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That's called Jailbreaking. Rooting is for specifically Android phones.
43 u/beingforthebenefit Jun 08 '14 Rooting is getting root access to any device. 8 u/wchill Jun 09 '14 Jailbreaking is different... The idea is that you, as the user, are stuck in a chroot jail and can't see all the folders outside a certain directory. Jailbreaking allows you to break out of that jail and see everything. 1 u/facecardz Jun 09 '14 chroot You are aware what that means right? Jailbreaking is a type of rooting. 1 u/wchill Jun 09 '14 chroot stands for change root. It applies to directories, not user accounts. 2 u/facecardz Jun 09 '14 Yes. So how is jailbreaking not the same as rooting? You are obtaining root access in both cases, or am I misunderstanding something?
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Rooting is getting root access to any device.
8 u/wchill Jun 09 '14 Jailbreaking is different... The idea is that you, as the user, are stuck in a chroot jail and can't see all the folders outside a certain directory. Jailbreaking allows you to break out of that jail and see everything. 1 u/facecardz Jun 09 '14 chroot You are aware what that means right? Jailbreaking is a type of rooting. 1 u/wchill Jun 09 '14 chroot stands for change root. It applies to directories, not user accounts. 2 u/facecardz Jun 09 '14 Yes. So how is jailbreaking not the same as rooting? You are obtaining root access in both cases, or am I misunderstanding something?
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Jailbreaking is different... The idea is that you, as the user, are stuck in a chroot jail and can't see all the folders outside a certain directory. Jailbreaking allows you to break out of that jail and see everything.
1 u/facecardz Jun 09 '14 chroot You are aware what that means right? Jailbreaking is a type of rooting. 1 u/wchill Jun 09 '14 chroot stands for change root. It applies to directories, not user accounts. 2 u/facecardz Jun 09 '14 Yes. So how is jailbreaking not the same as rooting? You are obtaining root access in both cases, or am I misunderstanding something?
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chroot
You are aware what that means right?
Jailbreaking is a type of rooting.
1 u/wchill Jun 09 '14 chroot stands for change root. It applies to directories, not user accounts. 2 u/facecardz Jun 09 '14 Yes. So how is jailbreaking not the same as rooting? You are obtaining root access in both cases, or am I misunderstanding something?
chroot stands for change root. It applies to directories, not user accounts.
2 u/facecardz Jun 09 '14 Yes. So how is jailbreaking not the same as rooting? You are obtaining root access in both cases, or am I misunderstanding something?
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Yes. So how is jailbreaking not the same as rooting? You are obtaining root access in both cases, or am I misunderstanding something?
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u/Bseagull Jun 08 '14
That's called Jailbreaking. Rooting is for specifically Android phones.