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No surprise here: lots of people are interested in the details of the root process. There’s four reasons why we aren’t releasing anything yet:

1. We’re still working on making the root ‘sticky’. The current root doesn’t persist beyond a reboot, meaning you need to root it every time you reboot the device.
2. We want to package up the rooter in an easy-to-install, one-click application so we’re not holding people’s hands through adb shell.
3. We don’t want to give HTC any details that they could use to fix the hole before the official release.
4. We want to make sure that when Froyo is released on this device, we can still get root on it.

UPDATE: We (ozzeh, joshua, shadowmite and I) just put the teaser site together for the EVO root. More info coming soon: http://unrevoked.com

I ended up with a Sprint HTC EVO 4G after Google I/O. It’s a pretty fantastic phone, even though it’s something of a kitchen sink. By a happy coincidence, I ended up reconnecting with some of my buddies from the old mobile hacking days who were looking to root it. With a few hours effort and a three person team (credit to ozzeh and Joshua Wise!), we managed to get the standard su tool installed.