Android Jailbreak, first steps forward !!- get root access to your G1

[Webby]

Wow, this seriously makes me want the G1 phone.

[MrGibbage]

Oh yeah, very good. Now that there is a telnet client for the phone in the market, you don't even need to telnet into the phone from the outside--you can do it all right there on the phone.

Also, I believe that "netstat" should start with a lower case "n".

[Stericson]

Yep your right it should start with lowercase, my mistake....

[MrGibbage]

I know G wants to close this back up and all, to "protect us", but gosh, I wish they would fix it so it can be done with the right permissions. Make us set up root accounts with passwords and then those of us with knowledge can have fun, and the phone is safe from all the kiddies that want to write bad programs for our phones. This is AWESOME! Iphone folks will be so jealous.

[Stericson]

I agree, although I am sure if google doesn't do what you just stated, some other guru will compile his own version of android that will let us do that. I hope though that G doesn't close this up....I will have to start thinking about what updates I will accept and which ones I wont.

[sewsweet]

so now that we've established root, can you tell me how to save all my apps to the sdcard?

[Stericson]

Ah, downloaded apps are stored in data/app

Edit

For some reason though pacman is stored by itself in data/app-private

[l0ltn]

Woot!, cant wait to move my apps over

[orange]

this is really cool, only if I knew how to do all these stuff everybody talking about like it's a piece of cake.

[cohoman]

If you run the Android Emulator on your PC and then open a DOS window and type in "adb shell", you can connect to the Emulator and have an active Linux shell. I did this, and found the installed apps in this folder:

/data/app

There is also a directory called "/sdcard" off the root folder which is probably the sdcard.

If I try the Linux command:

mv /data/app /sdcard/

I get the error message:

failed on '/data/app' - Cross-device link

Also, the "data" folder and "sdcard" folders are owned by "system", not "root". I tried to create a subdirectory in the "sdcard" directory, but I it said it was "read only".

For what's worth...

cohoman

Exactly what I'm thinking! Here are the commands:

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...nt-panic-2895/


I haven't looked at the file structure closely, yet, so beware you might have to make small adjustments to what rogers has written.

I'm too busy/chicken to try this today. Anyone want to give this a try. (I don't recommend unless you consider yourself to be a Linux administrator! But, hey, it's YOUR phone...)