On Nov 14, 12:28 pm, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am interested in this, although I am on T-Mobile UK (within the UK), > I am looking at flashing "hacked" firmware, which normally comes from > the TC4 (USA) firmware branch, so hope to find out what good/harm the > TC4/USA firmware does to a UK G1!?
As far as I can ascertain, there are no hardware differences between the UK and US G1's, and as a result people have reported installing US updates on their UK G1 without any issue. There are however build differences in between the US and UK android differences. The US versions comes with the Amazon MP3 store app and is of course missing the local UK web'n'walk application. I think the US version comes with a working version of streetmap with the compass malarkey working (unlike the UK G1). In addition, I believe there are some very minor English localisations for the UK and US. All in all either the US or UK build will be fine for your G1 for use within the UK, however it may be worth going with the UK build for the localisations. In addition, the UK build may later have more specific things relevant to the region, and without root access you will find yourself unable to switch builds (from either US -- UK or US -- UK). > Also, what is the URL to the official firmware download??? I have no idea, sorry. I just let the phone auto-update itself; it pulls the files off the internet, not from the mobile provider, hence that's why it works for me and I'm on O2. If you're using UK RC7 then just let it auto-update to RC8 (but you'll lose the root access), or you could wait until the XDA forum regulars create a rooted' UK RC8 build and just put that on instead. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
