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US Dell streak Android 2.1 found

I was on the dell support page today. I typed in my Service tag and there was Android 2.1 for the streak for download. I haven't installed it yet. But will do so and check it out. Have anyone spotted this? OS post date was yesterday.

yea I see this too but when you try to download its only 9.3 kb so I know it isnt 2.1, I do wonder if it is some sort of prep for the release of 2.2. Does this mean we can expect something really soon?

Looks like it's just the PC Suite, it was about 32mb. I'll download it when I get home though.
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pops up now with a 550 error or 404 error. Sounds like 2.1 is about to release.

p51d007 said:
pops up now with a 550 error or 404 error. Sounds like 2.1 is about to release.
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I also received the same error. I don't think they were suppose to be releasing 2.1, thought they were going directly to 2.2.

wrightc88 said:
I also received the same error. I don't think they were suppose to be releasing 2.1, thought they were going directly to 2.2.
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Yes,a couples of days ago that the statement of one spokeperson from Dell

p51d007 said:
pops up now with a 550 error or 404 error. Sounds like 2.1 is about to release.
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If you go to the dell forums theres a sticky about how tthey're not gonna release any more 2.1 roms for european users and the US is still on track for a 2.2 release... We just have to wait for dell now.
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I tried to get it installed but didn't have any luck. Talk about a bummer. I am gonna give them a call.

Looks like it was removed, so maybe something is in the works and may be happening soon.

from dell support forum
Streak Android Update News

Sorry folks its just a PC suit not the update for froyo. This discussion has been mutted a few times already. and the streak is going straight to 2.2 by the end of the year.
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Other than the 2.x apps that won't install on my 1.6 streak, and the annoying no rotate from the home screen (fixed by the adw.launcher), the 1.6 has been light years faster than my old 6.5x windows mobile phone

Gingerbread?

What are the chances the streak will get gingerbread.....you guys think its possible
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tchamander said:
What are the chances the streak will get gingerbread.....you guys think its possible
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It's probably very possible. I haven't seen any devices that are listed that have higher specs than the streak
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Possible? yes. Probable? no. As slow as Dell is updating to push Froyo out for the AT&T users, I dont see this ever happening with Gingerbread lol

Terrigno said:
Possible? yes. Probable? no. As slow as Dell is updating to push Froyo out for the AT&T users, I dont see this ever happening with Gingerbread lol
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That's at&ts decision. Not dells. Froyo is out for the streak. Most phones that are unlocked get their releases fast as they don't pass through carriers. They are direct from the manufacturer.
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just for a comparison, the Italian version of my actual device, HTC touch HD, never got any ROM update because it was branded (not even locked) by an Italian carrier.
anyway. i don't really think there will be a gingerbread update. at least not a dell official one. all the other competitors have made official statements, tweets, and whatnot about updates to 2.3, silence from dell. skeptical... i just hope they won't be inspired by motorola on this one

i see a chance of dell dropping support for the streak on their mobile line. i dont think its done that well and i think its kinda their fault. however, if it stays on the lineup for another couple months, it may just get gingerbread. id be expecting it more from djsteve than dell though. just as a side note: no android phone on att officially has froyo yet. ponder that.

The Jack of Clubs said:
i see a chance of dell dropping support for the streak on their mobile line. i dont think its done that well and i think its kinda their fault. however, if it stays on the lineup for another couple months, it may just get gingerbread. id be expecting it more from djsteve than dell though. just as a side note: no android phone on att officially has froyo yet. ponder that.
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They are still selling it as new on carriers world round. So.... we'll see? But I'm sure we'll get it ported over one way or another! I haven't had much experience with Android, so I have no idea on how to do any of that kind of stuff ... So I'll wait and see if Dell mentions anything!

I think we will get Gingerbread.. Personally, I've seen more and more good news about the Streak and I would hope that because of this Dell would offer to support the Streak's upgrade path.
We all know Gingerbread is said to be more tablet friendly and Dell has marketed our device as a tablet first (phone 2nd). If it's not official from Dell I'm sure someone from XDA will keep the dream alive
Streaking with the XDA app!

