Yesterday one of our writers Killian Bell posted a story about the Jailbreak of the Android platform. Well if you have ‘jailbroken’ your G1 prepare to update. Google has started to release firmware update RC30 that closes this exploit. Google says,
We’ve been notified of this issue (Jailbreaking of Android) and have developed a fix. We’re currently working with our partners to push the fix out and updating the open source code base to reflect these changes.
The process of jailbreaking is a little different than the streamlined iPhone version that uses an application on your computer. Essentially you hack through the network into the root of the phone and are able to access files in the root system and view the big exploit. Google is pushing out the update over the span of a week to all users of the G1.
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