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Major firmware update for Android G1 scheduled for Easter

Cupcake coming in avril?
http://phandroid.com/2009/03/11/cupcake-coming-to-g1-in-april/
sounds good, doesn't it?

sounds realy good, but it may be an april fool

on 11th march? i hope not :_/

Like we haven't heard this over 8 or 20 times.
:::Sigh::: Here we go again...

If Cupcake is coming in avril, im next in line

either way with the Magic dropping hopefully Cupcake can be take from it.

memphisraynz said:
If Cupcake is coming in avril, im next in line
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LMAO!
Stupid long posts.

why would they put a cupcake in avril lavigne?
and what does avril lavigne have to do with android? lol

santaninja said:
why would they put a cupcake in avril lavigne?
and what does avril lavigne have to do with android? lol
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or do a cupcake with avril lavigne.. ehm.. i know somethings to do with avril lavigne

Among the most treasured of additional features is the on-screen keyboard the G1 is so desperately needing at the moment.
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I mean, it'll be nice to have.. but why is THIS, among all the things in Cupcake is the thing the "G1 is so desperately needing" ?
I have a perfectly good keyboard on my G1.
I would say video recording and stereo bluetooth are 'needed' before an onscreen keyboard..

nolageek said:
I mean, it'll be nice to have.. but why is THIS, among all the things in Cupcake is the thing the "G1 is so desperately needing" ?
I have a perfectly good keyboard on my G1.
I would say video recording and stereo bluetooth are 'needed' before an onscreen keyboard..
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Or just stereo bluethooth

@nolageek, the hardware keyboard i really great and beats all kinds of software keyboards for long texting, but sometimes a on-screen keyboard could be much more practical. I hate it to open the keyboard to enter 2 or 3 letters!

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-41704-145.html
Woot!

finally the update we've been looking for !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wonder how behind the UK update will be! lol
Sounds good though! Can't wait.

The magic gets released by vodafone in the UK in April, so if there isn't a release for the G1 by then someone will be able to make one since all the regional changes will have been made.

cupcake coming in avril huh? how about me coming in avril.
haha back to the point....i agree with MoridinBG, too much effort to open keyboard just to type a few letters. shows how lazy we are haha

Exactly how will this work if Im an AT&T Customer? Will google send the OTA Update to my phone??? I've always kind of wondered about that.
I have an ADP

Ehh, your provider does not matter..
i'm using a german blau.de karte (eplus, not t-mobile) and i've got the OTA update!
but the cupcake from t-mobile won't be send to yours, cuz it's an ADP phone! u will have to wait for a new adp firmware i think..

T-Mobile confirmed that it will release its firmware “Cupcake” update
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/12/android-g1-set-for-a-facelift-drops-in-price/
I posted this only because it is the first time i have actually seen someone using a "TMOBILE Spokesperson" as a reference. And when at least 4 major sites are reporting the same thing, it seems more credible than Googleandblog. Not to mention the moderator of this forum edited my subject and added their own post on this.

Google Maps Navigation?

Hi - I've been reading about how Google Maps Navigation has just been released into the market and does everything (and more) which a satnav will do, all for no money at all - but when I search my android market it isn't there? Any ideas where I might find this - it looks terrific?
I'm in the UK on Voda with a white, unlocked, Hero.
Many thanks!

bigbamboo5 said:
Hi - I've been reading about how Google Maps Navigation has just been released into the market and does everything (and more) which a satnav will do, all for no money at all - but when I search my android market it isn't there? Any ideas where I might find this - it looks terrific?
I'm in the UK on Voda with a white, unlocked, Hero.
Many thanks!
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You can't find it because its only released in the US for 1.6 Donut.

Tsk! Is the US-only thing important or should we Europeans be able to get it once we get the upgrade to 2.0? And thank you for your reply...

