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This is over-kill if you just want root, but one option is to build your own roms, as described at http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html. The userdebug and eng configurations (full_maguro-eng) provide root. | This is over-kill if you just want root, but one option is to build your own roms, as described at http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html. The userdebug and eng configurations (full_maguro-eng) provide root. | ||
=== HTC Desire === | |||
It's possible that you may get something like this: | |||
run-as: Package 'org.mozilla.fennec_jrmuizel' has corrupt installation. | |||
This happens because run-as checks the permissions of the directories under the app to make sure they are correct: | |||
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-ndk/cubyLmLNTXQ/wGRopPum69cJ | |||
On my HTC Desire /data/data was owned by root:root and had permissions of 777 | |||
I needed to root the phone to fix this. I was able to do this by using the temporary root option of zroot. | |||
I then needed to install SuperUser so that /system/bin/su would work. | |||
== What to do after rooting your device == | == What to do after rooting your device == | ||