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I have same phone and bought it because people have installed ubuntu
on it in a chroot. (it has enough ram to make it work).<br>
<br>
unlocked and rooted are different. unlocked is to move to another
carrier. rooted is to install other stuff, modify rom , etc.<br>
There is also rom update to OS and rom update to "radio". You
usually update the OS rom, and only update the "radio rom" if<br>
you need better reception and battery life and the radio rom actual
works better. <br>
There is a android 3.0 port to the htc desire HD (perhaps only phone
that has it), which is kind of cool as well.<br>
<br>
-tl<br>
<br>
On 08/29/2011 11:54 AM, Tyler Aviss wrote:
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<p>The main reason I would want root is to run one of the extended
iptables-based firewall apps, such as "droidwall"</p>
<p>OpenVPN support also requires root.</p>
<p>AFAIK, there's no way to do so without rooting the phone.
Android needs a build-in sudo or something.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 29, 2011 8:50 AM, "Sammy Lao" <<a
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> Walter,<br>
> do you really need it to be rooted? There aren't many
compelling reasons to root an android phone anymore. CyanogenMod
is nice, but, there is a certain amount of techie-ness to update
it after you have it installed.<br>
> <br>
> My general recommendation for android phones is that people
should not root it unless they want to spend time tinkering with
it.<br>
> <br>
> If you do want to tinker, I recommend that you do try
rooting it yourself. It's a good exercise when you need to
update Cyanogenmod. The rootkit may not work with Linux tho. ADB
works great, but not sure about HTC Sync.<br>
> <br>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:06:47AM -0400, Walter Dnes
wrote:<br>
>> Last week I got an HTC Desire HD from an Ebay reseller.
First, it<br>
>> mostly works great. But there are a few changes I'd
like to make, so<br>
>> I'm looking into rooting it and installing CyanogenMod.
I assume that<br>
>> the phone is unlocked but not rooted. I believe that
rooting and<br>
>> unlocking are 2 separate items. To further complicate
things, Telus<br>
>> puts in some tweaks so rooting is different versus an
ordinary HTC<br>
>> Desire HD, according to...<br>
>> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-root-telus-htc-desire-hd/">http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-root-telus-htc-desire-hd/</a><br>
>> <br>
>> Do you know anybody who will root and install
CyanogenMod? Even<br>
>> though I do run linux, this is new territory for me.
I'm willing to pay<br>
>> a reasonable amount.<br>
>> <br>
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