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By Haroon Q. Raja on Dec 16 2010 
The HTC Dream, also released as the T-Mobile G1, was the first Android phone on the market, and the device still enjoys a loyal following due to its form factor, especially the hardware keyboard. It originally shipped with Android 1.0 but later received updates to newer Android versions. Now, you can try out an SDK build of Android 2.3 Gingerbread on your G1, courtesy of XDA-Developers members. Read on after the break for more information.
Disclaimer: Please follow this guide at your own risk. AddictiveTips will not be liable if your device gets damaged or bricked during the process.
Released by XDA-Developers forum member bypass23, this is an SDK based build and therefore, has a LOT of features missing like most other SDK Gingerbread ports that we’ve featured earlier. At present, only data and radio are working, apart from the Gingerbread UI. The mic isn’t functional in calls either. This ROM is not suitable for daily use and you should flash it only if you want to further develop it or if you just want to try out the new Gingerbread UI enhancements on your Dream / G1.
- Head over to the download link given below and download the ROM to your computer.
- Before you can flash it, your phone must be rooted. You can do so by following this rooting guide for the HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1.
- Once your phone has been rooted, download HardSPL from the link given below and copy it to the root of your phone’s storage card.
- Switch your phone off and boot it in recovery by keeping the ‘Home’ key pressed and pressing the ‘Power’ key. Once the phone boots, press Alt + L to bring up the recovery menu.
- Press Alt + S to apply the ‘update.zip’ file from the SD Card. Reboot the phone once the update is done.
- Rename the ROM that you had downloaded in step 1 to ‘update.zip’ and copy it to the SD card of your phone, replacing the earlier HardSPL’s ‘update.zip’ file that you copied to it in step 3.
- Repeat step 4.
- Press Alt + W to wipe your phone. This steps ensures that your device doesn’t hang during the new ROM installation.
- Repeat step 5, and you’re done. You now have Gingerbread SDK running on your device.
For more information, updates or feature requests, head over to the ROM’s thread at XDA-Developers forum and contact its developer.
Download Android 2.3 Gingerbread SDK Port for HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1
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The Run command on Microsoft Windows operating system allows you to directly open an application or document with just a single command instead of navigating to it’s location and double-clicking the executable icon. However, it only works for some of the inbuilt Windows programs such as Command prompt (cmd), Calculator (calc) etc. So, have you ever wondered how to create your own customized Run commands for accessing your favorite programs, files and folders? Well, read on to find out the answer.
Creating the Customized Run Command
Let me take up an example of how to create a customized run command for opening the Internet explorer. Once you create this command, you should be able to open the Internet explorer just by typing “ie” (without quotes) in the Run dialog box. Here is how you can do that.
1. Right click on your Desktop and select New -> Shortcut.
2. You will see a “Create Shortcut” Dialog box as shown below
3. Click on “Browse”, navigate to: Program Files -> Internet Explorer from your Root drive (usually C:\) and select “iexplore” as shown in the above figure and click on “OK”.
4. Now click on “Next” and type any name for your shortcut. You can choose any name as per your choice; this will be your customized “Run command”. In this case I name my shortcut as “ie”. Click on “Finish”
5. You will see a shortcut named “ie” on your desktop. All you need to do is just copy this shortcut and paste it in your Windows folder (usually “C:/Windows”). Once you have copied the shortcut onto your Windows folder, you can delete the one on your Desktop.
6. That’s it! From now on, just open the Run dialog box, type ie and hit Enter to open the Internet Explorer.
In this way you can create customized Run commands for any program of your choice. Say “ff” for Firefox, “ym” for Yahoo messenger, “wmp” for Windows media player and so on.
To do this, when you click on “Browse” in the Step-3, just select the target program’s main executable (.exe) file which will usually be located in the C:\Program Files folder. Give a simple and short name for this shortcut as per your choice and copy the shortcut file onto the Windows folder as usual. Now just type this short name in the Run dialog box to open the program.
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