Comments on: Motorola Droid Rooted!

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:56:36 +0000

http://gizmodo.com/5455452/how-to-hack-multitouch-onto-your-motorola-droid

By: chris

chris — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:37:07 +0000

I have been looking everywhere for exact instuctions on how to root my DROID. Can someone please help me out? I have 2.0.1 and want to know from start to finish how to root and what to do from there. I would really appreciate it, thanks

By: Izzyd

Izzyd — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:02:16 +0000

Gotta luv it the root access was done already. Now we can at least remove some of the stock apps that are useless to us which is a start at least. Hats off to the folks who figured it out and posted the details

By: MagikWorx

MagikWorx — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:43:53 +0000

Correction:
Not SD as a boot device, as a general storage partition, sorry.

By: MagikWorx

MagikWorx — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:42:20 +0000

@sjm
In general, companies don’t like putting apps on SD cards because you can take the app off the phone and give it to other people. DRM is weak when it comes to Android, so they just disable it usually. It takes a custom rom to enable a feature like that. App2SD is traditionally not available because it requires hooks into the *nix kernel and driver support of the SD as a boot device. Once guys like Cyanogen get to play with the kernel source and porting over their apps, you’ll see App2SD become more common.

By: makenzih

makenzih — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:57:10 +0000

Omfg I love you guys.

By: sjm

sjm — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:43:38 +0000

Am rather new to the android OS and don’t understand fully the advantages of rooting an android device. But as I get the hang of it do you guys think it would be possible to install and run apps from the SD card? That would be a big plus wouldn’t it??

By: harry_m

harry_m — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:04:34 +0000

Wireless tether, let’s make it work – I’m looking for testers! Please visit: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=189#c6

By: some1

some1 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:05:16 +0000

@andrew – yes – there is social intercourse as well as sexual so there are 2 types of intercourse

@Zonnked – you can only hold out for so long.. once they start coming out with more comfortable form factors you’ll be rooting your Android phone like crazy

By: GhoSe

GhoSe — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:23:23 +0000

Did anyone test this with the European Version (Milestone)? I’ll get mine today and would like to know if this will also work for the Milestone.

By: nukem

nukem — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:10:47 +0000

So I’ve seen a lot of people saying that even though we have root now we still need a custom rom for tethering. Their reason behind this is that the kernel does not have iptables support. This may not be the case. If the droid kernel has module loading support(which it probably does since I bet their using proprietary modules) all that has to be done is to compile the iptables modules which are ABI compliant to the droids kernel. The way to do that is to compile against the source and config the Droid kernel has. This shouldn’t be a problem because the Linux kernel is GPL, they have to give us the source. The question is has motorola released the source yet?

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:40:08 +0000

@D-man First of all, Lol. It’s been a long time since I have lived with my mom, That said, I was moreso referring to a user account with limited privelages that requires administrator permissions. When someone responds with not even knowing what root is, I’m not going to explain the purpose as I use it daily on slackware or debian, Rather put it in terms someone who has no idea what root is can understand.

@Keni 1 of the G1′s was my wife’s, The other 2 were mine. 1 was rooted and used at home for whatever and the other was for work. I have since sold 2 of them and MY 2 toys are DROID and DROID Eris, My wife still has her G1 until she transitions to the Eris because I will never claim an android phone without a hardware keyboard.

By: Zonnked

Zonnked — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:12:22 +0000

“Interesting factoid: in Australia ‘root’ means ‘to have sex intercourse with’..”

Hmmm… I love my Droid, I mean I *really* LOVE MY DRIOD, but it hasn’t gone that far…

..at least not yet, there is that pr0n app:

http://phandroid.com/2009/11/27/android-porn-market-from-mikandi/

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:07:35 +0000

@some1

sex intercourse? as opposed to some other form of intercourse?

By: benny

benny — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:05:55 +0000

Some1 just fucked his droid