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[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Hey Guys,

NEWS:

Money has been turned over to scotty. He will move it around to a few other people that deserve some.

Mods. Please lock this thread. and do not donate anymore to my link.

If you feel i should get something out of this for setting this up and doing all the work to keep it organized you may donate to the link on my signature.

Thanks all! we did it!

NOTE: Vote this page to go to the front page. I think it deserves it. Lets Get some press on XDA!

10/9/2010 -

PERM ROOT

PERM S-FF

DONE

Bounty: Not Collected. Will talk later to scotty.

If you want to make more donations before i hand it over. Send it. before 3pm.

If you want to send me some for making this possible please use my paypal link.

Thanks all!

You can send the money to me here (G2 Root Fund):

http://tinyurl.com/38z5f35

My Link is https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2GNX7EGPEPXYW

Pledges In My Account:

Rhcp0112345 - $20 (In my account)

jonnybueno - $20 (In my account)

xdviper - $1 (In my account)

slim00 - $20 (In My Account)

janus zeal - $25 (In My Account)

dantheman_ - $20 (In My Account)

gurk04 - $50 ( In My Account)

Franky1029 - $10 (In My Account)

mnasledov - $60 (In My Account)

mpmilestogo - $225 (In My Account)

schreinereiner - $20 (In My Account)

sheepdawg - $20 (In My Account)

Sidd - $20 (In My Account)

richardsb - $20 (In My account)

Corylulu - $40 (In My Account)

Adam - $20 (In My Account)

Bret - $20.00 (In My Account)

Nicola - $5 (In My Account)

Kgold708 - $34.00 (In My Account)

Strategical Networks - $25.00 (In My Account)

smrast - $10 (In My Account)

Crazedfan88 - $20 (In My Account)

DanP- $20 (In My Account)

phateless - $20 (In My Account)

GilbertP23 - $20 (In My Account)

wilnotdie - $40 (In My Account)

halfak - $50 (In My Account)

will.lu - $10 (In My Account)

joebobjoe - $10 (In My Account)

mwburden - $20 (In My Account)

emroserie - $25 (In My Account)

ericc191 - $20 (In My Account)

rob.ladd - $20 (In My Account)

cparekh - $20 (In My Account)

starkruzr - $20 (In My Account)

lafa - $20 (In My account)

luis - $20 (In My Account)

Bagel King - $20 (In My Account)

nashyrocks - $20 (In My Account)

Paul - $20 (In My Account)

Kevin - $40 (In My Account)

zloboman - $25 (In my account)

Mark - $20 (In My Account)

Andrew - $10 (In My Account)

kidd657 - $10 ( In My Account)

SentientPC - $10 (In My Account)

Leonardo - $20 (In My Account)

littlewave - $5 (In My Account)

Circledog - $10 (In My Account)

Total: $1260!!!!!!!!!

Verbal Pledges Still waiting on the donation fund:

sundar2012 - $50 (Verbal)

Jamalia - $20 (Verbal)

WilliamStern - $20 (Verbal)

adp21 - $20 (Verbal)

Total Unclaimed Funds: $120
[G2 and Desire Z General] papeshfoo:
Wasn't there already one of these?
[G2 and Desire Z General] skyjumper:
How do you divide it up among the contributors?
[G2 and Desire Z General] mcp2009:
I believe there were actually already 2 threads for this and they got closed

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
We divide it equally among the people. Or send direct to the team. Quite simple.

And yes there have been threads. But this is real.
[G2 and Desire Z General] o>c:
yeah there are threads before

but few did make their commitment

I think the devs should make a donate version of the root app once it comes out
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Put up your pledges and you are bound to it.

Let's show the devs we appricate their work.
[G2 and Desire Z General] jonnybueno:
I will pledge a minimum of 20$ for full nand unlocked permanant root.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
OP updated. Come on people. Lets give back to the community for this.
[G2 and Desire Z General] gilbertp23:
Put me down for $20. Definitely think however figures this out deserves a little something.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
OP updated.

Let's go people. Let's get this up to 200-300 USD. It's well worth it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] AndroidNoober:
Im new n here, where I can donate?
[G2 and Desire Z General] kgold708:
I'm in for $20, pm me and I'll send $20 by mail. Paypal has an old card # of mine and its a huge PITA to update it so I've been avoiding it for the last year or so. Only used it for ebay and that's also PITA. BUT $20 In an envelope, no problem.

