I have purchased and successfully rooted a few of Android devices in the past, and I have also installed custom ROM's on most of them after rooting ... such as the Cyanogen ROMs. However, each time in the past, I had performed these actions on an unlocked device.
Now, I'm thinking of purchasing a locked phone (myTouch 4G Slide from T-Mobile), and I'm wondering if the phone's locked status would prevent the rooting or subsequent custom ROM installation in any way. In other words ... 1. If I purchase a locked phone, will the commonly used rooting procedures that work on unlocked phones also work with a locked phone? 2. If I do manage to root a locked phone, will the fact that it is locked prevent the installation of a custom ROM, such as one from Cyanogen? 3. A related question: if I indeed root my locked phone and install a custom ROM, if at a later date I want to unlock the phone (by purchasing an unlock code), will the fact of the phone being rooted and running a custom ROM prevent it from being unlocked? Or is the unlocking solely dependent on phone hardware and independent of any software or OS version that it might be running? Thanks in advance for your insights. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
