Nexus One rooted already?
By Ross Miller 
posted December 30th 2009 5:11PM
posted December 30th 2009 5:11PM
No, you still can't have one (not yet, at least), but we've received a number of tips directing us Modaco forums, where admin Paul claims to have rooted Google's not-so-mysterious Nexus One. We can't validate the "superboot" file works, but the adjacent picture has popped up from another forum member as apparent anecdotal confirmation. Instructions for Windows, Linux, and OS X users can be found along with the necessary materials. What do you say, hacker community, any chance we can get multitouch loaded into the device before it ever becomes official to the world at large?[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Quick read through before posting man -- you missed a few key words that make for an annoying read.
@RAGE
What the are you talking about?
Oh wait; I see what you there.
@Christian Martin
Quick read through before posting man -- you missed a few key words that make for an annoying read.
Oh wait; I see what you there.
@Ander0id
I accidentally the whole article, what do I do!?
ahhh can't wait until jan. 5... i still need $400 more until i can afford it unlocked! lol
@mixer911 wow, 130USD as an initial money is stil a long way to go. as for me, I am at the initial 50USD yet.. lol
Droid can be bought by 120USD only (with a plan) while this Google Phone for 180? Hmm.. I'm just thinking... And then all of a sudden when Nexus 2 arrives.. they will cut the price of the phone from 530 to 300? LOL
Nexus One reactions and opinion: http://bit.ly/nexus-one-price-too-much-or-not-details
Time to think with our wallets attached on our cerebral cortex sometimes... some tech-savvy people aren't that much of a richie rich too you know..
This is why I want one !!
This is seriously awesome news. *looks frantically around room for things to sell*
sudo MakePriceLowerWithOutNeedForContract
@Teslanaut
MakePriceLowerWithOutNeedForContract: not found lol
Now I really want one of these though
@marshallladd
ever tried one of these ?
sudo MakeMeABandiwchBitch
According to Android 2.0 change notes "MotionEvent can now report simultaneous-touch information for devices that support it. Up to three pointers can be tracked simultaneously."
The phone should support mutlitouch, the apps just aren't using it.
@MattD
Once the Milestone gets up to 2.1, I'd expect some adb pull/push magickery will resolve that issue.
@MattD: Well, in theory, Android has supported multitouch since the beginning...I think this time around, though, developers will really start putting it to use.
Love these kinds of posts
Load on a hacked HTC Sense UI thing and let's see how it looks then...
Slow.
This is great news!! Now I just get a Nexus One!
So you will post this? But you wont post Zefie @ samsungmomentforum.com has already done a persistent root and flashed the CL14 kernel onto the moment?
@Numus
nice plug :) and so true...i havent seen an article post since release
Dale
Well, I didn't expect it to come that fast.
@where u at
That's what she said. Er, oh, wait...
Amazing stuff.Need this device in my hands now!! Anyone know what the docking station (not car dock) for Nexus One can support beyond USB cable?
Really hoped Google was going to lowball these things to get them in the hands of as many people as possible. Guess not.
Very cool, Google really needs to take advantage of this momentum and release the phone, and at a better price point :(
There's a huge discussion raging here about it: http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/nexus-one-google-phone-news/100-price-point-leak-530-unsubsodized-180-t-mobile.html
@nexusone
So whats the deal? I've seen people on the forum saying that the phone just needs a data plan to work...how the heck will you make calls with just a data plan?
@Plazmic Flame voip
@Joppa
VOIP.....and? I'm fully aware of what VOIP is but you still haven't answered anything. Are you saying that one could have and data plan AND sign up for a VOIP service? More than one or two words would help.
@Plazmic Flame
To answer you question straight, yes, you would sign up for a VOIP service and a data plan.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/google-makes-gizmo5-acquisition-official-drops-few-details/
When Google bought Gizmo5, it made me wonder what was going on, but now it all makes sense. Did you ever hear about Google Voice? Google Voice will be using (if it's not already) Gizmo5 to make phone calls cheaper.
Gizmo5 is a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) provider that allows you to use VOIP with any device you want to use (I use SIP on my Nokia E71, works great over WIFI, not so much over 3G, uplink is lagging).
Google is going to be pushing that service so Carriers (T-mobile, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Rogers, Bell, Telus and others) just become dumb pipes and all we have to buy is data. With a data plan we have access to everything we want. No more confusing plans with minutes, Text-messaging, MMS, data and so on. The functionality will be there, it will just be how much data your using.
