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Here it is straight from the horses mouth…

The new year begins with T-Mobile’s 3G network reaching significant milestones to support current and future smartphones:

* T-Mobile’s 3G network now reaches more than 200 million Americans

* HSPA 7.2 (faster 3G data service) is now enabled across T-Mobile’s entire 3G network

* T-Mobile is the first carrier to launch the even faster HSPA+ in the U.S.

While other carriers talk about 4G plans and the promise of compatible devices, T-Mobile will speed ahead with HSPA+ deployments across the bulk of its 3G footprint this year, delivering 3-5 times the speeds of today’s 3G.  And the best thing about the HSPA+ upgrade is that it’s backward compatible, so that T-Mobile 3G-enabled device being announced this week…it’s getting faster in 2010.

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The Google Nexus one has arrived! You can buy the unlocked N1 for $529 USD or $189 with a 2 year agreement through T-Mobile  at http://www.google.com/phone

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[From androidandme.com]

Everyone’s favorite Android hacker appears to have angered someone at Google. We just received word that Cyanogen has received a cease and desist letter from Google. Details are scarce, but it appears Google is not happy about Cyanogen distributing their closed source Android apps (Market, Talk, Gmail, YouTube, etc). CyanogenMod is easily the most popular custom Android rom with over 30,000 active users.

Relevant bits from the chat log we received:

[20:03] <cyanogen> google just cease and desisted me
[20:15] <cyanogen> cyanogenmod is probably going to be dead
[20:16] <cyanogen> i’m opening a dialogue with them
[20:20] <cyanogen> no they are talking specifically about the closed-source google apps
[20:20] <cyanogen> and how i am not licensed to distribute them
[20:20] <cyanogen> my argument is that i only develop for google-experience devices which are already licensed for these apps
[20:20] <cyanogen> so we’ll see what they say
[20:20] <cyanogen> maybe we can work something out
[20:24] <cyanogen> maps, market, talk, gmail, youtube

Hopefully, the two parties will be able to work something out. I’ve been using CyanogenMod on both my Android phones for several months and they are awesome. If you want to show your support for Cyanogen, you can always visit his site and place a donation (His site is down at the moment) for all the countless hours he has put into improving the Android platform.

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Google you better watch it, you might just piss off the wrong group of people you have been trying to so feverishly accumulate. Do be like Apple, and have to control everything. Android is open source.
And if I want to use other firmware in my phone then dammit im gonna with or without your or T-Mobile’s ok.

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This is the official T-Mobile Cupcake build for the unrooted G1’s.

Download “signed-dream_gfh-ota-147201.6d1386de.zip” from here.

rename “signed-dream_gfh-ota-147201.6d1386de.zip” to “update.zip” and copy to the root of your SD card.

Bootup in to recovery mode by holding Power+Home.

Install update.zip by pressing Alt+L then Alt+S.

Enjoy!

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Today we were suprised by a 1.5 Cupcake release from JesusFreke.

Here are the instructions….

Get the new HTC radio update here You *MUST* update the radio before loading JF1.5

Rename “ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip” to “update.zip” and put it in the root of your sd card.

Power into boot loader mode, by holding the Power and Home buttons.

Install the Radio update.zip by pressing Alt+L then Alt+S

After this is done, delete the update.zip from the SD card root.

Get the JF1.5 update here

Rename “JFv1.50_ADP1.5.zip” to update.zip

*** It is highly recommened that you wipe your phone before installing cupcake ***

To wipe your phone go into bootloader mode (Home+Power)

Press Alt+W to Wipe

Then Alt+S to install Cupcake!

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New features / Changes in this release besides the sweet Cupcake stuff.

(Excerpted from http://jf.andblogs.net/2009/05/01/when-is-your-15-coming-out/ )

• New Superuser app, courtesy of zinx
• New kernel and to enable netfilter support for tethering
• You can see/download both paid and protected apps in the market
• Luke’s multitouch kernel patch and browser patch have been ported to the .27 kernel and 1.5 browser.
• Support for the “apps to sdcard” hack. See here for a tutorial on setting this up.

Future JF Releases can be auto-installed by using the JFUpdater avalaible in the market app.

I have installed this on my own phone that was running JF1.41, I am having no problems.

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Stuck Zune

I know it doesn’t run Android, but I happen to have one of these little buggers. And yes, as you can see above, its stuck. Apparently there is some bug with the clock code, I’m guessing the hardware clock runs with a GMT timezone setting. A forum suggested taking the Zune apart (This voids the warranty kids, aw hell we do it all the time… ) and unplugging the battery to reset it. For a bit this seemed to work until the Zune was rebooted.

This did NOT work, not permanently, anyway.  Initially all was well, but then I connected it to my computer to charge and sync with the software.  It almost immediately reset and is frozen again at the logo page.  No doubt I could unfreeze it again, but what’s the point if it’s just going to mess up again when I reconnect it?

So this morning Microsoft came up with a fix, here are the steps:

1. Let the battery die, for me it’s going to be awhile mine was fully charged.
2. Wait until after noon GMT on January 1, 2009 (that’s 7 a.m. Eastern or 4 a.m. Pacific time).
3. Connect your Zune to either a USB port on the back or your computer or to AC power using the Zune AC Adapter and let it charge.

And Presto! A working Zune. We shall see.

UPDATE: Once the battery in my Zune charged and it rebooted all is well.

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