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Hey Verizon/Sprint Tab users

Since we are kinda the minority here we really need to stick together. We should start putting a thread together of our wish lists for developers. I feel like we are kinda behind the curve compared to the GSM folks and hope we can get more people involved in CDMa stuff.
Your thoughts.......

Good idea. . . . Just not enough dev in the sgt anyways. I bought my verizon sgt 2 weeks ago in hopes of something fun to flash like a hc port or CM7. I am dissapoint.
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100 views and only 1 person is with me

Others are with you. They just needed to get home from work.

Im not concerned with Honeycomb. Waiting for an HID hack for my VZW tab and maybe a few other small things.
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HID drivers first.
I would love to see Honeycomb, but would settle for Gingerbread right away.

Im in too.
Not a dev, but willing to help
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I am in as well
I am new to this and willing to learn, and will support with beer funds. I am assuming that the vzw efforts will carry over to Sprint since both are cdma devices. I have my galaxy tablet rooted but have not gone any further as I have not fully understood so many of the posts in regards to which are the better rom to use, the best method of flashing based on the rom, so to avoid any of the big issues..aka not booting etc. I am looking for a really good guide to get started. One that says first and foremost fo this before you start so you can recover you device if you really bugger it up.

I was in the same situation as you up until last weekend, notice I avoided using the "same Boat"
for now the first thing you need to get is Heidmall, dl the stock image and warez for your specific unit. If you need help I have aol and Gmail chat, Pm me for that info.

AHHH Another squid friendly hacker....
I don't mind the references to my Squidly Heritage, proudly served!!!!
I can be found on Gtalk at [email protected]
Have not been this syched about anything since my first deployment! Make sure you upload a donate button can't send bear funds with out it.
BTW Thanks!!!

HID or SPP Verizon Galaxy
I may have found a solution for the bluetooth keyboard issue. "keypro" on the market will drive certain SPP keyboards (not HID) it is a little more to work with than the single verizon samsung option for keyboard use. I am waiting for my freedom universal standard keyboard and keypro is supposed to support it. You can download the program free and see what keyboards it supports. I will let you know when my keyboard comes in. Sorry if I am in the wrong posting area I just signed up so I could share this.

Thumbs up dude!
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I'm with you
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Im in man we definetly need to stick together. And while I do really want Honeycomb, I NEEEEEEED HID drivers before anything else! Yay for dev's

I dont profess to be any coding expert, and All I really know anything about is the VZW tab at this point. Sprint files are totally different but loading is the same.
VZW people should be on the look out for a new Kernel from Boushh, Im running it now for 24 hours and its a screamer and totally stable. Latest benchmark was 2221.
It should be out tonight or soon after.

Trying to learn basics of coding and all in the upcoming weeks. Hopefully ill be able to contribute down the road. I bought min early January and am very happy so far.. even with a gingerbread/wp7 hd2 on hand..my tablet is used much more. I have heavily layer into the honeycomblayout/theme and just the changeover to khasmeks work and honeycomb density and layout...I've started using much more. Like I said,I'm really pumped to start deving as I know alot of cdma users will benefit from more work coming to the table..when I start getting confident and have things down pat..even then I can't promise it will be as good as what Boushh has done,but at least it will be an attempt at getting more dev for cdma
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I just want to be able to do voices calls (and Gtalk video chat)

NS4G OTA

Since nobody has it, I'm guessing it was made up. Conspiracy theory?
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Nope its definitly coming, they are receiving a lot of signal issues by ns4g owners so i would be surprised if it never materialized.
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No, the sprint release documents clearly shows an attempt for an update. The questions and speculations are on "when" it will come.

I've actually never seen that doc, thanks!
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Samsungs track record with "coming soon" has not been promising (moment,epic) but since Google might have some leverage, hopefully it is coming soon.
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Samsung has nothing to do with updates on the NS. Go to opensource.Samsung.com and read the documents for the d720. All updates for the NS line come from Google. So please stop the blame game and be patient.
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Actually, samsumg/sprint handles the radio and Google does the rest
Radio is hugebpart of update
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and ironically the Radio is the only thing that BLOWS on this phone. The ONE thing they had to do they screwed up on.

