[How To] Jailbreak Official RC30/RC8

[jessdog909]

it still wont let me format

[TheLastCuban]

Okay, I know the problem. You have RC29 and it only supports 2.0 usb ports. So unless you have an SD card reader or a family member/friend with one, you're S.O.L. Sorry dude.

[jessdog909]

yea i figured that out and went ahead and used a sd card reader. so did i have to still downgrade too jailbrake it.

[Swagtastic_88]

Ive tried almost every website wen it comes to loading the r29 zip file to my fone n nothin seems to work...wen i press the end key n camera button my fone gets stuck on the red green n blue screen....what should i do???

[Salku]

Okay, I know the problem. You have RC29 and it only supports 2.0 usb ports. So unless you have an SD card reader or a family member/friend with one, you're S.O.L. Sorry dude.

Woah, sorry but I rooted without a SD card reader, I used my motorola v3t for my file transfers and to format it to fat to fat32

[lacasapc]

Finally it has arrived. You can now have root access on your OTA RC30/RC8 phones.


If you have RC30/RC8 or later, you must FIRST flash your phone to RC29/RC7 or lower to be able to exploit root access using the following steps. RC29 and lower users can skip this section.

1. Format the SD card to FAT32 mode (this is sometimes needed. The image is not always found if other files are on the sd card).
2. Unzip the RC29 or RC7 image file DREAIMG.nbh to the SD card. (RC29 for US, RC7 is for UK)
3. Turn the device power off and insert SD card.
4. Hold Camera button, and press Power button to entry bootloader mode.
5. Press Power button to start upgrade procedure.
6. After it finishes, reboot.

Follow these steps once you have RC29/RC7:
On your G1, anything you type into your keyboard is also being run in a hidden console with root permissions. But, to get root access, do the following:

Instructions:

1. Restart your phone
2. Type telnetd and press enter - Yes, it will start up a Contact search, do not worry about this, just type telnetd and press enter (the enter button on the keypad).
3. Download an Android Telnet client (I have one on the Market) and connect to localhost.
4. you now have root!

Alternatively, if you want to do this without rebooting your phone (not gauranteed to work if your console shell is in a blocking call):

• On your phone, press enter to clear out the hidden console of any commands.
• Type telnetd and press enter.
• telnet into the phone.

Next, read this guide to update to modded RC30/RC8.


Notes:

• If you want to telnet into your phone from a computer, run netstat on your phone using either pTerminal or Telnet (telnet into localhost) to get your IP address. Both applications are available on the Android Market.
• Direct download link to the Android Telnet Client.

Thanks to Koush at XDA-dev.

hi, thanks for this guide but i have a g1 that reboots,
what can i do to fix this phone sir?

[angelababy]

I have it named as the last one and it says no image found everytime ive tried it in the bootloader,I don't know why it cannot read it.