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hey guys it's joe from pocketnow.com and today we got something special they said it couldn't be done but we're gonna prove them wrong it's Android 2.2 Froyo running on the g1 let's see how it's done alright what we've got is a t-mobile g1 very very well used got all kinds of battle wounds and what I've done here is I have booted up into the raw recovery and this is version 1.6.2 I know he's got a 1.7 out right now but we're going to do this with 162 what I've done is I've loaded up my sd card with the RC one candidate of CyanogenMod six-point 0.04 the g1 and I've also put the frf 91 google apps package on here as well so we can flash the google apps back on there when we're done as well so we're gonna go ahead and select the signage in mod 6 we're going to hit the HOME key to continue and there we go it's installing at this point verifying the package and it's going to go through and flash this this is going to take a couple minutes when we're done with this we're going to flash the google apps and then we're gonna boot up for the first time into Froyo now you'll notice I didn't say I was gonna wipe in there that's because I found that going from a five point zero point eight CyanogenMod ROM which is on here right now up to a six it hasn't required me to wipe so far but if you run into problems make sure you wipe wiping is always a good thing so let's go ahead and let that run off camera and I'll be right back okay with quite a bit of troubleshooting I went ahead and got the ROM in place and turns out my problem was with a bad SD card more specifically with problems on the SD card I was able to backup all the data luckily and reformat a tree partition it and go ahead and download both the rom file and the google apps kit wiped the phone because I did already installed it from a bad or a corrupt rom file because it was on that bad SD card once I did that everything just lit up and was working great now the bad news is that meant that I spent most of the night re downloading most of my wife's apps this is my wife's phone configuring everything and setting it all up but you can see here this is the HTC dream we are running Android 2.2 and the kernel version is 2.6 point 34 CyanogenMod running CyanogenMod six point zero point zero D S which is dream and sapphire now rather than the Nexus One and it is release candidate one with Froyo build frf and 91 that's the latest one to date so overall really great ROM it is still a release candidate there are still some issues but nothing more than you'd expect in a normal off-the-shelf ROM and it's definitely better more stable and faster than the stock one point six that the phone originally came with or rather that this phone originally came with so really impressed with it you can see here I've already loaded up the launcher Pro app down at the bottom and I showed you videos about that in the past it comes with ADW launcher stock which looks almost exactly like the launch or two app which is the stock launcher app for Froyo but launcher 2 is just too slow for for this hardware now a couple things to keep in mind in this version JIT or JIT as Google calls it is turned off now that's where you get a lot of the speed you can go in and turn that and turn that on along with cop cache if you want to but on some of the phones and I forget if it's the 32 a or b they're just not quite fast enough to be able to run the JIT compiler so even with the 3d gallery the phone is still a very responsive it's very very nice given that this is the latest version of Android and the earliest Android phone that was commercially available I'm very impressed it is still a release candidate which means that there are still some bugs I would highly recommend if you go this route that you do a nandroid backup first and then wipe everything before you install your new ROM and the the Google Apps you will need to have danger SPL on it of course you don't want to follow those instructions to the I'm not going to go into those details in this video those will be on the page that I'm going to link you to to get the two files that you need to install this but if you want to breathe new life into a really old phone and really make it just about as full featured as a nexus one there's no better way to go than with CyanogenMod and fitting all of that Froyo into the g1 framework well people said it just couldn't be done and my hats off to cyanogen and all of his team members for proving them wrong so with the first look at Froyo on the g1 I'm Joe for pocketnow.com