Hi. I am a 'newbe' here and at all this fancy souping up that you other fellas are doing, but I need some help. I have a United States AT&T branded w580i. I am having trouble accessing files with several eBook and text readers like Libris, MTTextreader, etc. When I try to search or locate a readable file nothing appears. The best I've been able to gather is that this is because I need to set permissions for the app to do this. But, when I try to set permissions to read or write user data I am told that that "no permissions granted". I think, from the reading I have done here, that I will need to debrand the phone in order to be able to grant permissions to access the files. Is this correct? Is there a way to grant permissions without debranding? If not and I have tio de-brand the phone will I still be able to use my AT&T service or will that be altered?
I am an old fogie and don't really care about having all the fancy bells and whistles like my 21 year of grandson might. I just want to be able to read and write to my files. If I decide to debrand I understand that I will need to backup my GDFS. What I don't understand is if I need to send the phone back to AT&T for warranty repair will "flashing " the back up of the original GDFS retund my phone to it's original at&t branded condition? I think I understand the debranding process (even if I don't undertand all the terms and abreviations used), I'm just unsure abot how the AT&T service is effected and can I return the phone to it's original configuration if necessary for warranty reasons. Thanks in advance for any help one can give.