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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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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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Enjoying your new found root access to your T-Mobile G1, are you?  That’s great.  Soak it all in.  We’ll wait.
Ah, you’re back.  Well, thanks to the G1’s over the air (OTA) update model, that root access is going the way of the dinosaurs.  For now, at least.  RC30 is being developed and will be sent [...]

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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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