Carrier change doesn't change the IMEI - its inherent to the device. (Unique id, oversimplified..)
The trick is "I know several people with an ADP who get OTA updates with tmob images" and thats what I'm not sure of. Android-discuss or maybe android-platform would be better. Or the adp update group (http://groups.google.com/group/Android-DevPhone-Updating - pita to find) which covers updating/support for the ADP phones. On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Frantisek Fuka<f...@fuxoft.cz> wrote: > > On Jun 30, 9:51 pm, Disconnect <dc.disconn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm pretty sure that you're on the wrong list. I'm also pretty sure >> you shouldn't be asking about stealing software on any of the official >> android lists. (Unless you bought it from tmob you didn't get a >> license for their image.) > > It's my opinion that my question basically boils down to "Is it > possible to update ADP1 official firmware without downloading > something by hand, renaming it and putting anything on SD card?" and I > consider this question very relevant for Android developers. And I > still do not see a definitive answer to this question. I'll gladly ask > in more relevant list but I don't know about any more relevant list. > (This is not any attempt at being smartass, I really don't know about > any list more appropriate for this question, even after searching for > "android phone" in Google Groups.) > > You are probably right about "flashing ADP1 with T-Mobile build" not > being strictly legal. I admit this didn't occure to me and I thought > that both ADP1 and T-Mobile images are being officially offered as a > download to anyone who paid $400 for ADP1. It seems they are not. I > never tried downloading them and I never needed them. I have stock > ADP1 firmware in my own ADP1. > >> For that matter, I'm not positive the tmobile update process will even >> work for a non-tmobile dream because it includes the IMEI and such as >> part of the request. > > If I understand you correctly then I think you are mistaken because I > know of several people who bought T-Mobile G1s in our country, they > use them with different carriers than T-Mobile (which is perfectly > legal over here, I don't know about other countries) and yet they > receive correct OTA updates. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
