Regain root access of your G1 with leaked RC29 firmware

[DesignDawg]

Originally Posted by mlevin

Once you do that, you can't get the OTA updates anymore, right?

If you have the "legit" developer phone, can you do OTA updates without losing root?

If you go the root route (sorry, couldn't resist) and you want to go back to "legit" updates (losing root), is that possible?

Welll.... If you go back to RC29, you'll have root, but it'll start bugging you about RC30 soon, which will take it right back away. What going back to RC 29 will allow you to do is get root and use it to go to MODIFIED RC30. Once you've done this, you won't receive OTAs anymore. You'll have to do them manually. You will either be able to put the OTA on there manually when it comes out, and lose root again, or wait until it gets modified, so you can preserve root and get the new features.

OR... You can put the engineering bootloader on there, and it won't really matter if you have root or not when it comes to updates, because you'll ALWAYS be able to get it back, no matter what, because you can flash anything you want, whether you have root or not.

Confusing?

[goodfellabk718]

Originally Posted by DesignDawg

Welll.... If you go back to RC29, you'll have root, but it'll start bugging you about RC30 soon, which will take it right back away. What going back to RC 29 will allow you to do is get root and use it to go to MODIFIED RC30. Once you've done this, you won't receive OTAs anymore. You'll have to do them manually. You will either be able to put the OTA on there manually when it comes out, and lose root again, or wait until it gets modified, so you can preserve root and get the new features.

OR... You can put the engineering bootloader on there, and it won't really matter if you have root or not when it comes to updates, because you'll ALWAYS be able to get it back, no matter what, because you can flash anything you want, whether you have root or not.

Confusing?

.....ponders....