I mean this as a serious question, not trying to be snarky. I'm just curious why so many people root when not too long ago Google released a statement saying that rooted phones convert what I assume is an encrypted password into plaintext for anyone to see - that seems like it would be a big deal, wouldn't it? If you lose your phone, anyone can just hack into it and read the password vs an unrooted phone that would at least take longer to crack.
Security bulletin for rooted users: Android passwords stored as clear text | Android Central
Anyway the reason I'm asking this is because I have a Droid Charge; lord knows when it's going to get updated to Gingerbread and the lag on this thing is borderline unbearable. Even trying four different launches to no avail... let me give you a rundown of what I have to deal with on a daily basis:
A bit of a rant but after putting up with this kind of incompetence (why did it ship with an outdated file system again?), it's finally starting to get to me which is why I've been thinking about rooting. As a businessman, the whole plaintext passwords thing has been keeping me away from it for the longest time but at this point, unless the Prime delivers I may finally jump ship to an iPhone. That is not something I want to do, but having an Incredible in the past and dealing with similar nonsense... it's just leaning me more and more in that direction.
Security bulletin for rooted users: Android passwords stored as clear text | Android Central
Anyway the reason I'm asking this is because I have a Droid Charge; lord knows when it's going to get updated to Gingerbread and the lag on this thing is borderline unbearable. Even trying four different launches to no avail... let me give you a rundown of what I have to deal with on a daily basis:
-Recording Video from the Camera: Remove it from the dock, start punching in the password, wait for it to rotate when no one asked it to, re-enter the password, wait for the home screen to reload which it does damn near everytime I visit it, click the camera icon, wait a few days for that to load, click the film icon to put it into video mode and if I'm lucky, I can finally start recording. So it takes about two minutes just for me to begin capturing a video of whatever I was recording that's probably long gone. That's if I'm lucky, usually I'm not and it'll start recording only to freeze and give me a resolution error four seconds in.
-Checking the Phone when Someone Calls You: Answer the call, put the person on speaker, hit the home button, enter the password, check your messages/status/whatever, and hope to God the caller doesn't hang up on you because if they do you get thrown right back to the lock screen for some unknown incredibly stupid reason. Who doesn't love typing in the same password twice everytime someone calls them?
-Unlocking the Phone: Better touch it quick, you only have three seconds before the screen turns off again!
*UPDATED* Pulling Data from the Phone: Just plug it in, no unlock required! WTF? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adChzqJQsfM
A bit of a rant but after putting up with this kind of incompetence (why did it ship with an outdated file system again?), it's finally starting to get to me which is why I've been thinking about rooting. As a businessman, the whole plaintext passwords thing has been keeping me away from it for the longest time but at this point, unless the Prime delivers I may finally jump ship to an iPhone. That is not something I want to do, but having an Incredible in the past and dealing with similar nonsense... it's just leaning me more and more in that direction.
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