How many of you have rooted your Android?
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Found Samsung Kies some time back to copy my Outlook contacts to the Captivate, but now it's not connecting. And thus, the temptation to just root the damned thing, offset by the very real possibility of bricking the stupid phone. You'd think it would plug into USB and just show up as a mass storage device, but apparently not the case. And so, I hesitate. Is rooting common and safe, and I'm just being a sissy? :)
Christopher Duncan
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Found Samsung Kies some time back to copy my Outlook contacts to the Captivate, but now it's not connecting. And thus, the temptation to just root the damned thing, offset by the very real possibility of bricking the stupid phone. You'd think it would plug into USB and just show up as a mass storage device, but apparently not the case. And so, I hesitate. Is rooting common and safe, and I'm just being a sissy? :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesLet me know when you find out! My Samsung Epic is currently a brick,as Sprint can't figure out how to activate it, but as soon as they get that working I'm sure they'll screw up something else.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Let me know when you find out! My Samsung Epic is currently a brick,as Sprint can't figure out how to activate it, but as soon as they get that working I'm sure they'll screw up something else.
Will Rogers never met me.
Well, I figured out how to get the mass storage part working so I'm edging slowly away from the rooting option. When you connect in mass storage mode, one might expect that you're connected and the drives will show up on your PC. Of course not. Don't be silly. This is Penguin technology, so it needs to be more complicated than that. The status bar at the top notifies you that you've connected via USB. You have to open the status bar and tap that message. Then you get a dialog box asking if you'd like to mount the drives. Select Mount, and it now shows up on the PC. Who's acid trip was that?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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Found Samsung Kies some time back to copy my Outlook contacts to the Captivate, but now it's not connecting. And thus, the temptation to just root the damned thing, offset by the very real possibility of bricking the stupid phone. You'd think it would plug into USB and just show up as a mass storage device, but apparently not the case. And so, I hesitate. Is rooting common and safe, and I'm just being a sissy? :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesNope, but i was tempted by CyanogenMod's efforts.....I am more than happy with my Nexus One the way it is, and the updates seem to arrive OTA pretty quickly after being announced. I have a spare HTC HD2, that I have been tempted to break.......either try an android install it, or mess about with the WinMob7 roms that are floating around.
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Well, I figured out how to get the mass storage part working so I'm edging slowly away from the rooting option. When you connect in mass storage mode, one might expect that you're connected and the drives will show up on your PC. Of course not. Don't be silly. This is Penguin technology, so it needs to be more complicated than that. The status bar at the top notifies you that you've connected via USB. You have to open the status bar and tap that message. Then you get a dialog box asking if you'd like to mount the drives. Select Mount, and it now shows up on the PC. Who's acid trip was that?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting Services:laugh: :laugh: "Timothy Leary's dead..." "No, no no no, he's outside, looking in..." I just got off the phone with Sprint - they're still working on it. :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Found Samsung Kies some time back to copy my Outlook contacts to the Captivate, but now it's not connecting. And thus, the temptation to just root the damned thing, offset by the very real possibility of bricking the stupid phone. You'd think it would plug into USB and just show up as a mass storage device, but apparently not the case. And so, I hesitate. Is rooting common and safe, and I'm just being a sissy? :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
In other words, you're being a sissy.
Always good to have impartial verification on these things. :-D
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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Found Samsung Kies some time back to copy my Outlook contacts to the Captivate, but now it's not connecting. And thus, the temptation to just root the damned thing, offset by the very real possibility of bricking the stupid phone. You'd think it would plug into USB and just show up as a mass storage device, but apparently not the case. And so, I hesitate. Is rooting common and safe, and I'm just being a sissy? :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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:laugh: :laugh: "Timothy Leary's dead..." "No, no no no, he's outside, looking in..." I just got off the phone with Sprint - they're still working on it. :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Found Samsung Kies some time back to copy my Outlook contacts to the Captivate, but now it's not connecting. And thus, the temptation to just root the damned thing, offset by the very real possibility of bricking the stupid phone. You'd think it would plug into USB and just show up as a mass storage device, but apparently not the case. And so, I hesitate. Is rooting common and safe, and I'm just being a sissy? :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesChristopher Duncan wrote:
Is rooting common and safe
It's common, but it's only safe if you use protection.
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
Is rooting common and safe
It's common, but it's only safe if you use protection.
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Should I assume their staggering incompetency in handling dual line phone issues extends to not being able to remove both lines from your old phone, assign one to your new phone, and the second back to your old phone?
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
That would be correct. It is somewhat more complicated, I guess, as the old phone (and the company line) is on the Nextel network, while the new phone is a Sprint-only device. It still seems strange, though, that this whole dual line thing took 30 seconds to set up, and two weeks to take apart... :doh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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That would be correct. It is somewhat more complicated, I guess, as the old phone (and the company line) is on the Nextel network, while the new phone is a Sprint-only device. It still seems strange, though, that this whole dual line thing took 30 seconds to set up, and two weeks to take apart... :doh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Found Samsung Kies some time back to copy my Outlook contacts to the Captivate, but now it's not connecting. And thus, the temptation to just root the damned thing, offset by the very real possibility of bricking the stupid phone. You'd think it would plug into USB and just show up as a mass storage device, but apparently not the case. And so, I hesitate. Is rooting common and safe, and I'm just being a sissy? :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesChristopher Duncan wrote:
Is rooting common and safe
It's certainly not something to truffle with.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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Well, I figured out how to get the mass storage part working so I'm edging slowly away from the rooting option. When you connect in mass storage mode, one might expect that you're connected and the drives will show up on your PC. Of course not. Don't be silly. This is Penguin technology, so it needs to be more complicated than that. The status bar at the top notifies you that you've connected via USB. You have to open the status bar and tap that message. Then you get a dialog box asking if you'd like to mount the drives. Select Mount, and it now shows up on the PC. Who's acid trip was that?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesNot on the Desire. If I plug it into a USB host (as opposed to a charging device) it asks whether I want to Sync, Mount, Charge or something else (I forget which). When you select mount the PC recognises it straight away - there's no separate mount option.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
Is rooting common and safe
It's common, but it's only safe if you use protection.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Rubber gloves? :)
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Not on the Desire. If I plug it into a USB host (as opposed to a charging device) it asks whether I want to Sync, Mount, Charge or something else (I forget which). When you select mount the PC recognises it straight away - there's no separate mount option.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
So it's clearly Samsung's acid trip and not Androids. That's good. The though of a robot on hallucinogens makes me nervous. :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
Is rooting common and safe
It's certainly not something to truffle with.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
ROTFL - there's people in Tassie growing truffles, I wish I knew their secret.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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ROTFL - there's people in Tassie growing truffles, I wish I knew their secret.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
I wish I knew their secret.
Pssst... plant fungi.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Found Samsung Kies some time back to copy my Outlook contacts to the Captivate, but now it's not connecting. And thus, the temptation to just root the damned thing, offset by the very real possibility of bricking the stupid phone. You'd think it would plug into USB and just show up as a mass storage device, but apparently not the case. And so, I hesitate. Is rooting common and safe, and I'm just being a sissy? :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting Services