It's already been modified to work in Europe, I'm sure they're just finishing up support for the feature over here before releasing it officially.

bigbamboo5 said:
I'm in the UK on Voda with a white, unlocked, Hero.
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Unfortunately, as you may know, HERO is currently running on Android 1.5 CupCake, but not on 1.6 Donut, nor on 2.0 Eclair ...
Which means that, even when it will have been officialy released in Europe, it won't work on our Hero's

leinad said:
Unfortunately, as you may know, HERO is currently running on Android 1.5 CupCake, but not on 1.6 Donut, nor on 2.0 Eclair ...
Which means that, even when it will have been officialy released in Europe, it won't work on our Hero's
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Yes, but I believe I'm right in thinking that we are shortly to get an update to 1.6 Donut?

Nope, HTC are skipping 1.6 for the Hero and will eventually release 2.0
Waiting ....

licenced said:
Nope, HTC are skipping 1.6 for the Hero and will eventually release 2.0
Waiting ....
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Okay, well that will be fine for the Google Maps Navigation, then. I was hoping for the update before Xmas...

bigbamboo5 said:
I was hoping for the update before Xmas...
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Hoping does not cost anything

I searched the market and can not find the this app and i live in the us.

superevo89 said:
I searched the market and can not find the this app and i live in the us.
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not wanting to sound rude but have you read the above?

so since im running 1.5 it wont even show up in the market?

Correct.
Kinda what you would expect when people say it's out for 1.6 and 2.0 and discuss why it's not out for 1.5.

Android 2.0 & Camera drivers

Hi, the one and only thing keeping me from updating to Android 2.0 is that I won't be able to use my Camera. I've seen a lot of rom builders note that these will work as soon as the drivers are provided by HTC.
But what are the odds that HTC is actually going to provide these drivers? From what I've read there is no indication of HTC preparing an Android 2.0 update for the Magic or Dream devices.
Is there really any hope for us?
I think I'll probably give in and get a Nexus One once it's out, unless we get our update (and even then it's tempting).

ive seen a 2.0 rom with cam working... for mytouch/32b/g1 go look at some hero/2.0 roms in Dream dev sectiion

32b, damn.. would those drivers work on 32a as well?

most likely since the camera in 32B/A is the same. the rom itself probably wont work on 32A tho

So if there is a working driver on 2.0, why aren't there any 32A roms supporting it? There's like 5 of them and they all lack camera support..

Naatan said:
So if there is a working driver on 2.0, why aren't there any 32A roms supporting it? There's like 5 of them and they all lack camera support..
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No roms have cam support for any device, dont listen to the lies.
The mytouch/G1 will recieve up to 2.6 update from Tmo in the Us, which means custom roms will be made that can work on 32A.

Awesome! Thanks for the info.. I hope they will release a 2.0 version sooner rather than later then

what? im not lying...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=574526
this is the one with camera working. i turned on camera app and it worked. if u dont beleive me try it for urself hater.

melterx12 said:
what? Im not lying...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=574526
this is the one with camera working. I turned on camera app and it worked. If u dont beleive me try it for urself hater.
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hahahahahahaahahhahahahhahaha

melterx12 said:
what? im not lying...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=574526
this is the one with camera working. i turned on camera app and it worked. if u dont beleive me try it for urself hater.
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Noob
this is a Hero Dump and not Eclair ROFL
SelfOWNED!

naatan said:
But what are the odds that HTC is actually going to provide these drivers? From what I've read there is no indication of HTC preparing an Android 2.0 update for the Magic or Dream devices.
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The HTC Magic has only been out for 6 months, why do you think HTC would abandon it already? There is every reason to think they will contine updating it for at least another 6 months, if not longer ... they have kept updating the G1 for 18 months, sometimes they are just a bit slow at getting the updates out there. Just be patient people ... they are probably putting out 2.1 rather than getting 2.0 out of the door ... just my 2 cents anyway

what? it looks like a hero rom to me -.- whats the difference

melterx12 said:
what? it looks like a hero rom to me -.- whats the difference
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People are talking about Android 2.0 here but the ROM you linked to is a "classic" Hero ROM running on Android 1.5. There aren't any 2.0 ROM with working camera yet.

melterx12 said:
what? it looks like a hero rom to me -.- whats the difference
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Hero is just a HTC device which a lot of ROMs use content from, it has nothing to do with the Android version the ROM runs on.
There's HERO roms based on Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1..

