T-Mobile G1 Updated to RC30, No More Jailbreak, No Weird Bugs

Google sure does act pretty fast when it’s concerning their baby Android huh? Only a few days after we first reported that the T-Mobile G1 has been ‘jailbroken’ and allowed root access to the phone, Google has come good with an update (build RC30) that prevents this from happening.

Google speaks:

We’ve been notified of this issue (Jailbreaking of Android) and have developed a fix. We’re currently working with our partners to push the fix out and updating the open source code base to reflect these changes.

 

Over at the Android Central Headquarters, we’ve already received the fix OTA and have been rocking RC30 for over a day now. The RC30 update also fixes that very weird bug that would reboot the phone every time you type r-e-b-o-o-t. Tell us if you got it!

[Gizmodo]

Google Android T-Mobile G1 jailbroken and uses Debian?

Google may have pushed out recent firmware updates for the Google Android T-Mobile G1, but it seems they weren’t quite quick enough for one hacker. Apparently Jay Freeman who just happens to be the author of such Apple iPhone programs as Cydia, Winterboard and Cycorder, has managed to get Debian running on the jailbroken T-Mobile G1.

The word is Debian and Android played along just fine with each other giving you a completely unassuming G1 by day but by night giving you a nerd G1 without losing any functionality.

Installation isn’t that easy as you would expect, but if you have the knowledge of installing Linux applications on other devices it shouldn’t be too difficult.

Source – modmygphone