Nook 1.5 with Root and ADB
Thanks in large part to JesusFreke for the kernel module, and the old (abandoned?) Nookdevs guys, plus some users on #nookdevs IRC, I have a surprise for everyone.
Ion Update Available
So you missed Google I/O, and failed to get yourself a free “Ion” (Magic). Don’t despair, you may not have the shiny black bling but you can have the software.
(Update: No you can’t, my bad. That is a patch zip, not a full. BUT .. I got my hands on a system dump and built an update.zip for you guys.)
New SPL
Haykuro has posted a new SPL (bootloader) that increases your system and data by about 30 megs each. Thats totally awesome.
Specs!
And not the BS about “oh it has this much nand, and it is probably this speed, and the cpu part number might be NVRTELLU43″, but real, actual, honest-to-god hardware specs. (Some of) you want them. (All of you want them, you just don’t know it yet – these are the real deal, so we can do things like, oh, I dunno, USB-OTG and USB-HOST. Want tv out? Yeah, you know you do..)
Want Your Cupcake AND Your Gmail?
Well.. guess what.. I’ve got some awesome news. Market, gmail, gtalk.. ON CUPCAKE.
OFFICIAL ADP1 Image Finally Released!
Thats right, you heard it here first, the OFFICIAL ADP1.1 image has been released! No leaks, no shady stuff, no Google-employee-only images, btu that actual upstream image.
Updated: OK the directions and such are here now, just to make life a little easier.
Non-US/UK G1 Owners, Your Day Is Here!
Its now possible to downgrade any G1 to a rootable version! All you need is a micro-sd card (Sandisk may not work) and a windows mobile device (sorry). From there, you can create a gold card and bam, downgrade goodness!
Yes, the Market “DRM” Really Is That Bad
As reported elsewhere, the so-called DRM on the Android Market is worthless. We found this out a few hours ago, but I was holding off on posting pending further investigation and talking to Google. Now that its already out.. yes, everything he says is true. The so-called DRM barely qualifies as “permissions”, and sucks down a ton of space that the G1 really can’t spare.
New RC33-based Images from JesusFreke
The images are identical to JF1.41-RC30, only they are based off the PLAT-RC33 release instead. You also need the radio image update, and – surprise – you’ll find them both below :)
Today’s New Images Are Up
And – according to the checkin logs – we’re almost up to an actual working system :) Bluetooth works, wifi works, now GPS works and maybe even hardware-accelerated GL! :)