{"id":2507,"date":"2010-09-03T03:39:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T07:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2014-03-21T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T19:07:46","slug":"cyanogenmod-rocks-my-old-g-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"CyanogenMOD rocks my old G-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time today rooting and reflashing my old G-1 so it&#8217;s jumped from stock Android 1.6 to Android 2.2.  CyanogenMod is a truly impressive piece of work, with both snazzy surface polish and a lot of nice little hackerly touches like including a root console in the standard apps panel and easy access to the recovery loader. I really feel like I have control of the device now.<\/p>\n<p>Which is nice, but doesn&#8217;t have a lot of practical relevance yet. My main use for the G-1 is as a fallback in case my Nexus One gets lost or stolen.  Still, there was some enjoyment in learning that, yes, I <em>can<\/em> do stuff like reflashing a phone without bricking it, and swapping around SIM cards without perpetrating some egregious blunder that wipes them. Alas, I&#8217;m still not very comfortable doing risky things with hardware &#8211; I retain some emotional reflexes from  thirty years ago, when zorching anything computerlike meant you&#8217;d just incurred a five-figure bill and were in deep, <em>deep<\/em> shit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As usual in such exercises, the hard part was interpreting the instructions.  The hackers who wrote them were trying very hard to be clear, but the result was a thicket of poorly-organized details. I could follow the procedure, but I had to do it almost blind; there was nothing that gave me a high-level view of the process so that I could grasp clearly why each step was necessary and why they had to happen in the order they did.  As a result, for troubleshooting I absolutely had to have live help on an IRC channel.<\/p>\n<p>I wish someone would write a bird&#8217;s-eye view of the smart-phone modding process.  It can&#8217;t be that complicated, and I know what&#8217;s involved in writing boot loaders for general-purpose computers.  Shout to my readers: has anyone done this already, or do I need to put it on my over-full to-do list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time today rooting and reflashing my old G-1 so it&#8217;s jumped from stock Android 1.6 to Android 2.2. CyanogenMod is a truly impressive piece of work, with both snazzy surface polish and a lot of nice little hackerly touches like including a root console in the standard apps panel and easy access&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=2507\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CyanogenMOD rocks my old G-1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-smartphone","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5607,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}