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[Martin]

Do you mean officially or unofficially? Unofficially, it's all a matter of Google releasing the source code for FroYo. Once they do, devs start cooking ROM's for the phones they're good at.

But it's not released or anything yet?

 

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[Sheik Yerbouti]

Lemme check...

I see a FroYo ROM for my phone. So it's definitely been released.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Btw, got my hands on the Moto Droid and Samsung Galaxy S today. The latter is a sweet little phone. I'd love to buy both of them if not for the price.

 

[Martin]

Lemme check...

I see a FroYo ROM for my phone. So it's definitely been released.

Is it risky to install? My phone sorta works fine, don't wanna mess it up.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I wouldn't say it's risky. Usually the devs provide detailed instructions on how to install it. Follow it, and you should be good. But sometimes, not all the features will work. For Ex., in all the 2.1 ROM's for my phone, the Camera doesn't work.

BUT, before you even think about installing them, you gotta get the phone rooted and install a customer recovery, which I don't think is possible on the Wildfire yet.

EDIT: Martin, you may want to bookmark this thread. That's the only one for the Wildfire regarding rooting it.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=713854

 

[Bozi]

anybody got any solutions regarding the facebook not syncing with contact problem? or you think its simply a bug and it will get sorted

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I'm not sure if this how it is in your phone, but If you go to Settings>Social Networking, you can logout and log into Facebook again. Does that help? And if you have the Facebook app installed, have you tried checking for updates for it?

 

[Martin]

FSF guy writes about Android vs free software. Most interesting to me is his analysis on the motives and incentives of Google and Nokia in terms of shipping a phone with free software:

http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/03/04/mobile.html

In short: None of the companies actually have their interests aligned with phone users (not a big surprise), but Google seems to have more to win from a partial free stack, because they care about the platform on which they can promote their services while Nokia cares about selling hardware.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

anybody got any solutions regarding the facebook not syncing with contact problem? or you think its simply a bug and it will get sorted

Yo Boz, check this out...

http://www.androidcentral.com/whats-facebook-and-sense


And this one's for Martin, or anyone else...

http://www.androidcentral.com/library-congress-updates-dmca-rooting-given-exemption

 

[icemaη]

If you brick your phone, you still can't claim it under warranties right?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I guess that is possible now.

 

[Martin]

If you brick your phone, you still can't claim it under warranties right?

I would imagine you can't. In these cases you generally have to fight tooth and nail for every tiny concession.

EDIT: http://gizmodo.com/5597083/it-might-be-legal-but-apple-still-says-jailbreaking-can-void-warranty

 

[icemaη]

Noob question time. Is there a way you can brick your PC?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

EMP?

 

[Martin]

Noob question time. Is there a way you can brick your PC?

It's probably not the right question. With a PC if something breaks you open the case and replace the part. So yeah, technically you can "brick it". But you can also open it up and mess around inside, which you can't in the same way with laptops let alone phones. If you brick your phone it's not like all the circuits are burnt or something, it's just gonna be one component. So if you could open it like a PC you could fix it.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Then comes the situation where a part got fried or malfunctioned, and you need to find a replacement part for that, which usually is not easily available, and not for a small price too.

 

[Martin]

Then comes the situation where a part got fried or malfunctioned, and you need to find a replacement part for that, which usually is not easily available, and not for a small price too.

Indeed.

A PC is like a car. If something breaks in the car you don't throw the car in the trash. A phone is like, I dunno, a light bulb..

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

If you have concerns about bricking the phone while rooting it, then here's the best advice I can give. Once the devs find an exploit to obtain root, don't jump on it immediately. Wait for a good month or two so that other users test it out and report any problems for the devs to iron out the process and make it a fool-proof process.

Oh and follow EVERY instruction they mention. That's the best way to get it done.

 

[Martin]

Actually, a lightbulb is not a bad analogy. When the wire in the bulb burns out technically you could fix it, and it wouldn't be hard. But it's a pain in the ass to get to it

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Actually, a lightbulb is not a bad analogy. When the wire in the bulb burns out technically you could fix it, and it wouldn't be hard. But it's a pain in the ass to get to it

Also, isn't there a vacuum in the glass chamber? If you break the glass to replace the filament, who will you restore the vacuum?