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custom ROMs on the G2?
i havnt goten the new G2 yet or much experience with it, but had a customer complain that theyve locked the software on the phone not allowing any custom ROMs added to the phone...i know the phone is new, and it took a while before much was available for the G1...is this phone really locked down? can anyone confirm/elaborate?
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yeah, it's locked down.
You'd probably get better details in the Android forum though.
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any news of running android side by side in the new HD7?
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I wouldn't expect to see any information on that until we get some HD7s in the wild, some time in November/December.
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ah, true... sorry a little excited, guess i jumped the gun.
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Short version - Yes. For now.
Long version - the device can be rooted, but when powercycled it will restore the factory OS and unroot as a security precaution. Any changes are not permanently saved. Again, I say this is just for now. Someone will find a way around it.
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Appearently cyanogenmod found a way around it and got their rom on it but it was a very nasty process.
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MennoOct 14, 2010, 6:15 PM
Basically it has the same kind of security as the HTC Evo did, but there is a bug in the code that causes it to rewrite improperly.
The phone will be hacked, it's just a matter of time. It's not a signed bootloader like the Motorola phones where they don't allow custom kernals.
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