UPDATE Your G1 manually

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 07:26 PM

Ok this is all data from XDA-Developers:

Google Download: https://android.clients.google.com/u...-RC19+RC28.zip
**This download might need to be refreshed once or twice before it works. If you get 503 server error, try again, if it doesn't work after a while use the links below.

Rapidshare Download 1: http://rapidshare.com/files/15924331...-RC19_RC28.zip

Rapidshare Download 2: http://rapidshare.com/files/15924473..._RC28.zip.html

Rapidshare Download 3: http://rapidshare.com/files/159411433/update.zip.html

Android-DLS.com: http://android-dls.com/forum/index.p...rb_v=viewtopic (Must be registered)

Steps to upgrade:

1: Download the file and rename/save it as update.zip (some users found just plain update works best (no .zip))

2: Place the file on your mini SD card and insert it into your G1 (card formatting requirements still unknown, so if fat does not work, try fat32 and vice versa)

3: With the phone off Hold down the "Home" and press the power button (end call) to turn the phone on (while still holding the home button)

3: Wait for the following screen

4: open your keyboard and press Alt+L

5: When you see yellow text, pless Alt+S

6: When it says "Installation Complete" you can press "Home" + "Back" to reboot.

7: Wait for your phone to completely reboot and allow it to finish writing your radio rom during reboot, it may reboot multiple times.

8: Enjoy

These instructions are paraphrased from other users and are not written by me.

Hope this works for everyone...

[Edit: Method not endorsed by androidforums.com, perform at your own risk.]

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dtmcnamara

Ok this is all data from XDA-Developers:

Google Download: https://android.clients.google.com/u...-RC19+RC28.zip
**This download might need to be refreshed once or twice before it works. If you get 503 server error, try again, if it doesn't work after a while use the links below.

Rapidshare Download 1: http://rapidshare.com/files/15924331...-RC19_RC28.zip

Rapidshare Download 2: http://rapidshare.com/files/15924473..._RC28.zip.html

Rapidshare Download 3: http://rapidshare.com/files/159411433/update.zip.html

Android-DLS.com: http://android-dls.com/forum/index.p...rb_v=viewtopic (Must be registered)

Steps to upgrade:

1: Download the file and rename/save it as update.zip (some users found just plain update works best (no .zip))

2: Place the file on your mini SD card and insert it into your G1 (card formatting requirements still unknown, so if fat does not work, try fat32 and vice versa)

3: With the phone off Hold down the "Home" and press the power button (end call) to turn the phone on (while still holding the home button)

3: Wait for the following screen

4: open your keyboard and press Alt+L

5: When you see yellow text, pless Alt+S

6: When it says "Installation Complete" you can press "Home" + "Back" to reboot.

7: Wait for your phone to completely reboot and allow it to finish writing your radio rom during reboot, it may reboot multiple times.

8: Enjoy

These instructions are paraphrased from other users and are not written by me.

Hope this works for everyone...

Have you tried it? And this is to RC28, correct? Not RC29?

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 07:43 PM

I have tried it. I am on AT&T thus I do not get the updates.

Also it is RC29

BUILD NUMBER
killa-user 1.0 TC4-RC29 115247
ota-rel-keys.release-keys

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dtmcnamara

I have tried it. I am on AT&T thus I do not get the updates.

Also it is RC29

BUILD NUMBER
killa-user 1.0 TC4-RC29 115247
ota-rel-keys.release-keys

How do you put it on the Mini SD card? Plug the G1 in to comp?

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by I7oobie

How do you put it on the Mini SD card? Plug the G1 in to comp?

yep. plug it into your computer and drag the file to your sd card. then just rename it update.

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dtmcnamara

yep. plug it into your computer and drag the file to your sd card. then just rename it update.

Werd, 44.5MB download. Will report back shortly.

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 07:55 PM

ya. strange how big it is.

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 07:58 PM

So far, i'm to the yellow text. Looking good!
Btw, I downloaded from this link, so it was already named right. I also put it in the main folder of the SD card. It's rebooting now, so i'll report back.

http://rapidshare.com/files/159411433/update.zip.html

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:00 PM

Hasn't rebooted since i restarted after the yellow screen. Still says RC19...

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 08:02 PM

when you you turn your phone off did you turn it back on with the home button held down? you must hold the home button down until you enter the install screen

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:03 PM

Wrong digest:

Androidinfo.txt, or something like that. Gonna take the .zip off of it

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dtmcnamara

when you you turn your phone off did you turn it back on with the home button held down? you must hold the home button down until you enter the install screen

Yeah, i got to the install screen. Pretty cool. But the install failed. I'll try it again and see if i can write down an error.

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 08:04 PM

if for some reason that file does not work try the first one from google download....thats the one I did and it worked perfectly

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dtmcnamara

if for some reason that file does not work try the first one from google download....thats the one I did and it worked perfectly

Will do, even though it says RC19-RC28. I deleted the upgrade.zip file off my SD card. BTW.

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:10 PM

Yellow text again... Verifing....

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:12 PM

Writing Radio image! It worked!!!! (I think, give me 2 mins.)

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 08:13 PM

it will restart and have a chip-set pictures, then reset again....and then possibly again. i dont remember how many times....but then it will finally start android again.

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:15 PM

Yup, Restarted once, looked like it was writing to disc. Restarted again, looked like it was unpacking from disc. One more restart and...

I'M ON RC29 BABY!!! MAKE THIS A STICKY!!!

xxvtcxx · 10-31-2008, 08:15 PM

I'm crossing my fingers... I hope it works for you!

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:16 PM

(dancing...)

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 08:16 PM

glad it worked for you.