I have to say get the dough up front. This pledge stuff isn't going to work out, you'll be lucky to get 50-60% of what's promised. I won't be involved in something where a dev gets stiffed for their hard work. IDK Maybe talk to a mod or something, just trying to help.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Well.

You can say here how much you will pledge for the bounty and be bound to send it if the bounty is done.

Or you may send it to me for safe keeping.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Not a problem. You can even western union it to me when the bounty is done. Will update the op in a few
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
OP updated. we are now up to $80. I'd like to see this get up to $200 or so. To help the devs. Im sure a few bricked a phone.

if you want me to hold on-to the money. You can paypal me it as a personal->Living expense to my signature. If no bounty is claimed I will refund all parties.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mpmilestogo:
100.00 full and permanent root. that's my pledge. When I see that root is given by applying some kind of package or logic or software or whatever, I'll provide paypal 100.00 US to be split up. This is valuable to me. I don't even have a G2 yet but I want to void that warranty in many evil ways :-)
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Very generous.

I will post it to op now.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mnasledov:
re: bounty

Put me down for $60 USD
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
We now have press.

http://www.absolutelyandroid.com/reward-if-found-g2-full-root-nand-unlock/
[G2 and Desire Z General] ericc191:
Congrats to everyone involved with finding root, including all the people who donated. This is why XDA is THE place to be!
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Money has been turned over to scotty. He will move it around to a few other people that deserve some.

Mods. Please lock this thread. and do not donate anymore to my link.

If you feel i should get something out of this for setting this up and doing all the work to keep it organized you may donate to the link on my signature.

Thanks all! we did it!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Captainkrtek:
Thread locked as per OP's request,

Congrats guys! and have fun with your rooted phone! :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] gurk04:
I'm in for 50!

Please PM me.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wilnotdie:
I said 20 in the other thread, but ill up it to atleast $40. Perhaps more depending on how long it takes.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ericc191:
I no longer own the phone, but would love to see it get rooted!

$20 pledged.
[G2 and Desire Z General] WilliamStern:
Count me in for $20.00! I know we can get this done.
[G2 and Desire Z General] deliberate187:
Find the locked blocks in the bootloader and the fun can begin...

In order to unlock the phone, we have to figure out what the protected sectors are first and all related flags. If an Android app could be made to have direct read access to the eMMC filesystems (including write protect flags) and save a log to the SD card detailing these items, this would be ideal.

Then all that would remain is a program to undo the write protection (and re-do it if necessary to unvoid warranty)

If anyone is willing to create these programs, I would be more than happy to test them out on my own G2.

However, I think the keys to the mystery may lie in the recovery image, and/or in the bootloader itself. Has anyone disassembled these yet?
[G2 and Desire Z General] franky1029:
I think you shoulda posted this in the development section, in one of the Rooting think tanks. I doubt devs are gonna look into this thread a whole lot, save for seeing what the pot has grown to, which is being managed on the OP.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dantheman_:
Count me in. $20.00

--Dan
[G2 and Desire Z General] xdviper:
Hit me up for $1. Its not much but I have $1 left sitting in my paypal from years ago from selling on ebay. It'll add up. Pm me with your email so I can send it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
We are up to $381. This is almost a free G2 for the one who gets the bounty. Lets keep it going. All you guys who want it done. Get your $20 or more ready!

Lets all give back for this
[G2 and Desire Z General] kidd657:
Put me down for $10
[G2 and Desire Z General] adp21:
$20 fine from my end. Let me know when and where to send
[G2 and Desire Z General] sundar2012:
$50 over here
[G2 and Desire Z General] itsmikeramsay:
Yeah dude post this into the dev forums. If someone can get it going whether it be a windows/mac application or a Android app, that would be an amazing idea. Even more convenient for those who don't know Linux like that
[G2 and Desire Z General] kgold708:
Hey PM me some info to send you the money non-paypal.
[G2 and Desire Z General] starkruzr:
I pledge $20.

When I get paid on the first, I'll PayPal the sum to seal the deal.

