Root for nexus one

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Cyanogen tweeted it Some time back.....Nexus One is Now Rooted

http://android.modaco.com/content/go...the-nexus-one/

Isn't this great News..????

Starting the year with An Android which is already rooted.......

Wait for Jan 5th.....

Would be nice if he posted how its done so the droid eris could get rooted

thats indeed a very good news..we are also eagerly waiting for things to get started..lets see what they have it on 5th, they have called a press conference..

This is all going to start moving very fast after the 5th

Originally Posted by FireSokar

Would be nice if he posted how its done so the droid eris could get rooted

I don't think the same rules apply to the Eris (or any non Nexus One phone). The way I understood it, the N1 is already technically rooted, but root access just isn't available to applications. The only way to access root is via ADB, as it's provided for developers, not normal consumers. The "root access" off the Modaco forums is really just circumventing the ADB limit and booting up with the device with superuser access, thus allowing apps to take advantage of it. Hope that makes sense... that's how I understand it at least.

Nexus One has ALWAYS been rooted...
The device is software/hardware unlocked if you buy it from Google (don't know if the one that'll be sold through T-Mobile will be locked).
All they did was add a su binary so that apps can share the phone's root access and a Superuser.apk so that users can allow/disallow permissions for apps.
I repeat, the phone was as rooted from factory as the ADP1/2 are.

If only it was that easy eh Jubeh!

Out of the box it's not 'rooted'... it does have an engineering bootloader, but unless you make something to flash via that bootloader, it's nowhere near rooted. You can't just go and dump those 2 files on the devices and say 'done'!

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And it's be cause of that Engineering Bootloader that a new .img was able to be flashed.

Stericson suspects that the phone consumers get won't be shipped with the same SPL.

Originally Posted by modaco

If only it was that easy eh Jubeh!

Out of the box it's not 'rooted'... it does have an engineering bootloader, but unless you make something to flash via that bootloader, it's nowhere near rooted. You can't just go and dump those 2 files on the devices and say 'done'!

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Hmm, I thought the device was gonna ship like the ADP1 where you were allowed to adb root and then adb remount.
The engineering bootloader does make things easier, but wouldn't the bootloader allow you to fastboot boot recovery, then you could toss in the files through a custom recovery and set the permissions?