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no thanks, I rather just click that update button in iTunes and get it instantly. ]]>Oct 28th 2008 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 28th 2008 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Yeah, because that's far more convenient.

/sarcasm]]>Oct 28th 2008 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 28th 2008 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
i got the update for RC29 this morning. It asked me if I wanted to update and there was a choice to cancel.]]>Oct 28th 2008 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/That's good form of Google. Unlike Tivo, whose updates are pretty much shoved onto the box whether you want it or not. Knock wood that so far none of the updates (that I can remember) toasted the box. But it would be nice for manufacturers to at least notify you and give you a chance to delay the update until you're ready for it.]]>Oct 28th 2008 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/With Android you don't have to be afraid of an update, because Android you can actually do what you want with it, unlike the iPhone which they have locked down. >_>]]>Oct 28th 2008 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
I prefer to update my phone while connected to my PC - iTunes does a nice backup of the phone before applying the update and if anything goes wrong you have the option to restore the phone.

At the very least Android should give you the option of 'checking for updates'. Having to wait for updates to get pushed to your phone is a little ridiculous. ]]>Oct 28th 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/You don't seem to understand the idea behind OTA updates. "Check for updates" is a pull mechanism - the point of OTA updates is that they're pushed to you as soon as they're available (with some network loading taken into consideration) so it's clearly better than you waiting until you happen to be at home and connected to your PC (err, Mac). There is no downside of an OTA update. Android already is backing up your contacts and apps so the benefit you're talking about with iTunes isn't relevant.]]>Oct 28th 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
I don't think you understand the principle behind OTA. OTA means you can install software or OS updates without the requirement of a PC. The push or pull process has nothing to do with OTA. ]]>Oct 28th 2008 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Nov 4th 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/technology/internet/25phone.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

http://securityevaluators.com/content/case-studies/android/
]]>Oct 28th 2008 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
"What if I am not near my home PC?"

You could try waiting until you are near your Pc at home.... ;)]]>Oct 28th 2008 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Nov 3rd 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
damn not even I can understand what I just wrote, to late to change it tho.sry.

please answer anyhows

]]>Oct 28th 2008 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 28th 2008 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Basicly it fixes a file corruption problem with Amazon's mp3 store.]]>Oct 28th 2008 4:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
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Surely they must have taken Google off air for a while to achieve that?]]>Oct 28th 2008 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/RC28 has quite a few more bug fixes than the amazon mp3 issue, I'm hoping that RC29 has some oomph to it as well.
Of course, by the time I get it, it'll be on GOLD2.7 or something.]]>Oct 28th 2008 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/By that time, Android would have a better interface and lots of bugs found and fixed... An would be a very polished Mobile OS.

Hop to see all this by November end.....]]>Oct 28th 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
My wife's Verizon contract ends in February and I'm already jealous of how much of these little nuances she won't have to deal with when she gets her Android phone.]]>Oct 28th 2008 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 28th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 30th 2008 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 28th 2008 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/In the browser, you can now force landscape mode with the screen closed.
Just go to menu - more - flip orientation]]>Oct 28th 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 28th 2008 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 28th 2008 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 28th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 28th 2008 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 28th 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 30th 2008 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 29th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
Bye peeps.]]>Oct 30th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.android-unleashed.com/2008/10/howto-manual-ota-update-instructions.html]]>Oct 31st 2008 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 31st 2008 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Oct 31st 2008 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Nov 2nd 2008 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
Second of all, I spent a long time using R19 before manually updating to R29. I don't have a changelog or anything but I can easily summarize some almost immediately noticeable things:
- battery life much improved
- entire OS and UI much more responsive
- both GPS and AGPS much less flaky
- increased EDGE/3G stability (from a friend that updated in a 3G area)
- better SD card handling
- more graceful failure and/or retrying of some network problems

And lastly, this is just a sign of things to come, folks. This is how open source works! People develop a project, open it up to others, interested parties fix bugs and send patches to the project, the leaders test for regressions and incorporate the good stuff. Then a new version rolls out to the world. The G1 is about choice.]]>Nov 14th 2008 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Nov 10th 2008 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Nov 12th 2008 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/and just after midnight like 1:15 (11-13-08)
got the RC30 UPDATE..IT SAID UPDATE AVAILABLE UPDATE NOW OR LATER..
I updated it..took about 5 min..total..
i noticed than when you plug your usb data cable u get the notification usb connected in the window shade
it gives u the option mount or don't mount
to copy files to/from computer and your phone's sd card
ALSO I NOTICED IT COULD HAVE BEEN ALREADY AN OPTION BUT IT HAS MORE OPTIONS UNDER SETTINGS/WIRELESS CONTROLS/MOBILE NETWORKS/ OPERATOR SELECTOR GIVES U THE OPTION TO CONNECT TO AT&T NETWORK....BUT I CLICK IT AND SAYS SIM CARD NOT ALLOW CONNECTION TO THIS NETWORK AND ANOTHER OPTION USE ON 2G NETWORK AND SAYS SELECT TO CONSERVE BATTERY..

AND ALSO THE CHANGES THAT UNIX NERD LIST ALSO...ABOVE

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I am in the minority of folks where this happens, I've been told. To make matters worse, the reset procedure did not unbrick the phone. 3 tmobile reps told me they had to send me a new one in the mail, there was no other solution. I got a bad loaner phone, and miserably awaited my new phone to come in the mail.

But they were wrong.

The issue at heart is that the SD card that ships with some Android phones has a bad partition table. And what you need to do is simply reformat the card with the correct partition table and place a copy on RC29 at the root directory of the SD card. Somebody else posted about it online here:

http://rivviepop.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/fix-your-g1-android-messed-up-sd-card/

After following this gentleman's suggestions, I successfully unbricked my phone, and all is normal again. Now what to do with the new phone arriving in the mail?!


]]>Nov 15th 2008 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/Nov 19th 2008 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/mystery-rc29-update-hits-t-mobiles-g1/
The list of problems are mentioned below.

1) When I power on the device, I get the G 1 logo on the phone and after 15 mins, Andriod appears and then when the screen comes on, the touch on Andriod does not work. It does not accept the captive touch command.

2) The phone does not alert when a call comes, it only shows the homepage.

3) The touch does not work on any of the applications.

4) When I go to setting, under sd storage, when I press factory settings, it takes me to phone reset and when I press it, it takes me to the final screen reset phone it does not highlight.

Can someone pls help?

Regards,

Vishal.]]>Dec 16th 2008 1:21AM