[Cialug] Commerical Interruption

Barry Von Ahsen barry at vonahsen.com
Fri Nov 19 16:25:29 CST 2010


there's still rooting going on (in the australian sense), it's just you 
being rooted, not the phone :)

(there's a soviet russia joke in there somewhere)


-barry


Josh More wrote:
> With 2.2, you can tether without root, but only if the carrier allows you.  It's in the OS, but locked unless you pay the $30/mo.  That's one of the reasons for all the rooting* going on.
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> * Non-Australian sense.
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> -Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
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> 4G or not, I suspect this person's willing to pay the $10/mo for the phone itself, which btw, is what Sprint claims you're actually paying for, not the 4G....
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> Additionally, I *think* w/ 2.2 you will be able to tether w/o root and w/o paying Sprint's PAM (Phone as Modem) plan.  It's a feature being added by google to the OS.  (again...I *THINK*).
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> As for getting dumped for rooting I doubt this is likely.  I have a Windows Mobile Touch Pro 2 on the SERO plan.  1.) I've been running a custom ROM on it since I got it and 2.) even though SERO doesn't allow Android (prior to october 1st and +$10/mo after which I do not pay currently) I run xdandroid on my phone fairly regularly.  they can't tell what you do with your phone for the most part.  I would just suggest if you bust it you "loose" the phone as they probably won't be happy if they got a rooted one in for support.
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> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com<mailto:djweis at internetsolver.com>> wrote:
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> There are a couple differences - there's actually no 4G locally and it's not forecasted here for quite a while. You also have the risk of your service being turned off once Sprint determines that you've rooted their phone and are tethering it.
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