Comments on: Android 1.6 Available… For Dev Phone 1!

By: pacothebandit

pacothebandit — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:51:45 +0000

Is this like flashing any other rom out there? to many words make it complicated but I know how to flash. I am using the cupcake dev phone 1 rom and from what I understand it should work?

By: dsh

dsh — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:32:22 +0000

@MIKEEEEE just to clarify: “yes, you’re asking too much”

By: dsh

dsh — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:31:35 +0000

@MIKEEEEE yes: the G! doesn’t have a radio that can do CDMA. The OS now supports CDMA, but your hardware still needs to have the radio. Maybe you can have your employer buy you a Sprint Hero.

By: MIKEEEEE

MIKEEEEE — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:37:54 +0000

silly question time here guys but, if i read right donut allows CDMA porting of a g-1 right?

i just got a new job opportunity that requires me to have a sprint phone with a 1000 minute contract and gps capabilities.

i would be so cool to use my long in tooth g-1 for my job and get another newer android for t-mo.

am i asking for too much?

By: pecoy

pecoy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:30:25 +0000

what are the improvements of this new update???

does the web browser have flash with this update?

By: jdog

jdog — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:11:10 +0000

@Bob Garon you could brick your phone don’t do it. On the Google Ion, Google really messed up people who have put this update in their phone and it’s messing them all up. Google released the wrong version for the Google Ion but they are trying to hurry and fix it. I have a Google Ion with a HTC Sense mod, so I think I won’t upgrade to Donut and if I do it will be Cyanogen’s version. :)

By: Bob Garon

Bob Garon — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:35:15 +0000

Why can’t we flash this to our phones? What would happen if we did?

I have a MT3G and if I flashed the ION image what would happen exactly?

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:14:41 +0000

im sure someone will rip the 1.6 like they did for the 1.5

even though we had to upload the uk version 1st then got the us version about a week later.
lets do the same thing so we can have our donught!!

By: curt

curt — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:05:55 +0000

For Hero (or any HTC Sense phone) I assume this means we wait till HTC incorporates 1.6 as their base; do their HTC Sense mods, then release; which probably means 4 months?

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:51:20 +0000

I’m with Piers…I want to know if this means that it will roll out to the G1 or if it will only be subsequent phones. I don’t know a whole lot about the Dev Phone, but it LOOKS the same as the G1. I’m guessing it’s pretty much the exact same phone.

So…I WANT MY DONUT!!! er…WITHOUT HAVING TO BUY A NEW PHONE!!! :)

By: wltn

wltn — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:34:32 +0000

If I remember correctly, it was between two weeks and a month before people actually began receiving official updates with non-rooted phones…then it took one to two weeks to roll the update out to every phone.

By: jeff mccune

jeff mccune — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:22:46 +0000

will rooted phones not work with this?

sorry if its a dumb question.

By: Piers

Piers — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:21:41 +0000

If that’s the case does that mean that G1 phones (which IIRC is same hardware as the Google I/O device (or Android Dev Phone 1) will be able to run Donut?

By: gylu

gylu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:12:51 +0000

score

By: Johnny Awkward

Johnny Awkward — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:05:03 +0000

1.6 is also available for the ‘Google I/O Device’ – that is, the Magic that was given out at Google I/O.