Update Advice needed plz

[Guest Hornet69]

Hi All,

I'm new to the Android area and i'm trying to update my Pulse with some T-Mobile software. I've followed the same instructions and steps as the Dec 1.5 update. Copied the "dload" directory to the SD card and start the update from the phone. But it starts then fails with "Update failed" error.

Now this is where the help come in. On the UPDATA.APP file, is there a header or tag that marks the software for a phone type? i.e U8220 phone and U8230 software? Can the software be edited to pass this check, if it infact checks this??

I'm trying to update the U8220 with U8110 (pulse mini) software. I won't expand on how i have it, but the software is 2.1 and is from the 06/04/2010. ;)

U8110V100R001C85B214SP05 for those that are interested.

If anyone can advise please then i'll see about making it available. No point if it doesn't work i guess? ;)

H

[Guest jmmL]

Hi All,

I'm new to the Android area and i'm trying to update my Pulse with some T-Mobile software. I've followed the same instructions and steps as the Dec 1.5 update. Copied the "dload" directory to the SD card and start the update from the phone. But it starts then fails with "Update failed" error.

Now this is where the help come in. On the UPDATA.APP file, is there a header or tag that marks the software for a phone type? i.e U8220 phone and U8230 software? Can the software be edited to pass this check, if it infact checks this??

I'm trying to update the U8220 with U8110 (pulse mini) software. I won't expand on how i have it, but the software is 2.1 and is from the 06/04/2010. ;)

U8110V100R001C85B214SP05 for those that are interested.

If anyone can advise please then i'll see about making it available. No point if it doesn't work i guess? ;)

H

I think your best course of action is to unpack the .APP and then repackage it in the update.zip format. Passing it on the BigBear would probably be the quickest way to get this done - I encourage you to share this with the rest of the modaco community!

[Guest Hornet69]

I think your best course of action is to unpack the .APP and then repackage it in the update.zip format. Passing it on the BigBear would probably be the quickest way to get this done - I encourage you to share this with the rest of the modaco community!

Hi, I'm happy too, 140 Meg file with customisations for all the t-mobile counties.

I'll PM BigBear and see it i can upload it to him??

Thanks for the tip ;)

[Guest jmmL]

Hi, I'm happy too, 140 Meg file with customisations for all the t-mobile counties.

I'll PM BigBear and see it i can upload it to him??

Thanks for the tip ;)

Okay well 140MB rings alarm bells. There will probably be fat to trim (like some tmo customisation) before it goes cleanly onto the pulse. If you could, an upload to a place like rapidshare / 2shared / megaupload would allow others to have a look as well.

Edited April 21, 2010 by jmmL

[Guest McSpoon]

Interesting. ;) If you're familiar with Perl you can use this Perl script to unpack the UPDATA.APP file. Hopefully the file format will be the same as the U8220, so in theory, it should extract the boot.img and system.img, which can then be flashed onto the Pulse using fastboot. The problem is the Pulse Mini has a tiny QVGA screen so I'm not sure how that will display on the bigger Pulse.

Any idea how long will it be before the Pulse Mini is released? Only give out the firmware if you can't be identified as it's not worth getting into trouble over. The firmware might not be that useful to us until Huawei release their Android 2.1 kernel source code.