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Blog fixes

June 22, 2011 Posted by mitch | blog | 0 Comments

I finally got around to fixing a few things that had been bugging me about my blog... comments now work again... not sure when they broke... but they're good now.  and Style Sheet Changes!  you can now actually read my write up on rooting my G2x!

AT&T Buyout of T-Mobile

June 10, 2011 Posted by mitch | att-sucks | 0 Comments

Since my choice of phones would show that I have T-Mobile as a carrier... I just wanted the powers involved... that I will be moving to another provider should the buyout happen. I refuse to pay any more money to AT&T, so, AT&T... if you think your going to have more... I can guarantee I'm not the only one that feels this way.... and I will also not be the only one that will jump ship. Do you really need a really expensive eye opener to know how much your hated? (Yes this is still because of the comments and the start of the Net Neutrality discussions)

Rooting my G2x from Ubuntu

June 9, 2011 Posted by mitch | android, G2x, root-android, ubuntu | 0 Comments

Since my only desktop is my work Lenovo ThinkPad running Ubuntu 11.04, and the bulk of the articles out there reference Windows... I did find a few articles articulating how to root the T-Mobile G2x, but I thought I'd do a full write up here over what exactly I did to root my G2x and will do a followup with flashing a CyanogenMod Nightly to it as well.

First, I downloaded the latest Android SDK from Google

I extracted the tarball and renamed it to androidsdk in my home directory:

$ tar -zxvf Downloads/android-sdk_r11-linux_x86.tgz
$ mv android-sdk-linux_x86 androidsdk

I then added the following to my .bashrc file and load it into your environment variables

$ export PATH=${PATH}:$HOME/androidsdk/tools:$HOME/androidsdk/platform-tools
$ source .bashrc

The directory, platform-tools, will not exist yet, and you will need to download the Android SDK Platform-tools. To do this, you will run the command

$ android

This will startup a GUI, click Available packages -> Android Repository -> Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 5 (Revision may be updated... this was the version when I did this)

Click Install Selected wait till finished and close.

Now, we need to update udev to setup the proper device permissions for when we connect our phone.

$ sudo echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1004", MODE="0666"' >> /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

the idVendor string is unique per manufacturer, there is a list of them on Android Development here, But I've used the LG one here, since they're the maker of the G2x.

Then you need to restart udev

$ sudo service udev restart

Now... we're almost done. I first attempted to use the SuperOneClick root... which wasn't working for me. I then found a shell script that was a simple root to... thought I'd give it a go, and it worked easily, which can be downloaded on xda

I will note that... at this point, you should be able to connect your phone via USB, turn on USB Debug Mode. Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB Debugging. Then run: adb devices. Should return this... or something similar at least... not sure what the hex number is... serial#?

$ adb devices
List of devices attached 
02884207417fe4d7	device

After Downloading the G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5.zip and unzipping it.

mitch@kraven:~$ mkdir g2xroot
mitch@kraven:~$ cd g2xroot/
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot$ unzip ../Downloads/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5.zip 
Archive:  ../Downloads/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5.zip
   creating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/
   creating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/
  inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/adb_linux  
  inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/adb_mac  
  inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/busybox  
  inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/psneuter  
  inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/shared.sh  
  inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/su  
  inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/Superuser.apk  
  inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/Readme.txt  
  inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/root.command  
  inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/unroot.command  
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot$ ls
G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot$ cd G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5$ ls
files  Readme.txt  root.command  unroot.command
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5$ less Readme.txt 
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5$ ./root.command 


Checking for connected device...
Pushing temporary root exploint (psneuter) to device...
1262 KB/s (585731 bytes in 0.453s)
Running psneuter on device...
property service neutered.
killing adbd. (should restart in a second or two)
Waiting for device...
Remounting /system read/write...
remount succeeded
Pushing su to /system/bin/su...
635 KB/s (26324 bytes in 0.040s)
Pushing busybox to /system/bin/busybox...
1253 KB/s (1062992 bytes in 0.827s)
Installing Superuser.apk android application...
1283 KB/s (196521 bytes in 0.149s)
Removing psneuter from device...

Rebooting device...

Once device has rebooted you should be rooted.
Press Enter when you're ready to quit:  
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5$

And that was it. Phone is rooted.

Many Thanks to jnichols959 for the scripts!

Next up CyanogenMod Nightly

World SuperBike

June 1, 2011 Posted by mitch | family, racing, WSBK | 0 Comments

Took the family out to WSBK on Monday, and enjoyed it thoroughly. Everyone got a little sun burnt even... yeah... from the 10 minutes of sun there was, and the sub 55 degree temperatures. Zoey seemed to like watching a bit... until she discovered all the rocks on the ground... then that was more interesting. She was also a little shocked at first about the noise, but still managed to sleep through the AMA SuperBike race.... go figure... She was exhausted tho. Congrats to Checa for the 1 2 win! For Ducati claiming they aren't competitive.... he's the current leader on points with a non-factory team. Stop whining and RACE!