No, the first custom ROM was developed to run Android on Nokia Internet tablets (N800/N810) before any Android devices were commercially available. As clumsy as that was. Today, custom ROMs offer all sorts of, well, customizations, and you happen to have to mess with the device (rooting, crack boot loader, whatever) before you can skin custom ROMs on devices.
On Jun 28, 8:51 am, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't this why Cyanogen and others have created custom ROM's? > > Thanks, > Justin Anderson > MagouyaWare Developerhttp://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Mike Dent <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Sean McGuffee <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > > >> I just got an Android phone for the first time today. I noticed right > > >> away that there is no option in the settings to enable root access. > > >> Come on developers! It's one thing to make an option to turn off root > > >> access, but it's another to remove the option to turn it back on. I > > >> propose that it become a FUNDAMENTAL TENET of the the Android > > >> operating system that if MUST ALWAYS ALLOW ANY USER TO ENABLE ROOT > > >> ACCESS IN SETTINGS. How can it be that it has come to this? Why are > > >> people and companies so afraid of letting people use their operating > > >> systems. If you are one of the people associated with the concept of > > >> creating an operating system configured without root access, you > > >> should be ashamed of yourself. People like me shouldn't have to go and > > >> re-configure or re-write an operating system to get ONE option to be > > >> root. Seriously, this shouldn't be an issue and I am dead serious > > >> about the entire community uniting on this tenet of always allowing > > >> root access. No adult should ever be able to purchase a android phone > > >> and not automatically be given a way to get access to root and set the > > >> password to root. Now, I can imagine a parent wanting to use that > > >> setting to disable that option, but that should be at the discretion > > >> of the owner of the phone. Absolutely no company or software developer > > >> should ever get the opportunity to restrict root access. As a > > >> mechanism of enforcing this tenet, I propose that all future > > >> distributed releases should be required to meet the requirement that > > >> root access be available in settings. If a release is found to > > >> restrict this or even offer a setting as is currently the case that > > >> allows for the build of a phone without root access should be flagged > > >> and removed from the android archives. EVERYONE WHO AGREES PLEASE > > >> REPLY EXPRESSING YOUR OVERWHELMING SUPPORT!!! --No matter if you are > > >> in the developer community or in the phone owner community or even > > >> simply anyone who understands that this could be considered a human > > >> rights issue. > > >> Sincerely, > > >> Sean McGuffee > > > I think this video explains the reason why root should be available to > > everyman and his puppy dog. > >http://youtu.be/VJACFMc-Rb4 > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Android Discuss" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
