They tell you what you need to do but not how? Might want to inquire there.
I'm thinking that rooting broke whatever copyright protection is in place on a non-rooted atrix (probably the same thing that's keeping netflix from being released on the atrix), so hulu won't allow playback. Just a guess, though.
As posted above, using AdFree to revert back to original will do the trick. What did you mean by rooting could have 'broken' the copyright protection?
Evil.Bonsai, this isn't directed at just you; your comment was just like the 10th comment I read recently that seemed to have an anti-rooting stance. I'm not trying to argue, I just genuinely don't understand
Oh, and if I just misunderstood your tone, my apologies. This is directed to people who seem to look down upon rooting.
It seems like a lot of people are so staunchly against rooting, and not necessarily just in regards to their own phone, but against rooting as like a principle or something, and associate rooting with pirating software, viruses, and exploding phones. And it's certainly true that the people who steal software and try to cheat other people usually need root access to break rules, so I can sorta see where the misconception comes from. I feel like what you may not know or overlook is that
part of Android is root access!
Not everyone needs it for their purposes, and it's wise that OEMs sell consumer phones without root access out of the box (encrypted bootloaders are a different story, but I'm not going to complain, considering it seems Moto finally saw the light!) because it would make it too easy for someone who didn't know what they were doing to mess up their phone and need to return to stock, possibly losing anything they didn't back up. Most consumers don't want to deal with those risks, because the benefits of a rooted device (like heavy customization) don't interest them anyway. And that's fine, nothing wrong with that!
But you also understand that many people consider rooting a *must* just because they need the functionality provided through root access to use Android the way they want to... I mean, it's like the reason why I love Anroid so much in the first place. If I couldn't root, flash, and tinker around without restriction, I just wouldn't enjoy it from an enthusiast's perspective quite as much. I don't care about pirating apps or trying to cheat anyone - which I think is why people get upset with rooting?
Does anyone know what I mean by the seemingly anti-root sentiments floating around, or is it just me? If I'm sane, and you're an anti-rooting advocate yourself, can you explain why you discourage it? Again, I don't want to have an argument - maybe there's something that I'm missing, so let me know yor thoughts
(Evil.Bonsai, sorry for hijacking your thread pal, I just finally had to ask what the deal was! People usually dont bother reading long posts though, so nobody probably read it anyway
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To try to stay at least a little on-topic: yeah the app works nicely, but I wish there was more free content; I was hoping that everything available free online would be available free on the app, but that doesn't seem to be the case? But at least the price is right!
because I was being careless... but the phone itself wasn't broken, I just had to flash my nandroid backup or the stock firmware and it came back to life. Full disclosure, it IS possible to fully break your phone forever (I remember reading it happen to some captivate owners) but I think that those kinds of errors are extremely rare. I'm just guessing though, someone correct me if I'm wrong.