Hacked, rooted and jailbroken – different approaches to accessibility

Bruce Darby Technology Advisor University of Edinburgh

Don’t do it!

• • • Voids warranty Can break your phone Blah blah etc. etc.

Rooting and Jailbreaking • • What does ‘rooting’ your phone mean?

What is Jailbreaking?

Rooting • • Android phones.

Allows full access and control of the operating system.

How to root • • • • • Google ‘root and your handset name’.

What worked for me might not work for you.

http://tinyurl.com/cyanogenwiki http://unrevoked.com/ Root!

Install custom operating system • • • • Nandroid back up Titanium backup Rom Manager Cyanogenmod 7

Advantages of rooting • • • • • Make back ups.

Customise.

Partition SD card Early updates.

Learn a lot.

Jailbreaking • • • Apple iPhone Allows installation of Cydia.

Allows access and control of operating system.

How to Jailbreak • • • • • http://tinyurl.com/jailbreakwithredsnow Download and update iPhone to 4.3.3 (need access to this file later) Download redsn0w from Dev-team blog at http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ Funny button pressing combination.

Jailbreak!

Advantages of jailbreaking • • • • • Cydia alternative app store.

Tweaks and customisations. Early updates.

Learn a lot.

Baba Buufey.

Advantages of jailbreaking • • • • • • • • • • • Display Recorder and Cydia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Jg41UzW7s&feature=player_profilepage Activator – Evernote MobileNotifier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogLoW9u8QBU&feature=player_profilepage FastSnap - Camera LockInfo – Email, calendar, favourites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KbvGfBOw7Q&feature=player_detailpage MissedReminder – LED flash.

Xpandr - !gm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-YKr-wbsYM&feature=player_detailpage

iOS 5 • • Copy Cat!

Importance for the future of development and innovation.

• Iftt.com

If this then that

What does this mean for accessibility?

• • Not a lot.

No iHoverPad

Back to 2007 • • New phones Mobile computing

Custom or specialist • • Customise an existing product.

Create a specialist product.

3 rd Option • • Build accessible features in.

Usability rather than accessibility.

Dear Steve

Device use • Alivecor – allows you to take a personal electrocardiograph. Not released yet.

Interesting stuff • • • Android@home project – control your robot with your phone. Low cost, power, bandwidth.

Onavo – data compressor.

Apple allowing third party widgets in iOS 5