Ahead of the Android enthusiasts meeting in Saigon, I wanted to make sure that I didn’t show up with an embarrassingly-old 1.0 firmware on my Android Dev Phone. Yeah, I haven’t done much beyond just use it as a regular user since I got it 4 months ago. But no need to make it obvious I’m an Android poseur.
So I needed to update to the latest firmware 1.5, a.k.a. “Cupcake”.
The official instructions are at HTC Support but they were nicely summarized by some dude. I’ve included his instructions with my changes in red (I didn’t get the minor problem he ran into):
- From the HTC support page, download radio image ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip and recovery image signed-dream_devphone-ota-147201.zip
- make sure HTC Gphone is connected to your computer, and `adb devices` see your phone listed
- adb push ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip /sdcard/update.zip
- adb shell sync
- shut down your GPhone. When preparing to restart, please press and hold “Home” then hit the Start (should be the same power off button aka the “Call End” button) button, waiting for the “!” icon to appear.
- Press ALT + l (this is a lowercase L, not a capital i or number 1) to display the console output
- Press ALT + s to install the update
- Press HOME + BACK and write the install, and there will follow an automatic reboot
- adb push signed-dream_devphone-ota-147201.zip /sdcard/update.zip
- repeat 4 – 8
That worked pretty well, but it didn’t solve the syncing problem I’ve been having (my contacts having not been syncing to Google since I first got the phone.
Note that several applications have problems when upgrading from 1.0 to 1.5 and need to be updated, including ChompSMS, Power Manager, Toggle Settings, Task Manager for Root Users, System Monitor.
The new OS runs snappier, supports video recording mode and a on-screen soft keyboard, lists applications under Manage Applications much quicker.
