I Can Haz Cupcake! JF1.5 is Out…
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.