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1. 1. divide wrote on August 16, 2009

   But HOW?!

   If this is true, it might have some serious security implications.

2. 2. fearlless wrote on August 16, 2009

   is this legit?

3. 3. Hass wrote on August 16, 2009

   believe it when i see it happen.

4. 4. Mike wrote on August 16, 2009

   Fingers crossed? Surely privilege escalation in apps is a rather bad thing.

5. 5. JumpinJoe wrote on August 16, 2009

   You know what they say about stuff that is too good to be true…

6. 6. Maj wrote on August 16, 2009

   i hope this is true, i’m really fed up with the limited internal memory

7. 7. Daniel wrote on August 16, 2009

   Sounds too good to be true… not to mention it will probably be fixed almost immediately after its release

8. 8. Unknown wrote on August 16, 2009

   He just twittered with the following link:
   http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2009/08/16/android-rooting-in-1-click-in-progress/

9. 9. Maj wrote on August 16, 2009

   sounds like a risky thing to do, ill just wait for you guys to try it out first :p

10. 10. Alex wrote on August 16, 2009

    Ok….so once I’ve done all the instructions on this guy’s blog, what is the next step to getting a rom onto my g1, and where can I get them….noob I know.

11. 11. chuksy wrote on August 16, 2009

    This is far from “one click root”….not for me thanks

12. 12. dude wrote on August 16, 2009

    does this work with the mytouch 3g??

13. 13. Joe wrote on August 16, 2009

    The local privilege escalation vulnerability is real (affects the past 8 years of Linux kernels), and works on our phones too. It was only released and patched last week, but our kernels will need to be updated to fix the exploit.

    Note that if you root your phone using this, the kernel fix — which Google is surely working on now, if not already done — will not reverse what you did to root the phone. The fix itself will just prevent it from being exploited again in the future. That’s assuming that Google’s update doesn’t look for and reverse a recovery.img change (I really doubt they would do that)

14. 14. joese wrote on August 16, 2009

    if he releases it to the market you could tell tmo that you just downloaded an app and your phone broke

15. 15. dkr8806 wrote on August 16, 2009

    It actually worked. My model is now android dev phone 1. Too bad I don’t know too much of what I’m doing. I’m very illiterate when it comes to kernels and build numbers.

16. 16. saklas wrote on August 16, 2009

    i’m too afraid to try this as well.
    main worry is still the necessity to keep following up with further updates (which i can or cannot do; without breaking anything)

17. 17. Ralph wrote on August 16, 2009

    Hadn’t rooted my phone since I got a replacement a few weeks back, so had a go with this on a stock G1 on the latest official FW.

    This worked perfectly, now running Cyanogen.

18. 18. Craig wrote on August 17, 2009

    does doing this overwrite your settings and all that? like, i know it’s a custom build, but is it like factory resetting your phone? do you have to re-download all your market stuff?

19. 19. Unknown wrote on August 17, 2009

    i uploaded a guide to youtube to show it works

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfskzfjOMgc

20. 20. fearlless wrote on August 17, 2009

    thinks works PERFECTLY for my white mytouch.
    im running the hero rom on it now. i love it.
    and its running without any problems.

    the root worked amazing! (=

21. 21. Maj wrote on August 17, 2009

    Where can you get the roms ? for example, hero rom or others

22. 22. Unknown wrote on August 17, 2009

    try androidspin.com

23. 23. str4vag wrote on August 17, 2009

    This is not rooting. it is just an app that helps you with fashing the a Modified Recovery Image. At least that is what i understand from his blog.

    the rest is still the same. Which is
    1. Get modified recovery
    2. Boot into recovery and run nandroid backup
    3. Flash a new ROM.

24. 24. str4vag wrote on August 17, 2009

    and for ROMs, head over to XDA-Developers.

    Check out the Dream and Sapphire Subforums.

25. 25. JiN wrote on August 17, 2009

    What hero rom are you using Fearless? I wanted to try a hero rom but I don’t know which one is best for Mytouch3g. Meaning fastest/stable/ and has all the same widgets and or most functionality like the real hero. By the way this worked great and here i went and made a gold card and everything for what!?!?

26. 26. magnus686 wrote on August 17, 2009

    it works. it was really easy!!!

27. 27. savvar wrote on August 17, 2009

    tried 5 different roms and always get unable to start wifi.

    an1 got that?

28. 28. beerd wrote on August 17, 2009

    do you have to format your SD card first…or can i just leave it with all my stuff on it?

29. 29. zacas wrote on August 17, 2009

    Does anyone know why the app needs access to bluetooth?

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