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G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS
RandyDownes writes "And you thought the Droid X's kill switch was bad. HTC and T-Mobile's new G2 can detect when it's been rooted and responds by reinstalling the factory OS. This seems like a violation of the Apache license Android is licensed under and is especially ironic given Eric Schmidt's recent statement about not requiring carriers to give consumers the option to install Google's own version of the OS. Schmidt called it a violation of the principles of open source."
Update: 10/06 17:47 GMT by S : As readers have noted, the G2 is not from Motorola. Here's a better source, and here's the XDA Developers thread discussing the issue.
Just look at the slashdot "editor" who posted the story for an explanation.
Yes, I did. And it was much worse. What would it take to get slashdot to stop the over sensationalizing? There needs to be a Facebook to Slashdot's MySpace.
It's not kdawson which means it could have been far worse than what we got here.
N900 is useless in most of the world because Nokia decided that the 3G functionality only needs support for two European bands and not for any other frequencies. Only the baseline GSM (which means EDGE data rates if you are lucky) works outside of Europe.
Everyone else, which means most people in North America (only one GSM network with questionable coverage in the USA and one covering literally just the downtown areas of three major cities in Canada are capable of supporting it there) is out of luck.
So could you please stop recommending the N900 as if it was some kind of universal cure for this problem as it is a device that cannot be properly used on a majority of networks.
That people have the opportunity to confuse who has what (Sense? Blur?) is one of Android's more significant failings.
--srj/mmv