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	danramos	2010-12-19 , 06:43
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Originally Posted by javispedro

And by the way, "oneclick" z4root is based on http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2...-the-c-skills/ . Does anyone believe Google will let it stand? Or maybe it was just the Jailbreakers' move in the Google-vs-jailbreakers game, and now it's Google's turn?

That's part of what Android 2.2.1 closed up. If you have a phone running 2.2, you can use z4root with no problem, but once you move to 2.2.1, you're unable to use that method.

Technically, Google made their move and it's the hacking tinkerer's turn (jailbreaking is what you do on an iPhone and implies a LOT more restrictions than just getting root). BUT...!

My brother finally decided to root his Motorola Droid and I had run into this problem. I ended up manually using adb on the Linux command line to push tools onto his handset and then ran 'rageagainstthecage' to force a root shell to chmod the tools... BAM! Rooted. It wasn't hard either--and I'm sure someone will use this method in a one-click method as well, but it isn't readily available in a one-click tool right now as far as I can tell. I posted what I did to root his phone over on the SuperOneClick thread in XDA, so we'll see what happens next.

I assume it's quickly going to flip back to Google's turn to make the next move.

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Last edited by danramos; 2010-12-19 at 06:51. Reason: corrected a pronoun

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