Originally Posted by galtoid

Start a new topic for that stuff if you please...

I went for broke and I bricked mine. (bricked="G1 screen for 1/2 a sec then HTC bootloader, no path to the menu'd exclamation recovery mode") Here's what I did/learned:

Busybox works great
remounted /system rw
copied bbox to /system/bin and symlinked cp, passwd, chown, nc, login, adduser add group, yada
used bbox and a little pasting to add passwd, group and shadow into etc
busybox telnetd worked against the created passwd,shadow and group files and used bb's login
added busybox telnetd to /system/init.rc (init.rc got overwritten on next boot, pre-brick)
edited /system/build.props and added ro-secure = 0 (this probably did it)

The ro.secure property is what adbd checks when deciding to setuid 2000, I think certain files are checksummed for boot as well as for updating.

if you are still stuck (system not booting, recovery not booting), PM me, I have some things to test for the SPL (the tricolour screen)

heh well, i tried to go into console mode... init runlevel 3 and uh..

well, dont do that..

Well, pulling the battery and putting is back in fixed that issue.

try doing something like this

cat > /system/etc/passwd << eof
root2:test:0:0:root2:/:/bin/sh
eof

i tried it but im at work so i cant remotely connect in yet

kill -9 -1 seems to reboot your machine, but its much faster than turning off/on or typing reboot. it also kills all running processes for when ur low on ram

Originally Posted by funbacon

Can I access to system/fonts and remove old font file by using this way ?

I want to replace old font file with new one. I created a new font file with more character for more language

And I have more question : Can I access read write to G1 device without wifi connection ? I don't have wifi router. I'm saving money to get one

I need the answer !!!!

How many times are you going to ask? Yes you can but you have to mount it as read write first

And as far as we can tell... no you need an outside connection to telnet in.

Originally Posted by neoobs

How many times are you going to ask? Yes you can but you have to mount it as read write first

And as far as we can tell... no you need an outside connection to telnet in.

I wrote a simple telnet program for Android to give me root access to the running telnetd process (connect to localhost). It's up on the app store.

Now that we have root access, is there a way to sim unlock the phone without an unlock code from TMo? I live far away and want to order a phone on ebay where the prices are better for the locked versions.

Originally Posted by JesusFreke

Yep. You better get root while you can, and then protect your phone from OTA updates . It almost makes me want to go buy a couple and jailbreak them, then wait for the patch and sell them for a premium. lol.

Does anyone have a good idea about how to actually protect the phone from a google update? It would be really disappointing to get my phone in 3 days, only to have google patch it shortly after, blocking me from all the fun!

On the same note, I wouldn't want to block OTA updates, since they are surely going to be necessary/useful changes to the phone. So, anyone have a plan to keep proper root access despite Google's efforts?

Originally Posted by kudy

Does anyone have a good idea about how to actually protect the phone from a google update? It would be really disappointing to get my phone in 3 days, only to have google patch it shortly after, blocking me from all the fun!

On the same note, I wouldn't want to block OTA updates, since they are surely going to be necessary/useful changes to the phone. So, anyone have a plan to keep proper root access despite Google's efforts?

See this thread

The idea is to make it so that you can apply modified updates that you sign yourself, while not allowing "official" updates to be installed. You can download the official update, and modify it so that it doesn't take away your root access, and then sign it with your own key and update the phone. Or wait for someone here on the forum or elsewhere to post a modified update

How do these updates work? I know almost nothing about linux so bear with me. Does it patch certain files, or flash an updated version of the OS? I am curious, because I am looking for a way to port WM to this device.

It depends on the update. It can do either or... for instance RC29 flashes a new rom, while RC30 just patchs files.