UPDATE Your G1 manually

Scottdroid · Nov 1, 2008

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.

Windchill · Nov 1, 2008

WOOT! I figured out how to get it onto the card. Thats a record for me. Only took a day and a half to do it!! Hahahahaha

Windchill · Nov 1, 2008

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!!!!

Windchill · Nov 1, 2008

got it. See the other thread for my fix.

devolio · Nov 2, 2008

Painless update, thanks for the write up.

athlaig · Nov 2, 2008

what is the screen i am looking for? my computer for some stupid reason wont show me the image, is it the G! screen or the android screen?

and has anyone had this work yet on the 1gb card given to you with the phone?

richy240 · Nov 2, 2008

richy240 said:
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!

Syrax · Nov 2, 2008

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?

athlaig · Nov 2, 2008

can anyone help me out here...look above

dtmcnamara · Nov 2, 2008

athlaig said:
can anyone help me out here...look above

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

athlaig · Nov 2, 2008

thanks

dtmcnamara · Nov 2, 2008

not a problem...let me know when it works.

athlaig · Nov 2, 2008

i tried it and it didnt work, do i need to manually unzip it first and put it on the sd card or do i just the zip file itself on the sd card

i am using thr 1gb card that came with the phone

dtmcnamara · Nov 2, 2008

leave the file in the zip form but rename is update..

also, FYI some people are having a hard time doing the update with the factory 1gb card.

richy240 · Nov 2, 2008

dtmcnamara said:
also, FYI some people are having a hard time doing the update with the factory 1gb card.

Yep, I had to use a different MicroSD card. But it worked great once I got over that hurdle.

bonh · Nov 2, 2008

Just wanted to put an "FYI" out there

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.

Just a "general" warning I guess.

dtmcnamara · Nov 2, 2008

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?

dtmcnamara · Nov 2, 2008

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.

bonh · Nov 2, 2008

dtmcnamara said:
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.

dtmcnamara · Nov 2, 2008

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.

lkosova · Nov 2, 2008

Ok,

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,

Larry

lkosova · Nov 2, 2008

when I hold down the home and red key I get a rectangle box with my last 6 applications that I used not a triangle etc.

Help.

Larry

devolio · Nov 2, 2008

There's some more explanatory directions in the other thread ( http://www.androidforums.com/showthread.php?t=1442 )

lkosova · Nov 2, 2008

You NEED to turn off the phone first then hold the home and off button.....it work after doing that then follow the instruction already given.

Thanks,

Larry

lkosova · Nov 2, 2008

Thanks,

I needed to turn off the phone first. All is good and my phone is like super fast now......

Larry

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