Regain root access of your G1 with leaked RC29 firmware

[Reeg]

What exactly can I do with root access? I'm still trying to figure this out.

[Queue29]

Originally Posted by Reeg

What exactly can I do with root access? I'm still trying to figure this out.

Originally Posted by VValdo
Some things you can do with root:

• Delete or replace official Google applications you don't want (e.g., lose Amazon stuff, update browser, use K9 instead of Mail, etc.)
• Customize UI by adding behavior (auto-rotate to the browser, for example) or radical new themes (already in development) to enhance the look and feel of your phone
• Tweak Android settings to let you do things you would otherwise not be able to do (such as get high-quality YouTube... or do SIP/iax2 VOIP... over your g3 connection)
• Access parts of the phone (dialer, microphone, gtalk service, etc.) in ways that are either restricted or there is no API for yet to enhance phone's functionality.
• Add full support for apps inside Android written in other languages besides Android's Java-like VM (ie, Flash, Mono, Python, C, etc.)
• Install non-official variants of Android such as the new Cupcake release
• Support non-official capabilities of the G1 (multi-touch? Voice distorter? etc.)
• Add more unix tools (such as full busybox prompt), windowing systems (such as X11) or unix programs programs, potentially adding tens of thousands of new applications.
• Replace OS entirely with Debian or something else.
• Overclock (?) or otherwise alter default behavior at CPU level
• Add enhanced "full" backup & recovery of the entire phone

etc. etc.

W

If you don't know what root is, or what you can do with it, you don't need it.

[danguyf]

Here's a thread on moving the caches to the sdcard:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...g-cache-10201/

[constellanation]

thanks dan and waldo! loads o info in those two posts

[android_futurist]

I think many are missing the point. Root access gives developers more options in creating apps. Thus if you have root access, you can install powerful apps that you wouldn't be able to otherwise. But unless you know how to write the code yourself, you gotta wait for someone else to actually develop the new apps.

[savant]

Does anyone with root access have the T-Mobile MyFaves app they can upload somewhere? I have a dev G1 (an actual one) with T-Mobile and it would be nice to have this app.

[foxdie]

I've mirrored these 2 files just incase people can't get them from megaupload;

RC29 (for US): http://trackmygps.co.uk/files/US-RC29.zip
RC7 (for UK): http://trackmygps.co.uk/files/UK-RC7.zip

[XDViPeR]

Originally Posted by foxdie

I've mirrored these 2 files just incase people can't get them from megaupload;

RC29 (for US): http://trackmygps.co.uk/files/US-RC29.zip
RC7 (for UK): http://trackmygps.co.uk/files/UK-RC7.zip

Thank you, the link I got from XDA is slow as hell! Thanks

[juice]

Originally Posted by VValdo

Some things you can do with root:

• Delete or replace official Google applications you don't want (e.g., lose Amazon stuff, update browser, use K9 instead of Mail, etc.)
• Customize UI by adding behavior (auto-rotate to the browser, for example) or radical new themes (already in development) to enhance the look and feel of your phone
• Tweak Android settings to let you do things you would otherwise not be able to do (such as get high-quality YouTube... or do SIP/iax2 VOIP... over your g3 connection)
• Access parts of the phone (dialer, microphone, gtalk service, etc.) in ways that are either restricted or there is no API for yet to enhance phone's functionality.
• Add full support for apps inside Android written in other languages besides Android's Java-like VM (ie, Flash, Mono, Python, C, etc.)
• Install non-official variants of Android such as the new Cupcake release
• Support non-official capabilities of the G1 (multi-touch? Voice distorter? etc.)
• Add more unix tools (such as full busybox prompt), windowing systems (such as X11) or unix programs programs, potentially adding tens of thousands of new applications.
• Replace OS entirely with Debian or something else.
• Overclock (?) or otherwise alter default behavior at CPU level
• Add enhanced "full" backup & recovery of the entire phone

etc. etc.

W

You forgot - 'brick' your G1.

[XDViPeR]

Wow, I've done it, RIght now I'm installing RC30 as we speak. Freedom is a good thing!


ok ok, now i've got root, what do i do with it?

Juice, BRICK your G1?..... Nahhhh I'm a wreckless person.... and my phone just rebooted, installed RC30 using test keys and I'm good.