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It’s like tunebin was a while ago:

http://riptune.org/

+ the conf*ulator radio/playlist thing. powered by the wonderful and awesome axcid.

http://developer.yahoo.com/everything.html

It’s all there. Prettymuch everything that needs to be replaced. Collective effort anyone?

Let me just start by saying, since the start I have been an android supporter, and have invested a good $1000 or so into the platform as far as phones go.

Anyways, I did not use the ‘official’ rom, I used the rooted Cyanogen Mod. Which just received a cease and desist order from Google. Google’s official response seems to boil down to ‘Android is open, but google apps are not’. The bottomline being the phone doesn’t really function without those apps.

So here’s whats out:
-Contacts Sync
-Maps
-Youtube
-Gmail
-Google Talk
-And last, but most important, the ‘android market’

And anything else not in the android source tree.

Most of the community could probably live without those except android market, after all, the latest maps.apk can be downloaded and installed from android market. Without the market there is no consumer friendly way to install apps on the phone. Ouch.

Some people (Including myself) have kicked around the solution of rebuilding those apps. I personally like that idea and the idea of a ‘google stripped’ android. Most of what they provided could be recreated with public API’s.

It’s just something to think about though, with no real commercial open mobile os, developers are being placed in a walled garden no matter where they go.

I guess it’s a waiting game now for a developer to start the ‘openandroid’ tree or whatever it will be called. But I look forward to the day when that project starts with curiosity.

Wassup?

After having at _least_ THREE ‘g1 headphone adapters’ die on me within the space of 5 months, and having to spend more then $10 a piece to replace them, I got sick of paying for these rubbish wires. The phone is great but the headphone adapters are not, but I managed to pull my self a Hi-Fi one with just a bit of DIY and Tape.

What you need:
(Minimum)
- A lighter
- Electrical Tape
- Wire Strippers
- Something with a 3.5 audio jack on the end (In my case, half of a audio splitter)

Connecting the wires:

First at the tip of each wire you see after stripping the coat from the original EMU connector cord, run a flame from the lighter under the wire until it catches fire, then blow it out. This exposes the wire by removing the chemical coating.

The annoying part about these (And I didn’t care to do much trial and error as to what does what) is that with Android, if several wires are not connected it won’t detect it as headphones.

In order to wire this up, you should have left, right and ‘center’ (gnd) coming from your 3.5 jack. See picture (http://graysblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/IMAG0010.jpg). All bronze / semibronze wires should be tied together and used as the gnd/center (at the ends where they were opened by burn). The blue and the white wire are microphone / button wires. You can safely set them aside.

The red(Organish) and green wires are respectively, right and left channel. See picture.

Wires all done:

http://graysblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/IMAG0010.jpg

Taping it all up:

Alright this is pretty simple, the way I like to do it is a strip of tape on every separate connection you make, then tape everything up. I’d advise listening to the headphones while doing this, the risk of shortage is low and it ensures that it works. No solder or mess. And for lazy people like me little work

Finished Product

And.. It's done

Surprisingly this works well, and the audio quality is great.

I apologize for the crap quality of this ‘miniguide’, I was rushed and just wanted the info out there

References:
(Soldering the wires)

http://hackaday.com/2009/05/24/soldering-headphone-wire/

http://www.alexwhittemore.com/?p=205

(Pinout)

http://androidforums.com/t-mobile-g1/4480-how-create-emu-3-5mm-headphone-jack-adaptor.html