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Originally Posted by nerdherd
No, that's only if you are planning on writing software for Android. If you're just trying to root the phone (and install nandroid, etc) you just need to download the SDK (here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html) and then extract it to a folder somewhere on your computer). You don't actually need to "install" anything from the SDK. The reason that you need to do this is because there's a program in the SDK called "adb.exe" that will let you issue commands to your phone from your desktop. As far as I know you don't actually NEED the program, but it makes it much easier than having to type a bunch of commands on your Droid. |
also editing system files with the terminal on the droid can involve unwanted semi-bricks where it won't boot past the moto logo so using adb shell is pretty much the best solution.