How to regain root access on the T-Mobile G1
For those of you who enjoyed typing “reboot” to restart your G1 (and showed it to all of your friends), and found yourself unable to do so after receiving the RC30 update, the folks at XDA Developers have found a way to regain this functionality.
The relatively simple steps involve several reboots, reflashing the G1 to [...]
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Our Android smartphone accessory store is now open!
You may have noticed the new ads in the right hand column of the site that feature accessories that are compatible with the T-Moible G1. Well, those ads are coming from our new online accessory store.
So now that you have your very own G1 (or other Android powered phone in the future), get your fill [...]
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How to run Android on your HTC Touch
Over at the xda-developers forum, someone has managed to get Android ‘ported’ to the HTC Touch, (before you get confused, know that the Touch is commonly referred to by its codename of Vogue). Obviously, this device was never designed to run Android, yet it appears to do so with little to no fuss. Sure, not [...]
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Koolu offering $100 off the Openmoko Freerunner
Andrew Greig, CEO of Koolu, has just informed us that his company is offering the Openmoko Freerunner for $100 off of the regular $399 price tag for a limited time. The Freerunner is an open platform smartphone that can be used with a number of different operating systems, including a beta version port of the [...]
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T-Mobile G1 now available for £10 less per month in the UK
T-Mobile UK has dropped the minimum 18 month contract required to get a T-Mobile G1 for free from £40 to £30 per month.
The £30 “Combi” plan includes 700 minutes of talk time, unlimited texting, and free access to the internet. The older £40 Combi plan is still available, and offers 100 additional minutes of talk [...]
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T-Mobile G1 auto screen rotation app now available
Praise be to the gods of open source. It appears that some smart fella has put together an app for the T-Mobile G1 that handles automatic screen rotation based on the accelerometer instead of only rotating the screen when the keyboard is exposed.
Sweet.
That should make a lot of folks happy as they are web browsing [...]
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Hacked RC30 G1 firmware with telnetd and su root access surfaces
It didn’t take long for cooked G1 firmware images to start showing up on XDA-Developers. If you have not yet updated your phone to RC30 firmware, you can, in theory, install this modified firmware to get not only the RC19/RC29 telnetd root hack, but also an honest to goodness setuid su command for easy root [...]
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Want to load Debian on your G1? Find out how…
Thanks to the efforts of one appropriately named Jay Freeman, it is now possible to get a version of the Debian Linux distro running on your T-Mobile G1 along side of Android. You get the same Android phone functionality you’ve always had, but you can also install and run normal Linux compatible applications on the [...]
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T-Mobile G1 file system opened up, root access gained
The G1 has been jail-broken, meaning that users now can get full write (root) access to the G1’s file system. The hack involves the use of a simple terminal program (PTerminal), running a few commands and logging into your G1 from your home PC. This is much easier than it was for the developers who [...]
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Tired of waiting? Manually update your T-Mobile G1 firmware
Manually update your G1 firmware….at your own risk, that is.
It seems that the guys at the XDA Developers site have figured out how to download and install the latest firmware update from a microSD memory card.
You first need to download the firmware update file. It might take multiple attempts, sometimes the link doesn’t work.
Copy [...]
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