HTC Magic Vodafone In Stores Now

[jordib]

I don't think I can do without a real keyboard.



Now copy/paste your significant other's cell in sms recipient until you can't anymore and spam her. You'll send 22 txt on each send

lol she will kick my ass, shes an iphone user

[PitchDarkShadow]

even though u.s. dont get ours for some time... i just want to know will root/su
access be capable on the magic

[Andy1988]

alright! new android phone means new members to the community!

welcome to the AC!

Thank you!


I did some research on my own in the last few hours.
I tried to debug a bit, played with the SDK and saw that the adb tool has support to get a shell. So I plugged in my USB cable and started "adb shell" and voila: We have a shell.
The problem is, that the shell is executed as user "shell" as you can see here:

|andy@geekbook-2:~ 00:13:28
|-> adb shell
$ ps
USER     PID   PPID  VSIZE RSS   WCHAN    PC         NAME
root     1     0     280   164   c00ad64c 0000c74c S /init
[... some other stuff I removed for a clear view ...]
shell    2773  616   740   336   c004e318 afe0d08c S /system/bin/sh
shell    2774  2773  884   344   00000000 afe0c1bc R ps

The funny thing is, if I create a new directory on the SD-Card, it has the user and group "system". The only reason for this could be that it is actually a FAT filesystem which doesn't support users and groups. So it is the default that is set by the kernel when the SD-Card is mounted.


With the "shell" user I can read some stuff in /etc but not everything.

It seems to be pretty solid to me, for now.
Looks that we have to find some vulnerability in the kernel or a daemon.
There are also no daemons listening on the network interface which a portscan with nmap revealed.

Any ideas?

edit:
Here is the mount output for the sdcard:

/dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0711,dmask=0700,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8 0 0

It is mounted with the default gid and uid 1000. I think that these are the ids for the user and group "system".
It is also mounted as noexec. So we have no chance to execute code from it.

[Branwen]

Hi community. You seem to be somewhat more helpful than Vodafone staff atm.
I'm loving my new phone. Its my first smart phone, so the lack of hard keyboard is not something I miss, although it would be nice to have a t9 style input option.

I also think that the os is hella cool, and although I haven't found a really top-notch audio player, the sound quality is significantly better than my old Sony, even with the same headphones.

My only gripe is no paid apps, and that vodafone might be trying to do an aol. But that aside i'm loving it (ahem...)

[SubZero]

Hi all, got my vodafone HTC magic (UK) yesterday and been playing around. I like the tether ap but im not sure how to root. It can be done but are there differences in the UKMagic?

Im a bit of a linux noob but do know a little through yellowdog on the PS3.

[Crashdamage]

Branwen wrote:

...it would be nice to have a t9 style input option.

Better Keyboard offers t9 and a lot of other options. Even makes the keyboard skinnable. $3.00 U.S, skins are free. I haven't tried it myself as I don't use the VK much, but others who have really seem to like it.

...a really top-notch audio player...

So far I like OR Player best. $3.00 U.S. A free beta version is still in the Market, but not for much longer.

Sorry these are paid apps, especially since paid apps are not available to you yet, but you can try OR Player now and keep Better Keyboard in mind for later.

gbk1 wrote:

I don't think I can do without a real keyboard.

I know I can't. Gotta have a hard keyboard and trackball on any phone I own. Looks like I'll be keeping the G1 for quite a while.