I really don't understand. Isn't there a full set of tools for decompiling android binary files. Why hasn't the camera driver been decompiled and recompiled for 2.0. What is the hold up. There is a whole group of people doing this and developing the tools for it. I thought this was going to be fix in like 1 day. And we still have no camera. Wake up people.

ok u dont need to laugh and be rude to me jerks.

Ace42 said:
No roms have cam support for any device, dont listen to the lies.
The mytouch/G1 will recieve up to 2.6 update from Tmo in the Us, which means custom roms will be made that can work on 32A.
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can you provide a link that supports this information?

ooo man i laughed so hard. i havent seen sflpwned in for ever lol!! its ok to be a noob. Ya 2.0 or what everyone is trying to work with now is 2.1 is not just another hero rom or ne thing. its like upgrading from 1.5 cupcake to 1.6 dognut. Dont mean to laugh bro just had to. I am super noob friendly here.

Can't have it all I guess? (Not really a rant thread)

Hello xda-ers!
I have been stalking around, tasting everybody's cooking for a couple of weeks now, and i have got to get something off my chest.
I did search, I do realize that what I am looking for can not be made and that its no one's fault (I might be giving htc a meaningful look right now).
I like a whole lot of roms and chefs here, I really do, but the rom I'm after seems to not exist - one of two options:
1. A hero rom with all the eyecandy, that's donut based for compatibility with newer apps like goggles and the like.
2. An Eclair rom that has video and youtube working.
And so I would like to ask of you wizzies, is there light at the end of the tunnel? Are things comming around? How do you see it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, hardware-ish the mytouch is 36 MB of ram shorter then a hero and a has a lesser camera, but its not like the hero is running its os on its last bits of ram or anything so basically what the hero can do the mytouch can do, no? Is it safe to assume that when the hero\magic gets an update (and I do hope that it does) someone could pull over some driver support for eclair or something?
Thank you all so much for all your hard work, you guys are the reason I love smartphones so much, I'm dirt poor but i promise I'll buy you guys a round of beer once I get out of college

Its a matter of time bro. Be batient. A month ago, none of the eclair roms had camera. Now they all do. A month before that none of the eclair roms had N1 voice keyboard. Now they all do. God knows what some of these amazing roms will have and do a month from now. [/good deed for the year]

Love the FAQ sig lol

mnissan said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, hardware-ish the mytouch is 36 MB of ram shorter then a hero and a has a lesser camera, but its not like the hero is running its os on its last bits of ram or anything so basically what the hero can do the mytouch can do, no? Is it safe to assume that when the hero\magic gets an update (and I do hope that it does) someone could pull over some driver support for eclair or something?
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What?
MT3G has 192MB Ram just like Dream but has 512 ROM like Hero.Hero has 288MB RAM.

Macrophage001 said:
Love the FAQ sig lol
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^5 to you bro

mnissan said:
1. A hero rom with all the eyecandy, that's donut based for compatibility with newer apps like goggles and the like.
2. An Eclair rom that has video and youtube working.
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1. The devs aren't the ones making the actual hero, they just make hero work with our phones. They can't just say "I want you to be donut", and it be donut. Htc decided to skip donut, and the devs can't do much about that. They can however give you 2.0 hero which is scattered about the forum.
2. Drivers, drivers, drivers. You know, the thing that appears in almost every first post for this problem

JAguirre1231 said:
1. The devs aren't the ones making the actual hero, they just make hero work with our phones. They can't just say "I want you to be donut", and it be donut. Htc decided to skip donut, and the devs can't do much about that. They can however give you 2.0 hero which is scattered about the forum.
2. Drivers, drivers, drivers. You know, the thing that appears in almost every first post for this problem
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As I've said, I realize that.
My point is that apperently you can't cook rosie\sense\whatever onto a 1.6 rom without htc (Ref: "I might be giving HTC a meaningful look") and at the same time you can cook it onto a 2.0 rom - which means broken video drivers.
I'm sure there's a good reason for it, and this is not a rant, just needed to let steam out I guess.

