Yep, definitely belongs in android-discuss - where all topics google really should address go everywhere but, you know, to google's ears. And while I continue to not have enough foul adjectives to describe this nonsense of restricted administration accounts on EVERY brand of smartphone released to date, that is the way it is and is not likely to change until cellular companies stop supporting the phones for the life of the individuals contract individual device-makers stop putting their custom junk on top. I'm sure Google engineers would be delighted to give you root access with a click. Go complain to major wireless companies and device manufactures.
human rights? Ha! It does straight piss me off though. ~chris On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Disconnect <dc.disconn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thats funny, do you have a link for where they published these "fundamental > tenets"? > > Cuz.. its funny.. out of the dozens (hundreds?) of different android devices > released since the G1, afiak they only provided 2 that were rootable in any > reasonable way (nexus phones) > > That doesn't sound like a fundamental tenet at all to me... > > (Also, this probably belongs on android-discuss..) > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Sean McGuffee <sean.mcguf...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I just got an Android phone for the first time today. I noticed right >> away that there is no option in the settings to enable root access. >> Come on developers! It's one thing to make an option to turn off root >> access, but it's another to remove the option to turn it back on. I >> propose that it become a FUNDAMENTAL TENET of the the Android >> operating system that if MUST ALWAYS ALLOW ANY USER TO ENABLE ROOT >> ACCESS IN SETTINGS. How can it be that it has come to this? Why are >> people and companies so afraid of letting people use their operating >> systems. If you are one of the people associated with the concept of >> creating an operating system configured without root access, you >> should be ashamed of yourself. People like me shouldn't have to go and >> re-configure or re-write an operating system to get ONE option to be >> root. Seriously, this shouldn't be an issue and I am dead serious >> about the entire community uniting on this tenet of always allowing >> root access. No adult should ever be able to purchase a android phone >> and not automatically be given a way to get access to root and set the >> password to root. Now, I can imagine a parent wanting to use that >> setting to disable that option, but that should be at the discretion >> of the owner of the phone. Absolutely no company or software developer >> should ever get the opportunity to restrict root access. As a >> mechanism of enforcing this tenet, I propose that all future >> distributed releases should be required to meet the requirement that >> root access be available in settings. If a release is found to >> restrict this or even offer a setting as is currently the case that >> allows for the build of a phone without root access should be flagged >> and removed from the android archives. EVERYONE WHO AGREES PLEASE >> REPLY EXPRESSING YOUR OVERWHELMING SUPPORT!!! --No matter if you are >> in the developer community or in the phone owner community or even >> simply anyone who understands that this could be considered a human >> rights issue. >> Sincerely, >> Sean McGuffee >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "android-platform" group. >> To post to this group, send email to android-platf...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> android-platform+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
