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So you missed Google I/O, and failed to get yourself a free “Ion” (Magic). Don’t despair, you may not have the shiny black bling but you can have the software.
(Update: No you can’t, my bad. That is a patch zip, not a full. BUT .. I got my hands on a system dump and built an update.zip for you guys.)
Haykuro has posted a new SPL (bootloader) that increases your system and data by about 30 megs each. Thats totally awesome.
So I was looking at my phone, and under 1.5 my dalvik cache was 31 megs (!!!). Rather than move apps to SD (I use my sd card for other stuff, and my apps are only 15 megs anyway) I began thinking.. what else could I move? Aha!
And not the BS about “oh it has this much nand, and it is probably this speed, and the cpu part number might be NVRTELLU43″, but real, actual, honest-to-god hardware specs. (Some of) you want them. (All of you want them, you just don’t know it yet – these are the real deal, so we can do things like, oh, I dunno, USB-OTG and USB-HOST. Want tv out? Yeah, you know you do..)
A lot of noise has been made recently about Android and it’s degree of “openness” (from both sides of the argument.) If you follow me here, or on the lists, or on twitter, etc, you probably already know I have strong feelings on the matter. Although I don’t usually write articles for this site (mostly it is just announcements) I had this one that I didn’t post to the lists. (It got away from me, and was mostly off-topic to the discussion.) I liked it enough to finish it, and so here you go. My take on Android, open source, and how we get this thing from a toy up to world domination.
Well.. guess what.. I’ve got some awesome news. Market, gmail, gtalk.. ON CUPCAKE.
And we’ve got the link! Signed by Google, so you’ll need a stock phone for this one guys. (JF is already hard at work on his modded version, have no fear.)
RC9 For UK vOfficial (1985 downloads)
* Signed by Google
* For Stock Phones Only
* Install as update.zip
RC9 For Germany vOfficial (774 downloads)
* Signed by Google
* For Stock Phones Only
* Install as update.zip
Enjoy!
Its now possible to downgrade any G1 to a rootable version! All you need is a micro-sd card (Sandisk may not work) and a windows mobile device (sorry). From there, you can create a gold card and bam, downgrade goodness!
As reported elsewhere, the so-called DRM on the Android Market is worthless. We found this out a few hours ago, but I was holding off on posting pending further investigation and talking to Google. Now that its already out.. yes, everything he says is true. The so-called DRM barely qualifies as “permissions”, and sucks down a ton of space that the G1 really can’t spare.
So everyone is talking about the “G2″ (now revealed to be the Vodafone HTC Magic). Pictures, video, comment after comment.. well, here is something real for you. The first set of kernel patches just appeared in git! (Thanks to my tipster for the .. um.. tip :) .. And a big thanks to Google for getting something right – public open source code should always come before public binaries.. a lesson some other companies should take to heart..ahem*tivo**ahem..)