Dev phones indeed explicitly don't get OTA updates, for several reasons: -developers are assumed to be capable of manually updating their phones. -those phones are designed to allow running custom versions of the system, and an automated update could cause some damage. -developers have legitimate reasons to downgrade their devices back to older versions, and OTA updates would be constantly trying to re-upgrade such devices. -finally, it'd be very unfortunate if a developer's long debugging session came to be interrupted and lost because of an OTA update.
If you have an ADP1 and require some assistance to update it to the latest official version of android available for it, the android-devphone-updating group might already have the answer for you... and if it doesn't, feel free to ask questions there about the details of the process. JBQ On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Joseph Arceneaux <[email protected]> wrote: > I read somewhere that Google forbids the availability of paid apps to > [unlocked] developer phones. It's very frustrating. Also, it seems that > dev phones don't get Over The Air (OTA) updates of software. > Joe > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Eric Schott <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have a developers phone running: 1.1 specifically >> holiday_devphone_userdebug 1.1 Kernel version is: 2.6.25-01845- >> g85d4f0d android-bu...@apa27 #27 >> >> and I can not see any paid apps. I still see lots of chatter about >> some who can see paid apps and some who can not. What the magic >> button to make this work? :) >> >> >> >> On Mar 10, 11:14 am, Brodsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I've got the same problem. If Ican'tseepaidappsoff this dev >> > phone, how do I get my money back for it? No one ever told me it'd be >> > crippled... >> > >> > On Feb 20, 4:19 pm, Michael Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > *** Can anyone at Google explain why some G1s can seepaidappswhile >> > > otherscan’t? **** >> > >> > > I don’t believe this is a matter of an OTA updates but rather >> > > datacenter propagation thus it would depend on which Android Market >> > > datacenter the G1 is pinging. >> > >> > > In my case I have 2 G1s (side by side) and 1 canseethepaidapps >> > > while the other doesn’t….could only assume they are both pinging the >> > > same DC. >> > >> > > (I have already tried the reboot theory to no avail) >> > >> > > Any formal explanation for this??? >> > >> > > Thank You, >> > > Michael Martinhttp://www.googleandblog.com/ >> >> > > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
