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Basically any Android device can be rooted and flashed but how difficult it can be is the problem. The HTC Vision (T-Mobile G2) has a complete copy of it's ROM
by barake 16y ago
Basically any Android device can be rooted and flashed but how difficult it can be is the problem. The HTC Vision (T-Mobile G2) has a complete copy of it's ROM on board to "restore" if you flash the phone. Motorola has also done a good job of locking bootloaders.
It won't be surprising if these "security" measures keep escalating as carriers try to find new ways to extract revenue, such as charging extra for tethering.
- frio 16y agoTo be fair, I don't believe that was done to stop people from rooting their phones. One of the most common ways for phones to become damaged/bricked is for OTA updates to fail; the HTC Vision/G2/Desire Z method means that if that happens, the phone still works. Which is obviously better for the average user. That said, it's not much of a stretch to believe it was a nefarious attempt to block rooters from rooting either.
- maqr 16y agoNot true. It just has write-protection. It only looks like it's "restoring" because linux is caching FS writes, but never gets to flush them. See here for details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vis...
- commandar 16y ago> The HTC Vision (T-Mobile G2) has a complete copy of it's ROM on board to "restore" if you flash the phone. Not true. The Vision was NAND locked like previous HTC phones. What was actually happening was that if you tried to write to internal storage, the Linux kernel would tell you it was making the changes, but never actually committed the writes to storage. That's why the changes 'disappeared' after a reboot.