Personal computing discussed
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liquidsquid wrote:Also if I root my phone, what do I have to worry about with AT&T as a carrier. Will I be excommunicated from the church of money-pit? Is rooting a sure way into bricking my phone? I do have to use it for day-2-day stuff too, I don't have the $$$ to buy a development phone.
astraelraen wrote:At the expense of sounding like a jerk... does ATT have a return policy?
astraelraen wrote:We have a few Captivates floating around the office as well as a few Droid X, Droid Incredible and Samsung Fascinates. All three of those phones are better than the Captivate IMO. Even the Fascinate, which is essentially the Captivate's twin feels faster and more responsive.
Flying Fox wrote:For some reason I only see the most custom ROMs on the HTC stuff, most likely because of the Nexus One lineage? But I usually just frequent xda-developers so I may not get the whole picture.
Also, a noob question: can rooting allow me to use another carrier's SIM for these carrier-locked phones? Or is there another process? Or I have to pay someone for the unlock code?
liquidsquid wrote:I have D/L all of the Android dev tools to the point of getting the "Hello World" app developed and running on the emulator. Next will be porting over my WeatherDials program I wrote in C#. How will I get me test apps on this phone? Do I need to root it, or is there another way? I am not seeing Android's development tools on the phone, but maybe I am not looking hard enough.
Darkmage wrote:
From the home screen, hit the Menu button -> Settings -> Application Management -> Allow Installation of Off-Market Apps.
This will let you use your phone as your testbed for your developed apps.
kc77 wrote:Also, a noob question: can rooting allow me to use another carrier's SIM for these carrier-locked phones? Or is there another process? Or I have to pay someone for the unlock code?
DancinJack wrote:Ned: I also have a D1. There are SO many roms for this thing it's out of control. I wasn't a huge fan of BB. It was pretty bad on my phone. Lots of FCs and random reboots. Really don't know what was up with it. I am using Chevys Gingerbread right now. Hasn't crashed once yet. Kinda surprising considering all of the animations and extras in it. Also Chevy's kernels are the best. I'm using a 7 slot, low voltage 1Ghz kernel right now. Runs nice and cool.
http://hyfeno.com/unlocked-samsung-i897-captivate/
So rooting won't help and I would need to pay someone to do the SIM unlock then?
Flying Fox wrote:http://hyfeno.com/unlocked-samsung-i897-captivate/
So rooting won't help and I would need to pay someone to do the SIM unlock then?
Voldenuit wrote:The only truly vendor agnostic 3G phones out right now are the nokia Symbian^3 phones (pentaband 3G antennas), and we all know how they got screwed over by Stephen Elop...
Voldenuit wrote:The only truly vendor agnostic 3G phones out right now are the nokia Symbian^3 phones (pentaband 3G antennas), and we all know how they got screwed over by Stephen Elop...
NeronetFi wrote:http://hyfeno.com/unlocked-samsung-i897-captivate/
So rooting won't help and I would need to pay someone to do the SIM unlock then?
How to obtain the unlock code after rooting. Do this before flashing a new ROM. Use New method (post-JH7)
http://www.capfaq.com/w/Unlock