Cyanogen squeezes Android 2.2 Froyo into G1, MyTouch 3G
By Sean Hollister 
posted July 11th 2010 5:20AM
posted July 11th 2010 5:20AM
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted July 11th 2010 5:20AM
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@MadMaxHD Reading your comment makes me realize you don't know much about flashing either. This ROM requires the DangerSPL, which can very easily brick your G1 if done incorrectly. Cyanogen himself bricked a G1 trying to flash it.
anyone know the official link to this rom, or the official site/forum for cyanogen? I don't wanna download something from and impostor lol
@jayded you gotta be kidding me, the links provided are official links... :|(
@dr154 in this engadget article? nope they all lead to other engadget articles...but i've managed to find other articles with the official links so i'm cool lol
@jayded
The links (which don't look like links) are at the bottom of the post, where it says "SOURCE".
I'm pretty happy using his 5.0.8 release... I think I'll hang on to that for a little while til the bugs are worked out. I'm curious to see if it's any faster? At this point I just want the fastest most stable rom that allows me to overclock.
@sinistersai4d
linpack and cpu benchmarks were doubled and cut in half respectively (that's a good thing), but haven't noticed much difference in real world. that's with swap off, jit enabled, and compcache off. also, i'm pretty sure 5.0.8 has the g1 clocked at 528mhz and cm6 is 576mhz. but it's been stable for me for the 12 hours i've had it flashed. lol.
Sean (author) if you are this uncomfortable/unfamiliar with flashing roms on a phone, perhaps you need to consider a different career than writing for Engadget.
That Cyanogen and the other devs are able to shoehorn this into a G1 is amazing,
It's cool as hell to have my G1 boot up with Froyo.
I do not understand this artificial HONOR or whatever you want to call it... with keeping the G1. If you cannot afford to upgrade, or are just simply waiting for the right device, fine.
But... these posts with, I WAS AN ORIGINAL G!1 OWNER AND ITS THE BEST IT STARTED IT ALL.
Who cares? Get a job, save your nickels and get a decent piece of hardware. This isn't a fucking Pentium here. Just upgrade losers.
I saw this article and threw mine down the toilet. This is not Froyo, it is a cut-in-half version of Android 2.2.. it does not feature everything that is in 2.2.. therefore, it is not complete.
This is no ones fault, it simply cannot done.
I dont give a shit about IT HAS THE MOST STUFF, I DONT EVEN USES FLASHES!
Yeah, well, then its not Froyo bitch. The real ROM simply is not small enough to fit. Upgrade your fucking handset.
LOOK AT ME, I WAIT FOR THE SMART PEOPLE TO MOD, THEN I FOLLOW SIMPLY DIRECTIONS AND LOOK!!!! NOW I CAN WAIT 2 MONTHS (8 weeks!!!) MORE TO SPENED MONIES FOR NEW PHONES!@!!
GO DEVS.
Yes, congrats to the Devs.. no feat is possible without you.
But seriously, all you LlamaGoatSheep out there.. just upgrade your friggen phones.
@meatball
The fact is, no other Android handset has the G1's excellent keyboard or form factor... So until a real replacement is released, many won't upgrade from their G1.
Many (including myself), despise touchscreen keyboards, huge screens/phones, horrible hardware keyboards (I'm looking at you Droid) etc... The G1 was the perfect phone for a lot of users, this is why people have a hard time finding a replacement. I purchased a Nexus One shortly after it was released only to go back to my G1 as soon as Eclair was available for it (VIA CM of course), it has nothing to do with not being able to afford a new phone, it's about finding one that suites our needs.
Besides, it's not like the G1 doesn't work well or anything, sure there are faster phones out there but other than games (These are smartphones, not toys, if you want to game, get a PSP or NDS), there is nothing a G1 can't run.
Take your head out of your ass for once in your lifetime and actually think before you open your mouth.
@meatball cool story bro. Glad you enjoy talking down to people.
@meatball Hmmmm... lets see... the G1 has the BEST keyboard of any Android device I have seen (and I've checked out quite a few. While the MT3GS has a decent keyboard, I'd miss the dedicated number key row), is pretty solidly built, has a ton of accessories available, runs pretty darn well even with it's meager CPU and memory.
And... for all of us who got it early (or even a year ago or more), we now have phones that are MORE capable and have MORE features than when we originally bought it. And that's not even counting by rooting it -that's just via the upgrades from Android 1.0 to 1.1 to 1.5 to 1.6.
You dont have to like it, or understand why we do... but that still doesnt mean theres anything wrong with us liking it and sticking with it.
@m1ndtr1p Sorry but to say that the G1 works well is horse shit. I have gone through 4 G1's in a year and a half so don't tell me it was just my system. The reality is that the G1 is underpowered, it never had enough internal storage, and frankly all those droid ads about walking and chewing bubblegum at that same time? G1 can't. The minute I start hitting the system hard with multitasking it tanked in performance. Just getting to the home screen could take almost a minute, all 4 devices could take up to 45 seconds to be seen by my computer when mounting a device. (I've replicated this behavior with someone else's device as well.) And then there is simply performance rot. Something I've seen on all 4 devices. After a reset the thing is fast as hell. Works well. Within a month after heavy use BAM....tanks. Everything from hitting the red end call button to turn off the device, and realizing that I wanted to do something else so I hit menu....hit menu.....HIT MENU...and eventually it would turn it on again. To simply trying to switch apps....SLOOOOOW.
