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On Friday 13 November 2009 23:35:21 James wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > Do you mean "droid" as a synonym for Android? |
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> yes, |
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> Verizon is offering the HTC ERIS (DROID) phone, in |
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> addition to the Mot DROID phone: |
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> http://www.htc.com/us/product/droideris/specification.html |
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Nice phone, looks a lot like the Hero available here |
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> > To flash it you need root privileges which is a trivial hack; |
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> > carrier-provided phones usually have this disabled but this too has been |
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> > hacked around. Then followed Google and HTC's own docs on the flash |
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> > procedure |
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> > http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Dream |
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> > http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Main_Page |
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> > HTC images available at http://developer.htc.com/adp.html |
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> > This page describes how to install Debian so gentoo will also be |
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> > possible: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=507291 |
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> Nice links but do they relate to the Mot version of the DROID, or just the |
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> HTC? Mot put a very fast Cortex-A8 arm chip in their phone...... |
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Sorry, but I really have no idea. It might turn out similar to trying to run |
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686 code on a 486 |
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> Will flashing work with the Verizon HTC Eris phone like yours? |
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> Not sure by my googling results..... |
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Everything I've read suggests that flashing either works or it doesn't, and if |
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it doesn't then you can roll back to factory preset. |
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But that's a big if, so you might want to wait till some of the more |
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experienced hackers show if it can be done. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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