[Android Head-Units] chris.davis925:
In response to your first Kenwood forums quote - The answer is right there in the quote. I was unable to contribute further on these forums since my account was disabled. It is was stated right there in the quote that I was always willing to continue researching "further hardware root processes". I was later able to work things out with our mods here at XDA and came up with an alternate work around method using Metasploit.

In response to your second point regarding USB OTG - I stated myself that I bricked the unit doing this method. I've stated elsewhere that this actually happened more than once, and later also stated that it was disabled by Kenwood. Some of my posts relating to that have been deleted on XDA (since they included other references of services) - but none the less there was never any additional information that wasn't already provided here regarding USB OTG - namely the facts are simply that USB OTG is dynamically being disabled by Kenwood and even when it's not, it (what appears to have been) randomly bricked my units on some occasions. For your record, you can see the dialogue about USB OTG pinout between me and [MENTION=2301266]aplusmiami[/MENTION] starting with post #353 of this thread. The only quasi productive thing that happened on Skype with [MENTION=2301266]aplusmiami[/MENTION] that was off XDA was me trying to purchase one of his older DNN units so that I could further investigate why USB OTG wasn't working - and that never happened. Also for your records, you will see where I was waiting to see if OTG would work twice and I would release the script - you can see that on post #345. Where do you see intentional leaving out of information? What I see is exactly the facts, which is that my units bricked and then OTG stopped working.

Your third point about asking for money for root etc - I've always been open about that and was open about that with our Mods as well as on the Kenwood forums. I was not aware of the exact rules at the time about how donations, bounty or services worked on XDA. This was totally and completely an oversight on my behalf and is what resulted in the disabling of my account - I have since worked this out with the mods and we have moved on from this point. This probably is the only point that you have that is factual and correct - I broke the rules without realizing it it was wrong. It has since been worked out as I am now aware of the guidelines for this forum.

Your wrongful inferences about me hold the same weight in the way which you infer wrongful/suspicious intention in regards to [MENTION=5389783]donaldta[/MENTION]. [MENTION=5389783]donaldta[/MENTION] has been nothing but helpful, supportive and lending of his time both to the XDA and to me personally. In fact, it's solely because of his willingness to answer annoying questions that I had about Linux and Android that I was able to be able to further investigate and solve some of the problems with the unit. For that I would suggest that users who are able give a huge shout out to [MENTION=5389783]donaldta[/MENTION]. I have personally reached out to offer a donation to him but I have not heard back from him in some time. And of course, the part where you stated that he never posted the build.prop info is incorrect, he posted what we had at the time in post #270.

And lastly, I don't have any trust level to either build or rebuild. It's only you that continue to misrepresent the facts. Whether or not you wish to believe me, the posts or the timelines of events I have posted is completely up to you, but please don't make of them more than they really are. After all, I did release a third method to exploit this unit as soon as I was able to when in reality, I could have kept it secret. I am completely for the open community progression for this unit and truly hope that everyone can benefit from the guide I have posted. Ideally I hope that someone far more skilled than the limited knowledge I have can help us figure out some of the protections that are still in place on the Kenwood unit, including why USB OTG isn't working.

PS - in response to 'In the end XDA is what it is. Everyone brings and contributes what they can. You may be able to root the receiver but I may be able to restore your bricked boards as another way to recoup you losses." - this is great news! I wish I would have known that early on. As you know, I was unable find and purchase the model of board that I had for my DNN which resulted in my buying the entire unit again. Perhaps you can shine some light on where to get the DNN991 board since I am still wondering if it's the same CPU or not.