On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:27:08AM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > > Most androids phone already do have a quite useful and complete shell, > the main problem is that most phone are actually root locked. Namely > you cannot get any access to nay interesting without getting an "access > denied". There are tools that will break this "protection" and grant > you root access on the phone, but they are to be used with caution, and > most of the time you must first degrade your OS to an older version in > order for them to work.
It's worse than that. Android does not, by default, give access to some very basic tools to which even non-root users are accustomed to having access. Consider cat, for instance. > > So the problem is not a missing app, it is more of the usual "vendor > lock" stuff. There's that -- but there's also a lot of missing applications. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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