any luck? I have tried all the methods i can find and every time something blocks it and wont let me...side note I noticed some software asks for administrative privileges and i can give them the ok on that, so what I was thinking is if that can be done like answering yes to windows 7 to run as administrator, If "root required" apps could do the same and ask for permission and you could say yes or no? Instead of limiting their functions all together,.., I really want to be able to root this straight talk phone optimus zip phone which i love and need to find a way to force it to share phone memory space with sd card where i can put more than 3 apps on my machine. If anybody has any luck with rooting one of these without bricking it let me know and also make a youtube video demonstration and post any findings here
Thanks! ... I will keep searching for information, on multiple sites, especially video sites I seem to learn the most watching those, also when i downloaded the sdk developer tools from the android site, there was alot of power at my finger tips no knowledge of how to access it I downloaded all the things required for it and extra stuff because i thought that was what i needed to to get the drivers for my phone on my computer... lol long story short it i felt like a fool when i figured out it just plugs in with the usb cable and becomes a micro sd card reader and writer..meaning it works like a flash drive but has no phone memory available to view or manipulate from the computer
Still want to learn some of the development stuff and really get to know my phone, that way i could debug problems on my own. Also i tried the rooter for the Optimus Q, which looks like this phone in every way but isn't, because the video showed the Q being rooted with no problems with LG esteem , and Gingerbreak.
I think we have unrootable phones.. straight talk had to make sure we were sold a shiny piece of crap... but on the plus side i would have probably ended up messing alot of stuff up had i got it rooted or worse bricked it beyond repair. Alot of programs can access the phones memory like android defrag ... so I think the solution is out there somewhere.. I hope somebody finds it and posts it soon for all of us.