Monthly Archives: January 2011

dythr advanced in Knight News Challenge

Yay! dythr advanced to the next round of Knight News Challenge. We've got to work on the full proposals, which are due soon!

Keep-root Recovery for Motorola Droid

If you currently have root access on your Motorola Droid but are running a vanilla (not custom) ROM, you need to take precautions when applying an OTA update. By default an OTA update will remove your root access. Some phones are rather easy to re-root (for instance, Nexus One), but in some cases the OTA update patches up the security holes exploited to gain root access.

My remedy is shsu -- a very simple patch on top of the standard recovery image that will prevent loss of root access when applying an OTA update. Here's how to install and use it: read more »

Barnacle 0.6.7 for HTC Evo, Aria, Liberty

Version 0.6.7 is available. Barnacle 0.6.7 should work on HTC Evo and, with some extra work, on Aria and Liberty (and possibly Desire) as well. For Aria/Liberty you will need to download new firmware for your wifi driver.

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