Introduction

What is rooting actually? How does it work? I tried to figure this out these days. Now, I know how to at least root an Android emulator including creating ROM image. Since I am using emulator only, the following explanation is only applied on emulator. I have not tested on real mobile phone.

Before I begin, the followings are my working environment:

OS: Arch Linux Packages: android-2.2 r03-2 - required for the Android platform android-sdk r16-1 - required for emulator android-sdk-platform-tools r10-2 - required for adb command