Reviews - Pro-Clockers! PC Reviews One MegaHertz At A Time

So, here I was: I needed to update to Android 2.0 or 2.1, since I needed to share my Internet connection while travelling. And couldn’t. I will say it again: I couldn’t. The phone was like Fort Knox. I wasn’t “root” on my phone: I was a normal user. The only privilege I had, was that I could use it. I couldn’t boot from another operating system. I couldn’t see the file system. I couldn’t do and see anything other that what HTC decided I could do or see. The story goes on with me spending hours, and hours, and hours getting my phone “rooted”. It went more or less like this:

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      Format my SSD flash memory stick, edit it by hand and stick some black magic code at the very beginning of it. This is apparently so that the phone doesn’t complain if you downgrade its ROM.
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      Downgrade my system to the previous version, which was vulnerable to an exploit that allowed people to become root. This was the hardest thing to do, and was possible thanks to the previous step.
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      Install a program that changed the boot loader into something useful, by exploiting the bug in the ROM I installed
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      Install a new ROM — my own, finally.

Yes. That is right: I had to hack into my own computer/phone in order to do whatever I liked doing with it.

 

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