Avoid Spam!

Author: rhodzy  //  Category: its personal, techy / geeky

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Fed up of receiving spam? Help bust spam by creating a temporary email account that forwards all mail onto your primary account! TrashMail.net allows you to create a temporary email forwarding address: It allows you to set the length of time the account should be activated for, set the number of forwards it should make to your email account, and here is the best bit when it exceeds the limit of forwarding or reaches the expiry date / the email forwarding account will automatically be deleted, meaning no more spam! With this utility you will never have to give out your primary email account to websites etc!

I have given this ago and it works a treat, there is also a firefox plugin avaliable

GiveGive reviewsGive reviews it ago and help crack down on SpamSpam reviewsSpam reviews :)

Check out these figures on rejected emails from the site (which is always updating) 55 750 661 totally rejected since july 2007


Unlock / Jailbreak G1

Author: rhodzy  //  Category: its personal, t-mobile g1

I recently posted on here about how I was going atempt to unlock and jailbreak my G1…and as promised here is the exact steps I took.

YOU ARE DOING THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

To do this hack you will need to start the “telnetd” service via terminal emulator which can be downloaded from the Android MarketAndroid MarketAndroid Market. The only touble is you will most probably need to downgrade your firmware as GoogleGoogleGoogle has fixed this loophole with the latest firmware version. If you need to downgrade the firmware please follow these instructions. PLEASE BACKUP ALL DATA OFF YOUR G1 AND MEMORY CARD OR IT WILL BE LOSSED DURING THE FLASHING PROCESS!

Downgrade Firmware

  • If you are in the UK you will need to download the RC7 image firmware or if in the US you will need the RC29 these are the downgrade firmwares you will need to install to your G1 before you can gain root access.
  • Format your SD card to FAT32
  • From the files you have downloaded we now need to extract these and copy DREAMIMG.nbh file onto the root of your memory card, you can do this by connecting your G1 to your USB port of your computer and browsing the removable disk that appears.
  • MAKE SURE YOU HAVE BACKED EVERYTHING UP!
  • Power Off Device
  • When all power is off, hold the CameraCamera reviewsCamera reviews button and the PowerPower reviewsPower reviews button at the same time to boot your device into bootloader mode. The screen that appears should show you instructions on how to flash your phone.
  • FollowFollow reviewsFollow reviews instructions on screen and and press the power button to start the downgrade procedure. Do you do anything to interrupt this process otherwise you could end up with a bricked G1, also make sure you have a full battery!
  • Restart your phone when it is finished (I had a little trouble at this point where my phone would not restart so I had to pull the battery but all was well)

Thats the easy bit! Now you need to do the following!

  • Download the recoveryFort Recovery reviewsFort Recovery reviews image file and copy it to your SD card like we did before with the RC7/RC29
  • Download the HardSPL and copy the zip to the SD card
  • All the files must be on the RootRoot reviewsRoot reviews of the SD card, by root this means not in any folders/sub folders on the card.
  • RebootReboot reviewsReboot reviews your phone (normal way) and wait for it to come back to the home screen
  • When the phone comes back up slide out the keypad and type “telnetd” and you should see the contact list fire up (just ignore this its the telnetd process we need to start up, this will be run in the background so just get rid of the contact list when it appears (after you have typed telnetd)
  • Right now you will need to download the Terminal Emulator from the Android Market.
  • Once the Emulator is installed you will need to connect to your wireless network
  • FireFire reviewsFire reviews up the Terminal Emulator and type “ifconfig”
  • This will show you the phones internal IP address (write this down unless you have a good memory!)
  • Download the Telnet application from the Android Market
  • Fire it up once it has installed and if root access is there you should see #
  • The following commands will make it easier for you to have root access in the future!
  • Type the following into the telnet client
  • mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system (press return)
  • cd sdcard (press return)
  • flash_image recovery recovery.img (press return)
  • cat recovery.img > /system/recovery.img (press return)

You should now hopefully have root access to your phone!

You now have to apply the HardSPL to your phone which will allow you to use US/UK flash files on the phone, latest android sources and unbrick your phone if it ever happens! Which if you like messing around with technology it most probably will! :)

  • Power off your phone
  • StartStart reviewsStart reviews up in recovery mode by holding home and pressing power.
  • You will now enter recovery mode. You should see an exclamation.
  • If you do not see a menu on screen, press Alt-L to show the menu.
  • Press Alt-S to apply the update from the SD card.
  • After the update is complete, hold HomeHome reviewsHome reviews and press Back to restart.