ETA december 31, 2613! lol

Hopefully before streak EOL announcement...
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For sure it will get it. Spoke to my dell guy inside and he says demand is up with a 15 day lead time...
What you also have to realize is the dell 7 streak will be out soon and businesses like mine will snatch them up... when people learn about the streak 5 they will buy.
I knew little to nothing about it and I am a tech person.. until my dell guy handed me one to play with...
Can't wait to watch porn on it. Lol
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Krad said:
Can't wait to watch porn on it. Lol
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nothing better than a 5" screen to see it on lol. I agree though i think it will get gingerbread, for the reason that the Dell 7 will more than likely be announced at CES people will jump to get a cheaper model price wise the streak and see if its good so that they can get the 7 for say business. Im sure it will get gingerbread as soon as it starts rolling out at least the unlocked version will lol. Not many have gingerbread if im not mistaken ive only seen the Nexus with a legit gingerbread .

I think theres no gingerbread update for streak
the main new fiture in ginger bread is nfc suported, but dell doesnt have nfc chip on it,,
maybe gingerbread available in the next streak (opus one)
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Krad said:
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Can't wait to watch porn on it. Lol
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Hahaha sure things would be even bigger on a 7" streak, any app suggestions?
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blumontego said:
I think theres no gingerbread update for streak
the main new fiture in ginger bread is nfc suported, but dell doesnt have nfc chip on it,,
maybe gingerbread available in the next streak (opus one)
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NFC support could be most hyped hardware thingie on gingerbread but mass market adoption will take time and there are many alternative ways to support such functionality even without a built in IC. Whether streak will get an official update or not depends on dell moving its butt to make it happen but I also use nexus one and it will be gingerized without an NFC IC and hopefully start rolling very very very soon...
More than 2 finger multitouch, gyro capabilities and apps utilizing/supporting such features will be more of my concern rather than specific support for NFC on existing hardware as gingerization rolls out...
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I feel it will get gingerbread. Reason is that Google hasnt said that you need to have anything to use gingerbread unlike with Honeycomb its just up to dell to get it done.

blopez24 said:
I feel it will get gingerbread. Reason is that Google hasnt said that you need to have anything to use gingerbread unlike with Honeycomb its just up to dell to get it done.
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Not aware of honeycomb requirements, can you point out?
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I cant find the actual article but i was reading that it would need a tegra2 processor now it could be just assumed but its what i read. I cant remember if it wsa on bgr or engadget. it was one of em.

blumontego said:
I think theres no gingerbread update for streak
the main new fiture in ginger bread is nfc suported, but dell doesnt have nfc chip on it,,
maybe gingerbread available in the next streak (opus one)
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if the lg optimus one series is getting gingerbread and doesnt have nfc support then the streak might be upgraded too

blopez24 said:
I cant find the actual article but i was reading that it would need a tegra2 processor now it could be just assumed but its what i read. I cant remember if it wsa on bgr or engadget. it was one of em.
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I think I know what you are talking about, and if I remember correctly it stated honeycomb is "optimized" for tegra2, but it is not required.

Fascinate Getting Gingerbread 2.3 Instead of Froyo 2.2

I just spoke to a Rep at the Verizon store in Humble, Texas named Isabel. She told me that she spoke to their Samsung Rep today and he told her that they are skipping the Froyo update and going straight to Gingerbread. No word on when though.
There phone number is 281-446-0415 if anyone would like to call and verify.

This **** is getting old .... let's please stop with these threads.

Well im not sure about OTA but birdman got. 35 kernel booting so there working on porting gingerbread if you don't believe me check the irc channel
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smitth6750 said:
Well im not sure about OTA but birdman got. 35 kernel booting so there working on porting gingerbread if you don't believe me check the irc channel
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Devs working in Gingerbread is an entirely different animal than a release from the vendor.
I'd be REALLY surprised if they gave 2.2 a miss entirely.
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timpter said:
I just spoke to a Rep at the Verizon store in Humble, Texas named Isabel. She told me that she spoke to their Samsung Rep today and he told her that they are skipping the Froyo update and going straight to Gingerbread. No word on when though.
There phone number is 281-446-0415 if anyone would like to call and verify.
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Stuff like this means nothing. We've seen things like this one too many times. Take nothing they say at face value, because it's already been proven to be false a majority of the time in the past.

Samsung reps and Verizon reps don't know much more than we do. Take anything they say with a grain of salt.

Kevin Gossett said:
Samsung reps and Verizon reps don't know much more than we do. Take anything they say with a grain of salt.
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X2...
Agreed.

