Android 2.1 moves down food chain, ROM now ported to G1 (update: hoax)

Future, meet your past. The fine lads at xda-developers forums have ported the Android 2.1 ROM -- you know, the updated OS from Nexus One that everyone's been talking about lately -- all the way to the original G1. Right now it's being dubbed version 0.9999 since it's still lacking A2SD, CompCache, and SWAP... and if you're feeling confused by the terminology, it might be best to not try this at home just yet. Creator Teh Dust has also removed a few things for the sake of making it more lightweight, including Car Home, Live Boot, and high resolution wallpapers / apps that don't jive with the G1 anyway. Willing, curious, and wanting to impress your Droid-carrying friends? File's hiding in plain sight, waiting for you.

Update: Quoth the raven, 'twas a hoax and nothing more.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[Wes Steele Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:43PM]

I'll wait for Cyanogen to port some of this goodness to his roms..

[Ash R Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:09PM]

@Wes Steele
I Imagine people are working on that atm. already some parts of 2.0 are in Cyanogen 4.2.8.1 anyways :)

[iDavey Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:23PM]

@Wes Steele Yeah. I remember he said he was working on 2.0.

It's been awhile since he said that. I've been waiting on it.

[Average White Boy Posted Dec 15th 2009 11:28PM]

@Wes Steele

Isn't this sort of stuff going to create a multitude of Frankendroids that will just screw up the whole Android platform? Wouldn't it be like merging Windows XP and Vista into some OS from hell? Without some sort of a gatekeeper, isn't Android is going to mutate into some beastly OS that hardly any standard apps will run on?

[helfrez Posted Dec 16th 2009 12:42AM]

@Average White Boy Actually I am running 2.0.1 as we speak fully functioning and running great. Eugena373 AOSP 2.2 (2.0.1) Amazing how well it runs.

[JamesR Posted Dec 16th 2009 9:34AM]

@Average White Boy

The gatekeeper is still Google as they are the only ones that the carriers and phone makers will go to for the OS.

Your Windows analogy is correct and there are a multitude of Frankendows out there that people build for various reason; like a Windows OS that boots and runs off a CD.

[Plazmic Flame Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:43PM]

What the heck?! These guys work fast, how the hell did they even get a hold of it?

[Plazmic Flame Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:44PM]

@Plazmic Flame SDK maybe?

[nak Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:44PM]

"WARNING it seems this is a hoax don't flash this !!!!"

Well then.

[saspr Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:44PM]

Oh man, all of this Android goodness. I can't wait to finish my finals and get home from school so I can get my DROID already..

[Solisnakeye Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:44PM]

If you guys go to the last page of the thread that was posted on xda you will find out this is a hoax. its a hoax guys.

[DJ Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:50PM]

Is there information yet on what is different in 2.1? The only thing I've seen is the increased amount of homepages (not sure if this is part of 2.1, or just something on Nexus), a cool Expose like way to go through homepages, and a 3Desque App Tray.

Is that it? If so, why the hype? The new OS hasn't nothing really new that's huge and even the Snapdragon in the Nexus isn't such a big deal when you have the Droid with the A8.

[El Daddy Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:50PM]

this is a hoax.

[Johnny Tremaine Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:54PM]

Ha! When was the last time this was possible on a Symbian phone? Except for selling cheap candy-bar phones to developing nations, Nokia is pretty much doomed.

[DefPoet Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:56PM]

@(Unverified)

http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/

-.- i think mre n900 wants to have a talk with you

[Goc Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:16PM]

@(Unverified)

Way to be on topic!
And look above...

[va jj Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:57PM]

2.1 on moto droid will be nice.

[skyblaze Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:59PM]

they're right... its fake. lets accumulate our nerd rage and burn the "developer"

[I7oobie Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:00PM]

I think Engadget should read to page 3, it's a hoax. It's actually 1.0 framework...

[Schoch Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:09PM]

HOAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

[WootRoot Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:06PM]

leave it to engadget to not read more into this and post it up as quickly as possible

[Lucas Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:19PM]

Cute cat

[saspr Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:20PM]

I just realized that engadget is now expanding the comments section by default again. I don't know when this happened (probably because it is much more natural), but phew.

[Devcoder Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:26PM]

Ok. So when will this be officially announced (it feels like it was already)

[UndeadOverlord Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:30PM]

Confirmed as a hoax

[TehDust Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:31PM]

Check it out, I'm on Engadget!

