OTA update to 2.1

[Guest]

I've been thinking about the update to 2.1 which is supposedly going out Over The Air (OTA.) Since we have to wipe the phone between versions, there must be a mechanism to do that when the upgrade happens as there is no recovery console on the stock T-mobile ROM.

Personally, I can't wait for the MCR 4.0 to come out as I'd rather have everything work than to find the OTA has left me with a brick.

T-mobile have managed to screw up the provisioning of my contract 3 times this year, so I don't have any faith in their OTA process.

[Guest Soaa-]

If you're running a custom ROM, you won't get the OTA.

[Guest Dan Mullen]

If you're running a custom ROM, you won't get the OTA.

Further, I doubt ANYONE in the UK will get the update OTA... where has this rumour come from? Do people realise how big the update will be? Paul's ROMs are around 90MB, so you can expect the update to be around that. Not everyone has an unlimited data plan - an OTA update just doesn't make sense to me!

[Guest shenshang]

Further, I doubt ANYONE in the UK will get the update OTA... where has this rumour come from? Do people realise how big the update will be? Paul's ROMs are around 90MB, so you can expect the update to be around that. Not everyone has an unlimited data plan - an OTA update just doesn't make sense to me!

Even if there was an OTA, it would tell you and ask if you want to upgrade or not. It's not fully automated.

[Guest dipje]

Indeed. If it would need a wipe, that is possible to build into the update-scripts, so it can wipe / factory reset automaticly. But because of that, no way it can be 'automatic'. They simply won't automaticly execute an update process that restores their phones to factory defaults :).

But I'm still +1 to over-the-air being bullshit anyway.

[Guest Remington Steale]

OTA is bull, as dipje stated it would wipe the phone, the phone companies would never stand for the sheer volume of calls from people who just had their phones wiped.

There is no way to guarantee that the user has an sd card in the phone with enough space to store settings and data even if there were some way they could script a backup and restore as part of the process.

Edited March 23, 2010 by Remington Steale