Hacked, rooted and jailbroken – different approaches to accessibility

Bruce DarbyTechnology 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.

If this then that

• Iftt.com

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.

3rd 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