Comment 3XS Re: Improvements

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Improvements (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-16 04:43 (#3WK)

Give me full control over app permissions and su to root just like linux.Is that too much to ask?

Re: Improvements (Score: 1)

by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-08-17 00:09 (#3X1)

Factory non-rooted phones are beneficial for 99% of users. They are too dumb to know what it means and it would just be a security hole.

If you want your phone rooted, do it yourself and stop whingeing. It is not that difficult.

Re: Improvements (Score: 1)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-17 08:36 (#3XR)

Just chiming in here
I rooted a phone turning it into a brick permanently.
Am I allowed to whine about that?

Re: Improvements (Score: 2, Informative)

by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-08-17 14:04 (#3XS)

If it was a permanent brick, my apologies.

Keep in mind that it is quite "difficult" to brick a phone nowadays, especially if you are just rooting it. And I am talking about real unrecoverable bricking here. No boot loops, boot failures etc which are incorrectly called bricking. Most of recent phones have bootloaders and/or other recovery systems. I have fixed at least 10 phones so far that people claimed were permanently "bricked".

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2014-08-17 14:52 Informative +1 elias@pipedot.org

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