ROOTING
Rooting refers to getting super user access on your phone. Similar to Jailbreak in the IOS world.
Rooting voids warranty. Google claims they support open source. Well, shit on you.
There are two types of rooting. Hard Root and Soft Root.
Soft Root allows you to generally use the terminal / install custom OS mods (called Android ROMs) / overclock / etc.
Hard Root is a separate process. Its best described as a super-set of soft root features.
So, obviously, I’m only going to discuss Hard Root over here. For Soft Root / going back to STOCK, refer to XDA forums based on your phone model and OS state.
In the HTC world, hard root is also known as S-OFF. Below series of operations were performed on an HTC WILDFIRE (BUZZ) running FroYo (2.2.1) with HBOOT 1.01.002.
Google Does It Again!!
Apr 1st
Oh I love these people, the lengths they would go to for… oh lets begin at the beginning..
| So a normal day like any other, and I open my mailbox to see there’s a new link at the top: |
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| So the cat inside me asks me to click it, taking me to this page, with a elaborate video describing how Google has perfected motion technology to control Gmail.. opening/deleting/replying/flipping through/sending emails, even writing them just by using gestures in front of your webcam: |
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| link: Google Motion |
