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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.)
You begged, pleaded and cried for it.
Well.. here you go! We’ve got it! (All hail to Zinx!)
Just rename it to update.zip and flash as usual.
Update: I also have a working (unofficial) Jesusfreke image to go with it. (Thanks to pawbie for testing!)
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!
So the rumours of UK G1 users getting cupcake have been floating around for a few days now. Looks like the truth is about 1,000 people were updated for ‘testing’, but now the wider rollout has started! If you want to jump the line queue, read on..
Well.. guess what.. I’ve got some awesome news. Market, gmail, gtalk.. ON CUPCAKE.
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..)
And – according to the checkin logs – we’re almost up to an actual working system :) Bluetooth works, wifi works, now GPS works and maybe even hardware-accelerated GL! :)
I just saw over on Engadget that Nullwire has released a nice compiled Cupcake image that you can run with the Android SDK emulator to play around with all the new, moist, cupcakey goodness. Check it out:
According to this post, intel has got some cool stuff for Android ready for publication. My favorite from that list is KVM support – faster than the emulator, and it works with the SDK. :) They also have an EEE/Acer One target, and some bugfixes (wpa!) I’ll keep you updated as to availability and status..