[android-developers] Re: verizon galaxy nexus as dev phone?

On Dec 19, 1:18 pm, Romain Guy <romain...@android.com> wrote:
>
> You don't need to have an unlocked phone to install and debug apps. A
> bootloader unlocked phone is only useful if you plan on modifying the
> system itself.
>
> --
> Romain Guy
> Android framework engineer
> romain...@android.com

There's another case that comes immediately to mind: tcpdump.
Sometimes I find it incredibly useful to tcpdump on my phone and
capture something for later analysis. The Sharkdump tools let you do
this quite easily, but require root because of the device-level access
requirements. In any event, that's a case where I don't so much want
to modify my system as *observe* it.

-Mike Ellery

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