14 Responses to “Android 1.5 Cupcake Update Now Available For Android Dev Phones”

1. Daniel Wright Says:
   April 27th, 2009 at 8:31 am

   Anyone have success installing this update on their T-mobile G1?

2. Kitsunisan Says:
   April 27th, 2009 at 10:07 am

   I’d be interested in seeing if someone can mod this for use on a standard G1. I know everyone is supposed to be getting it within the next month, but still, it would be great to play with it now.

3. Land Of The Trill Says:
   April 27th, 2009 at 10:32 am

   This is easy to do just root your phone and install the dev software not that hard also I’ve been using Cupcake for a while although the framework is a little outdated still wouldn’t be that much of a difference but I’ll install it later and check it out.

4. r3ds!x Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 9:11 am

   worked fine on my dev phone g1

5. Sameer Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 11:55 pm

   Android 1.5 (cupcake) feels great; speedier on actions, but lags when having a few apps running…
   But more important: I LOST root access to my Android Dev Phone… Anyone knows how to get root access back?

   thanx heaps

6. Stephen Says:
   April 29th, 2009 at 11:38 pm

   Ditto here Sameer. I LOST root access to my Android Dev Phone too. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

7. ARMS Says:
   April 30th, 2009 at 7:25 pm

   Wow update to cupcake and lose root access! F you Google I thought this phone was a POS now I know it is. And I have a google supplied Android Dev 1. I’m gonna go throw this thing at Sergey’s head

8. Stephen Says:
   May 1st, 2009 at 8:23 am

   I was unable to get root back for the image push from T-Mobile. But I was successful in getting root back for the dev phone by installing the HTC image from

   http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html

   and then applying the commands from http://phandroid.com/2009/04/29/adp-15-initial-thoughts/

   “using adb as su”

   mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
   cd /system/bin
   cat sh > su
   chmod 4755 su

   I reimaged from HTC since the image pushed from T-Mobile kept puking on me when I tried to use su under adb.

9. Tal Says:
   May 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm

   bleh i installed cupcake but now the phone says i have the icon for missing sim card in the notification bar all the time and it says my phone has no # when i view about my phone -_-

10. Beth Says:
    May 15th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Does anybody still have the 1.5 Recovery image supposedly linked to here: http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html#s3 ??

    I can download the 1.5 radio image, but when I try to get either the 1.5 system image or the 1.5 recovery image I just get the License agreement and then get redirected back to the same support web page. Help!

11. Beth Says:
    May 15th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    Never mind… IE works, problem apparently only with Firefox (which I used successfully to download the radio image).

12. austin Says:
    May 21st, 2009 at 9:41 am

    i “upgraded” my Retail version G1 to a devphone 1.5 with this NO problems. it just takes a few steps. all f the software and instructions can be found on the HTC website and the XDA forums. good luck

13. Skythe Says:
    July 26th, 2009 at 8:32 am

    Just to add on a few commands to what stephen said:

    (From a windows’ cmd, with adb setup with PATH set, etc)

    adb shell
    su
    mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
    cd /system/bin
    cat sh > su
    chmod 4755 su

    *reboot*

    Thanks for this guys, I was a bit baffled as to why my dev phone which i upgraded from 1.0 to 1.5 did not have root!

14. birjodh Says:
    August 27th, 2009 at 9:51 pm

    yuhuuuuuuu….. thanks for the tip!! tetherwifi working now !!

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