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- Dec 25, 2004
A little background: I just got a cheap (as in Android 4.2 and $40 at Amazon) tablet to come up with a replacement for my wife's Zune. It comes with pop-up adds on the main screen every 4-5 minutes, and installs audible and a star wars game in the background. When you try to uninstall the pop-up program, (helpfully named "adloader"), it reinstalls it for you. Then, when you do a malware search, 3 of the 4 files it finds are considered system files and you aren't allowed to uninstall them. You can disable some of them. But there is another I haven't found yet that about every 20 minutes tries to download and install what appears to be random software. I haven't seen the same one twice yet. So I'm going to have to root the phone/tablet just to uninstall the self-installing malware from the manufacturer.
The thing is, a game I'd like to have my wife start playing with me occasionally detects rooting and bans the account. I've talk to some players that have had no issues with running it on a rooted phone, but others have had their accounts banned, and weren't cheating. I can understand why it might do this, as GPS spoofing is a ban-worthy action in the game, and you need to root a phone to do that.
So, is it possible to root the tablet, uninstall the crapware, then unroot it?
This is sort of a proof of concept idea, so I'm not worried about bricking it, as I'd only be out about $40. The thing is I want to get it set up to replace the Zune, as in be able to play audio books (my wife doesn't use it to listen to music), and play the occasional game. I can install audible on this, so she can listen to my collection of audible books as well, so that is a bonus for her right there. If she like it as a replacement, I'll eventually buy a better one for her, but I want to make sure she like it first, especially since this is a surprise present for her. And if she gets into playing Ingress with me, I don't want her to have her account banned on her for nothing she did.
Any decent guides for this?
The thing is, a game I'd like to have my wife start playing with me occasionally detects rooting and bans the account. I've talk to some players that have had no issues with running it on a rooted phone, but others have had their accounts banned, and weren't cheating. I can understand why it might do this, as GPS spoofing is a ban-worthy action in the game, and you need to root a phone to do that.
So, is it possible to root the tablet, uninstall the crapware, then unroot it?
This is sort of a proof of concept idea, so I'm not worried about bricking it, as I'd only be out about $40. The thing is I want to get it set up to replace the Zune, as in be able to play audio books (my wife doesn't use it to listen to music), and play the occasional game. I can install audible on this, so she can listen to my collection of audible books as well, so that is a bonus for her right there. If she like it as a replacement, I'll eventually buy a better one for her, but I want to make sure she like it first, especially since this is a surprise present for her. And if she gets into playing Ingress with me, I don't want her to have her account banned on her for nothing she did.
Any decent guides for this?