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T-Mobile G1 Jailbroken

While the idea of having to ‘Jailbreak’ an open system seems a little redundant, it is a necessary step for those wishing to gain root access to their devices. Lukily, instructions have been posted in the XDA -developers forums for accomplishing this feat. It seems the method relys on a loophole in the PTerminal application.

Basically PTerminal is used to start a telnet connection between your G1 and computer:

• Turn on your phone’s WiFi. This gives your phone an IP you can reach it at.

• Get to a command prompt on your device by using the PTerminal application from the Android Market. (adb shell does not seem to work with these instructions, telnetd does not start up)

• cd system

• cd bin

• telnetd

• netstat (get your phones IP)

• telnet into your phone’s IP from your PC

• you now have root