Android Security Team speaks about recent updates

[endmp25]

Originally Posted by endmp25

To UK users: I read in an article... Google makes the update and distributes them to your service provider and then they randomly choose who will get the updates. So if Google already made the update it is your service provider which is the one taking their sweet time.

Originally Posted by grenness

I am nearly 100% certain this is not the case.
Neither are the suggestions that the update is transmitted via a text message.

Most probably, the phone itself checks with a Google server once every XX hours to see if there are any updates or other "info".
I have an unlocked G1 on a Norwegian provider who has no clue whatsoever that I am using a G1 on their network.
I received the RC30 update this morning (Central European Time).
I don't know if there are any tricks you can do to try to "force" the update to arrive, but when I got to bed last night I rebooted the phone (turned it completely off and on) and left it on my desk, plugged into the power cord, and with wifi on. When I woke up, the message about "an update is ready" (or something like that) was on the display.
I have used the phone for 6 days, and was until today on RC19.

~Christopher

I really do appreciate your comment... but I don't believe your certainty is 100%, it is very possibly we are both right.

Originally Posted by CNET news

Google writes the patches but relies on T-Mobile to disseminate them to its customers and to communicate with its customers, said Rich Cannings of Google's Android security team.

Here is the CNET NEWS ARTICLE

This is the case here in USA... As for anyone using a "jailbroken" phone I've read you must do the "modified" manual updates... It is entirely possible that it is different for UK... you may have recieved the update because it is linked to your gmail accout so it is entirely possible that Googles servers stepped in...

If google is smart they would offer the update in multiple ways... especially if some Andoird phones may come to the household market without a service provider but a required WIFI or Lan line... So good observation.