In order to build android you have to have the proprietary binary files for the wimax and cdma radio. the documents above prove that update has been built and they have the "new radio" if they are even going to update it. so i would not blame sprint/samsung for the delay, they did their job. google needs to finish with whatever tweaks they are working on and release the update or at least commit the code so we can compile.
james819 said:
Actually, samsumg/sprint handles the radio and Google does the rest
Radio is hugebpart of update
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obsanity said:
No, the sprint release documents clearly shows an attempt for an update. The questions and speculations are on "when" it will come.
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I've seen this photo a lot...exactly where is the from (ie. the original link..)?

I'm not sure why a new thread was needed but this delay could be because of tweaks needed for google wallet as that seems to be the big feature coming to the Nexus S line.

The photo is a screen shot of a sprint corp computer that was sent into android central by one of phil's sources

I'm so close to leaving Sprint. Unlimited is nice but it is useless if I can't actually use data correctly. I love when I have 2 bars of 4g but can't get any network activity and forced to use Sprints awesome upgraded dialup 3g service.
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styckx said:
I'm so close to leaving Sprint. Unlimited is nice but it is useless if I can't actually use data correctly. I love when I have 2 bars of 4g but can't get any network activity and forced to use Sprints awesome upgraded dialup 3g service.
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that sucks. i just dont think i could ever go back to verizon and pay 60 bucks more a month for a tiered plan. im sticking with sprint and hoping for the best. i want this freaking update already!!!

styckx said:
I'm so close to leaving Sprint. Unlimited is nice but it is useless if I can't actually use data correctly. I love when I have 2 bars of 4g but can't get any network activity and forced to use Sprints awesome upgraded dialup 3g service.
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Leave if you want. I'm not making that decision until i find out if this latest carrot sprint is hanging is going to be a game changer. I think they are going LTE
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/19/sprints-dan-hesse-significant-4g-plans-to-be-announced-this-fa/

cteneyck said:
Leave if you want. I'm not making that decision until i find out if this latest carrot sprint is hanging is going to be a game changer. I think they are going LTE
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/19/sprints-dan-hesse-significant-4g-plans-to-be-announced-this-fa/
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I found this at opensource.samsung.com for the SPH-D720. Not sure if means much and still would be nice if they release come source code that they currently have. Either way no big deal, I enjoy my Nexus S and really dont any issues with it. I would like better radio signal but who wouldn't. You could get a phone much worse off at Verizon, AT&T, or T-MOBILE. So good luck to the people jumping the boat. I expect a influx of people joining up with Sprint before Spring and then it will bog down the network. I hope they have a plan in place to take care of that issue that may happen.
"- Nexus S (I9020) Opened source code -
Beacuse Nexus S is google experience device, source codes are opened by Google.
So, You can find source code for the Nexus S at Android Open Source Project site.
Please reference below address.
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/samsung.git
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cteneyck said:
the documents above prove that update has been built and they have the "new radio" if they are even going to update it.
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Which document talks about updates for the radio? I didn't see anything on the Samsung or Google sites.

Gripe

What is the purpose of owning a nexus device on a cdma network? I am so tired of google and networks in so many ways. I thought the purpose of owning a nexus device was that I would receive update directly from google. I own a nexus 4 g and a motorola zoom lte and have not received an update in over 4 months. I really hope for google sake there is some improvement in the future with updates of nexus devices.
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Wow, you're the first one that I have heard have a complaint like this.

pedroroach said:
Wow, you're the first one that I have heard have a complaint like this.
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i know right?
quoted for truth /s
they're pushing out 4.0.4 to source, custom roms will have the fixes, etc added into them soon enough.
if you're on xda, I'd expect that you're running a custom ROM and not stock. if that's not the case, i fail to see why you're on xda asking this, and not on a Sprint forum or Google forum instead voicing your gripe.
^^^^ that goes for all the people complaining about the lack of updates, I'm not singling you out OP. i just don't get it
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I don't depend on the carriers anymore for updates. **** I'm running 4.0.4 on my nexus s 4g already because of the devs here. Unlock and flash.....easy as pie.
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kyouko said:
i know right?
quoted for truth /s
they're pushing out 4.0.4 to source, custom roms will have the fixes, etc added into them soon enough.
if you're on xda, I'd expect that you're running a custom ROM and not stock. if that's not the case, i fail to see why you're on xda asking this, and not on a Sprint forum or Google forum instead voicing your gripe.
^^^^ that goes for all the people complaining about the lack of updates, I'm not singling you out OP. i just don't get it
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I'm stock rooted still on GB. I'm not into roms necessarily only reason I root is for wifi tether and titanium backup. Or maybe removing or freezing apps but it doesn't matter on a nexus device. Bottom line is that GS2 and vivid GSM models have gotten updates before my nexus. All I'm saying is CDMA networks do not push updates for nexus devices as they should and google obviously can't provide updates in a timely manor for these devices either. This is a problem with google plus the cdma networks.
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time to switch to gsm, cdma is old school hence why google dont care

b1337 said:
time to switch to gsm, cdma is old school hence why google dont care
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I thought cdma was introduced after gsm? If only sprint was gsm....

