On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:44:54PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Jason White wrote:
The advantage, of course, is that the Google devices have unlocked boot loaders so you can replace the firmware yourself, if needed - and I might need it, for various reasons. So, on a related topic, where the hell do you get your images from? Do
people really go and download an image file from some random thread on xda forums?
many people download and run random apps... are you really surprised that they do the same with their os's? do they even know the difference? the paranoid amongst us take more care and either go via reputable sources (eg. the above or AOSP), or build roms for themselves. on supported devices, and if you only want to make a few changes to an os, then building is pretty easy and there are good guides. eg. http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Development Re: xda my biggest beef is that many xda folks seem to only pump out binaries (with tipjars attached) and don't have src available. not good for the future of the android community in general IMHO. the android ecosystem is certainly not like the traditional FOSS world. cheers, robin