ADC2 Announced, But There’s A Catch
So the new Android Developer Contest is finally announced (just 9 months late) and it has semi-open judging (via a Market app that appears to be open to anyone.) But there is some bad news too.
Tmobile USA Cupcake URL
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!)
Quick Hack: Save Tons of Space
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!
UK Owners: Your (Retail) Cupcake is Here!
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..
Specs!
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..)
Android and Open Source
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.
Want Your Cupcake AND Your Gmail?
Well.. guess what.. I’ve got some awesome news. Market, gmail, gtalk.. ON CUPCAKE.
OFFICIAL ADP1 Image Finally Released!
Thats right, you heard it here first, the OFFICIAL ADP1.1 image has been released! No leaks, no shady stuff, no Google-employee-only images, btu that actual upstream image.
Updated: OK the directions and such are here now, just to make life a little easier.
Quickie: RC9 for UK and Germany Released
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!
Non-US/UK G1 Owners, Your Day Is Here!
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!