Hello this is my first post. Just wanted to say hi.
Well I have an unlocked G1 running on AT&T and I was wondering how are we suppose to get updates if they are OTA and I assume you would need t-mobile for that.
Is there a way to manually do it? Is there someway to download it directly to the phone from a source?
Thanks alot.
I sure wish I had that t-mobile SIM that I had. I assume it wont work if it is canceled right?
I have a feeling people who have them unlocked are going to get screwed and have security holes up the wazzoo...
i have talked to tmobile multiple times about this. no one seems to know the answer. I have a t-mobile sim card in my phone right now just to see if it will update. the card is the one that came with the phone, show it shows the t-mobile service, it just will not let me call or anything. I am hoping that it will update this way then I can put my att card back in. I will probably leave the t-mobile in every night while I sleep and the phone charges just to see if it will actually work. I will keep you guys posted as to if it works or not.
I have yet to get my OTA update and I am on T-mobile. I was going to unlock my phone, and I have a question. Does your G1 work ok with data on AT&T market and all? plz let me know I have someone that is tempted to buy one at full retail and just take mine after I have it unlocked.
Thanks
it would seem to me that legally, they have to provide the patch at some point due to the GPL... it also must be provided free of charge..
when they offer it is a different story, but legally, anyone who has it, who share it (if they knew where it was cached) with no legal issues
Only Google doesn't use the GPL.
But yes, that's true. The source for everything that's free-and-open (we know there are parts of the OS that aren't) should be made available. Whether or not (and/or when) they offer the update as a binary is anybody's guess, like most things with the G1/Android.
maybe the evil FSF will get involved!?
spyz88 said:
Is there a way to manually do it? Is there someway to download it directly to the phone from a source?
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Yes there is.
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f28/learn-how-to-update-using-your-microsd-card-5784/
Worked flawlessly and I'm now running RC29.
uberingram said:
Yes there is.
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f28/learn-how-to-update-using-your-microsd-card-5784/
Worked flawlessly and I'm now running RC29.
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The info is also posted on this forum/site under the development area... sorry I don't have a link handy.
--M
did we ever find out if OTA updates get pushed to G1's on other carriers automatically?
The will be pushed to all G1's on a data connection. I repeat ALL G1's on a DATA connection.
I am on AT&T and just got the OTA update yesterday morning. I found this instruction on the internet (could have been sticky from this site) on how to get OTA update the original way.
I download Anycut from app store, create a shortcut for Device info, scroll all the way down and click on download button. Your G1 will call home and it'll appears that nothing else is happening on the screen.
I did this around 9pm Sunday morning, leave my wifi on, phone plugged in for charging and when I woke up my G1 greeted me with new firmware update screen (RC30).
Few issues that I found:
Home and call button are not responding (nothing happen when pressed) and I had to do a system restore to fix it. G1 security screen stop working even after turning security on and off - system restore fixed this. The Built in IM stop working when trying to connect via AT&T Edge, it complain that IM program can't read my phone number off SIM card - WIFI + IM client works without any problems.
natt108 said:
Few issues that I found:
Home and call button are not responding (nothing happen when pressed) and I had to do a system restore to fix it. G1 security screen stop working even after turning security on and off
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Noting that those are are all symptoms of a Setup Wizard call that ended badly somehow.
The guy who discovered this first:
http://inportb.com/2008/11/28/disabling-the-screen-lock-on-android/
I discovered it accidentally, by playing with Any Cut a little bit too much. Heh.
Ah... I see my experience with Setup Wizard funkiness is not an isolated case. At any rate, I did not have to perform a factory reset, as re-running Setup Wizard resolved the issue.
Ok starting yesterday my play (r800x Verizon us) started acting odd what it did was everyone that has Verizon knows we get an update message a couple times a day well I was getting it every ten mminutes so I desired to know why so I hit update, then my screen blacked out and then I was on my home screen. I went to the update option in the settings menu and it said previous session started down load in progress. It was like that for two days. I then used seus and reloaded my os and now its fine I still get a prompt to update every so often but I was just woundering what in blazes happened?
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Just turn off auto search for updates. Settings > about phone > software update > auto search (untick it).
Did you try updating over wifi? or 3g? Maybe it dropped signal and never restarted? God knows lol as long as you got the update is all good i suppose I just leave the auto search off and when someone says updates are out on xda i will then use ota or seus or flashtools to update depending on the circumstances.
That's the thing the update isn't out yet, and update can only be done on 3g not wifi, I just hope it will come out soon
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Hey Guys....
I have a Bell Atrix that i put on the rogers network, it's been working fine but i can't seem to get the OTA update for gingerbread. I've searched through the forums and couldn't find anything like the issue i'm having.
When i go to system updates it goes into the "checking for available update" but it never finds anything and it never stops. I've kept it on for hours but never gets past that point.
I've tried it on wifi on 3g pulling the battery on the phone for a reset but it never gets past there. Every once in a while it will say "check for update was not available at this time please try again later".
I also tried the manual checkin method #*#* (whatever those numbers are) and it didn't help either....
any ideas besides doing a factory reset ??
http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/10/14579918/instant-tethering-android-now-available-pixel-nexus
So what's the deal with this? The article says it's coming, but no release date and it says it's for version 7.1.1, which we have, yet without this feature. Then it shows you how to access it in settings, but of course it isn't there, so I'm assuming it's showing you how to enable tethering when it's released.
EDIT: OK so earlier today I checked and did not have this setting. Then I checked right after writing this post and now the option is there. I have no idea what changed but I'm about to try this out. This is going to be great without root
I think they is manually activating it by region or some sort, so not everyone going get it at once but a select people at a time until everyone
FYI: I had to restart my phone before it showed up.
Just got this OTA Update today G955USQU4CRE9 So check your phone for it. It has a different Boot Loader as you can see in Build #
the "what's new" Readme says "can or may include (but also may not) any change of fix" why even bother with the readme section? Samsung is shameless. jfc
It killed the network selection with the Sim out and the more shortcuts app, will not let me select and other bands, that's kind of a let down
My Wifi calling works again, it was not working for quite a while.
I took the OTA Friday night (6/22) and now I'm in a continual bootloop...can anyone recommend any solutions?