JUST WANTED TO SAY THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE AT XDA-DEVELOPERS they were the ones that found everything out and started the write-up

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:20 PM

Alright, who and where do i contact to make this a sticky?

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 08:22 PM

phandroid might be able too

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:26 PM

Either way, I submitted it to Engadgetmobile.com. I gave credit to xda-developers, but I couldn't find the related link over there.

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 08:29 PM

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441282

it has a link to the original starting of everything as well

ballerchris6998 · 10-31-2008, 08:37 PM

wow that is so cool it worked what did the update improve on do you know

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dtmcnamara

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441282

it has a link to the original starting of everything as well

Broken link...

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 08:39 PM

should be up now. xda was updating..

**shivers316** · 10-31-2008, 08:55 PM

Stickied. Awesome.

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 08:58 PM

and the fun with the G1 begins.

I hope just as many people start to play with this phone as do with the Kaiser....

all we need now is a G1 Tweaks and a true file manager program

killer3160 · 10-31-2008, 09:44 PM

thx got mine to update

took like 6 trys >.<

cNo7 · 10-31-2008, 09:45 PM

So sum it up again for us...the instructions.

Just to reduce any possible confusion from the previous posts.

pestilence · 10-31-2008, 09:50 PM

This update gave me CLEANER, SHINIER hair!

Seriously, though, excellent post

dtmcnamara · 10-31-2008, 09:51 PM

as simple as it can get...

-download the file https://android.clients.google.com/updates/signed-kila-ota-115247-prereq.TC4-RC19+RC28.zip
-put it on your sd card
-rename is to "update"
-turn your phone off
-hold the "home" button and while still holding it press teh power button to turn the phone on
-when the phone start you should see this screen

-open the keyboard
-press Alt+L
-pless Alt+S
-When it says "Installation Complete" you can press "Home" + "Back" to reboot.
-Wait for your phone to completely reboot and allow it to finish writing your radio rom during reboot, it may reboot multiple times.
-Enjoy

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by killer3160

thx got mine to update

took like 6 trys >.<

Woot! This is exciting, updating roms on the G1, and so it begins!

phillipxenxciel · 10-31-2008, 10:05 PM

just finish mine and its perfect~~and i have to say: "its a small step for updating rom, but its a big step for rom cooking!"

N3TWORK BURN3R · 10-31-2008, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phillipxenxciel

just finish mine and its perfect~~and i have to say: "its a small step for updating rom, but its a big step for rom cooking!"

I did this while at work. I didn't want to post if cause i sorta wanted to be the guinea pig first. But it seems to work just fine. Thanks!

mightykc · 10-31-2008, 10:25 PM

Worked like a charm! Thanks a million!

I7oobie · 10-31-2008, 10:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mightykc

Worked like a charm! Thanks a million!

so, now we know the boot screen, right?

SirFenwick · 11-01-2008, 12:05 AM

Nice, worked perfectly for mine.

One thing I noticed about the new update is that it beeps and shows a notification when I put in a USB cord. Didn't do that before. ^_^

STORM3333 · 11-01-2008, 12:52 AM

forgive me for my ignorance in advance. I am wondering since the first link isn't working for me, if I do this rapid share thing do I need to download all those links? and how safe is this to do? I am still not updated and i'd like to be and for the first time I am not able to get through to t-mobile, I always thought their customer service was 24 hours but um ok. I am happy to see it worked for some of you guys and i'd like to take a chance and do a manual update as well i'm just a lil chicken to click the link and start the download.

jimczyz · 11-01-2008, 04:31 AM

Worked like a charm, great job thank you!

HaTaX · 11-01-2008, 05:10 AM

I noticed that this info didn't seem to be widely known here so I thought I'd register and share the wealth.

http://www.android-unleashed.com/search/label/RC29

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!

dtmcnamara · 11-01-2008, 07:54 AM

the google.client one will work. just click it a few times.

I just did 5 times and the 5th time it worked. there are just so many people downloading it.

good luck

cNo7 · 11-01-2008, 08:36 AM

geez, that was a breeze. i hesitated about renaming the file at first...unsure if android would recognize a .zip file, but wow. This phone continues to amaze me.

lkosova · 11-01-2008, 08:48 AM

Thanks.

This has been posted here but these instructions make more sense to me. Now gotta find a computer here that has a microcard slot.

Larry

**shivers316** · 11-01-2008, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by STORM3333

forgive me for my ignorance in advance. I am wondering since the first link isn't working for me, if I do this rapid share thing do I need to download all those links? and how safe is this to do? I am still not updated and i'd like to be and for the first time I am not able to get through to t-mobile, I always thought their customer service was 24 hours but um ok. I am happy to see it worked for some of you guys and i'd like to take a chance and do a manual update as well i'm just a lil chicken to click the link and start the download.

Just one I believe. Those are just multiple links to the same thing if I'm not mistaken.

Sgior13 · 11-01-2008, 08:53 AM

I keep getting an error message screen is as follows:

installing from sdcard...
finding update package...
E:can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(no such file or subdirectory)
E: can't mound SDCARD:update.zip
installation aborted

i have tried renaming it: update, UPDATE, update.zip, Update.zip and none of them have worked. Could anyone help me?

I7oobie · 11-01-2008, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sgior13

I keep getting an error message screen is as follows:

installing from sdcard...
finding update package...
E:can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(no such file or subdirectory)
E: can't mound SDCARD:update.zip
installation aborted

i have tried renaming it: update, UPDATE, update.zip, Update.zip and none of them have worked. Could anyone help me?

Which link did you download from?

Sgior13 · 11-01-2008, 09:04 AM

the first one: signed-kila-ota-115247-prereq.TC4-RC19+RC28

oh and it is showing up on the sdcard under the andrid file manager.