Any smartphone-rooting-services and CyanogenMod installers?

[Ted]

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).

unlocked and rooted are different. unlocked is to move to another 
carrier. rooted is to install other stuff, modify rom , etc.
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
you need better reception and battery life and the radio rom actual 
works better.
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.

-tl

On 08/29/2011 11:54 AM, Tyler Aviss 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 
> <mailto: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.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org <mailto:waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>>
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