rooting my android phone

[MichaelBurns]

So, I got this no-contract LG Optimus Q Android phone at Walmart. I am instantly fascinated (my first smartphone), but immensely annoyed with all of the trachphone crapware that runs in the background. I have no idea of my way around Android (and suspect that I am locked out at the hardware level). So, apparently, in order for the great purging to commence, I must go through some arcane procedure known coloquially as "rooting" (apparently, an android geek is a type of javelina). Unfortunately, instructions that I have found online say things like "then launch the xyz.exe file" or "unzip the abc.zip file and then open the C:\somefolder" (backslashes; aaaahh!). In other words, apparently Android geeks don't really know how to use a computer, and so the instructions are just useless to me.

Help.

How can I root my LG Optimus Q from Ubuntu Lucid?

[gordie69]

hey guys I was thinking on putting ubuntu on my lg phone whether then 2.2 android any thoughts

[bug67]

hey guys I was thinking on putting ubuntu on my lg phone whether then 2.2 android any thoughts

This article may interest you.

[zombifier25]

This article may interest you.

Except it has nothing to do with running Ubuntu on the phone an an OS instead of Android.

[Chrisj303]

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[bug67]

Except it has nothing to do with running Ubuntu on the phone an an OS instead of Android.

I think it may be as close as one will get for now.

[zombifier25]

I think it may be as close as one will get for now.

Actually, there are tutorials for installing Ubuntu on an Android phone. Of course, those tutorials presume that you use your Android phone as a plaything, not an essential device.