qhinton said:
All I'm saying is CDMA networks do not push updates for nexus devices as they should and google obviously can't provide updates in a timely manor for these devices either. This is a problem with google plus the cdma networks.
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ahh ok,I can respect that. Much more than all the other threads on here complaining about not getting the update, yours is more based on the CDMA networks which is the source of the problem for what you're referring to.
That's why I came here cdma updates can be few and far between at times.
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There isn't a reason really. With an htc device for example you get aosp like cyanogen plus you get sense if you want it. I had both options on my evo shift. No one really knew the cdma nexus experience didn't really mean **** until recently since this was the first cdma nexus.
The good thing about this is that now i have opened myself up to more options for my next phone like the htc one or gs3 where up until about January i was only ever going to get nexus phones even though they are usually lacking in something like the camera, fm radio, no sd slot or whatever. And it doesn't matter since updates won't cone any faster and the wonderful devs keep us up to date.

the files for the cdma radio are proprietary, google has to wait for the networks to provide them. googles part is done and available. they even came said a few months ago that cdma nexii arent considered developer phones anymore, just for that reason. its the cdma networks that you should let know how you feel.

im on 2.3.7, it aint broke so im in no hurry to fix it. when i get an official update then ill update. i dont see what the big deal is

I am a very happy CDMA Nexus S owner. I've been rocking 4.0.4 on my NS4G since this morning, I'm not sure what people are complaining about. Yes, we all thought that since we have Nexus devices we'd get personal invites from Goog to test out their new OS. Turns out this is not true, stupid us for thinking that. But in the end what's the difference? As soon as the update is in AOSP our awesome devs have it ready for us to crackflash. These complaint threads are getting old, when did XDA turn into Facebook?

jesusice said:
I am a very happy CDMA Nexus S owner. I've been rocking 4.0.4 on my NS4G since this morning, I'm not sure what people are complaining about. Yes, we all thought that since we have Nexus devices we'd get personal invites from Goog to test out their new OS. Turns out this is not true, stupid us for thinking that. But in the end what's the difference? As soon as the update is in AOSP our awesome devs have it ready for us to crackflash. These complaint threads are getting old, when did XDA turn into Facebook?
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How are the 4.0.4 ROM? Any improvement in speed and smoothness? Did this fix the data lost issue we had with 4.0.3 where our phones would lose 3g data while on a bad area zone?

jesusice said:
I am a very happy CDMA Nexus S owner. I've been rocking 4.0.4 on my NS4G since this morning, I'm not sure what people are complaining about. Yes, we all thought that since we have Nexus devices we'd get personal invites from Goog to test out their new OS. Turns out this is not true, stupid us for thinking that. But in the end what's the difference? As soon as the update is in AOSP our awesome devs have it ready for us to crackflash. These complaint threads are getting old, when did XDA turn into Facebook?
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Because the purpose of purchasing a nexus is not have to wait for the latest software plus have a pure google experience. If I need to flash software that's been out for 4 months like 4.0.3 this is an obvious fail for the nexus program.
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4.0.4 is real nice. No problems at all. Everything working smoothly.
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rasengan82 said:
How are the 4.0.4 ROM? Any improvement in speed and smoothness? Did this fix the data lost issue we had with 4.0.3 where our phones would lose 3g data while on a bad area zone?
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Seems faster and smoother to me. I actually turned animations back to 1x its so buttery. Haven't experienced the data issue yet.
qhinton said:
Because the purpose of purchasing a nexus is not have to wait for the latest software plus have a pure google experience. If I need to flash software that's been out for 4 months like 4.0.3 this is an obvious fail for the nexus program.
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It's more a fail on our part for believing Google's marketing. In the end though, we still have the new OS updates available right away via AOSP. They just don't get pushed to our phones via OTA right away. But this is XDA, who the hell wants to sit around waiting for an OTA??

b1337 said:
time to switch to gsm, cdma is old school hence why google dont care
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All the original GB updates hit the 4g first, it's cdma carriers proprietaries that are all off a sudden an issue.
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Is it possible to add a 3g module to a wifi only nexus 7?

