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I'm not 100% sure about the dell phone, but with a few of the android phones that I've been looking at, the OS image needs to be signed. So, to upgrade your sa
by michael_h 16y ago
I'm not 100% sure about the dell phone, but with a few of the android phones that I've been looking at, the OS image needs to be signed. So, to upgrade your samsung galaxy s to 2.2, you need to wait for samsung to release their version of 2.2. When they decide to stop releasing updates for your model, you're out of luck (jail-breaking aside).
I really, really wish it were as easy as downloading an update from android.com and installing it, but that marginalizes the manufacturers.
- evilduck 16y agoOr in the case of my Samsung Moment, the Radio Interface Layer is flaky and will cause random data lockups. Samsung officially stopped updating the phone back around May (yay, 8 months of support from release date!), so even if I could continue upgrading my OS without their help, nobody will ever fix the hardware driver, it will always randomly lock up.
- nl 16y agoI'm not sure what you mean by the OS image needs to be signed, but it's not true in the sense people usually mean when they talk about signed code. Most Android phones have the bootloader locked down, but that is different to requiring signed code. You can run 2.2 on the Samsung Galaxy S now (eg, http://www.cyanogenmod.com/home/cyanogenmod-6-0 http://www.cyanogenmod.com/home/cyanogenmod-6-0, and I think there are pre-release official Samsung versions around too). You do need to root it, but on the Galaxy S that's a one-click process. (Sorry if you knew this - it's not clear if your jail-breaking aside comment applied to the updates for phones or the upgrade)