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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 21 2013 @ 04:57 PM EDT |
Yes, the vendors hide the instructions for rooting your phone from
ordinary mortals. You and I, Sir, know where these instructions are
hidden, and deem ourselves competent to change applications as
we wish (after all didn't we install NetBSD on a 286 back then?).
The evidence is there on the Android hacker forums of the noobs
who are running Microsoft's finest on their desktop, turning good
phones into bricks. Some of the phones are recoverable under
expert guidance. Some of the noobs are incapable of following
or accepting expert guidance. Some of the phones are returned
to the vendor where the disputes process kicks in for a refund.
It's not that replacing a Word Processor destroys your phone.
It's all the other things that root access allows you to break (and yes
I found it scary that the default NetBSD gave me a root prompt).
It might be that your vendor has tied Word Processor frameworks to
something else, like Text Messaging, or his chosen Web Browser
don't work if his chosen Word Processor is removed.
Google made Android Open and Accessible. The handset vendors
have locked it down for their own peace of mind. This appears
to be within the terms of their agreement with Google. We can
meekly accept that that vendor's devices are as closed as iOS,
or we can root them and void our warranty.
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- And we have a winner - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 21 2013 @ 08:21 PM EDT
- Root bar? - Authored by: PJ on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 05:10 AM EDT
- no, you didn't - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 09:27 AM EDT
- mea culpa - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 04:04 PM EDT
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