A proposal for an official upgrade path from G1 to Dev Phone 1

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Hello.

I've made a post over at the android-platform Google group about a proposal for Google/T-Mobile to make it possible to unlock the bootloader of a G1 and essentially turn it into the newly announced Dev Phone 1:

http://groups.google.com/group/andro...f54ada73590dba

Obviously many of the people here would be interested in such a thing, so if you are perhaps you could go over to that thread and register your interest by rating my post?

Thank you!

I've rated your post. Hopefully they allow us to install the custom android or give us the option to upgrade from rc30 to the 'vanilla' android.

Developer phone

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I just picked up a G1 for $125 (Amex Wishlist 2008), no contract, unlocked and upgraded to modded 30 and put in my AT&T SIM. What would getting a hold of a dev phone give me?

I could easily put this one on Ebay and get a dev but I am not sure what the point is. Anyone?

Great Idea

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i rated and replied to your post expressing my agreement. hopefully google will let us pay $25 to join the dev group and get the tools to convert our retail g1s to dev g1s.....Hope this is a battle we win!!!

Afaik the devphone merely has an recovery:sbin/recovery bin that does not check sigs , and a spiffy looking backplate. Unless the recovery was self protecting or there is an img to flash via spl, this would allow an ota to make the devphone an undevphone, so I am likely missing something here...I hope

JF noted (in the other thread) that Brian Swetland (one of the Android project leads) confirmed that the "unlocked bootloader" refers to the htc bootloader (tricolor screen) and not the recovery partition.

Looks like you guys got your wish go check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455860

Stericson

Originally Posted by Stericson

Looks like you guys got your wish go check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455860

Not really, since that requires you to have a rooted phone already.

This would be a huge step for Google to show that that actually care about devs

Originally Posted by apatcas

This would be a huge step for Google to show that that actually care about devs

I suspect the issue isn't what Google wants, but what T-Mobile will let them get away with. The release of the dev phone pretty much shows that Google is all for having an open platform for anybody who wants one. Presumably it's only their contract limitations with T-Mobile that have prevented them from offering an open-upgrade for existing G1 owners already...

To be honest, I'm amazed they were able to even offer the dev phone. Considering that this will pretty much undermine any control T-Mobile currently has over the platform in general, it'll substantially compromise any justification T-Mobile has for keeping their own version locked down.. I'm guessing it'll only be a matter of time before they open that up too, but it's just a question of how much time it will take for them to see the light.