Has 4.0 been rooted?

[degarb]

I will never flash an Anroid, after bricking one unit with rom, to tee of directions. I have rooted the 2.03 Android Motorola xt defy phone, using adb and some directions.

I spent today trying to root My Next Book 7p12 with android 4.0 a9 cortex and 4 gigs internal-- with no luck. Bunch of pages with dead end and not working directions.

XDA looks like a place that is antithetical to actually buying a $100 device and rooting in a few hours. More like a passion site.

Can this Nextbook be rooted without rom flashing?

 

[mikedt]

You might not be able to root it at all actually. The Next Book is little known device from an unknown Chinese manufacturer. Which usually means there is very little or no information about these things at all. "Bunch of pages with dead end and not working directions." That sounds about right. Occasionally you might have better luck if you can read technical Chinese.

XDA tends to be against this kind of cheapo off-brand device, generally because of the complete lack of information about them, for things like rooting, customising, ROMs, etc. We don't exactly enourage people buy the things either....
http://androidforums.com/android-lounge/631594-off-brand-phones-tablets-worth-low-cost.html

 

[degarb]

Has Android 4.0 been rooted? I read that only 2.0 has been rooted. You must flash a unit down if the OS is 2.1 or above.

This is horrid. My bricking a $100 Pandigital doesn't foster a love for flashing. (The flash gave me a working OS, just no video driver.)

I ran out of space in about 3 days of android use, making flashing my phone essential. Most apps were unmoveable. I did gain about 30 megs by doing a trick to force the default install location to the card. But this space soon started to mysteriously shrink to nothing (no email ap) to nothing in a week. Rooting my phone allowed me to gain about 200 megs by deleting useless aps and deleting the Delvic cache. I read this cache causes Androids to crash after a few months. ... I conclude the unrooted Android is as bad or worse an OS than Windows 95--except a whole lot cheaper and more portable.

 

[Davdi]

My Allwinner 13 generic tablet running ICS came rooted from the factory, my Gingerbread (2.3.5) HTC WFS is rooted. AFAIK All iterations of Android can be rooted. (JB on the N7 is trivial to root because Google made it that way.) Some devices are hard to root because the carrier or manufacturer want it that way. it's not something that's inherent to Android.
NOTE: Most cheap Chinese devices are virtually impossible to root. see this thread: http://androidforums.com/android-lounge/631594-off-brand-phones-tablets-worth-low-cost.html

 

[degarb]

AFAIK All iterations of Android can be rooted. (JB on the N7 is trivial to root because Google made it that way.) Some devices are hard to root because the carrier or manufacturer want it that way.
NOTE: Most cheap Chinese devices are virtually impossible to root. see this thread:

Good! I read you writing that android 4.0 can be rooted WITHOUT FLASHING. I assume, if you flash, they all can be rooted. However the subtlest of hardware differences in the same model can cause the flash to brick the unit. (LIke my droid video card wasn't compatible with the pandigital flash.)

Operating systems might look pretty, but are ultimately judged by how many road blocks they accrue: How many old programs don't run; how many lockups and momentary freezes; how many pieces of hardware do not work; how many programs, like a good macro or voice recognition, are missing; how limited in customization they, and their key programs, reveal in themselves; how torturously, slow/long their bootup and shutdown routines drags on; how complete the gui for all things has been developed; how much fiddling needed to keep them running well; how adept they are at true frantic multitasking; how lightweight they are on the hardware-as in, the hard drive space, the cpu, the memory.

This makes me think that if the Chrome books will fail: I assume, they do not come rooted (most people will not root); have too limited hardware; and are too expensive. If they could drop $100 off the price and ship rooted, they might succeed.