Posted on Mon 22 March 2010 in Android • Tagged with android, crosscompiler, gentoo, arm, milestone
The command to build a toolchain, that works with version 2.0.1 of the Motorola Milestone firmware, on gentoo is:
crossdev --kernel 2.6.29 arm-none-linux-gnueabi
(It worked for me)
Like in my first article I tested to build a helloWorld program and the bash shell. The steps needed …
Posted on Sun 14 February 2010 in Android • Tagged with android, milestone, root, update
Firmware 2.0.1 is out for all versions of the Milestone since about one week. It seems that Motorola did not patch the exploit that allows us to get root. If that was done intentional, its a huge step for freedom. (if not its just business as usual and …
Posted on Tue 02 February 2010 in Android • Tagged with android, crosscompiler, gentoo, arm, milestone
The toolchain build in this article currently only works with version 2.0 of the Milestone firmware, but I wrote another short article about getting a working toolchain for 2.0.1.
When I first used ConnectBot to get a local shell, I immediately felt some kind of incompleteness. I …
Posted on Tue 19 January 2010 in Android • Tagged with android, root, milestone, howto
Finally: root for the milestone! Today at 00:48 am SeraphimSerapis released a modified update.zip witch roots the 2.0 firmware of the Motorola Milestone. In the following I will document the process for rooting my device. This howto is for the Milestone NOT the droid.
Step 1. Getting …