[Gllug] Samsung Galaxy Tab

[Christopher Hunter]

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 19:02 +0000, general_email at technicalbloke.com 

> Careful though, I have heard rumour some of the newer android handsets 
> deliberately prevent you re-flashing with your own images, they'll only 
> run images signed by the OEM. I've no idea which ones do this and the 
> rumours could be bullshit but it's far from inconceivable so its 
> probably worth checking that before making a purchase. That's exactly 
> the kind of thing the GPL V3 is meant to prevent but sadly neither the 
> kernel nor android use the V3 license :/
> 
> Roger

I had no problem first getting root and then modifying my Samsung Galaxy
S.  As supplied by Orange, it was quite slow, and appeared to be
crippled in some way.  

A bit of research, a little messing around in the command line, and I
got the way I want it.  I can overclock it (though it kills the battery
life), change to differing kernels and desktops (Android is in a frenzy
of development at the moment), and generally make it behave differently.
I've even written two (trivial) applications for it, just to learn about
the SDK.

I would highly recommend it, though the price of admission to this game
is a bit high at the moment!

Chris


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