For any curious parties that are interested, I have found some more information and made some informed observations.
One UK user reported putting the RC29 USA build on his G1. He noted that once he did, that the phone found and automatically received RC30. This may be because he was on the UK T-Mobile network. I think what happened is that he put the US RC29 build on and then sometime after, the 'update SMS' was received from T-mobile UK. I rather suspect that the SMS simply triggers the G1 to 'check' with Google directly for an update, and therefore the SMS doesn't actually contain any information regarding the update other than to serve as a trigger for the phone. Because I'm on O2 UK I'm clearly not going to receive this SMS, however I think I've found a way to trigger the update check. Using 'Any Cut' from the market you can get a shortcut to something called "Device Info". From there, at the bottom of the page you can press 'Check for upgrade'. I'm going to do some more surmising here but I think it's correct. When you press the 'check for upgrade' it goes to the google servers directly, so this is nothing to do with your mobile service provider. I have evidence of this because earlier when I was changing from WIFI to 3G I pressed it to see what would happen, and it returned a massive error message referencing sub-domain names for google that it was trying to access via SSL that had (of course) failed to be reached. This is really good news. Given this I presume that once T-mobile UK update their build and have it stored on the google android servers, all I need do is hit the 'check for upgrade' and it should work. At the moment it merely reports a successful check with no update found. The upgrade that you are given is more than likely determined by the current 'main' build. This main build is determined by "TC4" which has been reserved for T- Mobile US and TC5 for T-Mobile UK. So if the google server sees you're on TC4, you'll be offered an upgrade based on the TC4 main build path, or, if you are using TC5 A representative from T-mobile UK has said that their update are likely to be 'pushed' out between the 12th and 14th so I'm waiting with anticipation to see if the 'check for upgrades' returns an 'available' result soon :) Could anyone confirm or deny that G1 handsets will automatically check for updates for their main build type, WITHOUT being prompted by SMS? Maybe there is an automatic check every 30, 45 or 60 days possibly? That would be interesting as it might also explain why that person who I described on T-Mobile UK, with a US build, would received the US update; it's entirely possible he didn't receive a trigger SMS. I shall post any further findings as they become available, no doubt in time this kind of information will become more sort after when more handsets start being unlocked and used on other UK networks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
