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 hereI 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".
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 hereI 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".
Re: Improvements (Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-17 08:36 (#3XR) Just chiming in hereI 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".
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".