1-Click Android rooting

posted Aug 17th 2009 3:45pm by Eliot Phillips
filed under: android hacks, cellphones hacks, g1 hacks

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In the last few days, rooting the T-Mobile G1 and myTouch 3G has become much easier. [Zinx] released FlashRec which lets you flash a new recovery image onto your Android phone. It takes advantage of Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2009-2692. The app lets you backup your current image and then flashes Cyanogen’s Recovery Image 1.4. Once that’s done, you can use any custom Android build you want. Android and Me has documented the entire process on their site and points out the ridiculously large number of custom ROMs that are out there. Embedded below is a video from [unknownkwita] showing the rooting process.

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tagged: android, android and me, cyanogen, flashrec, root, rooting, t-mobile, t-mobile g1, t-mobile mytouch 3G, unknownkwita, youtube, zinx

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Will it work with the Rogers HTC Dream firmware ?

Posted at 4:35 pm on Aug 17th, 2009 by Jean-Bernard Ratté

Its fun to be Australian.
Everyone else is missing out on a lot of immature lols.

Posted at 5:58 pm on Aug 17th, 2009 by AK

@ak
I’m Aussie but must not be immature enuf to “get” the LOLs you found. “Rooting” maybe? *shrug*
Either way, thanks for making me watch the vid to find out ;-)

Posted at 6:13 pm on Aug 17th, 2009 by Tim

Definitely the “rooting”. Same joke here in the states, just not as… idk, funny? But definitely the same feeling. Oh yeah, definitely the same feeling. (not really, but close)

Posted at 11:56 pm on Aug 17th, 2009 by Low Pro

Will it also work on the Samsung Galaxy? And is this really a full root??

Posted at 2:37 am on Aug 18th, 2009 by I7500

Will it also work on the Samsung Galaxy?

Posted at 2:37 am on Aug 18th, 2009 by I7500

Confirmed this works perfectly on my myTouch 3G. Can’t seem to find a Hero rom that works right though. Thanks for the post!

Posted at 7:57 am on Aug 18th, 2009 by biqut2

biqut2, do you happen to know what SPL version you started off with?

Posted at 8:49 pm on Aug 18th, 2009 by sam

Dont know how I could fail… but I get a looping 2nd boot screen :( guess I am rootless for now.

Posted at 11:43 pm on Aug 18th, 2009 by Milkboot

When are we going to see GSM Android phones unlocked for sale. Android is the biggest piece of vapor-ware in this respect. Even if there is an unlocked Android GSM phone in the wild I’ll bet they’re gouging you for $400-$600 USD each. Soooo disappointing with Android.

Posted at 2:17 am on Aug 19th, 2009 by Drone

@sam, dunno didn’t even check it, i ran the recovery flasher and then rebooted to install the rom of my choice. everything works great even the tethering works right out of the box

Posted at 9:28 pm on Aug 19th, 2009 by biqut2

Will the 1-click rooting work with German G1 running @ CRC37 ???

Posted at 6:16 am on Aug 24th, 2009 by schrotti

@ drone, you can buy the unlocked version from the Android Development project. It’s only 349 USD I believe, at least it was that much last I looked. I highly doubt the price went up.

Posted at 11:17 pm on Aug 26th, 2009 by NidStyles

Can some 1 explain to me what’s the point of rooting your phone is it just for speed does,my phone account with tmobile get effected in anyway thanks

Posted at 12:35 am on Oct 3rd, 2009 by WESTBOY

Great thanks!

Posted at 2:52 pm on Oct 16th, 2009 by 210 Backlinks

First You have to downgrade to RC29. None of the normal methods worked for me.

To even get Cyanogen working on my g1 I needed to Downgrade to RC29.
Installed an older recovery.img
Installed Hard SPL

Root using telnet

Then I had to upgrade BACK to a newer rom. So I used JF 1.51 Cupcake CRB45

Then and only then would I be able to update to Cyanogen’s Recovery and then continue installing the Cyanogen ROM.

Once it’s all done, CM updater takes care of all your needs.

Posted at 10:37 am on Nov 3rd, 2009 by Alan

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