mnissan said:
As I've said, I realize that.
My point is that apperently you can't cook rosie\sense\whatever onto a 1.6 rom without htc (Ref: "I might be giving HTC a meaningful look") and at the same time you can cook it onto a 2.0 rom - which means broken video drivers.
I'm sure there's a good reason for it, and this is not a rant, just needed to let steam out I guess.
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Well steam out in the right section next time

JAguirre1231 said:
Well steam out in the right section next time
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LOL +2000
"if" you had searched you could have found answers to both of your questions... and maybe posted in the correct section.
maybe that "I might be giving HTC a meaningful look" should be turned into "i actually searched and posted in the Q&A section or the I didn't read before posting..."
No offence but seriously if you would have searched you would have found those 2 answers in almost every thread that had to do with hero or eclair...

mnissan said:
As I've said, I realize that.
My point is that apperently you can't cook rosie\sense\whatever onto a 1.6 rom without htc (Ref: "I might be giving HTC a meaningful look") and at the same time you can cook it onto a 2.0 rom - which means broken video drivers.
I'm sure there's a good reason for it, and this is not a rant, just needed to let steam out I guess.
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I think someone leaked an HTC branded Eclair ROM with the "rosie/sense/whatever," and that's why you see it cooked into a 2.0 ROM.

Bless him, don't be to hard its obvious he needs a carer

shadowch31 said:
Bless him, don't be to hard its obvious he needs a carer
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Im sorry if i hurt anyones feelings....uh not really but serious on the searching!
if i did hurt your feelings feel free to express your feelings to someone else because either you are too sensitive or it my be that time of month... use the Ipad and get over it!
Have a GREAT DAY!

Sxyman815 said:
Im sorry if i hurt anyones feelings....uh not really but serious on the searching!
if i did hurt your feelings feel free to express your feelings to someone else because either you are too sensitive or it my be that time of month... use the Ipad and get over it!
Have a GREAT DAY!
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iTampon's come with strings for easy removal.

JAguirre1231 said:
iTampon's come with strings for easy removal.
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iAlwaysPantyLiners come with wings!

Well, this has gone off topic very quickly. Not that it was technically on topic to begin with since it was posted in the wrong place...

fiktion said:
Well, this has gone off topic very quickly. Not that it was technically on topic to begin with since it was posted in the wrong place...
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It went off topic at the same rate the iPad went from wanted to ridiculed. What's so bad about that?

Well back on topic/kinda...
Do we know for sure that htc will release the necessary drivers for video playback/camera? It sounds like some people are positive we'll get them eventually...I switched back to donut because I like being able to watch youtube, but its amazing how far along eclair roms have come, and mad props to NCommander for reverse engineering the camera drivers. Without him we'd still have no camera at this point. But I was just wondering if its confirmed or not that we will indeed get those drivers from htc one day.

Well, T-Mobile is teasing us with an Eclair update for our phones. We shall see.

What I would REALLY like is a ROM that is smooth and as responsive and the one on the iPhone. Doesn't need fancy apps, just the basic things like Messaging, Phone, Browser, camera/camcorder, apps of course. Anyone else think the same? It's what I have been looking for , for a long time

Snipe175 said:
What I would REALLY like is a ROM that is smooth and as responsive and the one on the iPhone. Doesn't need fancy apps, just the basic things like Messaging, Phone, Browser, camera/camcorder, apps of course. Anyone else think the same? It's what I have been looking for , for a long time
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There's actually one like that, it's called iPhone OS. I suggest you buy an iPhone and try it

Stock Roms for ZTE BLADE

Here are stock roms for differant european countries and the service providers
Play (PL): ZTE Blade - TFT screen
http://www.multiupload.com/NWQEJUI6D2

Is there any stable 2.2 rom in the stock?

No 2.2 as yet, but there may be one (or more!) very soon -- from China and/oe Japan. Whether they'll work on any/all the European Blades without any modification remains to be seen. But if you want 2.2, MoDaCo has a very usable Alpha 4 based on the pre-release Froyos.

