Comments on: Android Ã¢â‚¬ËœrebootÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ command gets a fix

By: hello N96

hello N96 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:30:07 +0000

indeed i wonder what happens if you type

rm -rf ./*

on teh plus side on showing them the reboot bug they agreed to take it a return
which they dont do on upgrades

By: DanLane

DanLane — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:44:13 +0000

The iphone has the odd distinction of having been a lot closer to perfection when it was launched than it is now. anyway, none of the iphone bugs were due to such blatent stupidity!!

By: Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:33:26 +0000

Yeh, coz the iBone was perfect when it came out…

By: Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:09:53 +0000

Yes it does, Elliott our developer at Carsonified insisted on seeing if he could get mine to do it yesterday and succeeded. If you start typing straight from the home screen it will do it. Currently it is open to an Android shell commands such as telnetd which allowed Elliott to make a call via remote access from the command line of his macbook. I will be updating my G1 to see if it shuts him out.

By: DanLane

DanLane — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:59:18 +0000

Interesting, I'm sure I tried that when I first heard about the bug but you're right! it does!

By: chewtoy

chewtoy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:51:30 +0000

It does on mine! What firmware version are you on? AFAIK there isn't a fixed UK firmware yet…

Try doing a cold boot on the phone and making sure you hit return both before and after typing reboot.

A simple fix is to type “cat” (again surrounded by returns) to send all the user input to a less harmful location than /bin/sh

By: DanLane

DanLane — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:39:58 +0000

It doesn't do it on the stock UK version!

By: hello N96

hello N96 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:30:07 +0000

indeed i wonder what happens if you type

rm -rf ./*

on teh plus side on showing them the reboot bug they agreed to take it a return
which they dont do on upgrades

By: DanLane

DanLane — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:44:13 +0000

The iphone has the odd distinction of having been a lot closer to perfection when it was launched than it is now. anyway, none of the iphone bugs were due to such blatent stupidity!!

By: Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:33:26 +0000

Yeh, coz the iBone was perfect when it came out…

By: hello N96

hello N96 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:30:07 +0000

indeed i wonder what happens if you type

rm -rf ./*

on teh plus side on showing them the reboot bug they agreed to take it a return
which they dont do on upgrades

By: DanLane

DanLane — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:44:13 +0000

The iphone has the odd distinction of having been a lot closer to perfection when it was launched than it is now. anyway, none of the iphone bugs were due to such blatent stupidity!!

By: Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:33:26 +0000

Yeh, coz the iBone was perfect when it came out…

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:44:54 +0000

This only affects v29 firmware which was never shipped here.

By: DanLane

DanLane — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:59:18 +0000

Interesting, I'm sure I tried that when I first heard about the bug but you're right! it does!

By: chewtoy

chewtoy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51:30 +0000

It does on mine! What firmware version are you on? AFAIK there isn't a fixed UK firmware yet…

Try doing a cold boot on the phone and making sure you hit return both before and after typing reboot.

A simple fix is to type “cat” (again surrounded by returns) to send all the user input to a less harmful location than /bin/sh

By: DanLane

DanLane — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:39:58 +0000

It doesn't do it on the stock UK version!