T-Mobile's G2 has microchip that makes rooting efforts "vanish"

It looks like the hardware developers are at it again in trying to keep the rooting community from modifying their Android devices. Reports are showing that T-Mobile's G2 handset includes a microchip that "prevents device owners from making permanent changes that allow custom modifications to the the Android operating system."



A report from New America states that the microchip includes a hardware rootkit that sniffs out third party ROMs and overrides them; reinstalling the original firmware over the custom ROM you worked so hard to install. G2 tinkerers are state that their roots "vanish" after a reboot, and are not happy about it. Considering the fact that there's a 40 page thread over at xda developers on the issue, I fully expect a workaround to be found anytime now.