Hi all, I’m back with another hack for all you android people! As always, do this stuff at your own risk, worked for me but it’s always possible that something like this may break your phone. Research your specific situation (phone, OS) and if it looks like your supported and you’re willing to take the risk then root away!
Phone modding has always been a back and forth cat and mouse game between phone manufacturers and hackers. As a result of this, unlocking a phones potential has always been a huge pain in the ass! Long drawn out walkthroughs that can take well over an hour to complete the first time and often hours more research if you run into any roadblocks along the way.
Recently iPhone users got a break with an easier than ever method of jailbreaking (Jailbreaking is the root of the iPhone world). Simply point your iPhone’s browser to jailbreakme.com and you’re presented with a slider labeled “slide to jailbreak”, execute the slide and boom, your done. Looks like us Android user’s finally get something almost as easy with “Universal Androot”.
Simply search google for and download a file called “UniversalAndroot.apk” then copy it to your phones sd card. On the phone, launch the file using your file browser of choice (I use Astro) and install it. Open the newly installed Universal Androot and your presented with the following screen.
Click the Root button and wait about 30 seconds. That’s about it, an entry on the screen should say something about “Generating Superuser Permissions”, this is actually installing and app called “Superuser Permissions”. This app will grant other apps root access to the phone, if you try to open “superuser permissions” nothing actually happens, this is normal as the app doesn’t actually do anything on its own.
If for any reason you want to Un-Root your phone you can simply click the UnRoot button and your phone will be reverted back to a stock pre-root state. This method supports a pretty large list of android devices ranging from Android OS 1.5 to 2.2, that said, make sure yours is on the list of supported devices before trying this, wouldn’t want to break your favorite toy!
Enjoy!
Ed.
Time to put the phone addictions on hold for a bit, this one’s gonna be interesting! I have been searching for the perfect networked media player for many years now. It all started with XBMC running on my modded XBOX. I then graduated to my first Media PC, SageTV and a ton of HDD space, the combination created what was undoubtedly the best media center experience I could ask for. It had all the geek factor associated with running a computer on your TV, all the ease of access to my networked digital media and it was the best DVR I could ask for, it was just perfect!
). Only decision I had to make at that point was did I want the top of the line C-200 with the option of adding a Blu-ray drive or did I want the similarly capable A-200 that could still take a hard drive but no option for Blu-ray. The C-200 has the looks but was almost twice as much. The C-200 also comes with an RF remote (cool!) but I want it to work with my Harmony so I would need to get the optional IR adapter adding another $12 to the price. I decided in the end to go with the more expensive C-200. I didn’t do this because I wanted to put a Blu-ray drive in it, I had the PS3 for that. I went with the C-200 mainly because the thing was gonna look slick under my TV and you know what, it does!
I’m totally freaking out! I got a text message from Rogers tonight saying that there was an update available to fix the 911 issue on my Magic. It went on to say that if not installed by the 24th of January that they would disable the devices data connection. The thought of that made me a little queezy so I downloaded and installed it as soon as I got home. On the first boot post install I hear a new sound coming from the phone and I look down to see a little animation of an android waving at me and thought “huh, could they have put Sense in this update”? I wait in anticipation and holy crap, It’s all Sensed out!
