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I believe that PSX4DROID hasn't respect all the rules [no GPL, no protected names or logo, no promotion of piracy] we respect, and the worst is the integrated link to ROM from their software... which is purely illegal.

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They ship CarrierIQ on their Android phones on Sprint. It's hooked in to read all sms messages, button presses, etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11763089

Apparently there's an issue with their Android phones too... here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11763089&postcount=3

No problem at all -- most of my information I get from XDA forums (kinda the Mecca for all hacking and cracking mobile phones): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=996616 Now, I'm am in now way an expert in this stuff, but from what I can gather, you're apparently able to bypass the checks for signed kernels -- I don't think the signing itself is "cracked." "Encrypted bootloaders" work completely differently and on a much lower level -- there's apparently no way to bypass it.

I don't get it ?

Folks @ Xda have already got it ported (albeit alpha) for one of the oldest android phones in town:-

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11724175

Buy a G2, root/unlock, install Cyanogenmod 7.0 (Gingerbread/2.3), or any one of the other Gingerbread ROMs. You can buy a G2 from here: http://swappa.com/buy/htc-g2-t-mobile - there's currently six listings, from $335 to $410, and all of them are rooted. The phone should work in the UK, too.

I have the same phone, running CM 7.0 (nightly 38), and I love it. I had the original G1 until recently, and it's a night and day difference. I firmly believe the G2 will suit your needs and more.

Buy a G2, root/unlock, install Cyanogenmod 7.0 (Gingerbread/2.3), or any one of the other Gingerbread ROMs. You can buy a G2 from here: http://swappa.com/buy/htc-g2-t-mobile - there's currently six listings, from $335 to $410, and all of them are rooted. The phone should work in the UK, too.

I have the same phone, running CM 7.0 (nightly 38), and I love it. I had the original G1 until recently, and it's a night and day difference. I firmly believe the G2 will suit your needs and more.

Buy a G2, root/unlock, install Cyanogenmod 7.0 (Gingerbread/2.3), or any one of the other Gingerbread ROMs. You can buy a G2 from here: http://swappa.com/buy/htc-g2-t-mobile - there's currently six listings, from $335 to $410, and all of them are rooted. The phone should work in the UK, too.

I have the same phone, running CM 7.0 (nightly 38), and I love it. I had the original G1 until recently, and it's a night and day difference. I firmly believe the G2 will suit your needs and more.

Buy a G2, root/unlock, install Cyanogenmod 7.0 (Gingerbread/2.3), or any one of the other Gingerbread ROMs. You can buy a G2 from here: http://swappa.com/buy/htc-g2-t-mobile - there's currently six listings, from $335 to $410, and all of them are rooted. The phone should work in the UK, too.

I have the same phone, running CM 7.0 (nightly 38), and I love it. I had the original G1 until recently, and it's a night and day difference. I firmly believe the G2 will suit your needs and more.

Sure, hopefully these should get help get you started.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872003
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936995

Sure, hopefully these should get help get you started.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872003
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936995

G1 is also known as the Dream and yes it was supported up to Cyanogen 7 (2.3) beta or something. I think it's still supported in unofficial builds, and ofc on xda. This on a device which didn't technically have hardware capable of running 2.1 -- but somehow it managed (barely) to pull off 3d maps and navigation.

Yes, it's true. Honeycomb runs off of a micro SD card. All you have to do is put the Honeycomb image from here on an SD card. I have it running on my rooted Nook Color in front of me right now (haven't tried on a non-rooted one, but I don't see why it wouldn't work). You just turn it off, put in the SD card, and turn it on -- automatically boots into Honeycomb. Turn it off again, take out the SD card, and turn it on -- automatically boots back into the stock ROM. Pretty good Android tablet for $250, IMHO!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11520394#post11520394

While not as good as official support at launch, this may help those who need flash.

WHERE THE HELL IS FROYO FOR MY WILDFIRE !?!?!?

Right here.

Wow. I'm having to add a line of no-value text because quoting your yelling and providing a link in response is "lameness". Thanks, Slashdot. You're the best!

Tablets are currently closed systems for the most part.

Give me an open system and we'll talk.

