T-mobile G1 – The first of the Google Android Phones. A Review

Yup, sounds like it. Turn off phone, hold Home and Power buttons together, that should take you to the 'flash' menu with a few ALT-X commands. One should be ALT-B which makes a Nandroid backup on your SD card. I tend to do ALT-B, then ALT-W to wipe settings followed by ALT-S to flash the update.zip. That way if the flash doesnt work out you still have the full backup.
 
cheers, I'm struggling with nandroid at the moment being a complete non techy, i don't know if i need to install eclipse and the android sdk on my computer to get it to work correctly so i'm sticking with the less risky jf rc9 currently. bit of a bummer as i would like the improved battery life.
 
dont bother with nandroid, it didnt worked well for me, i used mybackup from market, copy the backup zip file to your computer.

wipe and flash with new firmware, go to market and download mybackup, make the backup then overwrite the zip with the one you've backed up before flashed then restore it (it wont restore cos non exist backup folder)
 
What is the G1 like as a media player(if it has the function)? Are there any pictures posted that have been taken with this phone to see the quality?

My contract is up soon and I quite fancy going for this phone :) Its between this or the Arena
 
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DanH84 said:
cheers, I'm struggling with nandroid at the moment being a complete non techy, i don't know if i need to install eclipse and the android sdk on my computer to get it to work correctly so i'm sticking with the less risky jf rc9 currently. bit of a bummer as i would like the improved battery life.
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Assuming you have done the ALT-B, it'll create a Nandroid directory on your SD card. It's not possibly to restore these through the phone itself. So follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3173296#post3173296
 
In order to celebrate my preordering of the HTC Magic I have edited myself into a picture to represent my excitment. See if you can spot who's me!


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lol

I think I am being stupid, but how do I view the timestamp on received SMS messages? All I see is the date?

EDIT:

I was being stupid. Press and hold the screen/scroll ball when viewing the message to bring up additional menu.

Anyway of it showing times by default instead of just dates?
 
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On the same track, anyone know how to get a more specific time of a call other than 'yesterday', or '2 days ago'?
 
hmm, updated a few apps recently and i've noticed my Battery is dying a lot quicker than it was, i've also noticed my GPS coming on in the notification bar for absolutely no reason, even after I've made sure it's off.

can anyone suggest a program that is similar to windows task manager? one that shows what programs are running currently, or one that shows how much power each program running is actually using etc?
 
quick question, there are few apps i'd like to purchase, can i pay via paypal? will i be able to re-download if i uninstalled or flash with new firmware etc? will they give out serial key?

cheers
 
wesley said:
quick question, there are few apps i'd like to purchase, can i pay via paypal? will i be able to re-download if i uninstalled or flash with new firmware etc? will they give out serial key?

cheers
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You pay via Google checkout, which is Google's competitor so you cannot Paypal to pay.

http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=105916

Google said:
Purchases with U.K. Sellers



Orders with U.K. sellers can be completed with any credit, debit, or gift card with the following logos:
  • Visa
  • Visa Electron
  • MasterCard
  • Solo
  • U.K. Maestro
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You can download an unlimited number of times I believe, unless you "return" the app in which case if you buy it again, you have no "return" rights.

emailiscrap said:
On the same track, anyone know how to get a more specific time of a call other than 'yesterday', or '2 days ago'?
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Mmm... good question?
 
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let me know how you get on :)

May do mine
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it all sounds and reads as a lot more complicated than it actually is to be honest.

xda developers have a good guide though the way it's written isn't extremely 'noob' friendly.


you pretty much just format your sd card to fat32 the usual way through windows and the usb cable. copy over the 3 files it links to in the guide, unplug your phone from usb. reboot into recovery as it tells you and apply the update file. you then boot the phone normally and do some typing character for character as it describes and you've got root. then there's a last step to update hardspl which takes 2 seconds.
after that it gets even easier, just download the package you want to go for jfrc9 1.43 (easy to find on the web) or one of the cupcake releases on xda developers. rename the whole thing (i was looking for a single file in the extraction) to Update copy it onto your sdcard and apply it like you did hardspl. like magic you're on a rooted and modded handset. Oh and when you do apply the package then go and check to see if you need to get the radio update (forum posts will say) rename to update and apply etc. originally i didn't get the Radio update as i thought it was just an update to enable fm radio. it's not heh.

I could do the whole process again in about 10-15mins, was just over cautious the first time around.
 
DanH84 said:
it all sounds and reads as a lot more complicated than it actually is to be honest.

xda developers have a good guide though the way it's written isn't extremely 'noob' friendly.


you pretty much just format your sd card to fat32 the usual way through windows and the usb cable. copy over the 3 files it links to in the guide, unplug your phone from usb. reboot into recovery as it tells you and apply the update file. you then boot the phone normally and do some typing character for character as it describes and you've got root. then there's a last step to update hardspl which takes 2 seconds.
after that it gets even easier, just download the package you want to go for jfrc9 1.43 (easy to find on the web) or one of the cupcake releases on xda developers. rename the whole thing (i was looking for a single file in the extraction) to Update copy it onto your sdcard and apply it like you did hardspl. like magic you're on a rooted and modded handset. Oh and when you do apply the package then go and check to see if you need to get the radio update (forum posts will say) rename to update and apply etc. originally i didn't get the Radio update as i thought it was just an update to enable fm radio. it's not heh.

I could do the whole process again in about 10-15mins, was just over cautious the first time around.
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Excellent.......... is your handset quicker etc?
 
Not tried Google Docs (Will try tomorrow!)... But I was also searching for one last night too... Didn't find anything worthwhile for free though.

I was really hoping Google would do a Google Docs app for the phone rather than web based (Even if it does work)... I mean everything else syncs so it'd be cool if it sync'd your docs with Google Docs but let you operate on them in a standalone app.
 
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