---

well like most ppl i watched plenty of videos and read a lot of how to articles but i found a video on youtube of a guy explaining every step of the process... and i know a lot of ppl are still confused on how to do the rooting and getting cupcake... i am running off of the model number android dev phone 1.. firmware version 1.5.. and i can tether my phone to where it is a wireless router for my laptop... very cool... i am now just trying to find whatelse i can do besides new widgets and storing to sd card... i would like to run apps from the sd card... havent figured that part out yet... but anywho .. here are the links of the exact steps i followed to root my phone...

1st... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOo2V9qCauc

2nd.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua8lj...eature=related

3rd.. to make your g1 to a htc magic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23rG4...eature=related

or this one i am running.... android dev phone 1.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC-T1...eature=related

thank God for youtube lol...