[Gllug] Samsung Galaxy Tab

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:12:10PM +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> 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!

470 quid!  You're not joking ...

Rich.

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