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Apparently a loop hole has provided XDA Developers forum to find a way to gain root access to root of the T-Mobile G1 phone. The PTerminal application, available for download from the Android Market, in the phone grants access to this method. One can use it to start a telnet connection if you own a G1, and a computer. This can be tagged as a jailbreak as this is a hack, and well, there’s no other term for it, is there? This also gives the message that if the root access in the phone is open then new hacks are soon to come. How do you try this on your own? Well, it’s simple:

• Turn on your phone’s Wi-Fi, this gives your phone an IP you can reach it at.
• Get to a command prompt on your device by using the PTerminal app from the Android Market (adb shell doesn’t seem to work with these instructions, Telnetd does not start up).
• Go to: cd system.
• cd bin.
• telnetd.
• netstat (to acquire your phone’s IP).
• telnet into your phone’s IP from PC.
• and viola! You have root.