How-to- Root, Hack, and Flashing your G1/Dream Read first!!

[LucidREM]

Originally Posted by cybertmfer Hello everyone, i am researching root methods for my G1, but i have a question that i am hopping some of you can answer. this is a austria t-mobile g1 with build version CRB43. To root should i downgrade to the US or to the UK version or other? thank you

you might need a goldcard for that .. there have been a few discussions about the aussie versions

[webschooner]

I have a rooted G1, and have a question. I had Cyanogen build 4.0.4 on the phone, plus Nandroid backup. I just bought a droid, so the number is ported out and service is discontinued on the G1. I am cleaning up the G1 to get it ready to sell, so I did a factory reset, but because I no longer have service with the phone, I cannot go into About Phone to verify that I still have cyanogen 4.0.4

I believe if I understand this correctly, that I still have the same cyanogen build on the phone as before I did the wipe, but I cannot verify it. Am I correct that the same build will be on there as before the reset? And the Nandroid backup I had on there, that is in the phone memory, and not on the SD card, correct? And if so, then is the Nandroid backup system still there after the reset?

Thanks very much for any assistance.

[PsychoPomp]

Nandroid is on SD, and I think a factory reset just wipes non essential ROM info.

[oncidium]

Originally Posted by LucidREM does this help? download this to your sdcard .. then: # cp /sdcard/audio.conf.txt /system/etc/bluez/audio.conf

I have a rooted phone that quite working with my car bluetooth since the 1.5 update. I tried this but I got the response "cannot create '/system/etc/bluez/audio.conf': Read-only file system Help please?

[LucidREM]

Originally Posted by oncidium I have a rooted phone that quite working with my car bluetooth since the 1.5 update. I tried this but I got the response "cannot create '/system/etc/bluez/audio.conf': Read-only file system Help please?

you need to make the /system writable first

# mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

[oncidium]

Thanks...I guess I got it to work because I didn't get that error next time I tried. I was using a new terminal program and it looked different to me $ at the beginning instead of ##. Once I put the # in front it seemed to go through.

Still didn't get the bluetooth to work though

[LucidREM]

Originally Posted by oncidium Thanks...I guess I got it to work because I didn't get that error next time I tried. I was using a new terminal program and it looked different to me $ at the beginning instead of ##. Once I put the # in front it seemed to go through. Still didn't get the bluetooth to work though

not sure .. but the complete command lines:

$ su
# mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# cp /sdcard/audio.conf.txt /system/etc/bluez/audio.conf

would complete the intention of the changes in the audio.conf

[oncidium]

Originally Posted by LucidREM not sure .. but the complete command lines: $ su # mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system # cp /sdcard/audio.conf.txt /system/etc/bluez/audio.conf would complete the intention of the changes in the audio.conf

Thanks for that...I left out the su...my old terminal opened right into #

Anyway, I copied the audio.conf file onto the sd card again, and now trying to copy to the /system dir properlyI get the message "cp: cannot stat '/sdcard/audio.conf.txt' : No such file or directory" DOH...be sure to unmount from PC first before trying to copy! Testing BT again now.

[oncidium]

ok, copied correctly this time and still no BT.

[jhall2033]

I had a iPhone and loved it.... u guys helped me out a lot with it..U ROCK. But I wanted sonething different and got this G1 off of eBay. I am lost with this one. Do I have to get the data plan to root it? And if so, is there a way to get around that?

{Phone status}
Firmware version : 1.6
Baseband Version : 62.50S.20.17H_2.22.19.26I
Kernel Version : 2.6.29-00479-g3c7df37 android-build@apa26 #19
Build number : DRC83

Thanks for the help!