The Mytouch 3G Slide is one of several phones recently that were found to be able to be rooted via a loop hack. Variants of this hack work on nearly every phone running Recovery 2E (Incredible, Slide, etc.). The basic idea is there is a brief moment where the update.zip can be pushed to the device, allowing Superuser.apk to be successfully installed, and granting root level access to the linux underbelly of Android. HTC solved this by releasing a new version of the Slide, which does not respond to this attack.

The easiest way to tell if you have the “wrong phone” is the keyboard. The 0 on this keyboard is different from those previously released. Additionally, microp-0620+touch panel-synt0104 has taken the spot where microp-0620+touch panel-synt0102 had once lived. Keep your eyes peeled at XDA-developers while they whip up some magic for fix this fix!