Custom-built open-source OS image for Samsung Galaxy Tab. Ready to talk?

is banned from the Windows market. I'm also curious as to why he thinks open systems will win in the end. Apple's walled garden is doing pretty well and my "open" vibrant is hardly open at all. T-mobile and Samsung do their best to conspire keep it closed.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739304

Yeah, they really have that phone totally locked down.

Exactly how old do you think the iPad is? Or for that matter iOS and for that matter Linux is including Linux on mobile devices?

Simple proof? Which has the most mature and capable media player for FREE? Meego (VLC Mplayer), iOS or Android?

Well, since Android has mplayer and VLC and just needs the bugs shaken out of them...

According to this all the other Australian carriers already have it. Some European phones have an official version 2.2.1 upgrade now, which is a huge performance improvement. You can flash custom ROMs with this as a base. Also Cyanogenmod 7 for SGS, based on Gingerbread, is in alpha testing.

Or XDA. They're how I'm running Froyo on my AT&T Captivate now.

Yeah, the Toshiba firmware is politely spoken, unusable. If you want access to the Google market place plus CIFS access to your home servers plus Flash, etc., you seriously should consider to download a modified Android version and install it on your Folio. Like this one here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846199.

There was an anonymous forum post earlier in the year talking about how the political situation between carriers and handset makers in the US works against major updates. Basically feature updates can cause problems for carriers and certain handset makers also charge them extra for major updates.

That link is for the old project.
Here is a link to the new AndrOINC Project

That link is for the old project.
Here is a link to the new AndrOINC Project

Running fission http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=851623 rom on my Droid 2 now.. these phones are ok for running roms with koush's bootloader http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/08/droid-x-recovery.html

But if you want to waste electricity, you can sign up for the efforts to brute force Motorola Milestone - their first phone to feature this draconian lockdown.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913045

Samsung isn't exactly treating their Android phone customers well either.

If you're waiting for hardware manufacturers to give you free upgrades, you're going to be sorely disappointed. That's not their business. They want to sell more hardware. Buy a new phone.

But since Android is free, my T-Mobile Galaxy S Vibrant has been running Froyo since a few days after I bought it. I upgraded to a nice version of Froyo called Nero and I switched from Samsung's sucky, slow filesystem to Linux EXT4. I also installed VOIP software that lets me dial out without using T-Mobile minutes.

Nobody is going to hell, or even to jail, over this.

I had to install some software from the Android market, click a few things, take responsibility for what I was doing, download the new version, and reboot.

I frequent XDA a lot and the warnings were clear. If you're not buying a Nexus device (Nexus One/Nexus S), you will most likely be left in the dark for an official upgrade path. The G1 and the original, slower Galaxy, for example, never received an official upgrade past 1.6. Personally, I don't think carriers/OEMs have a lot of demand from most of their consumer base to engineer upgrades. This news might gain much more attention since it's blatantly obvious that Samsung was gunning for obsoleting one of their flagship phones so quickly, but unless video calling really takes off (doesn't seem to have done so yet), it's not the biggest deal for many.

From a technical standpoint, it's completely irrelevant. Save for the upgraded modem and the front-facing camera, it's the original Vibrant. (They probably added more tricks in the hardware to make rooting harder, though.) Additionally, it's pretty trivial to add a front-facing camera to the current Vibrant and there is an unofficial carrier-engineered version of Froyo for it floating around on the Internet. For starters, it has Wifi Calling natively bundled into it. It's also somewhat faster. I flashed my Dad's Vibrant with it before I gave it to him as a Christmas gift and it works amazingly for him.

Just the mere existence of that ROM suggests that an update might be around the corner. The question, though, is how wide T-Mobile and Samsung is making that corner for people.

Dunno, it seems okay to me.

Dunno, it seems okay to me.

Dunno, it seems okay to me.

Eh, the latest i9000 (European Galaxy S) ROM has OTA updates, and it'll most likely be in the Captivate release.

If you want to update on your mac, I suggest using Heimdall , 512.pit file, and this ROM . It's most likely the 2.2 update that's been "blocked"

Eh, the latest i9000 (European Galaxy S) ROM has OTA updates, and it'll most likely be in the Captivate release.

