On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Easwar Hariharan meindian523@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:36 AM, J T Dsouza jtd1959@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Priyanka Sarkar <efyedit6@efyindia.com wrote:
Dear All,
One of our journalists is doing a story on 'How safe is rooting your android phone?
Depends on what you are rooting it with. In any case all of those crappy apps are actually official spyware. Someone has used the accelerometer
and
the gps in an iphone to locate a person walking in gps shadow areas.
Please clarify what you mean by *those* apps. Those crappy apps that are pre-installed on your phone or those apps that root your phone?
The preinstalled ones. The ones you use to root also could be malware, and
one should be careful.
The very fact that some device WONT allow you to be in control is a big red flag.
Or is it worth rooting your android phone.
It is well worth the effort, considering that you can get rid of the garbage as well as gain access to apps that the service provider / phone maker may not want you to have.
Mods like cyanogen also helps in keeping the phone supported long after
the
oem has lost interest.
The downside is that you are likely to violate the terms of use and screw your warranty.
Would be great
if we get some great inputs from you on the same. Please let us have your your opinion/ views.
As someone who currently has CyanogenMod installed on his phone, I would say that the warranty is screwed, no doubt, but I very much doubt there are terms of use on hardware. I definitely didn't agree to any "Terms of Use" when I got my phone.
If you have not registered, you dont have a warranty anyway. But given the competition most mfgs wont cavil too much, if you have not rooted the device.
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