[ale] help not using 3g/4g broadband quota android

Ron Frazier (ALE) atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Sun Aug 26 15:35:20 EDT 2012



JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

>
>>>
>http://www.androidtotal.com/root-acer-iconia-tab-a500-android-4.0.3-ics-firmware/
>
>
>> Sounds pretty cool.  I may get up the nerve to do that when I get
>home.
>> Who's ROM does it install?  Is it Cyanogen?  How would I backup the
>tablet
>> before rooting, since I can't install Titanium backup, etc?
>> 
>
>No ROMs needed anymore. ICS load from Acer remains, just you can
>superuser into
>root.  ICS does change some of the security features, so it isn't as
>wild-west
>as it was before even with root.  The root process requires usb
>debugging and
>use of ADB from a PC (Win or Linux).
>
>The single most important reason to get root is for backups. Without
>root, you
>can't backup the device, which makes you vulnerable to crackers.
>
>OTOH, if you've never met an app that you didn't want to try, then I
>suspect,
>eventually, you will be cracked. I'm pretty low key on loading apps.
>
>TerminalIDE is my main app. It makes Android "feel" more like UNIX CLI.
> Great
>for ssh sessions into other systems.
>
>NAVFree (or is it FreeNAV?) is the other app.


That sounds neat.  I may actually give it a try.  I like the idea of being able to do backups and such.  If something went wrong while rooting, I have no idea how I'd restore the tablet.  I'm going to have to do more research on it.

Sincerely,

Ron


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