Thanks everyone for joining in the fun and downgrading to Android 1.0!

[cursive Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:44PM]

@TehDust not nice.

[TehDust Posted Dec 15th 2009 11:10PM]

@(Unverified)

Hey don't worry, everything can be switched back to normal on the phone.

Remember everyone that making backups before flashing is a good idea. ;)

[jon Posted Dec 15th 2009 11:05PM]

So between this and the Nexus One frequency confusion, I have to ask.

Do you guys do any sort of fact checking, at all?

[Jono20 Posted Dec 15th 2009 11:29PM]

@jon
I think they are probably more interested in getting it up as fast as possible. Im sure they do fact check but since its mostly just a consolidation of stories from all around the WWW doing so before posting breaking news would likely result in a very uninteresting site.

[suland Posted Dec 15th 2009 11:29PM]

Don't you guys see how uneven is the NEXUS ONE line on that screen?

[TehDust Posted Dec 15th 2009 11:33PM]

@suland

Well the screen shot was not shopped. I changed the device name, sdk version, and release version in the roms build.prop file so that they showed up as a Nexus running 2.1 in the actual operating system.

[Boudou Posted Dec 16th 2009 12:02AM]

I'm wondering why its taking so long for these updates to get to the older phones. I mean, the very vast majority of Android phones haven't even reached 2.0.

I understand the proprietary nature of mobile phones, but there needs to be a better more unified way. In a few years time, there are going to be literally dozens and dozens of Android phones on the market. We can't have a situation where every phone is all over the place on versions of the OS.

[helfrez Posted Dec 16th 2009 12:48AM]

@Boudou To be honest, thats part of the build of linux and Android. Doesn't really matter. It only took most devs a matter of days to adjust their apps to the new resolutions for the Droid, and everything thus far is backwards compatible. One thing I love about android is portability. I have an unlocked G1 on ATT, if i move to a Sprint hero, then to a Verizon Droid, i still keep all my apps, and most of my configs. Doesn't really matter if I am running 1.5, 1.6, 2.0.1 or 2.1.

And the key flaw in the statement, is Android isn't proprietary, its opensource. yes there are some proprietary & optional bits, but the OS isnt. My G1 running 2.0.1 rather flawlessly is a perfect testimate to that.

[Boudou Posted Dec 16th 2009 1:09AM]

@helfrez

I wasn't saying Android is proprietary I was saying the hardware on phones were.

We don't have a standard specification for Android . It isn't like a PC where you can install an Windows on pretty much x86 machine, Android runs on ARM, MIPS, Power Architecture, x86, etc. Then there are lots of proprietary hardware bits from the handset makers.

[j35 Posted Dec 16th 2009 12:44AM]

you engadget guys are dicks - must 50% of the shit on this 'shite' be BS????

[j35 Posted Dec 16th 2009 12:44AM]

how about waiting 10mins longer each time??? hmmm....

[Atlantian Posted Dec 16th 2009 2:22AM]

i have been running this for some days now this post is late

[Atlantian Posted Dec 16th 2009 2:24AM]

this ain't no damn hoax i have it on my g1 right now wtf does it mean its a hoax

[Mr w00t Posted Dec 16th 2009 4:18AM]

amazes me to see that hoaxes benefiting apple,like the n64 few days ago, are never "updated" like this one... just checked and it was not updated.

what a bunch of apple fanboys.

[BoBoTheChimp Posted Dec 16th 2009 9:11AM]

As a G1 owner all I have to say is "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[darkhack Posted Dec 16th 2009 9:30AM]

It almost been two weeks now since I received my new Motorola Droid, and I'm enjoying every bit of it. I was thinking of rooting my Droid, but I decided to wait and see. There are some concern when trying to install the latest Android OS will break the phone, and there might not be a recovery mode for it. It's a cat and mice game, but at least it exciting...

[Plazmic Flame Posted Dec 16th 2009 2:10PM]

From the article, there was an update.....

"Update: Quoth the raven, 'twas a hoax and nothing more."

[newjaruz Posted Dec 16th 2009 2:22PM]

I know this is a hoax but I have a lot of the 2.0 and nexus one things on my phone including the boot screen and lock screen and apps like the car home and new setting widget (black and green) . So i guess it is not entirely a hoax.