On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
On 14/08/2014 7:19 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
How reliable is the process of rooting a phone using instructions such as the above? Can I expect it to work without wiping the phone data?
When I get the time, I would like to ditch Samsung /lack of support/ for my i9300 and i9505 devices that are 100% stock and only getting 4.3 at this stage -- the devices are fully capable of running the latest Android version.
One of my justifications for going stock Samsung was to get updates that were not carrier branded, nor carrier delayed. And given all the horror of today's Android App permissions, I might even go to the dark side and choose an iPhone next. Suffice to say, I'm not at all happy with the way things are going Android now.
Grr, I've just been looking at this, since my own android phone is a pile of shit, and appears to be monitored by the Mafia, RIAA, Russians, and ASIO (or maybe Android is just shit, and 20% of the battery really does go to "Android OS" and another 19% of battery goes to "Android system" and another 20% of battery goes to Flaky-as-fuck WiFi in 8 hours of uptime while it sits idle in my pocket). My requirements: 1) can easily (no downloading rootkits from the Russians) run latest stable version of clockworkmod, and likely to keep running latest stable (because android permission models are absolutely shit by default - surely CWM's is slightly better, even though I've never seen it in practice). Probably also bypasses all of the google and carrier issues. Do you lose any functionaility I care about? I dunno. 2) has an sdcard slot. No google, I can't move all my music into the cloud, because I tend to want to listen to it 1000km from the nearest mobile phone tower, and I'm too cheap to have any more than 200MB of data per month connected to my phone account (internode, $10 per month. Told you I was cheap. No, you can't buy that plan anymore). HTC one m8 can do it. Maybe. But it will probably suck, because of the 3 golden rules 1) all software sucks 2) all hardware sucks 3) all phones suck 4) it's too expensive ok, 4 golden rules. Sorry I'll come in again. -- Tim Connors