[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] ChiefzReloaded:
I have an engineering S-Off hboot I will give to you if u feel it will push forward in your progress.... I can not give u the patched retail hboot as it is not my work, nor property to distribute, that is IEF's call, but I do have an eng hboot and can share that with you so you can get what you have up and going. I am also willing to help you in anyway you need in YOUR personal effort to make this happen, and I can be reached by various methods, PM, gtalk, twitter etc.

Semi Rant:

I'm in a spot where I would really like to see this happen for the slide, this was my baby as most of you know, if you even know who I am, but I'm also not going to provide the actual property of someone else to push it forward. You guys can be upset with me BUT its the morally right thing to do in this situation. I'm not a thief and providing such work would be very close to, if not stealing. I respect peoples wishes and have to make a decision and this is it. I can tell you guys that after reading everyones interest in "testing" the method, and the statements like "just release it, we will follow directions and make it work" are perfectly normal when this type of tech situation arises, I have the same gut instinct, we're all nerds here, this is what we live for. Lol, its the thrill of the hack right? BUT, I in fact know what this procedure consists of and to be honest its so far fetched its not worth the trouble. You gain almost nothing we dont already have besides being able to fastboot flash MTD partitions. (You guys are probably hating me right now) I can tell you the method will never work in windows alone, it HAS to have a Linux command line. The commands, and hacky at best method, require timing of multiple ultra low level hboot commands, and multiple pieces of software never used or even seen before, in a split second window with no kind of validation of success leading to hours of trial and failure. Any of you familiar w/the original slide root that Eugene and I hacked up? That whole "getting adb in recovery with a loop script" BS? Thats easier than a 1 click .apk by comparison. The current method is not only EXTREMELY dangerous, but beyond anything you guys have ever seen in android hacking. And yes I personally can say that as I have been around since G1 release and have attempted EVERY single S-Off and root procedure ever documented minus a couple Euro only devices. Why am I even telling you this now? Well partially to take some heat off on nbetcher, but to also give you another person to be mad at for "holding back evolution". Well, not exactly that last part but I know thats the hole I'm digging myself. If you know me at all, and a lot of you do, you know I'm quick to give people what they want if asked to get the hacks going... I have battled moral issues before in releasing things and always let them go w/a disclaimer. This one isn't a case where I can do that. But for nbetchers sake, he cant either. He is getting the brunt of heat because he opened a can of worms by posting this thread, probably waaaay earlier than he should of. Now people feel he has an obligation to provide this since he has done it and knows how. This isn't his problem, not his work, and he pretty much has no right to fault on that. He opened the thread because we were excited that this progress had been made, I in fact was the one who begun the ball rolling, and recruited him to help me being he has vast linux programming background. (He's waaaay beyond my comfort zone w/linux lol) So blame me that we are here. We couldn't do it alone, I had Eugene and Wes Garner working on this as well and while Wes and I both made breakthroughs, nothing like IEF has managed. I found IEF's AlphaRev site and prayed that he would take on the challenge. I'm grateful that he did, but now we are here. We REALLY need another way to do this as this method is about as good as telling you all "go out and buy a JTAG setup, we can just do it that way". I'm sorry that this thread was even opened as I myself would be absolutely pissed to have known this was available or at least achievable and not been given the chance to attempt it myself. We all think we're more capable sometimes then we actually are. I'm not discrediting anyone's abilities either, just trying to let you know that nothing is going to make this come any faster and that it's not nbetchers fault. I'm very interested in what falken98 may have going and again and willing to push a new method forward so this can happen. If you have any further questions or just want to "attempt" to flame.... be my guest... I will check back to see what kind of hate I receive after writing this... lol j/k.... CR

PS... Now everybody drink the kool-aid and watch this and your commet will be here shortly....