Looking to root my phone but I don't understand what exactly I'm trying to do with my phone.
You shouldn't be doing it then.
So could someone dumb it down for me?
No.
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Anonymous2012-06-11 3:06
Let me elaborate what I'm trying to do.
Basically I'm trying to help out a mom and pop shop to start processing credit/debit cards. From what I've read and what they found to be their best bet would be the Square App. Thing is that they don't have a Froyo cell phone they have Motorola Cliq stuck at 1.5.
If I can upgrade it to something of the equivalent of 2.2 Android they can start attracting a bigger customer base.
I'm not sure if I'm doing that with trying root it and installing cyanogen.
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Most carriers will give you a substantial discount on a new phone after a couple years. They should just get a new phone.
If that ancient phone was purchased from a carrier less than two years ago, everyone involved with that transaction deserves to be shot.
>>3 Running a business app that could affect customer base on a phone.
Never post here again.
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Anonymous2012-06-11 4:48
@5 No fuck you elitist prick !L33tUKZj5I
@4
They just got it at a garage sale for like $20. I'm dealing with penny pinchers from some foreign country. They don't want a contract at all in any form at all. They don't even use cellphones just a landline for their business.
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!L33tUKZj5I2012-06-11 4:59
>>6
Come on man, even the smallest corner shop can rig up a card machine. Why complicate matters? So you can appear LOLLEET at computers?
You're giving them the wrong advice.
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Anonymous2012-06-11 12:07
>>1
Rooting literally just gives you root (superuser, analogous to the Windows Administrator account (not an account with administrator privileges, but an account called Administrator)) access. It lets you do things that ordinary users can't do. That's all.
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Anonymous2012-06-12 3:14
>>7 Not unless they get charged $400 for equipment plus another $150 for setting everything up and charged at least $50 a month for the contract.
Which I think they don't have or willing to refuse paying.