The title says it all. I am just curious if this is possible or if the boards are different on the WiFi only model and the 3g model. I imagine if the boards are the same it should be as easy as installing the 3g module and flashing the ROM that supports 3g?
Thanks.

Not quite.
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I dont think its that easy. If it was people would have done it already
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I'm curious as to why you think that it is not possible? Is the tablet not a computer? It's hard for me to believe that they built a completely different board just for a 3g module. Obviously most people would find it easier to just by the 3g version in the first place but for the people who are adventurous I can't see why not. If you have the exact same chip and the 3g ROM, what would stop anyone? I'll research it and post back.

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I'm curious as to why you think that it is not possible? Is the tablet not a computer? It's hard for me to believe that they built a completely different board just for a 3g module. Obviously most people would find it easier to just by the 3g version in the first place but for the people who are adventurous I can't see why not. If you have the exact same chip and the 3g ROM, what would stop anyone? I'll research it and post back.
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I was under the impression that it was a different board.

Easier just to buy a separate 3g router, like the ZTC MF60 or a Huawei E586 both come in around the £65 mark.

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I was under the impression that it was a different board.
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I just reviewed a tear down but it is just the WiFi version. Currently searching for a n7 3g tear down so I can compare.

This is me talking out of my ass but I would say the issue is not so much about it being impossible but about not being worth the hassle specially there being a 3g option available and affordable. Not only you need the parts, tools and know how to do the modification, you probably would also need someone to whip out some software magic to get the tablet to recognize and use a modification an absolute minority will do.
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Mutedfaith said:
This is me talking out of my ass but I would say the issue is not so much about it being impossible but about not being worth the hassle specially there being a 3g option available and affordable. Not only you need the parts, tools and know how to do the modification, you probably would also need someone to whip out some software magic to get the tablet to recognize and use a modification an absolute minority will do.
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I see what you are saying. But there is a 3g ROM available for download that could be flashed. Also, taking a case off is not challenging. Here is the teardown.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+7+Teardown/9623/1

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I'm curious as to why you think that it is not possible? Is the tablet not a computer? It's hard for me to believe that they built a completely different board just for a 3g module. Obviously most people would find it easier to just by the 3g version in the first place but for the people who are adventurous I can't see why not. If you have the exact same chip and the 3g ROM, what would stop anyone? I'll research it and post back.
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Replacing components on a computer and replacing them on a mobile device are two vastly different things. The components aren't merely plug and play. They're precision soldered, which you can't do by hand.

najaboy said:
Replacing components on a computer and replacing them on a mobile device are two vastly different things. The components aren't merely plug and play. They're precision soldered, which you can't do by hand.
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It's a good thing I know a thing or 2 about precision

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It's a good thing I know a thing or 2 about precision
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Lol. Its precision well beyond the scope of what can be done by hand. A typical radio used by Qualcomm has 976 solder points in a 14mm square.
Of course, your basing everything on the assumption that, from day one, Asus had intended the N7 to be a cellular device.
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najaboy said:
Lol. Its precision well beyond the scope of what can be done by hand. A typical radio used by Qualcomm has 976 solder points in a 14mm square.
Of course, your basing everything on the assumption that, from day one, Asus had intended the N7 to be a cellular device.
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I wouldn't doubt that Google had planned a 3g device. Its just a matter of whether or not it was taken into account during the design for the original N7 board.

anyone still using the g1/dream.

If so what are you using it for? Phone or other. Need ideas not going to throw it out due to its beautiful history.

kidrobot52 said:
If so what are you using it for? Phone or other. Need ideas not going to throw it out due to its beautiful history.
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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.

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.

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.

Still using mine as a WiFi hotspot. Since I have a free data only SIM with a volume monthly quota of 30GB

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.

Mine is with my 2 year old daughter. She play games on it ,really there is no other use.
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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...

As a backup alarm clock!!!:thumbup:
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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!

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If so what are you using it for? Phone or other. Need ideas not going to throw it out due to its beautiful history.
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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.

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

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
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Using mine as a backup phone and experimenting.
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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.

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

I Love G1
Mine, I'm still using it as my primary phone, I really love it.

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)

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....

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?