I really can’t wait till more hacks come in, I’ll get an android phone when it:
A) Has been released in a flavor that works with ATT 3G service,
and
b) has been hacked wide open.
-Taylor

Posted at 5:32 pm on Nov 5th, 2008 by Taylor Alexander

Well, I’m not going to get one because I don’t have any money. I also just got my self a new phone a couple of months ago…

Posted at 6:26 pm on Nov 5th, 2008 by seantech

sweet hack.

Posted at 6:40 pm on Nov 5th, 2008 by Andrew Pollack

It seems so simple. One has to wonder if this is a deliberate hack by the google engineers to easily circumvent the restrictions required by the phone companies.

Posted at 6:49 pm on Nov 5th, 2008 by Kalleguld

awesome my sister just got the phone two days ago

-hero

Posted at 8:33 pm on Nov 5th, 2008 by hero

I want one.. Hopefully they’ll come down in price and be available on my carrier eventually

Posted at 9:44 pm on Nov 5th, 2008 by Tash

What “apparent user restrictions” are you talking about? This is not an iPhone

I have had my G1 for a week now, and the only downside so far is the scarcity of apps. But new ones come out everyday.

Posted at 9:57 pm on Nov 5th, 2008 by Wayne

Ummm… if you have the authority to install and run a terminal app and launch telnetd from it, you already have root.

Posted at 10:12 pm on Nov 5th, 2008 by jaded

^^Ditto

Posted at 10:38 pm on Nov 5th, 2008 by andy

From the description it sounds like the telnetd binary is suid root.

Posted at 11:15 pm on Nov 5th, 2008 by Michael Kirkland

now that was easy.

now imagine the joy of millions of people running with an always on internet connected phone with a suid root *telnet* … telnet for crying out loud, in their pocket !

Now that’s a device I’d keep all my data … :)

Posted at 1:38 am on Nov 6th, 2008 by icebox

No earphone socket…that’s not right :-(

Posted at 3:43 am on Nov 6th, 2008 by syale

that’s just like my nokia n770

Posted at 6:42 am on Nov 6th, 2008 by ninethcircle

The problem with living in nebraska is that we don’t have the cell providers around here where we can get iphones or g1’s or anything like that. i want a jailbroken g1.

Posted at 7:18 am on Nov 6th, 2008 by mike

I recieved my G1 on november 1st and it DID NOT come with the telnetd service. Sadly, this is something I wanted to run for development, not sure why its not there when everyone else is claiming they have it on their g1’s.

Posted at 10:48 am on Nov 6th, 2008 by bountyx

Wait … why can’t you just telnet to 127.0.0.1 and get root on the phone from the phone? does the g1 only have telnd and not the client?
No putty either?

Posted at 12:11 pm on Nov 6th, 2008 by Aaron

I guess a firewall will be needed for the phone.

Posted at 1:17 pm on Nov 6th, 2008 by ME

seriously, telnetd? Ssh people! Get with the times

Posted at 1:57 pm on Nov 6th, 2008 by rpcyan

@bountyx: Are you sure? You probably can’t get to it through the GUI.

@aaron: All you need for a telnet “client” is a socket.

Posted at 3:35 pm on Nov 6th, 2008 by Michael Kirkland

lol,telnet rulex!

Tmobile g1 is a great phone but it use too much internet for me(i don’t spend too much moneys on phone bills),also it don’t have tomtom,yes it have google map but it sux like all the others navs

Posted at 1:08 am on Nov 7th, 2008 by plokko

first of all the phone can roam, you cannot use it with at&t because that is a limitation that they impose. also you have been able to download and install terminal apps since before the device was even released. Thats nothing new. also the is no need to hack anything you can freely download the sdk and do anything you want with it.I know that is what I am doing.

Posted at 7:23 am on Nov 7th, 2008 by biqut2

I’m looking forward to hearing about the first cell-based botnet. That should be interesting.

Posted at 10:39 am on Nov 7th, 2008 by Orv

^^no shit…

well i’ve got my G1 and root. i’m holding off on updating for now. i think they’ve already created a hacked update though. that’s what i’m looking for now.

Posted at 2:03 pm on Nov 23rd, 2008 by haNk

ooooooh snap! i just installed the hacked firmware, and now i have root on my phone…

you don’t have to install a terminal app to start telnetd though. you can take advantage of the “random root shell” bug in RC29 and just type “telnetd” to start telnetd.

Posted at 11:46 pm on Nov 23rd, 2008 by haNk

how do i update my g1 manually if it doesn’t have a root for the MicroSD card

Posted at 9:44 pm on Jan 30th, 2009 by MR.Riles

no one has posted for a while but just to answer some new g1 users questions…. the newest g1s dont need to be hacked or rooted. you wont find anything yet that lets you “root” it. its already a beast ass phone with no limits… why need more?

Posted at 11:18 am on Oct 1st, 2009 by imwithdateline

is there a keylogger available for the g1? i have found alot but they are for windows os phone only

Posted at 2:06 pm on Oct 7th, 2009 by anonymous