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The Motorola Milestone joins the ranks of “rooted” Android devices as the first successful root of the European variant of the DROID has been demonstrated by SeraphimSerapis of Android-Hilfe.de. Similar to the DROID, the process of rooting the Milestone is drop dead easy with a user simply applying an update.zip file during boot. Now that [...]

Remember that ultra sleek gallery app you’ve seen in the many Nexus One videos that have been posted in the last 2 weeks?  Well, now you can have that app on your Android 2.0 or 2.0.1 device, but mainly the Motorola Droid.  The team over at Droidmuff.in have discovered that it has been ported and [...]

Everyone who is gearing up to make their big Nexus One purchase next week can look forward to having root access to their handset right out of the gate. Thanks to some hard work by Paul over a MoDaCo’s Android forums, the not-yet-released Nexus One can be rooted in a simple three step process using [...]

An another one bites the dust – fresh out of  the modmymoto forums is news that the Motorola Cliq has been rooted. As is the case with freshly rooted devices, the root is merely proof of concept and offers no practical advantage to the average user, at least not yet. TheDudesAndroid, who posted up the [...]

It took little over a month but the mighty Motorola DROID has been rooted. The news broke over at AllDroid forums with member embeem posting up the necessary files and the instructions for rooting.  For those ready to install all those wonderful apps available only to rooted devices, slow down a bit as rooting, at [...]

Amon_RA on the XDA-Developers forum has just blessed the Android community with a comprehensive step-by-step process for gaining root access to the MyTouch 3g.  While the necessary items to root the device are mainly software-based, users will need two SD cards.  One is used to create a “Goldcard”, while the other will be used to [...]

As you may remember, last month we revealed how the Android Dev Phone did not have access to the paid applications from the Android market place. This was primarily because of the fact that this version of the HTC Dream provided complete root access to the device, and therefore offered read, write and copy access [...]

It didn’t take long for cooked G1 firmware images to start showing up on XDA-Developers.  If you have not yet updated your phone to RC30 firmware, you can, in theory, install this modified firmware to get not only the RC19/RC29 telnetd root hack, but also an honest to goodness setuid su command for easy root [...]

Thanks to the efforts of one appropriately named Jay Freeman, it is now possible to get a version of the Debian Linux distro running on your T-Mobile G1 along side of Android.  You get the same Android phone functionality you’ve always had, but you can also install and run normal Linux compatible applications on the [...]

Enjoying your new found root access to your T-Mobile G1, are you?  That’s great.  Soak it all in.  We’ll wait.
Ah, you’re back.  Well, thanks to the G1’s over the air (OTA) update model, that root access is going the way of the dinosaurs.  For now, at least.  RC30 is being developed and will be sent [...]