If you want to update on your mac, I suggest using Heimdall , 512.pit file, and this ROM . It's most likely the 2.2 update that's been "blocked"

Android is open-source, but it did not make open-source software mainstream. I would say, it's almost doing as much damage as any iPhone I've seen, directly as a result of Google not giving a rat's ass about what proprietary crap vendors screw on top of it. What we are looking at here is exactly the difference between Apache license and GPLv3. I rooted a new Verizon Android for a friend the other day, and it was like pulling teeth. It was a dirty hack done, I can only assume, by a dirty hacker, bless his heart, and there is no guarantee that it will survive the next big update. If ordinary users are not trusted with full access to their devices, and have a locked (for most practical purposes) computer with proprietary top and zero documentation, talking about the licensing of some software components is moot, and "open-source" is just a feel-good word.

If you have to spend a couple of hours upgrading your interface before you can use your new toy then you should really think about finding a better toy.

A couple of hours? Not sure.

A couple of days? (Like a standard Windows or Linux install) Yuck.

The 5 minutes it took me to flash the G Tablet with a custom Rom? Totally worth it.

Do you buy a car and install a new steering wheel, gas pedal, and in-dash system before you drive it?Do you spend an hour putting the keys in your keyboard so the layout is just right?

No, but when I sit in a car, I adjust the mirrors, play with the Nav system, connect the bluetooth. I change the various user-specific settings, setup a user profile (in my Cadillac), and check the default tire pressures. I also like to review the manual. Maybe 30-60 minutes of setup time.

A new desktop?? 60-90 minutes of setup time, by the time I've routed the cables where I need them to be, plugged everything in, and organized my desk. Also install the default set of widgets on my OS X install, setup my E-mail account, sync LastPass, download my bookmarks, and start TeamDrive syncing to my data-in-the-cloud. Not to mention install the latest versions of iWork, iLife, Office, OpenOffice, Firefox, Chrome, and Skype. Oh, and run a standard "System Update".

Perhaps that's more like 120 minutes for the Desktop, and 60 minutes for the Laptop.

For my G Tablet? Plug in the USB cable. Copy over Clockwork Mod. Auto-flash it by holding down "Power" and "Volume UP". Copy over Vegan Rom. Flash it by holding down "Power" and "Volume Up", and scrolling down to "Update.zip". Wait 1 minute while the G Tablet reboots on its own.

Then setup my Google Account. Gmail/Contacts/Calendar/Talk are automagically configured. I manually setup Skype; but Titanium Backup can be used to handle stuff like that.

Total setup time? 10-15 minutes, including all the application installs. Easily the fastest gadget to setup in my stable; including Vehicles, TVs, Receivers, Game Consoles, etc! How do I know this? I just setup flashed mine from scratch. This after I set my dad's up two weeks ago.

Sure, an out-of-box iPad, iPhone, or iPod might be slightly faster. But you don't get as many of the "Google" in the cloud services, and the $200 savings is easily worth 15 minutes of my time (I like to think that I'm worth about $800 an hour). This is hardly an arduous process involving hours of work.

For those who want to know how it is done: click here. Also, it is my understanding that ROM Manager is rolling out G Tablet support, and can be directly installed after Z4Root. Both of these can be installed directly on to the G Tablet; simply click on the APK links you'll find online.

Now, I don't know what kind of toys you use, but the average gun nut/music nut/car nut/console nut/hunting nut/camping nut/painting nut will polish/oil/wax/arrange/organize/paint/sharpen/wire/whatever their gear for 15-20 minutes. That's not an unreasonable thing to recommend to someone.

If you read the reviews, there seem to be two categories. People who are disappointed with the out-of-the-box Tap-n-Tap interface and return it, and those who spend an hour or two updating the software and are happy with it.

I got a G tablet for Xmas. I'm in category 2. The out-of-the-box experience is utter shit. I Rooted it, downloaded a custom ROM, and now it's really awesome. It's ridiculously easy to do this.

I'm running TNTlite 4.0, and it's really snappy. It seems like it should be upgradable to Honeycomb when the time comes. It's supposedly possible to run Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried this yet.