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No 2.2 as yet, but there may be one (or more!) very soon -- from China and/oe Japan. Whether they'll work on any/all the European Blades without any modification remains to be seen. But if you want 2.2, MoDaCo has a very usable Alpha 4 based on the pre-release Froyos.
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I think Orange in UK has responsibility to release offical 2.2 rom for their customers. Most of the other brand name android phone are going to release 2.2 rom upgrade for their customers at the end of this year.

Did the links work for you?
I just wanted to download the ok-mobile rom as a backup. Just in case i should get a hardware issue during warranty time....
But I always get a 404 error or a not allowed.
Thx in advance

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I think Orange in UK has responsibility to release offical 2.2 rom for their customers.
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We've had mixed messages from Orange about 2.2. Perhaps they'll go straight to 2.3, assuming they bother at all!
The only European provider that has indicated they'll soon be doing a 2.2 for their version of the Blade is the Greek one. But AFAIK it's not confirmed and it's vaguely coming "in the New Year".

Wind announced that Greek version will get an official froyo update in the beginning of 2011

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We've had mixed messages from Orange about 2.2. Perhaps they'll go straight to 2.3, assuming they bother at all!
The only European provider that has indicated they'll soon be doing a 2.2 for their version of the Blade is the Greek one. But AFAIK it's not confirmed and it's vaguely coming "in the New Year".
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Is there any news from Orange(UK) for the 2.3rom ?

Maybe you should give credit to Sebastian404 for hosting those files?

_R2_D2_ said:
We've had mixed messages from Orange about 2.2. Perhaps they'll go straight to 2.3, assuming they bother at all!
The only European provider that has indicated they'll soon be doing a 2.2 for their version of the Blade is the Greek one. But AFAIK it's not confirmed and it's vaguely coming "in the New Year".
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News from China, ZTE V880 with 2.2rom will on sale at 28/dec from Unicom in China.

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Is there any news from Orange(UK) for the 2.3rom ?
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I have no background news or previous details but I would've thought Orange will not be that bothered about a pay-as-you go phone they are selling for less that £100 (at least here in the uk)?
That's one of the reasons I got it; it does some amazing things considering the price. Ah well, wait and see I suppose...
Sent from my Orange San Francisco using XDA App

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I would've thought Orange will not be that bothered about a pay-as-you go phone they are selling for less that £100
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I agree. I don't expect anything official, updates will have to be custom.

Thats Bull****... Android 2.3 are only for Devices with min. 1GhZ....
So we can get happy if we become 2.2.. but 2.3 will never come out for Devices with 600MhZ !!!
EDIT : All Downloadlinks dont work for me...

dRaCID01 said:
Thats Bull****... Android 2.3 are only for Devices with min. 1GhZ....
So we can get happy if we become 2.2.. but 2.3 will never come out for Devices with 600MhZ !!!
EDIT : All Downloadlinks dont work for me...
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I think you may be mistaken, 1 gig will be the minimum requirement for 3.0. There is no minimum for gingerbread afaik.
The confusion may have came from when gingerbread was fist announced and we all thought it was 3.0, at around the same time the system requirements for 3.0 were released.

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I think you may be mistaken, 1 gig will be the minimum requirement for 3.0. There is no minimum for gingerbread afaik.
The confusion may have came from when gingerbread was fist announced and we all thought it was 3.0, at around the same time the system requirements for 3.0 were released.
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let's see .. i dont believe that it will come out for this small devices...

dRaCID01 said:
let's see .. i dont believe that it will come out for this small devices...
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I agree. It wont 'officially' be released for us...

None of the above links work for me, they all just take me to the http://android.podtwo.com/ front page.

pls provide working DL links if possible, thx

wmlai88 said:
Is there any news from Orange(UK) for the 2.3rom ?
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looked at the the orange site. no upgrades what so ever for 2.2 or 2.3.
p.s how do you tell what one you have tft or oled

Could someone please reupload the finnish stock rom (onevstarting with EFI). I'm in desperate need in returnig to stock rom because I noticed my ZTE Blade has a yellow tint at the bottom of the screen and I can't replace the handset with custom ROM.
All help much appreciated.