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UPDATE Your G1 manually

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.
 
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 :p:p:D:D
 
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!!!!
 
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 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!
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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?
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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?
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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.
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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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