Rooting an Android
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Lita Ford. :-D
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Great stuff, man. Thanks!
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Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.I'd agree with most of that too, I rooted my HTC Hero months ago, and have put a few new ROMs on it since. I got most of my info from here[^]. If you have clear instructions then it should be very simple, just some steps can take long enough for you to start getting worried. Remember that there are lots of people who have already done most things wrong, so there are lots of people who know how to fix what you might do wrong.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I'd agree with most of that too, I rooted my HTC Hero months ago, and have put a few new ROMs on it since. I got most of my info from here[^]. If you have clear instructions then it should be very simple, just some steps can take long enough for you to start getting worried. Remember that there are lots of people who have already done most things wrong, so there are lots of people who know how to fix what you might do wrong.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
Remember that there are lots of people who have already done most things wrong, so there are lots of people who know how to fix what you might do wrong.
That's pretty much my life philosophy. :)
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I have a Samsung Captivate, which I'm enjoying. Well, was, until I synced my calendar. Now every calendar notification plays an obnoxious sound, and the Samsung crapware version of the calendar offers no options to change, disable or otherwise nuke the tone. It makes noise on notifications, and there's nothing you can do about it. Well, other than altering the sound file itself, but it's read only. Meaning if I want to do this, I have to root the phone. I'm not currently interested in going down the rabbit hole of cell phone development. I just want to turn off the freakin' sound. However, it's annoying enough that I'm actually considering rooting the phone so that I can change the permission of the file and delete it (or replace it with one that's just silence). I found this one click app to root / unroot Captivates. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739304[^] That said, I'm completely ignorant of what the implications are when rooting a phone. I recall enough UNIX from ancient times to understand su permissions, and that's all I care about. However, I don't want to brick the thing because I actually need, well, you know, a mobile telephone. Any advice or things I should look out for so that I don't shoot myself in the foot and screw the phone?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.If you aren't careful, you'll find your thread moved to the SoapBox, using a subject like that.
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If you aren't careful, you'll find your thread moved to the SoapBox, using a subject like that.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I flashed a number of times after my first root. It became something of an addiction for a while.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
I've only ever rooted vegetables and I find that they don't complain.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Lita Ford. :-D
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.I saw her live, I thought she was boring.
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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I saw her live, I thought she was boring.
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.
Pity. I remember doing some of her songs in the 80s when I was playing with a chick singer. It was fun 80's rock. Never saw her live, though.
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I've rooted my Samsung Galaxy S (and it's still rooted). After rooting it, nothing will change, unless you want. No application will run as root, unless you explicitly give it root access (a system very similar to UAC). The process is easy and almost idiot proof. But I can give you a few important remarks:
- If you get the wrong root files, you can brick your phone. Most of the time, there is a suitable "unbrick" process. I bricked my phone, and managed to unbrick it. Be sure that you have exactly the Captivate SHG-I897 model, and not a submodel before running that application
- Backup everything before you start. Most of your data is probably on Google anyways, but I would suggest backing up your apps using AppBrain or other similar application. Rooting an Android is non-destructive, but often the unbrick process is destructive, so if something goes wrong, you lose all of your data.
- It may sound stupid, but plug your phone to your charger during the whole process.
- If you change and/or delete any system file on your phone, even a simple .mp3 system file, be sure to back it up first. Those files are only available for the root user for a reason.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
Hey there, stranger! Been years since I saw you post, how are things in Brazilland?
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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Hey there, stranger! Been years since I saw you post, how are things in Brazilland?
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
Wow! Vikram remembers me, after all these years! Things are doing very well here, I still read CP almost dailly, but I stopped posting on CP because I'm very busy now and needed to reduce my online presence a little so I could give a bit more attention to my family. And, you know, CP takes a lot of your free time. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, Crivo, and things were pretty slow until 2004, and then I decided to stop programming (only do now for fun), and started working on the sales department. Then, the company grew a lot (we managed to double the size each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!), and we were recently interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch[^]. And you, how are things going there?
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Wow! Vikram remembers me, after all these years! Things are doing very well here, I still read CP almost dailly, but I stopped posting on CP because I'm very busy now and needed to reduce my online presence a little so I could give a bit more attention to my family. And, you know, CP takes a lot of your free time. The reason I don't have so much free time anymore is my company: as you may remember (or not), I started a company in 2000, Crivo, and things were pretty slow until 2004, and then I decided to stop programming (only do now for fun), and started working on the sales department. Then, the company grew a lot (we managed to double the size each year on the past 6 years, a 2^6 growth!), and we were recently interviewed by Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch[^]. And you, how are things going there?
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
Good to know you're doing well, mate! Yeah, I remember you started your own company and moved out of programming... I guess that's when you stopped posting. Recognized you in the pic too :) I'm still a 20-something, been working for 6 years in Madras, 3+ at a behemoth financial company that shall stay nameless, more or less stopped programming myself (except for dabbling in SQL) and moved towards business analysis, and, seemingly against all odds, found the love of my life and we're getting married in Q1 2011.
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh: