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Commonly speaking, hacking is anything that changes the modification of the product from the manufacturers specifications.
So just the act of rooting the phone could be considered hacking and anything extra is just apart of that hacking.
However, do not get drawn up on the term hacking. Hacking is cool because of what you can you with it. Rooting your phone allows you the access to change or add pretty much anything onto your phone's system.
Android is open-source so it already has or can get a lot of software features without rooting the system (which most times voids the warranty). However, if you really wanted to get out of the default manufacturers experience, you can root and this gives you a phone without any manufacturers limitations.
Some things you can do without the limitations are installing mods and/or root apps onto your system. What makes these apps different from your regular apps, that you can get on the marketplace without rooting your phone, is what that apps can do.
My favourites for Samsung phones are SD Booster, Full!screen, Wanam Xposed, Greenify, and for your Samsung crap Root Uninstall.
SD Booster improves the speed of SD cards from increasing the cache memory used in the read/write process. It also can remember the settings of specific SD cards, useful, if you have more than one SD card.
Full!screen gets rid of the bottom control bar. Some people like the bar, I don't.
Wanam Xposed is a speed and system tweaker. It has a lot of features that I found useful like the build-in call recorder.
Greenify (My favourite) is a speed tweaker. It hibernates heavy handed applications that hog your system resources.
Root Uninstall is a (wait for it) uninstalling application. It allows you to clean up the Samsung junk and Youtube if you really want to.
Now those were only a few, there are thousands of applications only meant for rooted phones. Just make sure that the app is safe. From rooting your phone you are making it extremely easy to install a mod and/or app that will fry your system in an instant.
Hope this answers your question,
CodeFate.
PS. Most people root their phone to install paid applications for free. Being a developer making such applications, I don't condone this. While I do understand there will always be some piracy, I do want people to make the right decision. So we developers can still make outstanding applications or improve existing ones.
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CodeFate wrote: Most people root their phone to install paid applications for free
That I did not know - innocent I guess.
Thanks for that information, I would only be interested in speeding up the system and removing the crap wear. I do wonder if there is an opportunity to set up a rooted app market?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Rooting your phone has a different meaning in Australia
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Yes I know, I have trouble with the expression in polite company, not that I spend much time in polite company!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I often think that iPhone users must be rooting their phones on a regular basis
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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So my laptop is plugged into the mains charging and I get up to turn the light off with my left hand whilst holding the laptop in my right. As I flick the switch I get a shock in my hand touching the light switch followed immediately by another shock in the hand holding the laptop which is attached to the mains.
Do I need to get a sparky in?
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P0mpey3 wrote: Do I need to get a sparky in
Either that or an exorcist!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Sounds like you have plenty of sparky parts already!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Something is not properly grounded (I think your side of the pond calls it 'earthed'). IIRC, the UK uses 230 VAC 50 Hz, with both lines as live, and a ground. My first suspect would be your laptop PSU or plug not being grounded, or the outlet it is plugged into not being properly grounded the first is a job for the computer guys, and second is a job for your Sparky.
This is not a good thing, current passes through the path of least resistance and it can be as little as (again IIRC) about 20 ma of current flow to stop the heart which, coincidentally, is about halfway between those outstretched hands.
Ken
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Anybody else enjoying a few beers on this lovely Friday evening?
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Close, I'll be verifying the Vodka protocol (PRF-80) this fine evening.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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A "few"? No, I'd be out 'til Tuesday and miss it. I will likely have one and see how it goes.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Anyone worked with RFC 3080[^] or 3081[^]?
I started to implement my Beep library and would really love to have someone to check what I do, and eventually tell me where I possibly misinterpreted the specs...
Yes, I'm having a nice expanded weekend due to Swiss' national July 4th today.
Apart from that, the army is going well and I might even get a promotion to be a Sergeant Major, and Chief Sergeant Major later.
Plus, I'm strongly thinking about joining the KFOR[^] after March next year, for a 6 months duty.
The console is a black place
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Sometime this week, maybe yesterday? Can't remember... not important..
Someone commented on going to a site and being prompted with:
'By using this site you agree to accept cookies on this site' followed by an ACCEPT button.
And, when I followed the link in the OP for KFOR, there was the prompt... copied/pasted to ensure I didn't misrepresent what it said...
Humorous...
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Funny. It didn't prompt me when I went there. Maybe they resolve the IP, or I used another NATO site before.
The console is a black place
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Be all you can be!
US Army slogan
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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The console is a black place
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I thought it was "An army of one" now.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Apparently it's "Army Strong" now, "An army of one" lasted as long as a real army of one would.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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The UK army has "Be the Best".
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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What are you writing it in (your Beep library, that is?)
Marc
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At first, it was planned as a simple logging library, to write Sylog log files. Later on I decided to add a log viewer and server / client programs in order to be able to write logs over a network connection. It is stated in the RFC that Syslog messages not going over UDP but TCP are needed to be transmitted via BEEP, and now I find myself implementing a BEEP library. Well, I'm planning the architecture right now, and the rest of what I was planning does only exist in my head so far. Apart from the file logger, which exists in a raw form.
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Why not just use the existing libraries that already do all of that?
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The problem is that there seems to be no library which can be used to apply BEEP on a TCP connection.
And there is also only one Syslog library out there, which is commercial.
The project is a personal challenge, and shall also provide the possibility to use Syslog as standard for your logging stuff - The existing logging libraries are fine, but their customizeability is often a problem, since a reasonably good working program to read the produced logs does not exist. This certainly isn't a problem if you have a small log file (or more than one), but becomes a problem if you have a 100K+ logfile where you need to search for a single error - Especially a use case within highly regulated fields such as medical software.
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I believe the custom now is to use Elephant instead of beep or the f-word.
So, that would be Elephanting Protocol
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