Android Device Exchange

Posted on March 10th, 2010 in Android News, Site News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , ,

Everyone has heard about Google’s Device Seeding Program. (Yes, it’s real.) So in the next few weeks (days? months?) lots and lots of people will be getting a nice 2nd-gen Android device. Except… nobody gets to choose their device. Google will send either a Nexus One or a Motorola Droid, at random. That is somewhat bad news – if you have T-mobile and bought a G1 on a 2 year contract, it will cost a hundred bucks to get out. VZW is (reportedly) even higher.
So what is a hardworking dev to do?
Here is Android Device Exchange to the rescue – hook up with other owners, device-seed recipients, etc and buy, sell or trade your devices!

CDMA Google-Experience Phone On The Way!

Posted on August 12th, 2009 in Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

Putting together some pieces off the mailing lists, it looks like someone is working on a CDMA “Google-experience” phone. I’ve got your likely specs below. No word on carrier, no blurrycam pics, no FCC filings. Just the hints.

Ion Update Available

Posted on May 28th, 2009 in Android Hacking by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

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.)

New SPL

Posted on May 16th, 2009 in Android Hacking by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

Haykuro has posted a new SPL (bootloader) that increases your system and data by about 30 megs each. Thats totally awesome.

Specs!

Posted on May 1st, 2009 in Android Hacking by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , , ,

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..)

Non-US/UK G1 Owners, Your Day Is Here!

Posted on February 22nd, 2009 in Android Hacking, Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , ,

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!

Quickie: HTC Magic Code Appearing

Posted on February 18th, 2009 in Android Hacking, Android News by Disconnect  Tagged , , , , , , , ,

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..)

ADP1 Phones Arriving

Posted on December 11th, 2008 in Android Misc by Disconnect  Tagged , , , ,

So the first actual dev phones are starting to arrive, and we’ve got a comparison article coming up if you want to know what you actually get for your $300 shipping fee. But for now, it is confirmed that the bootloader is, at first glance, the same (same logo, same version information) as the one we announced earlier. There are some differences though (in addition to the patches applied to our version) and we’ll be publishing an article later tonight with more details.