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If you spend your spare time huddled over mobile phone boot screens fiddling with things THEY don’t want you really fiddling with, one step in the process has just got a little easier thanks to new touchscreen controls in recovery tool ClockworkMod.
The app has adapted the Android 4.0 software buttons as demonstrated by the Galaxy Nexus to give users an easy way to toggle through the tool’s settings, which is a much easier solution that the original version’s awkward combinations of button presses.
It’s now marginally easier to turn your £500 superphone into a shiny paperweight that won’t turn on. [RootzWiki via Droid-Life & Engadget]
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“It’s now marginally easier to turn your £500 superphone into a shiny paperweight that won’t turn on.”
You really shouldn’t say this. While it is sensible and right to warn people that there are potential problems with hacking, most root methods are so simple and foolproof that an idiot could do them. So long as you check the hash of any ROM or other Zip file you are installing your chance of getting a problem of any kind, let alone an none repairable brick are very slim. That being said I shall wait until this comes out of the Alpha and Beta stages till I use it, just to be on the safe side.
Caution is probably advised. Whichever way you look at it, even if it is recoverable, it’s going to be quick a time-sink getting it back to an operable state if you make a blunder, probably.
True enough, but it’s not like rooting the G1, which had to be done by typing commands into a terminal and making sure that you got them exactly right or you would brick the phone (very scary, especially as this was my first time using Linux commands). I’ve only had one major problem since then (fixed via ADB), root, unlock and install clockworkMod is a one click process now on most Androids.
Even if you flash a rom with a bad hash it takes about a minute to re-download it and flash it… Please only comment if you have experience Sam.
Androids are hard to brick.