{"id":576349,"date":"2010-05-24T04:19:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T08:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=32049"},"modified":"2010-05-24T04:19:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T08:19:17","slug":"video-sprint-evo-4g-rooted-nearly-two-weeks-before-it%e2%80%99s-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576349","title":{"rendered":"Video: Sprint EVO 4G rooted nearly two weeks before it\u2019s released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/root-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"root\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-32050\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sure, the EVO 4G might not be seeing its official nationwide release until June 4th &#8212; but since when do silly matters like <em>release dates<\/em> bother the Android hacking community?<\/p>\n<p>To make a short story shorter: one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/05\/20\/oprah-moment-take-2-google-gives-evo-4gs-to-everyone-at-io\/\">EVO 4Gs<\/a> given away at Google I\/O ended up in the mitts of a <a href=\"http:\/\/grack.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/root-on-an-htc-evo-4g\/\">trio of hackers<\/a>. Armed with nothing but a few hours to kill and a bit of elbow grease (and presumably, some beer), they managed to crack this thing wide open nearly two weeks before it&#8217;s even available to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The lads responsible aren&#8217;t release details of the hack just yet, presumably to prevent last minute patches (not that we really have to worry about quick patch work.. it is Sprint we&#8217;re talking about, after all)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ilSNtLGNw2U&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ilSNtLGNw2U&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DNkqWCOMrxmTp_pikdqstoja8XI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DNkqWCOMrxmTp_pikdqstoja8XI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DNkqWCOMrxmTp_pikdqstoja8XI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DNkqWCOMrxmTp_pikdqstoja8XI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=8zRJjUd0134:nuPwBdcTOF8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=8zRJjUd0134:nuPwBdcTOF8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=8zRJjUd0134:nuPwBdcTOF8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=8zRJjUd0134:nuPwBdcTOF8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=8zRJjUd0134:nuPwBdcTOF8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, the EVO 4G might not be seeing its official nationwide release until June 4th &#8212; but since when do silly matters like release dates bother the Android hacking community? To make a short story shorter: one of the EVO 4Gs given away at Google I\/O ended up in the mitts of a trio of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}