Everyone’s favorite Android hacker appears to have angered someone at Google. We just received word that Cyanogen has received a cease and desist letter from Google. Details are scarce, but it appears Google is not happy about Cyanogen distributing their closed source Android apps (Market, Talk, Gmail, YouTube, etc). CyanogenMod is easily the most popular custom Android rom with over 30,000 active users.

Relevant bits from the chat log we received:

[20:03] <cyanogen> google just cease and desisted me
[20:15] <cyanogen> cyanogenmod is probably going to be dead
[20:16] <cyanogen> i’m opening a dialogue with them
[20:20] <cyanogen> no they are talking specifically about the closed-source google apps
[20:20] <cyanogen> and how i am not licensed to distribute them
[20:20] <cyanogen> my argument is that i only develop for google-experience devices which are already licensed for these apps
[20:20] <cyanogen> so we’ll see what they say
[20:20] <cyanogen> maybe we can work something out
[20:24] <cyanogen> maps, market, talk, gmail, youtube

Hopefully, the two parties will be able to work something out. I’ve been using CyanogenMod on both my Android phones for several months and they are awesome. If you want to show your support for Cyanogen, you can always visit his site and place a donation (His site is down at the moment) for all the countless hours he has put into improving the Android platform.

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Google you better watch it, you might just piss off the wrong group of people you have been trying to so feverishly accumulate. Do be like Apple, and have to control everything. Android is open source.
And if I want to use other firmware in my phone then dammit im gonna with or without your or T-Mobile’s ok.

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Exchange support, Every language enabled, Other fun features..

*Requires SPL 1.33.2005

You don’t need to do anything other than rename to update.zip and flash. (a wipe is most likely needed)

Things missing from this build are Root and Paid Market apps, however you can snag it from Here or Here.

Update:

Rodgers R2 build Get it Here
Root working, ion-dalvik, Rogers apps ripped, HTC Sync removed, and paid apps working.

Screenshots! Thanks androidandme

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Fixes:

• Comcast fails to download more than 1 email
  • Symptom(s): No error message but it stays on “Load More Messages” without ever pulling another email.
• “Messages” Stability Issue
  • Symptom(s): When trying to send a message or exit the “Messaging” application you receive a pop up message that reads “Sorry! Activity Messaging (in application Messaging) is not responding. Force Close Wait”
• WiFi forcing a logout of IM
  • Symptom(s): While using the IM clients on the G1 if you turn on or off WiFi the sessions are terminated and you will need to sign back in.
• No reminders for calendar items.
  • Symptom(s): Missing appointments due to the lack of a reminder.
• G1 hanging at the G1 Screen
  • Symptom(s): A small number of G1 devices hanging at the G1 screen during the initial power up

New Features:

• Support “Check For Upgrades” (New feature to check for system upgrades)
• Voice Search (New Google feature for searching)
• Ability to save pictures recieved as MMS
• Ability to report offensive comments in the Market as SPAM

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anod from xda-developers has managed to get his HTC Kaiser to run Android.

Hi, I loaded android on my Kaiser
I Used in zImage above from dcordes and
data files from there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show…&postcount=140

(All the files (haret,default…) I placed in the /sdcard/android, i copied
data.img and system.img with the names data.img.gz and system.img.gz
and all 4 files also copied into the root of sdcard

Because when i loaded dcordes zImage for the first time it asked for /sdcard/system.img.gz file
)

Touch screen is not working, no radio and no buttons….
now black screen without any response
but still…

Ps on the second load: press wheel work like enter, whell up or down change current desktop, w,e on the hardware keyboard for cursor moving,
opened camera application – asking for sd card, but it’s kind of stable.

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So our friends over at xda-developers.com figured out how to downgrade the G1 to Rev29 to re-enable root.
This works by forcing the G1 to load the firmware on the SD card. A while ago when the internal Service Manual was leaked it mentioned putting certain SD cards in the G1 and pressing the power and camera buttons to load up the diagnostic tool for example.

hetaldp from xda-developers says:

Ultimately same old .nbh file flashing method is doing the Tricks

so as long as HTC Dont Change the Bootloader / SPL we can downgrade to RC29 at any time from Future Upgrades.

HTC / TMobile may Patch Bootloader / SPL to stop downgrading, but i think there is no Version tracking logic in HTC Proprietory nbg flashing system.

Here are the steps to get Root on your OTA updated G1:

1. Format the SD card to FAT32 mode (this is sometimes needed. The image is not always found if other files are on the sd card).
2. Download the RC29 image for G1’s Here or Here or Here.
3. Unzip the RC29 image file DREAMIMG.nbh to the SD card.
4. Turn the device power off and insert SD card.
5. Hold Camera button, and press Power button to enter bootloader mode.
6. Press Power button to start upgrade procedure.
7. After finish, perform the soft reset to reboot.

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