There is a petition going on as you may know and we need 95 more signatures to force at&t and LG to release the update !
(use one more w as im not permitted to put external links)
ww.change.org/petitions/att-wireless-lg-thrill-gingerbread-update
Thanks you.
Wait, why would 95 more change their mind and the complaint isn't exactly that they won't release it but that they're not done with it. My experience with Rogers GB is that if ours is anything like this I don't want it. They need to get their act together and actually work on it so it's ready for release. I don't know where you heard a specific number of signatures would achieve that but I hope your right and I hope you get them.
UPDATE: Signed.
Actually number is important for change.org. The web site says 405 signatures out of 500. According to my knowledge they submit the petition once they receive a predefined number of signatures.
Correct me if im worng. According to LG, at&t has to request for the update.
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Ok, so this isn't the first petition I've signed on this matter so I can only assume the other got submitted and didn't accomplish anything. Yes, the update is entirely up to ATT, LG will host it on their website if ATT wants them to. I was just wondering what made you think 500 signatures would make ATT do anything. Hopefully these are all getting them to move their asses. I'm having serious BB issues with the Rogers GB on my ATT Thrill.
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This is partly a matter of curiosity and partly a technical question. Since Cox has officially launched Cox Wireless in Hampton Roads, Omaha, and Orange County, we can be a little less paranoid about talking wireless tech.
And there will undoubtedly be some non-employee customers here, though they're all lucky enough to be able to start with the HTC Desire. I'm stuck with the Hero until they come up with some upgrade program for us early adopters.
So who here has Cox Wireless with a Hero?
More importantly, who has Cox with a Hero with CyanogenMod? Can you get MMS? If so, I may have other questions...
No I don't have cox. What is MMS.
lol, no. but a while back when i made a custom splash i remember seeing a great splash modified for cox, so whoever requested that should be on cox as well, here's the thread. cox, lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766042
@macwilliam21 - that may be the funniest post ever.
il Duce said:
lol, no. but a while back when i made a custom splash i remember seeing a great splash modified for cox, so whoever requested that should be on cox as well, here's the thread. cox, lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766042
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Heh. The only Cox splash I see on that thread is the one I made. Nobody requested it, I just figured I might as well share.
I made it partly because I wanted to "re-brand" my Hero back from generic HTC/CyanogenMod and partly because I wanted to prove I could make a prettier logo screen than our paid developers. Seriously, the Cox logo on the official ROM is tiny and grainy for no apparent technical reason.
And apparently two other people downloaded it.
Two people downloaded Cox.
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Wha... ? I though I was on xda. Apparently, I got redirected to 4chan.
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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!
I *had* Cox wireless with the HTC Hero but I dumped the service and went with another carrier for an Android 2.x phone because I can't even use the Cox HTC Hero for the things I want. Many of the apps I use such as Skype, Firefox, and just recently many Google Inc. apps, Google Voice, PayPal, and many other apps I like, aren't even found on the Market because the firmware is not supported. Its stuck on Android 1.5 and when I asked Cox tech support if there were any plans to upgrade the firmware I was told they have no intentions of upgrading the firmware. I wasn't interested in paying more money for an upgraded phone and restarting my contract from day 1 all over again after I've been on the service for the first year. I still have the phone though and looking to find some alternative uses for it besides selling it which I think ultimately I may end up doing because no matter what I try doing with it, or install to it to make the phone more appealing, I almost always get the error that this program cannot be installed to this phone.
I was considering trying to upgrade it to 2.1 but I'm kind of reluctant because word on the street someone tried and it bricked the phone. Although I don't know how true that is.
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Its stuck on Android 1.5 and when I asked Cox tech support if there were any plans to upgrade the firmware I was told they have no intentions of upgrading the firmware.
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This is true. I get the feeling that the Hero was more of a proof-of-concept or beta test phone and they had a bunch of them left over at launch time.
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I was considering trying to upgrade it to 2.1 but I'm kind of reluctant because word on the street someone tried and it bricked the phone. Although I don't know how true that is.
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It's doable. Someone I know in one of the stores actually got a laundry list of reasons from the HQ in Atlanta about why we couldn't/shouldn't do it ourselves, so I upgraded to a proper 2.1 HTC Sense ROM just to prove it could be done safely and with full functionality. Then I upgraded it to Cyanogen 2.2 just for the hell of it.
But then I switched to a Desire when they came up with an upgrade program for us employee early-adopters who got stuck with the Hero. My interest in this section now is purely out of scientific curiosity.
ok....Im new to xda and new to rooting a phone but i cant take this 1.5 on the hero any longer and am in deperate need of directions on what i need to do. i was promised by cox that there was going to be an upgrade and now we find out that this will never happen. please help
you need to run the ruu from a computer witch will uprade u to 2.1 or since your still on 1.5 rooting will be easy for u and u can install a custom rom.also if theres a sprint tech store in your area they should be able to do the ruu for you regardless if your on a smaller regional carrier.
