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Just Days After Release, Google's Nexus 4 Has Already Been Rooted
An anonymous reader writes "Google's Nexus 4 sold out around the world very quickly this week, and while there was talk of very limited supply, apparently some key people managed to get their hands on it. That's right: the Nexus 4 has already been rooted."
Entering the command "fastboot oem unlock" using ADB is what enables custom firmware and bootloaders to be flashed. This is hardly a revelation. In fact, this is how you unlock many Motorola devices and others. Saying it has "already been rooted", as if there was some kind of elaborate hack or cleverness involved is simply wrong. Thats like saying by taking off your training wheels yo9u somehow rooted your bicycle.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Yep, it's an unlocked device and you're supposed to be able to root it without issue.
All Nexus devices can be rooted in 30 seconds or less .... by design.
From Wikipedia: "The Google-branded Android devices, the Nexus One, Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus, can be boot-loader unlocked by simply connecting the device to a computer while in boot-loader mode and running the Fastboot program with the command "fastboot oem unlock".[7] After accepting a warning the boot-loader will be unlocked so that a new system image can be written directly to flash without the need for an exploit."
Here's the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_(Android_OS)
Isn't this supposed to be dead easy?
It's not news. Clueless journalist and an even more clueless Timothy for accepting this as a story. But, hey, what else should we expect?
This is tanks to revolutionary
+1, Unexpected Metaphor
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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It's just a correlation
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