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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kzoodroid:
Comodo doesn't even register in my battery stats but stock only shows the top 10 drains on the battery. As it stands right now Comodo is using less than 4% of my battery as that's the lowest % that registered for my wifi and Chrome.

And Google doesn't screen apps added to the Playstore as diligently as Apple and apps with viruses do get through. They remove them as they find them and then will remotely remove the offending apps from your device.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/01/21/fake-plants-vs-zombies-android-game/

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/201...re-policy-officially-bans-off-market-updates/
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khanh1289:
I didn't say that it can't, I said it isn't as easy to get it compare to a computer. Things like what you posted rarely happens anymore and if that bit of common sense that say "this is too good to be true" telling you not to install the app, don't do it! Those apps aren't really even viruses.. they're at best comparable to something like a trojan.. but not as evasive (easily removed). Android (4.2.2) on our Nexus is not what it used to be. Things are a lot more secure and the Play Store has a lot of good quality apps that will soon probably surpasses Apple.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Manoj Sehgal:
hey friends I have iball 3G 7271HD70, and I installed kespersky antivirus that shows me that android is has been hacked and shows a spy virus I have formatted and reflashed two times but it still shows the same after fresh installation.When I format there are two options one auto second manual, but for manual so flash tool shows a warning that -if starting address is 0x00000000 then calibration data will be erased is this data important and How to remove this virus permanenty
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottharris4:
Is there a Jelly Bean ROM that works with Vine?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slymayer:
I don't think there is any ROM with JB that works with Vine. I think Vine doesn't work because of the front cam issue with the new kernel, but our devs may be working on it I think.

EDIT : I thought it was in the wrong section... But I was in the wrong section actually, nevermind. Have a nice day !

UPDATE : Vine now works with Epinter's lastest CM10.1 ROM.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netsmagic:
Are you able to actually record videos though? Every time i try to record it closes out of the camera and takes me back to the main page. is there a fix for this?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slymayer:
Indeed only the main interface works... But it may be a problem from Vine too. We should wait a week or two I think before we can use this app.
[G1 General] kidrobot52:
If so what are you using it for? Phone or other. Need ideas not going to throw it out due to its beautiful history.
[G1 General] HTCDreamOn:
I'm afraid I'm also not using mine for anything, sitting a draw, but like you I'm definitely gonna keep onto it.

Alarm clock? You could get a 1.0 ROM or something and delete almost everything but the clock (and probably need a launcher for it).

Doorstop? It's pretty tough and chunky, and the chin might help.

A remote/Bluetooth keyboard for some other device, e.g. tablet. Idk how this would work, I've looked into it before but can't find answers.
[G1 General] kidrobot52:
Def sounds like a good idea for a remote. Maybe for you tube app on my TV or something other. Maybe give it to my daughter and tell her to have a ball.
[G1 General] joshumax:
Funny, I just found one of these phones at a garage sale today..... Perhaps some resource-unintensive Linux distro could be ported to it and it could be used as a small Linux box.
[G1 General] pl4sMa:
Still using mine as a WiFi hotspot. Since I have a free data only SIM with a volume monthly quota of 30GB
[G1 General] dayofthedaleks:
I'm using mine as a sacrificial phone when I'm kayaking. It's perfectly capable of calls, SMS, and MP3s still. The touchscreen works through a transparent drybag. I can be confident that if I should wind up in the water and the drybag should fail, it's no great loss.
[G1 General] bonebeatz1234:
Mine is with my 2 year old daughter. She play games on it ,really there is no other use.
[G1 General] titusdream:
as a student living abroad, it hosts my sim card in my home country to receive sms from my parents, who are not good at smartphone stuff...
[G1 General] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
As a backup alarm clock!!!:D:thumbup:
[G1 General] Daggster:
I was going to use it as a GPS and/or Speedometer, with no sim in it (on my motorcycle), but first i need to instal a power port! as the battery life sucks once i turn on gps....or the screen! :P
[G1 General] tbskinner22:
I want to use my G1 as a screen keyboard and mouse for my raspberry pi. It would be great if I could make it usb plug and play so I could just plug it into any pi and be off.

