[jamesd1343]

while i dont have mine yet and cant speak for much from a hands on I personally feel the only way well get real functionality from this unit is via some rooting & custom rom hacking much like is being done on the m001.

While im sure pandigital will release some fixed firmware for apparent wifi probs and obvious crashes and bugs im skeptical that it will be a polished device for the price point. I figure they have some commitment to BN to support their ebooks but i cant imagine BN wants the device to outsell their own Nook (strange partnership vs say Borders). Wonder if anyone has looked at rooting the device or hacking the rom update somehow and hoping this is the route to get to a really functional android device.

 

[jamesd1343]

yea i see where you are coming from with the BN 'alliance'. i did read about Border disaster of a device also...

maybe youre right and pandigital will evolve these devices some more with updates. anyone try to connect it to usb and use adb on it ADB - Android Wiki and see if they can talk to it from a pc?

anyone dare flashing a g1 or other arm11 based firmware on the device yet? seems like our options are a bit more open since we can return them locally if we fry them especially now with the 'recall'. im tempted to load the sdk with emulator to mess around some but im definately not versed in rooting and hacking android. hoping one of the eken m001 rommers jumps the wagon here.

 

[jamesd1343]

When it's booted normally adb won't see it. If you catch it in recovery mode adb will acknowledge it but in recovery mode you'll only have a limited subset of the adb commands (e.g. no shell).

The firmware upgrade process checks the digital signature on the new firmware before flashing it, so you won't get it to load an alternate firmware without rooting it first. Once it's been rooted, the possibilities are wide open.

thanks for the clarification. so do we know we dont have root already on it? i seem to remember that the m001 seemed to be rooted from the getgo didnt it?

is it the consensus to wait for pantech to see where they go with firmware updates before pursuing rooting and modded roms? id contribute what i can in testing and donations via paypal if there was an interest maybe from ecotox or willow or others?

 

[jamesd1343]

order cancelled today for me, ill try a raincheck route...dont think ill pay full retail for this device until i know its rooted and roms exist