T-Mobile Rolling Out G1 Update RC29

[lazygenius]

Originally Posted by Switch

TC5-RC7 here, battery life sucks big time!

hoping the update fixes it.

Same here! Although once I stop messing about with GPS to (try to) see where I am all the time the battery life might improve, hopefully.

I did the strangest thing yesterday and actually read the manual. It does confirm that updates are automatic.

[Mara]

RC 29 here, i wonder why we didn't get a "what's in this update" notice?
i have no idea what it's done, but i'll post if i see improvements =]

p.S:
i haven't tested battery power yet, but could an update really do that? >_<

[Mara]

ok... im back, so i was about to add some more wallpapers from my pictures collection when alas! the pc didn't automatically play my g1, so i went to settings and i find my "use as usb" function is gone! (oh no!) so i restarted the phone and it still wasn't there. so i plugged again to pc and there was a *usb* icon on notification bar, i brought it down and a window asked if i wanted to mount it to use w/ my pc. so i guess u no longer predetermine if you want to use as a portable hdd, u have to do it manually when you connect to a pc... lame sauce? boo.

[pauljriley]

Originally Posted by lazygenius

Same here! Although once I stop messing about with GPS to (try to) see where I am all the time the battery life might improve, hopefully.

I did the strangest thing yesterday and actually read the manual. It does confirm that updates are automatic.

Have been digging around trying to find information on the various updates out there and have yet to find a site that details what's in and most importantly what's not in each release. I have noticed that there seems to be different release branches in the US and UK with the US build numbers starting

kila-user 1.0 TC4-RC##

and the UK build numbers starting

kila-uk-user 1.0 TC5-RC#

If we could only find out what's in the various releases we would know if we need to apply pressure on t-mobile to put out the releases in a more timely manner.

[Andor]

Originally Posted by pauljriley

Have been digging around trying to find information on the various updates out there and have yet to find a site that details what's in and most importantly what's not in each release. I have noticed that there seems to be different release branches in the US and UK with the US build numbers starting

kila-user 1.0 TC4-RC##

and the UK build numbers starting

kila-uk-user 1.0 TC5-RC#

If we could only find out what's in the various releases we would know if we need to apply pressure on t-mobile to put out the releases in a more timely manner.

Agreed,

There's been a well publicised security exploit revealed for the platform, i would like to think such updates would be made in a more timely manner.

Bug, software fixes, yeah i can wait for those no problem. But the more serious security related updates should be rolled out almost as soon as the exploit is made public - (hopefully before).