Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Howto: Get ROOT on your Android G1 and Telnet to your phone!

Grab pTerminal from the market, reboot your phone, open pterminal quickly, cd to /system/bin/
then enter telnetd 2 or 3 times, then type telnet "your phone ip"

Take a look:
kyle@ion:~$ telnet 192.168.0.88
Trying 192.168.0.88...
Connected to 192.168.0.88.
Escape character is '^]'.
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
# cd proc
# cat version
Linux version 2.6.25-01843-gfea26b0 (android-build@apa27.mtv.corp.google.com) (gcc version 4.2.1) #6 PREEMPT Mon Oct 6 14:13:36 PDT 2008
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13 comments:

  1. Worked for me. In retrospect this is obvious, but you need to telnet in from *another* machine. I thought originally this was telnet to self on the G1.
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  2. It should be pointed out that telnet is a "wide open barn door" to your phone -- only do this if you are on a wifi network that you trust, and kill the telnetd process (or reboot your phone) if you travel to a more public location.
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  3. how to telnet to the phone?

    Here is steps I tried:
    1. have the phone connect to wifi.
    2. let the phone access my pc website.
    3. from my pc website log, get the ip of the phone.
    4. from my pc, run telnet "my phone ip".
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  5. Doesn't work any more, Big Sister pushed an update last night :(
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