Proof for anyone who still thinks the G2 has a "restore" mechanism, and a middle finger to T-Mobile for lying and actually going along with this story. It's really the same thing as the "NAND lock" on other recent phones, with a bug. It sucks, but it's nothing crazy like many websites would have you believe.

Right now, I'm (temp) rooted.

# cd /system

# ls

fonts

usr

lib

framework

media

tts

build.prop

bin

etc

xbin

app

# mkdir lol

# cd lol

# echo "HI!" > sup.txt

# cat sup.txt

HI!

OK, we have a file on /system/lol/sup.txt. Now lets flush Linux's caches.

# echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

# ls

ash: ls: not found

OH NOES, Busybox is gone! There's no built in ls command, but we can do this:

# echo *

*