I've just done this and it works perfectly, takes about 10 minutes to do.
Overall it seems like the phone is more stable and smoother in operation, we'll see how it does over time.
If it works for you, post back here to let people know it works!
I tried this and it didn't work for me... did what you post Insert the sdcard to phone and press the home key and red off/on key at the same time(hold it in)
Insert the sdcard to phone and press the home key and red off/on key at the same time(holding it in for over 1 min and nothing happen)
Ok I have the file on my pc, have it renamed to update.zip but when I try to drag and drop it on the sd card it says file protected and wont let me go further. What do I do?
I can get the file to download but it wont transfer to the sd card. It says "protected file. remove protection and try again" How do I get around this?
So, has anyone successfully used GPS (or even tower-based positioning) successfully since they manually updated? Mine doesn't seen to be working.
I used positioning in the Maps app about 20 mins prior to manually updating, and now it isn't working. I even applied the update a second time to make sure it was applied correctly and both times it worked fine, but still no positioning. Any ideas?
Last edited by richy240; November 1st, 2008 at 05:49 PM.
I have the file downloaded to my pc. When I go to drag and drop it on my sd card, it says pretected file remove pretection and try again. How do I get around this?
Thanks a million++ for this, just tried it out and it worked 1st try for me, naming it update didn't work though, it had to be update.zip for me. But now I'm running 29
I'm pretty sure you have to goto settings on your g1 and under memory activate USB SD Card or something like that. My phone is upstairs and I'm too lazy to help you out with the exact wording. Sorry, I'm a douche.
Hot DAMN!! WE Are verifying update package now!! For those of you who may get the write protected error message, its a really easy fix. The adapter you put the mini sd into to put it into the computer, make sure it is NOT in the locked position. I am now jamming RC29 Baaaaaabeeeeee!!!!
Last edited by Windchill; November 1st, 2008 at 11:23 PM.
Reason: added info.
Yeah, I tried that. No luck. Anyway, even if GPS is turned off it should use triangulation to find my approximate position. That didn't work either.
I'm doing a factory reset to see if that helps. I'll post my results.
EDIT: Nope, that didn't work either.
EDIT AGAIN: Ok, I lied... It's working now. Man, I was worried there for a minute!
Just so everyone knows, I think my positioning problem is due to the area I'm on - NOT the update. It seems to be working about 50% of the time at home, and when I go to another part of town it works pretty much without fail.
Just FYI.
And since I'm writing, battery life is SO MUCH BETTER after the update. I'm so happy!
I figured I'll give it a shot since everyone else was trying it. I used the first file and renamed it as "update" (no .zip). It worked like a charm. Updated it and rebooted. It rebooted itself twice after that. Took me about 5 minutes in total, but I checked the build number and I'm up to RC29. Thanks for posting the instructions this was great.
Unfortunately I'm at work right now with poor signal strength. I'll have to wait until I get out to play with the device and see what changes have been made.
Edit: After updating the device can the file be removed from the MicroSD?
Last edited by Syrax; November 2nd, 2008 at 09:40 AM.
when you turn you phone off and back on withe the home button pressed down the entire time the screen will have a yellow triangle and the phone in the middle
On the T-Mobile G1 forums they are saying people are getting their phones "bricked". While they never had a user posting this, it was put out by their staff. The administrator later said that if the phone breaks, or has issues when the OTA installer does come around--that t-mobile will not support it.
All-in-all the update is suppose to hit everyone by November 11th so if you can be patient then wait for it.
ALSO...some more information from a developers over at XDA-Developers found out why the phone has trouble with the factory SD car somes times
Little more info was just found. Seems someone with that problem checked the card out in fdisk and found there was no partition table on it. Basically that means that the device would be "mmcblk0" but the bootloader is looking for "mmcblk0p1" (partition 1). I havent seen this before so I am guessing its either a bug in the method used to format the card, or maybe the partition tables are getting damaged. Based on this and the fact that some users are getting it to work I still believe the cards are different, or were formatted differently (maybe different batches). Not enough data yet to find a pattern though.
Also he thinks the card that came with his G1 is a transcend, but he will check on it.
ya i read that as well...but you know as well as everyone else does T-mobile just dosent want anyone to "have fun" with their phone.
also what about people with AT&T, what are we suppose to do?
I'm sure there are reasons behind them not sending the update out to everyone.. i agree its a little ridiculous but I saw what this update comes with and don't think it's anything drastic to really want to update from RC19.
As far as people with AT&T, I guess that would be the exception, they won't get support either way.
ya its not that drastic right now. although I have personally seen a little better battery life, as well as most other users.
I am still waiting, the guys at XDA are going to create their own updates to hopefully start the rom cooking process. i get excited every time i see a new post in the dev section over there.
I download the file to a folder and renamed the zip file update.zip and put in on the sd card.
When I go to hold down the home and red phone key at the same time it brings up a rectangle box with locale, settings browser google search, email and gas trip. I assume these where my last 6 apps I used and they were.
How do I get to the triangle thing???
Also I don't open the zip file before putting on the card do I????
Thanks!!!