Petition to have android 2.3 (Gingerbread) on milestone:
http://www.petitiononline.com/an23mile/petition.html
And for the ones who haven't yet signed it: the old petition to make the bootloader of our milestone free:
http://www.petitiononline.com/freeblms/petition.html
Guys, sign both the petitions! Let's try to make our milestone simply better!
@Moderators : I think that it will be useful to sticky this thread.
supportz...
Done........
Fix the spelling mistakes in the petition. Makes me (and probably others) take it less seriously.
Done... ...
Ehi guys, post the petition links also on other android international forum. I've posted only on XDA because is the only one I frequent.
The gingerbread update petition is active only from today at 3:00 pm GMT. And it' takes 70 subscription. I hope that the growning rate remain this ...
One more!
FREE THE BOOTLOADER!
Done!
Gingerbread on Milestone!
Free the bootloader!
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Fix the spelling mistakes in the petition. Makes me (and probably others) take it less seriously.
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This.
I see no point whatsoever in signing a petition that I can't read through without having to try to work out what it says.
Signed!!!
I'v Signed petitions!!!
Done!
Signed
Signed. Hope this isn't just a waste of time.
signed.....
Signed and pasted bootloader bit to motorola europe facebook.
signed and signed
so i guess we are just skipping 2.2 and want to jump strait to 2.3? They shoved 2.2 back so ridiculously far, that in the rare case we did get 2.3, we wouldnt get it untill June of 2014... so yeah.
Besides, im pretty sure 2.3 need a minimum of a 1Ghz processor to run efficiently.
I noticed some grammar/syntax mistakes. Please correct them to be sure the petition will be taken seriously by people.
2) We accept that we GET (not got)...By the way it'd better if you write "We accept that warranty services won't be valid anymore after any uncertified modifications"
3) - Give us the Feeling that we are part of a community and not only stupid customers.
I'd replace it with this:
"We feel that, in the spirit of open-source community, which produced Android, we should be able to modify our devices without being limited by ANY commercial decisions. Especially if the same device has ever been free in US (see Motorola Droid). Plus, Motorola doesn't gain any money by releasing any upgrades so we can't understand why the users shouldn't be able to upgrade their own devices by themselves (with custom roms or similar tools)"
By the way my english is not perfect too! So please if someone speaks it natively: say what's wrong with it so we can share the message the right way! Thanks!
signing in.... hope come true
Signed too!
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I signed the free bootloader one, the one with 2.3 I think is useless.
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I think users need to rise up and demand source code from Motorola. The one has been out long enough, and there is nothing on their Sourceforge site about it. Also after it comes out, be sure to test what they updated. They have a bad habit of uploaded stuff that is either corrupted, or missing files.
If you get me an email to send something to, I can write something up that each of us can send.
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If you want to do it officially you have to actually use snail mail. There is address mentioned somewhere.
They have somewhat responded on the forums of Sourceforge, though as I said there isn't a section for the Droid 3 yet. You could also try the Motorola Forums, and word might get through the grape vine.
A trick I have used once before with a cable company was to go through the press releases on their website, collect all the e-mail addresses, and e-mail them all the same message.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1181570
I say we hire Lulzsec to hack Motorola and leak the boot loader keys and sbf files for all phones possible. did I just say that?
Either that or try to get them to crack the boot loader or obtain root.....
I'm just saying....they seem very good at this stuff.
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I say we hire Lulzsec to hack Motorola and leak the boot loader keys and sbf files for all phones possible. did I just say that?
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That, sir, is some of the smartest dumb **** I have read on the internet in a long while.
lol seriously, that would be an awesome way to get source. It's just crazy enough to work....... If only we had someone with connections XD
I spent the morning in the AT&T store because I've been having problems, so I was hoping they'd switch my phone out. Instead, they sent me back home and emailed me with this link - *I can't post the link because I'm a new member* It's a link to the youtube video that she told me to use.
The lady told me to just "follow" those instructions so I can update to 2.3. Well ... I can't seem to get it to work? No matter what or from where I try to download the package files, it just doesn't work.
I updated my phone from 2.1 to 2.2 fairly easily, but this is just proving to be incredibly difficult.
Can somebody help the clueless noob out?!
Wow. ....
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Wow. ....
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"Wow." yourself.
I came here for help, and instead, you're a jerk about it. Way to be mature.
Simple answer, as far as I know, is this:
Unless you're on the Rogers network, at this point, there isn't an official upgrade to 2.3 (so no Gingerbread on AT&T). It seems that the person at the store may have given you some misinformation, or else AT&T has been doing an exceptional job of keeping a secret.
Either way, my suggestion would be to either return to the store and speak to someone else about your issues, or if you feel comfortable, check out some of the great custom roms on this site.
There is no ATT release for Gingerbread. What video is it? Just post the link we can copy paste it? or pm me the link
LOL he beat me to it.
jmtheiss said:
Simple answer, as far as I know, is this:
Unless you're on the Rogers network, at this point, there isn't an official upgrade to 2.3 (so no Gingerbread on AT&T). It seems that the person at the store may have given you some misinformation, or else AT&T has been doing an exceptional job of keeping a secret.
