Any smartphone-rooting-services and CyanogenMod installers?

[Tyler Aviss]

The main reason I would want root is to run one of the extended
iptables-based firewall apps, such as "droidwall"

OpenVPN support also requires root.

AFAIK, there's no way to do so without rooting the phone. Android needs a
build-in sudo or something.
On Aug 29, 2011 8:50 AM, "Sammy Lao" <sammy.lao-OvU2V46eqDdvgyatUqoQW0B+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Walter,
> 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.
>
> My general recommendation for android phones is that people should not
root it unless they want to spend time tinkering with it.
>
> 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.
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:06:47AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> Last week I got an HTC Desire HD from an Ebay reseller. First, it
>> mostly works great. But there are a few changes I'd like to make, so
>> I'm looking into rooting it and installing CyanogenMod. I assume that
>> the phone is unlocked but not rooted. I believe that rooting and
>> unlocking are 2 separate items. To further complicate things, Telus
>> puts in some tweaks so rooting is different versus an ordinary HTC
>> Desire HD, according to...
>> http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-root-telus-htc-desire-hd/
>>
>> Do you know anybody who will root and install CyanogenMod? Even
>> though I do run linux, this is new territory for me. I'm willing to pay
>> a reasonable amount.
>>
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