On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:36 AM, J T Dsouza <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Priyanka Sarkar > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > One of our journalists is doing a story on 'How safe is rooting your > > android phone? > > > Depends on what you are rooting it with. In any case all of those crappy > apps are actually official spyware. Someone has used the accelerometer and > the gps in an iphone to locate a person walking in gps shadow areas.
Please clarify what you mean by *those* apps. Those crappy apps that are pre-installed on your phone or those apps that root your phone? > > Or is it worth rooting your android phone. > > > It is well worth the effort, considering that you can get rid of the > garbage as well as gain access to apps that the service provider / phone > maker may not want you to have. > > Mods like cyanogen also helps in keeping the phone supported long after the > oem has lost interest. > > The downside is that you are likely to violate the terms of use and screw > your warranty. > > Would be great > > if we get some great inputs from you on the same. Please let us have > > your your opinion/ views. As someone who currently has CyanogenMod installed on his phone, I would say that the warranty is screwed, no doubt, but I very much doubt there are terms of use on hardware. I definitely didn't agree to any "Terms of Use" when I got my phone. -- Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065 -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
