HTC EVO 4G Gets Full Root Access
HTC EVO 4G owners have been enjoying their new toys chains-free since before the device was officially launched, but the access we got wasn’t “full” (the nand protection hadn’t been unlocked which denied us full read/write access while booted within Android).
Due to the protection, features such as microSD card-enabled swap and apps to SD were unachievable, but no longer. Toastcfh and friends – the people responsible for the original root method – has finally cracked that walnut for the world to feast on. While no ROMs have been released yet that take advantage of this newfound access, I’m sure the thriving EVO development community is hard at work on their latest creations.
For now, the only benefit is to deprecate the need to use ADB to boot into a custom recovery (although we enjoyed similar access thanks to ROM Manager). The final step in this quest for a fully unlocked experience would be to get the device’s original kernel source, but that’s just going to have to wait until HTC’s ready to release it. Learn more about how you can get up and running over at XDA.
[Thanks, Chris!]