If it turns out to be a #teamdouche member who figures it out, I have no problem giving them my money any more than an independent dev. They've already done so much for us and I'll always be grateful.
[G2 and Desire Z General] slim00:
No G2 yet, but one coming my way soon. I will pledge atleast $20. Im pretty sure in my excitement, I will give a lot more.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Jamalia:
Just ordered my G2. I think the temporary root will suffice for now, especially since it lets me disable bloatware permanently, but I'd love to have a full and proper root. Count me in for $20.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tmoreno2425:
What is the email address to send the funds to in paypal? I got 10 on it right now with more to come later.
[G2 and Desire Z General] janus zeal:
I can do at least $20. I'd love to see some CM coming this way.
[G2 and Desire Z General] xdviper:
Sent! You probably already got the email.

I can't wait to see the final amount we collect.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Got it.

I posted the G2 Root Fund Donation Link. on the OP and updated the totals. Feel free to send it to that fund. If nothing comes of us. I will refund you all.
[G2 and Desire Z General] slim00:
Sent!!!!!!!!!!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] jonnybueno:
K, sent my pledge in... if it can happen sooner rather than later i can donate more.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
OP updated. as you can see. People who send in the donation. Will get marked as in my account. and the rest will be verbal. If we get more people to send (Real money) People will take this more serious.

Thats my thoughts.
[G2 and Desire Z General] franky1029:
You should also post the total thats actually deposited in the fund.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Good idea. Done and updated in OP.
[G2 and Desire Z General] franky1029:
Just sent $10
[G2 and Desire Z General] janus zeal:
Seán, your donation is now complete

Confirmation number: 4****************P.

An email with your donation details has been sent to sean@strawberrycupcak.es and you

can print your donation receipt.

Donations Coordinator Contact Information

****@gmail.com
[G2 and Desire Z General] dantheman_:
Sent my $20 in.

--Dan
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Good job guys.

Let's get the money into the fund so this looks real. And people dont think oh its 500 USD but we wont get 1/3 of it.

Few are making fun of it. Saying they wont get anything. Let's prove them wrong.

All those who sent. I marked on the OP. Except for one person. Which i have emailed to find out who it is.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ericc191:
I'll send my part in on the 28th when I get paid.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Jamalia:
I'm waiting on some funds to transfer, will send my pledge along soon.

It might be helpful if we can define under what circumstances the bounty will be canceled and the funds returned to those who contributed. Will the funds sit unclaimed for months, or is there going to be a reasonable time limit put in place? Hopefully a root will be forthcoming so all this will be a non-issue, but you never know.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Good point as well.

But, How long to give them? Normally a bounty doesn't have a time limit.

But, What do you all think?
[G2 and Desire Z General] jonnybueno:
I think February is reasonable time frame to return the bounty. That's about 90 days
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Does everyone agree? If so, Ill put it in the rules.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mpmilestogo:
Made my donation real. My fingers slipped and accidentally typed in 125.00. Sorry about that :-)
[G2 and Desire Z General] mpmilestogo:
Just to keep things interesting and lively. If the dudes working on the G2 permanent root solve it by end of January before the money is returned, I will double the paypal donation and make it 250.00 total that I donate. I've been around the Linux and open source scene for a pretty long time. Donated to a number of the NexusOne guys that do great ROMs. This is worthy!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Zillator:
Guys, if I may, I will ask before sending my donation: if the perma-root effort succeeds on G2, will it also be available for us, European Desire Z users (I guess so, since the phones are almost identical)?

I tried reading the OP's first post, however there is no information regarding this, so I thought I'd better ask... :o
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
OP updated with new amount. and pledges in my account.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Jamalia:
I think the end of February is a fair target. That's more than four months away. If something hasn't happened by then, it's probably safe to consider the bounty a failure. Just my two cents.
[G2 and Desire Z General] xdviper:
I don't mind waiting until the end of Jan. The earlier the merrier.

By looking at the funds that have been sent, and judging by how much we collected in over a couple days, we'll have a good prize for the dev that hopefully finds a way.
[G2 and Desire Z General] starkruzr:
I think Feb sounds reasonable.

SO glad this is actually going forward!
[G2 and Desire Z General] sheepdawg:
I'm in for $20. Just sent to the paypal donation link.