I'm using my old mytouch 4g as an IP camera. The g1's camera isn't as good but that's another idea.
[G1 General] amitpmistry:
update google g1 android 1.6 to 2.2 or latest

Hi,

i have rooted my tmobile android 1.6 to 1.0 and want to update it to 2.0 or later 2.2(froyo)

please provide working download links and full instructions

thanks
[G1 General] demkantor:
Just look at the stickied guide a few posts above this one, all info is there

And posting three times is just as good as once for future reference
[G1 General] FeintDoxx:
Using mine as a backup phone and experimenting.
[G1 General] :
Mine is sitting in a backpack full of electronics. The camera is broken, though. It doesn't matter; It's running a ICS ROM which doesn't have camera working, anyways.
[G1 General] maslelviz:
I lend it to my friend, he still uses it as a primary device !!! he was never interested in smartphones, so he is very satisfied with that phone :)
[G1 General] nico1228:
I Love G1

Mine, I'm still using it as my primary phone, I really love it.
[G1 General] rs899:
I just picked up a package deal consisting of an HTC Radar 4G, a MyTouch 3G and this G1.

I have unlocked all of them (using a Lycamobile Sim). Unless I really fall for the Radar, I will probably sell it (worth more than what I paid for all 3) and keep the Dream alive :good:.

But first, need to get it up to Froyo. It will do what I need. It's the model T of Androids.

The MyTouch had a bad sim card holder, so I needed to do some solder work and hack the holder so that the card just falls in from the outside rather than slides in. The back holds it fine, but it probably not very salable (though the outside is in perfect shape)
[G1 General] rs899:
Update-

Got the G1 rooted and running on Cyanogenmod 6. It was a struggle to find coherent , relevant, current (not really current, but currently working) info on how to work this ancient piece. It has given me a taste for it , anyway and I hope to try another ROM.

Frankly, I am just rambling to get my post count to 10 so I can ask a question in the modding forum....
[G1 General] Renatog:
It was sitting in a laundry hamper that I was using to store a bunch of old CDs and other stuff I don't use on a daily basis. It so happens that the hamper fell from the top of my bedroom closet and now I'm thinking of ways to use this thing, but the first thing that came to mind was to use it as a distraction for the kids. Now that I think about it, it could be used as a remote with keyboard and all. It's running CM6, but I'd like to know if there is a ROM that is very minimal. My phone has no ability to make calls anyway, but everything else works. Any ideas?
[G1 General] Der_Neger:
Hi everyone,

my G1/Sapphire isn't used anymore but i thought it would be very great to use it as somewhat as an Airplay Dlna audio and bluetooth audio reciever. You can use apps for that but they wheren't that great. So it would be good if some Dev makes a new Rom I would call it "JukeboxRom". So the phone acts like a music receiver everytime it is booted for airplay dlna and blootooth A2DP.

Maybe this would also be great for other old Phones.
[G1 General] josef2600:
hi, I'm using it as my primary phone, I really love it. i have 2 other phone !!

i just installed Infinite dreams [Final - 7.1.2014] and lots of apps on it ! also sometimes i use it as a hammer ! :p
[G1 General] Gadlion^1:
Hey ive got it as second/safe phone :)

just trying to get it back on work cause i have semibricked it ^^

but i can still get i recovery

greez gadlion
[G1 General] Renatog:
I've semi-bricked it too, trying to get the CM7.2 working. I can get into recovery but can't seem to get it working again.
[G1 General] Renatog:
I was able to get it working again. While trying to get CM7.2 working, I updated the SPL radio to 2.22.28.25_S and UCMC1. I had to get the CM6.1 2708 port from here: http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/11548-cm61-2708port-for-new-radiospl-unofficial/ and the GApps from here: http://goo-inside.me/gapps/gapps-mdpi-tiny-20101020-signed.zip

After wiping and reinstalling the zips, all is well! ^_^
[G1 General] Gadlion^1:
I have done it too and i enjoy it atm :) got the SPL 1.33.2005 on and then flashed this ROM 2 times and now its still working its so damn slow but i love it.
[G1 General] dreamwave:
I had mine as my primary phone until about 4months ago, and even though I'm loving my new s3, I still use my g1, it's a great phone if you want something that is about as tough as a rock without weighing as much, I installed a remote app on it and now I can use the hardware keyboard to control a computer I modified into a tablet. The alarm clock is also about as loud as a jet plane, so no sleeping through that. Overall I use it as: alarm clock, remote control for my computers, mirror for checking my teeth :p, miniature cutting board, hammer, fire starter (with the battery and SIM card), keychain (can it even be called that?) camera, twitter notifier, instant messager, booklight, and rage venting projectile, the thing's as indestructible as it gets, but it simply acts like all that armor crowded out space for a CPU of acceptable speed.;)
[G1 General] smtrejo:
I still use as primary phone my HTC G1 (Developer Edition ;)) since April 2009. I had to buy another battery.