It has been well documented that the G1 was always the prototype device for Android. Even a year before the G1 hit the scene (I was in line the day it launched at 5AM.) the leaked screenshots of the hardware were always the G1. It should never have been released in the state it was. Everything screamed underpowered hardware. The problem is that we the early adopters didn't notice this because none of the apps on the market really hit the hardware that hard. But now that you have PDF readers, flash, Pandora, Word Document readers. Even 6 months after the G1 came out it was obvious it was way under powered. The only thing. ONLY thing going for the G1 is its keyboard. That is all, and frankly I don't see anything coming out anytime soon to replace it. So screw it. I'll get something. ANYTHING else. Right now I want to chuck my G1 into a wall. I'm probably going to up and pay the $100 to get off T Mobile's shit, unreliable network before the end of this month and jump on Sprint. No really WTF happen to T Mobile? I can get all bars and the phone's data connection seems to stall on 3G. I scale it back to Edge and it works again. This is a year and a half after 3G rolled out in Minneapolis.
Now if I can only find someone to buy my 160GB iPod classic so I can get an EVO...which even though I HATE soft keyboards the screen is big enough in landscape to almost type naturally. Almost. Anyone defending the G1 at this point are people still clinging to their iBooks and PowerBooks saying that its just as good as a MacBook Pro. Please wake up to reality. Your hardware is living on life support. Now if it does what you want. More power to you. Neither I nor anyone else should heckle someone who is on old hardware, because if it does what you want...who the hell are we to say what you should be running?
@John Doe My G1 (well technically ADP1) works great on 2.2 and 1.6 (not so good when I installed Eclair without Danger). I've had it for over a year and all it's suffered is a small scratch on the screen.
I really would like this for my Dell Streak. Android 2.2 will make it really awesome. What a brilliant device.
to clear some things up:
for g1 only, requires danger spl, mt and nexus one is just root, flash, and go
likelihood of bricking phone: extremely low
flash is not supported on the g1 or mytouch arm cpus
also, i haven't had any fc problems, even with the market.
i'm loving froyo on my g1. linpack scores over doubled and cpu benchmark time was almost cut in half from cm 5.0.8.
No flash is a non-issue, because people who have used the HTC G1 in the past have experienced some time without flash. And most sites have been designed for mobile phones and some videos have gone HTML 5. Well at least it's a non-issue for me.
Where's the offical update for the 3gslide
Will It work with MyTouch 3G Slide? I can't stand T-mobile's bloat-ware apps that you can't uninstall.
before rogers even gives the Dream 1.6 wow
It's slower than running SuperD but I'm very happy I get to run 2.2 with Cyanogen.
Because CM6 RC has not yet been released for the droid. Check it out at www.cyanogenmod.com
I will just wait and let this update come to me without voiding the warranty. I have a My touch 3G. G1 should get the same update.
This is what I mean, we should just wait.
http://phandroid.com/2010/06/08/t-mobile-says-no-phones-left-behind-mytouch-3g-will-get-android-2-2/
It actually is IMPOSSIBLE to brick the droid. Well actually its possible t brick it but you can ALWAYS unbrick it. We have Motorola software that allows to unbrick the phone. The only way you can brick it is by physically harming it.
This has been the number one reason why people lived with windows mobile and now android, your phone doesn't die after 2 years..
@KhaledF
^^ This.
But... when your phone is half the speed, and less than half the spec of other phones, an upgrade is called for.
@Oskiee we need a video showing this on the g1
Damn! Android continues to amaze me!
Running CyanogenMod 6 on my G1. No sluggishness at all. I have been a CM user since CM 4 came out, and my phone performs so much better than with the T-Mobile Over-the-Air updates (which ended with donut).
I even have less of the force close issues Engadget talked about in their article (hint: run fix_permissions in the terminal emulator)
XDA-developers and Cyanogen, you guys are awesome. My G1 is still going strong!
I decided to go for it last night, though I did use my wife's G1 which she no longer uses just to be safe. I had never rooted before and it sounded a little complex (and I'm pretty good with this kind of thing) but I found a method of rooting on theUnlockr.com that seemed fairly simple (and they have a video). Once I got it rooted, I followed the instructions for installing the danger.spl and the rom. It took about 2 hours from start to finish but now that I know what I'm doing, I wouldn't hesitate to do it without a backup phone.
So far the 6.0 Rom is pretty good. Some things are definitely snappier (the web browser for one) and I am not having any issues with the Market. I am noticing a lag at times when exiting apps that wasn't there before and Better Keyboard lags badly so I had to revert to the stock keyboard but that's about it. Overall, I like it. I will be sticking with it unless there is an issue with battery life - we'll find that out today.
@flash99 Ok - now I've got some issues. Battery life is fine but as soon as I tried to download a picture from an email, Gallery started force closing and will no longer work at all. If I can't fix this I'm going to have to go back to 1.6.
Any ideas if/how this could be used on the LG Ally? It has similar specs (Qualcomm processor, RAM) to the myTouch.
Wireless Tether works on the G1
With any luck, we'll see 2.2 on the Galaxy S phones soon... already almost a million sold worldwide: http://briefmobile.com/galaxy-s-still-selling-well
They expect ten million sold!!
just installed this last night. Works perfect, even the marketplace is working.
Had two issues on the first attempt:
- market crashed on boot
- gmail sync unavailable
Both issues related to not wiping between the upgrade from cryo 5.x to 6.0. Just remember to wipe first (the cryo 6.0 instructions imply that this is not required).
If we can get Google Experience Froyo or Froyo with Sense on the MyTouch Slide I'd be fucking set, lol. Not a fan of the "MyTouch" Skin to be honest.
when if ever is the Froyo coming to my Droid?