The original developer that founded much of the process of rooting the G1 and allowing us to use custom ROMs. JesusFreke mainly concentrated on adding root and small tweaks to the official firmware to keep it as clean and as true to the original as possible which made them pretty stable.
On August 20th 2009, JesusFreke announced his official departure from cooking ROMs for the community citing a loss of interest to push him further. Here is a quote from his blog about his announcement:
I’ve decided to call it quits on the whole rom making thing. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I haven’t done much work on the rom lately anyway, not to mention the way overdue CRC1 rom that I never got out. I’ll still be around of course, working on smali and hanging out on freenode. But I just don’t have enough interest in doing rom work anymore to continue.
I sincerely appreciate all the kind words about my roms, and I want to again thank everyone who has donated.
If you’re looking for a new rom to try, I recommend cyanogen’s stable or experimental roms. He’s put a lot of work into them, and they have many more features than mine do/did.
Also, If anyone wants to grab my build environment and maintain a “JF-style” build on their own, go for it
If you need any pointers on how to update the build environment as new official releases come out, feel free to ask (There really isn’t all that much involved in it).
His smali/baksmali tool is still being developed upon and provides an essential tool for developers to use in aid of development.
JesusFreke also developed a superb Recovery Image for us to use, which allowed us to flash custom ROMs with ease and to allow us to use Nadroid via ADB. Cyanogen then took the recovery image a step further by adding lots of extras, including the ability to create a Nandroid backup and restore without the need of a computer!
You can still find his ROMs available to download as they provide a rock solid starting ground to the world of custom ROMs. However many newer ROMs have now added additional features as well as reliability but JesusFreke will never be forgotten amongst the community for providing assistance and guidance to the scene.
JesusFreke’s ROMs
JF 1.42
I’ve just released JFv1.42 for RC33 and ADP1.1h – h for holiday.. the new “holiday release” that dev phones got OTA today.
There are no major changes to report for ADP1.1h, other than the changes from the “unofficial” ADP1.1 to the official ADP1.1h, which include the RC33-esque goodness you might expect, including Latitude, Google Voice Search, and the various market improvements. You can find the base (non-JF) ADP1.1 update over on Disconnect’s blog
For RC33, the only change is a fix for an issue with recovery mode; namely, adb wasn’t enabled.
For RC8, sorry guys. You’re stuck at JFv1.41 for now, until I release a new version with changes, or t-mobile UK releases their framework v1.1 version of the UK firmware.
As always, this update is inclusive of all the prior updates, the most recent being JFv1.41, which you can find details on over at xda-dev
JFv1.42 ADP1.1h (1381) JFV1.42 RC33 (6361) JFv1.42 ADP1.1h Build Environment (294) JFv1.42 RC33 Build Environment (666)
JF 1.43
This is a small bugfix to the new ADP1.1h version. It fixes the issue with Latitude where it would hang after clicking “I agree”.
The former ADP1.1h version is now named “holiday” instead, to differentiate between it and the true ADP1 image. It turns out that ADP1.1, and the new holiday update to ADP1.1 were (more than likely) actually the firmwares meant for the “holiday bonus” phones that Google employees were given over the holidays.
Enjoy!
For more info on the JFv1.4* builds in general, see the xda-dev announcement thread for JFv1.4*.
JFv1.43 Holiday (4850)
JFv1.43 Holiday BuildEnvironment (1005)
JF RC9 for UK Users
Here is the “JFized” version of the new UK RC9 firmware.
There are no changes as far as my modifications go, between JFv1.41 RC8 and JFv1.43 RC9. It has just been updated for RC9 instead of RC8.
For more info on the JFv1.4* builds in general, see the xda-dev announcement thread for JFv1.4*.
JFv1.43 RC9 (5445) JFv1.43_RC9_BuildEnvironment.tar.gz (1109)
JF .151
I’ve released a new set of images based on the US/ADP/EU versions of CRB43.
update: The US and UK builds have been updated to fix the MT browser issue. New build enviroments and CHANGES for them too. See this post for more info
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There are no major changes from my JFv1.50 release, except a few new kernel modules.
As usual, I don’t guarantee whether you’ll have to wipe or not. My advice: Make a backup with nandroid then try the update without a wipe. If you run into problems, do a wipe or restore your backup.
They should be available on the JF Updater app. Or you can download and install them manually
JFV1.51 CRB43 ADP (12558) (672003d8164c37c3c088a80294ac86b2)
JFV1.51 CRB43 US (20032) – 98a66d11f90fdb7ab4f2442a329d2519
JFV1.51 CRB43 EU (5804) – 85f4212794c142a65967a47a4d099304
JFV1.51 CRB43 ADP BuildEnvironment (1032) – 6012fce5b60225e47e2de5762492a457
JFV1.51 CRB43 US BuildEnvironment (1088) – 5af8c9ab3c2f818869bbb35ec1ed8628
JFV1.51 CRB43 EU BuildEnvironment (635) – ba5b9c0488cce07ac1931623c74b6161
JFV1.51 CRB43 ADP CHANGES (2632)
JFV1.51 CRB43 US CHANGES (2878)
JFV1.51 CRB43 EU CHANGES (1716)
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