Android Rooting Question

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

On 06/11/2010 10:22 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> Richard Pieri wrote:
>> Substitute "jailbreak" for "root".
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation
>>   
> 
> That part isn't complicated.
> 
> 
> -kb, the Kent who is looking for a more complicated answer.

From:
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html#dev-phone-1
> The Android Dev Phones also feature an unlocked bootloader so you can
> install custom system images (great for developing and installing custom
> versions of the Android platform).

Rooting a non-dev phone essentially turns it into a dev phone.  You should
be able to load a custom system image that still required apps to be
properly signed (don't have one though, so I can't verify).

Matt