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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.

Galaxy S Gingerbread update soon. Due at end of March!

According to Android Central: http://www.androidcentral.com/european-galaxy-s-gingerbread-update-coming-end-march
Link to Samsung Romania post: http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileRomania/posts/189412624430604
A post on Samsung Mobile Romania's Facebook page seems to suggest that Romanian Galaxy S phones (and presumably other European models) may see an official update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread by the end of March.
Translated into English and cleaned up a little, the post reads:
"The update to version 2.2.1 for Galaxy S will be available until 20 March, and Gingerbread (2.3) until the end of the month."
Our Romanian is a little rusty, but we think it's safe to assume the last part of that statement means either "it'll arrive by the end of the month", or "it won't arrive until the end of the month". Either way, it looks like the European Galaxy S could soon claim bragging rights as the first non-Nexus phone to get an official Gingerbread update. HTC has announced that Gingerbread will be coming to some of its older phones, but these updates aren't due until sometime in the second quarter.
Samsung Romania also adds that two of its budget phones, the i5500 Galaxy 5 and i5800 Galaxy 3, will be updated to Froyo by Mar. 20 and Mar. 31 respectively. [Samsung Romania Facebook via Crave]
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still doesn't help us with key mapping because it's not source.
But good to hear either way.

for Europe

geoffcorey said:
still doesn't help us with key mapping because it's not source.
But good to hear either way.
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There are ways around it. Whitehawk has everything working properly except GPS in the Gingerbread leak we had

Emama said:
for Europe
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Yeah but now the we have that universal kernel, isn't good news for any Galaxy S variant good news for us as well?

thegreatcity said:
Yeah but now the we have that universal kernel, isn't good news for any Galaxy S variant good news for us as well?
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The universal kernel is for 2.2 and 2.2.1 ROMs only.

Also, it's not a universal kernel, it's a universal settings.apk that's been fixed for us.
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geoffcorey said:
still doesn't help us with key mapping because it's not source.
But good to hear either way.
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Doesn't matter, it means there is a good chance that we will get it, but probably not till 2050
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zer0nine said:
According to Android Central: http://www.androidcentral.com/european-galaxy-s-gingerbread-update-coming-end-march
Link to Samsung Romania post: http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileRomania/posts/189412624430604
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That's great and all - really it is. But didn't the first Froyo releases already come out in Europe by September? Yet the Vibrant didn't get Froyo for another 4 months...

so what this means is... a year till we get gingerbread?

reuthermonkey said:
That's great and all - really it is. But didn't the first Froyo releases already come out in Europe by September? Yet the Vibrant didn't get Froyo for another 4 months...
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I don't really know the history of the Vibrant, (Picked it up off Craigslist 2 months ago) but this at least gives me some hope.

God, getting Gingerbread on the Vibrant would be AMAZING. It would increase the speed, and once the source is released, we would see some awesome gingerbread ROM's for it.

Just one gingerbread leak for vibrant, then we will be back in business.
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iynfynity said:
Just one gingerbread leak for vibrant, then we will be back in business.
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Seriously. All they need is the driver sources + the kernel and CM7 would become amazing.

Hopefully somebody will be able to port it quickly if T-Mobile foes not roll out the rom in the same timeframe...

Tmobile said they would be more up to speed on updates. Take that for what you want it to mean.
That is all I gotta say about this subject.

ELStiko said:
Tmobile said they would be more up to speed on updates. Take that for what you want it to mean.
That is all I gotta say about this subject.
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+1. This was released by T-mo after 2.2 was released on kies for the vibrant. So hopefully we'll get gingerbread alot faster than froyo. And hopefully the first of the U.S galaxy S phones to be updated again.

If the Vibrant gets an official Gingerbread update EVER I will buy a Galaxy Tab immediately.
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Honeycomb?

Looks like Steve got honeycomb on the streak 7. You think we might get some kind of rom out of this?
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i would say chances are good, but if he says he is still waiting for drivers, etc..
I will belloking to get rid of streak5 for a streak 7 w/ 3.1 !!
then i'll probably get something in else in 2-3 months anyways

chrisrotolo said:
i would say chances are good, but if he says he is still waiting for drivers, etc..
I will belloking to get rid of streak5 for a streak 7 w/ 3.1 !!
then i'll probably get something in else in 2-3 months anyways
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Dj steve says Honeycomb for streak5 will be coming soon , he said on twitter- something's happening and soon

Google is currently witholding the source for Honeycomb (they say it isn't ready) so Steve is waiting for that. Once that's out he should start work.

Kumouri said:
Google is currently witholding the source for Honeycomb (they say it isn't ready) so Steve is waiting for that. Once that's out he should start work.
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But he's got Honeycomb 3.1 on Streak7, so he should be able to get it on Streak5 as well

As stated in first post Steve is waiting on a set of drivers that Dell cannot release do to licensing. Dell has released the shareware parts of Android, but without the modem drivers he is up the creek without a paddle. Now he has a standing offer to anybody that knows how to write code, he will gladly accept any working drivers you have to offer. With luck we have somebody in his basement working like a hampster in spinning wheel writing that driver

both gingerbread and hopefully honeycomb are coming very soon methinks.
Keep eye on my twitter for latest info

There it is u heard it from the man!
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OMG the streaks gods are watching over us :O
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DJ_Steve said:
both gingerbread and hopefully honeycomb are coming very soon methinks.
Keep eye on my twitter for latest info
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Man, you are a beast DJ_Steve
Keep at it!

garbagecanman said:
OMG the streaks gods are watching over us :O
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You mean Streak God! There is only one!!

DJ_Steve said:
both gingerbread and hopefully honeycomb are coming very soon methinks.
Keep eye on my twitter for latest info
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Thanks Steve! Cant Wait! Just switched from a HD2->SGS->desire HD->Streak Because Bigger is Always Better

Just been on Twitter. Looks like Honeycomb might be with us soon.

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.