The problem is it's too close to the ship date and changes to the firmware are not permitted. So even a small change like you mentioned is not currently possible. In the future we could do something in the initial boot like you mentioned.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Thomas Economous <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I work for an Tablet OEM that wants to get an approximate sale date from > a > > device during registration. Registration will be an app that is > downloaded > > later through the android market. Currently Retailers like Best Buy do > not > > provide sales information to the OEM. > > Can't the OEM record the information subtly somewhere (e.g., create a > directory on external storage) as part of the initial boot, then have > your registration app pick up that data later? I mean, if this is an > OEM, I would expect that they control the firmware. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