Either way, my suggestion would be to either return to the store and speak to someone else about your issues, or if you feel comfortable, check out some of the great custom roms on this site.
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Thank you for actually answering me.
So then all these threads, youtube videos, etc, that I'm seeing all over the internet - none of them are AT&T customers? Then what the heck was that customer service rep talking about?!
What a waste of my day!
Thank you again. I guess I'll be going back up there.
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There is no ATT release for Gingerbread. What video is it? Just post the link we can copy paste it? or pm me the link
LOL he beat me to it.
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Go to Youtube and the title of the video is "How to Update Samsung Captivate with Gingerbread 2.3.3" by johnnythegeek1
I can't post the direct link - literally. The forum won't allow me. I don't have enough posts yet.
It appears that the video you're seeing is someone walking people through how to flash stock Gingerbread (which is still leaked Gingerbread, nothing official). I'm a little surprised that the AT&T rep pointed you to doing that, as it (technically) voids your warranty and they could potentially be held responsible if something happened.
As far as the videos you're seeing, they are probably AT&T customers - it's just that they're flashing leaked/non-official AT&T Gingerbread that came from Samsung.
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It appears that the video you're seeing is someone walking people through how to flash stock Gingerbread (which is still leaked Gingerbread, nothing official). I'm a little surprised that the AT&T rep pointed you to doing that, as it (technically) voids your warranty and they could potentially be held responsible if something happened.
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Yeah, I said the same thing when I was talking with a friend.
So ... it's "technically" out there, yes? It's just the leaked, unofficial version? My one year warranty expires on 10/10/11. The rep told me that I needed to update to the most recent version (the 2.3) before they'd replace my phone out (again) and see if the update fixes it.
I think I'll just take it up to a different store.
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Yeah, I said the same thing when I was talking with a friend.
So ... it's "technically" out there, yes? It's just the leaked, unofficial version? My one year warranty expires on 10/10/11. The rep told me that I needed to update to the most recent version (the 2.3) before they'd replace my phone out (again) and see if the update fixes it.
I think I'll just take it up to a different store.
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Exactly. There are some packages floating around on this site that will allow you to flash the "stock" Gingerbread, but AT&T hasn't pushed out anything in an official capacity that I'm aware of.
Taking it to a different store (or even the same store on a different day) would probably be a good idea.
Also 2.3.4 would be better than 2.3.3 since it doesn't have that nasty Android OS bug.
EDIT: Let's let the dev's have their fun without a bunch of newbs poking in on them. Sorry, devs.
Probably don't want this info to get out to the entire Internets anyways.
CZ Eddie said:
Hmmm..........
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51983540
No, you don't have root/unlock for ATT S5.
But...... hmmmm...
**** DO NOT POST IN THAT THREAD. IT IS A DEVELOPERS-ONLY THREAD. DON'T BE A DORK AND POST IN IT.
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Pretty exciting. I am not a dev. so I dont really know how to distinguish between what exactly is going on, but a little progress and excitement is always good for the community. Not to mention the respect and bounty these devs will get once something major actually does happen.
EDIT: Let's let the dev's have their fun without a bunch of newbs poking in on them. Sorry, devs.
Probably don't want this info to get out to the entire Internets anyways.
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Basically, evilpotatoman located a much-wanted Qualcomm tool that could possibly lead to finally unlocking the bootloader of S4, S5 and Note 3 (and others). *Possibly being the key word.
At the moment it's still not possible, but the tool apparently gives them a huge leap forward in development towards this goal.
They've been looking for something like this for a few years now I believe.
I'm not a dev, don't pretend to be one. The extent of my "development" is writing a few scripts. lol. So remember that I may be misunderstanding some things here. :good:
There are a bunch of files attached to the thread.
But none of us should bother downloading them because you have to be an ultra-dev to know how to use them.
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My understanding i that this is the SDK for the SoC on the S5 and other phones. It includes a qualcomm dev signing cert but I'm almost 100% certain that no production phone from AT&T will accept BL's signed by the qc dev cert (or someone would have used it to sign one of the unlocked BL's by now plus if that were the case my guess is qc would be freaking out and sending takedown notices by now). So basically if Samsung or AT&T were to provide the signing key or somehow we were to brute force it(very unlikely) we would now be able to easily sign packages for the phone. So while helpful, without the signing keys it doesn't really do anything except provide more insight into how the whole secure boot process works.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2692167&page=11
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My understanding i that this is the SDK for the SoC on the S5 and other phones. It includes a qualcomm dev signing cert but I'm almost 100% certain that no production phone from AT&T will accept BL's signed by the qc dev cert (or someone would have used it to sign one of the unlocked BL's by now plus if that were the case my guess is qc would be freaking out and sending takedown notices by now). So basically if Samsung or AT&T were to provide the signing key or somehow we were to brute force it(very unlikely) we would now be able to easily sign packages for the phone. So while helpful, without the signing keys it doesn't really do anything except provide more insight into how the whole secure boot process works.
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Qc sent the takedown notice...dun dun duuunnn
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