LONG LIVE THE HTC DREAM!!!!!!! :victory:
[G1 General] HTCDreamOn:
Swwweeeeeeet ... I'm especially interested in how you use it as a remote keyboard? I've always wondered if I could do this with my dream, at the moment it's having a lonely life in my drawer :( but I have a nexus 7 and physical keyboard would be really cool. Any tips on how to get this up and running?

Wow you're dedicated... Swapped mine out for a Desire Z last year. Of course if you don't care about being "stuck" on Froyo, then it's still an awesome primary phone! ...a d there are some awesome froyo ROMs at that :)

The main problem is that if I wanted to use it as a games emulator or something which would work great, I've got my Desire Z with a keyboard too so.... Idk I still haven't worked out how to put my G1 to use
[G1 General] dreamwave:
If you want to use a computer to control your n7, I've had success in using sharekm, however, what i was talking about was more controlling my computer than the other way around
[G1 General] kidrobot52:
Wow some good responses I'm surprised people still use it as a main device. What's the best current ROM for it. Going to gift it to my daughter to text and chat with her friends.
[G1 General] HTCDreamOn:
If she's not bothered by features at all, LMCFroyo is great, pure AOSP Froyo, really small, clean, stable and fast. If she needs GingerBread (I know some messaging apps may need 2.3+) then I'd go with either Infinite Dreams which was released recently (It's solid and fast) or I liked CronMod back in the day, although it might take a bit more setting up than is necessary. If she likes the look of Sense you could try out GinSense instead, or Blue Ginger for an ICS look. To get an ICS look on Froyo, go for Froyo Cream Sandwich, I loved that one, looks super. I haven't suggested any earlier than Froyo because I have no experience with them. Most of the ROMs I mentioned are in the G1 Oracle in my sig, and if the links are obsolete (which is likely considering their age) then just say and I'll upload the one you want if I have it, I've still got a fair few still lying around on my G1s SD Card. In fact I might start a thread with old ROM links like someone did in the Desire Z forum, if anyone wants me to.

On another note, I might use my G1 as a bedtime music player: I was thinking a Donut ROM and DeaDBeef player (it seems the only one with gapless playback for below ICS). I could use my Desire Z but then there's all the other distractions, I'd quite like a simple no-nonsense device for music with no distractions. Maybe a red screen filter app so as not to hurt my eyes in the dark. So any suggestions for a really really fast Donut ROM without the bells and whistles?
[G1 General] dreamwave:
If you want gb but also the speed of froyo, you might try bananabread, just make sure to be careful flashing the .13d bootloader (my apologies if I said that wrong, I just don't want to have to dig that thing out of my backpack just to take a look at a number that I'd forget as soon as I got back to my computer). If you want to stay on the original bootloader, I used cm4 for a helluva long time without many problems (not many capabilities, either, though), I'm still trying to get bananacreamsandwich to work on that thing, but that would be pretty cool if I got it to work...basically, the thing makes a great alarm clock if you set it to the buzzer alarm. It's slow enough that the results page of a benchmark app isn't going to fill you with awe, and won't blow you away in Minecraft (if you could even fit the game on it) with graphics capabilities, but it's a really fancy timer and about as easy to break open as Fort Knox, unlike an s3 or something that you can be picking glass off of after a 4 foot drop...:p
[G1 General] smtrejo:
G1 lives

Well, it's October 27 2015, and I just wanted to say that the G1 is still my primary phone.
[G1 General] HTCDreamOn:
Dude...

:eek:

...dont know what to say, that's pretty amazing! You must be part of a very select few.
[G1 General] thgxda:
I got an HTC Dream G1 some time ago too, last known state was in working condition.

Because I didn't found it's power-supply or a charging cable, I was not able to charge an test it, but the phone is in very good condition and was not used very often.

