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I have an iPhone, my wife has a T-Mobile G1. I looked into getting root on the G1 - it appeared to be hugely more complicated than the pretty simple jailbreaki
by semanticist 17y ago
I have an iPhone, my wife has a T-Mobile G1.
I looked into getting root on the G1 - it appeared to be hugely more complicated than the pretty simple jailbreaking process, involving downgrading the OS to find a local root exploit. I didn't bother, it looked like far too much bother for too little reward.
- mbrubeck 17y agoInterestingly, the Nexus One from Google allows users access to the engineering bootloader (allowing re-flashing with a rooted image) with a simple command sent over USB ("fastboot oem unlock"). There's even a friendly "third-party images are not officially supported" confirmation screen built in.
- joeyo 17y agoIMHO, getting root on Android is worth it if only for gaining USB/Bluetooh/WiFi tethering.
- semanticist 17y agoI think that's actually why there's not a click-and-it-does-it solution for the G1 - because there's far less restrictions on what apps you can install on the device there's much less incentive for people to 'risk' fiddling with it. Tethering is probably the 'killer app' for jailbreaking/rooting on both platforms for most people, but there's a lot more to be gained by jailbreaking your iPhone. Having said that - I haven't bothered to re-jailbreak mine after the last few updates since I realised I never used the jailbroken features.
- joeyo 17y agoAbsolutely. If/when Android has tethering "out of the box" I doubt I'll continue to run alternative kernels.