It boils down to what you are after, the galaxytab is quite small (7" or so) and I could get the same functionality out of a phone. I opted for something a big larger (11") with an NVidia tegra chipset so I could play HD movies. Do you want something with good hardware and size (350USD+) or something small and more economical? (200USD+)

I have the Viewsonic gtablet[1] and it's quite nice. The default firmware/rom that it ships with is horrible but you can use an alternate ROM like TNT Lite[2] and it's really slick. I am able to watch 720p/1080p HD movies on long plane rides (after i've re-encoded them with ffmpeg to fit native reso and mp4 format) use Skype and any other Android apps with an 8-10hr battery life.

[1] - http://www.viewsonic.com/gtablet/
[2] - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004

Who needs VLC when you have Mplayer?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890761

Agreed.

G2 & Connectbot

Optional : root and cyanogenmod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD

I like my samsung Epic for it. There's a version of connectbot built with mappings for that particular phone at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=813176 that adds support for just about every key you need--control, escape, etc. I've used vi on it pretty comfortably.

You sure about that ...?

For one thing, it's only been two weeks. For another, is this authorized by Google, or is it an infringing copy of the Market application? And is Google likely to block Market access from this app?

You certainly don't need a 3g connection to use the market app if you've got wifi!

Please see my reply to slim.

For example, Archos 43 is supposed to be the Android counterpart to the iPod touch but doesn't have Android Market because it lacks 3G data

You sure about that ...? You certainly don't need a 3g connection to use the market app if you've got wifi!

All of your questions can be answered at XDA-Developers. That's the go-to place for stuff like this. Check on the forums, I can 100% guarantee you the answers you need are there.

You're right. This is nothing. G2 has hit 1.9GHz. Here's a Quadrant score from yesterday from someone @ 1.8GHz. He would have ranked 4th on this (old) chart.

Are you sure? What happened to the new Galaxy Tab firmware that apparently upgrades your bootloader to an encrypted one that doesn't allow downgrading OR custom ROMs?

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/warning-leaked-galaxy-tab-firmware-comes-with-protected-bootloader/

Has this been resolved?

It's not that hard. There are several ways to do it (as are documented here). It's not even a real crack, you need to have a developer account to even side-load the apps on the phone (you can use the chevron cert also, but if you do that, you need to be careful otherwise all the apps will be erased when you update). In that case you can only upload 10 apps max at a time.

This is the second slashdot article talking about a WP7 hack that wasn't really a hack. People are having trouble jailbreaking the thing, so we keep seeing articles about meaningless hacks as everyone wants to know when it is really jailbroken.

Have you tried z4root?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953

First off, the people who are talking about "rooting" an open platform are morons. The rooting occurs when the carrier and phone manufacturer -- yes I'm talking to YOU, HTC-- put gobs of needless, expensive, and ultimately pointless security on top of stock AOSP.

They want control. The EFF (did everyone donate this year?) helped affirm our rights to control over our own equipment, but the carriers and manufacturers are responding with more and more technical hurdles.

These short-sighted obstacles cost them money in R&D, which is ultimately passed on to us, the customer, or absorbed by their stockholders. These technical measures (locked emmcs) are pointless, immoral, bad for business, and an entire subculture has emerged dedicated to sidestepping them.

Google has some mixed motivations here, but one thing I can think Google might do about this is to license their Google apps (or "Gapps"-- Maps, GMail, etc.) to community firmware so that they can legitimately compete with the carriers in the market. The competition and choice would benefit the consumer (example: Gingerbread is already running on the T-Mobile G2 and Froyo is available only on other platforms through community roms not offered by the carrier, who has abandoned older phones.). Plus support for community roms would help Google reach those customers who are now "locked out" of the Google market.

The downside might be more support headaches or returned bricked phones for the phone companies. But can't they look at that as a potential new market? Yeah, when you sell someone a computer and they trash it, it's a headache. A headache you can charge them to fix. Right now people brick their phones after trying to install a rom in the shadows and then return them. If phones were treated by carriers as the computers they ARE, it would be no different than someone trashing their DELL and needing Best-Buy or whomever to reinstall Windows. Or maybe they'd pay $10/hr in support.

The point is-- if tomorrow people were locked out of their computers' operating system by the manufacturers or told what software they could run on their laptops by their ISPs, there would be revolt (I would hope). But we're slowly being conditioned to accept such control starting with smartphones, working up to tables...

what's next?