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Three hackers accept managed to auspiciously basis the HTC Evo 4G 11 canicule afore the smartphone’s official absolution date.
“I concluded up with a Sprint HTC EVO 4G afterwards Google I/O. It’s a appealing absurd phone, even admitting it’s something of a kitchen sink. By a blessed coincidence, I concluded up reconnecting with some of my buddies from the old adaptable hacking canicule who were searching to basis it,” explained
Matthew Mastracci of Grack.com.
“With a few hours effort and a three person team (credit to ozzeh and Joshua Wise!), we managed to get the standard su tool installed.
“This sort of disassembly and hacking really brought back memories. Shadowmite introduced me to mobile phone hacking back in the day. Back then we were doing stuff like porting Linux to the device and hacking the bootloader.”
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