I complained at the HTC support about the long time missing update to Android 2.1 for the Hero.
They told me that for the Hero a Android "update version" is neccessary and that this" update version" is only available since April from Google.
The Android version 2.1 released in January is not feasible for the Hero.
Is that true? Are there several versions for Android for the several mobiles?
My understanding was, there is only one common Android operating system (of the version 2.1 for example) and this is the same for all mobiles. HTC then "only" builds some additions e.g. the Sense GUI on top of it.
Are they trying to play games with me?
(I hope my English was good enough to express this a little bit complicated stuff. I apologize in advance )
By the way: they also told me that this update for the Hero "will definitly be released from June on"
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Hey Guys,
I happen to stumble upon some websites today that say Android 1.6 is now released. Is it true? Any ideas if Hero could be upgraded to this newer OS?
The SDK has launched so developers can beigin to dev some new apps around the new framework and run Donut in the VM.
The update is looking set to roll out to devices in October, not sure how long it will take to get to us hero users??
Would be posible in no time with a good chef on board, the G1 and magic seem to be benefiting from certain Donut updates as we speak
sphuyal said:
Hey Guys,
I happen to stumble upon some websites today that say Android 1.6 is now released. Is it true? Any ideas if Hero could be upgraded to this newer OS?
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The upcoming "Hero" on Sprint will have a Donut-based OS (Android 1.6). This is self-evident since Sprint is a CMDA network, and Donut is the first iteration of the OS to support CDMA. I would imagine that since the GSM Hero and the CDMA "Hero" have very similar specs, with the exception of the radio, it shouldn't take a competent chef too long to cook up a GSM version of the ROM.
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Dave
The SDK was released meaning you can directly develop against it.
if you go to
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/search/label/Android 1.6
you can watch a vid with the new features.
Hello
jus wondering what the diff in for example OS like cupcake (1.5 yes?) and donut (1.6) is with respect to the ROMs...
The Hero is on 1.5, are other android phones also on 1.5?.....is there like some guide on this stuff.....can we upgrade our OS (officially) to newer ones or we will have to do with OS 1.5 on hero and jus update ROMs?
Thanks.
O.k...so now that we have nand, does that mean we can now get updates from android? before,we couldn't because it would reboot the phone back into windows. but now, the Magldr basically makes our HD2 a 'native' android phone since it boots directly into android. just curious..
I don't think so, since the only phones that will get updates directly from Google are the Nexus one and Nexus S.
While the rest of the Smartphones available on the market such as HTC Evo, Samsung Galaxy S, Motorola Droid, etc... will get their updates from their manufactures which will pass them through carries that subsidize those phones.
Android on HD2 will keep getting it's updates through the working of our awesome Developers , and tbh with you I like it this way since we don't have to keep waiting 6+ months for the official updates from those lazy Manufactures/Carriers.
Besides which, do you really want an Android ROM that has incompatible drivers for most of your phone functions? Its taken a while, and a lot of work on behalf of the chefs, to refine the builds and ROMs to make them compatible with the HD2, camera app on all desire hd builds for example took a long while . And we STILL don't have a fully working build for Gingerbread...
Time will deliver it with the sweat of the chefs...
Hi,
first of all i want to say that this thread is in no way meant to offend or me being impatient about anything. I am just asking the question to know the answer.
I noticed, that many dev´s for the SGS2 (such as codeworkx and others) have big/giant trouble to bring a new Version to our Phones.
The problems seem to be that big that they have to wait for a Kernel from Samsung to make it even work a bit.
From my other/previous Phone, the HTC Dream i know that there weren´t such big problems.
It got 4 perfectly stable main iterations (2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3) of Android after its updates were discontinued and it already has a 4.0 version that has only 2 issues left to fix. All that without a kernel beeing released from HTC for the specific OS version. (i remember that the Camera drivers for 2.x were completely created from scratch to make it work [or so] )
My question is:
Why is it so much easier/less complicated to make a total new version run on the HTC Dream than on the SGS2? without the help of the manufactor
I'm not sure but I think its because other phones get source code releases for all the hardware or at least most of it to make porting/dev easier. Whereas Samsung hasn't released source for all the hardware in the sgs2 because of contractual obligations/restrictions from other hardware vendors that provide some the chips inside...
I also believe Samsung has modified Android quite heavily and badly in their quest to have the touchwiz interface, which also makes things difficult to reverse engineer etc...
I don't its anything actually difficult about the actual hardware itself
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heard a rumor that from next version, Android upgrades will become independent of manufacturer. in other words, upgrades will be available to all devices directly from Google (providing the device has version 4.0 and above and that the hardware can support the new version).
any truth to that statement? or just a wishful thinking?
looks impossible to me.
I have always been fascinated by android and I have this thing going round in my head> why are there so many versions of android and why can't we update to higher version using hotfixes or updates?
Please dont tell me because its embedded xD
caponer said:
I have always been fascinated by android and I have this thing going round in my head> why are there so many versions of android and why can't we update to higher version using hotfixes or updates?
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Because (apart from nexus devices) it is down to the manufacture to support there devices for as long as they see fit.
With new versions of android come the need for new drivers and kernel changes, which 'android' as a base does not supply this is down to the device manufacturers. That coupled with the fact that most slap there own skin on android (which makes releasing updates alot slower) and that manufacturers want you to buy a new phone ever couple of years most devices are only ever supported for between 1 and 2 years.
Plus some devices simply are not up to running the newest versions of android
I see
They haven't brought nexus here so far. So frustrating