staulkors blog

BusyBox includes a lot of extra commands that simply aren't included in Android. Installing it gives access to grep, cp, vi, chown, nc, and near a hundred more commands.

If you would like to install BusyBox on your G1, you will need to get root access first.

1. Assuming you are already connected to your phone, browse to this article on your G1 and long hold the attachment at the bottom. Ignore the .xxx extension. Browser won't allow downloads of certain extensions. When you download it, the .xxx extension automatically will change to .asc.
2. Now t hat BusyBox is on your phone, wen eed to run a few commands so we can use it. 
   
   mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
   dd if=/sdcard/download/busybox.asc of=/system/bin/busybox
   chmod 4755 /system/bin/busybox
   cd /system/bin
   
   
3. Now BusyBox is installed, we can begin to add those commands that arent there.
   
   busybox cp -s busybox cp
   
   This will add the cp command. Replace cp with tar and you will now have tar. Type busybox to get a list of all available commands

WARNING!

Do not overwrite commands that are already on the phone! The commands built in have been simplified and have specific syntaxes. If you overwrite them, things WILL break on the phone.