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Default Photon 4G rootable yet?

Has anyone managed to root the Photon yet?
 
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No the phone is apparently locked down tight

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I know its too soon but I am not referring to the locked bootloader. Being able to root should work even though its a locked bootloader. Locke bootloader just means you can't load custom roms and make changes to the kernel.

So hopefully someone comes out with a method to root the phone. Even the Atrix was rootable but just couldn't load custom ROMs.
 
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Don't know if this will work yet but the Atrix method suggest that it can be done without unlocking the BL... see:

http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/index.php/Motorola_Atrix

and for live links to to the images and files (I think). I haven't tried them yet, don't know if they are the same or even right):
http://briefmobile.com/motorola-atrix-4g-root
 
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Seeing that the Atrix recently bad its bootloader unlocked, that might help the devs in finding a method for the Photon.

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