[HTC EVO 3D] dragonfyre13:
WARNING: Rant to follow, not rooting related, but IMHO needs to be said.

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I just have to reply to this, being my little thread and all. Normally I leave this sort of thing alone. Stericson's post was perfectly fine (snippy IMHO but understandable why considering the state of the other thread), and addresses an actual concern, but this?

I've been posting most of the information here, specifically just dumps from various "linuxy things" grabbed, not seriously technical, or focused on exploits, etc. I know teamwin has root at this point, which is interesting (whenever they release), but had to comment back, tired of seeing this attitude from "people just watching the threads". Seriously, if you're trying to figure out progress, this is what progress looks like. No ETAs, lots of "dumb questions" to get to the possible right one, since it only takes one. This thread specifically was created to give an outlet to people who are looking to help, but might not know android well enough to start throwing in. If they know linux, maybe they've messed around with some stuff in the past, maybe they are a serious BH who wrote shellscript in the early BSD days. In any case, people can throw things at the wall, and see if they stick, without cluttering up the big thread where the "big boys" as you put it are working on things.

And just as an FYI, I've had a few of these "people who think installing superuser is an accomplishment" get me further in some of my own rooting work. This has been through not only being guinea pigs for me (thanks guys!) but throwing out the very kinds of ideas you're trashing, with the ideas triggering something I was just looking at a few hours ago. ("oh, that's right we do have that interesting weird thing there that means we get to write to a suid proc's tasks"). So what may be dumb to you, is interesting to me, and the more eyes on it the better. People who are deep into this, know the system flat, and already have more leads than they can run down would have rooted it by now. People who don't know the system flat are absolutely amazing as a fresh perspective on things those of us with system level info have ignored. I know when I was first getting into the sec op world, I would stumble across things that didn't make sense to me, and find holes ignored by the "experts" because they were to focused on the tiny holes to notice the gaping ones.

In short, he had something to contribute, thought he had made progress. Maybe it could have been done without the fanfare ("is it normal that I can install superuser?") or by trying a bit more on his side, but a teensy bit of encouragement and he'll do that next time. You (-viperboy-) on the other hand were just complaining. I give him props because he's trying, while you're sitting on the sidelines watching the show, and complaining that people who *are* trying aren't doing what you want them to. If your gripe is that they are filling up a multiple hundred page post with useless crap about their dog, fine I've got that issue with some of this stuff too (thanks by the way stericson, that is NOT something I want in this thread). But this was an honest post from someone who thought they were helping.

And that's the last I'll say about the subject. Sorry for cluttering up the thread further, you'll see from my history I basically never do, but this kind of thing pushes my buttons at least as much as people commenting crap about how breakfast was this morning.

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On a different note, attached is the kernel build flags for this particular build, for those of you on the more technical side. (non-ota, though it shouldn't have changed much)