UPDATED: Motorola Droid rooted… kinda
I don’t have a Droid on hand – let alone a spare that I can tinker and test with – so I can’t personally verify that the Droid has been rooted. However, that is the word.
I also wouldn’t recommend to anyone that they run out and attempt to crack that puppy open. But if you actually need root and don’t mind risking your toy, here’s the how-to. According to what I’m reading there, it’s only good for ADB. You’re not going to be pulling root-required apps from the Market. That sort of nixes the whole point to me but I have a very simple, practical perspective on rooting. I know there are plenty of you out there who want to dig in and play. More power to ya.
UPDATE: There is now a tutorial for completing the process. You can now install root required apps. At your own risk, click here. Thank you, commenters and Twitter friends.
Via Engadget
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So, open question to anyone: I'm new to all this cell phone tech stuff–what does “rooting” mean? Is it good or bad?
Actually they updated it, you can now have “su” on the droid localy. Therefore you can run market place root only apps.
Droid is “fully” rooted. You just need to install SU from ADB. Follow this guide: http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=210&t=572
Rooting is the ability to hack the phone so you can change the OS and use custom builds of Android. Since Android is an open OS, there have been a few programmers who have become pretty popular for their custom ROMs. There is no way to change the ROM of a phone, though, until somebody figures out how to root it. If it isn't done right, it is possible to “brick” your phone, making it virtually useless like a brick.
I would imagine this gets the ball rolling on rooting on the Cliq too. I might shed a tear. My good solid phone would become a great (now little) phone.
Unfortunately it doesn't. This exploit is exclusive to 2.0. Unless the Cliq gets an update to 2.0 soon it's out of luck for this particular exploit. It is literally a patch consisting of changing a “1″ to a “3″ in the code.
I was just researching that and I think it unlikely that the Cliq will ever run 2.0 either. Although probably get a few more updates. Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately it doesn't. This exploit is exclusive to 2.0. Unless the Cliq gets an update to 2.0 soon it's out of luck for this particular exploit. It is literally a patch consisting of changing a “1″ to a “3″ in the code.
I was just researching that and I think it unlikely that the Cliq will ever run 2.0 either. Although probably get a few more updates. Thanks for the reply.
Rooting is the ability to hack the phone so you can change the OS and use custom builds of Android. Since Android is an open OS, there have been a few programmers who have become pretty popular for their custom ROMs. There is no way to change the ROM of a phone, though, until somebody figures out how to root it. If it isn't done right, it is possible to “brick” your phone, making it virtually useless like a brick.
Read this (found via a quick Google search on 'root Android':
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Why_Root
I would imagine this gets the ball rolling on rooting on the Cliq too. I might shed a tear. My good solid phone would become a great (now little) phone.
Unfortunately it doesn't. This exploit is exclusive to 2.0. Unless the Cliq gets an update to 2.0 soon it's out of luck for this particular exploit. It is literally a patch consisting of changing a “1″ to a “3″ in the code.
I was just researching that and I think it unlikely that the Cliq will ever run 2.0 either. Although probably get a few more updates. Thanks for the reply.