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Wednesday Poll: Is Your Phone Rooted?

Tim March 8, 2017 199

We have asked this question before, but as time has gone by, it's safe to say that rooted users have become the minority. That wasn't always the case, but with phones and the Android OS performing and behaving much better, the needs for rooting aren't as dire....

Thursday Poll: Rooted or Non-Rooted?

Kellen November 20, 2014 329

Throughout the day, thanks to topics like the Nexus 6 having encryption that can't be turned off without taking matters into your own hands, we have seen the emergence of a healthy discussion around the topic of tinkering. When we say "tinkering," we are...

Monday Poll: Rooted or Non-rooted?

Tim December 16, 2013 493

With 2013 sadly coming to a close, it's time we take a step back and see just how many of you are still tinkering and playing with your Android devices. As I have said countless times, the need for rooting Android phones has fallen dramatically, as Android...

Jelly Bean on DROID Bionic Root Method Released, Instructions For Those Running Ubuntu

Tim April 23, 2013 26

From the same man that unlocked some of Motorola's heavily guarded bootloaders, a new root method for DROID Bionic owners running the new Jelly Bean firmware has been released. Unfortunately for most of you, it is for folks running Ubuntu because due to...

Thursday Poll: Rooted or Non-rooted?

Kellen December 6, 2012 243

It seems like we ask this all of the time, but it has been over a year since we last asked the DL community if their phone is rooted or not. So today, let's do it again. We like to stay on top of the trends here on the site, and this is one of the more...

DROID 4 Has Been Rooted.

Kellen February 12, 2012 69

Holding off from purchasing the DROID 4 because you were under the impression that it could not be rooted? Fear not, the work has been done. If you own a Windows computer, you can simply plug in your phone, download the file from below, unzip and then run it...

Asus Transformer Prime has been Rooted.

Kellen January 3, 2012 63

The Transformer Prime has been rooted thanks to @TeamAndIRC with their soon-to-be-released NachoRoot tool. Not much else to say about that other than a release of the tool has not happened at this time. Sir Justin Case may be holding onto it until Ice Cream...

Charts: Rooted or Non-rooted? A Look Back at the Last Year

Kellen March 10, 2011 67

If you were hanging out with us on Tuesday, then you probably answered our poll question, "Root or non-rooted?" This is one of those topics we like to cover every 6 months or so to get a good feel for our readership, but with this being the third time we've...