How to Get Remote Root Access to T-Mobile G1

Well, someone figured out how to access the G1 phone via a telnet access. This is great stuff, I bet you can stuff a small web server on a G1 phone pretty easy. (Hmmm…I wonder if you can do SSH2 too…)

1. Turn on WiFihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIFI in the G1 (Settings > Wireless Controls > Wi-Fihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi ). Make sure you’re connected to a network.

2. Start up PTerminal (search in the Market) and you’ll get a prompt once its launched.

3. Enter cd system and hit Enter.

4. Enter cd bin and hit Enter.

5. Enter telnetd and hit Enter. You’ve now started telnethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TELNET on your G1.

6. Enter netstat and hit Enter. You’ll now see your G1’s IP address. You can also find this in the Settings > Wireless Controls > Wi-Fi > and click on your network you’re connected to. It will show you your IP.

7. Start up Terminal on your OS X machine, or bring up a command prompthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_interface on your Windows box. Type telnet [your.ip.address.we.just.found] and hit Enter/Return. So, if your IP was 192.168.1.101, you’d type telnet 192.168.1.101 and hit Enter/Return.

8. You are logged in as root now. To remount the system file as read write, type mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system from the Terminal/Command Prompt and hit Enter/Return.