The problem, carriers aren't going to want to give in to that way. "Minutes" and txting are their cash grab.
Also, LTE is right around the corner and that is IP only (no voice) and will be using VOIP to make phone calls.
People may bring up VoLGA (traditional voice functionality for LTE)
but I hope that's not the case and they go the IP Multimedia Subsystem way (Gizmo5).
IMO, IP Multimedia Subsystem will be the better one to use. There is a lot more functionality than VoLGA.
I hope that's enough info for you. Comment if I got anything wrong or you need to know more.
Cheers, Nick
Seriously, how the hell does this even happen? I call total BS and this whole Nexus One saga has been one huge viral campaign. Google would've dropped the hammer on anyone if this information was so "sensitive".
The phone isn't even out yet...wtf...
@Plazmic Flame
Step 1: Someone who works at Google wants to root their phone.
Step 2: They root their phone.
And there you have it.
Why release this now while it may still be fixable?
@mgrochowalski It is a feature, not a bug, that engineering bootloaders allow download-and-boot and the ability to reflash any partition...
Can you install WM on it? I think Android will quickly surpass WM as an OS but currently it isn't as good as WM for business use.
@boe
No, you can't.
@boe
Get out of here.
@boe If that's what you want, just buy an HD 2...fantastic hardware that polishes the WM turd just enough to be usable...but only just...
You don't have to root the Nexus One to get multitouch. IT ALREADY HAS MULTITOUCH. The built-in web-browser, maps, and photo viewers don't use it, but it's right there in the SDK. If you're going to be rewriting these apps to use multitouch for a hacked rom anyway, your time would be much better spent writing replacements using the standard SDK. Then you can put it on the Market and everyone can have it. It would be much easier to do and the community would get far more benefit out of it.
I think Apple has just trained everybody's brains to believe that the built-in apps on your phone are non-replaceable. Well that's part of what makes Android so great, you can flat-out replace any program that comes preloaded on your phone without hacking anything at all.
@Chefgon
This man has a point. I have a Gallery App and a Browser App on my N1 that use Multi-touch for various things the most obvious being "pinch-zoom" beautifully.
Don't make apps for rooted devices, the root is only needed for custom roms to change the look and feel. Or for Pinch-Zoom in Google Maps since I doubt anyone will make as good a Maps program as that :)
Q: What does rooted mean? I seriously don't know. What is rooting a phone? What is the purpose/advantage?
Thanks.
@CallDon
Comes from Unix/Linux, basically meaning your super user and can do what you want with/to the OS without being denied.
On the iPhone, it's called jail-breaking.
Meanwhile we still cant get root on the Eris!
*Shakes fist angrily*
@IEngadget Are you sure? The Sprint Hero has been rooted... I figured the process was the same...
@uansari1
Sadly, yes. So far none of the known exploits work for the Eris, which is supposedly not a version of the Hero.
@IEngadget
It's not a Hero, it's a Desire.
Being Australian, all these titles with "rooted" in them are funny.
@moggyx
Threw me for a loop when I saw the heading.
The plastic at the bottom of the device looks really cheap
I'm confused. Where's the big news here? Wasn't the Nexus already hardware/software unlocked from factory like the ADP1/2?
If that's the case, then it already had root, so to root the way we know/do/use it is as simple as:
adb root
adb remount
adb push su /system/bin
adb shell chmod 0755 /system/bin/su
Is there something I'm missing?
Again, AFAIK, the Nexus one was already software unlocked from factory.
@Jubeh Ok, I see what Paul did. You guys got the story kind-of wrong. The Nexus One comes rooted from factory, but it's only accessible through the ADB interface on the computer. Program's can't use root while running on the phone. To do that, you must have a su binary that has root permissions, then apps can use that binary to get root access. The SuperUser.apk is just safety so that programs that don't have authorization can't get root access (not without you knowing).
What Paul did was create a "Root for Dummies". It flashes to your device a boot.img that has ro.secure set to "0" in the ramdisk (basically enabling you to use adb root and su root). It also flashes the mentioned su binary and sets it's superuser priviledges, and lastlly, it flashes the SuperUser.apk to give you that level of protection.
The Nexus was already rooted, Paul's update only makes app-root available to users in a fairly easy way.