> The only way to do updates outside of your vendor is to hack firmware > NOT designed for your phone in.
Not true... I downloaded Android 2.1, the official verizon ota package, as a file onto my droid and there's some special key sequence you hold down at power on and it updates with that new file automatically. it's part of some restore feature. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Mike Kershaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:16:59PM -0400, Matthias Johnson wrote: >> Thank you for the clarification. But I guess that leaves my main >> concern intact in that I wouldn't want to be limited to my updates >> because of another company. The only benifit I have found for Sense is > > You will ALWAYS be in this situation. > > The only way to do updates outside of your vendor is to hack firmware > NOT designed for your phone in. > > See my previous comments about the dangers of root, and that you have no > idea what that hacked firmware might be doing under the covers. > > Android is a surprisingly open phone dev - but it is NOT linux as you > know it. Plan on operating within the vendor releases unless you're > REALLY hardcode and REALLY don't mind risking breaking your phone or > having things not work/crash/etc. > > -m > >> that it works a little better with Exchange calendaring which I could >> care less about. While the Incredible ships with 2.1 I am concerned it >> will fall behind like the Eris. If anyone knows of great features >> Sense offers I would love to know. >> >> So what is the software ontop of Droid if the HTCs are Sense? >> >> Matthias Johnson >> >> On Apr 26, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On 04/26/2010 10:35 AM, Matthias Johnson wrote: >> >> On Apr 26, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Ben Stoutenburgh <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Be careful saying "true Android," there's nothing "fake" about the >> >>> Android that will come with the Incredible. >> >> Ok I guess I don't understand this then. Why does the Eris not even >> >> have Android 2.0? Can't you just root the Droid and put 2.1 on it? >> > >> > Android is a base OS and runtime from which Vendors derive their own >> > firmware image. It's not a distro. The embedded market moves in very >> > different ways from the general purpose computing market. >> > >> > -Sean >> > >> > -- >> > __________________________________________________________________ >> > >> > Sean Dague Mid-Hudson Valley >> > sean at dague dot net Linux Users Group >> > http://dague.net http://mhvlug.org >> > >> > There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors >> > than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. >> > __________________________________________________________________ >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >> > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug >> > >> > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium >> > May 5 - Crack and LLVM >> > Jun 2 - Android >> > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie >> _______________________________________________ >> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >> http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug >> >> Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium >> May 5 - Crack and LLVM >> Jun 2 - Android >> Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie > > -- > Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[email protected]> > GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 > > The Internet -noun : a mechanism which allows a billion people who can't > sing, can't write a song or make an original beep, and have nothing to > express, the means to deafen me with their tuneless, boring cacophony. > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > May 5 - Crack and LLVM > Jun 2 - Android > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie > > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium May 5 - Crack and LLVM Jun 2 - Android Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie
