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No Custom ROMs expected for this phone, at least for now.

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Feels Good Man

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Times are getting tougher for those attempting to root Android phones. While originally thinking that rooting the HTC Thunderbolt (Verizon's first LTE smartphone) would be a snap, it didn't turn out that way: HTC locked it down with a signed kernel, signed recovery image and a signed bootloader. It's reminiscent of what Motorola has been doing of late with its smartphones.

That doesn't mean that the developers involved were unable to root the devices, but it does mean that, at least for now, there's no chance of custom ROMs. On the other hand, if all you want is access to SetCPU and Titanium Backup, root is all that's required. Read through the long instructions at Android Police below, and remember that a) it will void your warranty, and b) you might brick your device.
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Disregard! Old news apparently.
 
I think that's outdated information. I read articles from Friday night that the bootloader was locked, but then read articles 24 hours later that indicated developers were able to get around the locks and successfully boot a custom recovery image.
 
Yea I'm 99.9% sure that this is old news. Someone posted this back in January, IIRC, when the first Thunderbolt system dump came out. While this was the most locked down phone HTC has ever released, it has still been unlocked and custom ROMs and Kernels should be released once developers begin to work on them.
 
I'd delete the thread, but there's no option to do so. I thought this was current news, as several blogs are posting the information today. Sorry!
 
Feels Good Man said:
I'd delete the thread, but there's no option to do so. I thought this was current news, as several blogs are posting the information today. Sorry!
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What does this teach you?

Which blogs to read because they report first hand news and which blogs to avoid because they re-report old news ;).
 
Locked bootloader is different than encrypted which motorola does. The g2 had a locked bootloader also. They are easy to get around encrypted is the real hard ones and no custom kernals for moto devices.
 
Viruss has a senseless ROM that's still in RC stage and will be released soon according to his thread on xda
 
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