For what do you use your smartphone? & noLED

[tek_heretik]

Galaxy S II LTE (aka 4G)

phone/text
NO facebook! hate farcebook (or twitter or yahoo, do those from home)
news/weather
browser (mostly search something)
pictures (8MP/1080p video)
games
research words/calculator
view bus schedules (local and long distance)
view bank account/carrier account
a few shopping apps
I prefer to 'do' email from my PC

[SteveRiley]

I believe that’s what Mr woodsmoke sead .............I will confirm when it arrives ........and I would love to get some guidance from you when it dose as I think you posted you do a lot of ROM switching around late at night with a gin and tonic or 2 ......LOL

Haha, you pay too close attention

I actually have one of those G1 things. Haven't touched it since I got the G2 a year and a half ago. Let me take a look at what's new on the XDA-Developers forum for that phone.

[vinnywright]

Haha, you pay too close attention

I actually have one of those G1 things. Haven't touched it since I got the G2 a year and a half ago. Let me take a look at what's new on the XDA-Developers forum for that phone.

OK so the woodsmokesgiftforgeeks came in today 8) and it is indeed the G1 ..........hears some info from "About phone"

Model number=T-mobile G1
Firmware version=1.6
Baseband version=62.50SC.20.17H_2.22.23.02
Kernel version=2.6.29-00479-g3c7df37
Build number=DMD64

after charging it up it seems to work vary nice and snapy .....it's hooked to my WPA wireless net now and I'm browsing the forum on it as I type this

sooooooo OK Mr. SteveRiley awaiting your guidance before I do anything to it .....LOL

VINNY

O and their is allso a Samsung Black Jack to play with ......

[SteveRiley]

sooooooo OK Mr. SteveRiley awaiting your guidance before I do anything to it .....LOL

O and their is allso a Samsung Black Jack to play with ......

Alrighty...give me a day or so to find out what's new.

Woody sent you two phones?

[vinnywright]

Alrighty...give me a day or so to find out what's new.

Woody sent you two phones?

he shure did ...... love ya woody .

will be waiting with itchy fingers (wanting to hack away) ..........LOL

VINNY

[vinnywright]

OK @SteveRiley point me to a good method to root and rom

I did a factory reset to it to wipe all woody's data ......now I cant get to the home screen because theirs no service to load my google acct. info and I cant get to the wireless settings until I can get to the home screen ........LOL catch 22

VINNY

[vinnywright]

so it has come to my attention that I will be needing the android-SDK and the SDK Platform-tools .......it's installed and currently DLing and updating the Android platform and the latest SDK Platform-tools to have the ADB and force the phone to open the wireless settings..............it seems LOL

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

Yep... I haven't had an opportunity to engage in some research yet. I will on Saturday, and then I can recommend a ROM to use.

[woodsmoke]

Hi guys
Vinny, the data transfer cable works fine, so you can load anything you need using that, I would ASSUME.

Also, I used the method of removing the card, although it is a great PAIN to do so the first few times, but the card just reads like an external device, so, again, stuff can just be dragged onto it, etc.

I would imagine that if one uses the Knoppix live cd that one could do just about anything to it using Knoppix tools, but again that is just a supposition, because I have no clue.

The one thing that happened with it is that I called the fellow from whom I bought it origianlly and asked him to check the you-tube vides on putting Kubuntu on it and said I would pay to do it because I didn't want to mess up the original OS, which may be in hardware ROM and couldn't be messed up anyway, but he did not call back, so, I figured either he didn't think it could be done, or didn't want to go to the trouble, or didn't want to insult me with a sky high price.

So......guys go for it and I am sure that others, such as I, are looking forward to seeing Kubu on it.

AS A SUGGESTION, and only a suggestion, if it does indeed work well, you guys might start a new thread with an appropriate name.

woodsmoke

[vinnywright]

OK so far I have gotten thru ROOTING as it discribes @hear http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1098899 step-1 only so far, after part 1 of step-1 I dropped to the bypass google sine in (wifi) section and used the adb shell to force the phone to the wireless settings setup so I could setup the phone using wireless instead of a data plan 8)

vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0bb4:0c02 High Tech Computer Corp. Dream / ADP1 / G1 / Magic / Tattoo (Debug)
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 064e:f203 Suyin Corp.

root@Vinnys-HP-G62:/opt/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools# ./adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached 
HT846GZ16245    device

root@Vinnys-HP-G62:/opt/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools# ./adb shell
$ am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings
Starting: Intent { action=android.intent.action.MAIN comp={com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings} }
$ exit

then proceeded to part 2,3 and 4 of step-1 without wiping in part 2 .

NOW should I go through step-2 without wiping or should I wipe and if I do will I be able to get adb to re force the wireless screen (on the bypass google sine in)it sead you must be on the stock 1.0 .......I'm on the 1.5 now ?

guess I'll just try it without the wipe .......LOL

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

Vinny... I'll take a look at the forums and find out what people recommend for various G1 ROMs.

Are you planning to use this device without a SIM card -- that is, purely as a pocket computer?

Also... I'm not sure that running Kubuntu on a G1 is going to be a pleasant experience. The G1 is already constrained with a slow processor and little free memory. Running *buntu alongside Android might be too much for the little guy. (Remember, *buntu on Android is not an actual OS replacement, but instead is something akin to running a guest OS inside a VM.)

[vinnywright]

Vinny... I'll take a look at the forums and find out what people recommend for various G1 ROMs.

cool ......

Are you planning to use this device without a SIM card -- that is, purely as a pocket computer?

yes probably , or with and no service ....cant afford service at this time.

Also... I'm not sure that running Kubuntu on a G1 is going to be a pleasant experience. The G1 is already constrained with a slow processor and little free memory. Running *buntu alongside Android might be too much for the little guy. (Remember, *buntu on Android is not an actual OS replacement, but instead is something akin to running a guest OS inside a VM.)

I have come to the same conclusion after reading up on some of that ............but still wanted your advice

and should I go ahead with wiping in step-2 of the guide? or will I lose my google info!!

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

Yes, do exactly as it says: don't wipe, just apply the update.

[SteveRiley]

I'm gonna go get my old G1 and follow along.

[vinnywright]

I'm gonna go get my old G1 and follow along.

LOL ......ok going to start DLing the next 3 files now then

VINNY