The only way you will ever see GB on the Samsung is via the work of the devs.

bendbowden said:
This **** is getting old .... let's please stop with these threads.
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agreed...no offense to the op...but give it up...you help no one by posting this crap at all

Gingerbread is now confirmed to be a tablet operating system, it will not be on 'phones'
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eek, definitely misspoke. I meant Honeycomb, and yeah, was far to tired to even be commenting on Gingerbread, sorry.

CxanDroid said:
Gingerbread is now confirmed to be a tablet operating system, it will not be on 'phones'
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You're definitely thinking about honeycomb.....and if I'm not mistaken honeycomb will run on phones as well but is "optimized"for tablets...
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Yeah, GB is running on the Nexus S, so how can you say its for tablets only? You are definitely thinking of Honeycomb.

micdawg12 said:
Yeah, GB is running on the Nexus S, so how can you say its for tablets only? You are definitely thinking of Honeycomb.
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yeah, and it was running on my Incredible
until I unrooted and gave it to my wife

it would be a huge victory for Samsung to pass on froyo and release GB within the week. It would catapult them past HTC and motorola in the significance area of Android development. I think they need to do this if they want to regain lost respect.
Since Nexus S is galaxy S with GB on it already and is basically 99.9 the same as our phone, I definitely think it's doable. I would definitely prefer gingerbread. I want it just for the newer copy/paste feature.

God man, all this misinformation. Let me clear it up for you. We are most likely NOT going to skip froyo (2.2). Gingerbread (2.3) has ALREADY BEEN RELEASED and it is on a phone called the Nexus S on T-Mobile USA. Honeycomb (2.4 or 3.0) is for tablets in its current form. Man, this getting ridiculous.

Kamar234 said:
God man, all this misinformation. Let me clear it up for you. We are most likely NOT going to skip froyo (2.2). Gingerbread (2.3) has ALREADY BEEN RELEASED and it is on a phone called the Nexus S on T-Mobile USA. Honeycomb (2.4 or 3.0) is for tablets in its current form. Man, this getting ridiculous.
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doobieking420 said:
i blieve u tim. fuk all da hatas dat sayin u lyin.
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please go buy an evo

nitsuj17 said:
please go buy an evo
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He can't. There is no way to say "evo" in a shortened slang format.
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lol, was just letting y'all know what was told to me yesterday, will keep it to myself next time if it satisfies the mob I don't know if she was right or not but sure as **** would be cool.

Some could take it with a grain of salt rather than attacking the poster for relaying what he was told from, what should be, a reliable source.
I had heard about Samsung skipping froyo on another forum. I don't think it's true but I guess we'll see.
Thanks for sharing info.

Official update to gingerbread

Guys just got this information from my indian customer care that ginger bread will be officially released already for india in next 7 to 10 days and there are strong chances that will be worldwide.
It should have been released a lot way back but goggle being on strike the update was stopped for all.
For those on froyo please keep on checking and let to us who are on gingerbread.
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I hope its True Man , a heavy stable version wll b awesOme

It will be enough if the release only for india...for rest of us we have some brilliant dev on XDA.

of course, makes perfect sense.. DJ and Fards just got it stable..*after Dell releases source code*#likely becuz they couldnt do it themselves or would have took them a longer time# $$may not actually be the real reason but feels goot to bash Dell..$$
anywho.. Good news... hopefully its not the last one..

jitin02 said:
Guys just got this information from my indian customer care that ginger bread will be officially released already for india in next 7 to 10 days and there are strong chances that will be worldwide.
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And you were sure, even going so far as to scream it, that we likely weren't getting Gingerbread at all.
I'm teasing, so don't lose your temper. If it happens it's good news. In keeping with Dell's means of shooting out the update, the unlocked Streaks should get the update first.

sajibcy said:
It will be enough if the release only for india...for rest of us we have some brilliant dev on XDA.
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But it's only for india, you can always have the package file dude
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jitin02 said:
But it's only for india, you can always have the package file dude
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As long as we have friends in India

