T-Mobile's myTouch 3G gets rooted, Questlove unavailable for comment
By Tim Stevens 
posted August 13th 2009 9:41AM
posted August 13th 2009 9:41AM
Looking to run the latest and greatest homebrew wares on your myTouch? Just a week after release the Android handset has been set free of its corporate restrictions, the most private sections of its kernel unlocked for you to mess with. Full instructions (and we do mean full) are available at the read link, so proceed with caution -- and don't come crying to us if you wind up with a shiny merlot brick.
[Thanks, Scott]
it's ?uestlove ... hah I saw him hammered outside of Silk City in Philly last weekend
I was just about to make the same comment - that it's a question mark... I wish I could've seen him in person!
ILLADELPH
Awesome picture..lol
agreed. +1 for the roots.
Don't cry coming with us indeed.
Seriously, you have more of a risk bricking your iPhone while jailbreaking it than you do with rooting an Android based phone. I rooted my G1 in about 2 minutes, and most of it was waiting for the phone to flash the old firmware. After applying the patch, it was a done deal, then i just updated to the JF1.3 that was available at the time and was home free with a rooted phone. Now i am running JF1.51 on my G1 and its never been better. I assume that the myTouch 3G is no different than the G1 is to root.
I prefer the iphone. Love the apps available like Problem Halved. No other phone has an app that solves your problems.
You sir are a moron, have you even seen an andorid phone in person? If you had you would know that the android apps can do a HELL of a lot more that the store run by your rotten piece of fruin. What a MORON!
@lambdachi493: He can be a troll and/or like whatever he wants. FYI, It's hard to convince someone by insulting them.
Need to find that old article about companies that pay people to troll sites, I think Apple was at the top of the list.
From crippled to root took me about an hour. Creating the gold card is the tricky part, especially if you (like me) can't read instructions too well :)
Kudos to everyone that worked so hard to make this root happen :)
Its sad, android is the most open handset yet, but still needs to be rooted. And then a custom rom helps too (although not that big a difference from normal roms) The instructions for custom roms are all over, they don't make it a simple solution yet
+1
If you get a developer version of an android device (Dream Dev phone, google ion), it is already rooted. Of course the cell phone carriers aren't going to release a device with root privileges. They don't want end users mucking around with their phone and then crying to them for support when something goes wrong.
I tell you, the people over at XDA never cease to amaze me. Something new comes out, and within a week if it isn't already cracked wide open, than they have an idea how to do it. Makes me proud to be a member!
I thought ?uestlove was using Joshua Topolsky's pre-release Palm Pre.
I heard ?uest really tried to keep it, and when Topolsky tried to take it back Black Thought did the five point palm exploding heart technique, but it didn't take, so now Topolsky has to take heart pills.
iPoop, the stuff that comes out your mouth smells very bad.
"Just a week after release"
It's August the phone was out in Europe in April.
So? The title clearly says "MyTouch 3G". The MyTouch came out August 5th in the US. This article isn't about the European ones.
Plus, HTC and T-Mobile put extra special effort into locking the MyTouch down. But none of that prevented rooting :)
Who said anything about Europe?
so what all did tmobile cripple on the phone?
Um nothing, they're not Verizon.
?uestlove is the man..
I sent the MyTouch 3G back to T-Mobile after a few hours. Typing on the screen is impossible for me. Some need the external keyboard. I'm one of those people.
Other than that, this is one heck of a great phone. Perhaps we should stop calling them phones, because that is now the least of what they do. Certainly, that is the case with the MyTouch 3G. It is almost a pocket PC.
The myTouch is a pretty solid phone but I had problems with the on-screen keyboard and apps crashes often. It's a shame that it doesn't have a sliding keyboard along with the on-screen keyboard. That would have prevented me from returning the phone. The frequent app crash isn't too big of a deal for me because it can be addressed with firmware updates. Damn you HTC/T-Mobile for not including a slide out keyboard.
Can the mytouch take an external bluetooth keyboard? Has anyone tried?