Android 1.5 "cupcake" update now available for dev phones

By on Apr 27, 2009 at 1:16 PM
General April 27, 2009

Owners of the Android dev phone can now head over to HTC’s website and update their G1 to the official 1.5 version of Android. This early release for dev phones will provide developers with a few weeks of on-device testing of their software before the highly anticipated update is rolled out to the general public in May. All tools, instructions and necessary radio, system and recovery images are available directly from HTC via the read link below. Dev phone owners out there who take the plunge and update their handset, hit us up in the comments with your first impressions of this latest Android offering. As for the rest of you, don’t worry — the wait is almost over.

Thanks, Carlton!

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  • JakeyBoy

    i’m not exactly familiar with “cupcake”, but it seems like its just a qwerty touch keyboard…is that all it truly is? please correct me if i’m wrong

  • Mr. Anderson

    On Apr 27, 2009 @ 1:47 pm, JakeyBoy Said:

    i’m not exactly familiar with “cupcake”, but it seems like its just a qwerty touch keyboard…is that all it truly is? please correct me if i’m wrong

    you’re wrong. read some older posts. they will tell you basically what cupcake covers. the qwerty keyboard is just 1 of the many things

  • JakeyBoy

    thanks Neo. i’ll have to read up on it.

  • Carlton Falke

    Yea its running on my rooted t-mobile g1 and i love it… BTW its my first tip to BGR that got published yeaa me

  • http://www.twitter.com/ManMythLegend ManMythLegend

    Are Dev phones any different from non-Dev phones?

    What I’m getting at is, will this work for any G1 or exclusively Dev phones?

  • StevenGlansburg

    I’m running CUPCAKE on my iphone

  • Rob

    You can definitely run Cupcake on a G1. If you want an existing G1 build, search for haykuro’s builds (haykuro.theiphoneproject.org) and follow his instructions. There’s a Google-based build that’s basically a G1 upgrade and a HTC-based build with less Google features (but still Google sync and Gmail) and more generic features like Exchange ActiveSync and a slightly different keyboard.

  • http://Davidthande.blogspot.com David Thande

    My friends will be so excited!!

    Where’s the 9630 info Zach?

  • Anh Nguyen

    Is Cupcake-installed phone still prevented from accessing Android Market?

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