Hi Mike,

Suppose there's a new fancy device made by BrandNew Co. and it's
equipped with a new hardware component and its driver.

Now I wish to develop a new fancy application to utilize the new
hardware feature, the only way to retrieve the "eng" build is to
contact the BrandNew Co ?

Alan

On 5月14日, 下午8時30分, Mike Lockwood <lockw...@android.com> wrote:
> FYI - there are three types of builds that have varying levels of security:
>
> "user" builds are secure. there is no way to get root access to the
> phone (unless you count the keyboard console bug that was fixed in
> RC30).  This is what ships for regular customers.
>
> "eng" builds are insecure - adb runs as root user, which allows you to
> get access to files within the /data partition, remount the /system
> file system read/write, etc.  The eng builds are normally used for
> development, so it is easier to debug and replace system files with
> "adb remount" and "adb sync"
>
> "userdebug" builds are somewhere in between.  The purpose is to run as
> close as possible to a user build while still allowing access for
> debugging.  adb runs as non-root, but the "su" command is enabled so
> you can get a root shell.  And new in cupcake is the "adb root"
> command, which restarts adb as root user, which basically allows you
> to enable the adb commands that work in the "eng" build.
>
> eng and userdebug builds also have some extra features enabled not in
> user builds, like the ability to attach to any Java process with DDMS
> or a Java debugger and saving bugreport files to the SD card by
> pressing a key combination.
>
> Based on what you are saying (the fact that "adb root" works), it
> sounds like HTC has a userdebug build on their web site.
>
> Mike
>
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