Thanks for hosting this. Crossing my fingers.

Sheep
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Not a problem. OP updated with your donation.
[G2 and Desire Z General] starkruzr:
Any chance we can sticky this?
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Yes, Mods can you please sticky this thread? I've went through alot of work to get press on this. and get people into this.

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
I will be donating $40 once I can transfer the money to my PayPal. For some reason it went to restricted access D:

*BTW: if the OP runs with the money, there will be a new bounty on him :D jkjk*
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ryanmo5:
Thread stuck guys, good luck!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Radioactive Death:
Sent!!!

Let's go devs!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Okay, restriction is off my account

$40 has been sent.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Trust me. I wish I could. I could use the money to pay for all my wedding fees and immigration fees for my wife. HAHAHA
[G2 and Desire Z General] santimaster2000:
I'd like to think that you know, that HTC or/and T-Mobile will add a few zeros to your offer, for anyone that can find a vulnerability like the one you're looking to gain root access.

And, if it hasn't been the case, I'm pretty sure that now are plenty more of chances that could be than before I wrote this.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Hhahaha I agree. this is almost a free pen-test for them :)

COME ON TMO/HTC PUT IN SOME CASH FOR THE DEVS TO KILL YOUR PHONES!!!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
I am curious tho, is there any timeframe for this? If it never gets rooted will there be a mass refund after a certain period of time?
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Personally, I say give it 2 months.

CY / G2-root / unrevoked / HTC / TMO will drop the exploit just to get the cash :P
[G2 and Desire Z General] Rook12V:
I just added $25 to my paypal acct simply so that I can donate it to this cause, as soon as its available I'll send it over.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ykorabelnikov:
I just found this forum and registered to pledge $20 if G2 gets hacked!
[G2 and Desire Z General] chopperpl:
You got my $20...
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Bump for more donations. :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Send it over for safe keeping. and so i can add it to the funds we have. Devs dont like to see 'IF'. It's demotivating.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Based on some tweets the devs are putting out. They don't like the fact that we are calling it a bounty.

TheAndroidDude tweets: "RT @Eugene_373 . @wesgarner @scottkellum @cyanogen @noobnl_epic when will people reaslize we do this for fun & not for a Bounty"
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
It's a way of saying thank you. and giving some money to these people. They wanna do it for fun. Let them. But, here is some cash for them. I dont see how they would tweet that. if i could do it. have fun and make money while doing it?

Sounds awesome to me. My dream job.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Radioactive Death:
Guess you could call it the "Consumable replenishment fund".

It'll pay for booze, cigs, coffee, etc.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Phateless:
Just call it a community support fundraiser or something.

EDIT - maybe every time you edit the original post you can add the current bounty to the title? Might help it gain even more traction.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Jamalia:
Exactly. Consider it just compensation for a job well done. If the dev or devs who win it don't need or want the money, I'll bet there's a charitable cause they feel strongly about that would appreciate the donation.
[G2 and Desire Z General] havikx:
ya know...they arent doing it for a bounty....

but dont get it twisted. every single one of these guys have a donate button in their sigs.

they should think of this as multiple donation button clicks with multiple donations. before their work is done.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kgold708:
Pledged 20 sent 24 that $1 was driving me nuts(OCD), no offense meant, every dollar counts.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Lol yea $1 was funny hehehe ;) but hey whatever you can afford to buy the devs some beers and get them drunk for a week. All good
[G2 and Desire Z General] jonnybueno:
I dont quite understand why it matters what we call this... bounty, charity fundraiser or whatever...

The way i see it is that if one of the devs working at rooting the phone wins the pot, theyre free todo whatever they want with the funds. They can donate the pot to charity or buy beer or drugs or whatever makes them happy... if they dont want the pot at all, i dont see why it shouldnt go to a good cause.

I just dont see how collecting a bounty would take away from any of the fun they have hacking...

if anything, maybe someone truly brilliant that needs the cash, that may not care otherwise, will take interest and that alone is worth the price of admission.

