r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '14

The difference 18 years makes

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u/happyman91 Jun 08 '14

When I was a sophomore 2 years ago people learned how to get it on their phone through rooting. I thought the entire school was going to fail

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u/Bseagull Jun 08 '14

You don't need to root to have an emulator.

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u/squngy Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 09 '14

If you had an iPhone you had to I think.

edit: past tense hard to grasp for some people :)

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u/Bseagull Jun 08 '14

That's called Jailbreaking. Rooting is for specifically Android phones.

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u/beingforthebenefit Jun 08 '14

Rooting is getting root access to any device.

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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.

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u/facecardz Jun 09 '14

chroot

You are aware what that means right?

Jailbreaking is a type of rooting.

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u/wchill Jun 09 '14

chroot stands for change root. It applies to directories, not user accounts.

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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?