doddyman
22nd October 2005, 10:53 AM
I have been reading XDA-Developers for sometime and have marvelled at the ingenuity that many of you demonstrate in solving problems - I have now registered and here is my first post and hope someone can help - Digital Signing for applications we develop for WM5 is a real pain especially if you need privileged access to run as it is up to the carrier or device OEM if they want to grant you use of the certificate. I guess if you were selling software this could mean they could withold permission because they had a competitive application, all smacks of anti-trust...unprivileged access is more straight forward but is no good if you need to access the kernel or other specialist processes. I note from the XDA WM5 part of this forum that someone had changed a rom so that it would not moan at unsigned apps. Does anyone know if this change would allow any unsigned "privileged" application to be used on a JASJAR - if so does any kind person have the ability to create a CAB file that could or program that could enable this condition and another to revert to normal operation. This would make a huge difference for those wanting to develop and test apps on a device instead of just the PC emulator however it would still require signing to get the end result available for others to use on their devices - I guess we would also have to consider if this "modifying" app also needed to be signed to run in the first place - nice one MS :evil: , the user is no longer allowed to decide what he wants to install :roll: .