Mark Wyszomierski wrote:
> What does rooted mean?

Having the ability to run as root, which is roughly the Linux equivalent
to the Administrator account in Windows.

http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Why_Root

> Things that might be messing it up:
> 
>  1) I don't have a SIM card in the device (just using wifi)
>  2) I am using getAppplicationContext() for the context parameter in
> that call
> 
> Other than that - everything else is 'normal'.. I think?

Try a different Context -- use an Activity, Service, or ContentProvider.

getApplicationContext(), near as I can tell, is tantamount to useless as
a Context.

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