Any smartphone-rooting-services and CyanogenMod installers?

[Fabio FZero]

This is TLUG; *everybody* here would benefit from rooting their Android phones.

- Fabio

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:54, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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