So I’ve rooted all my android devices I’ve ever had. Mostly for the control. The reason I did the first time was HTC had horrible green icons at the top so changed them blue. Then I added an animation to the background on the settings pull down shade. Fun little things like that. As well as getting able to backup my apps and settings and progress in games to move to a new device… which has been incredibly useful.
Anyways I haven’t found any info on rooting this device… Is it possible? Or is it already unlocked? Where those root apps should work already, or?
That’s probably a good idea. I just figured as I wasn’t able to find anything m someone on here might know a bit about it. But I’ll go post over there. Thank you.
It may be possible, but I would be careful since there are many customized apps and services included to be compatible with the 3D screen. For example, if you rooted it and installed an alternative ROM, there is no guarantee that the 3D would still work, or that there wouldn’t be compatibility issues.
Sounds like a really bad idea. What do you need to do on the LumePad that you can’t do without root, that may help the developers make decisions about what features to add.
I originally asked this question cause I wanted the freedom to do what I wanted with my device. It’s ridiculous that it’s locked down. I obviously got it for the 3D. So I wouldn’t mess with that. But if rooted my phones for 13 years to get that freedom. Only one of them had 3D abilities there’s just so much more you can do when you have root access. Like backup your phone system. You’re apps. Your settings in those apps. Your progress in your games. Move that data between devices. Change icons. Change colors. My first phone had ugly green icons on the top. That’s why I originally rooted it… To turn then blue…I also enabled wireless tether for free (it’s included my plan now I never used it then or now. But I could of.), I added tabs to my pull down shade (back then it was just a single pane) I added notifications on one tab and in the other was toggles. - tabs like Firefox or chrome uses. I added an animation of lighting to it with a slightly tinted background… I changed my startup splash screen. To be an awesome sword through a skull and a snake coming out of the eyes. And my shutdown animation I changed to a scene fromn iron man. And I was able to improve the kernel and enable trickle charge. And optimize the CPU. I literally was able to get that phone from 2010 to last 32 hours on a single charge with heavy usage. Out of the box it only lasted about 4 hours. I truly made that phone my own. My other ones I’ve done various things with that access. So it’s usually to have the option for sure.
Yeah, makes sense. I do use Linux on the desktop (Ubuntu) so I understand wanting the flexibility. I’ve just found that with tablet devices that are more for media consumption, it ends up being better when you are officially supported.