[Cialug] Rooting an Evo and custom firmware

[Tim Wilson]

I don't have an Android phone, but a guy at work does.  He's rooted his, and
removed Blur.  He said doing that dramatically increased the speed of the
phone, and increased battery life.  He said there are roms you can put on
there instead of Blur and still get some of the functionality, but still
have improved speed and battery life.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Josh More <MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net>wrote:

>  In my case, I get the ability to run a wifi hotspot at no charge beyond
> the $10/mo Sprint charges me for 4G access in a market that doesn't have it.
>
> It also allows me to run Cyanogen which, with one exception, I am finding
> more intuitive than the interface that came with it.
>
> Also, and somewhat theoretical at this time, I get the direct access to the
> wifi drivers that I would need to do wireless pentesting while my laptop is
> doing the physical LAN.  At this time though, Metasploit is not yet fully
> ported to Android.
>
> I'm sure there's other stuff.  Maybe TJ can chime in here.
>
>  -Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
> morej at alliancetechnologies.net
> 515-245-7701
>    ------------------------------
> *From:* cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of
> Matthew Nuzum [newz at bearfruit.org]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 04, 2010 09:02
> *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Cialug] Rooting an Evo and custom firmware
>
>   On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Josh More <
> MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
>
>>  I did.  However, I did not find out about Unrevoked 3 until I was
>> already a fair way through the doc linked from Cyanogen.  It could probably
>> have been done a lot quicker than the way I did it.
>>
>>  *
>> *
>>     On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Jim Cole <jrcole at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ummm...Why didnt you use Unrevolked <http://unrevoked.com/>? It took me
>>> about a minute to root my HTC Incredible. Well, I did it the old way before
>>> unrevolked but have since used them to re-root it and to turn s-off with
>>> unrevolked forever.
>>>
>>>
> What do you get by rooting your phone?
>
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