For those who haven't bought it but want to, you should wait until Computex. ASUS hinted that they might announce a US edition there.
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Hello!
Great thread. Just ordered my Padfone Infinity and am waiting for it. Will have to wait at least another two weeks. Please tell me more about it, general impressions etc as I am very nervous to wait for the phone.
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Cheers! I hadn't yet tried that one, which exploit did you use within it?
EDIT: Nevermind, Gandalf exploit worked for me second time.
[UPDATE] Immediately after obtaining Root I was notified of a brand new firmware update for the Padfone Infinity, just wanted to let you know that OTA Rootkeeper from the Play Store will allow you to backup and then restore Root after applying the update. Oh, and the update isn't 4.2, in case you were wondering.
Welcome!standard launcher that Asus supplied with the phone and when I will put the phone in the tablet to have a different launcher selected with a more tablet style custom design. If yes, how will I be able to do this?:
Welcome!
If I understand you right, of course you can use the Asus launcher in phone mode, and manually use another one when docked, having more row/columns...
I didn't set an "always" one, so the only annoying thing is I have to select a "this time only" one when I press home button.
You will find all Asus widgets working OK on other launchers.
Hello! Thank you for your reply. I will try this feature to see if it works how I want it to.
Unfortunately I cannot understand why since I have switched to the Padfone the antivirus (kaspersky) and the battery percentage widget (from the status bar) dissapear.
Both kaspersky and the widget should stay always ON in the status bar and they stay there.....for a while....and then they vanish....
Has anybody got a clue?
Update
The apps (Whatsapp, antivirus, etc) are ON for a while and then they time-out or something. Whatsapp says it has not received a single message and when you enter the program you have 30+ lines unread, antivirus closes after a while and needs to be restarted, etc ; Soundcloud no longer receives notifications, etc... And everything happens after a "time-out period" if I can call it that. My guess was some power saving option, but I have disabled the smart battery saving option from the status bar and no help there.
Thank you!
Kind regards!
Can anyone with an Infinity in a 4G area with a 4G SIM confirm to me that they have the LTE/GSM/CDMA AUTO option in network settings as I don't have it on my infinity and so can't connect to 4G and I'm trying to work out if I have a faulty phone or its something else?
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Android rooting
Android rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as "root access") within Android's subsystem.
Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers and hardware manufacturers put on some devices, resulting in the ability to alter or replace system applications and settings, run specialized apps that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user. On Android, rooting can also facilitate the complete removal and replacement of the device's operating system, usually with a more recent release of its current operating system.
As Android was derived from the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device is similar in practice to accessing administrative permissions on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD or OS X.
The process of rooting varies widely by device, but usually includes exploiting a security weakness in the firmware of the device, and then copying the su binary to a location in the current process's PATH (e.g. /system/xbin/su) and granting it executable permissions with the chmod command. A supervisor application like SuperUser or SuperSU can regulate and log elevated permission requests from other applications. Many guides, tutorials, and automatic processes exist for popular Android devices facilitating a fast and easy rooting process.
For example, shortly after the HTC Dream was released, it was quickly discovered that anything typed using the keyboard was being interpreted as a command in a privileged (root) shell. Although Google quickly released a patch to fix this, a signed image of the old firmware leaked, which gave users the ability to downgrade and use the original exploit to gain root access. Once an exploit is discovered, a custom recovery image that skips the digital signature check of a firmware update package can be flashed. In turn, using the custom recovery, a modified firmware update can be installed that typically includes the utilities (for example the Superuser app) needed to run apps as root.
The Google-branded Android phones, the Nexus One, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4, as well as their tablet counter parts, the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10, can be boot-loader unlocked by simply connecting the device to a computer while in boot-loader mode and running the Fastboot program with the command "fastboot oem unlock". After accepting a warning the boot-loader will be unlocked so that a new system image can be written directly to flash without the need for an exploit.
Recently, Motorola, LG Electronics and HTC have added security features to their devices at the hardware level in an attempt to prevent retail Android devices from being rooted.[citation needed] For instance, the Motorola Droid X has a security boot-loader that will put the phone in "recovery mode" if unsigned firmware is loaded onto the device, and the Samsung Galaxy S II will display a yellow triangle indicator if the device firmware has been modified.