Root Access on the TMobile G1 and why it works

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I wrote up instructions on my blog, and someone responded explaining why it works.

To translate: anything the user types on the keyboard is actually being fed into a console shell and potentially executed. So the easiest way to get root on your phone is to simply reboot it, and when it finishes rebooting, type "telnetd" and press enter. Your phone will start doing a contact lookup in your UI, but at the same time it is typing into a root shell.

This is basically a huge oops on Google's part! Looks like some debug related settings that they never took out.

So really, pTerminal was not necessary in this hack, but it it accidentally exposed it!

Edit: should have read the other post about this! Kudos to Jim!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442857

Like the...

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Yup, telnetd in essence was the carrot on the stick that led me on.... Further cementing the fact that someone was bound to find this one way or another... Much sooner rather than later.

Obviously this will need to be fixed, I only hope the platform can some how remain open (and be taken even further) even after said fix.

Wow, I will not be taking any updates until I have everything worked out just the way I want it....

forced updating rc30

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you may not have a choice short of turning your g1 of and leaving it that way, it has been rumored that this update has a date at which it turn mandatory.


bhang