• T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Already Rooted

    Friday, April 22nd, 2011

    Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008. Greg was born just outside of San Jose, and now lives in the East Bay of California. → Learn More

    The T-Mobile Sidekick 4G hasn’t even been on the market for a full 2 days, yet the ever-resourceful community over at XDA-Dev has already hacked it to pieces. You’ll need to download some drivers from Samsung, run the “Rage Against The Cage” hack (heads up: some virus detectors pick this up as a virus, as it technically IS a packaged Linux exploit — that’s what makes it work. Make sure you’re getting it from a legit source), and then throw down a heaping helping of terminal commands. When you’re done, though, you’ll be roaming around in Android territory with nary a restriction.

    You can find the full guide right here.

    [Thanks Ken!]

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