Finally I figured out, that it can be charged with a normal micro-usb cable, is that correct? Can I use such a cable also for data transfer, or do I need a special one?

Anyway I'm not able to power in the G1, when I got it I pluged in the cable, the LED went red and after some time it got green, so probably the phone was charging.

But pressing the power button (I assume it is the red "hangup" one), nothing happens at all, not with connected power cable nor without, I also tried to remove the battery, but it back and make a hard reset.

What finally was successful: I removed power and battery, reconnected the power cable in reinsert the battery.

Android 1.6 comes up :)

But the call-, hangup-, home-, back- and menu-buttons are not working anymore, so power on/off or reset would not be possible :(

The trackball works from time to time, the normal keyboard is fine, the touchscreen also works as expected.

But without a working back-button or gesture, the use of the phone is impossible :(

So any idea how to fix this?

Thanks a lot,

kind regards,

thgxda
[G1 General] demkantor:
You need a new daughterboard

Relatively easy to replace and cheap
[G1 General] thgxda:
you mean this one?

http://www.ebay.de/itm/HTC-T-mobile-G1-Google-Dream-Era-Top-Keyboard-Keypad-membrane-PCB-Keymat-UK-Part-/270829179252

They write that it is a UK-part, will it work also in a German version or are they all the same? Do you have an other source for this part in Europe?

Thank you very much,

kind regards,

thgxda
[G1 General] demkantor:
That's the piece, I don't know of a European outlet though

And yeah, the only difference between the various g1 models (as far as this part is concerned) is the orange mobile one (Canadian model I believe) all other g1s share the same board
[G1 General] thgxda:
thank you very much for your answer, today I got the spare part from UK.

What is the correct way to open the G1 to replace that part, is there any hardware/repair manual out in the world?

And an other question:

what is the best Android version for this phone? My one is a devel edition and still has Android 1.6, I'm not going to use the phone for "daily business", it is more for "nostalgic" reasons, having one of the first Android phones in working condition :D

Thanks a lot,

kind regards,

thgxda
[G1 General] demkantor:
There are disassembly guides on YouTube, well at least there once was, if you can't find any I'll help you dig them up

As for best version this is subjective, but I will say my favorites were froyo and gingerbread as they worked more or less perfect (from what you can expect) and had a fair amount of compatible apps

And in truth this can still make for a great daily phone, depending on what you do daily of course ;)
[G1 General] thgxda:
probably this one is ok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgojrvjh8A

Unfortunately it seems, that at least I have to remove the mainboard, to access the two screws and the two clips, to remove the "home-button"-part. Well will take my time for this on the weekend ...

Thanks a lot,

kind regards, thgxda
[G1 General] demkantor:
Looks like a perfect video, really an easy job even if you consider yourself a novice, so don't be too worried
[G1 General] thgxda:
well, it was the best I found, but it's far of being perfect, because I'm quite sure, he broke s.th. while removing the back.

I don't think that I'm a "novice", I've opened (repaired and put back together) successfully a lot of smart phones (and other electronics) before, but the G1 was not easy, because it needed some "uncommon" force.

Maybe it is easier for others to open it, if they know how it is closed and where to take extra care, maybe, I destroyed my G1 while opening :(

To open the phone, first unscrew all five screws, then lift it firmly on both sides:

Then open the clips on the bottom of the phone an lift it firmly:

Take care, that you do not enter with your tools too much into the phone, otherwise you might damage the cable, that is located behind one of the clips!

Next, open the clips at the top of the phone and remove the back:

Now remove the main board, located on the bottom, first remove two plugs and two antenna cables:

Then firmly open the clip and lift the board up (on the picture, the cable is still connected!):

Finally get it firmly out of the clip at the other end, take care with the two cables, connected at the other side of the board:

Now you can push the main board firmly by side and open the three screws underneath the board:

Last step, before replacing the lower keymate, is removing the cover.

The two arrows on the left, indicate the clips you have to open from the other side, the two on the right you have to open from the side:

So after disassembling my G1, now I have to wait for the new spare part, hopefully I get it back in fully working condition!

Kind regards,

thgxda
[G1 General] demkantor:
Nice write up!

