T-Mobile myTouch 4G rooted, has G2 root to thank for it
Even when they're relatively easy to root, it usually takes a few weeks of elbow grease to get an Android device fully opened -- but thanks to the hard work that's been put into the T-Mobile G2 root recently, its just-released sister device has been cracked already, too. Sure enough, if you're willing to put a little time into it, you can now break your myTouch 4G wide open, which presumably means it won't take long before we see some stock ROMs become available (if you're into that sort of thing)
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: bleeding, elbow, engadget, from-the-list, grease, mytouch 4g, root, stock, the-bleeding
T-Mobile G2 said to have ‘hardware rootkit’ that restricts modifications
Say it with us now: "Here we go again." Just months after a particular eFuse predicament left legions of Droid X owners fuming, it seems that an all-too-familiar scenario is presenting itself to the earliest of T-Mobile G2 buyers. As the story goes, there's a problematic microchip embedded into the handset which "prevents device owners from making permanent changes that allow custom modifications to the the Android operating system." That's according to a lengthy New America report on the issue, which outright proclaims that a hardware rootkit "restricts modifications to a device owned by the user." In other words, if you install some fishy (or not fishy, for that matter) third party ROM, the phone is capable of overriding your software changes and reinstalling the original firmware -- makes perfect sense considering how earlier roots were " vanishing " post-reboot. Needless to say, this isn't exactly going over well with the tinkering community, and a 40+ page thread has already exploded over at xda developers .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ample, earliest, engadget, legions, mobile, nonsense, perfect, result, root, Roots, stock, time, tinkering, xda-developers
Dell Streak’s pre-rooted Android 2.1 update quietly suspended, revision coming in two or three weeks
Ruh roh. Looks like Dell's stepped onto its own toes real hard with the Streak's Android 2.1 update -- O2 just confirmed to us that due to some "feedback from users," it's decided to suspend said download while Dell gets cranking on a revised software release over the next two or three weeks. We weren't given the exact reasons behind this quiet withdrawal, but our friends over at MoDaCo might have had the answer for some time -- soon after the release, they discovered that the 2.1 firmware was in fact pre-rooted , thus leaving the Streak vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification (although handy for the seriously tech-minded).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bug, dessert, Frame, iphone, release, root, rooted, scoop, tabletphone, time, yikes
The revolving door: Froyo for Droid Incredible coming tomorrow, Froyo for EVO 4G gets rooted
The rich landscape of Android versioning just got a bit richer, with word of an official Froyo update for the Droid Incredible being launched tomorrow (based on the screencap pictured above), while the EVO 4G's recent Froyo software just got rooted. If you're crazily impatient, an Android 2.2 ROM for the Incredible just leaked out into the wild, and can be installed with a bit of work, but from the official-looking-ness of this leak from Droid Life , a painless official update is not far off
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: droid incredible, droid-life, entry, freedom, froyo, htc-sense, inevitably, landscape, revolving-door, root, sense, sprint
Droid 2 root method finds its way online
The very first line of the forum post on xda-developers says it best -- proceed at your own risk -- but if you've been kept up at night waiting for root to be gained on Verizon's recently-released Droid 2 , it looks like your day has come. The process involves tethering up to your PC and transferring a couple binaries, but seems straightforward enough and should open the door to surcharge-free tethering and other apps that require root access.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apps, couple-binaries, droid2, engadget, entry, friend-via, night-waiting, open-the-door, root, root-method, verizon
HTC Wildfire gets ‘soft rooted,’ good enough to install root apps
It's not quite as awesome as a full root, but HTC's low-end Wildfire has now fallen to a halfway measure that's good enough to let you install apps that require root. For some users who aren't looking to obliterate their stock ROM, that should be good enough, since you'll still be able to do rooty things like move any app to microSD -- and needless to say, we're sure this is just a stepping stone to a full root anyhow.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: apps, craftiest, engadget, good-enough, hack, hackers, htc, mobile, root, softroot, stepping, stepping-stone, stock, wildfire
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has been rooted, all is right with the world
Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 has been out and about for some time, facing off against the competition and predictably getting ripped to shreds . Now it has reached the next natural step of its evolution: receiving the root treatment by a bloke at xda-developers .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: competition, ericsson, phone, root, sat, sonyericssonxperiax10, these-things, world, xperiax10
Latest EVO 4G root uses Flash Lite exploit to do its deed
The cat-and-mouse struggle between Android users, carriers, and manufacturers to gain, patch, and re-gain root is one that shows no signs of slowing down, but the EVO 4G's latest recommended root method is particularly creative.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: adobe, after-the-most, engadget, entry, evo4g, flash, lucky, magic, result, root, sprint, takes-advantage
Droid Incredible gets rooted at long last
The Incredible wait is finally at an end -- HTC's finest handset on Verizon had proven quite the tough nut to crack, but at long last it has succumbed to the efforts of some industrious root -hungry coders.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: days, diet, droidincredible, efforts, engadget, finest-handset, incredible, result, root, rooted, unrevoked, verizon, vzw
Sprint’s HTC Hero rooted, promptly patched over-the-air
Great news: the original Android 2.1 firmware for Sprint's HTC Hero was recently rooted. Bad news: Sprint and HTC were entirely too quick about fixing it, pushing out an over-the-air update this weekend that patches up the so-called "security vulnerability" without a new root yet in sight. Owners of rooted devices are naturally being advised not to pull the trigger on the new build at this time; too bad HTC couldn't have shown this kind of hustle with the 2.1 upgrade in the first place, isn't it?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: being-advised, engadget, htc, mobile, news, overtheair, root, trigger, update, weekend