Update Manually To Android 1.5 Cupcake Without Rooting
So someone got their hands on the UK 1.5 image and you can manually update to Android 1.5 Cupcake without having to root your phone and worry about bricking it.
I cleaned up the instructions a bit, because the grammar was horrible. I also uploaded to a third mirror and PirateBay, since RapidShare wouldn’t let me download and SendSpace was throttling the download. If you can mirror this somewhere else, please share the bandwidth and drop a link in the comments. But here you go, from the t-mobile.com forums:
Download the image:
http://rapidshare.com/files/234560998/update.zip.html – Mirror 1
http://www.sendspace.com/file/amcvxn – Mirror 2
http://uploading.com/files/2GDTJMY3/update.zip.html – Mirror 3
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4906690 – TPB Torrent
Download one of these and copy to your MicroSD card.
1)Turn your phone off. Boot while holding the home button.
2)When you see the triangle, hit Alt+L
3)Then Alt+S
4)Press Home and Back when it tells you to (to reboot your phone)
5)You’ll notice it says installing Radio after you hit Home+Back (thats normal and fine)
6)You’ll see it reboot like 2 times then you’ll see the new android loading screen. and there ya go! android 1.5 without having to root/jailbreak and you’re good to go.
7)when 1.5 for the US comes out, just repeat the same process except with the TMobile USA update.zip
Please note, just like the JF1.5 image and others currently out, this does not include the IM application, only Google Talk. It’s also reported that Amazon MP3 and Google Voice Search are not included.
Can this be done from my g1 without a computer I’m a truck driver and have no access to a computer any help in fo or response will be greatly appriciated plz email me with any kind of response Weerdal@gmail.com
Theoretically, yes. But I wouldn’t recommend trying it, just in case something goes wrong and you need to do a recovery back to the original image.
If you’re going to try it you will probably need Download Crutch to download the file, and probably a File Manager program to move the file to the main SD card directory.
If you’re on TMO US, I would recommend just waiting another week or so for the official OTA update to be released. Would hate to see someone get a bricked G1 with no computer to recover it.
Thanks for the quick reply Ben Marvin if by when I make my way down to laredo,tx update Is still not out ima go ahead and try this uk update maybe an actual realese date would help me decide if I want to take the risk of doing this. read a lot of people been having problems installing it but oh well maybe cupcake is worth the risk……?
Hmmm…has anyone else out there installed this? Everything seems to run quite a bit slower so far. Anyone else seeing that?
Good thing I had backups…this installation erased my call log and *all of my contacts*!
@Weerdal
I did it all from my phone using AndroZip to allow me to download the zip and Astro to move it to the root.
@David
Contacts will come back if you sync with google contacts.
One issue I noticed is the Bar Code app uses the UK version of google shopping.
can this process work on motorola cliq
please email me at mann_0142000@yahoo.com
@abdul
No, it’s only for the mytouch and G1. The Cliq needs a different ROM and has not been rooted yet.