g1 ota rush ....

[Nelly]

in advance sorry mods if this is posted in the wrong section or if its a double post but i did do a search and found nothing ...

i was messing around with anycut on my g1 and i added something called device info it basically shows all the software and runtime info of your g1 , and at the bottom of this lil thingy i see there is 2 bars one blank bar for text and a bar that says check for upgrade ...

so in the blank bar i type TC4-RC28 ( the new ota)

And It Starts Checking In


Now My Question Is ... What The H*&* I Come Across ?


mods if this vialates anything please close ty =]

[K.Krstnsn]

i partly get what youre saying and partly confused.

[FSUftbllfan]

i partly get what youre saying and partly confused.

I'm like 70 percent confused and 30 percent understanding.

[thewannabeenforcer:P]

Well what happened??? Did you get any update???

That would be helpfull you know..

[Nelly]

lol srry ill abreviate Dl Anycut From The Droid Market and aftr its dled goto anycut
and goto new shortcut when the little list loads up add device info and open it up

no i didnt get a update i just wanted to noe what this does and maybe it can benefit us when the ota rolls out ;)

pssh i hadd a sidekick lx b4 the g1 and waitn for the video update on that was unbarable maybe this lil find by me can help us out

[golferguy17]

i did the same thing but it didn't change anything

[Nelly]

ooo never know man .... like i said maybe during the official rollout of the ota it will help us

[J-Dirty]

If it didn't work now I wouldn't think it's reasonable to assume it may work in the future. Your phone simply could have been refreshing itself to check its own status, not checking in with the servers for recent updates.

[K.Krstnsn]

Oh my god I am really starting to hate this android browswer. I've typed the following 5 times. And it keeps laoding a wrong page. And then when I press stop it doesn't stop fully ot just gives me a blank screen.

Anyways. I tried what you said. It changed a "checkin status" to "checkin_success" but that's it.

[Nelly]

lol nothing is gonna happen cause theres no ota out yett ....im just saying what if ...thats it

[K.Krstnsn]

lol nothing is gonna happen cause theres no ota out yett ....im just saying what if ...thats it

how is there no update yet?

was it pulled? last i heard it was in the midst of being distributed.

[Nelly]

ive read somewhere around here about the ota being released in early nov ...can sumone post a link if they know what im talkin about

[damnitpud]

I have been playing this for the last week. the box is asking for a build type. at the top it says the build type is user. I even tried entering that in to see if iwould get the update but it just goes to checkin_success.

But if you turn your radio off and try to do a checkin, it will give a bunch of error information. i am sure someone can use it to see where its going. I haven't had the time to check it out.

[Nelly]

thnx god sum1 not shootin down the idea of this lil find thnx =]

[DDM123]

thnx god sum1 not shootin down the idea of this lil find thnx =]

Please stop writing like this.

[Driguez]

TmoNews reported that there was to be an over the air update (OTA) for the G1 on the 23rd (http://androidcommunity.com/t-mobile-g1-update-on-october-23rd-20081023/), but after no update was made available, reports changed the release date to November 2nd.

Front page - http://androidcommunity.com/android-community-week-in-review-week-43-2008-20081026/

[jdlorinser]

Please stop writing like this.

Agreed. Hurts my brain.

[obijohn]

For "Build Type" you should enter "user" -- if you look through the Device Info, it's broken down into categories, and one category is "Build Type" which it lists as "user". If the text box was labeled "Build ID", then I'd say enter "TC4-R28", because that's the format listed in the Device Info (although when we get it, the build ID may very well be TC4-R32 or something, especially if they're adding the browser fix). Anyway, given that it says "Build Type", I'm pretty sure it should be "user". So maybe when the OTA upgrade is available, this will give us a way to request the upgrade instead of waiting?

[dkvitus]

Please stop writing like this.


Agreed. Hurts my brain.

Actually it's fun to read... I think he is using a iPhone (lol... pls dont shoot me!)

[jn3825]

^^ lmao!!!

[Nelly]

lol i can actually write normal , its just i get very lazy lol =P dont bash the lazy kid