[MUST-READ] Full Working MultiTouch on the T-Mobile G1 Android Phone

[scott8813]

Full Working MultiTouch on the T-Mobile G1 Android Phone
Ok i know a lot of ppl are waiting to hear this ..

Here is the Video:





Here is the link to Instructions (thanks to Luke Hutchison for detailed Description)

Code

http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/android-stuff/

Current Steps Posted on his website are as follows.

"If you follow the directions I link to (and then the instructions that those pages link to), then you should be able to do the following pretty easily — the instructions are very clear:

(1) reflash your phone to RC29, which is rootable
(2) get root
(3) reflash your bootloader, and reinstall system keys so that you can in future flash anything you want
(4) reflash to a hacked RC30 (JesusFrekes version) — rooted
(5) download the Android source, apply my patch, build it, and flash it over the top of RC30 using fastboot to flash system.img and boot.img
(6) to go back to where you were, reflash JFs RC30 (you may or may not have to reflash the engineering bootloader before that). If the phone wont boot, try wiping your personal data (Alt+W) in the reflash screen.

Note that there is one step missing in the linked instructions: After you reflash/wipe the system, you often have to go into system settings and re-enable USB debugging to proceed any further.

All that is pretty straightforward and wont break your phone at all if you follow the instructions exactly. From that point on, if you ever brick your phone, all you need to do is put in an SD card with either a replacement bootloader or a replacement system (Linux + Android) image, and hold down two buttons while switching the phone on — and you can go back to your old setup.

Because the Android source code in git is not fully functional, I dont recommend keeping your phone reflashed — my address book, messaging, and the soft keyboard were all broken using git head, and I would miss most incoming calls — so I flashed my phone, spent three days and night hacking this, then went back to RC30 because I couldnt bear my phone to be broken like that for any longer…

The best idea is to try to follow the instructions, and ask on some of the linked bulletin boards if you get stuck. Good luck!"