Why is Incredible so different?

[Feldhege]

So far, EVO has been rooted and has a new flashlight app yet nothing for the Incredible. To be honest, I would just like the Flashlight app as it is the only thing I miss from my WinMo Samsung Omnia. Still, everytime I come here, there is a new android phone getting rooted yet no one can seem to do it to the Incredible? Why?

Robb

 

[draken]

Verizon did a good job vetting this phone before release, so no vulnerable stuff laying around in the system. I have a feeling the moders are going to have to dig deep to root this one.

 

[Upstreammiami]

has there ever been a phone that no one could had root it ?

 

[Chaos5]

I think HTC also has a part in the difficulty of root due to them taking out files to use Sense UI only. This may have made things look funky imo.

 

[Ruben]

It also may because the Evo was handed to the top developers in the nation for free at Google IO

 

[Adiliyo]

so far, there hasn't been a phone that was unrootable (afaik)

give them time, root will come eventually. it took a long time to root the eris, but as unpopular (sales wise) as that phone was, it still got root.


as to htc not giving us a flashlight widget, that irks me too.

 

[wplantz]

Basically...

Sprint left a big hole so finding an exploit to root was pretty easy. Verizon did a much better job securing the phone from root access. Darn them haha. I really only want root for wireless tethering. Sense is great and the phone is fast.

 

[Revolutionary]

I really only want root for wireless tethering.

Precisely why Verizon did such a good job locking the phone down -- so you have to pay them for tethering!