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
And you were sure, even going so far as to scream it, that we likely weren't getting Gingerbread at all.
I'm teasing, so don't lose your temper. If it happens it's good news. In keeping with Dell's means of shooting out the update, the unlocked Streaks should get the update first.
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I m not losing temper, just sharing from whom I got this news
1.. dell service center
2. Customer care telephonically
3. Dell official dealer (as he is the one in my whole city who gets every news first b4 anyone gets here in my city)
Still I am too hoping it's true
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sajibcy said:
As long as we have friends in India
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I am always a friendly indian.
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Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
And you were sure, even going so far as to scream it, that we likely weren't getting Gingerbread at all.
I'm teasing, so don't lose your temper. If it happens it's good news. In keeping with Dell's means of shooting out the update, the unlocked Streaks should get the update first.
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Dell always do that.
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Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
And you were sure, even going so far as to scream it, that we likely weren't getting Gingerbread at all.
I'm teasing, so don't lose your temper. If it happens it's good news. In keeping with Dell's means of shooting out the update, the unlocked Streaks should get the update first.
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what numbers are unlocked streaks? I updated to 360 a while back which is a 00 but I don't have a windows pc to flashboot any more

00 ROMs are for unlocked Streaks. If you don't have a Windows PC to flash though, that could be somewhat problematic. In my experience, the OTA upgrades tend to be very flaky, and thus copying the update.pkg to the SD card manually is often a better bet.

i do have an ubuntu laptop..
the last time i used flashboot was on my sisters windows laptop but she does not have it anymore i dont know how to flashboot on linux (is it even possible?) i cant even install StreakMod Recovery anymore without flashboot

I would find a copy of Windows if I were you, because I don't think there is a Linux native version of fastboot out there.

google for fastboot for ubuntu, i don´t have the url here, but i´ve sucessfull used fastboot on ubuntu 11.10

Thanks jitin02 for sharing the news.
It would be nice if they provide a better launcher instead of laggy Stage UI.

darklord790 said:
Thanks jitin02 for sharing the news.
It would be nice if they provide a better launcher instead of laggy Stage UI.
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Ya i m to hoping for that otherwise the update would be just equal to ****
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Whatever they include with it you can change it easily enough so don't worry about it.

Troute said:
Whatever they include with it you can change it easily enough so don't worry about it.
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+1
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that's great news. there are a couple of things that I wish I could see updated and I am writing those down in hope that, maybe the guys developing it read this forum:
* New dialer that:
- works in all dpi's (preferably without visual bugs).
- has smart search (searching for contacts with the stock dialer on streak is a pain).
* gtalk video and audio
* toggles in the notification area (like the samsung touchwiz or cyanogen mod). This is actually a new feature but one that I think that everybody would love.
* fix fastboot erase command (I am not sure that's actually fixable by firmware but since its a wishlist )
* and the most important of all: PLEASE, release the drivers sources so we can port other ROMS, that's actually the single best thing that you could be doing for fellow streakers.

Official Statement from Dell: There will be no Gingerbread

I just got a reply from Dell and they told me that there will be no Gingerbread Update released for Dell Streak 5 nor any other updates.
Thanks for reaching out. Auto notifications will be sent when any update is ready. MA
Sorry, confirmed with a mobility expert. There are no plans to update the Streak 5 any further. Link to non-Dell /unofficial version here http://del.ly/6018RIKn. Thanks. MA
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On the question why a Gingerbread Update was released for the Korean market and not for US/EU, they said
No specifics we can provide, but ultimately a business decision involving Dell & respective carriers. Thanks, SV
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So, in conclusion this means, there won't be an official Gingerbread update. I can't follow this decisions, but they probably have their reasons.
Nevertheless, all the binaries for a Gingerbread build are available on Dell's servers:
http://opensource.dell.com/releases/streak/4.05/

This is old news, in that it's been known unlocked Streaks would not get Gingerbread. However a carrier-branded, thus official, version of Gingerbread exists, as you note. All the custom Gingerbread ROMs except StreakDroid are based on this carrier-branded ROM.

Did Dell really give you that link to GingerStreak? That's crazy...
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Yeah, they even gave some other guy a link to an alpha ICS port for Streak 7...

forceu said:
Yeah, they even gave some other guy a link to an alpha ICS port for Streak 7...
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https://twitter.com/#!/DellCares/status/149610352940810241

forceu said:
Yeah, they even gave some other guy a link to an alpha ICS port for Streak 7...
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which happens to be the exact same guy responsible of streakdroid, dj steve

I know - and I would love to see ICS on the Streak 5

Chances are verry small I think. My hope evaporate