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How many of you have rooted your Android?

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  • C Christian Graus

    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.

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    Christopher Duncan
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    Rubber gloves? :)

    Christopher Duncan
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    • E Ed Poore

      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

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      Christopher Duncan
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      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
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      • P Pete OHanlon

        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

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        Christian Graus
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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.

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        • C Christian Graus

          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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          Roger Wright
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          Christian Graus wrote:

          I wish I knew their secret.

          Pssst... plant fungi.

          Will Rogers never met me.

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          • C Christopher Duncan

            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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            Lost User
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            Mate, I like my phone as much as the next guy but come on :)

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              Christian Graus wrote:

              I wish I knew their secret.

              Pssst... plant fungi.

              Will Rogers never met me.

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              Christian Graus
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              But you need to plant the right ones, which means you need the right conditions and the host trees, and you can have them in the ground for years without them actually germinating.

              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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                Mate, I like my phone as much as the next guy but come on :)

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                Christian Graus
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                Apparently that depends on if the next guy is Christopher Duncan....

                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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                • C Christian Graus

                  But you need to plant the right ones, which means you need the right conditions and the host trees, and you can have them in the ground for years without them actually germinating.

                  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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                  Roger Wright
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                  Wow! I thought they were like most any mushroom - moist, dark and you're there. Much to my surprise, I get various kinds of fungi springing up in the yard here in the middle of the Mojave Desert! There's one kind I discovered while planting a tree, about two feet underground. It looks and feels like soggy bread, and never comes to the surface. Another pops up now and then above ground beneath the ruelias. I'd never thought of these things growing in arid places. Weird...

                  Will Rogers never met me.

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                  • C Christopher Duncan

                    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

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                    NormDroid
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                    You see you should of waited for WP7 ;)

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                    • C Christopher Duncan

                      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
                      Copywriting Services

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                      Ed Poore
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                      Well my Desire isn't rooted by it's not tied down to a carrier so there isn't any of their crap installed on it.


                      I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder

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