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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 [...]

Not much to report here yet, but one of the crack talents at the XDA-Developers.com website has managed to get a somewhat working version of Android running on his HTC Touch Diamond.
The Touch Diamond is perhaps a slightly more interesting target for an Android OS port than the Touch/Vogue simply because it has a VGA [...]

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 [...]

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.

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