Didn't mean any insult with the novice comment either, just to be clear

I still have like 30-40 of these phones in a drawer if you need any parts by the way (used to fix phones as a hobby) if you need any parts feel free to pm me, but I think you mentioned your in Europe so they may not work well
[G1 General] thgxda:
thanks :)

Well, with the G1, I was "novice", putting it back together needed two try's, with the first one I didn't inserted the "bar" of the sliding mechanism correctly in it's fitting under the navigation-buttons.

But now it's back together and works :D

That's indeed a lot :)

I just have two of them, a "Dev Phone 1" with Android 1.6 and a T-Mobile version with Android 2.3.7 I bought for spare parts and accessory, but I was able to get this up an running too. So I'm fine with these two, as first Android-phones in Germany :)

But I still have some other SmartPhones, round about a dozen Palm/HP webOS-devices (one of them is still in daily use), plus BB10- and FireFox-SmartPhones, ok and two other old Sony Ericsson, one with Symbian, one with Android, both with physical keyboard :)
[G1 General] Meeeric1:
How? Do those still work and where can i get one?

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Does it work for the rpi?
[G1 General] LambdaCalculus379:
I have one that I picked up on the cheap from fleaBay for $10. It's running CM 4.2.15 (and thank the many gods that I still had a backup of all of the old CM files I downloaded way back when in 2009/2010 for my old MyTouch 3G!). I went to the old CyanogenMod web page via Wayback Machine, grabbed all the files, and flashed the G1 with them. I did use 1.0 for a little bit though just to take in how positively *ancient* Android 1.0 truly is compared to now!

I'll be using it as a burner/backup phone, and to mostly futz around with. My Nexus 5X is my daily driver phone.
[G1 General] barchettanl:
I tried to log in, but it seems like the Google servers are refusing to let me do it: it times out :'(
[G1 General] ingoreis:
I still use the HTC G1 for playing Musicvideos and Sound over Bluetooth in my Kitchen.

Work wonderfully...but was difficult to get all work what i want.
[G1 General] MasterCATZ:
yeh still using my last 1 (out of 5 ) as a alarm clock , sdcard just died yesterday tho last battery's been swollen for years

now needing to find smaller light weight ROM as I can not even install clock sync as it says out of space with 60meg used 30 meg remaining ...
[G1 General] ingoreis:
As an Alarm Clock?

I like that Idea.

You cannot even install Clocksync?

Maybe you should deinstall the Google Play Services and Playstore.

Have you tried to install Clocksync with Adb?

Or maybe the very tiny Yalp Store.

Yalp Store is a nice and very little Alternative to Playstore which download Apks directly from Google.

...as a Alarm Clock...realy nice Idea :D
[G1 General] Godecki:
I still have my G1 in perfect condition and I would love to use it as daily driver istead of OP7 Pro for a while, but I can't really get any apps working on it, even the web browser is broken. I am however logged into my Google account and Gmail works flawlessly. I also managed to root my G1, install Total Commander, Facebook, Link2SD, Root app remover. Facebook won't work. Link2SD helped, but the phone still begs for some space.
[G1 General] HemanthJabalpuri:
Anyone have this mobile in 2021(actually 31 Dec 2020😁)?

Is Market is working for them?
[G1 General] SpaceGooner:
I have been keeping my G1 alive even in 2021, but only as part of my own personal collection of classic Android phones - I have quite a few. I restored mine some time ago to stock 1.6 Donut, just so i could experience the old look and feel of Android from that era. It still works but many of the old Google apps it came with were deprecated years back so don't work. Gmail and Maps still work however, but devices I own like the G1, HTC Magic and Nexus 1 came with so little storage for core apps that it's difficult to get versions of the Market or Play Store working with all the additional resources they need to work. I don't even know if Google would allow a device running 1.6 to access the Play store today - probably not I'd have thought. I have got the Play Store working on my Nexus 1 running Gingerbread, but it hogs so much of the device storage that it makes the phone virtually unusable. I didn't bother even trying to get it working on the G1 as it's like a year or 2 older than the Nexus 1 and has even less app storage. I've just been adb installing very old apk backups that target Donut on my G1 instead of worrying about the Market or Play Store.

There may be ways to assign core apps like the Play Store to be stored on an SD card, but if there are, it's not something I ever tried to do back in the day when people were developing and hacking the G!, so I can't advise you on that.