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Root How long will it be out before?

blkbeltkid17

blkbeltkid17

Android Expert
How long do the HTC Vigor will be out before we see an official unlock from HTCdev.com, a community root, or do you think it will come with an unlocked bootloader like HTC has promised to the development community?

will this affect anyone buying this phone if it is locked down like the recent releases from HTC have?
 
Won't affect me at all but it would be nice if they followed through with it being unlocked.
 
BabyBlues said:
Won't affect me at all but it would be nice if they followed through with it being unlocked.
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yes it would be nice i dont think i will buy my new phone untill i know there are working perma roots for the ones i am looking at but that is just me
 
More than likely won't buy it if it's locked down. Some killer Samsung phones are coming out shortly after so why would I bother with something locked down? Sammy is root/rom friendly. I also like MIUI,but they're so slow getting the roms out to various phones I wouldn't expect it for a year or better....took them FOREVER for the OG Droid...
 
Sportster said:
More than likely won't buy it if it's locked down. Some killer Samsung phones are coming out shortly after so why would I bother with something locked down? Sammy is root/rom friendly. I also like MIUI,but they're so slow getting the roms out to various phones I wouldn't expect it for a year or better....took them FOREVER for the OG Droid...
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Yeah, plus I just read yesterday om MIUI.us that they are going to do 5 new phones, but don't have the resources to do any LTE phones any time soon. I'm sure there will be plenty other ROMs out there before too long, but man I like me some MIUI.
 
I can say I was not all. That impressed with MIUI to me it was way to I phone like and if I wanted a ceappy iphone I would go by one... Why would anyone on android what an iphone like phone is confusing to me but that is just how. I fell
 
blkbeltkid17 said:
I can say I was not all. That impressed with MIUI to me it was way to I phone like and if I wanted a ceappy iphone I would go by one... Why would anyone on android what an iphone like phone is confusing to me but that is just how. I fell
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I have heard that, but I can honestly say that I have never held or played with an Iphone, so I can't refute or agree. All I can say then is the "Iphone"-ish UI, compactness, and flexibility of MIUI blows sense away.
 
blkbeltkid17 said:
Have you ever played around with the newest sense versions I think they blow even vanilla android away
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Yes I have. I actually think they are a HUGE improvement over what originally came on the Inc, but the two roms I tried were way too slow when compared to MIUI. I just don't think the Inc is powerful enough to handle all the GB and Sense 3.5 upgrades. Uses too much memory and bogs it down.

So hopefully The Vigor or new HTC phones will not have that problem. I'm sure they will be plenty fast enough.
 
I wonder how long it will take to get perm root, and then s-off or a BL unlock? Sounds like this phone is unlocked/easily unlocked everywhere else in the world except for our wonderful verizon here in the states. I really have learned to dislike VZ. I cannot have a phone that is not at least rootable to use TB for backing up and freezing bloat. At the very least. I won't be buying until at least perm root is achieved.

On that note, why can't android have a universal full app backup option? My asus transformer now has factory app backup to sd. This is something one shouldn't have to root to be able to do.
 
Teegunn said:
I wonder how long it will take to get perm root, and then s-off or a BL unlock? Sounds like this phone is unlocked/easily unlocked everywhere else in the world except for our wonderful verizon here in the states. I really have learned to dislike VZ. I cannot have a phone that is not at least rootable to use TB for backing up and freezing bloat. At the very least. I won't be buying until at least perm root is achieved.

On that note, why can't android have a universal full app backup option? My asus transformer now has factory app backup to sd. This is something one shouldn't have to root to be able to do.
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+1 to all of this!
 
Teegunn said:
I wonder how long it will take to get perm root, and then s-off or a BL unlock? Sounds like this phone is unlocked/easily unlocked everywhere else in the world except for our wonderful verizon here in the states. I really have learned to dislike VZ. I cannot have a phone that is not at least rootable to use TB for backing up and freezing bloat. At the very least. I won't be buying until at least perm root is achieved.

On that note, why can't android have a universal full app backup option? My asus transformer now has factory app backup to sd. This is something one shouldn't have to root to be able to do.
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Dude I 150% agree man but you know that would be to Coventry for the, to do but from what I have read alpha Rev x should already have s off or be close to it I mean this is the same coding for the boot loader then the incredible 2 minus the 4g that is in their and is more closely related to the sensation coding so if the alpharev x tram can crack them give it a week and the vigor ( hate resound) will have root and full s off
 
^^^ I hope you are right. The RAZR already has full root I believe. I am on the fence between these two phones the way it is, so having full root is a big plus for the RAZR. I'm sure we will get it soon enough for the Rezound, but until it's been done we are only guessing.
 
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