[Q] Modified default.prop on hboot 1.01 S-ON. Useful??

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Hi everyone, I bought my wildfire a week ago just to realise it already comes with hboot 1.02. Then I downgraded to 1.01 and 2.1 (via official RUU).
software info:
hboot 1.01.0001
S-ON

So today I tried this:

Run visionary+
su
mount -o remount,ro -t rootfs -w rootfs /
rm /default.prop
****PAUSE*****
on the root of my sdcard I have the modified  default.prop

	
	
#
# ADDITIONAL_DEFAULT_PROPERTIES
#
ro.secure=0
ro.allow.mock.location=0
ro.debuggable=0
persist.service.adb.enable=0
**END**PAUSE**
cat /sdcard/default.prop > /default.prop

Now if I do cat on this file I get:

cat /default.prop
#
# ADDITIONAL_DEFAULT_PROPERTIES
#
ro.secure=0
ro.allow.mock.location=0
ro.debuggable=0
persist.service.adb.enable=0

Then I tried to avoid overwriting by chmod 000 default.prop but it didn't work, every time I reboot the phone the file goes as before, with ro.secure=1.

So my question is, what I did is useful for something?
:S

I have also tried modding this file along with the init files, but to no success.
I believe the correct way to do it is in the format of a comand like this :
setprop default.prop ro.debuggable=1
which appears to execute successfully but does not alter the file for some reason

Can anyone verify if this is supposed to be the way to alter such a file, or does this do something else completely?

Also I think it may be useful if you could find a way to alter the date property back in sync with the rest of the files which are on 1970, that way it may not get picked up as being modified.

I'll try the date trick but I think it's not going to work because *I think* hboot reloads these files every boot, but of course it's worth a try!

But where does hboot reload these files from?

Originally Posted by EchoVelocity

But where does hboot reload these files from?

I *think* these properties (ro.secure, ro.cid, etc) are "embedded" into hboot and at boot time simply copy and overwrite old files.

Since the temproot for 2.2.1 (psneuter) is kinda **** (cannot use "touch", for example or "cp") I'm going to downgrade to 2.1, temproot with visionary and change the date of default.prop to the original one (by the way, even doing chmod 000 default.prop it gets deleted after boot ).

Does anyone know if it's possible to make the new file have the same chksum or md5 (i'll try both) that the old one?
I don't know how hboot checks if the file has been modified. Maybe it does not even check and just simply replaces it...