- October 25th, 2010 by Nathan Fischer
You may think you own that T-Mobile G2 in your skinny jeans pocket, but think again. Want to root or hack the device? Too bad; it’s instant reset for you. For weeks now since its release, developers and hackers have been looking for a hack to what would otherwise be the near-perfect Android phone. It’s made of some sweet hardware from HTC, it rocks Android 2.2 Froyo in just-about-naked form and it supports T-Mobile’s fast HSPA+ network. Now only if you can add some home-brew tweaks.
A good chunk of folks from the XDA-Developers Forum are offering up cash – straight-up cold hard cash – for the nerd or team of nerds first to find a permanent workaround to the measure that HTC and T-Mobile have taken to prevent that.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, or you just don’t keep up with the news as often as you’d like, HTC and T-Mobile have made the G2 unhackable, basically. The idea is that if an official software update is released and it causes some sort of corruption or has bugs in it, your G2 will detect the problem and restore itself to its default factory settings. Great, but not if you’re trying to permanently corrupt the system so you can have your dirty way with it.
Right now there isn’t a whole lot of money in the pool, just short of $700 that has been pledged with about $400 actually in the pot. But hey, you can buy yourself a new G2 off contract with that kind of dough, and then hack it with the skillz that earned you that phone.
[Via MobileCrunch]
