HTC Thunderbolt rooted for real, locked files nearly sour the deal

They thought it would be easy , but they were wrong — AndIRC developers reportedly spent the last 72 hours readying the HTC Thunderbolt for custom ROMs. Today, they emerge victorious, but that victory is bittersweet, because it may signify the end of a generally homebrew-friendly era from the folks at HTC. While devices from the Taiwanese manufacturer have traditionally been easy to modify, the hacker community found Verizon’s LTE flagship fully locked down, with a signed kernel, signed recovery image and a signed bootloader. FOF. Of course, if you’re just looking for a way to overclock your Thunderbolt, you probably don’t care about all that. You’ll find all the instructions you need at Android Police . Just be careful out there! [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Continue reading HTC Thunderbolt rooted for real, locked files nearly sour the deal HTC Thunderbolt rooted for real, locked files nearly sour the deal originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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