Root is my intercept already rooted?

[fredrock]

I'm a semi-newbie to this stuff but recently when my 2.2 update failed I had to start reading the forums and now I am curious! I'm thinking of rooting my intercept. But first I read that rooting will allow for apps to sd and tethering and pinch to zoom as some of the main reasons to do it. So my ? Is have I already rooted possibly when I loaded my dlo5.zip thru the recovery screen cause I can already do all the things I mentioned above?

 

[Deleted User]

hi there, i dont think so, im sure the only way is to physically root the device either via a program or via recovery mode.

Purely rooting a device and not much else wont allow your device to start doing things, eg pinch to zoom, 9 times out of 10 these devices already do this or will do this with an update to firmware.

Perhaps when you attempted to upgrade to 2.2 it installed a few new functions but not all.