Just my .02
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Personally I would retract my money if it was going to buying drugs. :P but thats just me.
[G2 and Desire Z General] jonnybueno:
Well the point is that the money is theirs to do what they want and that we're not trying to put them on the payroll or anything.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Radioactive Death:
I agree. Hell I know I wouldn't want someone buying a few rocks with it, but it's their money. Donate it, smoke it, wipe their butt with it, doesn't matter to me as long as we have a perm root.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
I agree as well.

It's just a way of saying thank you. Who cares what it's called.

Its just for them to go smoke a blunt, get drunk do whatever they want. As a thank you from all of us.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
OP updated the new funds.

Thanks All!
[G2 and Desire Z General] kgold708:
Hey OP I sent you a message, l'll pledge some more in a couple weeks if it hasn't been claimed
[G2 and Desire Z General] Kubernetes:
I wonder if some HTC engineer is going to read this and say "Oh, you just push these three buttons. Where's my money?"
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
That's exactly what i am hoping for.

It's a matter of time :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] kgold708:
IMHO as long as they meet the requirments of the OP the $ is theirs. I doubt this will happen though, unless we keep this thing going for >6 mo. And the donation rises to obscene levels. In any case i'd look for something from the NAND OEM leaked to a dev hopefully. I'll bet the NAND Maker delivers this as some sort of package "security solution" whereby the chips arrive preprogramed or they have some secure device placed in the production line. Locks don't work so good if every one purchased comes with a set of lockpicks. I'll keep sending $ till the G2 is obsolete, G3?
[G2 and Desire Z General] wheeliest:
It will prolly come down to removing the 4gig chip and putting a dif one on it..
[G2 and Desire Z General] wheeliest:
thanks.....
[G2 and Desire Z General] crazedfan88:
Noob Friendly???

Here;s my thing: I would be very happy to donate, but here is my hesitation:

When the root finally does come out, sometimes it is put in some real "techy" terms, and I being somewhat noobish, will end up bricking my phone.

So when it comes out, will there be someone to explain it for us "newer" people, and we don't brick???

With that said, lemme know, and Ill donate today.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Radioactive Death:
I'd be happy to do a "noob friendly" write up.
[G2 and Desire Z General] crazedfan88:
Sweet, thank you for that. Just donated. Added my handle here in the special instructions at pay pal.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
OP updated with new donations.

Thanks guys.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sundar2012:
will drop funds in this wkend.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Phateless:
In for $20 and I don't even own the phone, but I'll probably pick up the MTHD, which I would expect to have the same nand-lock.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
OP updated with new funds. and removed a few from the VERBAL area. Since you guys paid. only a few outstanding.

Plus, Come on guys. Lets make this big. I think this is biggest 'whatever you want to call it' to get root and NAND ever? Anyone seen bigger?
[G2 and Desire Z General] halfak:
I just donated my rebate. If someone gets us permaroot, I'm going to get way more than $50 worth of fun out of tinkering. Keep up the good work guys.
[G2 and Desire Z General] seanbrewer2003:
In for 20

I want full root, I will pay 20 for it, 30 if it comes with an unroot
[G2 and Desire Z General] Acid_Wir3:
Santimaster know your place.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kongocui:
Put up your pledges and you're bound to it.

Let's present the devs we appricate their plan.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2 utilizing XDA App
[G2 and Desire Z General] Willie133:
I guess I'll put up $10 for this... poor college kid fund ftl but better than nothing right?
[G2 and Desire Z General] dyndragon:
bounty terms are a bit loose...

Shouldn't it say something about it being able to be performed on production, retail models?
[G2 and Desire Z General] mwburden:
Here, here!

I really do *NOT* want to end up trying to solder a new chip into the phone to get permanent root!

Once the G2 / Desire Z has been in production long enough, I would think that a firmware/OS update would have to happen eventually. There must be some "back door" that will allow "approved" updates.

And now that I've posted in this thread, I guess I'd better pony up my $20. Don't have a G2 / Desire Z yet, but I probably won't get one if this doesn't happen.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Phateless:
Doesn't the original post specifically say something about being noob friendly?

Btw, total pot is up to $920. We're almost at a grand!

EDIT - See rules here.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mwburden:
It also now says "No hardware mods." Not sure if I missed that before, or if it was added recently.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Phateless:
I *thought* it was, but really don't remember.
[G2 and Desire Z General] joebobjoe:
I'll give $10.