Now its time to upgrade the firmware to the latest one which is much better, dont worry you will still have root access so all this hard work will not be for nothing! :)

Android Dev Phone 1
ADP1: (md5: 96b2abd9a1da2852bc33b2052ea51b2a)
http://jf.nyquil.org/v1.31/JFv1.31_ADP1.zip
http://android-dls.com/forum/index.p…rb_v=viewtopic
http://www.gotontheinter.net/content/new-images-jf (at bottom of page)

US RC30
RC30: (md5: 0f2e6a4244410e00028db55b4fbf808c)
http://jf.nyquil.org/v1.31/JFv1.31_RC30.zip
http://android-dls.com/forum/index.p…rb_v=viewtopic
http://www.gotontheinter.net/content/new-images-jf (at bottom of page)

UK RC8
RC8: (md5: e008bbe1d93abd0c2e5e6218f012f20d)
http://jf.nyquil.org/v1.31/JFv1.31_RC8.zip
http://android-dls.com/forum/index.p…rb_v=viewtopic
http://www.gotontheinter.net/content/new-images-jf (at bottom of page)

  • Download the image.
  • Rename it to update.zip.
  • Copy it to your phone’s SD card.
  • TurnTurn reviewsTurn reviews your phone off.
  • Start up in recovery mode by holding Home and pressing Power.
  • Press alt-W to wipe your device. (You need to do this, or the device may hang at the flashing AndroidAndroidAndroid screen)
  • Press alt-S to apply the update.

MagicMagic reviewsMagic reviews all is complete :) EnjoyEnjoy reviewsEnjoy reviews!

Android App – Task Manager Review

Author: rhodzy  //  Category: application reviews

PLEASE NOTE YOU NEED TO HAVE ROOT ACCESS TO USE THIS APP!

 

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This little application will help save the battery on your G1 and help preserve memory by closing down applications that you no longer need running, eg from the screenshot above right now I could and will disable Connectbot, Messaging because I last used these around two hours ago!

 

I would rate this app 9/10 does exactly what you need from a task manager.

 

This App can be downloaded from the Android MarketAndroid MarketAndroid Market! But you do need to have RootRoot reviewsRoot reviews access on your G1 or you will receive errors about cannot connect as root.

 

EnjoyEnjoy reviewsEnjoy reviews!

 

Android App – Screen Crack Review

Author: rhodzy  //  Category: application reviews

Screen Crack is a great little app to fool your friends/family that your G1 screen is broken! Its looks pretty good too, I have fooled a few people with this App. Will get bored of it eventually but for now it is staying on my phone!

All buttons are disabled when the application is running, the only button that will allow you to exit the app is the home button.

The application can be found in the Android MarketAndroid MarketAndroid Market

I will rate this 7/10

This is a screen shot taken from my PhonePhone reviewsPhone reviews.

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Android App – ChompSMS Review

Author: rhodzy  //  Category: application reviews

I have just installed ChompSMS and it is the only thing that has been missing from the G1! Now the G1 has the same features as the iPhone and much much more! ChompSMS is an SMS client for the G1, its supports the use of the accelerometer which mean turn your phone on its side and watch the screen turn! The best feature of this software is the on screen keyboard! I must say this works very well and not had any issues with it so far! So forget about opening the keypad everytime you want to text!

 

You also have the options to send SMS text messages via your carrier or via your ChompSMS account.

 

Some options from the application:

 

  1. Send Texts from ChompSMS
  2. Send Texts from Carrier
  3. Buy Credits from Chompsms
  4. LostLost reviewsLost reviews your credits
  5. Display notifications
  6. Select Message Tone
  7. Vibrate when a message is received
  8. MessageMessage reviewsMessage reviews counter
  9. Use larger fonts
  10. SendSend reviewsSend reviews using EnterEnter reviewsEnter reviews key
  11. Touchscreen – Click Sound
  12. Touchscreen – Vibrate
  13. Touchscreen – LandscapeLandscape reviewsLandscape reviews

Here are a few screenshots from my PhonePhone reviewsPhone reviews.

 

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Finally going to Unlock/JailBreak my G1

Author: rhodzy  //  Category: t-mobile g1

Ok right…well the time has finally come where I have decided to unlock my G1. Fed up of not having Root Access to the PhonePhone reviewsPhone reviews, I know this could and most probably stop me from recieving the Cupcake update but what the hell, the iPhone was alot more fun when it was unlocked and jailbroken so I am guessing the G1 will be.

Will post an update when the Unlock/JailbreakJailbreak reviewsJailbreak reviews process is finished!

I know the guide is plastered all over the internet but I will also be putting it on rhodzy.co.uk – for my own reference in the future!