Comments on: Android OS 1.5 US Now Available for Download

By: giz

giz — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:24:12 +0000

I manually updated to the U.S version of 1.5 and I was wondering what do I do when I actually receive the OTA? I’m scared.

By: moneyball101

moneyball101 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:43:02 +0000

I have a question.. I manually updated to android 1.5 cupcake and its made my phone laggy so I just wanna go back to the rc33 version that I was on before and receive the update over the air is that possible??

Btw I my phone is NOT rooted and I’m in the us and updated to that us version.

By: DUMPNemNDITCHES

DUMPNemNDITCHES — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:02:32 +0000

Did it,works great just wondering like others.Will I get future OTA updates,any clue?

By: olypdd

olypdd — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:25:42 +0000

I manually updated and haven’t noticed the problems you did. I do see it behaving a little sluggish when returning to the home screen from the browser. The battery life doesn’t seem poor, but then I am using one of the larger batteries from Seidio.

By: Mark in STL, MO

Mark in STL, MO — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:56:44 +0000

Geez–My wife gets her’s but I am still waiting!

-Cheers

By: CaliSkateBoyMichael

CaliSkateBoyMichael — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:16:07 +0000

Do not update to cupcake! it suck, the features are great but your battery dies so mcuh faster than normally and it restarts alot on its own, the battery charge sucks and u have to reboot to make it fully charge and so many good features from the 1.1 build are missing. i reverted back to RC29 and back to RC33 after the update because the update just made my phone suck…idk if these problems are because its manually updated, but i sure hope tmobile is working on these problems for theyre rollout to other G1 owners. Is anyone else with the update having these problems? if you recieved the Update OTA from tmobile can you please tell me if therse problems are occuring for you?

By: Felicia

Felicia — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:46:54 +0000

I GOT MY UPDATE LAST NIGHT!! WHEN I WOKE UP AND LOOKED AT MY PHONE THERE IT WAS!! AND LET ME TELL EVERYONE THAT IT IS GREAT AND UR REALLY GONNA LOVE JUST WAIT IT WILL COME!!

By: olypdd

olypdd — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:19:49 +0000

It’s just the format option recommended. When you format it in Windows, or with Mac’s disk utility, you’ll formatting options. Use Fat32

By: bjones

bjones — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:10:43 +0000

Thank you, and sorry to ask so many questions but what is Fat 32?

By: olypdd

olypdd — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:42:50 +0000

I would use a new empty SD card formatted Fat 32. Then you’re cooking with gas.

By: bjones

bjones — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:17:25 +0000

I tried the procedure, but it didnt work. it said update aborted.
I am currently trying again. Plus, my G1 only has like 32 MB of space left, and i cant figure out how to eliminate some of the excess MB. i think i downloaded the file too many times without renaming it. UGH so frustrating. any suggestions?

By: AaronB

AaronB — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:13:12 +0000

just to let everyone know… I am in the US Murfreesboro TN and I got the OTA update for cupcake today. (May 28th). Looks like the rollout has begun.

By: Miguel | Simply Blog

Miguel | Simply Blog — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:15:45 +0000

Hey Guys,

Thanks to everyone for the directions. The video was also helpful. It’s done, I’m taking cupcake with me to bed. :) The upgrade went smooth, painless and quicker than expected. Cheers, thanks again!

-Mig

By: olypdd

olypdd — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:01:47 +0000

bjones….you don’t say if you followed the procedure to instruct your phone to update off the file you transferred to you sd card. On a Mac, you have to rename the downloaded file to “update.zip”. The G1 system is designed to look for a file named “update.zip” to open. If it is named something else, or unzipped already, it won’t work.

Then transfer it to your sd card, disconnect/eject the g1 from the mac, and follow the instructions above to restart the g1 and update. good luck.

By: bjones

bjones — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:44:34 +0000

i have a mac and went to the link and used my USB to download what had downloaded onto my mac onto my phone. i turned my phone off and saw no difference – no widgets, touch keyboard, etc.
any suggestions about what i should do?
thanks.